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Today
Nov 9
34 events- On now
ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, BurlingameFree
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Fig AI Design Makeathon 2026
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Fig AI Design Makeathon 2026 November 7–9 · Online Makeathon November 14 · Winner Demo · Third Coast Foundry, San Francisco AI is creating new products, behaviors, workflows, and interaction patterns faster than traditional design practices can keep up.
- On now
Gerrit User Summit
Google Building MP6, SunnyvaleFree
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AI Agent Escape: Hugging Face Warning Shot
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8IYptES4RReCw2R1FqStTQFree
- 12:00 PM
NXT-G3NERATION - Networking Event
Location not listedFree
- 4:45 PM
5K Run with Apify
Fort Point National Historic SiteFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
AI Builders Night
AWS Builder Loft, Financial DistrictFree
- 5:00 PM
OpenAI x Figma Speaker Event
d.school studio 2Free
- 5:00 PM
The How-To of Digital Transformation: A Practical AI Leadership Playbook to Stand Out in Your First 90 Days [Workshop]
UCLA Anderson School of Management, Room G305Free
- 5:00 PM
Cloudflare x U.S. Ski & Snowboard SF Happy Hour
Shotski’sFree
Build something that could change how the world’s best skiers and snowboarders train. Join Cloudflare and U.S. Ski & Snowboard in San Francisco on November 9 for the launch party of a new winter sports technical challenge for builders. Cloudflare and U.S.
- 5:00 PM
Side Quest Hotline Vapi Hackathon
150 Spear St, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required
The go-to hackathon for building and running voice agents. Join us inside Vapi's San Francisco office for an exclusive night of building with top Vapi users, founders and AI builders, in the lead-up to VapiCon! ⚡ 🎟️ Limited spots.
- 5:30 PM
Stanford LP Seminar Series #19 (KfW Capital; Rogue Insight Capital; Abu Dhabi Pension Fund; Andreani & Associés; IMF)
Stanford Graduate School of Business, StanfordFreeApproval required
You’re invited to Stanford LP Seminar Series #19—the 19th edition of the Stanford AI & Investment Series, co-organized by the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Alumni Chapter, AIx2, and Stanford xBuilders.
- 5:30 PM
[SF] AI Dev Night at Workato
Location not listedFree
Welcome to the 'AI Dev Night SF' series, co-hosted with Workato. This series bring the Workato and AICamp communities together for an evening dedicated to deep-dive tech talks, hands-on labs, and high-impact technical networking.
- 5:30 PM
THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: November
PlanetScaleFree
Join us on November 9th for the SF Database Meetup, where we'll hear about two brand-new projects: a database built to answer what Postgres would look like if it were designed today, and the fastest ordered map in Rust, written by LLMs and verified with fuzzing, formal proofs,…
- 5:30 PM
Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Build Day: OpenRouter × Meta Something we've never done before... On November 9, OpenRouter x Meta Superintelligence Labs are teaming up for our first-ever Build Day in San Francisco. One evening. A room full of builders. And 60 minutes to turn an idea into something real.
- 5:30 PM
The Early Days: Inside the Startup Journey
Location not listedFreeApproval required
The Early Days: Inside the Startup Journey What really happens behind the scenes when building a startup? Join Draper University for a special evening bringing together people from across the Silicon Valley startup community.
- 5:30 PM
Meet the ChipStart UK Semiconductor Startups
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
AI Dev Showcase Night at Workato
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
San Francisco HR Executive Dinner
The ProgressFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
AI for Compute/Efficient AI
Marufuku Ramen - Palo Alto, Palo AltoFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Scrappy Founders Play Soccer
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Energy & Defense Founder Dinner at The Art of SF
The Art of San Francisco, Financial DistrictFreeSold out
- 6:00 PM
AiOS Meetup - San Francisco Edition
ConvexFreeApproval required
AiOS San Francisco is happening—and you’re invited! 🤖 Join us for an evening with people who are as excited about AI and Apple platforms as you are. Whether you’re building with the latest Apple frameworks, experimenting with on-device AI, or simply curious about what’s next,…
- 6:00 PM
Dinner & Plant-Making Workshop | Quivly × Okta
ArcanaFreeApproval required
- 6:10 PM
Stanford Workshop: Leading the AI-Powered Organization to Create Value - Strategy and Execution
Location not listedFreeApproval required
An interactive workshop with Stanford HAI Professor Arvind Karunakaran Monday, November 9 | Stanford GSB, Gunn G101 5:30 PM - Check-in opens 6:10–9:10 PM - Interactive workshop Pizza and drinks will be provided. Launching an AI pilot is one thing.
- 6:30 PM
Builders Night
550 Laguna St, San Francisco + Full StudioFree
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.
- 6:30 PM
xAI Founding Engineers Dinner
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
AI Founders/Executives Michelin Dinner
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
HACKER'S MOVIE NIGHT
Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree
- 6:30 PM
Music Hardware Is a Fashion Accessory: A Design Workshop
tiatFree
- 7:00 PM
SF Lean Meetup
Mox, SoMaFree
The SF Lean meetup: Weekly presentation and discussion about Lean, the programming language and theorem prover. Math, CS, AI and their mix all welcome.
