Skip to content
Sam's guide

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · San Francisco

Tech & Startup

250+ listings

Technology, startup, AI, science, design, and professional events.

On now

5 listings

  • On now

    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

  • 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

    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

  • On now

    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

  • 4:30 PM

    Capital Night For Funded Founders

    345 California St, Financial District · $50 · Approval required

  • 4:30 PM

    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

  • On now

    AI Memory Cohort Workshop Dinner

    Free · Sold out

  • 5:00 PM

    Golf w/ Friends in Tech

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    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

  • 5:00 PM

    DET Bay Area Meetup: September Edition

    $5 · Sold out

  • 5:00 PM

    Grok Bot for Engineering build night (Seattle)

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    SnooSec SF

    Join us for SnooSec, Reddit’s quarterly meetup, where the security community gathers to share ideas and build lasting connections. Whether you’re a veteran CISO, a specialized researcher, or just starting your journey in cybersecurity, SnooSec offers a welcoming space to network…

    Free · Sold out

  • On now

    San Francisco | Claude For Spatial Computing

    Hanwha AI Center · Free · Sold out

  • 5:30 PM

    [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

  • 5:30 PM

    WoCS San Francisco X Zendesk: The Rise of the CS Engineer

    $10

  • 5:30 PM

    Early-Stage Technical Sales: Dinner

    San Francisco · Free · Approval required

  • 5:30 PM

    SF Systems: Research to Practice, from Inference Engines to Multimodal Coding

    185 Berry St lobby 5 suite 1800, Mission Bay · Free · Sold out

  • 5:30 PM

    The Curious Agents Club Meetup

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    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

  • On now

    AI GTM Night at The Art of SF

    2 Embarcadero Ctr, Financial District · $35 · Approval required

  • On now

    Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments @ Stanford GSB, presented by Verda Ventures

    Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments AI agents are moving quickly from answering questions to taking actions — shopping, transacting, managing money, and increasingly interacting with financial infrastructure on our behalf.

    Free · Sold out

  • On now

    Hardware Pitch Night

    Join us for an evening of live pitches and demos from hardware founders working on frontier technologies for the physical world. We'll be showcasing 6 breakthrough hardware startups pitching to a live panel of leading VCs giving on the spot feedback.

    Free · Sold out

  • On now

    Founder/VC Dinner - Atrium @ SF Gallery

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    AI Agent Founder Dinner

    $40 · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Wine Down with Women in ML - Encord

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Berkeley FireBreak : East Bay Wildfire Resilience

    Berkeley is making wildfire innovation a community effort — grounded in local experience and focused on what comes next. Deep Tech & the Future of the WUI is the first in a series of events to convene the people shaping the East Bay's wildfire future: academics studying fire,…

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Win a seat Next to Alan Keating - Hero Call Ventures Launch Party - A Founders Tournament

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Building the company brain / context layer

    Free · Sold out

  • On now

    Private Angel Investor Event, Hosted by Entrepreneurs First

    Moongate Lounge, Chinatown · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    VIP Investors-Only Dinner

    $50

  • 6:00 PM

    Party Multiplayer Build Night in SF

    At this event, you'll get a glimpse of the future of building with agents: together in the open. We pack the room with founders, engineers, product leaders, hackers, designers, etc and we'll all work with agent teams to build something amazing.

    945 Market St ste 501 · Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Who Goes There? Identity for AI Agents

    San Francisco, CA · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    AI Leaders & Transformation Panel & Dinner - San Francisco

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Attention Is the Bottleneck — Content, Distribution & Growth Hacking

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Off the Record: A Health AI Leaders Dinner

    Tasting House, Los Gatos · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    AI Happy Hour with WeAreDevelopers

    AI Happy Hour with WeAreDevelopers Join us in Mountain View on Friday, August 21, 2026, for an informal pre-conference happy hour ahead of WeAreDevelopers. The gathering is planned for 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Pacific Time.

    Free

  • 6:00 PM

    Global Women in AI: Innovation, Careers & Impact

    $29

  • On now

    Private Dinner with Justin Kan, Twitch Co-Founder

    $1700

  • On now

    The RichieBot Premiere: A Private Evening for Founders & Friends at the Intersection of Art & AI

    An invite-only gathering exploring what happens when AI moves beyond efficiency and begins shaping memory, creativity, and human connection. We’re bringing together a small, curated group of founders for the world premiere of RichieBot: A Modern Legacy, an experimental…

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    AI Product GTM Session: Build Your Growth Experiment Engine

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    🧱 Your GTM belongs in git | SF

    972 Mission St, SoMa · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Punk Software Hack Night: Build-an-extension

    TBD Build your own browser extension and use it for yourself. SCHEDULE: 6pm - 6:30pm — meet people, brainstorm ideas. There'll be 2 groups — one for folks seeking teams or ideas, and the other for folks to just get started building! 6:30pm — kickoff. Some quick words.

