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Saturday, September 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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  • 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

    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

  • 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

This Week in Tech

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  • Today · 10:30 AM

    Bagels and Bricks

    488 Bryant St · Free

  • Today · 11:00 AM

    2026 Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Premiere

    One of San Francisco's most unique movie events this year: A film premiere where human directors and generative AI face the exact same creative challenge, and you won’t know who made each film until the reveal.

    Delancey Street Screening Room · Free

  • Today · 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

  • Today · 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

  • Today · 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

  • Today · 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

  • Today · 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

  • Tomorrow · 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

  • Tomorrow · 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

  • Tomorrow · 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

  • Tomorrow · 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

  • Tomorrow · 12:00 PM

    The AI × Bio Cookout

    AI × Bio BBQ: Sunday afternoon in SF Come hang out with us for a relaxed Sunday afternoon with a BBQ, good coffee, and great people. We're bringing together people from both sides of the AI × Bio frontier: researchers and engineers from frontier AI labs, computational…

    Free · Approval required

The Weekend

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  • Sep

    26

    Jachacks A2Tech

    9:00 AM · Free

  • Sep

    26

    Founders Running Club: SF

    9:30 AM · Maritime Museum · Free

  • Sep

    26

    Bayview 3rd Street Cleanup

    10:00 AM · All Good Pizza, Bayview · Free

  • Sep

    26

    Showerhacks

    10:00 AM · Entrepreneurs First · Free

  • Sep

    26

    How to Build Great Products with the Product Value Blueprint

    10:30 AM · California Science And Technology U…, Milpitas · Free

  • Sep

    26

    WindBorne Weather Balloon Launch @ the Exploratorium

    11:00 AM · The Exploratorium at Pier 17, Embarcadero · Free

Plan Ahead

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  • Oct

    3

    Supabase Select 2026 Hackathon

    9:00 AM · 580 20th St · Free

  • Oct

    3

    Robotics Center Dexterity Day + IROS Recap

    2:00 PM · Robotics Center of Silicon Valley · Free

  • Oct

    3

    Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You?

    2:00 PM · Stanford University, Stanford · Free

  • Oct

    3

    Bubble Lab (YC W26) X Lunatechs - Pretty Cool Demos and Pre-Tech Week Social!

    6:00 PM · European Startup Embassy · Free

  • Oct

    4

    Nordic AI Frontiers @ SF TECH WEEK

    7:00 AM · San Francisco · Free

  • Oct

    4

    Build Personal Agents Hack

    9:00 AM · Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street,… · Free

  • Oct

    4

    Founder Wellness Morning

    10:30 AM · 221 11th St, SoMa · Free

  • Oct

    5

    The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek

    9:30 AM · JOE & THE JUICE · Free

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