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Monday, August 31, 2026 · San Francisco

Sam's guide — San Francisco tech events, curated daily

“You can see the future first in San Francisco.”

— Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024

Today in SF

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  • On now

    Startup IDEATHON

    Free

  • On now

    AI Agents, Living Labs & the Future of Society: Inside Edge Cities’ Experiments to Prototype New Ways to Live, Build & Flourish (SF)

    Join Light Dao and our community of conscious entrepreneurs and investors for a salon evening filled with connection, deep conversations, and a fireside chat with Timour, Co-founder of Edge Cities and Ruby Yeh, Co-Founder of Light Dao.

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer

    12 Scrappy Founders - outdoor endurance community for founders and investors the Bay Area. What is this? 18 AI founders and investors play two 5x5 soccer games. Think an hour of running around, some friendly competition and drinks after. Who is it for?

    Sold out

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    Builders Night

    Builders Night is a weekly space where people show up with a project, work side by side, and leave with more momentum than they could have generated alone. It exists because building can be lonely, and the hardest part is often simply showing up consistently.

    550 Laguna St, Hayes Valley

  • On now

    Fundraising as a Female Founder

    Approval required

This Week in Tech

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  • Tomorrow · 9:00 AM

    Raising in the Age of AI: An Investor Q&A with Spyros Georgiadis

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-389E9HzwplIFbHI What separates a funded startup from one that keeps hearing "no"? Find out straight from the source. Join Spyros Georgiadis, a go-to-market and revenue leader who has taken companies from pre-revenue to market leadership…

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 10:00 AM

    The $100K Hiding in Your Payroll: AI Agents for Founders

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-1X40O13gMBaLUFK Where does payroll actually go? In most 10 to 100 person companies, a surprising share of it pays for repetitive work: copying data between tools, chasing follow-ups, redoing the same report every week.

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 12:00 PM

    The Agentic Future of Early Stage Venture Capital

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-IleYKKCYonLdu1o Venture capital is entering a new era, one where AI agents support across the investment process and actively run parts of it.

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 3:30 PM

    Agentic + AI Night: Multi-Agent Governance and Security

    Join us for another Agentic + AI Night: Multi-agent Governance and Security on Tuesday, September 1 from 3:30pm - 9:00pm PT in SF for a multi-track deep dive into agentic architectures, security governance, and AI observability using Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness for…

    Terra Gallery & Event Venue · Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 5:00 PM

    Agents & Bagels: Weekly meet up for agent builders

    The "AI as a feature" phase is over. Now it's about shipping production-grade agents — serving your customers, running inside your org, holding up at scale. The real conversations happen in hallway chats and breakfast tables with people who are three months ahead of you on a…

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 5:00 PM

    Bay Area Founder Networking & Startup Workshop | Mountain View

    Join StartupA2Z for a free Bay Area founder networking event at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Designed for startup founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, builders, operators, investors, mentors, and GTM leaders, this in-person…

    Hacker Dojo, Mountain View · Free

  • Tomorrow · 5:00 PM

    AI Creative Lab: Create Beautiful Reports, Slides, Posters & Videos

    A hands-on workshop for turning ideas into polished visual content with the latest AI tools. AI can generate more than text. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how to use the latest AI tools to create beautiful, professional-quality reports, presentations, posters, and…

    Japan Innovation Campus, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 5:30 PM

    Learning Layer Paper Reading Club - Week 30 - ARIS: Autonomous Research via Adversarial Multi-Agent Collaboration

    This week's paper: ARIS: Autonomous Research via Adversarial Multi-Agent Collaboration Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03042 Code: https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep Abstract: How well an LLM agent performs depends not just on the model weights but…

    The Fold · Free

  • Wed, Sep 2 · 9:30 AM

    AI Builders Breakfast @ Tesla

    Connect. Build. Share. Join us for a casual morning gathering bringing together AI engineers, founders, builders, and technical leaders who are working on the next generation of AI products.

    Free · Approval required

  • Wed, Sep 2 · 10:30 AM

    Voice AI Live: Multilingual Voice Agents with Cartesia

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-CdFGPwqDv97bnGB Join Vapi and Cartesia for a practical session on how to choose voice models (STT + TTS) for a multilingual voice agent on Vapi.

    Free

  • Wed, Sep 2 · 12:30 PM

    Tokens are eating my lunch! Pizza mixer for Physical AI Founders - Members +3

    Are you a founder in physical AI, robototics or any other token intensive space of AI? Are you seeing your token costs go up exponentially as your company scales? We got you covered! Today's pizza is on us.

    Frontier Tower @ 9th Floor Annex 995 Market Street, San Francisco · Free

  • Wed, Sep 2 · 2:00 PM

    Hello, AI - Job Search & AI

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-t7cU8KiZ3wLk1GQ Learn how to use AI as a practical assistant throughout your job search. In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll walk through ways ChatGPT can help you find stronger opportunities, understand job descriptions, improve your…

    Free

The Weekend

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  • Sep

    4

    The First Non-Tech Buildathon

    1:00 PM · AWS Builder Loft, Financial District · Free

  • Sep

    4

    Who’s Watching the Agents? Governance and Security for a Multi-Agent World.

    5:30 PM · University of San Francisco - Downt…, Financial District · Free

  • Sep

    5

    BURNING TOKEN, the AI Global hackathon

    10:00 AM · Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Mark… · Free

  • Sep

    5

    Cafe Cowork: Temporal x Corgi

    10:00 AM · Corgi Cafe

  • Sep

    5

    Bayview 3rd Street Cleanup

    10:00 AM · All Good Pizza, Bayview · Free

  • Sep

    5

    Career Strategy in the AI Economy

    10:30 AM · California Science And Technology U…, Milpitas · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Sep

    8

    Enterprise AI at Microsoft

    1:00 PM · Microsoft, Mountain View · Free

  • Sep

    8

    Agent Experience Demo Night by Sapient @ AWS Builder Loft (#6th Edition)

    5:00 PM · AWS Builder Loft, Financial District · Free

  • Sep

    8

    Houston: Product Demo & AI Agents Workshop

    5:00 PM · 989 Market St · Free

  • Sep

    8

    Dev Tools & Infra Demo Night at Hogpatch 🦔

    6:00 PM · Hogpatch · Free

  • Sep

    8

    Blinkko Launch Party: A first look at the social wearable that brings AI into real-world connection.

    6:00 PM · 221 11th St, SoMa · Free

  • Sep

    8

    YC Alumni Demo Day Afterparty

    6:30 PM · Third Rail, Dogpatch · Free

  • Sep

    9

    AI Product Pricing Workshop AWS x Archera x Arhasi

    2:00 PM · Three Embarcadero Center, Financial District · Free

  • Sep

    9

    Building a Team Brain: Connecting Code, Customer Context, and Production Agents

    4:30 PM · Snowflake, Menlo Park · Free

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