- 7:00 PM
1 Milly Party
Location not listedFreeApproval required
7 months of helping startups announce their fundraises in the news later... ....Press Club has officially hit $1 MILLION in annual run rate 💸 Here's a toast to FUNdraising announcements (yes, we'll have an open bar) 🥂 This is a private party for our team, our customers, our…
- 7:00 PM
Fund It, Fix It, or Kill It: Thiel Fellows Pitch Roast (IRL in SF + Zoom)
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 7:15 PM
Theranos of AI industry? YCSE Debrief & AI Chat
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Tomorrow
Nov 10
79 events- 8:00 AM
After Tokens
TERRAFreeApproval required
- 8:00 AM
Mission Founders Running Club
Arizmendi Valencia BakeryFreeApproval required
- 8:30 AM
SF Fintech Coffee
Location not listedFreeApproval required
SF Fintech Coffee, hosted by This Week in Fintech and SVB , is an event for Fintech founders, investors & enthusiasts to gather around and talk everything Fintech. This is a no-agenda event, just drop by to make new Fintech friends over breakfast. See you there!
- 9:00 AM
GovTech Smart Cities
War Memorial Veterans BuildingFreeApproval required
- 9:00 AM
San Francisco Founder & VC Roundtables, presented by The Pitch (DEEL)
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 9:00 AM
The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Tuesday, Nov 10
Location not listedFree
- 9:30 AM
Accelr8 | Cowork Club
712 Polk StFree
Bring your laptop and join fellow residents and the Accelr8 team for Work Club at 712 Polk St., from 9:30am to 12pm. Coffee’s on us! Set aside some time for whatever will move your venture forward, whether that’s reaching out to customers, refining your pitch, shipping a…
- 9:30 AM
[SF] AWS x NVIDIA Workshop for Model Customization
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Join us for a hands-on workshop on model customization with AWS and NVIDIA. As companies move from AI prototypes to production, off-the-shelf models may not meet the accuracy, latency, and cost requirements.
- 10:00 AM
Verifying the Unverifiable: Testing AI-Generated Code (and AI-Generated Worlds)
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 12:00 PM
Akamai AI Summit
Oracle ParkFreeApproval required
Experience the future of AI — here’s what’s waiting for you Join us for one of the most exciting San Francisco tech events this November, connecting AI leaders and innovators.
- 1:00 PM
Agilent Lab Productivity Forum
1030 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFree
- 2:00 PM
Discovery Series: Silicon Valley Faculty Talks | Session 3 with Ilmi Yoon, Khoury College
Northeastern University Silicon Valley, San JoseFree
- 2:00 PM
Pre-event "Create immersive media experiences for spatial computing."
Location not listedFree
[NOT AN OFFICIAL APPLE EVENT] Come and meet other developers, directors and producers working in Apple Immersive Video and other formats, before the event in Cupertino on the 11th. Informal set-up, coffee and snacks served on site!
- 2:30 PM
Culture Slop Live!
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
Notion 101 for Small Businesses SF
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
partner demo day
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
Nordic Capitalism in the AI Economy
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
FIG AI Design Makeathon 2026 | AI video Office Hour With Storyverse | Online
San FranciscoFree
- 4:00 PM
Venture Math × VC Speaker Series: Inside the Data with Peter Walker
Chou Hall, BerkeleyFreeApproval required
- 4:00 PM
Terna Innovation Zone Forum 2026 | Innovating the Grid: Next-Gen Power for AI and Data Centers
Mind the Bridge, SoMaFreeApproval required
Terna Innovation Zone Forum San Francisco 2026 Powering What’s Next: AI, Energy and Infrastructure Join us on November 10 at the Mind the Bridge Innovation Center in San Francisco for the 2026 edition of the Terna Innovation Zone Forum.
- 4:00 PM
AI Builder Pickleball Tournament
The HUB Pickleball Club - Silicon Valley, CampbellFreeApproval required
- 4:30 PM
Contamination & Cocktail Hour
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 4:30 PM
tea time
Mox, SoMaFree
- 4:30 PM
[SV] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Caylent, Temporal, LaunchPad
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 4:30 PM
Design Chat with Alex Cornell, Meta
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Foundry Live Demo Night
GitHubFreeApproval required
Foundry Live Agentic AI demo night Join us for an exciting evening of live demos from local, Bay Area Agentic AI startups. Agentic AI represents the most significant shift in the Gen AI landscape today - changing our daily lives and the way we work.
- 5:00 PM
Mahjong Party for AI Builders
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
🌐 Battery & Energy Storage Meetup: Navigating Brand Identity Through Uncertainty for Startups, with Alison Wynn, Founder of EKĀ atelier
9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Built on Bedrock Demo Night - Nov 2026
AWS Builder Loft, Financial DistrictFree
Come celebrate what's being built on Amazon Bedrock! Every month we gather at the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco to watch founders and developers show off what they've been cooking, and November is shaping up to be a great one.
- 5:00 PM
dbt Meetup: Featuring dbt Charts / Jev Models
Fivetran, OaklandFree
Calling all data friends, chart enthusiasts, and dbt fans! 📊 We're getting the community together for a November dbt Meetup featuring dbt Charts, Jev Models, and something a little unexpected: a pop-up Museum of Fine Charts from RJ Andrews!
- 5:00 PM
AI is here. Use it better.
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Scaling Robotics - Hosted by MoFo and Founders Inc.
