AI Events in Washington, DC

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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.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

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.

MeetupFreeAll levelsResearchersGeneralDevelopers

Sep

Fri

Tomorrow

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.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

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.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

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.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusinessResearchers

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.

WorkshopFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

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.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

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.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

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.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

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.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

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.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

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

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.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerGeneralDevelopersStudents

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.

MeetupFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Sep

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.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

Sep

Mon

8:30 AM – 3:00 PM EDT

AWS-MLU Fall AI Teaching & Research Symposium

Howard University Armour J. Blackburn Centerby Amazon Machine Learning University

A two-day Washington and Arlington symposium from Amazon Machine Learning University and Howard University on AI education, research collaboration, hands-on GenAI work and pathways for students, faculty and industry practitioners.

ConferenceAll levelsResearchersStudentsDevelopers

Sep

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.

ConferenceAdvancedBusinessDevelopers

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.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Sat

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT

Civic Hack DC 2026 Part 2: From Prototype to Production

George Washington University Foggy Bottom Campusby Civic Tech DC

A full-day civic hackathon at George Washington University building production-grade open source tools on federal regulatory comment data, including AI-driven comment search, summarisation and theme analysis.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersStudentsGeneral

Oct

Mon

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EDT

AI in Washington Conference

American University Campusby AI Washington Conference

A two-day Washington conference on artificial intelligence, public policy and international collaboration, hosted at American University with a dedicated registration form for attendees.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessResearchersDevelopers

Oct

Thu

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.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

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.

MeetupFreeAll levelsResearchersDevelopersGeneral

Oct

Tue

4:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Upskilling Summit 3: Civics and Elections Showcase

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Libraryby The Upskilling Labs

The Upskilling Labs closes its civics and elections build cycle at the MLK Jr. Memorial Library with project demos, a keynote, a moderated panel and the kickoff of the Q4 cycle.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneralStudents

Oct

Thu

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

DC Privacy Summit

National Union Buildingby Project Glitch

Project Glitch’s annual Washington forum brings policymakers and technologists together for practical discussion of digital privacy, security, identity and how artificial intelligence changes the stakes.

ConferenceAll levelsDevelopersBusinessResearchersGeneral

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.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

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.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Tue

8:30 AM – 5:30 PM EDT

Xperience on Tour Washington, D.C.

Capital Hiltonby Genesys

A free one-day Capital Hilton programme for customer-experience leaders on applying agentic AI, orchestration and cloud technology to more adaptive service operations.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Nov

Thu

9:00 AM – 8:00 PM EST

The Refraction AI Exchange: November

Refraction Innovation Hubby Refraction

The November edition of Refraction's monthly AI day at its McLean hub, with all-day open access, the midday Byte-Sized Lunch Lab for building prototypes, and an evening programme for the applied AI community.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

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.

ConferenceAdvancedBusinessResearchersDevelopers

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