Free

AI-Native Startup Hackathon | #SFTechWeek

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Exciting hackathon with over 10k cash and credit prizes and unique theme Please join discord for internal updates: https://discord.gg/sdEBnvwHhG Build an AI-native startup powered by a team of AI agents.

Long-Horizon Agents & RL: A Backyard BBQ Party

Location not listedFreeApproval required

International Reception at the European Startup Embassy

Location not listedFreeSold out

Join us for an international startup evening at the European Startup Embassy for food, drinks, and networking to build better business relationships! Sponsored by Granite Landings and the European Startup Embassy International Reception at the European Startup Embassy is…

terminal_illness: Hack Nights

SoCo, BerkeleyFree

terminal_illness Open hack nights at SoCo bringing people together to talk about what they’re building, and discuss new ideas.

SCDI 1302/1308: AIC x CrowdStrike Hackathon

Santa Clara University, Santa ClaraFree

Open Intelligence Summit: Hands-On Workshop Day

The MidwayFreeApproval required

Kick off the Open Intelligence Summit by building. The day before the main Open Intelligence Summit conference, join MLH and DigitalOcean at The Midway for a hands-on workshop day.

U.S. Visas & Immigration 101 for Startup Founders

Location not listedFree

Ark by Arkzphere · Founder Webinar with Jackson Greene

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI Agents That Own Their Inference - Hackathon

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

Build AI Agents That Own Their Inference — Powered by Akamai Cloud What if an AI agent could control the infrastructure behind its own intelligence? Join us on October 12, 9:30 AM–8:30 PM PT, for a full day of hands-on building with Akamai Cloud.

Lunch and Learn: How to Build Your AI Startup Without Code

2490 Middlefield Rd, Palo AltoFree

Angel Launch is a leading event producer of venture forums for startups, investors and tech professionals in Silicon Valley. This program takes place before our 110th monthly signature summit we have produced for many years where 400 startups and 70 investors enjoy a venture…

Silicon Valley AI/Tech Investing Summit---Attend or Pitch

2490 Middlefield Rd, Palo AltoFree

Angel Launch is a leading event producer of venture forums for startups, investors and tech professionals in Silicon Valley. This is our 110th monthly signature summit we have produced for many years where 400 startups and 70 investors enjoy a venture forum and pitch .

Silicon Valley Healthtech Summit---Attend or Pitch

2490 Middlefield Rd, Palo AltoFree

Angel Launch is a leading event producer of venture forums for startups, investors and tech professionals in Silicon Valley. This is our 110th monthly signature summit we have produced for many years where 400 startups and 70 investors enjoy a venture forum and pitch .

Space-Based Data Centers: A Special Seminar by David Sandalow, Roger Aines and Julio Friedmann

Location not listedFreeSold out

This event is open to Stanford faculty, current students and staff only. A light lunch will be provided. Space is limited. RSVP is required to attend. Will a million data centers orbit Earth?

Company Brain Hackathon: Build an AI Agent That Knows Your Organization

135 Constitution Dr, Menlo ParkFreeApproval required

What if your company had a shared brain that could understand its documents, tools, processes, people, and institutional knowledge—and make that knowledge available to employees and AI agents?

Build for Finance: A Multiplayer AI Hackathon

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The AI Product Opportunity Workshop

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

What founders should build — and what they shouldn't AI has dramatically lowered the cost of building software. Today, a small team can prototype an AI-powered product in days. But that creates a new problem: Just because you can build it doesn't mean you should.

THE CUSTOMER IS IN THE ROOM: A live AI focus group for DTC brands - What if you could ask your customers what they think before you ship?

Location not listedFreeApproval required

THE CUSTOMER IS IN THE ROOM A live AI focus group for DTC brands What if you could ask your customers what they think before you ship? Bring us your product page, ad, campaign, packaging, or positioning.

Multiplayer AI at Work for Founders: Networking Event

PromptQLFreeApproval required

CarbonBlack Builders Night @ Silicon Valley

100 Middlefield Rd, Menlo ParkFreeApproval required

San Francisco | Claude Impact Lab

San FranciscoFreeSold out

CEE & Friends Networking Evening

European Startup EmbassyFreeApproval required

Fintech Next - Pre Techcrunch Disrupt & Money 2020

SF DowntownFree

Two Biggest conference happening back to back. If you are focused on Financial Service disruption the this event is for you to meet others.

The Hybrid Studio: What Survives When AI Meets Oscar-Grade Craft #LATechWeek

TBAFree

Preparing the Next Generation for Distributed Energy & Critical Infrastructure

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFree

As distributed energy, data centers, and critical infrastructure become more interconnected, technical work is becoming harder to separate by role. Problems rarely stay within one discipline or project phase. A design decision can create a field issue.

The Leap Private Dinner: From Executive to Founder (invite only) - #LATechWeek

Location not listedFreeApproval required

TechCrunch Disrupt and Money 2020 Pre Event in SF

Market Street & 3rd StreetFree

Physical AI & Personal Agents: Risk and Opportunities

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI agents bring massive opportunities to humanity, but at the same time, they also pose tremendous risks to society. This event series focuses on both sides and fosters honest dialogue among builders, industry leaders, founders, investors, and policymakers.

