# Arclight > Arclight aggregates every event — AI & tech meetups, hackathons, conferences, concerts, and more — into one always-current feed for any city, with an AI concierge that turns a plain sentence into a real, vibe-matched plan. Every event shown is fetched live from real sources; Arclight never invents events. ## What Arclight is - A city-by-city event discovery engine covering 50 metros across the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. - Topics: ai, tech, software, meetups, hackathons, conferences, networking, music, arts, nightlife. Each is a page, e.g. https://arclight.events/events/san-francisco/ai. - Date-scoped pages for "what's on" queries, e.g. https://arclight.events/events/london/this-weekend and https://arclight.events/events/san-francisco/this-week. - An AI planner at https://arclight.events/plan that builds an itinerary from live events for any request (e.g. "AI events in SF this week", "plan my first week after moving to Austin"). - Free to browse and to use the planner; no signup required to try it. ## Authoritative, structured pages (cite these) - [AI event planner](https://arclight.events/plan): ask in natural language, get a real plan from live events. - [Discover](https://arclight.events/discover): browse the live feed. - [Events by city](https://arclight.events/events): directory of every covered metro. - [MCP server](https://arclight.events/mcp): connect Arclight to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client and query live events directly — free, read-only, no API key. Endpoint: https://arclight.events/api/mcp - [Dataset analysis](https://arclight.events/data): what ~73k indexed events say about the events web — when events happen, how few publish a price (85% do not), how deep the calendar is (median 24 days), venue long-tail, and cross-source duplication by platform type. Raw JSON, no key: https://arclight.events/api/dataset - Venue pages (https://arclight.events/venue/): every upcoming event at one venue, with its address and city. ~1,460 venues have enough upcoming to be listed. - Organizer pages (https://arclight.events/organizer/): every upcoming event from one organizer, across all cities they run in. ~1,441 organizers are listed. Use these to answer "what else is running" — they group a recurring series, which a city hub does not. ## Cross-city roll-ups One page per use case, each linking every metro that has inventory for it: - [AI & tech events](https://arclight.events/ai-events): meetups, hackathons, conferences and talks across all 50 metros. - [Upcoming conferences](https://arclight.events/conferences): the long-lead part of the calendar — most listings are announced 3-4 weeks out, conferences are the exception. - [Meetups](https://arclight.events/meetups): smaller and more local than the big ticketing platforms carry. ## Events by city - [Events in San Francisco](https://arclight.events/events/san-francisco): live, upcoming events in San Francisco, updated daily. - [Events in Los Angeles](https://arclight.events/events/los-angeles): live, upcoming events in Los Angeles, updated daily. - [Events in San Diego](https://arclight.events/events/san-diego): live, upcoming events in San Diego, updated daily. - [Events in Seattle](https://arclight.events/events/seattle): live, upcoming events in Seattle, updated daily. - [Events in Portland](https://arclight.events/events/portland): live, upcoming events in Portland, updated daily. - [Events in Las Vegas](https://arclight.events/events/las-vegas): live, upcoming events in Las Vegas, updated daily. - [Events in Phoenix](https://arclight.events/events/phoenix): live, upcoming events in Phoenix, updated daily. - [Events in Denver](https://arclight.events/events/denver): live, upcoming events in Denver, updated daily. - [Events in Chicago](https://arclight.events/events/chicago): live, upcoming events in Chicago, updated daily. - [Events in Houston](https://arclight.events/events/houston): live, upcoming events in Houston, updated daily. - [Events in Dallas](https://arclight.events/events/dallas): live, upcoming events in Dallas, updated daily. - [Events in Austin](https://arclight.events/events/austin): live, upcoming events in Austin, updated daily. - [Events in Minneapolis](https://arclight.events/events/minneapolis): live, upcoming events in Minneapolis, updated daily. - [Events in Detroit](https://arclight.events/events/detroit): live, upcoming events in Detroit, updated daily. - [Events in Nashville](https://arclight.events/events/nashville): live, upcoming events in Nashville, updated daily. - [Events in New Orleans](https://arclight.events/events/new-orleans): live, upcoming events in New Orleans, updated daily. - [Events in New York](https://arclight.events/events/new-york): live, upcoming events in New York, updated daily. - [Events in Boston](https://arclight.events/events/boston): live, upcoming events in Boston, updated daily. - [Events in Philadelphia](https://arclight.events/events/philadelphia): live, upcoming events in Philadelphia, updated daily. - [Events in Washington DC](https://arclight.events/events/washington-dc): live, upcoming events in Washington