Open source AI · New England and the Acela Corridor

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  1. Agentic 101 in Washington, DC

    Published: August 06, 2026

    The agenda is almost complete for our inaugural Agentic 101 workshop on September 15 in Washington, DC

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About Mass Open

The intersection of open source and AI in New England

Mass Open exists to build a center of gravity in New England for open source AI. To do that, we are creating 2 types of events to serve the AI community in New England and the Acela Corridor.

Agentic 101

Agentic 101 is a series of workshops where attendees will learn how to deploy and manage local agentic systems. Agentic engineering holds the promise of automating complex, multi-step operations once reserved for brittle scripts and manual governance and observation. In Agentic 101, you’ll learn the basics for buiding and running these systems, the open source projects powering them, and ways to make use of them in your daily work without accruing large token usage fees.

See our events section to find out when we're coming to your neck of the woods.

Mass Open

The Mass Open Developer Conference (MODC) will be our signature event, bringing together open source developers, startup founders, investors, enterprise decision makers, and practitioners. MODC aims to expand the open source AI community and move it forward, particularly in Boston and all of New England. Topics will include AI safety and security, managing agentic swarms, reducing dependencies on frontier models, and building on the concept of local agentic AI deployments that maximize sovereignty and privacy. MODC will be coming to Boston in April of 2027. We'll share more details here as they're available.

Upcoming Events

Check Out These Upcoming Events

  1. Sept 15, 2026

    Agentic 101 - Washington, DC (State of the Stack)

    Our inaugural Agentic 101 event! (agenda)

  2. Oct 1, 2026

    Agentic 101 - Boston, MA (Glasswing Ventures)

    Our next Agentic 101 will be in Boston at Glasswing Ventures. (agenda)

  3. October 17, 2026

    Agentic 101 - NY, NY (location TBD)

    The Agentic 101 tour will continue to New York City. Details to come.

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Upcoming Event Details

  1. Sept 15, 2026

    Agentic 101 DC (Co-located with State of the Stack)

    Our inaugural Agentic 101 event! This one-day workshop for enterprise developers and devops professionals will get you started with open models and local agentic engineering. Head over to the registration page at the DC State of the Stack event site. Registration is $50 per person - ask about group discounts.


    Agenda


    9:30am - 10am: Kickoff - the latest in open source AI management and governance

    10am - 11am: Getting Started with Local Models(Quantization, Harnesses, etc.)

    11am - noon: Coding with Multipal Agent Personas
    noon - 1pm: Lunch (provided)
    1pm - 2pm: Getting Started with Ontologies and Data Graphs
    2pm - 3pm: InnerSource and Agentic Engineering - a hands-on guide
    3pm - 5pm: Hands-on Experimentation (quantization, constructing a harness, coding with agent personas, constructing ontologies, etc.)
    5pm - 7pm: Happy Hour (sponsoredby Generationship)

  1. Oct 01, 2026

    Agentic 101 Boston (at Glasswing Ventures)

    Agentic 101 is coming to Boston - thanks to the generosity of our hosts, Glasswing Ventures. This one-day workshop for enterprise developers and devops professionals will get you started with open models and local agentic engineering.Registration will be $50 per person - add your email to the list and get notified when we're open for business..


    Agenda


    9:30am - 10am: Kickoff - the latest in open source AI management and governance

    10am - 11am: Getting Started with Local Models(Quantization, Harnesses, etc.)

    11am - noon: Coding with Multipla Agent Personas
    noon - 1pm: Lunch (provided)
    1pm - 2pm: Getting Started with Ontologies and Data Graphs
    2pm - 3pm: InnerSource and Agentic Engineering - a hands-on guide
    3pm - 5pm: Hands-on Experimentation (quantization, constructing a harness, coding with agent personas, constructing ontologies, etc.)
    5pm - 7pm: Happy Hour (sponsoredby Generationship)