Founders, Inc. Campus | 2 Marina Blvd C300, San Francisco, CA 94123FreeApproval required
Join Morrison Foerster and Founders Inc. for an evening exploring the future of robotics and physical AI, featuring Angela Du, Partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA) and Seth Graham, Technology Transactions Partner, Morrison Foerster.
- 5:00 PM
Synexis Premium Program – Consumer, Creator Economy & Entertainment Investor Dinner [By Approval Only]
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Valkey x OpenSearch @ Uber, Sunnyvale
Uber Sunnyvale, SunnyvaleFree
Join the Valkey and OpenSearch communities for an evening of talks, pizza, drinks, and networking at Uber's Sunnyvale office. Two Linux Foundation projects. One open source data stack. Zero lock-in.
- 5:00 PM
AI for Small Business: Bring Your Problem —> Solve It Live
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
iMasons Women’s Event at Crusoe | San Francisco
Location not listedFreeSold out
- 5:00 PM
Biryani Maxxing: A Diwali Feast & Multiplayer AI Mixer
Location not listedFreeApproval required
🍛 Biryani Maxxing Join fellow founders, builders, and team leaders at the PromptQL office for a Diwali celebration with biryani, music, and new connections. If you’re the one trying to keep your team of humans and bots aligned, this night is for you.
- 5:00 PM
Tech & Chess | Season Finale
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Apollo AI Accelerator | Founders & Builders Meetup
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Meet the teams behind Apollo, connect with AI founders, and discover what’s next. Join 0G and xBuilders for an exclusive meetup bringing together AI founders, builders, investors, and members of the Apollo AI Accelerator community.
- 5:30 PM
Venue Placeholder - Vistara Ventures Evening Event - Members Only
Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoFree
- 5:30 PM
San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup
Location not listedFree
Join us for an evening of talks and community discussion about Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure. This meetup will spotlight real-world applications, performance innovations, and evolving integrations NOTE: due to venue requirements, it is…
- 5:30 PM
Learning Layer Paper Reading Club - Week 39 - Harness^2: Recursive Agents
111 Maiden Ln #540, San Francisco, CA 94108Free
- 5:30 PM
B^2 Founder Stories Panel
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, BerkeleyFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Startup Catalyst Community & Other "Former Students of Mark" (FSM) Meetup (plus demos!)
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, BerkeleyFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Andrew Hogan // The New Rules of Design
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, BerkeleyFreeSold out
- 5:30 PM
Canadians in San Francisco Meetup
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
10x the company, not the IT team: how the fastest-growing AI companies run IT
Dawn ClubFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
SF Happy Hour
577 Howard St, SoMaFreeSold out
- 5:30 PM
Amy Guarino Pitch Night
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Notre Dame Pitch Night & Amy Hirsh Guarino Award Join the Notre Dame Bay Area community on November 10 for an evening celebrating entrepreneurship, innovation, and the Notre Dame network.
- 5:30 PM
Headshots for Founders, VCs and Tech Partners!
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Say Cheese! 📸 Your New Headshot Awaits Founders, VCs & Tech Partners — this one’s for you! Your next great headshot is on us. Join us for a fun, relaxed evening where you and your team can refresh your professional profiles with complimentary headshots, enjoy delicious…
- 6:00 PM
Funded Founders x Foundess Dinner
Location not listedFreeSold out
- 6:00 PM
CaptivateConnect: AI Unfiltered
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Signal vs. Noise: Picking Consumer AI Winners
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Personal agents have become the hottest topic in AI for founders and investors alike. Is this the moment consumer AI finally breaks out, or is the real explosion still ahead?
- 6:00 PM
The Build Room: San Francisco
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Berkeley Quantum Pitch Night
2168 Shattuck Ave., BerkeleyFreeApproval required
Join us at the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator for an evening bringing together quantum founders, researchers, investors, academics, and industry leaders from across the Bay Area.
- 6:00 PM
Funded Founder & CFO Dinner, San Francisco
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Every Agent, Accounted For
The Sea by Alexander's Steakhouse, Palo AltoFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Farm-to-Table: Founders Dinner Series
Pear VC - Pear Studio SFFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
SF Beer at Crafty Fox
1700 Mission StFree
- 6:00 PM
Bio Action Plan Workshop with Geoff Ralston
Mox, SoMaFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
The Sri Lankan Founder Network - San Francisco
Location not listedFree
- 6:00 PM
Code & Cocktails in SF with Fireworks & MiniMax
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Berkeley Quantum Pitch Night
Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, BerkeleyFree
Join us at the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator for an evening bringing together quantum founders, researchers, investors, academics, & industry leaders from across the Bay Area.
- 6:00 PM
What Did Your Agent Learn This Week? - A Voice AI Leaders Dinner
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Innogate USA: SF Gathering
e2vcFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
ISC2 Silicon Valley - November 2026 Chapter Meeting
Location not listedFree
- 6:00 PM
Bay Area AI Artists November Show, Critique & Promote Night
Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree
- 6:00 PM
Code Summit AI Chef's Table | G2i
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
AI Transformation Leaders Salon: Future of Jobs with AI
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:00 PM
Agents Need Solid Ground: An Archil Hackathon
Location not listedFree
Join Archil's first official hackathon for agent builders. Archil is the serverless runtime for agents that provides file systems, sandboxes, and databases for agent builders. Every day the models get better, you can do more with fewer people in less time.
