Frontrunners AI Conference

Frontrunners AI and Data Conference

Frontrunners is an annual software developers conference from the Washington, DC area. This year Frontrunners will be held on March 27, 2026 and will feature AI!

We Want to Hear Your Talk!

Our Call for Presentations is open! We will keep it open until we have selected and confirmed all of our speakers.

Please submit your talk today to Frontrunners AI/Data!

UPDATE! Our original CFP service is apparently no longer maintained! We can't use it to contact and confirm speakers! Therefore, we opened up another CFP while we try to reach out in other ways.

Also, to make this manageable, we have decided to concentrate on AI/Data content for this Frontrunners. We apologize to the considerable number of people who have submitted JS/Web talks.

Our Venue Location: Van Metre Hall at GMU's Arlington Campus

Tickets!

Frontrunners 2026 Early Bird tickets are available now.

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Frontrunners 2025 was Amazing! Thank You, Everyone!

We can hardly wait for 2026 to do it all over again! Thank you to all of our speakers, attendees, volunteers and sponsors for making it so fun! To see for yourself, check out our 2025 Videos. See you next spring.

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2026 Speakers

Neil Chaudhuri

Python Is Not the Language of AI

Steve Drucker

Codepocalypse Now: Stop Worrying and Embrace Agentic AI Development

Mark DeRosa

Data Quality is a Journey, not a Destination

Hirenkumar Dholariya

AI Modernization for Regulated Data Using Semantic Intelligence

NOTE: We are still confirming and announcing speakers. Our speaker list is subject to change.