Free AI events in Washington
You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into Washington'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
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 – 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.
Sep
10
Thu
Sep
15
Tue
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.
Sep
16
Wed
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.
Sep
17
Thu
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.
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.
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