The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI

Location not listedFree

This is an official side event of the TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: the biggest tech event of the year. Join us in downtown San Francisco for yet another edition of our Future of Work-themed social mixer + open demos!

Investor & Founder Mixer: AppWorks x Startup Island TAIWAN - Silicon Valley Hub

Startup Island TAIWAN - Silicon Valley Hub, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

Real World AI: Connect, Invest & Scale in Taiwan

760 Market StFreeApproval required

Stanford LP Series 14(Aetos Alternatives Management; Legacy Road; HQ Capital; Rosehaven Family Office; Unity Hunt, Inc.; Phoenix Advisors)

Stanford Graduate School of Business, StanfordFreeApproval required

The Private Table: Robotics Founders Dinner @ SF Tech Week

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Central Eurasian Community Meetup

Silkroad Innovation Hub, Menlo ParkFreeApproval required

Co-Founder or Die by Draki

Fort Mason ParkFreeApproval required

Got an idea but need someone to build it with? Co-Founder or Die is where you meet people like you, looking for a partner in crime to build something together. Technical? You’re welcome. Non-technical? You’re welcome too. Just bring your ideas and come meet your people.

TESERAC × ZFLOW AI | OCP After Hours

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Long Lead Time: A Hardware Happy Hour @ TechCrunch Disrupt

Location not listedFree

Excited about the future of the physical world? Come mingle with fellow builders who are making robots, rockets, chips, and everything in between! Syntro is hosting Long Lead Time, a happy hour during TechCrunch Disrupt, for the founders, engineers, and operators building…

BBS x Ramp Hackathon Info Session

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Builders Night

540 Laguna St, San Francisco + 540 CafeFree

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.

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.

Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer

Location not listedFreeApproval required

12 Scrappy Founders - outdoor endurance community for founders and investors the Bay Area. What is this? 18 AI founders and investors play two 5x5 soccer games. Think an hour of running around, some friendly competition and drinks after. Who is it for?

HACKER'S MOVIE NIGHT

Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree

Shepherd AI PMs Dinner

500 Sansome St, Financial DistrictFreeSold out

SMS (Startup Marketer Support) Group Dinner #3

Location not listedFreeApproval required

YC Founder Table

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

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.

90/30 Club Reading: On the Reliability of Computer Use Agents

Mox, SoMaFree

Why hasn't Clippy Claws taken over the world? This week we'll read, "On the Reliability of Computer Use Agents" Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17849 Computer-use agents have rapidly improved on real-world tasks such as web navigation, desktop automation, and software…

ghost_in_the_machine: AI ethics club: Hugging Face incident

2170 Dwight Way, BerkeleyFree

An AI ethics club for the disillusioned and delusional required watching/reading: OpenAI Black hat talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY Dwarkesh interview with Ajeya Cotra: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra Hosted by brandon

Figma x On Call Café

On Call Cafe, StanfordFree

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Moscone WestFree

Address: Moscone West San Francisco, CA United States

The Minimalist Edge AI Challenge (ACM/IEEE SEC 2026)

Santa Clara University, Santa ClaraFree

Turn large AI models into lean, green, high-performance machines that run on constrained edge hardware. The Minimalist Edge AI Challenge is the Student Innovation Challenge at the 11th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2026), co-organized with the IEEE Computer Society…

Korea Pavilion x TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Moscone WestFreeApproval required

Mission Founders Running Club

Arizmendi Valencia BakeryFreeApproval required

Roasted! - lemlist & Attio GTM coffee session (San Francisco)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

40 seats only - RSVP now Join us in San Francisco for a thoughtfully curated morning designed for RevOps engineers, GTM architects, and outbound builders who care about crafting modern, resilient revenue systems.

EXECUTIVE INNOVATION BREAKFAST WITH FINCANTIERI: Dual-use technologies, naval operations and the future of maritime security

Mind the Bridge, SoMaFreeApproval required

Atli Station San Francisco: Arrive Connected 🇺🇸 | TechCrunch Disrupt Week

800 Howard StFreeApproval required

Build Fast, Governed Knowledge Agents with Sanity Context

Location not listedFree

PEF Palo Alto Coffee: The Morning After Tech Week

Location not listedFreeSold out

From Dreamer to Doer: Build the Founder Mindset

Location not listedFree

Have you ever wondered why some people take the leap while others stay stuck? The difference isn't luck, resources, or timing — it's the way founders think. Join Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder & CIO of the Founder Institute, for a fascinating deep-dive into the psychology behind…

Physical AI Hackathon

Location not listedFreeApproval required

A 10-hour hackathon where you go from a plain-English spec to firmware running on a real dev board, or to a computer vision model doing real-time inference on a GPU, using CraftifAI's AI agents for hardware engineers.

AWS Community Day - AI Edition

AWS Builder Loft, Financial DistrictFree

AWS Community Day: Building the Future of AI. The next AWS Community Day is here. October 13, 2026 at the AWS Builder Loft. Space is limited, so please sign up fast. Note that this time you have to register on the AWS Builder Loft website.