- 6:30 PM
Startup Leaders Dinner: Building on the Inference Layer, hosted by You.com
NightbirdFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
OpenOakland - Civic Tech for the Community
1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, OaklandFreeSold out
- 6:30 PM
Intro to AI Safety DeCal Dinner
Cloyne Court Hotel, BerkeleyFree
- 6:30 PM
Uploading for Structural AI Safety: happy hour
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
Night Ventures Dinner: Growth in SF
Via AureliaFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
Bots & Bottles - Corgi x Gradient
425 Bush StFreeSold out
- 7:00 PM
Deel at the Table
Location not listedFreeSold out
- 7:30 PM
Greenfield X GTM Builders
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 7:30 PM
Hardware Hack Night & Fixit Clinic
sudoroom, OaklandFree
Wednesday
Nov 11
70 events- 7:00 AM
Bedrock Robotics: Test Site Field Trip @ CoRL
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 8:00 AM
AI Agents in Healthcare | Operator Breakfast
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 9:00 AM
The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Wednesday, Nov 11
Location not listedFree
The AI Collective Podcast is a live weekday show hosted by AJ Green and Catherine McMillan: the AI news that matters, what's happening inside The AI Collective, and lightning interviews with the people building the field.
- 9:30 AM
Open Source AI Breakfast with 1Password x Founders Bay x You.com @ Tesla
Location not listedFreeApproval required
🤖 Building the future of AI starts with the people building it. Join 1Password, Founders Bay, and You.com for an exclusive breakfast at Tesla, bringing together AI founders, open-source builders, engineers, and investors.
- 9:30 AM
Stripe Startups Build Day San Francisco
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Meet and cowork with Stripe experts and the founder community Join the Stripe founder community for a day of hands-on building and coworking with the Stripe team. Whether you’re looking for a chance to connect with other founders, 1:1 guidance from the Stripe team, or just a…
- 11:00 AM
IGI BioML Journal Club - Protein Sequence Domain Annotation using Language Models
Innovative Genomics Institute Building, BerkeleyFree
- 12:00 PM
S1E2: Daniel Rupawalla
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 2:00 PM
What’s in a Name (and a Brand): Naming, Positioning & Brand Building for Early-Stage Founders
StartX, Palo AltoFreeApproval required
- 2:00 PM
Founders Inc: Physical AI at Open Campus
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 2:00 PM
INFERENCE: NOVEMBER // Cowork & Chill 🧑💻☕️
8 California St floor 2, Financial DistrictFree
Every second Wednesday, we’re opening up the Inference office for an afternoon of coworking, hanging out, and meeting new people. 2:00–6:00 PM — come whenever, stay as long as you want.
- 2:15 PM
Demo Day UDAX - UC Berkeley 2026
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 2:30 PM
Best of Belgium Silicon Valley at TBS Design Gallery
TBS Design Gallery, Santa ClaraFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
Medal x General Intuition @ Stanford
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
BGA Speaker Series: Startup Fundraising - How to Raise a Pre-seed with Sam Wong
2168 Shattuck Ave., BerkeleyFree
BGA presents a speaker series for deep tech founders and builders. The Berkeley Gateway Accelerator Speaker Series puts experienced operators and investors in a small room with the people building what’s next.
- 3:00 PM
Investors & Mentors Speed Matching
Orrick, SoMaFreeApproval required
- 3:30 PM
HerPower Wednesday - Founder Speed Dating
Location not listedFree
- 4:00 PM
NextGen Leaders Series powered by Kauffman Fellows #3: The Next Frontier of B2B: Products That Will Reshape Industries
Japan Innovation Campus, Palo AltoFreeApproval required
- 4:00 PM
Early Days #02 with Google DeepMind: Open Models, Security & AI Defensibility
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Join Antler and Google DeepMind for an exclusive discussion on the power of Gemini 4 Argon & open-weight Gemma models + how to create defensibility in the era of AI. Explore the groundbreaking innovations emerging from Google DeepMind and discover how founders can leverage these…
- 4:30 PM
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders w/ Acrew Capital
Stanford, StanfordFree
Lauren Kolodny co-founded Acrew Capital & leads the firm's fintech investment practice. Her investments have included companies such as Chime, Gusto, Plaid, Divvy, & Clara. This appearance by Lauren Kolodny is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
- 5:00 PM
thoughtbot Happy Hour at SF Ruby
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
F25 1 Year Reunion
Southern Pacific BrewingFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Four Winds & Founders
Matter Venture Partners, Los AltosFreeSold out
Join founders, operators, and investors from across the deep tech community for an evening of mahjong at the Matter office. We’ll have lessons for anyone new to the game, along with dinner, drinks, and plenty of time around the table.
- 5:00 PM
Notion Presents: The Software Factory Debate
Location not listedFreeSold out
- 5:00 PM
🌐 What is Happening in the Bay Area Blue Economy? 🌊
9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
North Star: Demo Day in SF
San FranciscoFreeApproval required
The Bay Area doesn’t get the Northern Lights, so we’re bringing them to you 🌌 This is the night where we celebrate Nordic-born startups and the VCs, accelerators, hacker houses, and operators who make it easier for them to build and grow here.
