Sept 24 – Oct 2, 2026 · Core festival week · Boston, Massachusetts
Boston AI Week Schedule
September 24 – October 2, 2026 is the core festival week. Official events run across Massachusetts before, during, and after — hosts may schedule outside the core window.
34 approved events. RSVP to save them to your agenda.
New events added weekly — 300+ expected across the festival. Want yours listed?
Thursday, September 24
B2B Tech Oktoberfest
by Venture Lane
Thu, Sep 24 · 5:30 PM–7:30 PM ET
Calling all founders, mentors, and investors in the Boston startup community. Join us at Venture Lane for an evening of Oktoberfest festivities. Come dressed in your best lederhosen or dirndl and…
Seeing What Consumers See: AI, Visual Intelligence, and the Future of Consumer Behavior
by BU Questrom Feld Center & Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute
Thu, Sep 24 · 6:00 PM–8:00 PM ET
Fireside chat with Vizit founder Jehan Hamedi and Questrom Interim Dean Marcel Rindisbacher on AI, visual intelligence, and consumer behavior.
Friday, September 25
Saturday, September 26
DevFest Boston 2026
by Google Developer Group (GDG) Cloud Boston
Sat, Sep 26 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
DevFest Boston 2026 is the flagship annual conference hosted by GDG Cloud Boston, bringing together developers, AI practitioners, cloud engineers, students, and technology leaders for a day of…
Architecting with AI: A Developer Roundtable on Software Engineering in the Agent Era
by Independent
Sat, Sep 26 · 10:00 AM–11:30 AM ET
A developer roundtable on how multi-agent AI coding tools are reshaping software engineering.
Robot Block Party
by MassRobotics
Sat, Sep 26 · 11:00 AM–4:00 PM ET
RoboBoston: the largest celebration of robotics and Physical AI in Boston's Seaport.
Monday, September 28
BDMT Global Innovator Summit — Day 1 (Mon)
by BDMT Global
Mon, Sep 28 · 8:00 AM–6:00 PM ET
Curated three-day summit connecting global tech innovators with U.S. ecosystem leaders and investors.
GAI World 2026 — Day 1
by GAI Insights
Mon, Sep 28 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
The premier enterprise generative AI conference — strategy, deployment, and ROI for senior leaders.
ConV2X
by Community-hosted
Mon, Sep 28 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
Connected-vehicle and V2X technology conference. Details TBA.
Show & Tell: Meet the Real Small Business Owners Using AI
by Launch by Lunch
Mon, Sep 28 · 3:00 PM–5:30 PM ET
You've heard AI is going to change everything. What you probably haven't seen is someone who runs a business like yours actually using it, on an ordinary Monday, to get through the to-do list. That's…
Revolutionary Science
by AI Blueprint for MA / HBS Alumni of Boston
Mon, Sep 28 · 7:00 PM–9:00 PM ET
An evening exploring AI and science at the Museum of Science.
Tuesday, September 29
BDMT Global Innovator Summit — Day 2 (Tue)
by BDMT Global
Tue, Sep 29 · 8:00 AM–6:00 PM ET
Curated three-day summit connecting global tech innovators with U.S. ecosystem leaders and investors.
AI for the Rest of Us: How Support Forge is Bringing Enterprise AI to Underserved SMBs
by Support Forge LLC
Tue, Sep 29 · 9:00 AM–12:00 PM ET
How Support Forge brings enterprise-grade AI strategy to mid-market SMBs.
GAI World 2026 — Day 2
by GAI Insights
Tue, Sep 29 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
The premier enterprise generative AI conference — strategy, deployment, and ROI for senior leaders.
Training Custom AI Models via Fine-Tuning
by Community-hosted
Tue, Sep 29 · 1:00 PM–4:00 PM ET
Hands-on workshop on fine-tuning open models for domain-specific tasks.
The AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development and Career Fair
by Boston AI Week and Questrom School of Business at Boston University
Tue, Sep 29 · 1:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
New England's largest AI workforce development and career fair — connecting Massachusetts talent with the companies building the future of AI.
