AI Events in Washington, DC

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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

Mon

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

Who Governs the Machine? Rules, Responsibilities, and the Public Good

Hopkins Bloomberg Centerby Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC

A Johns Hopkins Next Conversations panel at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center on who writes the rules for AI, who bears the cost when AI fails, and what role research universities should play in answering either question.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralResearchersBusiness

Sep

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.

MeetupFreeIntermediateResearchersBusinessGeneral

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

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Authoritarians on the Brink: China's AI Surveillance Infrastructure in Venezuela

PubKeyby PubKey Bitcoin Events

A public Washington conversation on research into China’s role in Venezuela’s surveillance infrastructure, including AI-enabled systems and emerging technology cooperation.

MeetupFreeAll levelsResearchersGeneralBusiness

Sep

Wed

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

Sep

Thu

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

AI Developments in Scholarly Publishing: The Last Year in Review

GW Arlington Education Centerby GW College of Professional Studies

Angela Cochran of ASCO and Gary Price of infoDOCKET review a year of AI in scholarly publishing at GW's Arlington Education Center, covering reading, authorship and peer review as publishers move from deliberating to implementing.

MeetupFreeAll levelsResearchersBusinessGeneral

Sep

Sat

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Author Book Talk: Who Is in Charge? Why AI Must Remain Under Human Control

West End Neighborhood Libraryby AI Discussion Club

AI Discussion Club hosts author Khaled Koubaa at West End Neighborhood Library for a conversation about keeping meaningful human oversight as AI systems increasingly advise, automate and act across institutions.

MeetupFreeAll levelsResearchersBusinessStudentsGeneral

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

Tue

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

CDAO Government 2026

Le Meridien Washington DCby Corinium Global Intelligence

Corinium's two-day gathering for chief data and AI officers at Le Meridien downtown, co-located with CDAO Defense and Security, covering agentic AI, autonomous decision support, data governance and the shift from data stewardship to AI stewardship.

ConferenceAdvancedBusinessResearchers

Sep

Wed

8:30 AM EDT

The Future of Trust: Artificial Intelligence in Fraud

Jack Morton Auditoriumby National Consumers League

Day one of the National Consumers League's two-day conference at GW's Jack Morton Auditorium, focused on AI-enabled fraud and what consumer protection looks like when the tools of deception get much cheaper.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessResearchers

Sep

Thu

8:30 AM EDT

The Future of Trust: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Jack Morton Auditoriumby National Consumers League

Day two of the National Consumers League conference at GW's Jack Morton Auditorium, turning from fraud to healthcare: clinical AI, patient trust and consumer protection as AI moves into medical decision-making.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessResearchers

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

Tue

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Authors & Insights: Kevin Roose and the History of AI

Hopkins Bloomberg Centerby Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC

New York Times technology journalist Kevin Roose discusses his new account of the race toward artificial general intelligence, followed by audience questions and a reception at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessResearchers

Oct

Thu

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

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

Nov

Tue

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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