AI Events in Washington, DC

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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

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

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

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