AI Events in Washington, DC
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in Washington. Updated daily.
Sep
9
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5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
AI Agents at Work
STATION DCby STATION DC
STATION DC hosts the YourCadre founders demoing live agents on real service-firm workflows, drawing on three years running Atlantic-scale support agents in production at Atlassian.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
AI-Powered Women: Washington, D.C. City Chapter Launch
Georgetown Neighborhood Libraryby AI-Powered Women
AI-Powered Women launches its Washington chapter at Georgetown Neighborhood Library with practical discussion, peer connections and a community-focused introduction to using AI confidently in work and leadership.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Cyber Guardrails for the AI Era
Washington, DC, location shared with registrantsby Squadra Ventures
A Washington panel on the security implications of agentic AI, including how data, development and security teams can build guardrails for AI-driven threats, governance and compliance.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
AI-Powered Women: Washington DC Chapter Launch
Georgetown Neighborhood Libraryby AI-Powered Women
The launch event for the Washington chapter of AI-Powered Women at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library, with structured AI Speed Connections pairing rounds, a facilitated community conversation and a live vote on future topics.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Pizza and Networking at Andy's Pizza in Tysons Galleria
Andy's Pizza, Tysons Galleriaby AI Innovators Network Northern Virginia
AI Innovators Network hosts an informal Tysons evening for local AI practitioners and people curious about the field to compare ideas, meet peers and discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI adoption.
Sep
10
Thu
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT
How Leading Organizations Are Becoming AI-Native
LMI Headquartersby Northern Virginia Technology Council
An NVTC executive panel at LMI headquarters in McLean on restructuring to embed AI across an enterprise: governance frameworks for trustworthy AI, data infrastructure modernisation, and the speed versus security tradeoff.
9:00 AM – 8:00 PM EDT
The Refraction AI Exchange: September
Refraction Innovation Hubby Refraction
Refraction's monthly AI day in McLean combines an open hub, a midday Byte-Sized Lunch Lab where attendees build working prototypes, and an evening panel on AI for your business with the Harvard Club of Washington DC.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
What AI Agents Actually Need from Your Cloud Stack
AWS Skills Center Crystal Cityby AWS DMV User Group
Rakia Finley walks the AWS DMV User Group through the infrastructure agents genuinely require: storage and orchestration for RAG workloads, latency-aware event pipelines for LLMs, and monitoring systems whose outputs are nondeterministic.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Inside Claude's J-Space: Digital Minds Reading Group
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Libraryby DC Digital Minds
The DC Digital Minds reading group discusses Anthropic research on a global workspace in language models, taking apart the J-space concept, its relationship to access consciousness, and whether the methods support the claims.
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11
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Sep
14
Mon
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
PauseAI US Demonstration Supporting an International AI Treaty
Harry S Truman Buildingby PauseAI US
A public demonstration outside the State Department urging the US to open negotiations on an international treaty to pause frontier AI development, timed to coincide with diplomatic engagement in late September.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Who Governs the Machine? Rules, Responsibilities, and the Public Good
Hopkins Bloomberg Centerby Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC
A Johns Hopkins Next Conversations panel at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center on who writes the rules for AI, who bears the cost when AI fails, and what role research universities should play in answering either question.
Sep
15
Tue
8:00 AM – 2:15 PM EDT
Government and AI Summit 2026
JW Marriott Washington DCby GovExec
GovExec convenes federal leaders and technologists at the JW Marriott for a day on generative AI applications, AI-powered cybersecurity and automation, with breakouts on RPA at scale and ethical AI governance.
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM EDT
AI Policy Considerations for Food, Land, and Water Systems
International Food Policy Research Instituteby International Food Policy Research Institute
A morning seminar at the International Food Policy Research Institute downtown on how AI policy intersects with agrifood, land and water systems governance, drawing on IFPRI's research programme.
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
STATION DC AI Open Roundtable
STATION DCby STATION DC
A morning roundtable in NoMa for founders, engineers, policymakers and investors working in applied AI, covering production ML, model evaluation, MLOps, public sector deployment and responsible AI, followed by open networking.
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Skills vs. Agents: What Are You Actually Building?
Washington, DC, location shared with registrantsby Buildrs United
Buildrs United runs an interactive Washington session on distinguishing prompts, reusable skills, workflows and agentic systems, with practical examples and audience problem solving.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Authoritarians on the Brink: China's AI Surveillance Infrastructure in Venezuela
PubKeyby PubKey Bitcoin Events
A public Washington conversation on research into China’s role in Venezuela’s surveillance infrastructure, including AI-enabled systems and emerging technology cooperation.
Sep
16
Wed
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
DC State of the Stack 2026
American Red Cross National Headquartersby DC State of the Stack
A two-day Washington practitioner conference on building, operating, securing and governing modern systems, with a 2026 programme focused on how AI is changing software delivery, operations and engineering practice.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Self-Correcting ML and Multimodal Search with Elastic
Elastic Arlington Officeby Elastic Washington DC User Group
Two technical talks at Elastic's Ballston office: Kritika Berry on ML pipelines that detect drift and correct themselves, and Josh Phifer on building multimodal search over text, images and video using Elastic and Jina.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Self-Correcting ML + Multimodal Search with Elastic
Elastic Arlington Officeby Elastic Washington DC User Group
The Elastic Washington user community meets in Arlington for technical talks and demonstrations on ML observability, automated correction loops and multimodal search with agents.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Silver Spring AI Meetup: Lion Solutions Session
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plazaby Silver Spring AI Meetup
An in-person Silver Spring evening for people building with AI or exploring its practical uses, combining a featured talk, an additional educational session, demos, pizza and local networking.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
People Side of AI: Lessons from Change Management Front Lines
AWS Skills Center Crystal Cityby AI Innovators Network Northern Virginia
AI Innovators Network hosts an in-person Crystal City panel on the organizational work behind AI adoption, bringing change-management practitioners together to discuss resistance, implementation pitfalls and how teams make new tools stick.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
People Side of AI: Lessons from Change Management Front Lines
AWS Skills Center Crystal Cityby AI Innovators Network Northern Virginia
A panel of change management practitioners at the AWS Skills Center on why AI rollouts stall on people rather than technology, and what separates organisations stuck in pilot from those that got past it.
