50th Anniversary Gala & Excellence Awards

At a Glance 📅 Date: Saturday, October 3 🕙 Time: (Doors open 9:30AM) 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM 📍 Location: George Washington University 🥐 Provided: Food, drinks, and starter kits Interested in sponsoring, advising, judging, or partnering?Email hack2025@civictechdc.org From Prototype to Production Civic Hack DC is back. At Civic Hack DC 2025, technologists, policy experts, designers, data practitioners, and civic-minded volunteers explored what could be built with federal regulatory comment data. Now we’re taking the next step: from prototype to production. Part 2 will build on SpicyRegs and the original Civic Hack DC 2025 problem statements to create production-level open-source MVP tools for making public comments easier to search, analyze, understand, and act on. This time, we’re focused on tools that can continue beyond demo day. What Makes Part 2 Different Part 1 was about exploring what is possible. Part 2 is about building what can actually be used. We are organizing teams around real work groups, judges, advisors, and product-owner partners who can help define needs, validate assumptions, and guide teams toward practical tools. Together, teams will ask: Who is this tool for? What workflow does it support? What would make it trustworthy enough to use? What is the smallest useful version we can ship? What should continue after the hackathon? Judging and feedback will focus on usefulness, feasibility, accessibility, trust, documentation, and potential for real-world impact. What We’ll Build Participants may work on tools for: public comment search and summarization; theme, trend, and pattern detection across large dockets; dashboards for policy analysts, advocates, journalists, researchers, and public servants; data pipelines, APIs, and regulatory data infrastructure; AI-assisted workflows designed with transparency, trust, and human review in mind; improvements to the SpicyRegs technical foundation. The goal is not just to make a clever demo. The goal is to create ope

We are now on Luma! Go ahead and register to our Luma event. DC Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. It's community-led and community-run by devs, for devs. People of all skill levels attend. Whether you’re dev-curious, aspiring, or a professional developer, we’d love to have you! Come chat or learn to code on a Sunday afternoon with coffee and cool-inclusive people. Bring your laptop! We typically meet every month on the weekend. Join our online community! For all things Tech in DC and to get latest updates and tech events from the DMV area, join the DCTech Slack. All DC Code & Coffee announcements are in the #dccodecoffee channel How it works Near the beginning of the event, we do an introduction circle. You say your name, what you can help others with, and what you would like help with. You can also share job opportunities. After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized.

When everyone has AI, what sets you apart? AI is becoming more powerful, accessible, and embedded in how we work, but when everyone has access to the same tools and efficiencies, adopting AI faster is no longer enough to create a competitive advantage. In The Originality Dividend, author, entrepreneur, and longtime venture capitalist Jonathan Aberman makes the case for a different approach centered on Original Intelligence (OI), the uniquely human capacity to create novelty through our ideas, questions, judgment, and experience. As AI makes competent, polished output increasingly abundant, Aberman argues that human originality becomes more valuable, not less. The book introduces a scientifically grounded framework for measuring and developing that originality, giving organizations, teams, and educators a new way to think about human value in an AI economy. Join STATION DC for a conversation with Aberman and Congressman Beyer about moving beyond AI adoption and efficiency toward a future where AI amplifies what humans uniquely bring to the table. The question isn’t simply how quickly we adopt AI. It’s what we add once everyone has it.

The Nerdiest Hour on Earth...with Drinks Start your engines! Join the DC Fintech Week crew and our co-hosts, TRM Labs and Flourish Ventures, for the 2026 DC Fintech Week Kickoff Happy Hour. Shift into high gear and network with global finance experts, prominent fintech innovators, entrepreneurs, regulators and market movers from across the financial ecosystem. Drinks, conversation, and a row of racing simulators for anyone who wants to find out whether central bankers really do brake early. Lights out and away we go at 5:00! With a welcome from Chris Brummer, founder of DC Fintech Week. Register by Wednesday, October 7, to claim your spot. RSVPs are required and space will be limited. Happy hour registration is separate from DC Fintech Week conference registration. To register for the conference, click here.