    Free

  • On now

    YC F26 Grill & Chill

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Build Night: Enclosure Design for PCBS with Flux AI

    Come join the Flux team for launch of new feature. You'll get the chance to test it out and design new enclosures for electronic projects. Agenda 6:30 -7:00p - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments 7:00 -7:15p - Welcome and introduction 7:15p-8:30p - Build 8:30p-9:00p - Demo Thank…

    Free

  • On now

    AI Automation Agency Meetup

    AI Start Academy · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Designers & Machines September 2026

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Investor & Founder Drinks Evening & Mixer

    We're hosting a small, highly curated evening with our SF community at one of the funnest bars in SF. We're bringing together both old friends and some new faces.

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Thrad Office Warming

    Thrad has officially moved into our new SF HQ! Thrad has moved into a new headquarters in San Francisco, and we’re throwing our first party to celebrate. We’re inviting friends, founders, and builders to come kick off this next chapter with us.

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    SF AI Takeover: Road to Basecamp

    We’re taking over a prime rooftop for a night with some of our favorite founders, operators, and investors across AI, fintech, and crypto. The idea is simple: bring together a handpicked group of people who should probably already know each other.

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    App Leaders Hours San Francisco

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Abaka AI Latin Night

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    Command Line Music - Auwen Workshop

    151 Powell St · $65

  • On now

    Romanian Tech in SF - September Drinks & Chat

    Free · Approval required

  • On now

    The AI Apocalypse Happy Hour

    The Bank at Amador, Financial District · Free · Approval required

  • On now

    SVVR #102: Meta Connect Meetup + Party

    Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀 · $10

  • On now

    "One Hundred Years Of Techno-Apocalypse Panic" With Ben Landau-Taylor

    $50

Tomorrow · Friday, September 25

55 listings

  • 1:00 AM

    [Remote] 🌀Fundraising: Pitch Deck Reviews with Pembroke VC

    Free

  • 2:30 AM

    SAFE to Series A: The Founder's Legal Playbook for Fundraising

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-V1ylVRH05DAsl81 Can't make it in person? Join us remotely for our 'Safe to Series A' workshop with Russell Cooke — part of our Founder Nation Co-Working Day.

    Free · Approval required

  • 5:30 AM

    Bitcoin Indonesia Community Online Meetup

    Online Event · Free

  • 7:30 AM

    🌀Sales Advisory Board Session - Scaling £1m -> £10m Annual Revenue 🌀 - Remote/Online (part of our Founder Nation Co-Working Day)

    Free

  • 8:00 AM

    Inkitt Ironblood & Machine Cinema Present SF Monthly AI Filmmakers Breakfast

    Join Inkitt's monthly filmmakers breakfast! SF-based directors, cinematographers, writers, editors, and actors - come hear about where AI is taking cinema and where we want it to go.

    Free · Approval required

  • 8:30 AM

    Palo Alto, CA - Deep Tech Connections Networking Breakfast

    You are invited! Due to high interest in past events, we recommend saving your seat early. If you can’t attend, kindly update your RSVP so we can welcome someone from the waitlist. Deep Tech Connections is hosting the monthly breakfast networking event.

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Cyber X AI Reading Group

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-hG2rlOz7qDBD4Vr This week’s AI x Cyber reading group will discuss RAND’s 2024 Security Levels (SL) framework for protecting frontier AI model weights from theft and misuse.

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    AI Deep Dive

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-XwBFN6fbjeBLzyI Technology leaders are being asked to build with AI and space capability and make decisions that impact P&L in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment.

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    Replit Friday Showcase

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-u5Mw4TGwkR6oLmN Meet the team behind the Replit community. Sarah, Marcelo, Frederick, Manny, Raymmar, and Francisco get together to talk about where the community is headed and how Replit plans to support the next billion software creators.…

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    Femme Founders Future Circle

    Approval required

  • 9:15 AM

    SmartAI: Metti le mani sull'AI — due ore, qualche idea, un deliverable

    TBD · $0.99

  • 9:30 AM

    In The Loop 009 (SF)

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:30 AM

    Ship from Zero Hackathon

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:30 AM

    Long Horizon Agents Hackathon

    Long-horizon agents still break down over time: they accumulate observations, actions, and stale context until the growing history slows them down, costs more, and makes their own state less reliable.