- 5:00 PM
Annual Veterans Day Get-Together
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
BioPioneers × Cycore: AI & Biotech Happy Hour
Madarae, SoMaFree
- 5:00 PM
STATION F x GitHub | AI Founder Demo Night
Location not listedFreeApproval required
A new wave of AI founders from Europe is coming to San Francisco On November 11, GitHub and STATION F are bringing together 40 founders from 23 early-stage AI startups, alongside a handpicked group of investors, founders and technical leaders from San Francisco's startup…
- 5:00 PM
BITS × IITs | Frontier AI Dinner
2209 Van Ness AveFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Agentic Web #02 — The Browser as an Agent Runtime
625 2nd StFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Bay Area Frontier Research Club #31 | Intelligence Meets Matter: Imitation, Curiosity & Touch (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
AI and Headcount: Are We Planning for a Workforce That Won't Exist?
25 LuskFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Healthcare AI: Trust Is the Product
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
November's Off the Record: AI in Marketing, What's Working, What's Not
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
I4CS Pitch Night & Final Team Formation Mixer
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2), StanfordFree
- 5:30 PM
CISO Strategy Salon - San Francisco Bay Area
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Scrappy Founders Go Karting
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Vlad Tenev (Co-Founder, RobinHood & HarmonicMath) @ Stanford AI Club
Stanford University, StanfordFree
Stanford AI Club is excited to announce that Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood, will join us for our ’26–’27 Speaker Series! Vlad co-founded Robinhood in 2013 to make investing more accessible.
- 5:30 PM
The Rise of Enterprise AI Agents: From Internal Copilots to Customer-FacingByWeShine7 followers0 eventsFollow
5 Palo Alto Square, Palo AltoFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
SGLang x NVIDIA Meetup
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Overview Join NVIDIA, SGLang and Modal for an evening of developer conversations, demos, and community the night before the inaugural SGLang Summit. Whether you’re in town early for the Summit or just want to connect with the open models and inference community in SF, this is…
- 5:30 PM
The Autonomous Enterprise: How AI Agents Will Restructure Knowledge Work
Location not listedFreeApproval required
📝 Event Details AI are moving from answering questions to taking action. What capabilities will define the next leap—and what should founders build toward today? Join FounderCoHo at AWS Builder Loft for a conversation with frontier researchers, founders, and investors exploring…
- 6:00 PM
SF Healthcare Startup Meetup
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Come join us for a fall happy hour for healthcare practitioners, startup operators, founders and investors. The goal is to create a room where people working across different parts of the healthcare system can challenge each other’s thinking, share what they’re…
- 6:00 PM
Researchers, Paper and Pizza
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Discuss the latest in LLMs, robotics, simulation, and BCI, and other state-of-the-art research in a casual setting. Come today for access to our exclusive robotics series every week. Enjoy pizza and beverages on us.
- 6:00 PM
AI Tech & Startup Night — San Francisco
Location not listedFree
- 6:00 PM
Fresh Connections by Oxylabs: VapiCon Afterparty
BarrioFreeApproval required
Join us for a VapiCon afterparty hosted by Oxylabs. A little extra for the first 20 to register: a special tequila tasting experience! 🍋🟩🌵 Connect with fellow AI builders, industry professionals, and the Oxylabs team over drinks, snacks, and great conversations at Barrio, a…
- 6:00 PM
Beyond Vibe Code: Are You Production Ready?
Assembly SFFreeApproval required
🚀 AI Can Build an App in Minutes. But Can It Run in Production? AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, and Replit are changing how software gets built. Today, almost anyone can turn an idea into a working application using natural language.
- 6:00 PM
AI Tech & Startup Night — San Francisco
Location not listedFree
Nomad Global Hub brings together builders, founders, and tech professionals for a night of curated networking and high-impact startup pitches. With a track record of 235+ events across 23 global cities worldwide, we have welcomed over 5,000 attendees and featured 1,200+ startup…
- 6:00 PM
AI 101 Series: Your AI Research Desk
Shack15FreeApproval required
A live 60-minute training where you run a full research brief on a question that actually matters to you — scope, source, synthesize — and leave holding the finished brief. "Can you look into this?" is the request that eats a week.
- 6:00 PM
CTO Club: Private Dinner with Pindrop's Neeraj Gupta on Trust, Hype, and Hiring in the AI Era
Alexander's Steakhouse San Francisco 165 O'Farrell St, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102FreeApproval required
About Event Join a private dinner in San Francisco for CTOs and engineering leaders, hosted by Alcor with a special guest – Neeraj Gupta, CTO of Pindrop. It's created specifically for venture-backed growth and late-stage, PE-backed, and pre-IPO, product companies with AI on the…
- 6:00 PM
Atlassian Code Summit Happy Hour
Cityscape, TenderloinFreeApproval required
Join Atlassian Engineering & Product teams for an intimate happy hour during AI Engineer Code Summit. Step away from the conference, enjoy drinks and bites 46 floors above San Francisco, and connect with the engineering and product leaders shaping the future of AI-native…
- 6:00 PM
Golden Gate Ventures: SF Dinner & Mixer
Location not listedFree
An Evening of Cross-Border Dialogue Golden Gate Ventures and Enterprise Singapore invite you to an intimate dinner and mixer in San Francisco. You’ll join a curated group of founders, investors, corporate leaders and ecosystem builders from around the world.
