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28 Startup Speedrun Hackathon 09:00 · Hackathon ThinkingAI Agentic Growth Summit 2026 12:00 AWS Startup Day SF 2026 — Go Agent & Go Global 14:00 AI Agents for Data Teams: A Practical Mini-Hackathon 17:00 Hard Things 17:00 Agents on a Leash, Products on Trial | SF | AI Show and Tell 18:00 Pre OpenAI Dev Day by Hexa & Alpic 18:00 Above the Fog: Founders × Investors Rooftop Mixer 18:00 Pebblebed's Builders Late Night Café 19:30
29 Meet Manus 2.0: Breakfast Meetup in San Francisco 08:30 · Meetup The AI Conference Hack Day 2026 09:30 Collaborative Agent Hackathon @ Stanford 09:30 OpenAI DevDay 2026 Watch Party | MirWork × GeekPark 09:45 Dev Day Cafe 10:00 Agentic Engineering & Multi-Agent Systems: Talks + AI Agent Workshops, Ft Snowflake & Cognee 15:00 AI Agent Workshop: An AI-Native SDLC with Claude Code 15:00 SF GTM x AI Meetup 15:00 AI Week SF Happy Hour: The AI Conference 2026 Kickoff 15:00 Kevin Hartz: What Great Founders See Before Everyone Else 15:30 Rebuild With Jev #3: Decision Bot Architecture + Hackathon 16:00 AI Conference Kickoff Social w/ Rootly AI, Merge, Plain, Checkly, Salesbricks, & Sentient Foundation 17:00 Grok Bot x Notion for Product Builders night (SF) 17:00 The Infrastructure Bet: Fireside Chat with Amr Awadallah + Mixer 17:00 Daytona AI Builders - SF, September 2026 17:30 AI Infrastructure Night 17:30 Learning Layer Paper Reading Club - Week 34 - Jev 17:30 The AI-Enabled Org: Redesigning Talent, Borders, and Culture 18:00 The Future of Cyber: Private Dinner (w/ The AI Collective) 18:00 Fix My Agent: Make Your Agent Production-Ready | AI Valley × PostHog × GMI Cloud 18:00 AI x Bio Pitch Contest 18:00 Frictionless: An Evening for Enterprise Operators & Founders 18:00 Al Agent User Gathering: Personal Agents, In Real Life 18:00 Going Viral: How we got 500M organic views with AI Influencers 18:30
30 AI Infra Hot Coffee, Hot Takes | OpenAI Dev Day Edition SF 09:00 · Meetup Agent Hackathon 10:00 Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 22 Demo Day 13:00 Flower AI Day: Collaborative Superintelligence 13:00 Agentic AI Hackathon: AWS Community Day Bay Area 2026 16:00 Microfone 🎤 Launch 🚀 Party 🪩 17:00 Just raised? Here's how to get on Forbes and TechCrunch without a PR team 17:30 AIC SF Chapter Team & Volunteer Get-Together (w/ The AI Collective) 17:30 Bay Area Frontier Research Club #25 | Recursive Self-Improvement (dinner + paper discussion @ The Residency) 17:30 San Francisco | Claude for Physical AI Agents 17:30 AI Snack Club Build Night with Base44 17:30 Spiros (CEO, ResolveAI) in conversation with Corinne Riley (Partner, Greylock) | Out-executing the labs in the SDLC 18:00 Build Like a Frontier Lab Engineer with OpenAI, Cognition, Qodo, Auth0, Temporal 18:00 Making Bets | Labs Unit 18:00 Retell Roundtable: The Future of Agentic Interfaces 18:00 The AI Conference happy hour at Atwater Tavern 18:00 Neighborhood Innovation Hack Night 18:00 AI & Tech Networking Event in San Francisco by Ascent Valley 19:00 Startup Pitch & Themed Networking San Francisco | Unlock Your Idea 19:00
1 Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF 08:00 · Dinner Runtime by Modal 08:30 Early Stage Investors Breakfast at Antler SF 09:00 Extraordinary Women in Tech/AI & Leadership Summit 2026 13:00 Reading Group (+🧋): Measuring Physicians and AI Relevance Alignment with MedPAIR 16:00 AI GTM Night 16:00 From Seed to Scale: YC Founders & Health Experts on High Growth, Low Burnout 17:30 Generative UI Night III 17:30 Reimagine Your Digital Life: an ‘Art of Being Human’ Workshop 17:30 merge(happy_hour) -> open_agents 18:00 Claude Community x Cerebras: Cafe Compute 18:00 Founder Pitch Night: When Your Career Starts With a Startup 18:00 Taste: A Physical AI Data Happy Hour 18:00
