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Tech Week Boston 2026 — AI + Infra Track

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Overview

Field Value
Dates <2026-05-26 Tue>–<2026-05-31 Sun>
Location Multiple venues across Boston (Seaport, Cambridge, Back Bay)
Host a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)
Track AI + Infra
URL tech-week.com/calendar/boston/tracks/ai-infra
Format Multi-venue, multi-host; individual events require application

Schedule

Tuesday, May 27

Time Event Host Area
09:30 Ringing in the Inaugural Boston AI Tech Week IBM, The Open Accelerator, MA AI Hub, Red Hat Seaport
10:00 If Your AI Can't Talk and Act, It's Broken — Agentic Voice Workshop Cloudonix Seaport
11:00 Trusted Humans in the Age of Agentic AI MTLC, Via AI, iGlobe, C10 Labs, Blue Tulip Seaport
15:00 Quantum Future: Questions Answered Engine, Convergence Center, Kendall Square Assoc Cambridge
16:00 Beyond RAG & Retrieval (invite only) Aquerius Cambridge
17:00 Beat The Clock Agent Hack @ Wayfair HQ Subconscious, Wayfair, Baseten Back Bay
18:00 Reception: Autonomously Improving Agents CoreWeave, Weights & Biases Back Bay

Wednesday, May 28

Time Event Host Area
08:00 AI for Decision Makers: Autonomous Systems (invite only) Foley Hoag, MA AI Hub Cambridge
08:30 Women who build Boston — mentorship to sponsorship PwC, Lovable Seaport
11:00 Trustworthy AI Showcase & Matching Product Advisory Collective —
13:30 Anthropic Founders' Lab: AI for Life Sciences Anthropic Downtown
15:00 Scaling the Human + AI Workforce Workday, HubSpot, Klaviyo Back Bay
15:00 From chaos to capital: Scale in the AI age — with a16z PwC Seaport
17:00 Curated Community Evening with The Open Accelerator IBM, MA AI Hub Fenway
18:00 AI-Enabled Analytics DraftKings, WHOOP Back Bay
18:00 Grok 4.3 & Beyond: xAI's Vision for Autonomous Business xAI Back Bay
18:00 What Nobody Warned You About Building AI Products Datadog Downtown
18:00 Ship It Anyway: Women Engineering Leaders on the Hard Calls SheTO, Klaviyo East Boston

Thursday, May 29

Time Event Host Area
08:30 CMO Breakfast VentureFizz, Zapier, Acquia Downtown
13:00 Community Jam: Boston Snyk Downtown
13:00 Build with Airtable AI: Workflow Hackathon Airtable, Optimize IS Back Bay
16:00 Navigating the AI Economy with Trusted Tech Intelligence IDC Downtown
17:30 Agentic AI in production: retrieval, drift, and what actually works Elastic West End
17:30 Boston Dynamics — Celebrating Robotics & Physical AI Boston Dynamics Back Bay
18:00 AI builders night — Boston Braintrust, Modal Seaport

Friday, May 30

Time Event Host Area
13:00 Build Autonomously Improving Agent Swarms (W&B) CoreWeave Cambridge

Saturday, May 31

Time Event Host Area
10:00 The Always-On Agent Hackathon: Build Your Digital Coworker Rasa Kendall Square
11:00 From Ideas to Reality: Build with Agentic AI Manus AI Cambridge

Sunday, June 1

Time Event Host Area
09:00 Multi-Agent Orchestration Hackathon with W&B at MIT CoreWeave Back Bay

Why

Three reasons this week matters for current research:

  1. Anthropic Founders' Lab (Wed 13:30). Direct signal on Anthropic's life sciences direction. The agent memory and tool-use patterns from agent memory systems will be in the room.
  2. Agentic AI in production (Thu 17:30, Elastic). Retrieval and drift are the same problems JITIR addresses. The "what actually works" framing is the refutation condition for the memory comparison.
  3. Multi-Agent Orchestration Hackathon (Sun, MIT). CoreWeave + W&B. Direct test of the MCE pattern from agentic systems Q4 2024 and the convergent patterns from CLI coding agents.

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