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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.
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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
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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…
7:00 AM
The Solana Ecosystem Call | September
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-sD2AcaPlpqr7e68 The Solana Ecosystem Call is BACK! The Solana Ecosystem Call is a monthly live show that brings the production quality and energy of late-night television to the fastest-moving ecosystem in crypto.
8:30 AM
Restive Ventures AI Founders & Investors Breakfast
Join us for a casual breakfast with AI founders and fellow VCs on September 24 from 8:30–10:30 a.m. at Avotoasty in downtown San Francisco. Swing by for a coffee and croissant, meet some interesting people, and stay for as long as you’d like.
9:00 AM
GenMedia Conference 2026 Registration
9:00 AM
Vertex: The Vertical Software Conference
9:00 AM
AI-Powered Women Ambassador Monthly Call: How to Lead, Earn, and Grow With Us
9:00 AM
Grid Innovation Hub Coffee Meetup
10:00 AM
Lunch & Hack: AI Agents vs Agentic Workflows (w/ The AI Collective)
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-Iai6ihDipxLgHAl Virtual Lunch & Hack Join us for a Virtual Lunch & Hack, a biweekly online event where builders come together to learn something new, hear from great speakers, and hack on a fun project in real time.
10:00 AM
Toddler Thursday @TJPA's Salesforce Park
10:00 AM
Frontier Build SF: Build your Autonomous Code Factory
11:00 AM
NASSCOM Tech Delegation × StartX
Join us for an exclusive networking session & lunch bringing together some of India's most promising mid-size technology companies with the StartX founder community. Also features a talk from Vijay Krishnan - CTO of Turing, one of leading Unicorns at StartX.
11:00 AM
The Makers: Fiddler CEO Krishna Gade on Why Visibility Is Not Control
12:00 PM
Tech Writing Power Lunch: The AI-Native Technical Writer
12:00 PM
Automating NGS at Startup Scale
12:00 PM
October Programming - Office Hours!
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-rjs358OxeFaT0TO Come with questions, ideas, feedback, concerns, and everything in between to make your program in October a success!
12:00 PM
Live on the Lawn @TJPA's Salesforce Park
12:00 PM
Lunch & Demos w/ PostHog, Brex & Supabase
12:00 PM
THE DEAL LOUNGE — THE ANGEL ARENA
THE DEAL LOUNGE: PRE-SEED STARTUPS & ANGEL INVESTORS — EDITION 2 The Deal Lounge returns with Pre-Seed Startups & Angel Investors — Edition 2, bringing together high-potential early-stage founders, active angel investors, micro-VCs, family offices, operators, and ecosystem…
1:00 PM
Rebuild With Jev #2: Decision Bot Architecture + Hackathon
2:00 PM
Founders Inc: Aerospace at Open Campus
2:00 PM
How AI Runs My Company
2:00 PM
Silicon Valley AI X Biltech Innovation Forum
Silicon Valley AI × Biotech Innovation Forum From Silicon Valley Innovation to Shenzhen Industrialization Join founders, researchers, investors, industry leaders, and innovation ecosystem partners for an afternoon connecting Silicon Valley innovation with Shenzhen’s industrial…
2:30 PM
Female Founders and Funders Walk
3:00 PM
MBC BioLabs Immunology Innovation Forum
3:00 PM
SF Frontier Summit '26
3:00 PM
HackerSquad Meetup @ WeAreDevelopers
The HackerSquad meetup of meetups, let's celebrate the community at large with WeAreDevelopers. At this meetup, we'll checkout some of the coolest demos we saw this last year and create opportunities for builders to demo what they've been working on.
3:30 PM
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…
4:00 PM
Launch Your Career into EV, Data Center, or Artificial Intelligence
Are you a recent graduate or looking to make a career change into one of the fastest-growing tech fields — EV infrastructure, data center operations, or artificial intelligence? You’re invited to a free webinar hosted by the Launch Institute of Technology.
4:00 PM
Drivetrain + NetSuite: Claude for CFOs SF
4:00 PM
Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (Seed to Series A)
4:00 PM
Going Places: A Founder and Builder Happy Hour with Escalon, Airwallex and Justworks
Building a company is serious work. Happy hour doesn’t have to be. Join Escalon, Airwallex and Justworks for a relaxed evening created for founders and builders to step away from the daily grind and connect with others who understand the journey. No panels.