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Founder Circle: Heavier Than It Should Be

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    CIMC Hackathon: Lattice Animals

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    take a trip into [AI storytelling]

    Start your morning with coffee, films, and a trip into AI storytelling. On September 25, Trippy Pictures & fal bring together filmmakers, creative directors, brands, studios, founders, and technologists for a morning exploring creative direction and the future of AI-first…

    San Francisco · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Aaron Tohuvavohu | Engineering Abundance for Exploring the Cosmos

    $10 · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    TALENT TAIWAN Silicon Valley Branch Opening Ceremony

    299 California Ave #3f, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy

    European Startup Embassy · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Investing in Startups: Live Networking

    $10 · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Mentor Connect: 1:1 Founder Sessions with Chandu Thota (In-Person)

    Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Women in AI Breakfast hosted by Founders Bay

    $19 · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Founder Labs 1:1 Session with Monisha Perkash

    Venture Dock, 555 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA · Free · Approval required

  • 10:30 AM

    From AWS Sales to Startup Founder | MirWork Live EP 41 with Alice Zhang

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-7OefWMMaOm37OzW Selling What You Believe In: From AWS Sales to Startup Founder When you work at a company like AWS, people already know the name.

    Free

  • 11:00 AM

    Hack The Bot And Build Your Career

    What's in it for Students? 🚀 Learn from Industry Experts Hear directly from cybersecurity leaders, AI practitioners, recruiters, and SJSU alumni. 🤖 Experience a Live Security Demo See how AI applications can be attacked and defended through an interactive "Hack the Bot"…

    Free

  • 12:00 PM

    AWS YouthTech Workshop

    Northeastern University Silicon Valley, San Jose · Free · Sold out

  • 12:30 PM

    Ra's Circle · San Francisco, Edition III

    Free · Approval required

  • 1:00 PM

    Big Earth Hackathon Workshop: Spatial Data 101 - Intro to Points, Lines, Polygons & Pixels

    Interested in working with spatial data at Stanford but not sure where to start? This introductory workshop provides a quick foundation in spatial data science while introducing the spatial data, software, imagery, and analysis resources available to the Stanford community…

    Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    Beyond Payment: The Changing Customer, The Changing Merchant

    Beyond Payment: The Changing Customer, The Changing Merchant Join Aurfy and NihaoPay for a fulfilling afternoon gathering designed for payments leaders, founders, merchants, investors, and builders shaping the next era of commerce.

    2665 N First St, San Jose · Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    Founder Group Coaching and Peer Support: Working Through Overwhelm, Uncertainty, Co-Founder or Team Relationship

    550 Laguna St, San Francisco + North Studio · $10 · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    San Francisco | Claude Meetup - For the Business Moms: The AI Back Office You Didn't Know You Had

    Free · Sold out

  • 3:00 PM

    Founders Inc: Lab Tour

    San Francisco · Free · Approval required

  • 4:00 PM

    F26 + YC Alumni Mixer

    Free · Approval required

  • 4:00 PM

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

    Can AI Make Us Better Thinkers? Debate, Cognition & the Future of Human Reasoning Date & Time: Friday, September 25, 2026 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT Location: LinkedIn San Francisco (1st Floor Public Space), 222 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA Hosts & Guest Henry Kendall — Second…

    ​LinkedIn San Francisco 1st Floor Public Space, 222 2nd Street · Free

  • 4:45 PM

    AI for Social Good: San Francisco Presentations & Reception

    Free · Approval required

  • 5:00 PM

    build fridays sf x clickhouse + langfuse — work on your startup alongside others

    Build Fridays SF 5–9 pm at ClickHouse HQ, San Francisco. Bring your laptop. What it is A bi-weekly Friday gathering for people actively building startups, products and ambitious projects. Grab some free food, free coworking space and work alongside other builders.

    220 Montgomery St · Free · Approval required

  • 5:30 PM

    Emotion By Design

    $40

  • 6:00 PM

    Agent Builder Social

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    More Code Than Anyone Can Check – Software Engineering in the Age of AI

    FalconX Gateway, Milpitas · Free

  • 6:00 PM

    Vibe Coder Vampires Night! (Lunatechs X Crewbase Collective)

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Building for Resilience: What Makes a Company Hard to Kill

    San Francisco · Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Birds of a Feather- Jev Demo Night

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Climate & Pizza: The Human Footprint of Energy Innovation ⚡🧠

    Where is the energy transition actually taking us, and how does it impact the communities we live in? Join us for an engaging evening exploring the intersection of energy infrastructure, emerging tech trends, and human-centered policy.