2 Assembling 2026 | AI Summit 08:30 · Conference Bootstrappers Breakfast in Redwood City for Silicon Valley Founders 09:00 Real-Time Video Agents Hack - SF 09:30 Refactoring with Jev 13:00 FOUNDERS GATHERINGS (💡Read description) 16:00 Tech Makers Goes West @Mission Robotics: Chargebotic Launch + Pitch Night 17:30 Pickleball Mixer 19:00
3 The AI Commerce Gallery - Hackathon | Walt Disney Family Museum 09:00 · Hackathon The Multiplayer Coding Hackathon 09:00 Berkeley BCS 2026 AI + Recruiting Summit 09:00 Supabase Select 2026 Hackathon 09:00 Build Your AI Team | A hands-on workshop with Turnstone (YC W26) for your everyday work 10:00 Oakland Claude Code Hands-on Coding Workshop 13:46 Saturday Robotics x Robotics Center: Robotics & World Models Reading Club 32: Robotics Center Dexterity Day. SF 10/3 14:00
4 New Founders in The Bay Picnic | Chronos 14:00 · Dinner Unofficial SF Tech Week Jump Off Pic Nic — Reverse Network Meet 14:00 Oakland Claude Code Hands-On Workshop 18:09
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5 Bots, Bagels & Brews #SFTechWeek 08:00 · Dinner The Integration Layer for AI Agents during SF TechWeek 13:00 Winning In The U.S: Global GTM #SFTechWeek 14:00 Molecules, Models & Agents: Accelerating scientific research and development 15:00 [Codex Community Meetup] Frontier Models in Production 16:30 YC Founders Mixer — SF Tech Week 2026 17:00 Agents in Production: Shared Memory (SurrealDB x Mastra) 17:00 Selling to Agents: Cloudflare x Stripe x Runtype - #SFTechWeek 17:30 Founder Friends San Francisco 18:00 Ship it & Sip it: Software Factories Night 18:00 Automate Your SF Tech Week with n8n 18:00 Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer 18:30 San Francisco HealthTech Connect: Networking for Startups, Investors, Innovators 19:00 SF Tech Week Kickoff Party Shack15 19:00 Oakland Level Up Coding with Claude Code 20:28
6 FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! 07:00 · Meetup Agents & Bagels: Breakfast meet up by Scalekit x Nebius x Tenki @ SFTW 08:00 C1 Transform 2026 08:30 AI Visionaries Forum #SFTechWeek 10:00 -1 to Physical Intelligence with Sergey Levine 10:30 Beyond Founder-Led Sales #SFTechWeek 12:00 Carta Presents: The State of the Round 14:00 The Modern GTM Stack: From Signal to Conversation 14:30 Bouldering with Akamai Inference Cloud - #SFTechWeek 15:30 The SOLO Founder Club 16:00 🥐 Croissant Maxxing - Multiplayer AI featuring Arsicault croissants 16:00 Find a Cofounder Happy Hour: Founders + Tech Professionals 17:00 SF Tech Week AI Demo Night 17:00 Build a Production AI Agent with Snowflake CoCo 17:00 Nordic AI Frontiers Reception 17:00 NEAR x Introduction.com Happy Hour @ a16z SF Tech Week 17:30 SF Tech Week: Building Your Discord Server Through Every Stage of Game Dev 17:30 Your Brain on AI: Innovating for the future of Neurotech 17:30 Shipping Agents you can Trust 17:30 Agentic Now & Agentic Next - Mastercard in SF 17:30 Ship an AI Voice Agent w/ Modulate, Tavily & Plivo 17:30 Batter Up San Francisco! 18:00 AI Insiders: Securing the New AI Supply Chain 18:00 GTM & AI Dinner 18:00 Otto Launch Event 18:00 SF Bay Area Presales Networking Event 18:00 Physical AI Operators #02 — The Data Layer of Physical AI @Robotics Center 18:00 How We Steer Hermes: an engineering session 18:00 Haunted Agent + Infra Horror Night @SF Tech Week 18:30 Product Night: How to find PMF 18:30
