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29 Lead by Design, Not Default: Building Awareness and Presence as a Leader 09:30 · Meetup STATION DC Members Only Biotech Roundtable 10:00
30 The AI Era & What It Means To Be Human (w/ The AI Collective) 17:00 · Meetup
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6 STATION DC Robotics Roundtable (MEMBERS ONLY) 10:00 · Meetup Unstuck Tuesday: Startup Pitches, Feedback, and Action Steps! 10:30 When Everyone Has AI, What Sets You Apart? A Book Talk with Author Jonathan Aberman and Congressman Don Beyer 17:30
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10 ENTREPRENEUR HORROR STORIES 👻 10:00 · Meetup Washington Claude Code Hands-on Development Lab 06:12
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12 Claude Code Collaborative Coding Mentorship Circle Washington Claude Code Hands-On Workshop 02:07 · Workshop
13 STATION DC Members Only Transportation and Infrastructure Roundtable 10:00 · Meetup Unstuck Tuesday: Startup Pitches, Feedback, and Action Steps! 10:30 Washington Claude Code Hands-on Workshop 12:26 DC Fintech Week Official Happy Hour 17:00 The Business of BrainHealth: Washington DC, Oct 13th (VC, GTM, Monetization) 17:30 The DMV Tech Super Meetup (register on Luma) 17:30 Washington Coding Smarter Using Claude AI 19:55
14 The AI Industrial Stack Roundtable (STATION DC MEMBERS ONLY) 09:30 · Meetup DCSTW Community Reception - Creating Global Startups 17:30
15 Missions + Markets: NATO DIANA Showcase 17:30 · Demo Day ⚡️ Side Projects and Networking: DSDC Meetup 18:00
16 Claude Code Collaborative Coding Mentorship Circle Washington Building Faster with Claude Code 10:00 · Meetup Product Design to Market Launch 11:30 Washington Level Up Coding with Claude 21:23
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18 MoCo Code & Coffee x MLH Hacktoberfest Hack Day (@ Bethesda Green) 14:00 · Hackathon
DC Fintech Week 2026
19 Founder Friends DC 18:00 · Meetup
20 PEF DC: Inside the U.S. Department of State 09:00 · Meetup STATION DC Members Only Cybersecurity Roundtable 10:00 Unstuck Tuesday: Startup Pitches, Feedback, and Action Steps! 10:30 Washington Claude Code Hands-on Workshop 11:25
21 Lattes & Learning: Legal Strategies for Building and Scaling Defense and Aerospace Startups 08:00 · Meetup Understanding the IC Customer: Mission Fit, Readiness, and Market Context (STATION DC MEMBERS ONLY) 09:30 Cigars & Startups DC (Unofficial DCSTW 2026) 18:00
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23 Claude Code Collaborative Coding Mentorship Circle Washington Claude Code Workshop: Automate Everything 02:06 · Workshop
24 Black Code Collective Black Code Collective Hack-A-Thon 15:00 · Hackathon
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DC Startup & Tech Week 2026
26 Engineering Your Capital Strategy: Fundraising by Design 10:00 · Meetup Reboot Hour: FOUNDRY | Startups & e-Waste 17:30
27 STATION DC Health Tech Open Roundtable 10:00 · Meetup DC Founders & Funders Open House 10:00
28 VC in DC FORGE 2026 · Defense + Dual-Use Founders Meet Investors 15:00 · Pitch
29 STATION DC Mafia (Members Only) 17:30 · Meetup
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About Washington DC · October 2026

DC Startup & Tech Week lands next week, and it's the one stretch this fall worth planning around. It runs Oct 19 with 150+ events across DC, Arlington and Maryland, and it's the community's own flagship rather than a corporate convener. Same week, FORGE on Oct 28 puts defense and dual-use founders in front of investors, and DataTribe's Cyber Innovation Conference follows on Oct 26. NVIDIA GTC Washington DC arrives Nov 30 for the government and enterprise AI crowd.

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