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Monday, November 9, 2026

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Truly free or pay-what-you-wish tech events — conditions always stated.

Today

Nov 9

34 events
  • On now

    ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon

    Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, BurlingameFree

  • On now

    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

  • On now

    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

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

  • 6:00 PM

    Founders After Hours: Mahjong Night 🀄 (Seed–Series A+) | AI Valley × Antom

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

    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

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

    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

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

  • 3:00 PM

    Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything with Augment Ventures

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

    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

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

  • 4:30 PM

    [SF] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Grafana, Supabase, Miggo

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

  • 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

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

  • 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

    Location not listedFreeApproval required

  • 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.