AI Events in Seattle, WA

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.

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

SEA AI WEEK: AI Frontier Day Keynote

Thinkspace Seattleby Skillsheet events

A Seattle AI Week keynote at Thinkspace Seattle on frontier AI developments, research and the questions facing builders, founders and investors.

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT

AI Frontier Day Fireside Chat: Alvin Graylin and Jonathan Sposato

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

Seattle AI Week opens its AI Frontier programming with a Thinkspace fireside panel featuring technology strategist Alvin Graylin and GeekWire co-founder Jonathan Sposato, focused on where AI is headed and what it means for builders, business and society.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

AI Frontier Day Panel: What VCs Are Seeing with Startups at the AI Frontier

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week investor panel at Thinkspace Seattle on what venture capitalists are seeing among AI startups operating at the frontier, presented with Skillsheet.

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

#SeattleAIWeek 2026 Opening Reception

AI Houseby Washington Technology Industry Association

The launch event for Seattle AI Week 2026 at AI House on Pier 70, opening a week of AI programming across the city with conversations on AI policy, economic development and Washington's technology future.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: AI GTM Day Happy Hour

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A networking happy hour closing Seattle AI Week’s AI GTM Day at Thinkspace Seattle. The event is part of an AI-focused day presented with Skillsheet, providing time for practitioners, founders and guests to meet.

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT

AI Week Seattle: A Lūʻau for Startups

SURF Incubatorby SURF Incubator

A Seattle AI Week community gathering at SURF Incubator celebrating the local AI, robotics, engineering and startup ecosystem, with an approval-based registration flow for founders and supporters.

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM PDT

#SeattleAIWeek AI Summit 2026

Bell Harbor International Conference Centerby Washington Technology Industry Association

The flagship full-day summit of Seattle AI Week 2026 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center, gathering founders, engineers, researchers and policy leaders from across the Pacific Northwest AI ecosystem.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: AI Frontier Day Keynote

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week keynote session for AI Frontier Day, hosted at Thinkspace Seattle in partnership with Skillsheet. It is part of programming examining the frontier of artificial intelligence.

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.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: AI Frontier Day Panel

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week panel session for AI Frontier Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented with Skillsheet. It is a scheduled part of the week’s AI frontier programming for the local technology community.

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

AI in Government Panel: AI Week

AI House

A Seattle AI Week panel for venture-scale founders, investors and government buyers on where AI is producing value in public agencies, how procurement is evolving and what government customers need.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: AI Frontier Day Happy Hour

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A networking happy hour closing Seattle AI Week’s AI Frontier Day at Thinkspace Seattle. It creates time for attendees in the day’s frontier-AI programming to connect with other local practitioners.

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.

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM PDT

Convergence: Quantum/AI Deep Tech Summit

A full-day Seattle AI Week summit at the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, convened by a group of regional deep tech organisers. Currently sold out with the venue still to be announced.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Agentic Commerce Day Keynote

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week keynote for Agentic Commerce Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented in partnership with Skillsheet. The day is explicitly dedicated to the emerging intersection of AI agents and commerce.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Agentic Commerce Day Panel

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week panel for Agentic Commerce Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented with Skillsheet. This scheduled session is part of the week’s programming on agents and their commercial applications.

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.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Agentic Commerce Day Happy Hour

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A networking happy hour closing Seattle AI Week’s Agentic Commerce Day at Thinkspace Seattle. The gathering follows the day’s scheduled programming on AI agents and commerce.

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.

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Trust as the New Literacy: Discernment and AI Leadership

by AI-Powered Women Seattle

AI-Powered Women Seattle hosts a fireside conversation on trust, privacy and human-centred leadership in generative AI, featuring Liat Ben-Zur and ACME Brains founder Mary Jesse.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Startups and Enterprise Day Keynote

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week keynote for Startups and Enterprise Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented in partnership with Skillsheet. The session is part of the week’s programming for people applying AI in startup and enterprise settings.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Fireside Chat with David McJannet

Thinkspace Seattleby Skillsheet events

A Seattle AI Week fireside chat at Thinkspace with David McJannet of Dome Systems on the path from startup to enterprise, and how AI is reshaping that journey for founders and operators.

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.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Startups and Enterprise Day Panel

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week panel for Startups and Enterprise Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented with Skillsheet. This scheduled discussion belongs to the week’s AI programming for the regional startup and enterprise community.

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.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Startups and Enterprise Day Happy Hour

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A networking happy hour closing Seattle AI Week’s Startups and Enterprise Day at Thinkspace Seattle. It gives attendees in the day’s AI-focused programme a dedicated time to connect locally.

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.

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Dev Day Keynote

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week keynote for Dev Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented in partnership with Skillsheet. It is a scheduled session in the week’s developer-oriented artificial intelligence programme.

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Dev Day Panel

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Seattle AI Week panel for Dev Day at Thinkspace Seattle, presented with Skillsheet. The session belongs to the week’s developer-focused artificial intelligence programming.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Seattle AI Week: Halloween Happy Hour

Thinkspace Seattleby Washington Technology Industry Association

A Halloween-themed networking happy hour closing Seattle AI Week’s Dev Day at Thinkspace Seattle. It gives attendees and local AI developers a final scheduled opportunity to meet during the week.

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST

FYUZ 2026

The Westin Seattleby Telecom Infra Project

A three-day Seattle conference for telecom operators, vendors and AI leaders working on deploying open, AI-driven network infrastructure. The program combines technical sessions, industry showcases and structured networking.

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PST

Smartsheet ENGAGE 2026

by Smartsheet

Smartsheet’s Seattle conference examines practical AI adoption, workflow transformation and organizational impact through sessions, hands-on training and peer exchange for business and technical teams.

5:30 PM – 7:45 PM PST

New Tech Seattle November 2026 Meetup

The Collective Seattleby New Tech Northwest

A New Tech Northwest gathering at The Collective featuring a presentation from Predictable Machines on bringing clarity and control to AI in critical workflows, plus local tech networking.

4:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST

Identity, AI & Cybersecurity: Securing the Enterprise in an Agentic World

Bellevue City Hallby Seattle Data AI & Security

Seattle Data, AI & Security hosts an in-person Bellevue session with Microsoft security and technology leaders on identity, access, DevOps and cybersecurity challenges in agentic AI systems.