AI in Action: Real Use Cases Driving Business Impact
by BU Questrom Women in Business Alumni Council, BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, GMS, and BU CCDS
Tue, Sep 29 · 6:00 PM–8:00 PM ET
Cross-industry panel on where AI is delivering measurable impact — and where it has fallen short — across finance, healthcare, consulting, and STEM.
Wednesday, September 30
BDMT Global Innovator Summit — Day 3 (Wed)
by BDMT Global
Wed, Sep 30 · 8:00 AM–6:00 PM ET
Curated three-day summit connecting global tech innovators with U.S. ecosystem leaders and investors.
GAI World 2026 — Day 3
by GAI Insights
Wed, Sep 30 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
The premier enterprise generative AI conference — strategy, deployment, and ROI for senior leaders.
Executive Inquiry Lab: Collective Sensemaking in the Age of AI
by MIT CIO Symposium
Wed, Sep 30 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM ET
What happens when executives, AI, and structured inquiry work together to make sense of complex questions? Join us for the first public experiment in a new model of executive learning that combines…
The Silence Tax™ in the AI Era
by Community-hosted
Wed, Sep 30 · 6:00 PM–8:00 PM ET
A candid panel on the cost of staying quiet about AI inside organizations.
The Multi-Agent Symphony: Operating Parallel Coding Agents with Conductor
by Community-hosted
Wed, Sep 30 · 6:00 PM–8:00 PM ET
A practitioner talk on orchestrating parallel coding agents with Conductor.
Thursday, October 1
Project Leadership Summit 2026
by PMI Mass Bay Chapter
Thu, Oct 1 · 8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
PMI Mass Bay's annual Project Leadership Summit, hosted in the Seaport.
The Boston AI Summit
by Boston AI Week
Thu, Oct 1 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
The flagship one-room executive conference — opening with the release of The State of AI in Massachusetts 2026.
Human-Centric AI Summit
by Community-hosted
Thu, Oct 1 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
A summit on designing and deploying AI that centers people. Details TBA.
From AI Strategy to Enterprise Execution
by Community-hosted
Thu, Oct 1 · 9:00 AM–5:00 PM ET
A working session on closing the gap between AI strategy and shipped enterprise outcomes.
Architecture and AI
by Wentworth Institute of Technology — School of Architecture and Design
Thu, Oct 1 · 1:00 PM–4:00 PM ET
PechaKucha demos and a moderated roundtable on how AI is transforming architectural education, research, and practice — hosted by Wentworth's School of Architecture and Design.
Harnessing AI through Agentforce in Salesforce
by Kearney
Thu, Oct 1 · 5:00 PM–7:00 PM ET
Join us for a two hour session where we share the latest AI Agentforce innovations from Salesforce.
AI Visionaries: Founders After Dark at WNDR Boston
by Amazon Web Services
Thu, Oct 1 · 5:30 PM–8:30 PM ET
AWS Startups presents an invite-only evening experience at WNDR Boston during Boston AI Week 2026. Designed for startup founders building in AI, the event brings together some of the most innovative…
Boston OpenClaw Meetup
by Independent
Thu, Oct 1 · 5:30 PM–8:30 PM ET
Monthly Boston OpenClaw Meetup during Boston AI Week.
Boston Generative AI Meetup
by Boston AI Week
Thu, Oct 1 · 6:00 PM–9:00 PM ET
Monthly flagship gathering of MA founders, researchers, and practitioners building with generative AI.
Friday, October 2
AI, Education, and the Future of How We Prove What We Know
by Questrom School of Business & WBUR City Space
Fri, Oct 2 · 8:30 AM–10:30 AM ET
Join us for a live taping of “Is Business Broken?”, the Boston University Questrom School of Business Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute’s podcast in partnership with WBUR, featuring a candid conversation…
Boston AI Week Closing Party
by Boston AI Week
Fri, Oct 2 · 6:00 PM–11:00 PM ET
Celebrate nine days of building, shipping, and connecting across MA AI.