AI Events in Washington, DC
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in Washington. Updated daily.
Sep
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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 – 7:30 PM EDT
AI-Powered Women: Washington, D.C. City Chapter Launch
Georgetown Neighborhood Libraryby AI-Powered Women
AI-Powered Women launches its Washington chapter at Georgetown Neighborhood Library with practical discussion, peer connections and a community-focused introduction to using AI confidently in work and leadership.
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.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
AI-Powered Women: Washington DC Chapter Launch
Georgetown Neighborhood Libraryby AI-Powered Women
The launch event for the Washington chapter of AI-Powered Women at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library, with structured AI Speed Connections pairing rounds, a facilitated community conversation and a live vote on future topics.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Pizza and Networking at Andy's Pizza in Tysons Galleria
Andy's Pizza, Tysons Galleriaby AI Innovators Network Northern Virginia
AI Innovators Network hosts an informal Tysons evening for local AI practitioners and people curious about the field to compare ideas, meet peers and discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI adoption.
Sep
10
Thu
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.
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.
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.
Sep
15
Tue
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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