AI Events in Boston, MA
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in Boston. Updated daily.
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FieldAI Coffee Talks: Physical AI for the Real World
by FieldAI Boston
A small Cambridge coffee meetup for Greater Boston people building embodied AI and robotics, from perception and controls engineers to researchers, founders and students.
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT
Yorkseed Frontier Day: Boston
by Yorkseed
A Boston day for founders, investors and researchers working in physical AI, robotics and deep tech. The program centers on The Engine and connects frontier-technology commercialization with investor conversations and the Cambridge innovation ecosystem.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
AI Native Dev Boston: Inside the Dark Factory
Snykby AI Native Dev
A Boston evening for engineers using coding agents and the people securing them, with talks on AI-powered development pipelines, agentic security remediation and trustworthy code verification.
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24
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8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
DevConf.US 2026
Boston University, 43 Hawes Streetby Red Hat
The eighth annual DevConf.US, Red Hat's free open source community conference, runs two days on Boston University's Brookline campus. Artificial Intelligence and Data Science is a primary conference theme, covering LLMs, PyTorch and applied machine learning. Free, but registration is required.
1:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
Boston Cloud Connect Summit: The IT Odyssey
WGBH Studiosby Cloud Connect Summit
A half day IT leadership summit at the WGBH studios, themed around the interaction of data, security and AI. Speakers include Draper's Head of AI and a WPI researcher on human and AI interaction. Free with the Boston AI Week code, and worth two ISACA continuing education credits.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
The Human Edge: Women Leading in the Age of AI
MassChallengeby Women Applying AI
A Boston AI Week evening for women and allies exploring how AI is changing work and life, with community stories, a discussion of physical AI and time to meet other local practitioners.
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25
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9:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
Agentic World Cup Boston: Build AI Agents That Play Soccer
Amazon BOS17 Office Buildingby AWS Startups
A hands-on Boston workshop where teams build autonomous soccer-playing AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Strands Agents SDK, then compete in live matches. It is designed for developers of any experience level and doubles as a qualifying round for the global competition.
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
AI in Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing
PTCby PTC for Startups
A Seaport unconference for engineering practitioners comparing practical AI approaches for mechanical engineering and manufacturing work.
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
MassRobotics Robotics and AI Technical Career Fair
88 Seaport Boulevardby MassRobotics
A focused two hour hiring event for robotics and AI engineers, held the day before RoboBoston at the same Seaport address. Confirmed employers include Boston Engineering, Braid Robotics, Maxon, Sudo and Synthium, with more to be announced. Free for job seekers.
6:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Boston AI Week 2026: Opening Party
Island Creek Oysters Raw Bar Seaportby Boston AI Week
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.
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26
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9:00 AM – 5:30 PM EDT
GDG Cloud Boston DevFest: AI and Tech Innovations
Hult International Business Schoolby GDG Cloud Boston
The Boston Google Developer Group's flagship annual conference, free and explicitly AI-themed for 2026. Sessions cover agent harness engineering, building a Blender agent, Google Antigravity with Workspace MCP integration, and AI governance through education, plus a hands-on workshop and lunch.
9:30 AM – 5:30 PM EDT
Test Flight: Glasswing Ventures AI Hackathon
Glasswing Venturesby Glasswing Ventures
A selective two day build at Glasswing Ventures' Back Bay office, with a grand prize of $300,000 in compute credits. Teams of up to four are judged on technical execution and commercial viability, with sponsored compute and engineering support from AWS, Microsoft and TensorWave.
10:45 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
RoboBoston: 9th Annual Robot Block Party
88 Seaport Boulevardby MassRobotics
MassRobotics fills a Seaport block with more than 50 robotics companies, university groups and student teams for a free public showcase of what the organisers call physical AI. The day opens with a sidewalk robot parade at 10:45am, then runs as a come-and-go block party until 4pm.
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3:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT
Show & Tell: Meet the Real Small Business Owners Using AI
by Launch by Lunch
A free Boston show-and-tell for small-business owners using AI in real operations, hosted by Launch by Lunch.
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
AI in Oncology: From Data to Better Patient Outcomes
225 Franklin Streetby ConcertAI
A Boston panel on AI in oncology, bringing healthcare, life-sciences and AI practitioners together to discuss trusted data, clinical decision-making and ways AI can support better patient outcomes.