4:00 PM
Let's Talk about Muse | Seamate Crazy Thursday 🍗🍺
4:30 PM
SportTech - INNOVIT Demo Day
4:30 PM
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.
4:30 PM
Nucleate Bay Area Coffee & Connections
4:30 PM
Innovation as a Teachable Skill: From Creativity to Market Success
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.…
5:00 PM
AI Memory Cohort Workshop Dinner
5:00 PM
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.
5:00 PM
Golf w/ Friends in Tech
5:00 PM
☕️ 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.
5:00 PM
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.
5:00 PM
Founders Meetup - San Francisco
5:00 PM
Responsive Conference Happy Hour
The conference doesn't end when the last session does. StartupExperts is hosting an invitation-only happy hour alongside the Responsive Conference—a tightly curated evening where exceptional leaders will gather to connect, exchange ideas, and spark new friendships over…
5:00 PM
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.
5:00 PM
Headless Happy Hour
Every business is becoming headless. Most aren't ready for it. What does it actually mean to move from human-first to agent-first product design? We'll talk through all of it over drinks with the Scalar team — 30M+ OSS installs, ~100K APIs under management, and strong opinions…
5:00 PM
Conversations and Connections. Fintech Networking.
5:00 PM
Grok Bot for Engineering build night (Seattle)
5:00 PM
AI Applied in Cybersecurity Lightning Talks
5:00 PM
The Official Unofficial PayPal Alumni Happy Hour
5:00 PM
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.
5:00 PM
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…
5:00 PM
Bayview Tech Lab: Virtual Assistants
5:30 PM
San Francisco | Claude For Spatial Computing
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…
5:30 PM
Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup
5:30 PM
Post Training (for Humans): Chess Night
5:30 PM
Happy Hour - Santa Clara
5:30 PM
Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup
Join us for another awesome Agents & APIs Developer Meetup brought to you by Postman! You'll have a great time learning, watching live demos, playing trivia for prizes, & enjoying delicious pizza! Note: Entry is not guaranteed. Please arrive on time to secure your seat.
5:30 PM
AI in the Finance Seat Powered by FIF Collective in SF
5:30 PM
AI x Bio Builders Night @ Stanford
5:30 PM
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…
5:30 PM
Early-Stage Technical Sales: Dinner
5:30 PM
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.
5:30 PM
SF Systems: Research to Practice, from Inference Engines to Multimodal Coding
5:30 PM
The Curious Agents Club Meetup
6:00 PM
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?
6:00 PM
How do you know your agent works when it scales beyond 1K sessions?
Agents at Scale — a meetup series on running AI agents in production, from the team that ran one through the 2026 World Cup measuring 56 million devices online at once.
6:00 PM
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.
6:00 PM
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.
6:00 PM
Building active-active, multi-cloud systems
The best AI infrastructure doesn't have a single point of failure. Join us at the Baseten Clubhouse for an evening with Colin McGrath, Head of Infrastructure at Baseten. Colin has spent years designing systems that don’t fail.
6:00 PM
Founder/VC Dinner - Atrium @ SF Gallery
6:00 PM
Signal. Insights Moving Us Forward.
Signal returns to Kodiak’s Mountain View HQ for an in person conversation on the next frontier of autonomy: Physical AI and what it will take to build intelligent systems that perform reliably in the real world.
6:00 PM
Building Active-Active, Multi-Cloud Systems
The best AI infrastructure doesn't have a single point of failure. Join us at the Baseten Clubhouse for an evening with Colin McGrath, Head of Infrastructure at Baseten. Colin has spent years designing systems that don't fail.
6:00 PM
Wine Down with Women in ML - Encord
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,…
6:00 PM
Win a seat Next to Alan Keating - Hero Call Ventures Launch Party - A Founders Tournament
6:00 PM
Building the company brain / context layer
6:00 PM
Private Angel Investor Event, Hosted by Entrepreneurs First
6:00 PM
Post Training (For Humans) - Chess Night
Models aren't the only ones who benefit from training. Join fellow AI engineers, founders, & builders for an evening of speed chess (or slow chess, if you really prefer), good food, & great conversations.