- 6:00 PM
Wavelabs Demos & Dinner: Presented by TensorWave
550 Laguna St, San Francisco + Full StudioFreeApproval required
TensorWave’s developer demo night · In partnership with Spacesheep, SFcommons and Chosenhq. Live demos, networking and dinner. No slide decks, just things running. Run of show 6:00 pm — Doors open · 6:30 pm — Welcome from TensorWave & Wavelabs- Prithvi Mattur, Tensorwave 6:40pm…
- 6:00 PM
High Stakes Poker Night: Engineers v Investors
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- 6:00 PM
Founders After Hours: Mahjong Night 🀄 (Seed–Series A+) | AI Valley × Antom
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Building your payment stack or preparing to expand into new markets? Join AI Valley × Antom for an evening connecting founders exploring payment solutions for their businesses—with a focused conversation, Q&A, and casual mahjong.
- 6:00 PM
AI Owners Club at Hacker Dojo
3200 Patrick Henry Dr suite 250, Santa ClaraFree
November 11th topic: Agent Zero for local AI bookkeeping The AI Owners Club (OwnersClub.ai) is for people who want to own their local-first AI agentic systems. We help each other install and learn tools like Unsloth Desktop, Agent Zero, and OpenRouter.
- 6:00 PM
Meridian № 06
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
Enterprise Agent Builders Dinner
San FranciscoFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
Cold Drinks - Factory X Parallel Happy Hour
Cold Drinks Bar, North BeachFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
Casco Dreams of Sushi
OkaneFreeApproval required
- 6:30 PM
Pitch & Run San Francisco
Willie Mays GateFreeApproval required
*** JOIN OUR NEXT RUN 11/11! RSVP-> TBD 🗓️ Wednesday, 11/04 ⏰ 6:30p 📍 Willie Mays Plaza at Oracle Park, bag drop at Underdogs Cantina across the street 💨 Run 1 mile sets with interval training in between, 5 miles total 🌮 Buy your own: cool down, relax, connect over food and…
- 6:30 PM
Let's talk about Power Concentration!
Location not listedFree
As AI systems grow more capable, a small number of companies, governments, or individuals could gain unprecedented control over the economy, information, and decision-making. How would that actually happen, and what can we do about it?
- 6:30 PM
Your Move: What Ukrainian Drone Operators Taught NATO
Location not listedFree
The battlefield is changing. During Exercise Hedgehog 2025 in Estonia, Ukrainian drone teams exposed vulnerabilities that left two NATO battalions unable to continue fighting within a day under exercise conditions.
- 7:00 PM
Dinner: Founders Building the Agentic Economy
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
CISO Executive Dinner | San Francisco
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
Night Ventures Dinner: Content & Social in SF
Wayfare Tavern, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
founders table: private dinner with agentrelay
TBDFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
HerTable: Agent Identity
Flour + WaterFreeSold out
- 7:00 PM
Cambrian Night #1: against humanoids.
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 7:00 PM
allthings/aie
Location not listedFreeApproval required
An official community event of AI Engineer Code Summit: an open floor for people building with and for coding agents, from summit attendees to San Francisco builders from allthings.
- 7:30 PM
The Dinner Table: An Evening with Kalpa Labs
Greens RestaurantFreeApproval required
Thursday
Nov 12
67 events- 8:00 AM
Day of Shecurity Conference 2026 - San Francisco & Virtual
Location not listedFree
- 8:00 AM
AIHA WORKSHOP 06 of 08: From Assistants to Agents: Let AI Start Do the Work
Location not listedFree
- 8:30 AM
Mercury & Picnic Presents: Diwali Coffee
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Diwali Coffee with Picnic and Mercury Celebrate Diwali with a morning of South Indian filter coffee at the city’s new favorite South Indian coffee shop. Founders Milana and Himanshu will share how they started the company to save Milana's family coffee farm in Chikmagalur, which…
- 8:30 AM
Context Corner: A Breakfast Club · 03
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 8:30 AM
Women in Startups Breakfast — SF
The BatteryFree
- 8:30 AM
Granola Breakfast Club
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 9:00 AM
The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Thursday, Nov 12
Location not listedFree
- 9:00 AM
BARA Series: November Meeting
340 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain ViewFreeApproval required
The Bay Area Robotics Association (BARA) and ALM Ventures invite you to our bimonthly series of half-day events connecting robotics and physical AI startups with investors, engineers, and industry leaders.
- 9:00 AM
Coffee Meetup (In-Person)
9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required
Join the #1 Energy Tech Meetup in the Bay! Join fellow grid professionals for our in-person coffee chat dedicated to advanced tech strategies and real-world implementations on the power grid. What topics are discussed?
- 9:30 AM
Aligned on Decisions: How Our Product Lead Builds with Data Agents in MotherDuck
Location not listedFree
- 9:30 AM
Accelr8 | Founders Brew
Location not listedFree
Good coffee, fresh perspectives, and time to build. Founders Brew by Accelr8 brings 8 founders together at a local café for a productive morning of working and connecting. Bring your laptop and something you’re excited to move forward. Coffee’s on us!