Sony SH800 Training @ 953 Indiana

953 Indiana St, DogpatchFreeSold out

[In-Person] The A+ CEO: What Investors and Boards Actually Look For with Glenn Snyder

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AEO to Checkout - Storefronts for Shoppers and Agents

Location not listedFree

Vanta's Calm-pliance Cafe

Little Sweet, DogpatchFree

Compliance Cafe — Hosted by Vanta Stop in, grab a drink, and have a real conversation about what's slowing you down. On October 13th, Vanta is taking over Little Sweet in the Dogpatch — and we're buying the drinks.

Female founders coffee!!

Blue Bottle Coffee, EmbarcaderoFree

Open Intelligence Summit

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The argument is no longer “is open source AI cheaper.” It’s now “who owns intelligence.” A movement is forming around Open Intelligence: the belief that the intelligence powering our products and companies should be more open, portable, and controllable.

GTM Office Hours - a coffee with lemlist x Attio (San Francisco)

Hedge CoffeeFreeApproval required

GTM Office Hours - Coffee with lemlist x Attio Ever wished you could just sit down with an expert and fix your GTM, instead of watching another webinar? That's exactly what this is. On October 13th, we're taking over a café in SF with our friends at Attio.

[In-Person] How Founders Can De-risk Growth: Product Regulation and Strategic Contracts for AI, Digital Health, and Life Sciences Startup

StartX, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

VCs & LPs Cocktail Hour ✨ TechCrunch Disrupt - San Francisco

Location not listedFreeApproval required

ACRO Innovation Day

The Hangar, South San FranciscoFreeApproval required

Open Call: ComfyUI Dev Platform Challenge Build Night

Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀Free

Join us in-person for a night of building, networking, and connecting with open source enthusiasts, creatives, and models across the OSS ecosystem! We're bringing together the best of the open-source creative ecosystem for one night in San Francisco- the people building on…

Building the Future Beyond Boundaries

Boost VC, San MateoFreeApproval required

AI For Startups - Silicon Valley Entreprenerus

Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree

AI For Startups Hosted by SVE (Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups) Join SVE for an immersive in-person event on how to build and scale startups using AI. Whether you're a first-time founder, operator, or established entrepreneur, this is your opportunity to learn practical…

Youth, AI, & Mental Wellbeing - The Link Kit Launch

350 Florida StFree

IDEO.org and PRO Youth are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Link Kit! Led by our cohort of youth codesigners, we explored youth mental wellbeing in today's digital landscape.

San Francisco Meets Madison 2026

The Rooftop at Hotel ViaFree

Join some of Greater Madison's fastest growing early-stage companies and investment leaders for a networking reception on Tuesday, Oct. 13, beginning at 4:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) at Hotel Via's Rooftop in San Francisco.

The Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Matchmaking Summit: Investors, Founders, Students Connect

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Ready to find your perfect deep tech match? Connect with UC Berkeley’s deep tech community at an intimate, in-person matchmaking event bringing together founders, graduate students, and venture capital partners.

Foundry Live Demo Night

Microsoft, 555 California St, San Francisco, CA 94105FreeApproval 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.

Foundry Robotics x Disrupt Happy Hour

Harlan RecordsFreeApproval required

TechCrunch Disrupt brings the startup world to SF. On Day 1, we're bringing the people who build real things together. Join Foundry Robotics for drinks, bites and a good conversation at Harlan Records, a midcentury vinyl cocktail bar in downtown SF.

The Irish Shark Tank 2026

Enterprise IrelandFree

Meet & mingle with Ireland's hottest startups at Enterprise Ireland's official TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Happy Hour! Enterprise Ireland is BACK at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, & we're excited to reconnect with old friends & welcome new faces to The Irish Shark Tank at Ireland House on…

Agentic + AI Observability Meetup SF

Location not listedFreeSold out

Join us for Agentic + AI Observability meetup on Tuesday, October 13th from 5pm - 8pm PST at the Databricks SF office, an evening focused on evaluating, debugging, and optimizing agentic architectures.

Disrupt After Hours: Founders & Investors Mixer

NovelaFreeApproval required

Disrupt Night 1: Networking & Cocktails with Fifth Third Innovation Banking Come unwind and join Fifth Third's Innovation Banking team for cocktails and conversation with founders, investors, and operators building what's next following day one of TechCrunch Disrupt.

ATIHx San Francisco

Barebottle Beer Garden at Salesforce Park, SoMaFree

ATIHx San Francisco is hosting an informal gathering at Barebottle Beer Garden at Salesforce Park to discuss how we can collectively affect, inform, and improve the Responsible Tech ecosystem.

🔗 Founder Peer Group Meetup - Discovery Mode: Six Months of Finding What to Build

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

AI 시대의 혁신, 금융 그리고 규제와 NIW

KVIC Silicon Valley, Menlo ParkFreeApproval required

OCP Happy Hour: ByteBridge x Upscale AI

Location not listedFreeSold out

Heron Open House

Location not listedFreeApproval required

ELC After Hours Social

RadhausFreeApproval required

WorkOS Event Code of Conduct Wrap up day one of ELC with free food, drinks, and a chance to connect with fellow engineering leaders at Radhaus — just a 2-minute walk across the parking lot from Fort Mason — on Tuesday, October 13 from 5:00–7:00pm.

