Hi Evelyn,
(For context I work on EA Global at the Centre for Effective Altruism.) Good question! Right now we expect the conferences to be fairly similar, with EA Global: San Francisco attracting more of the EA community on the west coast and EA Global: Washington, D.C. attracting more of the EA community on the east coast.
We’ve not yet locked in the talks and workshops for the two conferences, though we expect the Washington D.C. event to have more content focused around policy and government, as well as attendees that are more interested in these areas.
Hope this is helpful!
What's funny about it?
I think it's that San Francisco is meant to be a bunch of buttoned-up tech-bros and Washington DC is really going out their with all sorts of flashy and innovative legislation?
Even if the content of talks is fairly similar at the EA Globals in different cities, the vibe among attendees tends to be different. In SF there will be more people in tech, more in AI safety, more people involved in niche subcultures. There hasn't been an EA Global in DC yet, but I'm guessing the attendees will have more people in policy work and academia, with a more mainstream cultural vibe.