- 9:30 AM
Do Not Disturb HACKATHON
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Your phone is on Do Not Disturb. Your agent isn't. Join us on November 12 and 13 in San Francisco for a 32 hours hackathon where 100 builders deploy AI agents to use the phone, competing for $3,000 in cash! In partnership with LangChain, Bond AI, Intertech Talents.
- 10:00 AM
Rails Girls 2026 @ Mux HQ
Location not listedFree
- 10:00 AM
Algorave x Dancing Bot: CoreWeave Forge @ Corgi
9 Claude LnFree
Hey builders! Are you looking for something to do while your agents cook? Need a little pick me up to meet that deadline? Fuel up with our new "Coretado" and supercharge your agent loops in the Forge.
- 10:00 AM
AGENT GRAND PRIX | STRAIKER + AWS
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An AI Builders and Leaders Summit | Win F1 Tickets!! Thu Nov 12, 2026 // Sonoma Raceway A one-day summit at Sonoma Raceway for the people who build AI agents and the leaders accountable for them. Builders ship an agent and watch Ascend AI attack it live.
- 11:00 AM
Lunch & Hack: The Browser Is Becoming an AI Runtime (w/ The AI Collective)
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 12:00 PM
Abundant's Frontier Forum w/ Robin Faro
143 2nd St floor 3, SoMaFree
Abundant's Frontier Forum is a recurring speaker series bringing researchers together to talk through their work. Just real conversation over snacks and drinks. This session, Robin Faro (https://x.com/robinfaro13) joins us to present his paper, Frontier Learning: Training LLM…
- 12:00 PM
Contenting-Day- Camp
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 12:00 PM
Stanford Computational Medicine Research Colloquium | Responsible AI in Healthcare: From RWE to Agentic Systems
3180 Porter Dr, Palo AltoFree
- 12:00 PM
Office Hours w/ PostHog, Brex & Supabase
Location not listedFree
Hey everyone! The technical team at PostHog is partnering with Supabase and Brex to offer hands-on guidance and support to all our products. Swing by for free lunch and demo in a casual setting what you're building; we'll use the time to provide valuable feedback to you and…
- 12:00 PM
The AI-Native Startup: Prototyping, Prompting, and Building as a Team
2232 Piedmont Ave, BerkeleyFree
- 1:00 PM
Daytime Third Space (Formerly Community Create & Cowork)
2355 Broadway, OaklandFree
- 1:00 PM
Fireside Chat + Hands-on Robot Workshop with Lucen Robotics
4 N 2nd St, San JoseFree
Lucen Robotics builds one software stack for every robot body: bipeds, wheeled robots, quadrupeds and arms, all on the same actuators and an open SDK. On Thursday, Nov 12, co-founders Linyan Fu and Apheth D'Almeida bring four of their robots to campus: a biped, a wheeled biped,…
- 1:30 PM
How an AI Token Meets the best Product?@Microsoft GCR Incubator🦄
Microsoft, Mountain ViewFreeApproval required
AI tokens are powering innovation. But what turns AI capabilities into products people actually want? Join us at Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus for Founder Ascend — Silicon Valley Stop, bringing together Microsoft leaders, AI founders, builders, and industry…
- 1:30 PM
BritChip Pitching: Meet the Latest UK Semiconductor Startups
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 1:30 PM
SGLang Summit Workshop by LMSYS: Local AI Coding Lab
Fort MasonFreeApproval required
- 1:30 PM
SGLang Summit Workshop by Nebius
Fort MasonFreeApproval required
- 2:00 PM
The AI Hack to Finding Off-Market Housing in SF (online event)
San FranciscoFree
- 2:00 PM
Fireside Chat w/ CloudFlare
Founders Campus, MarinaFree
There's a good chance you used Cloudflare to load this page. Michelle Zatlyn co-founded the company in 2009 after meeting Matthew Prince at Harvard Business School. They started with a plan to make websites safer & faster.
- 2:00 PM
Embed Batch 7 Demo Day
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 2:30 PM
Penelope's Coffee with Lexi Ventures
Penelope's Coffee and Tea, Foster CityFreeApproval required
- 3:00 PM
Fireside Chat with Tanay Kothari, Wispr Flow
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- 3:00 PM
Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything with Augment Ventures
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Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything — Palo Alto, CA Augment Ventures invites you to the next Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything, an intimate afternoon for founders, investors and operators building AI for the real economy. Most enterprise AI never makes it past the pilot.
- 3:50 PM
SGLang Summit Workshop by Crusoe: Serving SGLang on AMD and NVIDIA with Kubernetes
Fort MasonFreeApproval required
- 4:00 PM
The Founder Game ARG - Realm 1
San FranciscoFreeApproval required
Think what you have what it takes to be a founder? Come join us for the world's first in-person AI Alternate Reality Game where you take on the role of a budding founder building your very first billion dollar business.
- 4:00 PM
MBC BioLabs AI Discovery Platforms Innovation Forum
1030 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFreeApproval required
- 4:00 PM
Pitch Day - Biotech Startups
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 4:00 PM
Builders & Coffee: AI Engineers Meetup Hosted by BotGauge × Corgi
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- 4:30 PM
[SF] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Grafana, Supabase, Miggo
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- 4:30 PM
FDE Meetup: Recruiting & Retaining FDEs
Location not listedFreeApproval required
FDE Meetup: Recruiting & Retaining FDEs Demand for FDEs has jumped roughly 10x in the last 18 months, and it's still the hardest role to hire for. The case-study round alone screens out about 60% of candidates, and plenty of good hires leave within a year or two.