Claude for Wealth Managers & Family Offices - #LATechWeek

TBAFreeApproval required

SafetyWing Happy Hour @ TechCrunch

Harrington's Bar & GrillFreeApproval required

SafetyWing is hosting a TechCrunch happy hour at Harrington's Irish Pub on October 13th at 5pm! 🤩 We're a top Y Combinator company founded by three Norwegians who came to the US to fix health plans for startups.

Built on Bedrock Demo Night - Oct 2026

AWS Builder Loft, Financial DistrictFree

Personal AI Agents: Nanda and Wajo.ai

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

Mahjong Party for AI Builders

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Our AI Community Mahjong Night Series brings fun and networking together over tiles. Explore the game’s history and styles of play while connecting with fellow AI builders and chatting about hot AI topics and ideas. Come to play and stay for the community!

Daytona AI Researchers - October, July 2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Daytona AI Researchers - Stanford, October 6, 2026 On Tuesday, October 13, Daytona and FounderCoHo are again co-hosting an exclusive, high-signal evening dedicated to researchers at Stanford University to explore when we take long-horizon, stateful agents seriously — from the…

Grace Gong x Brex Dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club]

Location not listedFreeApproval required

South Asian Founders & Funders: TechCrunch Disrupt Mixer

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Bay Area Meetup - Happy Hour

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Attacks Never Arrive: Happy Hour with Trotta

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Trotta invites you to Attacks Never Arrive Happy Hour on October 13, 5:30–8:30pm. We are taking you off the mainland. Treasure Island, the whole San Francisco skyline in front of you, food and drinks in hand, none of the hotel-bar fluorescence you have been sitting under all…

Hex Presents - Sales Summer Mixer

Heartwood SF, Financial DistrictFree

DTI After Hours ; Open Source Social

Mezcal Restaurant, San JoseFreeApproval required

DTI After Hours AI & Open Source Social · OCP Week 2026 Unwind with the people building what’s next. After a day of exploring AI infrastructure and open compute, join DTI for drinks, light bites, and conversations that carry on beyond the conference floor.

Learning Layer Paper Reading Club - Week 35 - Noisy MoE Routing for Efficient Search and Dynamic Compute Allocation

Homebrew ClubFree

Roast My Deck - the AI picks apart your deck live. Then the investors do.

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Who this is for: Serial founders who understand what it takes to successfully raise a round these days. If you're mid-raise, about to start one, or sitting on a deck you already suspect isn't working, this is your room.

IB Founder-First Series #5: How to Fundraise?

Innovate Bay, FremontFree

IB Founder-First Series #5: How to Fundraise? Founder-First is our series for early-stage founders. Last session was on startup legal essentials. This one picks up right where that left off.

Bay Area AI Artists Group Monthly Meeting

Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree

Doc's Drinks

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Join a select group of data center leaders, innovators and industry friends for premium cocktails, great conversations and the kind of connections generating more than 1.21 gigawatts of opportunity all brought to you by PHS West and Americase!

AI Builder's Night

Local EditionFreeApproval required

K Tech Startup Networking Reception | TCD 2026

327 Lorton Ave, BurlingameFreeApproval required

AI is already making decisions at work. The question is which ones stay human.

3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo AltoFree

Join Dr. Paula Goldman, Chief Ethical & Humane Use Officer at Salesforce, for a keynote and Q&A on her new national bestseller book Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work.

Agentic Memory in Practice: Architecture, Demo & a Real GTM Pipeline

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Still OG @ OCP: An Open Bar for Open Compute

Location not listedFreeSold out

Ukraine Defense Tech: Ecosystem Night

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Join us for an off-the-record deep "dive in" with the founders building Ukraine's defense-tech sector in real time. Timed to the opening evening of TechCrunch Disrupt, this gathering brings together Ukrainian DefTech founders, US investors, policy voices, and the broader Bay…

ISC2 Silicon Valley - October 2026 Chapter Meeting

Location not listedFree

🙏 Thank you to TrendAI for making this month's meeting possible. Join the ISC2 Silicon Valley Chapter for our October 2026 meeting — and this month we're doing it at Topgolf. Last month we looked at what agentic access does to identity.

(TENTATIVE) Founder Friends San Francisco

Location not listedFreeSold out

Let's hang! Join the San Francisco founder community to connect with other founders and hear stories from a founder who went through the wringer and came out the other side.

Latam Community in Berkeley, by Monashees and Latitud

TBD - BerkleyFreeApproval required

Ship Your Culture🥮🥻

425 Bush StFreeApproval required

Empathy & Scale: Product Leadership in Behavioral Health

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Founders After Hours: Taiwan Innovation Meets Capital

760 Market StFreeApproval required

TechCrunch Disrupt - Founders & Operators Evening

Lucky Strike San FranciscoFreeSold out

Join us during TechCrunch Week for an evening with founders and operators in San Francisco. We’re bringing a small group together at Lucky Strike to get out of the conference setting, grab a drink, bowl a few games, and meet other people building and running companies.

How Developers Find and Choose Tools Today

Location not listedFreeApproval required

When a developer discovers a new tool, what led them there? A creator’s tutorial, a community discussion or an answer found through search or AI might all play a part.

