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October 2026

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28 AWS Startup Day SF 2026 — Go Agent & Go Global 14:00 · Meetup 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
29 Meet Manus 2.0: Breakfast Meetup in San Francisco 08:30 · Meetup OpenAI DevDay 2026 Watch Party | MirWork × GeekPark 09:45 Dev Day Cafe 10:00 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 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 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 Microfone 🎤 Launch 🚀 Party 🪩 17:00 AIC SF Chapter Team & Volunteer Get-Together (w/ The AI Collective) 17:30 San Francisco | Claude for Physical AI Agents 17:30 Spiros (CEO, ResolveAI) in conversation with Corinne Riley (Partner, Greylock) | Out-executing the labs in the SDLC 18:00 Retell Roundtable: The Future of Agentic Interfaces 18:00 AI & Tech Networking Event in San Francisco by Ascent Valley 19:00
1 Runtime by Modal 08:30 · Meetup 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 merge(happy_hour) -> open_agents 18:00
2 Pickleball Mixer 19:00 · Meetup FOUNDERS GATHERINGS (💡Read description) 16:00
3 Saturday Robotics x Robotics Center: Robotics & World Models Reading Club 32: Robotics Center Dexterity Day. SF 10/3 14:00 · Meetup
4 staaake Unofficial SF Tech Week Jump Off Pic Nic — Reverse Network Meet 14:00 · Meetup
5 The Integration Layer for AI Agents during SF TechWeek 13:00 · Meetup Winning In The U.S: Global GTM #SFTechWeek 14:00 [Codex Community Meetup] Frontier Models in Production 16:30 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 Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer 18:30 Oakland Level Up Coding with Claude Code 20:28
6 FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! 07:00 · Meetup 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 Find a Cofounder Happy Hour: Founders + Tech Professionals 17:00 SF Tech Week AI Demo Night 17:00 Nordic AI Frontiers Reception 17:00 NEAR x Introduction.com Happy Hour @ a16z SF Tech Week 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 Batter Up San Francisco! 18:00 AI Insiders: Securing the New AI Supply Chain 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 OpenAI Forum Community Coffee in the Park 09:00 · Meetup SF Tech Week Lunchtime w/ Rootly AI 🍂🌮 11:30 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 Lightfield: The Startup Odyssey — In conversation with Keith Peiris 17:00 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 Professional Business Networking Mixer at InterContinental SF | Oct 7, 2026 18:00 Bots, Bevs & International Women in Robotics Day 18:00 Building the Future of Creative AI #SFTechWeek 18:00 Pitch & Run San Francisco 18:30 AI & Tech Networking Event in San Francisco by Ascent Valley 19:00 Artificially Unintelligent Tech Comedy Show @ SF Tech Week 19:00
8 Tavily + Monday Founders' Run 08:00 · Meetup Claude Founder Salon 13:45 San Francisco | Claude Picnic For Latinos 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 COLM Closing Happy Hour | Hosted by Snorkel AI 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 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
9 AI Paper Reading Club w/ NVIDIA, Red Hat & AlphaSignal 10:30 · Meetup SF Techweek 2026 Afterparty-Meet Founders & Investors 15:00 FOUNDERS GATHERINGS (💡Read description) 16:00 Founders Gatherings - SF Tech Week 16:00 Hardware FYI: SF Tech Week Edition 17:00 San Francisco | Claude Culture 17:30 Founder Recovery Day 18:30
10 Builders who Run — Golden Gate Bridge 4M 09:00 · Meetup Tech Basketball Run - SF Tech Week 13:45
11 YOUNG FOUNDERS HIKE 🗺️🌍 09:00 · Meetup After Abundance: What Makes AI Content Worth Making - #SFTechWeek 13:30 China/US AI Safety Meetup - Pitches and Partners 16:30
