Boston Tech Week is officially here.
The city is packed with founders, builders, and investors.
It is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume of events.
I spent time filtering through the noise to find the highest-signal rooms. Whether you are building in AI, biotech, or hard tech, here is where you should be spending your time over the next ten days.
May 26 Tuesday
➨ Titans of Boston Tech — Conversation on Boston's AI boom with HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan and Sec. Eric Paley, alongside founders from 7AI, Lovable, and Blitzy, co-hosted by Flybridge and Goodwin. RSVP
➨ TedxBoston: Innovating Defense and Security in an Age of AI — Exploring how AI is reshaping the battlefield, military decision-making, and strategic foresight, hosted by TEDxBoston at MIT. RSVP and Full webpage for speakers
➨ From Models to Medicines: AI Tools Powering Drug Discovery — Showcasing how advanced bio models and emerging agentic systems are accelerating science from early research to drug development, hosted by MassBio, a16z, and Eli Lilly. RSVP
➨ BUILD617 x JPM x Day AI Tech Week Live Pod — A live podcast recording with real Boston builders, kicking off Tech Week, hosted by BUILD617, JPMorgan Chase, and Day AI. RSVP
➨ Taste: The Human Skill AI Hasn't Solved — An intimate dinner and discussion for builders and creatives on design, curation, product instinct, and the human skills that can't be prompted, hosted by Wix Ventures and C House. RSVP
May 27 Wednesday
➨ Anthropic Founders' Lab: AI for Life Sciences — Exclusive, curated gathering for founders and leaders in the life sciences startup ecosystem, featuring guest speakers Kexin Huang (Phylo), Michael Brady (Maven Bio), and Gleb Kuznetsov (Manifold Bio), hosted by Anthropic. RSVP
➨ Where Wicked Smart Meets Wicked Fast: A Curated Community Evening with The Open Accelerator — An intimate evening of collaboration celebrating and fueling the future of AI in MA, hosted by The Open Accelerator (Red Hat, IBM, MA AI Hub). RSVP
➨ IIA AI Showcase @ WHOOP — A special AI showcase event hosted at the WHOOP headquarters in Boston, hosted by Theo Ehrmann & John Werner. RSVP
➨ The Demo Is Not the Product: What Robotics Companies Learn Too Late — An insightful panel discussion during Robotics Tech Week addressing the realities and hurdles of scaling robotics companies, hosted by Mark L Michalski, Laura Teicher, and Kristen Craft. RSVP
➨ Building in Boston with Brian Halligan and a16z — Insights on building in the city with HubSpot's Co-Founder, hosted by HubSpot for Startups and a16z. RSVP
➨ Ink.AI & Rayfit After Party — Late-night networking with Rich Miner (co-founder of Android) and other builders, highlighting new AI startups Ink.AI and Rayfit, hosted by Ink.AI & Rayfit. RSVP
May 28 Thursday
➨ Google for Startups: Luncheon — Highly curated, exclusive Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) luncheon connecting founders, funders, and technical experts, hosted by Google for Startups. RSVP
➨ Google for Startups Sprint: ADK 2.0 — Hands-on collaborative build session exploring graph-powered orchestration and task-based tools using Agent Development Kit (ADK) 2.0, hosted by Google for Startups. RSVP
➨ Next in Care: How AI is Reshaping Healthcare — Panel discussion on how AI is delivering a real impact on healthcare, featuring Jorge Conde (a16z), Eric Kelsic (Dyno Therapeutics), and Katherine Andersen (HSBC Innovation Banking), hosted by HSBC Innovation Banking & a16z. RSVP
➨ MIT-IBM / The Open Accelerator - Build-n-Brew Session 3: IBM Bob — Hands-on session to build agents from natural language with IBM Bob and deploy to watsonx Orchestrate, hosted by MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, The Open Accelerator, Red Hat, and IBM. RSVP
➨ AI for Science — Demos, science, open bar, and ping pong with the Lila Sciences team, exploring scientific superintelligence and autonomous labs. RSVP
➨ Reverse VC Pitch w/ Fin/Intercom & Fidelity Private Shares. RSVP
➨ Boston Tech Week: Seaport Block Party — Massive block party celebrating the tech, robotics, and AI ecosystem in the Seaport, hosted by Foley Hoag, MassRobotics, MA AI Hub, Aethos, The Outpost and Outpost Ventures. RSVP
➨ THE CYBER SUMMER KICKOFF PARTY — Official Boston Tech Week kickoff party for the cybersecurity community, featuring live panels on AI Security in Production, F1 racing simulators, and networking. RSVP
May 29 Friday
➨ From Platform to Pipeline: A Fireside Chat — Chat featuring Heidi Erlacher, Kevin Parker, and Jorge Conde (a16z), hosted by Fenwick. RSVP
➨ Biotech x Consumer Health Meetup — Gathering for people focused on getting real biology into the hands of consumers, featuring intros from founders at Pacagen, Corsera Health, WHOOP, Entirely Well, and Mycsology, hosted by Ginkgo Bioworks. RSVP
➨ MIT-IBM / The Open Accelerator - Build-n-Brew Session 4: Mellea — Hands-on build experience focused on building predictable, auditable AI systems using the Mellea open-source library, hosted by MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, The Open Accelerator, RedHat, and IBM. RSVP
May 30 Saturday
➨ Healthcare Agentic AI Hackathon — One-day hackathon focused on building the next generation of AI-powered solutions in healthcare and life sciences using OpenClaw and NemoClaw, hosted by Harvard Innovation Labs. RSVP
➨ Biofeedback Hack @ MIT w/ Vibes AI & AWEAR — One-day hackathon focused on building wellness and biofeedback technology on top of Vibes AI's MANTRA 0.8 foundational model and AWEAR behind-ear EEG device, hosted by Mindful Makers, Vibes AI, AWEAR, and SundAI. RSVP
May 31 Sunday
➨ Sundai & AGI House: Multi-Agent Orchestration Hackathon — Multi-agent hackathon at The Engine in Cambridge focused on multi-agent orchestration and advanced architectures, featuring good food, expert judges, and a robot dog, hosted by SundAI Club, AGI House, E14 Fund, and Weights & Biases. RSVP
Other exciting events to look out for:
➨ Jun 1 Monday — QCon AI Boston 2026 — Conference for senior engineers focused on scaling reliable, production-grade AI, hosted by InfoQ. RSVP
➨ Jun 4 Thursday — June EnergyBar — A premier climatetech networking and startup ecosystem mixer hosted at Greentown Labs, hosted by Greentown Boston. RSVP
➨ Jun 4 Thursday — Independence, Engineered: Hardware for Aging Well — A hardware tech showcase focusing on new devices and products within the AgeTech space, hosted at SVB, hosted by Danielle Duplin, Kate Brigham, Jenny Xie, and Jeffrey Gray. RSVP
➨ Jun 4 Thursday — Boston Hackers - June Meetup — A regular local community gathering for software developers, hackers, security researchers, and startup enthusiasts, hosted by Boston Hackers. RSVP