7 Pancakes* with Pensa: A Forum for Leaders of Hardware Startups - #SFTechWeek 09:00 · Dinner Agentic Zero: The Agentic Finance Summit #SFTechWeek 09:00 San Francisco | Claude for Connected Agents 09:00 Leverage IL W/ OpenAI, Anthropic, Palantir, Cognition, Box, Google and more 09:00 OpenAI Forum Community Coffee in the Park 09:00 The AI Coffee Break 09:00 AI Founder Breakfast hosted by Auth0 for Startups - #SFTechWeek 09:00 Zero Human Startup Hackathon | #SFTechWeek 11:00 SF Tech Week Lunchtime w/ Rootly AI 🍂🌮 11:30 Build Personal AI with Coding Agents - #SF TechWeek 12:00 From Idea to Marketing Campaign: Build a Video + Landing Page #SFTechWeek 12:00 "Build an Agent" Hackathon 14:00 GTM Engineering Leaders & Startups | SF Tech Week 15:00 Everyone's Cheating: Hiring in the Age of Agents (A Boba Debate) 16:00 AI Demo Night: Startup Grind, AI Collective & Alumni Ventures 17:00 The Model Decision: Optimizing Cost, Control, & Speed 17:00 Hardware hackathon: turn a vintage toy into a voice agent 17:00 Lightfield: The Startup Odyssey — In conversation with Keith Peiris 17:00 Bay Area Frontier Research Club #26 | Agents in Production — The Data Layer (dinner + paper discussion w Zep/Graphiti & UC Berkeley Sky Lab) 17:30 Enterprise Sales in the Age of AI : Founder Fireside Chat & Cocktails 17:30 AI Insiders: Healthtech Dinner 18:00 Learning From Human Video & Scaling VLA Training #SFTechWeek 18:00 Canadian Founders in the Bay 18:00 Find a Cofounder Happy Hour: Founders + Tech Professionals 18:00 Your Favorite AI Teammate Starts Tonight - #SFTechWeek 18:00 Professional Business Networking Mixer at InterContinental SF | Oct 7, 2026 18:00 Private Mixer: Engineering, product, talent and procurement tech leaders at Series B+, mid-market and enterprise companies during SFTechWeek 18:00 GTM Engineering After Hours: Founders, Creators & Operators 18:00 Bots, Bevs & International Women in Robotics Day 18:00 Multi-Agent Systems and Scientific Discovery Party (COLM '26) 18:00 Building the Future of Creative AI #SFTechWeek 18:00 COLM Research Happy Hour 18:00 La Dolce Vita with Abaka AI @ COLM 2026 18:30 Appen x CoLM: Happy Hour in San Francisco 18:30 Pitch & Run San Francisco 18:30 AI & Tech Networking Event in San Francisco by Ascent Valley 19:00 Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco 19:00 Startup Pitch & Themed Networking San Francisco | Unlock Your Idea 19:00 Goodfire COLM Happy Hour 19:00 Artificially Unintelligent Tech Comedy Show @ SF Tech Week 19:00
8 Tavily + Monday Founders' Run 08:00 · Meetup Frontier Data Summit Live Stream | Hosted by Snorkel AI 09:45 Claude Founder House: Full Stack Builder Brunch with Lovable 11:00 Claude Founder Salon 13:45 San Francisco | Claude Picnic For Latinos 14:00 Build Your Full Stack AI Content System with Claude and Connectors at #sf-Tech-week 14:00 Founders Inc: Open Campus (Blueprint Edition) 14:00 Heidi Pop-Up: Calling All Builders 🚀 - Gelato, Swag & Chats #SFTechWeek 15:00 Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (Seed to Series A) 16:00 Agents in Production: The Auth Stack for AI — SF Tech Week 2026 17:00 Vibe Coach Hack Night - #SFTechWeek 17:00 COLM Closing Happy Hour | Hosted by Snorkel AI 17:00 Everesteer Hedge Fund Hackathon: San Francisco #SFTechWeek 17:00 Vibe Night - Come Cook with Us at OBC 17:00 State of AI Report 2026 - SF launch event 17:30 Voice Research Club at SF Tech Week (dinner + paper readings by builders of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization and Meta Muse TTS) 17:30 Codex Build Night: Agents Everywhere — Luma RSVP Required 17:30 Build & Deploy Customer-Facing Agents in Production 17:30 Workbuddy & Tencent WAND-Steal My Workflow- #SFTechWeek 18:00 Fly Your Agent to The Moon - #SFTechWeek 18:00 Beyond Tomorrow x The AI Collective – Live 18:00 AI Infra and Security Builders & Operators Dinner w/ Onyx 18:00 Find a Cofounder Happy Hour: Founders + Tech Professionals 19:00
