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Caravan '26: The most hands-on edition yet.
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Caravan '26: Where Investors find India's AI edge, first.
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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.
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.
8:00 AM
Berkeley Ruby Early Birds
8:30 AM
Hackathon: AI Tools for Better Decisions and Coordination
9:00 AM
Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon
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.
Today · 10:30 AM
Bagels and Bricks
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.
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…
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.
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.
Today · 3:00 PM
Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Santa Clara, CA
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
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.
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.
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…
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.…
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…
Oct
3
Supabase Select 2026 Hackathon
Oct
3
Robotics Center Dexterity Day + IROS Recap
Oct
3
Rethinking Agents: Special Edition — What Happens When AI Starts Building With You?
Oct
3
Bubble Lab (YC W26) X Lunatechs - Pretty Cool Demos and Pre-Tech Week Social!
Oct
4
Nordic AI Frontiers @ SF TECH WEEK
Oct
4
Build Personal Agents Hack
Oct
4
Founder Wellness Morning
Oct
5
The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek
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