Upcoming AI, VC, and startup events at Harvard, MIT, and across Boston — pulled from Luma, TNT, and Ticketmaster.
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM Harvard Law School HLS Blockchain & Fintech Initiative 5th annual conference with world-leading entrepreneurs, legal practitioners, and policymakers. Keynote from SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce. Panels on stablecoins and digital asset regulation.
Apr 17-18 Harvard University HLS Fintech Initiative / Harvard Blockchain Club Two-day conference exploring the intersection of AI and decentralized technologies. Keynotes, interactive workshops, and networking for 500+ attendees.
6:00 - 8:30 PM MIT Innovation HQ, Cambridge, MA TNT + CUSI + Startup Boston Cross-university mixer for student founders from MIT, Harvard, Tufts, BU, BC, Babson, and more. Cofounder matching, pitch sessions, and networking across AI, ClimateTech, FinTech, and HealthTech.
Harvard Science Center Auditorium Harvard Urban AI Inaugural conference exploring how AI is shaping cities, urban planning, and infrastructure. Speakers from Harvard GSD and beyond.
Apr 21-23 MIT Media Lab MIT Technology Review 14th annual flagship AI conference. Researchers, entrepreneurs, and enterprise leaders explore AI moving from pilots to production.
Apr 22-23 MIT Sloan Campus MIT Kuo Sharper Center 400+ entrepreneurs, academics, and policymakers. Innovation ecosystems, ethical tech deployment, and capital allocation models for Africa, Latin America, and South/Southeast Asia.
Mikey Shulman co-founded Suno, building cutting-edge generative audio technology that allows anyone to create music using AI.
For builders looking for co-founders. Meet technical and non-technical founders from across MIT and Harvard.
Apr 28-30 Hynes Convention Center ODSC Major 3-day AI/ML conference with 3,500+ attendees. Expert-led sessions on LLMs, generative AI, and machine learning. Includes the AI X Leadership Summit.
Natan Linder came out of MIT Media Lab and built Tulip into the leader in frontline operations technology for manufacturing.
4:00 - 6:00 PM LabCentral, Cambridge Harvard OTD "Shark Tank"-lite pitch event where Harvard-affiliated life science innovators pitch to entrepreneurs and investors. Features ventures in therapeutics and biotech.
Founder mixer co-hosted with Stanford Entrepreneurs and StartX Boston. Food and drinks covered by JP Morgan.
Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai out of MIT in 1998. Today it delivers over 30% of global web traffic.
May 3-10 Boston Center for the Arts ClimaTech / Climatebase Flagship conference of Boston Climate Week. Frontier Expo showcases breakthrough solutions in energy storage, grid modernization, sustainable mobility, and smart manufacturing.
May 4-7 Menino Convention Center, Boston IBM Global enterprise tech conference centered on AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and automation. Keynotes, technical breakouts, hands-on labs, and executive panels.
Krish Ramineni co-founded Fireflies.ai, one of the most widely used AI meeting tools in the world, used by 500,000+ organizations.
Paul English co-founded Kayak and served as CTO, building it from a Boston startup to a $1.8B acquisition by Booking Holdings.
5:30 - 7:30 PM Greentown Labs, Somerville Greentown Labs Part of Boston Climate Week. Exploring why climate innovators choose Massachusetts to build their companies. Free networking with climatetech founders and investors.
Harvard Campus Harvard Innovation Labs Culminating event of Harvard's largest innovation competition. Five finalists per track pitch for $25K and $75K prizes. 150+ semifinalists narrowed down.
Kresge Auditorium, MIT MIT $100K Flagship finale of MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Eight teams pitch for the $100,000 Grand Prize. Free admission, 2,000+ audience.
MIT Campus MIT Solve MIT Solve's flagship annual event. 300+ leaders from tech, business, philanthropy, and government. Connecting innovators with funding to scale real-world impact.
Omni Boston Hotel, Seaport Bio-IT World 200+ C-suite investors, corporate leaders, and biotech entrepreneurs. AI-driven discovery, investment models, and M&A strategy. Access to 150+ emerging businesses.
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge MIT Sloan Annual conference on Human-AI Synergy: Redefining Leadership for a Transformative Future. CIOs, CDOs, and senior tech executives connect with MIT thought leaders on AI, digital strategy, and innovation.
The Engine, 750 Main St, Cambridge The Engine Culminating event of The Engine's 8-week Blueprint accelerator. Teams deliver pitches with expert feedback, poster sessions, speed chats with industry leaders, and networking.
May 26-31 Various venues, Boston Andreessen Horowitz First-ever Boston Tech Week by a16z. Hundreds of events organized by startups, companies, and VCs. Hackathons, panels, community meetups. 80+ founding hosts.
May 27-28 BCEC, Boston MassRobotics 6,000+ attendees, 250+ exhibitors, 50+ sessions across AI, healthcare, logistics, and defense. The major robotics event in Boston.
May 30 - Jun 1 Boston, MA Techstars 54-hour entrepreneurship competition. Pitch, form teams, build prototypes, and showcase to judges and mentors.
Full Day SOWA Power Station, Boston TechCrunch TechCrunch's flagship founder conference comes to Boston. 1,100+ founders with top VCs. Tactical sessions on building and scaling companies.
MassChallenge, Boston MassChallenge Finale of the 10-week Healthcare and Life Sciences Traction program. Partners include Eli Lilly, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and MassMutual.
Sep 14-18 Across Boston Startup Boston Boston's largest annual startup gathering. Thousands of founders, operators, investors, and students for a week of tactical learning and networking. 10th edition in 2026.
Sep 22-25 Boston, MA Informa Connect Flagship Boston biotech industry gathering. 3,200+ attendees from 35 countries. Essential for life sciences and biotech founders.
Sep 26 - Oct 3 Boston Seaport Boston AI Week 300+ events and 30,000+ attendees unifying Boston's AI ecosystem — enterprises, startups, investors, researchers, and students. Perfect for AI founders to showcase and network.
Oct 13-15 Moscone West, San Francisco TechCrunch TechCrunch's flagship startup conference. Startup Battlefield competition, Startup Alley exhibition, and keynotes from top founders and investors. Student discounts available.