Sep
17
Thu
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
Masters AI Legal: Washington, D.C.
D.C. Bar Associationby Masters AI Legal
An in-person legal-AI conference for counsel, law-firm teams, legal operations professionals, public-sector practitioners and builders, centered on practical AI workflows, governance and adoption in legal work.
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDT
AQE Executive Forum at CBCF's ALC: Built to Win
The Gathering Spot DCby The AQE Solutions Events Team
An executive forum at The Gathering Spot DC on federal procurement and innovation, including a practical session on how acquisition leaders use AI for source selection, market research and vendor evaluation.
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT
AI Developments in Scholarly Publishing: The Last Year in Review
GW Arlington Education Centerby GW College of Professional Studies
Angela Cochran of ASCO and Gary Price of infoDOCKET review a year of AI in scholarly publishing at GW's Arlington Education Center, covering reading, authorship and peer review as publishers move from deliberating to implementing.
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Build Your First Website in 2 Hours with Claude & Vercel
AWS Skills Center Arlingtonby AI Discussion Club
A beginner-friendly Arlington workshop where non-coders use Claude Code and Vercel to turn an idea into a live web prototype, with a guided demo and hands-on building time.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Can AI Build a Better B2B Pipeline? MarTech Demo Day
Refraction Innovation Hubby DC Marketing Tech Talks
DC Marketing Tech Talks presents live demos of AI and automation tools for prospecting, outbound work and personalized B2B buyer experiences at Refraction in McLean.
Sep
19
Sat
10:00 AM EDT
Good Vibes with OpenSource AI: Monthly Meeting
Mary Riley Styles Public Libraryby Northern Virginia Linux Users Group
The Northern Virginia Linux Users Group's recurring Saturday morning session on open source AI tooling and models, held at the Mary Riley Styles Public Library in Falls Church.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Author Book Talk: Who Is in Charge? Why AI Must Remain Under Human Control
West End Neighborhood Libraryby AI Discussion Club
AI Discussion Club hosts author Khaled Koubaa at West End Neighborhood Library for a conversation about keeping meaningful human oversight as AI systems increasingly advise, automate and act across institutions.
Sep
21
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Sep
22
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Sep
23
Wed
8:00 AM – 7:00 PM EDT
CDAO Washington D.C.
Le Méridien Washington, D.C., The Madisonby Corinium Global Intelligence
A one-day gathering for senior enterprise data and AI leaders, focused on practical questions of AI governance, data quality, accountability, operating models and how teams move AI into live business workflows.
8:30 AM EDT
The Future of Trust: Artificial Intelligence in Fraud
Jack Morton Auditoriumby National Consumers League
Day one of the National Consumers League's two-day conference at GW's Jack Morton Auditorium, focused on AI-enabled fraud and what consumer protection looks like when the tools of deception get much cheaper.
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EDT
AI+IM Regional Forum Washington, DC: Outside the Lines
AGU Conference Centerby AIIM Washington DC
A free, interactive AI and information-management forum at the AGU Conference Center for practitioners working on data readiness, governance, trust, innovation and responsible AI adoption.
Sep
24
Thu
8:30 AM EDT
The Future of Trust: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Jack Morton Auditoriumby National Consumers League
Day two of the National Consumers League conference at GW's Jack Morton Auditorium, turning from fraud to healthcare: clinical AI, patient trust and consumer protection as AI moves into medical decision-making.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
The Future of Labor in the Age of AI and Robotics
JLL, 2020 K Street NWby HBS Club of Washington, D.C.
An HBS Club of Washington discussion at JLL on how AI agents, robotics and automation could reshape work, skills, hiring, wages and the public-policy choices around the transition.
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9:00 AM – 8:00 PM EDT
The Refraction AI Exchange: October
Refraction Innovation Hubby Refraction
The October edition of Refraction's monthly AI day in McLean, with the hub open through the day, a midday Byte-Sized Lunch Lab building working prototypes, and an evening programme for founders, operators and investors.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Demo Night: NVTC x AWS x AI Collective
Pentagon City, Arlingtonby AI Collective DC
An Arlington demo night for AI startups, independent builders, ISVs and practitioners, featuring concise product demonstrations and time to meet the teams building them.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Reports of Subjective Experience in LLMs: Digital Minds Reading Group
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Libraryby The DC Digital Minds Meetup
DC Digital Minds meets at MLK Library to discuss a recent paper on reports of subjective experience by large language models, weighing its methods and what, if anything, its findings imply about AI cognition.
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17
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8:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
FedTalks 2026
Waldorf Astoria Washington DCby FedScoop
FedScoop’s Washington gathering for federal technology leaders, with federal AI adoption among its core topics alongside data foundations, digital services, cloud, cyber and quantum technology.
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
Enterprise AI World 2026
JW Marriott Washington DCby Information Today
Three days at the JW Marriott for chief AI officers, chief data scientists and enterprise technology leaders, co-located with KMWorld and Taxonomy Boot Camp under the theme of human-centric AI and knowledge sharing.
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