12 TechCrunch Disrupt: Multiplayer AI for Founders Mixer 16:00 · Meetup Long Lead Time: A Hardware Happy Hour @ TechCrunch Disrupt 18:00 Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer 18:30
13 Meet your VCs, Meet your startup teams: entrepreneurs' networking coffee time 11:00 · Meetup Agentic + AI Observability Meetup SF 17:00 Foundry Live: Agentic AI Demo Night 17:00 Foundry Robotics x Disrupt Happy Hour 17:00 Real World AI: Connect, Invest & Scale in Taiwan 17:30
14 Dyna Robotics Fireside w/ SPC's Embodied AI Forum 14:30 · Meetup The Trillion Dollar Teams — In conversation with Vinod Khosla 16:00 Peak XV | SF Social 17:30 Adaptive Software: Diff & Demo 17:30 Bay Area Frontier Research Club #27 | Robotics & Embodied AI: Feel or Think? (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics) 17:30 Marketing Engineer Meetup SF 18:00 Pitch & Run San Francisco 18:30
15 Founders' Ballot Explainer, hosted by Garry's List and Open Batch 17:00 · Meetup Fireside Chat with Tony Zhao, Sunday Robotics 17:30 Oakland Hackathon Training Ground and Social 17:45 HHM Close Out- Inside The Founders’ Journey 18:00 San Francisco Hackathon Prep and Pizza Social 18:00 TechCrunch Disrupt Week VIP Closing Party with Synexis & Funding Breakthrough Lab (150 VCs + Fireside w/ Jeremiah Owyang - Blitzscaling VC) 18:00 Oakland Hackathon Training and Late Night Networking 19:00 5MoF & 10MoG Talks: 5 Minutes of Fame & 10 Minutes of Game 20:00
16 THE RUNWAY 🛫 a morning founder run (An Nayal at TechCrunch Disrupt Week) 10:00 · Meetup FOUNDERS GATHERINGS (💡Read description) 16:00 Founders Gatherings - SF Tech Week 16:00 Open Together: AI Builders Unite 18:00
17 Founders Running Club: SF 09:30 · Meetup Builders who Run SF — 5M Run & BBQ at Angel Island 09:30 Bay Area AI War Room - SF Edition - Saturday, 10:00 AM 10:00 Mem-Off! The Open Source AI Memory Showdown 10:30
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19 Open Source AI Week 2026 | Open Weight Debate Night 17:00 · Meetup Scrappy Founders Play Soccer 18:30
20 Daytona & Oracle AI Builders - SF, October 2026 17:30 · Meetup Agents in Production: What Breaks, What Works, What You Should Know 17:30 AI Safety Night SF: From Multimodal to Physical AI 18:00 Unwind at Uptown Body and Fender 18:00
21 -1 to Anduril with Trae Stephens 15:00 · Meetup AI Infrastructure Night 17:30 Early Days #01: Your First 10 Customers with Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales) 18:00 Hackers and Founders San Francisco 18:00 A World Model for Biology: An Evening with Bioptimus CEO Jean-Philippe Vert 18:00 Pitch & Run San Francisco 18:30 Oakland Building Faster with Claude Code 19:19
22 SPC Post-Training Forum: LangChain CTO, Ankush Gola 14:45 · Meetup Founders Inc: Open Campus (Blueprint Edition) 15:30 Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (Seed to Series A) 16:00 Thursday night in a room full of builders! 17:30 Multimodal Engineering Night - SF Community Meetup 17:30 Training Agents IRL 18:00
23 12 Scrappy Founders - Private Poker Night for Members and Docu Series Cast 17:00 · Meetup Open Source AI Awards Night (Open Source AI Week) 17:00
24 Builders who Run SF — 5K 09:00 · Meetup
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26 Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer 18:00 · Meetup
27 Mobile Monday Silicon Valley The New AI Developer Stack 17:00 · Meetup
28 Nucleate Bay Area Coffee & Connections 16:30 · Meetup Data for Agents: The New Database User 17:30
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31 Builders who Run SF — 5K 09:00 · Meetup
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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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