AI conferences in Washington

The big rooms: AI conferences and multi-day summits in Washington, with keynote speakers, focused tracks, and the kind of hallway networking that fills a calendar for months. Every upcoming AI conference in the city, tracked and verified daily.

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Sep

Fri

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

AI Community Conference: AICO DC

Microsoft Innovation Hub Arlingtonby AICO

A full day at the Microsoft Innovation Hub in Rosslyn on the Microsoft AI stack: Copilot, Azure AI, Power Platform AI, agents and automation, built around practical sessions and real deployment use cases.

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Sep

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.

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Sep

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.

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Sep

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.

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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.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Sep

Tue

12:45 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Destination AI Summit 2026

National Housing Centerby Destination AI

The third annual Destination AI Summit at the National Housing Center, a day and a half on artificial intelligence in hospitality drawing roughly 500 attendees from more than 280 hotel, restaurant and travel companies.

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Oct

Wed

11:30 AM – 6:00 PM EDT

Innovation Summit 2026: AI Dominates the Landscape

The Ritz-Carlton Washington DCby FedInsider

A free FedInsider summit at the Ritz-Carlton on scaling federal AI from pilot to enterprise deployment, zero trust governance for AI, and data centre modernisation for AI workloads, with CPE credits available.

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Oct

Fri

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

Washington DC Digital Government Summit 2026

George Washington University Student Centerby Government Technology

Government Technology's annual DC summit at the GWU Student Center, convening public sector technology leaders on AI adoption alongside cybersecurity, data governance and digital service delivery. Free for public sector staff.

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Nov

Fri

8:00 AM – 3:15 PM EST

GovCIO 2026 AI Summit

Hyatt Regency Tysons Corner Centerby GovCIO Media and Research

A day at the Hyatt Regency Tysons on federal AI deployment, with Alexis Bonnell of OpenAI for Government, panels on agents, infrastructure and governance, agency use case lightning rounds and the Flywheel Awards.

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Nov

Tue

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.

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