Tech & Startup
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Startup IDEATHON
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Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics. SF 9/12
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RocketRide × SCU Buildathon: Build It. Scale It. Get Paid.
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-B8PjJv64VNq3OCs RocketRide × SCU Buildathon: Build It. Scale It. Get Paid. A collaboration between AI Collaborate at SCU and RocketRide Most student projects die in a GitHub repo. This week, that changes.
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[Online] Rote Playoffs Hackathon - Win a MacBook Pro + iPhone 17
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YC Fellows 2026
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The Heist: Actian VectorAI DB Hackathon
9:00 AM
Sunday Founder Rides: Low-Gear, High-Connection
2:00 PM
🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 07: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation, Hierarchical Control & World Models — Retriever
🤖🍨 Grab a sundae and join Sundae Robotics, a private, invite-only Sunday series bringing together robotics researchers, founders, and builders working at the frontier of physical intelligence.
2:30 PM
Breaking Models AI Security
The Bay Area AI Security Research Meetup returns for a focused session on OWASP LLM01:2026 — Prompt Injection. This is the foundational risk in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and the 2026 revision reflects a year where prompt injection moved from theoretical to…
3:00 PM
Screw AI: A Conversation with Youth
SOUTH BAY YOUTH, THIS ONE’S FOR YOU! Join us for a creative and interactive conversation about AI and how it’s impacting our schools, jobs, communities, and well-being.
Tomorrow · Monday, September 7
6:00 AM
Resilient Founders – Founder Wellbeing Circle
7:00 AM
Altalab Fall 2026 - Program For Founders
AltaLab, the hands-on founder program by AltaIR Capital (the VC behind Deel, Miro, & other unicorns), is now accepting applications for its Fall 2026 batch. AltaLab is built for founders building AI startups at any of these stages: You have an idea & want to validate it before…
9:30 AM
Year 13 Strategy Session
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-nhMHRvViGH6J06H I’m Elijah, co-founder of Black Apprentice Network & Black Undergrad. In this Year 13 Strategy Session, I’ll show you how to turn the page on year 12.
10:00 AM
Founders Bay: Virtual Investor Pitch Session
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-cCV0yvMYOUulXrC Get ready to pitch your startup to leading investors and venture capitalists at the next Founders Bay Virtual Investor Pitch Session.
2:00 PM
Office Hours: Email Marketing — Bring Your Emails, Leave With Better Ones
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-NcnoXMbA6DgD8nS Tired of sending emails that don’t get opened — or worse, don’t get clicks? This monthly session is for founders who want to turn email into one of their strongest growth channels.
3:00 PM
Zen GTM
3:00 PM
Zen Mind for GTM
Zen Mind for GTM is a small roundtable for founders and operators to talk openly about the GTM challenges they are facing across B2B and B2C. We'll go around the table, giving each participant time to share what they are building, what they have tried, and where they are…
4:00 PM
MD Blockchain Association Virtual Happy Hour
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-t1LHAQSdcMY4QS5 Join the Maryland Blockchain Association's Virtual Learning Panels, dynamic monthly sessions, designed for blockchain professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, attorneys, investors, and enthusiasts across Maryland, the DMV,…
5:00 PM
R42 VIP Speaker Series: AI for Life Science
6:00 PM
Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer
6:30 PM
A Practitioner's Guide to AI-Assisted Coding
[A slightly more in-depth version of the last talk] You shipped it in a weekend. Can you fix it at 3 AM when you get a customer call? AI writes the code now. The hard part is trusting what you can't fully read — whether you're an engineer signing off on 2,000 lines a day, a…
7:00 PM
90/30 Club Reading: A Full-Stack Performance Evaluation Infrastructure for 3D-DRAM-based LLM Accelerators
Come join us for a group discussion of "A Full-Stack Performance Evaluation Infrastructure for 3D-DRAM-based LLM Accelerators" Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08044 This reading group will explore ATLAS, a silicon-validated framework for evaluating LLM accelerators that…
Tuesday, September 8
12:00 AM
Beyond Vibe Coding: Hands-on Workshop on Spec Coding & Agentic Engineering
2:00 AM
Co-Founder Setup ungefiltert: Vorausschauend gründen. Was tun, wenn ein:e Mitgründer:in geht?
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-b9PCRivJ0jKAXCc Allein gründen oder mit Co-Founder? Die Entscheidung fällt meist schnell. Doch was rechtlich danach zu regeln ist, wird oft aufgeschoben. Vertrauen ist da, Verträge wirken unromantisch.
