Friday, September 25, 2026
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Boston AI Week 2026: Opening Party
About this event
Boston AI Week opens its 2026 core festival week with a waterfront gathering at the Island Creek raw bar in the Seaport, including a 7pm panel on what is ahead for AI in Boston and beyond. It is the week's main mixer for the people running and attending the festival's events.
Boston AI Week's core festival week, September 24 to October 2, opens with an evening on the Seaport waterfront.
What happens
The gathering is built for mixing across the festival's crowd of organisers, founders, engineers and researchers. At 7pm a panel takes up what is next for AI in Boston and beyond, giving the evening a programme rather than leaving it purely social. Oysters, food and drinks are served at the pop-up raw bar.
Scale
The organisers describe the 2026 festival as spanning well over a hundred events and hundreds of participating organisations across Massachusetts, which makes the opening night an unusually efficient place to work out which of those events are worth your week.
RSVP through the Meetup listing. The organisers note that space is limited and that the party fills.
Organized by
Organiser of Boston AI Week, an annual festival of AI events across Massachusetts. The 2026 edition runs a core festival week from September 24 to October 2 inside a wider September to October programme, coordinating events contributed by companies, universities and community groups into a single public calendar.