AI events in Washington, DC this week

12 AI, semiconductor, and frontier-tech events are on the calendar across the Washington, DC metro over the next seven days. This list is curated from roughly two dozen think-tank, university, government, and community sources and refreshes about twice a day.

DayTimeEventHostWhere
Fri Sep 0411:00 AMPhD Proposal: Towards Efficient LLM Post-training and ReasoningUniversity of Maryland
Fri Sep 0411:00 AMA New Balancing Act: Reflections on Computational Linguistics and AIUniversity of Maryland
Fri Sep 042:00 PMPhD Proposal: Human-Centered NLP Under Verification Barriers: Designing for Appropriate RelianceUniversity of Maryland
Tue Sep 08Data governance for AI and healthcare: From Washington to BeijingAtlantic CouncilAtlantic Council, 1400 L St NW, Washington, DC 20005
Tue Sep 086:00 PMAccelerating Impact: How to Use Agents to Transform Civic TechDC Data & AI Events2112 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Wed Sep 09Generation AI starts early symposiumBrookingsOnline
Wed Sep 09A Giant Leap: How Viable are Orbital Data Centers?CNASCNAS, 1701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20006
Wed Sep 095:30 PMAI Agents at WorkLuma DC (city-wide)STATION DC
Wed Sep 096:00 PMAI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo's Invitation to Dialogue with the WorldGeorgetown UniversityEdward B. Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium
Thu Sep 109:00 AMStrengthening the US-Japan Alliance Through Semiconductor and AI PartnershipsHudson InstituteHudson Institute, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20004
Thu Sep 1011:00 AMPhD Proposal: Trustworthy and Efficient AI AgentsUniversity of Maryland
Thu Sep 103:00 PMA Multi-Stakeholder Qualitative Analysis of the Current and Future Role of AI in Security and Privacy EducatioUniversity of Maryland

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DC AI & Frontier Tech Events (DC AI Radar) is a free, curated, deduplicated, prestige-ranked radar of AI, semiconductor, and frontier-tech events across the Washington, DC metro, spanning think tanks, universities, government, and the builder community.

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