AI Events in Boston

DS+X will be a 24-hour hackathon blending data science with participants’ passions. Over two days, teams will turn ideas into creative projects.

Senior data, AI, and analytics leaders will share practical strategies and real-world insights for scaling AI. The event will spotlight the approaches shaping enterprise data and analytics.

A panel of leading scholars and innovators—including cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito, MIT's Sherry Turkle, and AI robotics CEO Mike Rizkalla—will debate the promises and perils of AI-powered chatbots in children's toys, exploring whether these systems offer genuine developmental benefits or risky substitutes for authentic human connection. The Arthur Miller Lecture will pit concerns about pretend empathy against visions of embodied AI as a tool for meaningful family connection and social good.

Attendees will enjoy drinks and snacks before complimentary Uber transportation to the After Dark event.

Eligible pharma and biotech professionals will receive free admission to the AI Drug Discovery & Development Summit, running October 27–29 and focusing on AI advances in drug discovery and development.

Author Eric Gordon will discuss his new book, *How Institutions Listen*, in conversation with Nigel Jacob and Anne Short Gianotti.

Bluehost will host a dinner for higher-education professionals to network and exchange perspectives on AI and its role in shaping the future of the field.

Fidelity Private Shares and The Open Accelerator will host a founders’ breakfast on turning enterprise AI pilots into paid contracts and delivering at scale, with practical lessons on build-versus-buy and moving beyond founder-led sales. Early-stage AI founders Richard Shaaya of Sigma Automate and Nyari Nain of Whiteroom AI will share insights alongside accelerator and partnership leaders Logan Currie and Kristen Craft.

Students will get an inside look at WHOOP, meeting the founders, operators, and recruiters building AI and performance technology while learning how a fast-growing company works. Student status will be confirmed with an .edu email.

Builders and business leaders will use Grok Build and Grok Bot to create an AI chief-of-staff bot from realistic workplace communications, no coding experience required. Bots will be judged on creativity, usefulness, stability, and token efficiency, with demos and signed sports memorabilia prizes.

Improv Asylum founder Norm Laviolette will lead an interactive, on-your-feet session connecting live improv to the human skills AI can’t replicate: listening, presence, adaptability, and genuine connection. Part of FI’s AI-Native Series, the session will explore how these skills can give company builders an edge.

The event will explore how AI will shape, and be shaped by, creativity, knowledge production, and civic life.

Boston's premier AI agents conference will bring together applied engineers, researchers, and technical leaders to explore the deployment of cost-effective, powerful AI solutions that drive real business value.

MIT.nano will bring together academic researchers, industry veterans, government officials, and entrepreneurs to dig into how nanoscience, AI, and cutting-edge tech are converging to shape the next wave of innovation. Expect deep dives into the research infrastructure and capabilities that'll define technological leadership over the coming decade.

Vahab Mirrokni, a Google Fellow and VP leading cutting-edge algorithm and optimization research, will discuss his work spanning market algorithms, large-scale graph mining, and distributed optimization—drawing from his decades of expertise at Google, Microsoft Research, and MIT.

Antithesis and AWS will bring engineers and development and infrastructure leaders together to explore resilient distributed systems, agentic development, and rigorous pre-production verification as AI-generated code accelerates software delivery. AWS and Antithesis experts will share approaches to reliability, failure testing, and uncovering bugs that conventional testing may miss.

MIT's Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence will bring together leading neuroscientists and machine learning experts to explore how brain research drives AI breakthroughs and advances our understanding of human cognition. The day will feature presentations from pioneers in the field, real-world applications from industry leaders, and opportunities to network over lunch and a poster session.

The one-day Boston AI Atlas hackathon will bring builders together to improve the Open Accelerator’s human-verified map of 171 Massachusetts AI organizations, with parallel tracks for data infrastructure and experience design. Projects will be judged against a published 16-point rubric, with two equal prizes and standout work merged into the live Atlas.

Founders, researchers, and investors will explore the intersection of AI, healthtech, research, and entrepreneurship. The gathering will bring together expertise across science, technology, and investment.

Early-stage investors will share how they evaluate AI-native and agentic startups, covering valuations, traction, teams, red flags, and what founders should be ready to answer before raising. The candid panel will be part of FI’s AI-Native Series.