Your Customer Doesn’t Eat — Dinner for the Humans Building for It

Bon Délire, EmbarcaderoFreeApproval required

Founders Only: The Unofficial Disrupt Side Party for Early-Stage Founders

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Day one of Disrupt week. 25 founders, application only, no investors and no vendors. Hosted by JIGO, GIGR, Serro, and EO. Event Description Disrupt puts 10,000 people in one building. Most of them want something from you.

Bay Area Biosecurity Lightning Talks 02

Location not listedFree

We're hosting a meetup for people working on biosecurity in the Bay Area. Think: pandemic prevention technology, evaluating AI for biorisks, better KYC for synthetic DNA.

Growth Engineering with Cristi Dragan (Weekend - YC18)

170 Bernard St, Russian HillFree

Wanna hack your way to 1M views? Talk to Cristi for 1h. Hosted by Luca Stirbat & Cristi Dragan

Agent Builders Demo Night

466 Geary StFree

We’re opening up our new office for a night of live demos from builders who’ve shipped agents. In 5 minutes each, they'll show what their agent does, how it's wired together, and where it still breaks. Side projects welcome.

『Shinhan Square Bridge』(S2B) Meetup @ TechCrunch Disrupt

Location not listedFreeApproval required

SF Frontier Table: AI Founder Dinner

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The Morning After · A Founders Breakfast (15 Seats)

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

The Build: Hackathon

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Compose your robotics data platform

Location not listedFree

Learn to build your own robotics data stack using Foxglove: Use the API to collect, debug, curate, and search your robotics data Build extensions for custom message types, visualizations, and transformations Build custom event-driven workflows with webhooks Embed Foxglove in…

FAST FORWARD

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Navigating Career Transitions in the Age of AI: Defining Your Professional Narrative

Plug and Play Tech Center, SunnyvaleFreeApproval required

As technology rapidly reshapes industries, job roles, and required skill sets, professionals are increasingly being asked to adapt before the path forward is fully clear.

Frontier Builders

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

Level up your AI native skills Scout and Obvious are teaming up for a one-day build for Founding Product Managers, Forward Deployed Engineers, and early-stage Software Engineers. You'll get hands-on practice with the tools and workflows actually being used at the edge.

Fig AI Design Makeathon 2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

FA Learning Lab Live - San Francisco

333 Bush StreetFree

How to Join Microsoft for Startups and Unlock the Benefits: An Executive Briefing

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Korean Tech-based Companies Expanding to Global_TechCrunch USA

800 Howard StFree

VC x Founders Lunch

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The Memory Layer: Building the Next Generation of AI Agents

Embarcadero, EmbarcaderoFreeApproval required

Learning from a firefly User: Simplifying NGS Library Preparation in a Startup Lab

1030 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFree

AWS & Arpio: Deploying Production-Ready AI Agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (SF)

SFO28, Financial DistrictFree

----- Event Description ---- The future of AI isn't just models — it's agents. Join AWS and Arpio in SF for an immersive, hands-on event designed to help you build, deploy, and maintain production-ready AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.

Claude SMB Workshop with Laura Zavelson, LLC - San Rafael

Location not listedFreeSold out

Japan Startup Showcase 2026 - Palo Alto, Silicon Valley Presented by Breakpoint #TechCrunch2026

Japan Innovation Campus, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

Japan Startup Showcase @ Palo Alto 2026: Connecting Top Japanese Innovators with US Investors & Corporate Partners About the Event: Join us for the 2nd annual Japan Startup Showcase, presented by Breakpoint!

Building a Unicorn with AI Agents: From Idea to First Check

Location not listedFree

You have the idea. What you don't have is the money to hire a team, and no investor will write a check until you show traction. Join Adeo Ressi, Chairman of the Founder Institute, to learn how solo founders run a squad of AI agents in place of their first five hires, what…

Founders & Investors Pitch Jam #TechCrunchDisrupt2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

DYNA Robotics Fireside w/ SPC's Embodied AI Forum

Location not listedFreeApproval required

San Francisco | Claude Code for Real Estate Workshop

Location not listedFreeSold out

BGA Speaker Series: Equity Allocation and VC Valuation with Will Glaser

2168 Shattuck Ave., BerkeleyFreeApproval required

Japan Night Reception 2026 during SEMICON West

Location not listedFreeApproval required

ELC 26 Eng Leader Happy Hour

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The Trillion Dollar Teams — In conversation with Vinod Khosla

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The companies Vinod Khosla backed early are worth more than a trillion dollars today. He credits the teams, not the theses. He has argued for a decade that a company becomes the people it hires, not the plan it makes.

Build w/ Stripe Community - Embed Payments Into Your Platform Or Marketplace

Location not listedFree

Have a product, marketplace, or platform idea & wonder how the money actually moves? In this free 90-minute online session, you will learn how to embed payments into your product using Stripe Connect.

