Civic Hack DC 2026 – Part 2: From Prototype to Production

REGISTER AT THE LUMA EVENT PAGE!!! ​Join us for an exciting talk on making an impact in Civic Tech next Tuesday, September 8. This talk will be presented by Josh Jacobson. ​ ​​Agenda: ​​6:00 - 6:30 PM - Welcome and mingle 6:30- 6:45 PM - Introductions 6:45 - 7:30 PM - Talk 7:30 - 8:00 PM - Wrap up ​Bio & Talk Description: ​Josh Jacobson is an elected neighborhood commissioner, a civic tech developer, karaoke star, and father of a 5 month old. With his full time job and baby, he barely has time for his other hobbies. ​This talk walks through the eleven AI agents that keeps him on schedule for his civic tech projects and it will show how he ships his projects quickly without staying up all night. Josh will walk through the whole setup - how projects are laid out in worktrees, how a sprint runs from backlog to deployed URL, and the roster of agents. He will demonstrate how his orchestrator begins the sprint at the start of the talk, and the audience will get to see what it shipped by the end.

America needs to start building big again. AI, data centers, advanced manufacturing, defense, and the reindustrialization of the American economy will demand power at a scale we haven't contemplated in decades. We need to think bigger than a megawatt-sized solution. The next era will be measured in gigawatts. The Nuclear Company is building for that era: starting with nuclear campuses of two to four gigawatts per site, with a pathway to six to eight gigawatts per site. These aren't deployed as one-off projects, they're gigafleets. Making the gigawatt era possible will require an entirely new technology stack built to design, license, construct, and operate nuclear at fleet scale: Nuclear OS. Join us for an evening inside the Gigawatt Age. Screening Nuclear OS, live demos, and our team on hand to talk about what it takes to build at a scale America hasn't attempted in generations. Music, food, and drinks all night. This event is part of Deep Tech Week. Create a free profile at deep-tech-week.com/register to help hosts approve your registration and build your schedule for the week.

How do you get AI doing real operational work, not just chat? YourCadre builds AI agent workforces inside companies: the team embeds, rebuilds one labor-intensive workflow end to end, then hands off a platform the client's own ops team runs. In this working session, YourCadre founders will demo agents live against a workflow every services firm knows too well, think RFP responses or payroll and HR compliance operations, and walk through what it takes to get from pilot to production. The team behind YourCadre built Atlassian's support agent workforce: $60M+ in documented savings, 92%+ CSAT, three years in production. Come with your messiest workflow in mind.

Civic Tech DC Project Night at Virtru! Join us for an evening of collaborative problem-solving as we work on a variety of civic tech projects together. Project needs vary but often include brainstorming, researching, writing, coding, or analyzing data. Check out our website for a list of projects which may make an appearance! Meet other civic tech enthusiasts. Learn new skills. Contribute to a project to improve a local civic issue. All are welcome and collaboration is encouraged. Laptops are recommended but not required. Rough schedule: 6pm - 6:30pm — Check in, hang out, grab a bite 6:30 - 6:45pm — Introductions and announcements 6:45 - 8:15pm — Break out into project groups 8:15 - 8:30pm — Reconvene to discuss what we accomplished 8:30 - 9pm — Happy hour at a nearby bar (tbd, for those interested) Food will be provided!