Free AI events in Seattle
You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into Seattle's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.
Sep
9
Wed
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM PDT
Public-Sector Cyber Resilience & AI Security Executive Briefing
by Seattle Data, AI and Security
An in-person Bellevue briefing for senior public-sector technology leaders on how frontier AI changes cyber defense, with City of Bellevue, Washington State and CrowdStrike leaders.
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Rooftop Global AI/ML Engineering Meetup for Women
by Women AI/ML Engineering
A Seattle meetup for women working in AI, machine learning and engineering, focused on multi-agent architectures and resilient harness design for autonomous AI systems.
Sep
10
Thu
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
AI, Zero Trust and Enterprise Resilience in the Age of Continuous Disruption
Bellevue City Hallby Seattle Data, AI and Security
An enterprise-focused evening at Bellevue City Hall with engineering leaders from T-Mobile, Intuit and Oracle Health on AI transformation, zero trust architecture and governing generative AI adoption at scale.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
Data and Privacy in the Age of AI
The Seattle Public Library, Greenwood Branchby AI Safety Awareness Group Seattle
A free, public Seattle workshop on how advanced AI changes the privacy stakes around the personal data collected by apps, companies and governments. No technical background is required.
Sep
12
Sat
10:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
AI Token Economics Hackathon
City University of Seattleby Seattle Data, AI and Security
A two-week team hackathon on reducing the real cost of building and running AI systems, covering token optimisation, prompt efficiency and model cost reduction, closing with an in-person finale in Seattle on October 3.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Superintelligent AI and Loss of Control
Seattle Public Library, Montlake Branchby AI Safety Awareness Group Seattle
A free Saturday morning workshop at the Montlake Library on current AI capabilities and control risk, covering employment, content authenticity, deepfakes and scams, with live demonstrations. No technical background needed.
Sep
15
Tue
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
AI Agents Seattle September
Foundationsby AI Agents Seattle
A Seattle meetup at Foundations on thoughtful software engineering in the age of AI, with a Neo4j developer advocate and a second speaker to be announced.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
AI & Spiritual Formation Part II
SURF Incubatorby FaithTech Seattle
A FaithTech Seattle discussion at SURF Incubator on artificial intelligence, spiritual formation and possible technology projects, for attendees interested in the social and ethical dimensions of AI.
Sep
16
Wed
Sep
17
Thu
Sep
18
Fri
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT
The Bias Advantage: Live Author Event with Liat Ben-Zur
SURF Incubatorby AI-Powered Women Seattle
A public Seattle conversation and Q&A with Liat Ben-Zur on AI, bias and leadership, co-hosted by AI-Powered Women and The SWELL at SURF Incubator.
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
Seattle AI Startup Showcase
by B.E.L.L.E Community
A Bellevue afternoon showcase for Seattle-area AI founders, talent and startup supporters, putting emerging local AI companies in front of potential collaborators and teammates.
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
AI/ML Code and Learn #24
Victrola Coffee and Artby Seattle AI/ML Skills
The twenty-fourth session of the biweekly Capitol Hill working group for practising AI and machine learning skills, held at Victrola Coffee and Art with topics drawn from a shared public agenda.
Sep
21
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22
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26
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Sep
27
Sun
Sep
30
Wed
11:30 AM – 5:30 PM PDT
Build with Gemini: Seattle
Block 41by Google Cloud Seattle
A complimentary Google Cloud hands-on workshop in Seattle on building, scaling and governing production-ready AI agents, with separate business, platform and application-builder tracks.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
PyData Seattle: AI for Climate and Earth
PLUS84by PyData Seattle
A PyData Seattle talk night in Belltown on applying AI and open source tooling to climate and earth science: geospatial AI on satellite imagery, forecasting systems, and agents combining scientific, sensor and policy data.
Oct
2
Fri
Oct
16
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Oct
17
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Oct
27
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Oct
28
Wed
3:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
The Next Horizon of AI
Accenture Seattle Office
A Seattle AI Week satellite session hosted at Accenture's downtown Seattle office, running three hours across the late afternoon. Free to attend and showing as sold out at the time of listing.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Trust as the New Literacy: Why Discernment Is the New Leadership Advantage in AI
by AI-Powered Women Seattle
A Seattle AI Week fireside conversation with former Microsoft corporate vice president Liat Ben-Zur and ACME Brains CEO Mary Jesse on the AI trust gap and evaluating AI tools with judgement rather than hype.
Oct
29
Thu
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
The AI Arbitrator? The Future of AI in Arbitration
A Seattle AI Week panel with local arbitrators and dispute resolution professionals on where AI genuinely helps in arbitration practice, and where bias, hallucination and confidentiality risks make it unusable.
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
Data Security and Compliance Reporting for Enterprise AI
by Washington Technology Industry Association
A Seattle AI Week session on the Eastside for CISOs, CIOs and AI application developers, on the tooling that lets enterprises meet data security and compliance obligations for deployed AI systems.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Founders Live Seattle: AI Week Edition
A fast-format pitch night inside Seattle AI Week where five founders each get 99 seconds and four minutes of audience questions, with the room voting for the winner. Free, with the venue still to be announced.
Oct
30
Fri