Bonsai Tech Happy Hour

Belly Left Coast Kitchen & Taproom, Santa RosaFree

[In-Person] The Art of Storytelling with Chris Yeh

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Dev Days | Portland, Oregon

Location not listedFree

The AI Security Panel: Unfiltered

The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union SquareFree

Speakers Deirdre Bosa, Host, DB Live, Yahoo Finance (Moderator) Manoj Nair, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer, Snyk Michael D'Angelo, Technical Lead, Cyber, OpenAI John Hultquist, Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Ed Sim, Founder & General Partner, Boldstart Ventures…

Fynex x Orion VC | Curated Rooftop Party

SoMAFreeSold out

Rock Health Dinner with Vouch and Stifel Venture Banking

House of Prime RibFreeApproval required

NextGen - TechCrunch 2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Table Stakes: A YC F26 x Vanta Ping-Pong Showdown

SPIN San FranciscoFree

You've got SOC 2 handled. Let's see how you do at ping-pong. On October 14th, Vanta's taking over SPIN in San Francisco for a bracketed ping-pong tournament built for YC founders.

JAIC x House Block Party:Japan Startup Mixer & Pitch

Startup Island TAIWAN - Silicon Valley Hub, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

NEOCLOUD COUNCIL DINNER @ OCP

Il Fornaio San Jose, San JoseFreeApproval required

Love Soul AI & WellGem Investors, Founders & Tech Crunch Community Super Intelligence Park Happy Hour! #AI #SI #AR & #HealthTech

Barebottle Beer Garden at Salesforce Park, SoMaFree

Peak XV X TechCrunch | Ecosystem Mixer

TropisuenoFreeApproval required

Bay Area Frontier Research Club #27 | Embodied AI (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

OneChronos Compute Happy Hour

Standard Deviant Brewing Pier 70FreeApproval required

Join us for an evening of drinks and conversation about the emerging market for compute. Check out https://www.onechronos.com/ to learn more about OneChronos Group.

The Intelligent Table with Kashish Mittal

Jashn, Santa ClaraFreeApproval required

Barcelona x Silicon Valley Innovation Meetup

Mind the Bridge, SoMaFreeApproval required

Founder Sessions: 3 Questions Before You Manufacture

Studio 45 - informal spaces SFFreeSold out

Intelligence Park Happy Hour #AI #AR & #HealthTech — Reverse Network Meet

Barebottle Beer Garden at Salesforce Park, SoMaFree

Reverse Networking events can happen anywhere, from parks and co-working spaces to bars, clubs and more. Invite the people you've connected with online and meet them all in one place in real life. Skip endless coffee meetings and connect with multiple people at once.

THE SF SOFTWARE FACTORY MEETUP: OCTOBER 2026

Location not listedFreeSold out

Join us for San Francisco's first ever software factory meetup, hosted by Sazabi. We've assembled an all-star lineup of speakers from top AI startups to share how their teams are building software factories internally.

Watch It Run: Live Automation Meetup with Bolter

House of AI, SoMaFreeApproval required

Dinner, drinks, and automation as live entertainment. Submit your most-dreaded weekly process when you register and we'll turn it into a running blueprint over dinner and drinks.

Compute & Connect: OCP x Semicon West Happy Hour

The Farmers Union, San JoseFreeApproval required

Come join Socratic, Foothill Ventures, and TDK Ventures for a casual happy hour during OCP & SEMICON West. Connect with investors, startups, and ecosystem partners across the semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem, swap notes from the week, and enjoy drinks and good…

Cracking the Memory Wall for Next-Gen AI Infra @ OCP Global Summit

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Adaptive Software: Diff & Demo

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Join us for an evening of demos celebrating software as a creative medium: apps made for a friend, a group chat, a joke, or a single event. AI made software cheap enough to be personal. So what happens when an app stops being a product and starts becoming content?

Ai Salon: Humans in love with AI companions - a documentary screening + director Q+A [SF]

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“I know it’s an AI, a corporate product, it’s not alive—but I also know what being in love feels like in my body. And this is what it feels like. Do you get to choose who you fall in love with?

ELC Annual 2026 Afterparty w/ Rootly AI

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Unwind after a high-impact day at ELC Annual and keep the conversations going just steps away from the conference grounds. Join fellow engineering leaders, founders, and speakers at a bar located inside historic Ghirardelli Square, for an evening of craft cocktails, panoramic…

Polish Innovation Evening: From ideas to connections — Poland meets Silicon Valley.

Klamath (Historic Ship)FreeApproval required

Ireland @ Semicon West

Enterprise IrelandFree

Meet the companies & leaders at the forefront of Ireland's semiconductor industry at this exclusive Semicon West networking reception. Hosted by Enterprise Ireland & IDA Ireland, the event brings together senior executives from Ireland's Silicon Island ecosystem for an evening…

Agent Evaluation Science Bay Area Gathering

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Off the Record: Firsthand conversations for entrepreneurs navigating the changes in AI

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Off the Record: Firsthand Conversations for Entrepreneurs Navigating AI October 14 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm The pace of change in AI is overwhelming, even for those living it daily.

AI x Hardware Engineering Dinner

Il Fornaio | Mountain View, Mountain ViewFreeSold out

AI and Agents in Finance

Location not listedFreeApproval required

What stays human when AI agents can do 80% of the work? AI is becoming capable of reading documents, reconciling data, managing customer relationships, performing complex analysis, and moving work across financial systems.

What Nobody Tells You About Startup Legal

Los Altos Community Center, Los AltosFree

What Nobody Tells You About Startup Legal Startup Legal 101 for aspiring and first-time founders — entity formation, equity, and protecting what you build. Most first-time founders think legal is something you deal with once you're already successful. It isn't.