    The Treehouse, Stanford · Free

  • 6:00 PM

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

    15 pax dinner Hosted by rachael annabelle yong & Jinjin Niu

    140 Geary St

  • 6:00 PM

    Voice AI for Real Life - Members +3

    Voice AI for Real Life: Community Discovery is the first event in a three-part series presented by NemulAI x Lynkable, bringing together founders, builders, operators, and community leaders to explore the real-world problems voice technology should solve next.

    Frontier Tower @ Human Flourishing Back Salon 995 Market Street

  • 6:00 PM

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

    Free · Sold out

  • 6:00 PM

    Vibe Night Demos (#27)

    Free · Sold out

  • 6:30 PM

    Shabbating @Long Journey

    Free · Sold out

  • 7:00 PM

    Omakase Dinner • AGI x 21st x Blue Neck Investments x YY

    Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    The Agentic Law Firm: Fireside with Logan Brown

    We are thrilled to host Logan Brown at the EF offices this Friday at 7pm. Logan had a classic Big Law training: Harvard Law School, followed by a stint at Cooley Last year, Logan quit her job to build an AI-native law firm.

    Entrepreneurs First · Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    Cal vs Clemson in the Box with Top Founders - presented by The House Fund

    Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    #chinamaxxing | Exhibition Opening @ TIAT

    tiat · $10

  • 7:30 PM

    Founders Dinner - Sushi Night

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 PM

    EPIQ: Save The Date

    One Night Only - for founders and builders in the innovation economy. Special performance by DIPLO.

    Free · Approval required

Saturday, September 26

46 listings

  • 1:30 AM

    HeyGen Community Meetup: Create, Connect & Build with AI

    Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 AM

    Claude Code: Ship Your First AI Agent

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-iw4ApDt9JXF2CO1 Stop Prompting, Start Building: From Idea to Working AI Agent in 60 Minutes You've used ChatGPT. You've prompted Claude. Now build something that runs itself.

    Free

  • 8:00 AM

    Berkeley Ruby Early Birds

    Royal Ground Coffee, Berkeley · Free

  • 8:30 AM

    Hackathon: AI Tools for Better Decisions and Coordination

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    Builders who Run SF — 5K

    Builders who Run is an informal and international running club. This is our 124th week in a row doing BWR SF. Gear up for a chill 5k run with new and old builder friends at Golden Gate Park! We meet at 9 am and kickstart at 9:10 am sharp.

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Taiwan Tech Summit 2026

    Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara · Free

  • 9:00 AM

    2026 HYSTA Annual Conference | AI at Scale

    Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara · $34.50 · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    ⚡ AI Native Camp - Santa Cruz & Online

    $10

  • 9:00 AM

    Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    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

  • 9:00 AM

    Jachacks A2Tech

    After bringing together 500+ builders from 10+ countries and 20+ universities, JacHacks is coming back to where it all started: the University of Michigan. This time, we’re going bigger. 250 builders. 24 hours. One campus.

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:30 AM

    Scrappy AI Founders Go Mountain Biking

    Approval required

  • 9:30 AM

    Founders Running Club: SF

    Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We'll run 5 or 10km at your conversational pace.

    Maritime Museum · Free

  • 10:00 AM

    San Francisco | Claude Opus 5.5 Build Day

    San Francisco · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Enterprise Builders Hike

    Lands End Trail · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Bayview 3rd Street Cleanup

    Join the Civic Joy Fund, Refuse Refuse, SF Public Works, and the Bayview community for a friendly neighborhood cleanup!

    All Good Pizza, Bayview · Free

  • 10:00 AM

    Healthcare AI Hackathon

    ⚠️ Required: In addition to your Luma registration, you must also register for the AWS Builder Loft using the link below. Both registrations are mandatory. You will also be required to present a valid government-issued physical ID at check-in for building access.

    AWS Builder Loft, Financial District · Free · Sold out

  • 10:00 AM

    Showerhacks

    An SF 🌉 hackathon where the winner gets to take a shower 🚿 🥇 1st place: $1000 + a refreshing shower 🥈 2nd place: $500 🥉 3rd place: $225 Food provided 🍕 And the top 30% of teams will be invited to the afterparty 🎉🫣 This is a hackathon for absurdly creative and interesting…

    Entrepreneurs First · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Jev Hackathon (w/ The AI Collective)

    Free · Sold out

  • 10:30 AM

    Bagels and Bricks

    488 Bryant St · Free

  • 10:30 AM

    How to Build Great Products with the Product Value Blueprint

    Presented by California Science & Technology University, The Product Value Blueprint workshop offers startup founders & entrepreneurs a transformative methodology to navigate the critical journey from product ideation to development.

