# Houston Energy AI > A practitioner-led community exploring artificial intelligence in the oil, gas, and energy industry. Based in Houston, Texas. ## About Houston Energy AI is a free, vendor-neutral community for AI practitioners working in the energy sector. Members include professionals from ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, AWS, NVIDIA, SLB, Halliburton, Dell, Red Hat, and other major companies. The group meets every third Thursday of the month in Houston, TX. ## Pages - [Home](/): Overview of the community, mission, upcoming events, and partners. - [About](/#about): Mission, pillars, and how the community operates. - [Events](/#events): Upcoming and past meetups, talks, and workshops. - [Gallery](/#gallery): Photos from past events. - [Constitution](/#constitution): Community rules — no selling, respect NDAs. - [Member Login](/members/login): Sign-in for invited members. ## Focus Areas - Agentic Pipelines and LLM frameworks in energy operations - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures - AI governance in regulated industries - Machine learning for upstream, midstream, and downstream operations - MCP (Model Context Protocol) and LangChain pipelines - Computer vision and sensor data AI applications - P&ID data integration with AI systems ## Constitution Rules - Rule #1: No vendor pitches — practitioners only - Rule #2: Respect NDAs — no sharing proprietary company information ## Upcoming Events - Apr 30, 2026: Guest Speaker from ExxonMobil on AI Governance - May 21, 2026: Cohere on Agentic Memory Systems - Jun 18, 2026: ExxonMobil Speaker on AI in Exploration - Jul 16, 2026: Kumar from AWS — What's Working and What's Not in the Field - Aug 20, 2026: Texas A&M Speaker — AI in Upstream Operations ## Location Events are held at Texas A&M Mays Business Center, 842 W Sam Houston Pkwy N Suite 110/200, Houston, TX 77024, and AWS Offices at City Center, Houston, TX. ## Links - Website: https://houstonenergy.ai - Events: https://houstonenergy.ai/#events