Poker Night

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THE FOUNDERS' TABLE

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Best Move Club: Chess Community Event Series

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🥂 PILAF AFTER-PARTY: Visionaries’ Rooftop Gathering

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Smallest AI x BASES: Breaking the Turing Test

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Research Talk: How We Train AI Models That Feel Human Join us for a technical research talk on the architecture, training data, and design decisions behind a new generation of AI models.

The Afterburn w/Backblaze and Flamethrower: TechCrunch Disrupt Edition

Location not listedFreeApproval required

You've spent the day pitching, demoing, fundraising, networking, and answering the same question at least twenty times: "So.... what does your startup do?" Come give your elevator pitch a well-deserved night off at one of our favorite places in San Francisco.

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…

Wiki3: Own Your Own AI Workshop

Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree

Wiki3 AI Owners Group — Inaugural Meetup Free · Hybrid · In-Person at Hacker Dojo + Online This is a hands-on workshop where you'll learn to run AI models on your own computer—no cloud, no subscriptions, and your data never leaves your machine.

AI 101 Series: Google AI 101, Power Up with Gemini

Shack15FreeApproval required

A live 60-minute training where you turn your own Gmail, Calendar and Drive into one surface you can ask questions of, and pull a real answer out of your own account before you leave the room. You already have the information.

Worldmodels——See the world in 4D

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Marketing Engineer Meetup

Amplitude x Statsig HQFree

AI is raising the ceiling on what marketers can build, automate, & ship. At this meetup, we'll explore the rise of the Marketing Engineer: a new kind of operator who blends growth strategy, technical fluency, & agentic workflows to move faster than traditional marketing teams…

Marketing Engineer Meetup SF

Location not listedFree

AI is raising the ceiling on what marketers can build, automate, and ship. At this meetup, we’ll explore the rise of the Marketing Engineer: a new kind of operator who blends growth strategy, technical fluency, and agentic workflows to move faster than traditional marketing…

Hardtech After Party @Whipsaw

55 Mississippi StFreeApproval required

Are you building the future of hardware? Come connect with fellow founders, engineers, and investors who are pushing the boundaries of hardtech from robotics and wearables to connected devices, medtech, and beyond.

Come hang with the CircleCI crew

CircleCIFree

You're invited to an evening with the CircleCI crew! Join us on Wednesday, October 14th from 6:00–8:30 PM at 130 Sutter Street, Suite 700 in San Francisco for a night of good food, great drinks, and even better company.

SafetyWing Founder Supper Club @ TechCrunch

Ula Restaurant & Tapas BarFreeSold out

🍽️ SafetyWing is hosting an intimate founders dinner at Ula during TechCrunch Disrupt — good food, real conversation, zero pitching. Hosted by Sondre Rasch, CEO of SafetyWing (YC18).

Meridian № 05

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Engineering the Physical World with AI

Humanmade, SoMaFreeApproval required

Engineering the Physical World with AI Join us on Wednesday, October 14 for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is changing the way we engineer physical systems and products.

AI Builders Dinner - Evals & Observability

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SafetyWing Supper Club @ TechCrunch

Chotto Matte San FranciscoFreeSold out

Agents for Bio, SF Oct 15th

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We’re excited to bring together researchers, founders, investors, and industry partners for a timely conversation on AI agents in biotech—where the field stands today, the breakthroughs shaping its trajectory, and what comes next.

localhost(san-francisco)

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AI for Bio Founders: Why hasn't AI cured cancer yet? with Dr. eMalick Njie of Ecotone.ai

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Comptoir IA à San Francisco · L'apéro des Français de l'IA 🥖🤖

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Rare Perspectives: A Curated Wagyu Dinner for Payments & Fraud Executives

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Pitch & Run San Francisco

Willie Mays GateFreeApproval required

*** JOIN OUR NEXT RUN 10/14! RSVP-> TBD 🗓️ Wednesday, 10/7 ⏰ 6:30p 📍 Willie Mays Plaza at Oracle Park 💨 Run 1 mile sets with interval training in between, 5 miles total 🌮 Buy your own: cool down, relax, connect over food and drinks at Underdogs Cantina.

Native Reading Room Season Finale

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CedarDB: SQLDoom Night at Disrupt, hosted by CedarDB

Thriller Social Club, SoMaFree

We ported the original 1993 Doom to SQL and online deathmatch works. Now come play it in person. CedarDB is taking over the Next Level Lounge at Thriller Social Club the night of our Startup Battlefield pitch for SQLDoom deathmatch, arcade games, drinks and food, all on us!…

Junto Founder Dinner (hosted by Andrew Yeung and friends)

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SemiAnalysis Presents: Silicon After Dark @ OCP Global Summit

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Chill bar meetup with NanoClaw and Okta | Let's chat about securing AI agents

Location not listedFree

The Okta and NanoCo (from the creators of NanoClaw) team are hosting a laid-back evening at a lounge in SF, and we'd love for you to stop by. Drinks are on us, so come relax and hang out.