    California Science And Technology University, Milpitas · Free

  • 10:30 AM

    consumer founder dj set & breakfast

    Free · Sold out

  • 10:30 AM

    Bitrig Hacks: iPhone 18 Edition

    Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    WindBorne Weather Balloon Launch @ the Exploratorium

    We're at it again. Launching a weather balloon, talking about the weather (standard WindBorne fare) on September 26 at the Exploratorium around 11am from the Fog Bridge!

    The Exploratorium at Pier 17, Embarcadero · Free

  • 11:00 AM

    Monthly Greater Silicon Valley Robotics & Automation Luncheon

    100 Ralston Rd, San Gregorio · Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    Joy & Sorrow Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • 11:00 AM

    2026 Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • 11:00 AM

    Endeavor - Encontro de Founders Brasileiros na Bay Area

    Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    Monad Metropolis Hacker House: SF

    $250,000 in prizes. Top VC speakers. Networking. What do you get when you pack a city's worth of builders into one hackathon? A Metropolis! What is Metropolis? Metropolis is Monad's flagship six-week global hackathon, bringing builders together to design, ship, and scale the…

    Free · Approval required

  • 1:00 PM

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

    A journey into the forces that erupt within us and the stillness that allows us to regain control The Intensity & Serenity Screening Session brings together films shaped by emotional rage and restraint.

    Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • 2:00 PM

    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 30: Interaction World Models: Learning Physical Priors for Robot Manipulation. SF 9/26

    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 30: What Scale Does Not Fix: Representation and Architecture in Robot Manipulation. SF 9/26 A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence.

    Free · Sold out

  • 2:00 PM

    Taiwan Demo Day @ Taiwan Tech Summit 2026

    Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara · Free · Approval required

  • 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

  • 3:00 PM

    Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Santa Clara, CA

    3120 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara · Free

  • 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

  • 3:00 PM

    穿越 AI 热潮:投资机会 × 税务策略 × 硅谷私享晚宴

    $50

  • 4:00 PM

    Inside China's AI rush w/ Afra Wang

    tiat · $30

  • 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

  • 4:00 PM

    Women Who Love Tech/AI + Matcha!

    Free · Approval required

  • 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

  • 6:30 PM

    Free Open Workshop — Build Your Idea into an AI App

    California Science And Technology University, Milpitas · Free

  • 7:00 PM

    Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Los Altos, CA

    13 S San Antonio Rd, Los Altos · Free

  • 7:00 PM

    AI Executive Dinner

    $99 · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    C9 Kickoff Dinner

    192 Museum Way · Free · Approval required

  • 7:30 PM

    Earth, Wind and Founders

    Chase Center, Mission Bay · Free · Approval required

Sunday, September 27

21 listings

  • 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

  • 8:00 AM

    IB Code on Court: 3v3 Basketball Tournament | OTW26 🏀💚

    Free · Approval required

  • 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

  • 9:00 AM

    Sunday Founder Rides: Low-Gear, High-Connection

    Approval required

  • 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

  • 9:30 AM

    Cross-Border Founders Hike

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Berkeley x DeepMind Hackathon: Build. Ship. Win up to $5M in Seed Funding*

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    HARD RESET PRESENTS: AN ARCHITECTURAL TOUR OF NORTH BEACH

    North Beach, North Beach · $15 · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    AI Executive Summit

    $100 · Sold out

  • 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

  • 12:00 PM

    The Orange Box @ Giants vs Dodgers ⚾️

    Free · Approval required

  • 12:00 PM

    The AI × Bio Cookout

    Free · Approval required

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2:00 PM

    Preparing for an AI-Powered Future with De Kai Wu | The AI Collective Tri-Valley

    Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    A Conversation with Aamir Ibrahim

    Markaz: Resource Center at Stanford, Stanford · Free

  • 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

  • 3:00 PM

    Top AI Researchers Roundtable & BBQ Party in Los Altos Hills

    $128 · Approval required

  • 4:00 PM

    media theory reading circle

    SECOND WEEK - (16 August 2026) This week we will be reading the first three chapters of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death.(https://ia601905.us.archive.org/32/items/Various_PDFs/NeilPostman-AmusingOurselvesToDeath.pdf). Read: 1.