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Demos & Drinks: Where AI Meets Human Behavior Research
iMotions North American Headquartersby iMotions
An in-person Boston demo night on AI-assisted human behavior research, with demonstrations of tools for attention, emotion, engagement and response analysis, plus informal conversation and drinks.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
When AI Gets Physical: Navigating the Real-World Risks and Rewards
Matria at the InterContinentalby Greenberg Traurig, LLP
A Boston panel and networking reception on the legal, business and operational considerations surrounding AI in real-world environments, hosted by Greenberg Traurig during Boston AI Week.
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8:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
LangSmith Roadshow: Building Agents with Agents
Convene at One Boston Placeby LangChain
The Boston stop of LangChain's LangSmith Roadshow, a half day of technical sessions, live demos, an engineering leader spotlight and a hands-on lab, all centred on building and improving agents in production with LangSmith's observability and evaluation tooling.
8:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT
LangSmith Roadshow: Building Agents with Agents
Convene One Boston Placeby LangChain
A half-day hands-on Boston workshop from LangChain on taking AI agents from prototypes into production, with live demonstrations, a customer perspective and a lab using a real agent codebase.
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development & Career Fair 2026
George Sherman Unionby AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development & Career Group
A Boston AI Week career fair connecting people seeking AI-sector roles with local employers and ecosystem partners. The program focuses on workforce development, hiring and practical career connections in Massachusetts’ AI economy.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
AI in Action: Real Use Cases Driving Business Impact
Questrom School of Businessby BU Questrom Women in Business and Partners
A Boston University panel on practical AI outcomes across finance, healthcare, consulting and STEM, with senior leaders discussing what delivered value, what fell short and lessons from implementation.
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5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
AI Go-to-Market: From First Customers to Repeatable Growth
Venture Lane | Startup Hubby Venture Lane
A Boston panel for early-stage B2B founders and operators on turning early customer traction into a repeatable growth motion, including where AI can strengthen workflows without losing direct customer insight.
5:15 PM – 7:15 PM EDT
AI Meetup for Developers and Startups
CIC Venture Caféby AICamp Boston
A Cambridge developer meetup from InterSystems and AICamp Boston on applied AI, generative AI, LLMs and agents. The evening combines technical talks with guided networking, food and drinks at CIC Venture Café.
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9:00 AM – 2:30 PM EDT
Agents in the AM
WeWork, 33 Arch Streetby DataRobot
A Boston hands-on session for CIOs and developers working to move AI agents from experiments into reliable production systems. DataRobot combines practitioner perspectives with a practical lab on scalable agent development.
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
The Boston AI Summit
Foundation Medicineby Boston AI Week
Boston AI Week's flagship conference: a single track, single room, 250 seat day at Foundation Medicine in the Seaport. It opens with the public release of The State of AI in Massachusetts 2026, a survey of how Commonwealth residents are actually using AI.
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Architecture and AI
Wentworth Institute of Technologyby Wentworth Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design
A Wentworth workshop on how AI is changing architectural education, research and practice, pairing rapid faculty and practitioner presentations with a moderated roundtable and audience Q&A.
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
DataRobot Build Club: Boston AI Week Edition
WeWork, 501 Boylston Streetby DataRobot
DataRobot launches its Boston Build Club with an informal afternoon for developers and AI enthusiasts to share projects, trade notes on agents and AI-powered development, and meet other local builders.
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Boston AI Week @ Venture Café!
CIC Venture Caféby Venture Café Cambridge, CIC
A Cambridge gathering at Venture Café for conversations, expert-led sessions and networking around inclusive, equitable AI innovation, including a session on agentic security in Google Cloud.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Boston OpenClaw Meetup
Microsoft New England Research and Development Centerby Boston OpenClaw Meetup
A monthly Cambridge gathering for people interested in OpenClaw and hands-on AI-agent building, with networking at Microsoft NERD during Boston AI Week.
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Tech Runs Boston: The Great AI Divide, October
CIC Venture Caféby Tech Runs Boston
A Cambridge conversation for young technology professionals weighing AI’s potential for opportunity and productivity against its effects on work, careers and society. The discussion aims to replace easy certainty with useful, practical perspectives.
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