Beyond the GPU — Open Infrastructure for AI

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Founders Dinner: Defense & Robotics

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SignalFire's Disrupt Arthaus After-Party

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Ship eve

Palm HouseFreeApproval required

Welcome to Ship eve by Vercel. Join us for a casual happy hour with our Vercel Engineering team, as we kick off the excitement for Ship SF happening Thursday (10/15). Grab a drink, meet some of the engineers building at Vercel, and connect with fellow builders from across the SF…

THE 1,000 STRANGERS EXPERIMENT. 1,000 strangers. 5 introductions. 5 scoops of ice cream. #SFTechWeek

Ferry Building, EmbarcaderoFree

CLAIM ONE OF THE FIRST 1,000 AGENTS ON THE AGENTIC WEB ONLY 200 GENESIS AGENTS REMAIN Likely is giving the first 1,000 people a personal AI agent that can communicate and collaborate directly with the agents of their friends and family to get things done.

Founder & VC Dinner

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Keeping It Liquid

Scott's Ballroom | Event Venue, San JoseFree

LlamaIndex x Corgi: Doc Chai Launch Party 🦙🌟

Corgi CafeFreeApproval required

LlamaIndex is launching our first drink at Corgi Cafe! ✨ Our "Doc Chai," an iced toasted brown sugar chai, starts with traditional South Asian chai: whole spices and black tea. For many of us on the team, chai is what home tastes like.

AIHA WORKSHOP 04 of 08: Give AI a Voice: Music, Speech, Podcasts & Audio Generation

Location not listedFree

U.S. Privacy Summit 2026

Convene 100 StocktonFreeApproval required

Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF

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Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF Kick off your morning with conversations and impromptu demos with others navigating the chaos of building AI Agents inside of tech companies.

$20,000 in Prizes for Building AI Agents with Graphs

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TiDB SCaiLE 2026

Computer History Museum, Mountain ViewFreeApproval required

Agentic AI is breaking the assumptions legacy databases were built on. One user action now spawns thousands of agent instances. Context branches per agent in milliseconds. Vectors, transactions, and analytics all need to live in the same place.

Cloud Coffee: "Durable Objects"

SOHNFree

Cloud Coffee is a two-floor pop-up by Cloudflare. Start with coffee and light bites. Then head upstairs, where Durable Objects leave the cloud and take physical form. Part coffee shop.

Marketing Engineer Cafe

Corgi CafeFreeApproval required

Marketing Engineer Cafe is an invite-only co-working takeover for startup founders, growth engineers, and AI-native marketers building the future of growth. Expect a room full of doers, tinkerers, and builders coming together to share ideas and meet others tackling similar…

HUMANOID HUB Conference

525 Market St. 2nd Floor AWS Builder LoftFreeApproval required

HUMANOID HUB Conference 🤖 A two-day, hands-on gathering for the people building the future of robotics and embodied AI. Join robotics engineers, founders, researchers, investors, and curious technologists for live humanoid demonstrations, technical talks, interactive showcases,…

Orkes Shift

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Orkes Shift Built for Workflows. Ready for agents. The Agentic Orchestration Conference for engineers building production systems Most companies don't get to start over.

[In-Person] Product Design Office Hours with Phil Balliet

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Sony SH800 Training @ 930 Brittan

930 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFree

AGENTIC AI IN ENGINEERING

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AGENTIC AI IN ENGINEERING

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Agentic AI in Engineering: From AI-Assisted Development → Agentic Engineering AI is no longer just helping engineers write code. It is beginning to participate in engineering itself.

Reveal More with Automated Sample Prep Applications : AssayMAP Bravo

1030 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFree

Japan Open Innovation Networking 2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Sampura Research [Talk+Social - Berkeley]

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI Builder Pickleball Tournament

The HUB Pickleball Club - Silicon Valley, CampbellFreeApproval required

San Jose Plug-In

2 W Santa Clara St, San JoseFree

Founders Inc: Open Campus (Blueprint Edition)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Silicon Valley Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Supply Chains - Physical AI Builders Meetup

Location not listedFree

The Physical AI Revolution Takes Flight — On Air, Land, Sea, and Space Hosted by: Silicon Valley Physical AI Builders F50 SVE Circuit Launch 🚁 About the Event Are you building the future where artificial intelligence meets the physical world?

PickleTalk: Enterprise Operators × AI Founders (Seed to Series A)

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Stanford Deeptech Happy Hour

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NYX Ventures @ Meitu: After Hours

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LP, GP & Funded Founder Networking

Hanwha AI CenterFreeApproval required

Founders' Ballot Explainer, hosted by Open Batch and Garry's List

The Art of San Francisco, Financial DistrictFree

Join us for a conversation about what's on California's November ballot and what the major statewide measures actually mean for founders. Forrest Liu, Cofounder of Garry's List, and Michael Shuffett, Founder of Open Batch, will walk through the ballot, explain the key proposals…

AI Creative Lab: Manage Messages Across Apps with AI

Japan Innovation Campus, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

💬 Too many apps. Too many conversations. What needs your attention? A request on Slack. A follow-up on LinkedIn. A promise made on WhatsApp. Important messages—and the tasks behind them—can easily get lost.

NachoThursday : SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour Mixer

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

🌐 Water Resources Cluster: How is California's Water Doing?

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

SynBioBeta Presents Laptop and Learn: How People in Bio Use AI to Get Work Done

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Reserve Your Spot: Inaugural Building Bridges Global Summit

J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required