    Free

  • 5:00 PM

    AI x Solana

    Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    Founder Board Game Night @ Chorus

    Join us for a Founder Board Game Night @ the Chorus Belvedere Room - a luxury rooftop space on the 28th floor with sweeping views of San Francisco! An evening bringing together founders and fellow residents over good food, beautiful scenery, and a little friendly competition.…

    Chorus San Francisco Apartments, SoMa · Free · Approval required

Monday, September 28

39 listings

  • 8:00 AM

    AI Reality Summit

    Fairmont San Francisco, Nob Hill · $595 · Approval required

  • 8:00 AM

    TiE Mumbai's Tech Delegation to USA

    San Francisco Bay Area · Free

  • 9:00 AM

    How to Build a Strong Pipeline of Entrepreneurs for your Innovation Hub

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-n9k0xzHesTu6LW6 Most innovation hubs fail for one reason: not enough promising founders. Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder & CEO of Founder Institute, shares proven strategies from 17 years of running global accelerators to help you build a…

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    Startup Speedrun Hackathon

    $27.5k+ in winner prizes. Thousands more in participant credits and perks. 8 hours to speedrun your startup. On Day 271 of the singularity, Brainbase, Anthropic, Cloudflare, and Stripe are bringing together builders in San Francisco for the Startup Speedrun Hackathon.

    Cloudflare · Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Beyond the Hype: AI and the Future of Finance

    Finance is entering a new chapter. Artificial Intelligence, automation and digital transformation are changing how finance teams operate, make decisions and support the broader business. But the biggest questions are practical: Where should Finance start?

    188 Spear St 9th floor, Financial District · Free · Approval required

  • 11:30 AM

    Women In investing Networking event

    Flagstar Private Bank, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

  • 12:00 PM

    Solana AI & Capital Forum

    The Solana Capital Forum is a curated executive gathering that brings together leaders across traditional finance, digital assets, and next-generation financial infrastructure.

    Free · Approval required

  • 12:00 PM

    ThinkingAI Agentic Growth Summit 2026

    Most teams have deployed AI. Far fewer have changed how the work actually gets done. The Agentic Growth Summit puts them in one room for a single question: what changes about the operating model when your analytics layer can act, not just report.

    Computer History Museum, Mountain View · Free · Approval required

  • 12:00 PM

    Info Session: Innovation UBC's 16-Week Entrepreneurship Program — Venture Founder Spring 2027

    Room 3100 (Lunchroom), Gordon and Ruth Shrum Building, 6088 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 · Free

  • 12:00 PM

    MLT Startup Network Power Lunch [September 28, 2026]

    Free

  • 1:30 PM

    DeepTech Investor Connect | InnoTrek USA 2026 | Nasscom x IDTA

    KPMG LLP, Santa Clara · Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    Oakland Tech Week: Who Do You Need in the Room? Founder Growth Conversation + Expert Speed Dating + Live Jazz Mixer

    Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    AWS Startup Day SF 2026 — Go Agent & Go Global

    Join us for an exclusive half-day exchange bringing together China's most promising AI startup founders, global technology leaders, investors, and partners in San Francisco.

    AWS Builder Loft, Financial District · Free · Sold out

  • 3:00 PM

    Sundae Robotics: IROS

    Free · Approval required

  • 3:30 PM

    AI for Frontier & Meta Science Workshop - Event Description Only, Apply On Website

    The Fold · Free · Approval required

  • 4:00 PM

    Silicon to Steel: A Physical AI Stack Mixer

    Startup Island TAIWAN - Silicon Valley Hub, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

  • 5:00 PM

    Hard Things

    Hard Things is back. We’re excited to return to our community of physical AI founders, investors, and ecosystem partners with Chris Yeh. Chris Yeh is the co-author of Blitzscaling, the book that explains how to build world-changing companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Airbnb in…

    Free · Approval required

  • 5:00 PM

    AI Agents for Data Teams: A Practical Mini-Hackathon

    Bring a real problem. Build something useful. Show what works. Join the Bay Area Snowflake User Group for an evening building with Snowflake’s agentic AI products. Find the right data, access it appropriately, improve documentation, check quality or govern how it is used.

    135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park · Free

  • 5:00 PM

    🌐 Software Cluster: Green your org's AI

    9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial District · Free · Approval required

  • 5:30 PM

    Dragon Gate: Premiere Night

    Free

  • 5:30 PM

    Synexis Premium Program – B2B/Enterprise AI & Fintech AI Investor Dinner [By Approval Only]

    Free · Approval required

  • 5:30 PM

    From Oakland's Free Clinics to the Future of Care: Sickle Cell, Health & Innovation

    Free

  • 6:00 PM

    Agents on a Leash, Products on Trial | SF | AI Show and Tell

    GitHub · Free

  • 6:00 PM

    Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer (seed to series A)

    12 Scrappy Founders - outdoor endurance community for founders and investors the Bay Area. What is this? 18 AI founders and investors play two 5x5 soccer games. Think an hour of running around, some friendly competition and drinks after. Who is it for?