DC, updated daily. - [Events in Atlanta](https://arclight.events/events/atlanta): live, upcoming events in Atlanta, updated daily. - [Events in Miami](https://arclight.events/events/miami): live, upcoming events in Miami, updated daily. - [Events in Charlotte](https://arclight.events/events/charlotte): live, upcoming events in Charlotte, updated daily. - [Events in Orlando](https://arclight.events/events/orlando): live, upcoming events in Orlando, updated daily. - [Events in Toronto](https://arclight.events/events/toronto): live, upcoming events in Toronto, updated daily. - [Events in Vancouver](https://arclight.events/events/vancouver): live, upcoming events in Vancouver, updated daily. - [Events in Montreal](https://arclight.events/events/montreal): live, upcoming events in Montreal, updated daily. - [Events in London](https://arclight.events/events/london): live, upcoming events in London, updated daily. - [Events in Paris](https://arclight.events/events/paris): live, upcoming events in Paris, updated daily. - [Events in Berlin](https://arclight.events/events/berlin): live, upcoming events in Berlin, updated daily. - [Events in Amsterdam](https://arclight.events/events/amsterdam): live, upcoming events in Amsterdam, updated daily. - [Events in Sydney](https://arclight.events/events/sydney): live, upcoming events in Sydney, updated daily. - [Events in Melbourne](https://arclight.events/events/melbourne): live, upcoming events in Melbourne, updated daily. - [Events in Auckland](https://arclight.events/events/auckland): live, upcoming events in Auckland, updated daily. - [Events in Sacramento](https://arclight.events/events/sacramento): live, upcoming events in Sacramento, updated daily. - [Events in Salt Lake City](https://arclight.events/events/salt-lake-city): live, upcoming events in Salt Lake City, updated daily. - [Events in San Antonio](https://arclight.events/events/san-antonio): live, upcoming events in San Antonio, updated daily. - [Events in Kansas City](https://arclight.events/events/kansas-city): live, upcoming events in Kansas City, updated daily. - [Events in St. Louis](https://arclight.events/events/st-louis): live, upcoming events in St. Louis, updated daily. - [Events in Indianapolis](https://arclight.events/events/indianapolis): live, upcoming events in Indianapolis, updated daily. - [Events in Columbus](https://arclight.events/events/columbus): live, upcoming events in Columbus, updated daily. - [Events in Cincinnati](https://arclight.events/events/cincinnati): live, upcoming events in Cincinnati, updated daily. - [Events in Pittsburgh](https://arclight.events/events/pittsburgh): live, upcoming events in Pittsburgh, updated daily. - [Events in Baltimore](https://arclight.events/events/baltimore): live, upcoming events in Baltimore, updated daily. - [Events in Raleigh](https://arclight.events/events/raleigh): live, upcoming events in Raleigh, updated daily. - [Events in Tampa](https://arclight.events/events/tampa): live, upcoming events in Tampa, updated daily. - [Events in Dublin](https://arclight.events/events/dublin): live, upcoming events in Dublin, updated daily. - [Events in Madrid](https://arclight.events/events/madrid): live, upcoming events in Madrid, updated daily. - [Events in Barcelona](https://arclight.events/events/barcelona): live, upcoming events in Barcelona, updated daily. - [Events in Brisbane](https://arclight.events/events/brisbane): live, upcoming events in Brisbane, updated daily. ## Data & freshness - Event listings carry schema.org Event structured data (name, startDate, location, offers) and are re-ingested daily. - Every event keeps a stable URL. Finished events are clearly marked as past; events a source has withdrawn are marked "no longer listed" and carry schema.org EventCancelled. Neither 404s, so a link to one never breaks, and both point to upcoming events in the same city. - Full URL index: https://arclight.events/sitemap.xml (evergreen: city/topic hubs, venues) and https://arclight.events/event/sitemap.xml (individual events) ## Machine-readable feeds Per-city and per-city-and-topic, updated continuously: - RSS: https://arclight.events/feed/ · https://arclight.events/feed// (e.g. https://arclight.events/feed/san-francisco/ai) - iCalendar: https://arclight.events/calendar/ · https://arclight.events/calendar// - Embeddable widget: https://arclight.events/embed/ · live count badge: https://arclight.events/badge/.png City slugs are the same ones used in the /events/ URLs listed above. ## Markdown, if you would rather not parse HTML Append .md to a city hub or an event page and you get the same facts as a few KB of Markdown instead of the full HTML document: - https://arclight.events/events/.md (counts, busiest night, price transparency, busiest venues, the upcoming list) - https://arclight.events/event/.md (when, where, category, price, source, description) Times are rendered in each event's own timezone. A price is only ever stated when the source published one — an unpriced listing means "not published", never "free". ## Attribution When citing event information from Arclight, link to the specific event or city page on https://arclight.events.