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AI Infra Summit 2026
Guild.ai will be at the AI Infra Summit this September! The AI Infra Summit is the only place in the industry where every layer of the stack is in the same room. Now in its ninth year, the summit brings together 8,000 people who are already building the infrastructure AI runs…
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AI Infra Summit Hackathon
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Built in the Bay — Founder Podcast Applications
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Afterhours at Dreamforce: MADDS, Salesforce Ben & Løst Saint
The late-night option after Dreamfest: DJs at Hawthorn until 2am.
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36 Hours Live from AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-8KnLaeRT7vSSG0t The agentic AI world is moving fast. For 36 hours, you can be inside the room where the open agent stack is being built.
7:00 AM
Vector Space Stream | Latest Research from Qdrant
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-CgFWgpw4ibS5SRy Vector Space Stream is a 4+ hour free virtual stream of the latest research topics in vector search. Qdrant engineers, researchers, and devrels will share various topics relating to the space.
8:00 AM
Gearset's Departures Lounge
Breakfast and a place to work before flying home, hosted by Gearset on the last morning of Dreamforce.
8:00 AM
MantisGrid AI Hackathon & Summit 2026
Today · 8:00 AM
Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF
Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF Kick off your morning with conversations and impromptu demos with others navigating the chaos of building AI Agents inside of tech companies.
Today · 8:00 AM
AIHA WORKSHOP 02 of 08: The LLM Toolkit - Mastering Text GenAI
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-XdwyJzZKljqCvcW Presented by AI Hospitality Alliance in partnership with the SDSU L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality & Tourism Management and Hapi.
Today · 8:30 AM
The Café Hyperbound Experience (Thursday)
The closing day of Hyperbound's pop-up café on Market Street: free espresso and pastries, open all day to anyone at Dreamforce.
Today · 8:30 AM
The Café Hyperbound Experience (Day 1)
Hyperbound's Dreamforce café: espresso, demos of its AI sales roleplay product, and a place to sit between sessions.
Today · 8:30 AM
SF Fintech Coffee
SF Fintech Coffee, hosted by This Week in Fintech and SVB , is an event for Fintech founders, investors & enthusiasts to gather around and talk everything Fintech. This is a no-agenda event, just drop by to make new Fintech friends over breakfast. See you there!
Today · 9:00 AM
Convergence Summit powered by Innovate Bay
Premier one-day gathering bringing together founders, investors, enterprise leaders, policymakers, and innovators shaping the future. Convergence Tech Summit is a premier one-day gathering bringing together founders, investors, enterprise leaders, policymakers, and innovators…
Today · 9:30 AM
Engineering Coding Agent Harnesses for Data Workflows
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-Py46JLoUTMoih5R Overview A practical engineering session on what goes into a reliable coding agent harness for data workflows, how data tasks differ from conventional software engineering tasks, and how tools, agent skills, semantic…
Today · 10:00 AM
How to Fund Your Business Without a Single Investor: Crowdfunding Workshop
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-vLI79DgQwGrDQdF A free live session with crowdfunding pioneer Brian Meece. Learn the exact method for raising money from a crowd — and how to know your idea will sell before you build it. Every founder hits the same wall.
Today · 11:00 AM
Marvin Founders Q3 Virtual Showcase
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-5wz7FXnGQadG01g Back for our third showcase of the year. Q1 and Q2 set the bar, Q3 raises it. Every quarter we put a handful of early-stage founders in front of a room of investors, McKinsey alumni, and fellow founders.
Today · 11:00 AM
From prototype to production: building reliable long-running agents with Temporal + Arize
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-b3yT3s2BDeauB0Q AI agents don't behave like ordinary request-response applications. They can run for minutes or hours, call multiple models and tools, and carry state across long-running workflows.
Today · 12:00 PM
Prompt to Pipeline: A Dreamforce Build Lab with WingRep x Lovable
You walk in at noon. You walk out with a working tool you built yourself. Join WingRep and Lovable for a hands-on build lab during Dreamforce week. You'll be learning from minute one.
Today · 4:00 PM
Dreamforce '26 Soberforce Happy Hour
The Salesforce community's alcohol-free happy hour on the closing afternoon of Dreamforce, with views from the 25th floor of Salesforce Tower.
Sep
24
Restive Ventures AI Founders & Investors Breakfast
Sep
24
Vertex: The Vertical Software Conference
Sep
24
Founders Meetup - San Francisco
Sep
24
AI Applied in Cybersecurity Lightning Talks
Sep
24
ClawCamp Campfire - Step SF Week Edition
Sep
24
Building active-active, multi-cloud systems
Sep
29
Collaborative Agent Hackathon @ Stanford
Sep
29
GenAI, Vibe Coding and Agentic AI: Talks + AI Agent Workshops
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