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Wednesday, August 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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    Solana Startup Terminal 2.0

    Approval required

  • On now

    Solana Startup Terminal 2.0

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    AI Summer School: The 2-Week AI Catch-Up Crash Course

    $54.61

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    Startup IDEATHON

    Free

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    FounderX Silicon Valley 2026: VIP Gathering of the World's Largest Startup Network

    STAK Space - 1950 Franklin, Oakland · $999

  • On now

    Agent Native Builders Hackathon @ Cloudflare HQ

    Cloudflare · Free · Sold out

  • On now

    PDX AI Expo 3rd Webinar

    Free · Approval required

This Week in Tech

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  • Tomorrow · 7:00 AM

    staaake Founders & Creators Tech/AI — Weekly Online Meet

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-S1u90DdsvToS1K3 Welcome to our weekly call. Meet new people, meet peers, and build new relationships. One rule: Camera ON. Limited to 15 people. First 15 in. Come early. Late arrivals will not be admitted.

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 9:00 AM

    Google Cloud Onboarding Session for Startups

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-zGjpdUso3GroRdg Welcome to Google Cloud! Join the Google Customer Engineering team to help make the process of onboarding to Google Cloud easy. Resource Hierarchy: Understanding how to organize your Google Cloud Platform resources.

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 10:00 AM

    Webinar: Prompt engineering for agentic retrieval (Text-to-SurQL)

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-f2qp3ZkGUKZJmys Most text-to-SQL agents fail for the same boring reason: someone pasted a schema into a system prompt months ago, a field was renamed since, and the model has been confidently writing queries against a database that no…

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 11:00 AM

    The Future of Work: The New Builder Role (w/ The AI Collective)

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-juX5916OOPqJuRJ Virtual Lunch & Hack Join us for a Virtual Lunch & Hack, a biweekly online event where builders come together to learn something new, hear from great speakers, and hack on a fun project in real time.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 11:00 AM

    Cost Alongside Quality: Proving the ROI of Your Coding Agents and AI Apps

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-jvdbYOqjA10NWd4 Where is your AI budget going, and is it actually improving quality? Join us for a practical look at how Arize AX helps you understand and reduce AI spend across the coding agents your team uses and the AI apps you ship.…

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 11:00 AM

    HealthTech Readiness Sessions: Fundraising + Product/Tech

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-XO5VVRAMVA3nIPg HealthTech founders face a unique challenge: raising capital in a highly specialized space while also building products that carry real complexity and responsibility.

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 12:00 PM

    Landing the Executive Role in the Age of AI

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-SbdPzI2ZbAwPfuy The corner office isn't going to the person who works the hardest. It's going to the leader who drives AI-powered impact, gets seen for it, and has the right people in their corner.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 4:00 PM

    Physical AI Data Collection for Robots

    Physical AI Data Collection for Robots 📅 Date: August 27, 2026 ⏰ Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM 📍 Venue: Frontier Tower 🏢 Host: Infodriver Capital The race to build general-purpose robots is bottlenecked by one scarce resource: real-world data.

    Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San Francisco · Free

  • Tomorrow · 4:30 PM

    Frontier Physical AI Summit

    Frontier Physical AI Summit Where Intelligence Meets the Real World 📅 Date: 08/27 🕐 Time: 4:30-8pm 🎟️ Invitation-only | Limited seats The Moment Has Arrived AI has conquered the screen. Now it’s stepping into the world. Autonomous fleets on city streets.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 5:00 PM

    AWS Agentic AI Showcase Extended - LangChain, MongoDB

    The AWS Agentic AI Partner Showcase Extended features experts from AWS, MongoDB and LangChain, who will demonstrate how to build production-ready agentic AI systems from code to deployment.

    Free · Approval required

  • Tomorrow · 5:00 PM

    Founders Showcase

    Join us for the Malaika Founder Showcase, a live pitch experience designed for founders with a clear vision and strong market insight. This showcase creates a space for early founders to share what they are building, gain meaningful feedback.

    Free

  • Tomorrow · 5:30 PM

    AI Infrastructure Roundtable

    An evening for the people who decide what the AI stack actually runs on. Compute, networking, storage, and the hardware and software choices underneath all of it. Most of the conversation about AI happens a layer above this one. Models, agents, products.

    Industrious, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

The Weekend

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  • Aug

    28

    Better Days: A Hackathon — San Francisco

    9:00 AM · KOHO Co-Creative Hub, Japantown · Free

  • Aug

    28

    Ontology of Value® Certification Training: Demo Day (San Francisco, Invite only)

    10:00 AM · 425 Market St suite 1800, Financial District

  • Aug

    28

    Tea Haus: Dedalus Labs x Janet AI

    1:00 PM · 9 Bernice St, SoMa · Free

  • Aug

    28

    Open Source AI Summit SF

    3:00 PM · Free

  • Aug

    28

    Voice AI for Real Life - Members +3

    4:30 PM · Frontier Tower @ Human Flourishing… · Free

  • Aug

    28

    Agent Builder Happy Hour ☕

    5:30 PM · 2146 3rd St, Dogpatch · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Sep

    1

    DevNetwork: API World + CloudX + AI TechWorld

    11:00 AM · 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara · Free

  • Sep

    2

    Lunch with WDAI - AI World

    11:30 AM · Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara · Free

  • Sep

    2

    Fireside Chat: Navigating Physical AI

    5:00 PM · Silicon Valley Bank, SoMa · Free

  • Sep

    2

    Scaling Globally: A Deep Tech Networking Night

    5:30 PM · Salesforce Tower, SoMa · Free

  • Sep

    2

    AI x Hardware Engineering Dinner

    5:30 PM · Il Fornaio | Mountain View, Mountain View · Free

  • Sep

    2

    How Quality Engineering Roles Are Changing - 10th SF Bay Area Meetup

    6:00 PM · 1631 N First St, San Jose · Free

  • Sep

    2

    AI 101 Series: Be the Answer When AI Gets Asked

    6:00 PM · Shack15

  • Sep

    24

    AI Applied in Cybersecurity Lightning Talks

    5:00 PM · Nutanix, San Jose · Free

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