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.
6:00 PM
Who Goes There? Identity for AI Agents
6:00 PM
AI Leaders & Transformation Panel & Dinner - San Francisco
6:00 PM
Attention Is the Bottleneck — Content, Distribution & Growth Hacking
6:00 PM
Off the Record: A Health AI Leaders Dinner
6:00 PM
ITCH - Businesses share what needs to be built
"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 Most people who want to build something sit in a room and brainstorm ideas. That is the wrong starting point.
6:00 PM
3rd San Rafael Hardware Meetup @ Tymphany
Join us for our 3rd San Rafael Hardware Meetup! We're super excited to be invited back to Tymphany HQ in Terra Linda. They're in a stunningly beautiful space, and we'll be meeting in their atrium.
6:00 PM
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.
6:00 PM
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…
6:00 PM
Claude Santa Cruz — Weekly Meetup
Join the dynamic community at Citizen Space Santa Cruz for a weekly meetup focused on the Claude AI platform — Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design, and so forth. Held every Thursday from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM this gathering follows a meetup format: 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Arrival…
6:00 PM
AI Product GTM Session: Build Your Growth Experiment Engine
6:00 PM
🧱 Your GTM belongs in git | SF
6:00 PM
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.
6:00 PM
YC F26 Grill & Chill
6:30 PM
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…
6:30 PM
Runpod x Flox x Apify: Lego Salon
6:30 PM
AI Automation Agency Meetup
6:30 PM
Designers & Machines September 2026
6:30 PM
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.
6:30 PM
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.
6:30 PM
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.
7:00 PM
App Leaders Hours San Francisco
7:00 PM
Abaka AI Latin Night
7:00 PM
Romanian Tech in SF - September Drinks & Chat
7:00 PM
The AI Apocalypse Happy Hour
7:00 PM
[IN-PERSON EVENT] College Admission: AI, ROI, and DI...Oh My! with Brennan Barnard and Rick Clark
Tomorrow · Friday, September 25
1:00 AM
[Remote] 🌀Fundraising: Pitch Deck Reviews with Pembroke VC
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.
5:30 AM
Bitcoin Indonesia Community Online Meetup
7:30 AM
🌀Sales Advisory Board Session - Scaling £1m -> £10m Annual Revenue 🌀 - Remote/Online (part of our Founder Nation Co-Working Day)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.…
9:30 AM
In The Loop 009 (SF)
9:30 AM
Ship from Zero Hackathon
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.
10:00 AM
Founder Circle: Heavier Than It Should Be
10:00 AM
CIMC Hackathon: Lattice Animals
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…
10:00 AM
TALENT TAIWAN Silicon Valley Branch Opening Ceremony
10:00 AM
Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy
10:00 AM
Rebuild With Jev #3: Decision Bot Architecture + Hackathon
10:00 AM
Founder Labs 1:1 Session with Monisha Perkash
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.
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"…
12:00 PM
AWS YouthTech Workshop
12:30 PM
Ra's Circle · San Francisco, Edition III
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…
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.
2:00 PM
San Francisco | Claude Meetup - For the Business Moms: The AI Back Office You Didn't Know You Had
3:00 PM
Founders Inc: Lab Tour
4:00 PM
F26 + YC Alumni Mixer
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…
4:45 PM
AI for Social Good: San Francisco Presentations & Reception
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.
6:00 PM
Agent Builder Social
6:00 PM
More Code Than Anyone Can Check – Software Engineering in the Age of AI
6:00 PM
Vibe Coder Vampires Night! (Lunatechs X Crewbase Collective)
6:00 PM
Building for Resilience: What Makes a Company Hard to Kill
6:00 PM
Birds of a Feather- Jev Demo Night
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.
6:00 PM
Gullie x Datacurve Private Dinner: Founders, AI Researchers & Engineers
6:00 PM
Vibe Night Demos (#27)
6:30 PM
Shabbating @Long Journey
7:00 PM
Omakase Dinner • AGI x 21st x Blue Neck Investments x YY
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.
7:00 PM
Cal vs Clemson in the Box with Top Founders - presented by The House Fund
7:30 PM
Founders Dinner - Sushi Night
10:00 PM
EPIQ: Save The Date
One Night Only - for founders and builders in the innovation economy. Special performance by DIPLO.
