AI events in Boston this week
Your next seven days of Boston AI: every meetup, workshop, hackathon, and networking night coming up this week, verified daily.
Oct
19
Mon
Oct
21
Wed
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Claude 101: Setting up Your Workspace (October 21)
by Launch by Lunch
A hands-on beginner workshop in Boston that helps participants turn Claude into a practical, repeatable work environment.
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Claude 201: Build your Chief of Staff (October 21)
by Launch by Lunch
A Boston follow-on build session for creating a Claude-based Chief of Staff workflow for connected, recurring work.
Oct
23
Fri
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
ARC Prize Research Summit 2026
Massachusetts Institute of Technologyby ARC Prize Foundation
A Cambridge forum for researchers advancing frontier AI reasoning, convened by ARC Prize with MIT. It focuses on work combining neural methods, program synthesis and formal reasoning.
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT
Action Space Hackathon 2026
Microsoft New England Research and Development Centerby Action Space
A two-day Cambridge physical AI hackathon focused on counter-drone swarm defense. Teams work with Claude, hardware and multi-agent systems, with lessons in Isaac Lab, PPO optimization and real drone runs.