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    September Fintech Dinner Hosted by Foundation Captial

    Beretta Valencia · Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Founders Candlelit Dinner

    Join us for an intimate invite-only Founders Candlelight Dinner with 529 Labs, Sprinto and Fondo. We’re bringing together 25 founders for dinner, drinks, candle painting and flower bouquet making 🕯️💐 Just a really nice night to meet other founders, make something, eat good…

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    I Hate Transformers Reading Club

    Barebottle Beer Garden at Salesforce Park, SoMa · Free

  • 6:00 PM

    Above the Fog: Founders × Investors Rooftop Mixer

    No panels. No pitches. No awkward networking games. Just an evening on a San Francisco rooftop with an intentionally curated mix of SF Startup Labs founders, investors and operators, drinks in hand and the city around us.

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Pre OpenAI Dev Day by Hexa & Alpic

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Degrees of Freedom: Robotics Builders Night @ Mission Robotics

    A twice-monthly working night for people building embodied AI. No robot required. You built the arm at your kitchen table. You trained the policy overnight on your gaming rig. You collected the teleop data in your garage. The one thing none of it came with: labmates.

    Free

  • 6:00 PM

    Beyond the Permanent Underclass

    399 Webster St · Free

  • 6:30 PM

    HACKER'S MOVIE NIGHT

    🎬 Join us for a night of cinematic fun at Hacker Dojo's Movie Night! 🍿 Get ready to laugh, relax, and enjoy a great film with fellow tech enthusiasts. 🎥We'll be screening in 3D 🕶 ✨The Adventures of Tintin✨ (Hidden treasure with Daniel Craig, 2011, 1h 47m) (🍅75% 🍅74%,…

    Hacker Dojo, Mountain View · Free

  • 6:30 PM

    Builders Night

    Builders Night is a weekly space where people show up with a project, work side by side, and leave with more momentum than they could have generated alone. It exists because building can be lonely, and the hardest part is often simply showing up consistently.

    540 Laguna St, San Francisco + 540 Cafe · Free

  • 7:00 PM

    90/30 Club Reading: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

    Mox, SoMa · Free

  • 7:00 PM

    Executive Dinner: Leveraging AI Agents

    Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    STUDIO WORKS #2/7 | On desire

    tiat · Free

  • 7:00 PM

    OpenAI DevDay Early Meetup

    Free · Sold out

  • 7:00 PM

    StartX Spring 27 - On Campus Applicant Info Session

    StartX programs accelerate Stanford entrepreneurs through a uniquely founder-led model that combines deep mentorship, peer-to-peer accountability, and a trusted community that moves fast and shares honestly.

    Stanford University, Stanford · Free

  • 7:30 PM

    Pebblebed's Builders Late Night Café

    There's something magical about working late with other people who are also in the zone. That flow state hits different - focused energy and the smell of fresh coffee.

    Free · Approval required

Tuesday, September 29

32 listings

  • 12:00 AM

    Beyond Vibe Coding: Hands-on Workshop on Spec Coding & Agentic Engineering

    $60

  • 12:00 AM

    Fully Connected 2026: The AI cloud conference

    Production AI takes more than compute. It takes purpose-built infrastructure, connected developer workflows, and teams that know how to turn ambitious models and agents into reliable systems.

    Moscone Center South · Free

  • 12:30 AM

    AI for HR: What if you built it?

    Approval required

  • 4:00 AM

    Hiring in the AI Era | What Founders Need to Know

    Free · Approval required

  • 8:00 AM

    Partners Show & Tell: Mindflows: No-Code & AI Apps Built on Softr

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-5TQS58bdh8RKPUX Join us for the next installment of Partners Show & Tell, where we spotlight the partners building on Softr and the real client work behind their builds.

    Free

  • 8:00 AM

    Mission Founders Running Club

    Arizmendi Valencia Bakery · Free · Approval required

  • 8:00 AM

    AWIC x Kroll Webinar. Following the Funds: Crypto Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery in Practice

    Free

  • 8:00 AM

    OpenAI DevDay 2026

    Save the date for September 29th in San Francisco. Our biggest event of the year is back.

