Events
Conferences, workshops, roundtables, and community gatherings hosted by Spark AI and our partners
Upcoming — 2026
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How we schedule. Spark runs on a quarterly calendar. Member meetings, workshops, roundtables, and external forums are published here and invited at least 45 to 60 days ahead. Ad hoc project meetings are scheduled separately with the participants involved.
The Live Lab Series. A recurring lab session where Spark AI members measure autonomous agents live, on real workloads. Built on Recursiv Labs. About the lab →
SPARK AI Working Paper Presentation — James Massa, JPMorgan Chase
James Massa, JPMorgan Chase
Virtual — 60 minutes11:00 AM PT
Please join us for a one hour presentation by James Massa, JPMorgan Chase. James will present his SPARK Working Paper No. 10, “Unlocking Ideal Organizational Models by Adding AI Agents to Human Teams”. This session will include SPARK Forum and Advisors, community members, and selected others. Further details and the Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.
San Diego Startup Week 2026
San Diego, CA — Day 3 (Wed, Nov 4) at UC San Diego
SPARK AI and Recursiv Mini-Workshop: Agentic AI Live Lab Simulator
Virtual — 90 minutes (60 minutes + 30 minutes extended Q&A)12:00 PM PT
Jack Ottman (Recursiv.io) and James Short (SDSC SPARK) will host a technical briefing on the objectives, design, test architecture, and operations of the SDSC Agentic AI Lab simulator. Developed as a dedicated research and testing environment, the simulator evaluates agentic AI workflow models against rigorous technical, organizational, and business productivity metrics. The workshop is designed for IT, AI, and workforce engineers, as well as risk managers, compliance officers, and C-level executives involved in the review and governance chain of responsibility for agent automation.
Past Events
Previous conferences and gatherings
Spark Insights: Agentic AI Measurement & Orchestration
VirtualLive Lab Series
Agentic AI Project Workshop
VirtualLive Lab Series
Spark Agentic AI Live Lab Workshop
VirtualLive Lab Series
The 20th Annual CDOIQ Symposium
Cambridge, MA (MIT)
Spark AI Summer Research Kickoff — A Live Lab for Measuring Autonomous Agents
VirtualLive Lab Series
Spark AI Roundtable — James Massa, JPMorgan Chase: Building Hybrid Human-Agent Teams (Part 2)
Virtual
Spark AI Roundtable — James Massa, JPMorgan Chase: Orchestrating Agentic AI Operations at the Workforce Level (Part 1)
Virtual
Spark AI Roundtable — Jack Ottman, Recursiv Labs: Operationalizing Trust in Autonomous Agent Systems
Virtual
Spark AI Roundtable — Dr. James Meng, UC San Diego: Why Quantum Computing?
Virtual
Dataversity DGIQ + Enterprise Data World
San Diego, CA
Minds.com Sponsor Presentation
Virtual
Spark AI Community Roundtable — Spencer Williams, CWSL
Virtual
Spark AI Community Roundtable — James Massa, JP Morgan Chase
Virtual
Spark AI Community Roundtable
Virtual — 12:00 PM PT
Spark AI Advisory Board & ARC Quarterly Meetings
Virtual (invitation only)
Micro Gains, Macro Patience: Early Evidence on Agentic AI Productivity
MIT Harvard DC Alumni Club (virtual)
Artificial Intelligence: The Race for Regulation
California Western School of Law, San Diego
CDOIQ 2025
Boston, MA
CDOIQ/Solix Mini-Symposium
Boston, MA
SD Digital Government Summit
San Diego, CA