AI Events in Washington, DC

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Oct

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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

Oct

Wed

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

How to Stay Employed in the Age of AI

AWS Skills Center Arlingtonby AI Innovators Network Northern Virginia

An Arlington AI community conversation on durable career evidence, practical work and employability as artificial intelligence changes knowledge-work roles.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessStudentsGeneral

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

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

Short Course: An Overview of LLMs for Statisticians: Foundations, Reasoning, and Agentic AI

1957 E Street NWby GWU Department of Statistics

A full-day GW short course for statisticians and data scientists covering how modern LLMs are built, then moving into reasoning models, agent design, safety, reliability and hands-on examples.

WorkshopIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

Nov

Tue

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST

Multimodal Ingest and NASA’s Real-Time Search Archive with Elasticsearch

Elastic Arlington Officeby You Know, for Search

An Arlington technical meetup on bringing multimodal content into Elasticsearch with Apache Tika, followed by a case study of NASA’s real-time search and retrieval archive built with Elastic, AWS and S3.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Nov

Wed

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

IEEE Brain Discovery and Neurotechnology Workshop

National Housing Centerby IEEE Brain

IEEE Brain’s three-day Washington workshop connects neurotechnology, brain research and machine-learning practitioners through keynotes, symposiums, panels, posters and live demonstrations.

WorkshopAll levelsResearchersDevelopersStudents

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

Fri

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

Takeoff 2026

The LINE DCby Takeoff 2026

A three-day Washington conference for public servants, AI researchers, builders and civil-society voices to debate how society should govern increasingly capable AI systems.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessResearchersDevelopersGeneral

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

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

Public Service AI Summit 2026

Partnership for Public Serviceby Partnership for Public Service

The Partnership for Public Service convenes public-sector leaders, academics and civic technologists for a Washington summit on effective, responsible AI in government, including keynotes, panels, breakouts and the inaugural AI Excellence Awards.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessResearchersDevelopers

Nov

Mon

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. 2026

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centerby NVIDIA GTC Washington

NVIDIA’s in-person Washington GTC campus covers open models, AI factories, physical AI, high-performance computing and scientific advancement through workshops, sessions, exhibits and a keynote.

ConferenceAll levelsDevelopersResearchersBusiness

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