Saturday, September 26
1:30 AM
HeyGen Community Meetup: Create, Connect & Build with AI
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.
8:30 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.
9:00 AM
Taiwan Tech Summit 2026
9:00 AM
Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon
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.
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.
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.
10:00 AM
Enterprise Builders Hike
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!
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.
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…
10:00 AM
Jev Hackathon (w/ The AI Collective)
10:30 AM
Bagels and Bricks
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.
10:30 AM
consumer founder dj set & breakfast
10:30 AM
Bitrig Hacks: iPhone 18 Edition
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!
11:00 AM
Monthly Greater Silicon Valley Robotics & Automation Luncheon
11:00 AM
Joy & Sorrow Screening Session @ Human vs. AI Film Premiere
11:00 AM
2026 Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Premiere
11:00 AM
Endeavor - Encontro de Founders Brasileiros na Bay Area
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…
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.
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.
2:00 PM
Taiwan Demo Day @ Taiwan Tech Summit 2026
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.
3:00 PM
Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Santa Clara, CA
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.
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
4:00 PM
Women Who Love Tech/AI + Matcha!
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.
6:30 PM
Free Open Workshop — Build Your Idea into an AI App
7:00 PM
Po-Shen Loh | Raise A Thought Full Generation in the Age of AI | Los Altos, CA
7:00 PM
C9 Kickoff Dinner
7:30 PM
Earth, Wind and Founders
Sunday, September 27
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.
8:00 AM
IB Code on Court: 3v3 Basketball Tournament | OTW26 🏀💚
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.
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…
9:30 AM
Cross-Border Founders Hike
10:00 AM
Berkeley x DeepMind Hackathon: Build. Ship. Win up to $5M in Seed Funding*
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.…
12:00 PM
The Orange Box @ Giants vs Dodgers ⚾️
12:00 PM
The AI × Bio Cookout
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…
2:00 PM
Preparing for an AI-Powered Future with De Kai Wu | The AI Collective Tri-Valley
2:00 PM
A Conversation with Aamir Ibrahim
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.
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.
5:00 PM
AI x Solana
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.…
Monday, September 28
5:00 AM
Amplitude AI Growth Lab
8:00 AM
TiE Mumbai's Tech Delegation to USA
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…
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.
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?
11:30 AM
Women In investing Networking event
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.
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.
12:00 PM
Info Session: Innovation UBC's 16-Week Entrepreneurship Program — Venture Founder Spring 2027
12:00 PM
MLT Startup Network Power Lunch [September 28, 2026]
1:30 PM
DeepTech Investor Connect | InnoTrek USA 2026 | Nasscom x IDTA
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.
3:00 PM
Sundae Robotics: IROS
3:30 PM
AI for Frontier & Meta Science Workshop - Event Description Only, Apply On Website
4:00 PM
Silicon to Steel: A Physical AI Stack Mixer
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…
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.
5:00 PM
🌐 Software Cluster: Green your org's AI
5:30 PM
Dragon Gate: Premiere Night
5:30 PM
Synexis Premium Program – B2B/Enterprise AI & Fintech AI Investor Dinner [By Approval Only]
5:30 PM
From Oakland's Free Clinics to the Future of Care: Sickle Cell, Health & Innovation
6:00 PM
Agents on a Leash, Products on Trial | SF | AI Show and Tell
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?
6:00 PM
September Fintech Dinner Hosted by Foundation Captial
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…
6:00 PM
I Hate Transformers Reading Club
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.
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.
6:00 PM
Beyond the Permanent Underclass
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%,…
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.
7:00 PM
90/30 Club Reading: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
7:00 PM
Executive Dinner: Leveraging AI Agents
7:00 PM
STUDIO WORKS #2/7 | On desire
7:00 PM
OpenAI DevDay Early Meetup
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.
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.
Tuesday, September 29
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.
4:00 AM
Hiring in the AI Era | What Founders Need to Know
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.
8:00 AM
Mission Founders Running Club
8:00 AM
AWIC x Kroll Webinar. Following the Funds: Crypto Fraud, Asset Tracing and Recovery in Practice
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?