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Agent Games: Agents Gone Wild
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SF Co-work for AI Incident Response Sprint (UNofficial)
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🔥 Qoder AI Hackathon with $4500 cash prizes
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CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House
About the event Come plug in and supercharge at our premiere CoreWeave hackathon! If you’ve had an idea for an autonomous loop that’s been burning away at you, this heavily-resourced hack is for you to make it happen.
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YC S26 DEMO DAY PARTY CELEBRATION
Mon, Sep 14 · 8:30 AM
Bringing Vision Intelligence to the Edge: A Workshop Co-Hosted by Qualcomm, Innodisk, and EyePop.ai
Join Qualcomm, Innodisk, and EyePop for an exclusive hands-on workshop on deploying advanced computer vision at the edge, powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075. Master how to build, optimize, and scale real-time AI solutions through expert keynotes and a dynamic live build…
Mon, Sep 14 · 12:00 PM
DraperU Korea x DraperU Founder Lunch
We’re excited to welcome 7 startups from Korea to Draper University! Join us for lunch with the DraperU Korea founders, DraperU alum, local founders, and our DraperU community. Meet other founders, swap ideas, and make new connections across borders.
Mon, Sep 14 · 2:00 PM
AI Lab: Bring Your Biggest Pain Point — Automate It Live
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-SadEmYY2VbC6FIX What’s the one repetitive task you wish you never had to do again? Bring it. We’ll work on automating it. Maybe you’re: 📧 Manually following up with leads every week 📊 Copying data between spreadsheets and tools 🔎…
Mon, Sep 14 · 4:00 PM
A360 & RelPro FINS Happy Hour
Financial services and insurance happy hour kicking off Dreamforce week, hosted by Ascend360 and RelPro.
Mon, Sep 14 · 5:00 PM
Healthcare Happy Hour at Dreamforce
Drinks and Mediterranean small plates for healthcare and life sciences leaders attending Dreamforce, hosted by Penrod.
Mon, Sep 14 · 5:00 PM
BlazerFest 2026 Kick-Off Party
The Trailblazer community's own kick-off party: music, food and a room full of Salesforce admins and developers.
Mon, Sep 14 · 5:00 PM
GRAX Dreamforce Kickoff Happy Hour
Opening-night happy hour for the Salesforce data and backup crowd, hosted by GRAX a block from Moscone.
Mon, Sep 14 · 5:30 PM
How to Create a Great First Startup Pitch using AI
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-GO1WDkkU1EazBwA AI is a powerful tool to help aspiring entrepreneurs create a great pitch, but when used poorly it can also produce a pitch that sounds just like every other.
Mon, Sep 14 · 5:30 PM
Demo Night @ WorkOS (September)
Whether it's a side project, an internal tool, an open source project, or a startup, this is your chance to show what you've been working on
Mon, Sep 14 · 6:00 PM
Investor Founder Connect: Palo Alto
Join us for an intimate evening connecting early-stage founders, venture capital investors, and startup ecosystem leaders in Palo Alto Designed for pre-seed to Series B founders and active investors, this mixer creates space for meaningful conversations, new relationships, and…
Mon, Sep 14 · 6:30 PM
A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Coding
[A slightly more in-depth version of the last talk] You shipped it in a weekend. Can you fix it at 3 AM when you get a customer call? AI writes the code now. The hard part is trusting what you can't fully read — whether you're an engineer signing off on 2,000 lines a day, a…
Mon, Sep 14 · 7:00 PM
90/30 Club Reading: Can LLM Agents Discover? Evaluating Creativity on ML Engineering Tasks
Come join us for a group discussion of "Can LLM Agents Discover? Evaluating Creativity on ML Engineering Tasks" Paper link: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.llm-agents-creativity-evaluation Recent AI systems promise autonomous scientific discovery, claiming to discover…
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Dream AI Hackathon 2026
Sep
19
TrueFoundry Agent Harness Hackathon
Sep
20
From Idea to Startup: enterpreneurship basics for young founders
Sep
21
The Conscious Machine: Toward Machina Sapiens — Keynote & Private VC Reception
Sep
24
Founders Meetup - San Francisco
Sep
24
AI Applied in Cybersecurity Lightning Talks
Sep
24
ClawCamp Campfire - Step SF Week Edition
Sep
24
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