  • 8:30 AM

    The AI Conference

    SHAPING THE FUTURE OF AI Meet the first confirmed of 120+ speakers for The AI Conference 2026. Additional speakers, presentations, & features will be announced weekly. Day ZER is a high-signal, small-room kickoff where senior builders & leaders spend a full day moving between 8…

    Pier 48 · $1075

  • 9:00 AM

    AI basics: agentic AI part 2

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-7sRVLAQxxaA14wB Part of our AI basics series (session 5/5) Level up with AI in 5 sessions! Join any session at any time, though we highly recommend starting with session 1 and working your way through (missed one?

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Replit Technical Deep Dive

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-YvgQCoQkPnbOLAS Join us for our weekly community Deep Dive as we explore technical concepts and get hands on with the Replit Agent.

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    India DeepTech Confluence 2026 - Valley Edition | Nasscom X VentureDock

    25 Indian DeepTech founders | Investors | Enterprises | Ecosystem leaders | One room in San Francisco Nasscom, in partnership with VentureDock, presents the India DeepTech Confluence 2026 — a platform to experience DeepTech innovation from India, first-hand.

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    AI Safety Evals - Paper Reading Club

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-YCalxb9dFgZtKdE Hosted by Andreas Turanski & Mmachukwu Osisioma

    Free

  • 9:30 AM

    The AI Conference Hack Day 2026

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:30 AM

    AI Security Engineering Hackathon

    AI is moving faster than most security programs can keep up with — agentic tools, MCP servers, and AI-generated code are shipping into production every day, often outrunning the guardrails meant to protect them.

    AWS Builder Loft, Financial District · Free · Approval required

  • 9:30 AM

    Collaborative Agent Hackathon @ Stanford

    Build open agents that work together The Collaborative Agent Hackathon is a one-day event for building open-source, collaborative AI agents with Flower. Agents are changing what’s possible.

    389 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford · Free

  • 9:45 AM

    OpenAI DevDay 2026 Watch Party | MirWork × GeekPark

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Agent Fair

    Join Solana, Circle, MoonPay, and others at Radhaus in Fort Mason on September 29. We're hosting an all-day Dev Cafe with coffee, coworking, swag, demos, and a happy hour. There will definitely be some other surprises too.

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Tech Week Ready: Portraits & Positioning for Women Founders

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Solana AI Event

    Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    UNDSCVRD Entrepreneur Summit

    The UNDSCVRD Entrepreneur Summit brings together a curated group of Filipino entrepreneurs, founders, creatives, & community leaders across industries for an evening of connection, conversation, & collective visioning.

    Brave New Spaces, SoMa · Free

  • 10:00 AM

    Fintech Week SF

    THE OFFICIAL SAN FRANCISCO FINTECH WEEK CONFERENCE FTW: SAN FRANCISCO Fall 2026 - Early Bird Tickets Now Live The team behind FTW: NYC is heading west. Fintech Is Femme, Fiat Growth, AscaleX, & Identity Strategies are bringing the 3-day conference to San Francisco - convening…

    The Green Room · $895

  • 10:00 AM

    🌉 FTW: San Francisco | Sept 29–Oct 1

    The Green Room · $895

  • 10:30 AM

    Livestream: AI ROI, Why the Agent Isn't the Answer

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-Or9sK9DEwNTPMJa We're livestreaming the London meetup so you can watch from anywhere. Register here and we'll send you the link to join live.

    Free

  • 11:00 AM

    FUSION '26

    Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, San Francisco · $299 · Sold out

  • 12:00 PM

    How to Build an AI Council

    Free

  • 1:00 PM

    AI Book Club: Vision Language Models (VLMs)

    Free

  • 1:00 PM

    AI+ Day: Build × Reach — U.S.–China AI Founder Showcase

    Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale · $49

  • 1:00 PM

    Licorbio Atlas Training

    1030 Brittan Ave, San Carlos · Free

  • 3:00 PM

    AI Agent Workshop: An AI-Native SDLC with Claude Code

    135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park · Free · Approval required

  • 3:00 PM

    SF GTM x AI Meetup

    Come cowork with the Amdahl team and other builders in AI + GTM. We're taking over a corner of Bartlett Hall near Union Square for the afternoon with our AI/ML engineers.

    Hanwha AI Center · Free

  • 3:00 PM

    GenAI, Vibe Coding and Agentic AI: Talks + AI Agent Workshops

    A forum connecting startups, enterprises, and builders to explore hands-on topics, including AI agents, memory, agentic workflows, and multi-agent orchestration, alongside real-world applications of AI across enterprise, education, and workforce development.

    135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park · Free