Boston Generative AI Meetup at Boston AI Week 2026: AI in Business and in Life
Monday, September 28, 2026
Laugh Boston (in the Westin Boston Seaport)
425 Summer St
Boston, Massachusetts
Join us for a special Boston AI Week edition of the Boston Generative AI Meetup exploring the festival’s 2026 theme: AI in Business and in Life.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond experimentation and into everyday reality. It is changing how companies operate, how products are built, how people work, and how decisions are made. It is also reshaping how we learn, create, communicate, and live.
Where is AI creating measurable value today? What remains mostly hype? What happens as AI agents and increasingly capable systems become part of our businesses and our daily lives? And what should leaders, builders, investors, and individuals be thinking about now?
We’ll bring together founders, executives, investors, technologists, researchers, students, and business leaders for an evening examining AI from both sides of the equation: what it means for business and what it means for people.
Whether you are building AI, deploying it within an organization, investing in it, studying it, using it every day, or simply trying to understand what comes next, this event is an opportunity to learn, exchange ideas, and make meaningful connections with one of the world’s largest in-person AI communities during Boston AI Week.
What We’ll Explore
The conversation will span the rapidly evolving intersection of AI, business, technology, and everyday life, including:
- Where businesses are creating measurable value from AI today
- AI agents, automation, and the changing nature of work
- How AI is reshaping products, services, and customer experiences
- Building and scaling AI-native companies
- What investors are seeing across the next generation of AI startups
- The impact of AI on careers, education, creativity, and entrepreneurship
- How people are incorporating AI into their everyday lives
- Trust, governance, security, privacy, and responsible deployment
- What remains overhyped—and what may still be underestimated
- Where AI could take business and society next
Featured Panel: AI in Business and in Life
Hear from leading investors, founders, executives, technologists, and AI practitioners during a wide-ranging conversation about where AI is creating real value, how it is changing organizations and people’s lives, and what may come next.
Featured Panelists:
Chip Hazard, Co-Founder & General Partner, Flybridge
Experienced. Thoughtful. Technical. Entrepreneurial. Prescient.
Chip has spent decades investing in and helping build consequential technology companies. He brings the perspective of an experienced venture investor to the extraordinary wave of company creation and technological change now being driven by artificial intelligence.
Murph Vandervelde, Chief of Staff, Blitzy
Technical. Curious. Bold. Forward-looking.
Murph joins us from Cambridge-based Blitzy, which is building an autonomous software development platform designed to take complex software projects from architecture through production code. Blitzy has been pushing the boundaries of agentic software development, including ambitious autonomous code-generation and modernization projects.
Additional panelists will be announced soon.
Special Tech Talk: John Huehn, Chief of Pega Launchpad
Technical. Entrepreneurial. Innovative. Product-driven.
John Huehn is Chief of Pega Launchpad, where he is helping shape how the next generation of AI-powered enterprise software gets built and scaled.
John will share how Launchpad helps companies move from idea to production faster by combining AI-assisted development with workflow automation, integrations, security, governance, and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
About Launchpad.io
Launchpad.io is Pega’s platform for building and commercializing AI-powered B2B software. It gives startups and software companies the core infrastructure needed to build, deploy, and scale enterprise applications without having to recreate the underlying stack from scratch.
https://launchpad.io
Special Presentation: Jenn Azar, CEO, Stellix — Meet Stella
Visionary. Innovative. Entrepreneurial. Transformative.
Jenn Azar, CEO of Stellix, will introduce us to Stella, Stellix’s Boston Dynamics Spot robot, and demonstrate how physical AI and robotics are moving from experimentation into real-world industrial applications.
Stella is much more than a robot dog. Stellix is using her to explore the future of autonomous operations, including visual inspections, data capture, equipment monitoring, autonomous navigation, and integration with manufacturing systems. Jenn will share what Stellix has learned by putting emerging technology to work in the real world and what human-machine collaboration could look like as AI increasingly moves beyond software and into the physical world.
About Stellix
Stellix helps organizations in complex industries turn strategy into execution by keeping systems, technology, and teams aligned as conditions change. Its work spans digital transformation, automation, data, AI, and Industry 4.0, with deep expertise in highly regulated manufacturing environments.
Stellix works with organizations to move emerging technologies beyond pilots and into scalable, real-world operations — connecting technology with the architecture, governance, processes, and people required to deliver measurable outcomes.
https://www.stellix.com
What to Expect
Welcome and Boston AI Community Update
We’ll open with a look at what is happening across Boston’s AI ecosystem, the Boston Generative AI Meetup community, and Boston AI Week.
Featured Panel Discussion
A candid conversation about where AI is creating value today, how it is changing businesses and people’s lives, what we are learning from real-world adoption, and what our panelists believe comes next.
Audience Q&A
Bring your questions. This is a community conversation, and we’ll leave time for an interactive discussion with our panelists.
Networking Reception
Enjoy catered food and beverages while connecting with entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers, investors, executives, students, creators, and business leaders from across Massachusetts and beyond.
Who Should Attend
This event is for anyone interested in understanding, building, investing in, or applying AI, including:
- Founders and entrepreneurs
- CEOs and business executives
- AI engineers and developers
- Technology and data leaders
- Product managers
- Data scientists
- Investors
- Researchers and academics
- Students
- Creators and innovators
- Business professionals exploring AI adoption
- Anyone curious about how AI will affect their work and life
You do not need to be an AI expert to participate. Whether you have worked in AI for decades or started experimenting with it yesterday, you are welcome.
About the Boston Generative AI Meetup
The Boston Generative AI Meetup brings together one of the world’s largest in-person communities focused on artificial intelligence. Our events are built around substantive conversations, practical learning, meaningful relationships, and the belief that some of the most important connections in technology still happen when people gather in a room.
A Special Boston AI Week Event
This meetup is part of Boston AI Week 2026: The Festival of AI, a celebration of artificial intelligence across Boston and Massachusetts that brings together companies, universities, startups, investors, researchers, government leaders, international delegations, and the broader community.
Boston AI Week’s 2026 theme is AI in Business and in Life, exploring not only how AI is transforming organizations and industries, but what those changes mean for all of us.
Location:
Laugh Boston (in the Westin Boston Seaport)
425 Summer St
Boston, Massachusetts
RSVP & Admission:
Admission is $22, which helps cover food, beverages, and event expenses.
Space is limited, and Boston Generative AI Meetup events regularly sell out.
Reserve your spot and join us on Monday, September 28, during Boston AI Week for an evening exploring AI in Business and in Life, and the people, companies, ideas, and technologies shaping what comes next.