9 Bootstrappers Breakfast for San Francisco Startups 09:00 · Dinner Cyberdefense Hackathon 09:30 Build It Anyway: Signal Hunt with Apify | SF Tech Week Hackathon for Non-Technical Builders 09:30 AI Paper Reading Club w/ NVIDIA, Red Hat & AlphaSignal 10:30 Find a Cofounder, Help or Join a Tech Startup 12:00 SF Tech Week Agent Day 12:00 Swing for AI: Golf + AI Pitch Night (Golf Registration) 13:00 SF Techweek 2026 Afterparty-Meet Founders & Investors 15:00 Builders & Brews SF 16:00 FOUNDERS GATHERINGS (💡Read description) 16:00 Founders Gatherings - SF Tech Week 16:00 Hardware FYI: SF Tech Week Edition 17:00 AI Pitch Night — Global AI Pitch Summit Qualifier 17:30 San Francisco | Claude Culture 17:30 OyBay x IsraValley Shabbat Dinner w/ Genesis 18:00 Founder Recovery Day 18:30
10 BUILD FOR HER 💕💻A WOMEN’S SOCIAL IMPACT HACKATHON #SFTechWeek 09:00 · Hackathon Builders who Run — Golden Gate Bridge 4M 09:00 Multiplayer Hackathon by Party (Peninsula) 09:30 Production Agent Lab - Workshop & Demo Day 10:00 Build Your AI Chief of Staff with Claude at #sf-tech-week 11:00 Tech Basketball Run - SF Tech Week 13:45 Claude Community Impact Lab at Sf Tech Week! 14:00
11 YOUNG FOUNDERS HIKE 🗺️🌍 09:00 · Meetup Daly City AI Toolkit: Hands-On Claude Workshop 03:00 After Abundance: What Makes AI Content Worth Making - #SFTechWeek 13:30 China/US AI Safety Meetup - Pitches and Partners 16:30 Oakland Accelerate Your Workflow with Claude 21:51
SF Tech Week 2026 Open Source x Sovereign AI: SF Tech Week Alignment 2026 ｜Valley101 Annual Tech Summit - Live from the AI Frontier, Uncut
12 Open Intelligence Summit: Hands-On Workshop Day 09:00 · Workshop Build AI agents that own their inference - #SFTechWeek 09:30 Lunch and Learn: How to Build Your Startup or Business Using AI Without Code 11:30 Silicon Valley AI/Tech Investing Summit---Attend or Pitch 11:45 Silicon Valley Healthtech Summit---Attend or Pitch 12:00 Company Brain Hackathon: Build an AI Agent That Knows Your Organization 12:30 Build for Finance: A Multiplayer AI Workshop 13:00 TechCrunch Disrupt: Multiplayer AI for Founders Mixer 16:00 San Francisco | Claude for Games 17:00 Long Lead Time: A Hardware Happy Hour @ TechCrunch Disrupt 18:00 Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer 18:30
13 PEF Palo Alto Coffee: The Morning After Tech Week 09:00 · Dinner Meet your VCs, Meet your startup teams: entrepreneurs' networking coffee time 11:00 Agentic + AI Observability Meetup SF 17:00 Foundry Live: Agentic AI Demo Night 17:00 Foundry Robotics x Disrupt Happy Hour 17:00 Roast My Deck - the AI picks apart your deck live. Then the investors do. 17:30 Real World AI: Connect, Invest & Scale in Taiwan 17:30 AI Builder's Night 18:00 Funders & Founders After Hours: Taiwan Innovation Meets Capital 18:30
14 Fast Forward 10:00 · Hackathon Founders & Investors Pitch Jam #TechCrunchDisrupt2026 14:00 Dyna Robotics Fireside w/ SPC's Embodied AI Forum 14:30 San Francisco | Claude Code for Real Estate Workshop 15:00 The Trillion Dollar Teams — In conversation with Vinod Khosla 16:00 Semicon West Rooftop Drinks with Zenithon and SOSV 17:00 Peak XV | SF Social 17:30 “The Rise of Enterprise AI Agents: From Internal Copilots to Customer-Facing Services” VC Insights• Founder Pitches 17:30 Adaptive Software: Diff & Demo 17:30
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About San Francisco · October 2026

Disrupt week winds down, and then a run of AI conferences and one big demo day takes over. GitHub Universe hits Fort Mason Oct 28 with agent launches, then AI Engineer Code Summit (Nov 10) and Cerebral Valley (Nov 12) follow, both gated rooms. YC Demo Day on Dec 2 is the date seed funds have blocked. This week, catch Modal's AI Builder's Night and South Park Commons' Oct 16 fireside with Sunday Robotics' Tony Zhao.

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