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Friday, September 11, 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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    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics. SF 9/12

    Free · Approval required

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    Agent Games: Agents Gone Wild

    Free · Approval required

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    SF Co-work for AI Incident Response Sprint (UNofficial)

    Mox, SoMa · Free

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    Rethinking Your Career in the AI Era | Augmented Intelligence

    Career change in the AI era doesn't have to be theoretical. Join us for an evening fireside chat built for anyone rethinking their career path in the age of AI - not just engineers and technologists, but people across every role and background.

    Free · Approval required

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    (Invitation Only) K-AI Tech Week Private Networking Reception

    Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara · Free · Approval required

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    Raising Your First VC Dollar

    Free · Approval required

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    SF | Show Your Hand: Founders Game Night

    Show Your Hand: Founders Game Night See how you play together. Most founder events start with introductions, pitches, and exchanging LinkedIns. This one starts at the game table.

    Free · Sold out

  • On now

    Cocktails with Lyra | YC Demo Day Afterparty

    Free · Approval required

This Week in Tech

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  • Tomorrow · 8:00 AM

    Berkeley Ruby Early Birds

    Royal Ground Coffee, Berkeley · Free

  • Tomorrow · 9:30 AM

    Sisters Female Founders Hike

    San Francisco · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 12:00 PM

    From Idea to Startup: enterpreneurship basics for young founders

    Menlo Park, Menlo Park · Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 1:00 PM

    AI Safety Summit at Stanford

    A focused half-day forum bringing together frontier AI labs, researchers, builders, investors, and policymakers to examine one increasingly urgent question: As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, how do we ensure it remains safe, controllable, and aligned with human…

    Stanford, Stanford · Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 2:00 PM

    AI Infra Signal: From Research to Production

    The whole stack is still moving — the models, the systems that train them, the systems that run them in production. None of it has settled yet. Most AI events optimize for volume.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 4:00 PM

    Bayview Happy Hour Cleanup

    Join the Civic Joy Fund, Refuse Refuse, SF Public Works, and the Bayview community for a friendly neighborhood clean

    5299 3rd St, Bayview · Free

  • Tomorrow · 4:30 PM

    China/US AI Safety Coordination Meetup

    Welcome to the inaugural Bay Area China/US AIS coordination meetup! Come join us if you think international coordination between China and the US is important for AI Safety.

    Mox, SoMa · Free

  • Sun, Sep 13 · 9:00 AM

    Replace Your SaaS Stack with AI

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-YsWdFtKNT0CFdSD Bring your SaaS bill. Pick one tool. Build what you actually need instead. How many subscriptions are sitting in your stack because you need one or two features from each of them?

    Free

  • Sun, Sep 13 · 9:30 AM

    AI Security Hackathon - By Hackathons.team

    Marina District · Free

  • Sun, Sep 13 · 11:00 AM

    Evals & Metrics for RAG & Agents Workshop

    We welcome you to a free, intensive one-day workshop: a guided tour of how RAG systems and AI agents are measured, judged, and improved. Participants will learn about: Why Evals Matter for RAG and Agents Retrieval Metrics Generation Metrics LLM-as-a-Judge Trajectory-based Agent…

    SupportVectors, Fremont · Free

  • Sun, Sep 13 · 2:00 PM

    Volta Foundation Startup Network Presents: Founders & Friends Picnic

    Shakespeare Garden · Free

  • Mon, Sep 14 · 12:00 PM

    DraperU Korea x DraperU Founder Lunch

    Draper University, San Mateo · Free

The Weekend

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  • Sep

    12

    Homecoming AI Educate Hackathon

    9:00 AM · Free

  • Sep

    12

    CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House

    9:00 AM · 400 Alabama St ste 202 · Free

  • Sep

    12

    Founders Running Club: SF

    9:30 AM · Maritime Museum · Free

  • Sep

    12

    Open Model Hack - Gradient x Google Deepmind

    9:30 AM · Free

  • Sep

    12

    Bayview 3rd Street Cleanup

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

  • Sep

    12

    AI Agents Workshop

    11:00 AM · SupportVectors, Fremont · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Sep

    18

    Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy

    10:00 AM · European Startup Embassy · Free

  • Sep

    18

    Founder Office Hours + Drink Drop ☕🐾

    11:00 AM · Corgi Cafe · Free

  • Sep

    18

    Samosas & Chai: IIT Founders + Tech Leaders Mixer

    4:00 PM · 201 Spear St, Financial District · Free

  • Sep

    18

    The AI Future of Healthcare: Voice Edition

    6:00 PM · Entrepreneurs First · Free

  • Sep

    19

    Dream AI Hackathon 2026

    9:00 AM · Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀 · Free

  • Sep

    24

    Founders Meetup - San Francisco

    5:00 PM · Corgi Cafe · Free

  • Sep

    24

    AI Applied in Cybersecurity Lightning Talks

    5:00 PM · Nutanix, San Jose · Free

  • Sep

    24

    Building active-active, multi-cloud systems

    6:00 PM · 150 Pacific Ave · Free

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