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Saturday, September 26, 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

    Caravan '26: The most hands-on edition yet.

    $900 · Sold out

  • On now

    Caravan '26: Where Investors find India's AI edge, first.

    $1200 · Approval required

  • On now

    Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon

    You bring the idea. Build the AI that makes it happen. The Challenge Build Your AI Co-Founder is a hackathon where you build and ship a company with a founding team of 2–4 co-founders, combining humans and AI. Every team must have at least one human and one AI co-founder.

    Free · Approval required

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    Hackathon: AI Tools for Better Decisions and Coordination

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon

    Free

  • On now

    Taiwan Tech Summit 2026

    Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara · Free

  • On now

    2026 HYSTA Annual Conference | AI at Scale

    Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara · $34.50

  • On now

    ⚡ AI Native Camp - Santa Cruz & Online

    $10

This Week in Tech

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  • Today · 3:00 PM

    Run AI On Your Local Machine And Save $$

    매달 API 비용 보면서 "이거 그냥 로컬에서 돌리면 안 되나" 생각해본 적 있으신가요. 이번 모임에서 그 답을 찾아봅니다. 로컬 LLM 세팅부터 비용 절감 팁, 그리고 클라우드 없이 어디까지 가능한지까지. 이제 막 관심 생긴 분도, 이미 이것저것 만져본 분도 가져갈 게 있을 겁니다. Talk by 황민하 박사 (Microsoft) (30분) Part 1. 어떤 로컬 모델을 골라야 하나: 찾는 법과 판단 기준 Part 2. 모델 타입에서 앱 아키텍처까지 Part 3.

    Free · Approval required

  • Today · 3:00 PM

    Love & Hate Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    A journey through the bonds that unite us and the wounds that divide us The Love & Hate Screening Session explores cinema’s power to create closeness, affection, empathy, discomfort, and emotional resistance.

    Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • Today · 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

  • Today · 5:00 PM

    Desire & Disgust Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    Note: You will need to purchase your ticket and select your seat directly through the Sparknify website. Registration on Luma alone does not provide admission to the theater.

    Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • Tomorrow · 4:00 AM

    OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-NFKmuFKnROzlGnE OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows Most people use AI in a simple loop: ask a question, get an answer, then ask another question. But that is only a small part of what these tools can do.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 8:30 AM

    Founders Run and Recovery

    Run. Recover. Connect. Join Corgi x Amity Ventures for a ~5K founders run through San Francisco, starting at Corgi Cafe on Claude Ln and finishing at our Dogpatch Corgi Cafe. We’ll run along the waterfront near Oracle Park and down Terry A.

    Corgi Cafe · Free

  • Tomorrow · 9:00 AM

    Technology, AI and Addictive Behaviors: Can They Be Treated?

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-7PRSFoICSQJyXvG Technology is becoming impossible to ignore, especially for younger generations. From social media and gaming platforms to increasingly personalized AI systems, many people now report difficulty disconnecting, concentrating…

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 10:00 AM

    ITCHATHON - Solve actual problems

    "The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself." Paul Graham We run the ITCH panel discussion, where we sit down with business owners and industry experts to discover problems worth solving.…

    European Startup Embassy · Free

  • Tomorrow · 12:00 PM

    The AI × Bio Cookout

    AI × Bio BBQ: Sunday afternoon in SF Come hang out with us for a relaxed Sunday afternoon with a BBQ, good coffee, and great people. We're bringing together people from both sides of the AI × Bio frontier: researchers and engineers from frontier AI labs, computational…

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 2:00 PM

    Deep Tech & Robotics Underground: Founder & Builder Meetup

    Join us for an intimate afternoon of cutting-edge hardware, robotics, and deep tech networking in a true piece of Silicon Valley history — the very house where Mark Zuckerberg and the early Facebook team stayed during their founding days in Los Altos.

    Los Altos, Los Altos

  • Tomorrow · 2:00 PM

    Pace AI Picnic 🟡

    Sunday Picnic, Halfway Between the Labs Well, “pace the frontier” is having a week. What started with more than a thousand people across the labs has become a very public conversation about how fast the frontier should move, how labs can coordinate, and whether countries can…

    China Basin Park · Free

  • Tomorrow · 2:00 PM

    Agora Series: Wisdom in the Age of AI

    Apollo Innovation Commons with Wisdom Exchange We have gotten very good at building intelligence and remained fairly bad at cultivating wisdom. The gap between the two is arguably the defining problem of this decade.

    The Fold · Free

The Weekend

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  • Sep

    26

    Jachacks A2Tech

    9:00 AM · Free

  • Sep

    26

    Showerhacks

    10:00 AM · Entrepreneurs First · Free

  • Sep

    26

    WindBorne Weather Balloon Launch @ the Exploratorium

    11:00 AM · The Exploratorium at Pier 17, Embarcadero · Free

  • Sep

    26

    2026 Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    11:00 AM · Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • Sep

    26

    Monad Metropolis Hacker House: SF

    11:00 AM · Free

  • Sep

    26

    Intensity & Serenity Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    1:00 PM · Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Oct

    3

    Supabase Select 2026 Hackathon

    9:00 AM · 580 20th St · Free

  • Oct

    3

    Robotics Center Dexterity Day + IROS Recap

    2:00 PM · Robotics Center of Silicon Valley · Free

  • Oct

    3

    Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You?

    2:00 PM · Stanford University, Stanford · Free

  • Oct

    3

    Bubble Lab (YC W26) X Lunatechs - Pretty Cool Demos and Pre-Tech Week Social!

    6:00 PM · European Startup Embassy · Free

  • Oct

    4

    Nordic AI Frontiers @ SF TECH WEEK

    7:00 AM · San Francisco · Free

  • Oct

    4

    Build Personal Agents Hack

    9:00 AM · Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street,… · Free

  • Oct

    4

    Founder Wellness Morning

    10:30 AM · 221 11th St, SoMa · Free

  • Oct

    5

    The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek

    9:30 AM · JOE & THE JUICE · Free

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