GovAI Coalition Summit event page (web)
Citation
Government Technology, a division of e.Republic. “GovAI Coalition Summit 2026.” Event page, date not stated. https://events.govtech.com/GovAI-Coalition-Summit. Read 2026-11-09.
Bottom line
- The GovAI Coalition has members from over 900 local, state and federal agencies in seven countries. Its mission is public sector artificial intelligence (AI) that serves the public good.
- The summit is on December 9 and 10, 2026, at the San Jose Convention Center, with a government town hall on December 11. Sessions cover AI budgets, cooperative procurement, security, upskilling and data centers.
Background
Government Technology, a division of e.Republic, publishes this event page. It describes the GovAI Coalition, lists the speakers, gives the agenda and lists the corporate sponsors. The keynote message is from Khaled Tawfik, Chief Information Officer of San José and GovAI Coalition Board Chair. The page links to a GovAI Coalition website on sanjoseca.gov.
Key claims
- “The GovAI Coalition includes members from over 900 local, state, and federal agencies in seven countries. The Coalition is united in their mission to enable public sector AI to serve the public good through resource sharing, standards, and advocacy.” (Overview, About the GovAI Coalition)
- “We’ll discuss budgeting considerations unique to the public sector, including forecasting operational expenses, managing consumption-based pricing models, and negotiating both short- and long-term contracts.” (Agenda, Budgeting for AI: Planning Beyond the Pilot)
- “Participants will walk away with the Coalition’s documents on Generative AI Cooperative Procurement and identify potential procurements in their agency that could benefit from the Coalition’s cooperative approach.” (Agenda, Cooperative Procurement and the Future of AI Acquisition)
- “Participants will walk away with the Coalition’s upskilling playbooks, covering practical strategies for building a secure, resilient AI culture that enables innovation while protecting organizational and community interests.” (Agenda, AI Enablement: Security, and Organizational Readiness)
- “Participants will walk away with the Coalition’s guide on considerations when permitting data centers.” (Agenda, The Data Center Discussion: Balancing Investment and Responsibility (Part 1))
- “Attendance is limited to government representatives and staff.” (Overview, GovAI Coalition Town Hall Day)
Evidence and method
An event marketing page from a trade publisher. It lists the coalition’s commitments, among them “Promoting vendor accountability” and “Improving government services”. Other agenda topics are an AI roadmap, measuring AI return and building support with elected leaders. Others are data center community engagement, “Build vs Buy” and innovation outside AI. Speakers include officials from San Jose, Long Beach, Anchorage, Kansas City, Oakland, San Diego and Scottsdale, and staff of vendors.
The page lists more than 60 sponsors. Underwriters include Citibot, Madison AI, OpenAI and Polimorphic. The summit fee is $200 for each person and the town hall fee is $50. The summit is “Open to Public Sector.”
Limits
The page describes sessions, not their results. It does not give the content of the coalition documents that sessions hand out. It does not give the coalition’s governance, funding or list of member agencies. Some agenda rows in the Markdown copy run two sessions together, so a session’s speakers are not always clear. The page has no publication date.