Boston AI Week

Welcome to Boston AI Week — The Festival of AI.

Boston AI Week is Massachusetts’ statewide, community-organized festival of artificial intelligence and the convening layer for everyone building, funding, researching, governing, applying, and exploring AI across the Commonwealth.
Boston AI Week is a platform, not a single conference. Startups, enterprises, universities, investors, research labs, public-sector partners, and community groups create meetups, workshops, panels, hackathons, demo nights, conferences, career programs, and cultural gatherings. We bring them together on one official statewide calendar so Massachusetts’ AI ecosystem can operate as one connected network.

Our purpose is to innovate, inspire, inform, and lead by accelerating responsible AI adoption and developing AI talent at scale.

Boston AI Week 2026 runs September 16 through October 28 across Massachusetts, with Core Festival Week from September 24 through October 2.

The 2026 theme is AI in Business and in Life: how organizations put AI to work and how people experience it in education, healthcare, culture, and everyday life.
In 2025, more than 125 events brought together 256 participating companies and over 15,000 participants across 23 days. Today, the community spans more than 500 participating organizations across 23 countries. The 2026 calendar already includes more than 130 approved events and continues to grow.

This Meetup group is the community home for Boston AI Week’s anchor events and announcements, including the Core Week Opening and Closing Parties, the Boston Generative AI Meetup, and the AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development and Career Fair, and the Boston AI Summit.

Most festival events are independently created and run by their hosts. Boston AI Week publishes and promotes them, while each host manages its own registration and guest list. Create a free Boston AI Week account to RSVP, save events, join waitlists, and build your agenda. When an event includes an external registration link, register with the host as well—that is what secures your place.

Explore the growing schedule:
https://aiweek.boston/schedule

2026 anchor events include:

• Boston AI Week Opening Party (it's free) — Friday, September 25, 6:00–11:00 PM, Island Creek Oyster Raw Bar, Seaport: https://www.meetup.com/boston-ai-week/events/315063562/
• AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development and Career Fair — Tuesday, September 29, 1:00–5:00 PM, Metcalf Hall Grand Ballroom at Boston University: https://www.meetup.com/ai-in-massachusetts-workforce-development-and-career-fair/events/312320138/
• Boston Generative AI Meetup — our flagship gathering of Massachusetts founders, researchers, and practitioners building with generative AI. See the live listing for final details: https://aiweek.boston/schedule/boston-generative-ai-meetup-2026
• The Boston AI Summit — Thursday, October 1, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, Foundation Medicine, Boston Seaport. A 250-seat, application-based gathering of the leaders shaping AI in Massachusetts: https://aiweek.boston/summit
• Core Week Closing Party (it's free) — Friday, October 2, 6:00–11:00 PM, Island Creek Oyster Raw Bar, Seaport: https://www.meetup.com/boston-ai-week/events/315063405/
• The State of AI in Massachusetts 2026 Ecosystem Survey (please take it) — help shape the research on how AI is being built, adopted, funded, researched, governed, and experienced across the Commonwealth: https://aiweek.boston/survey/take

Whether you are building, investing, researching, hiring, learning, governing, applying, or simply curious about AI, there is a place for you here.

Ways to take part

• Create a free account and build your agenda on the Boston AI Week site (off Meetup.com) at https://aiweek.boston/signup
• Get involved: https://aiweek.boston/join
• Host an event—approved listings are free: https://aiweek.boston/host-event
• Read the Event Host Guide: https://aiweek.boston/hosts
• Apply to speak: https://aiweek.boston/apply-to-speak
• Volunteer: https://aiweek.boston/volunteer

We are the “Humans in Control” of AI. We define the loops for AI and harness its power for the betterment of humanity—starting in Boston and across Massachusetts.

See you at Boston AI Week,
Judah Phillips
Founder and Board Chair