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Boston AI Week 2026: Core Week Opening Party at Island Creek Oysters Raw Bar
About the event
Boston AI Week 2026: Core Week Opening Party at Island Creek Oysters Raw Bar Date: Friday, September 25, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM - Close Location: Island Creek Oysters Raw Bar, Seaport, Boston
Join us for the official Opening Party of Boston AI Week 2026, presented by Seaport by WS Development, the Island Creek Foundation, Boston AI Week, and Squark AI. We open the festival the way Boston does best: fresh oysters on the waterfront, great food and drinks, and high-energy networking with the founders, executives, investors, researchers, students, and builders of the Massachusetts AI ecosystem. At 7:00 PM, a panel of AI experts will share what is ahead for AI in Boston and beyond. An annual tradition, the Opening and Closing Parties bookend the festival at the same waterfront raw bar.
About Boston AI Week: Boston AI Week 2026 runs September 24 through October 2, with events across the Commonwealth organized into one unified calendar. Last year, the festival brought together 125 events and 249 organizations, and tallied tens of thousands of attendees across 23 days and 8,000 square miles of Massachusetts. This year will be bigger.
Explore the festival: Full schedule: [https://aiweek.boston](https://aiweek.boston)
AI in Massachusetts Workforce Development and Career Fair, Metcalf Ballroom at Boston University, Tuesday, September 29: [https://aiweek.boston/massachusetts-workforce-in-ai](https://aiweek.boston/massachusetts-workforce-in-ai)
Boston AI Summit, our flagship executive conference in the Seaport, Thursday, October 1: [https://aiweek.boston/summit](https://aiweek.boston/summit)
Closing Party at Island Creek Oysters Raw Bar, Friday, October 2: [https://www.meetup.com/boston-ai-week/events/315063405/](https://www.meetup.com/boston-ai-week/events/315063405/)
Contribute to The State of AI in Massachusetts 2026 by taking the survey: [https://aiweek.boston/survey](https://aiweek.boston/survey)
Ways to take part: Join the community to RSVP, build a personal agenda, and follow announcements: [https://aiweek.boston/join](https://aiweek.boston/join)
Host an event, always free: [https://aiweek.boston/host-event](https://aiweek.boston/host-event)
The Host Guide covers everything from planning to promotion: [https://aiweek.boston/hosts](https://aiweek.boston/hosts)
Apply to speak: [https://aiweek.boston/apply-to-speak](https://aiweek.boston/apply-to-speak)
Volunteer: [https://aiweek.boston/volunteer](https://aiweek.boston/volunteer)
Space is limited and this event fills. RSVP now to open Boston AI Week 2026 with us.
