Free AI events in Seattle

9:00 AM – 7:30 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week Claude Impact Lab Hackathon

Thinkspace Seattleby Build with Claude

A Seattle AI Week social-impact hackathon sponsored by Anthropic. The official listing identifies it as a Claude Impact Lab, a full-day build event with a civic or social-impact focus, organised with the Seattle community.

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

WTIA AI 101: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters Here

Labour Templeby Washington Technology Industry Association

A plain-English Seattle AI Week introduction to what AI tools do well, where they fall short and how to assess the claims around them. Designed for people who want useful context before the rest of the week’s programming.

10:00 AM – 9:00 PM PDT

AI Startup Day at SURF

SURF Incubator

Seattle AI Week opens at SURF Incubator with a founder-focused day of pitches and mentor office hours, followed by SURF’s 18th-anniversary gathering. The programme gives early-stage builders a practical place to share ideas and meet local mentors.

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

Fine-Tuning Your Own LLM from an Open-Source Model

Thinkspace Seattleby Skillsheet events

A technical Seattle AI Week talk on turning open-source LLMs into domain-specific models. It covers data quality, LoRA and QLoRA, the trade-offs against prompting or RAG, and evaluating custom models.

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: North Sound AI Happy Hour

Edway Taphouseby North Sound Innovators

A free North Sound Seattle AI Week gathering in Edmonds for local founders, technology professionals, business owners and AI-curious attendees to compare how AI is changing their work and communities.

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.

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.

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT

Coding, Algorithms & AI

PLUS84by PyData Seattle

A PyData Seattle recurring practice meetup at PLUS84 for software engineers, data scientists, students and technology enthusiasts. The group combines algorithmic problem solving with discussion of machine learning, LLMs and generative AI.

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.

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM PDT

AI/ML Code and Learn #27

Victrola Coffee and Artby Seattle AI/ML Skills

Occurrence twenty-seven of the biweekly Seattle AI/ML Skills practice session at Victrola Coffee and Art, and the last currently scheduled in the series as of mid-August.

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST

Coding, Algorithms & AI

PLUS84by PyData Seattle

A PyData Seattle recurring practice meetup at PLUS84 for software engineers, data scientists, students and technology enthusiasts. The group combines algorithmic problem solving with discussion of machine learning, LLMs and generative AI.

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST

Coding, Algorithms & AI

PLUS84by PyData Seattle

A PyData Seattle recurring practice meetup at PLUS84 for software engineers, data scientists, students and technology enthusiasts. The group combines algorithmic problem solving with discussion of machine learning, LLMs and generative AI.

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST

Coding, Algorithms & AI

PLUS84by PyData Seattle

A PyData Seattle recurring practice meetup at PLUS84 for software engineers, data scientists, students and technology enthusiasts. The group combines algorithmic problem solving with discussion of machine learning, LLMs and generative AI.