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Thursday, September 24, 2026 · San Francisco

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

— Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024

Today in SF

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    Enterprise AI Summit San Francisco 2026

    Frontier Models · VC · Startups September 22–24, 2026 — Fort Mason Center, Marina District, San Francisco Join Stage-X Enterprise AI Summit San Francisco — frontier models, VC and startups at Fort Mason.

    Fort Mason Center, Marina · Free

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

    $900 · Sold out

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

    $1200 · Approval required

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    Qdrant @ WeAreDevelopers World Congress San Jose

    Join us at WeAreDevelopers in San Jose! This is not an event ticket Our booth number is 401 Come see us September 24 and 25th Hosted by Qdrant

    San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose · Free

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    WeAreDevelopers Networking Day (with GitHub)

    Welcome to WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America! Brought to you in Partnership with Docker Three days filled with Networking, Building, Learning, and Growth. Check the full agenda below: Warm-up Day (Free) by GitHub and Presenting partner Docker The Bay Area has no…

    San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose · Free

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    Frontier Build SF: Build your Autonomous Code Factory

    TBD · Free · Approval required

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    MBC BioLabs Immunology Innovation Forum

    1030 Brittan Ave, San Carlos · Free · Approval required

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    SF Frontier Summit '26

    Free · Approval required

This Week in Tech

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    AI For Startups - Silicon Valley Entreprenerus

    AI For Startups Hosted by SVE (Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups) Join SVE for an immersive in-person event on how to build and scale startups using AI. Whether you're a first-time founder, operator, or established entrepreneur, this is your opportunity to learn practical…

    Hacker Dojo, Mountain View · Free

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    The Token Economy: Programmable Money Meets Real Commerce different style

    Your agent works. Your demo converts. Now — how does the money actually reach you? Most AI companies hit the same wall at the same time. The product is good, the users are global, and the payment stack was built for a US SaaS company selling monthly seats.

    1070 Bryant St, SoMa · Free · Approval required

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    Customer Success in the AI Era

    Customer Success in the AI Era Thursday, September 24, 2026 · 4:30 – 8:30 PM Venue: Bishop Ranch · 2600 Camino Ramon · San Ramon, CA Customer Success (CS) is often undervalued — but with the right focus and strategies, even a small startup can grow revenue and win new customers.…

    2600 Camino Ramon, San Ramon · Free

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    Build Night: Create Your Own Dictation App

    That little microphone icon is appearing in every app you use. Dictation has gone from an accessibility feature to a default input method. If your product has a text field, or you're tired of typing, you have a use-case for dictation.

    Free · Approval required

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    ☕️ Codex Community Meetup-San Francisco #10

    Codex Community Meetup in San Francisco Guest Speakers from the Codex Team SF Join us at 📍Sports Basement in San Francisco for an interactive evening for builders, founders, engineers, creators, students, and anyone curious about how Codex is changing the way people build.

    Sports Basement Bryant Street · Free · Approval required

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    Sunset Decompression

    Join us for a beachfront happy hour to watch the sun set over the ocean! Single Dose Therapeutics, Precedent Therapeutics, and the Life Sciences & Healthcare team from J.P.

    Free · Approval required

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    Young, AI-Native, Shipping Fast: The Next Wave of Indian-Origin Founders 🚀

    Thursday, September 24, 2026 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM You're invited to an intimate San Francisco gathering of FUNDA — a celebration of the next generation of Indian-origin founders building at the frontier of AI. This isn't just any room.

    Free · Approval required

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    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

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    [SF] Enterprise AI Showcase with PhoenixData, Snowflake and CircleCI

    Welcome to the Enterprise AI Showcase in SF. We're a community for practitioners building, deploying, and scaling AI inside enterprises. We're here to tackle the hard problems: integration, deploying, governance, monitoring, security, ROI, and the messy middle between pilot and…

    Free · Approval required

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    AI Infra Nights x Autonomous Engineering: SF Edition

    AI Infrastructure Nights and Autnomous Engineering are coming to SF! We're bringing together founders, engineers, and FDEs building the systems underneath production AI. Join us for three focused discussions on the hard infrastructure problems behind secure, reliable AI products…

    Free · Approval required

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    founders night • Boardy x EO x 21st

    A night in San Francisco for founders and investors to actually meet each other. Every founder in SF is one intro away from the person who could change the trajectory of their company. This is the room where that intro happens.

    Free · Approval required

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    ClawCamp Campfire - Step SF Week Edition

    🦞 Workshop: Private ChatGPT Experience on Your Own Computer - Running AI Locally Ever feel uncomfortable about sharing too much personal info with ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude but still want AI’s help?

    Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀 · Free · Approval required

The Weekend

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  • Sep

    25

    Long Horizon Agents Hackathon

    9:30 AM · Free

  • Sep

    25

    Beyond Payment: The Changing Customer, The Changing Merchant

    2:00 PM · 2665 N First St, San Jose · Free

  • Sep

    25

    Second Brain AI Salon #08 - Can AI Make Us Better Thinkers? Debate, Cognition & the Future of Human Reasoning

    4:00 PM · ​LinkedIn San Francisco 1st Floor P… · Free

  • Sep

    25

    Gullie x Datacurve Private Dinner: Founders, AI Researchers & Engineers

    6:00 PM · 140 Geary St

  • Sep

    25

    Voice AI for Real Life - Members +3

    6:00 PM · Frontier Tower @ Human Flourishing…

  • Sep

    26

    Claude Code: Ship Your First AI Agent

    7:00 AM · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Oct

    1

    Runtime by Modal

    8:30 AM · The Midway · Free

  • Oct

    1

    AI Security Engineering Hackathon

    9:30 AM · AWS Builder Loft, Financial District · Free

  • Oct

    1

    CXO Summit - San Francisco

    12:30 PM · Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Burlingame · Free

  • Oct

    1

    Build Your First AI Agent

    1:00 PM · OAK - Informal Spaces (formerly Por…, Oakland · Free

  • Oct

    1

    Notion Build Bar SF

    2:00 PM · 685 Market St · Free

  • Oct

    1

    Global Capital In Energy Tech

    4:00 PM · Cathay Innovation, Financial District · Free

  • Oct

    1

    Tech on the Road - Tuscany Region Expo Day

    4:30 PM · INNOVIT – Italian Innovation and Cu…, North Beach · Free

  • Oct

    5

    AI-POWERED NETWORKING

    5:00 PM · 300 Montgomery St, Financial District · $10

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