- 4:30 PM
How To Build Better Products w/ AI Evals
Intuit Building 9, Mountain ViewFree
Join us for this exciting AI Evals book launch event! As AI becomes central to product development, teams need a systematic way to know whether their AI features are actually working.
- 5:00 PM
Biotech and Neurotech Fireside Chat
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day
655 Bryant St, SoMaFree
Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day Join us as the 2026 Humanmade Hardware Accelerator cohort takes the stage to showcase six months of building, testing, and refining their companies.
- 5:00 PM
AWS Day at Cal State East Bay
The CORE - University Libraries, HaywardFree
- 5:00 PM
Unicorn Battle - Central Eurasian Founders
724 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo ParkFree
- 5:00 PM
Global Strategic Litigation Council Happy Hour
Location not listedFree
Join Bella Mosselmans, Director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council, & friends for drinks, snacks & the chance to learn a bit about their work & mission. The Council is a young & global organization that has protected & advanced the rights of over 500,000 refugees,…
- 5:00 PM
Founders Showcase | StartX International Program
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
ProductTank SF: After Hours
1 Ferry Building suite 201, EmbarcaderoFreeApproval required
A big thank-you to Productboard for making this ProductTank SF community evening possible! "Connection is why we're here." — Brené Brown On November 12, join ProductTank San Francisco at SHACK15 for a social evening with the people who make this community happen: our members,…
- 5:00 PM
P-1 AI Happy Hour
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Join us at the P-1 AI office in San Mateo for our happy hour, bringing together AI researchers, engineers, and technical builders. There will be no talks or agenda - just casual conversation with interesting people working at the frontier of AI.
- 5:00 PM
Keeping Pace With AI: The Skills and Workflows Teams Need Now
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
SGLang Summit Opening Reception by Crusoe & Women in AI
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Vulnerability And Patching In The Post-LLM Era
Cisco Building 17, San JoseFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
SF to Shenzhen: Robotics Founders Evening @ Mission Robotics
Mission Robotics, MissionFreeApproval required
- 5:00 PM
Self-Driving w/ PostHog Replay Vision
HogpatchFreeApproval required
The team behind our fastest growing self-driving feature is hosting a roundtable and open demo night. Join us to explore how we've built Replay Vision, what it caught, and how it helps build successful products.
- 5:00 PM
The Next Unlock: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs in DeepTech for Biology and Chemistry
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- 5:15 PM
SF - GTM Lab Series
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Whitepaper Reading [SF] - Defi Topics: No Place to Hide & Active Liquidity On Chain
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- 5:30 PM
Venture Dock Casino Night: The November Edition
Venture Dock, 555 University Ave, Palo Alto, CAFreeApproval required
Thursday, November 12 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PT Venture Dock | Palo Alto When we closed out SF Tech Week with a poker night, we knew it wouldn’t be the last one. The room filled up, the final table ran long, and people were still talking by the door well after the last hand.
- 5:30 PM
RL & data meetup: SkyRL x Mercor x Harbor
Location not listedFree
Post-training is becoming a critical workload for data providers. As data and environment supply increases, it is increasingly important to validate and show the quality of the data, which means vendors are training their own models: orchestrating evals, rollouts, sandboxes, and…
- 5:30 PM
AI Meets Private Markets
Location not listedFreeApproval required
- 5:30 PM
Hardware Happy Hour at AuSIM Garage!
AuSIM Incorporated, Mountain ViewFree
Time to take a break and get connected with local SV Peninsula builders! Soliciting anyone who wants to speak on a topic deeper than open mic. If you want to talk about your current commercial product, you need to help sponsor the event.
- 5:30 PM
Build, Demo, and Take Home a Working AI Support Bot
385 Moffett Park Dr suite 105, SunnyvaleFree
Learn to build an AI support bot that answers questions, guides users through a task, and connects them with a human when needed. Join professionals, students, and developers for a hands-on evening using eGain.
- 5:30 PM
How a $3B Robotics Raise Actually Gets Done: From Term Sheet to Close
Farella Braun + Martel LLP, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required
Founder Deal Mechanics: Inside a $3B Robotics Raise A robotics company raised hundreds of millions and had to negotiate what that actually meant for the founder, the board, and the employees.
- 5:30 PM
Assets & Access @ Rickhouse Bar SF
RickhouseFree
- 5:30 PM
OpenAI Forum Community Gathering
Location not listedFree
- 5:30 PM
merge(happy_hour) → self_improving_agents @ SGLang Summit
Location not listedFreeApproval required
Celebrate SGLang Summit and AI Engineer Code Summit Together Your agents improve every run. Your night improves every round. Most agents ship once and stay the same. The best ones keep getting better. They learn from every run, every eval, and every piece of user feedback.
- 5:30 PM
Supercharging the Next Era of American Enterprise
Tesla San Francisco - Van NessFreeApproval required
As we approach 2027, the landscape for American business owners is shifting. Artificial intelligence is transforming how companies operate, capital markets are evolving, and new opportunities are emerging for those positioned to take advantage.