3:00 AM
The Fundraising Journey - Grants, Debt & Equity
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-1TJbqVpCX6KQlcC Thinking about raising investment for your startup but not sure where to start? Join Sam Simpson, co-founder of FounderCatalyst, for a practical session exploring the fundraising landscape - from understanding funding…
7:00 AM
Workshop with Ryan Forde CEO of BHTA
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-kIClYiSxBWCB121 Join Ryan Forde, CEO of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA), for an engaging workshop exploring the future of Barbados’ tourism and hospitality sector.
7:00 AM
FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Join Founders Common for our weekly early morning run with other founders, operators & creatives! Come run and then hang out afterward to chat with new friends across the startup community over coffee.
7:30 AM
Build an LLM Wiki for Agent Long-Term Memory
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-2Q8x2ZvtDbzjScu Build a compounding knowledge engine - Paul Iusztin Imagine giving your AI agents a true long-term memory where every piece of information they learn builds on the last.
8:00 AM
Guardrails, not gatekeepers: unlock Kafka self-service for developers
8:00 AM
Mission Founders Running Club
9:00 AM
Office Hours with Notion AI Expert Hillary Lyonas
9:00 AM
AI basics: intro to LLMs
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-O8FZYMkZupSXhB6 Part of our AI basics series (session 2/5) Level up with AI in 5 sessions! Join any session at any time, though we highly recommend starting with session 1 and working your way through (missed one?
9:00 AM
AI Safety Evals - Paper Reading Club
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-tCPKvAGE4SKbtWA Hi all! Join us for the AI Safety Evals Paper Reading Club! We usually have 80-100+ for informed discussion. All are welcome (do read the paper/summary)!
9:00 AM
Devtools founders coffee and waffles: design system as part of the AI harness
We're gathering a small group of devtool founders to talk about the new look on design systems as inseparable from AI harness. This is a small, founder/builder-only gathering in SF. Attendance is limited (~20); apply now.
9:00 AM
Replit Technical Deep Dive
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-AmBXXAxVJZyEwCY Join us for our weekly community Deep Dive as we explore technical concepts and get hands on with the Replit Agent.
10:00 AM
GGW Pitch Bootcamp #21 - Make Your Pitch Fundable
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-2m4teWKYPpOBxqI 🔥 GGW Pitch Bootcamp — Make Your Pitch Fundable You leave the meeting. They say “very interesting.” You never hear back. What just happened? Most founders never find out.
10:00 AM
How to scale agent ROI without scaling costs
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-YAGDHgz8vDFBzia Over the past 12 months, Bloom & Wild has rapidly scaled its AI maturity. From initial experimentation to empowering anyone in the organisation to build and run agents.
10:00 AM
Webinar: Temporal knowledge graphs as agent memory
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-gDlRtR4IL3apCya The field has agreed what agent memory is: a bi-temporal knowledge graph - entities and relationships, each fact tagged with when it was true and when you learned it, retrieved by meaning, keyword and traversal together.
10:00 AM
Santander X Portugal Training | Go-To-Market Strategies
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-Ew1iCHb3aMHhBMf INSCRIÇÃO GRATUITA E OBRIGATÓRIA AQUI: https://351.s.gy/GTM *Evento em Português Já tens uma ideia. Como é que ela chega aos primeiros clientes? Ter um modelo de negócio no papel é uma coisa.
1:00 PM
Enterprise AI at Microsoft
Join Enterprise AI At Microsoft hosted for an afternoon focused on what it takes to run AI reliably inside the enterprise. The conversation will move beyond AI demos to the infrastructure, data architecture, governance and operational decisions required to deploy AI in…
2:00 PM
Hello, AI - Job Search & AI
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-EDLvfeeBfaJjnbX Learn how to use AI as a practical assistant throughout your job search. In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll walk through ways ChatGPT can help you find stronger opportunities, understand job descriptions, improve your…
4:00 PM
Nate Soares talk + pizza
The UC Berkeley AI Risk Speaker Series is starting up again for fall semester with a talk by Nate Soares, see https://ai-risk.berkeley.edu/speaker-series.html The talk is open to the public but seating is limited, so please RSVP.
4:00 PM
Gladstone × MBC BioLabs: From Discovery to Startup
4:00 PM
Funding Labs: Pitch Session
5:00 PM
Agent Experience Demo Night by Sapient @ AWS Builder Loft (#6th Edition)
Join us for an exclusive Agent Experience Night & Networking session. Learn about the latest and top Agent Experience growth hacks. Organised by Lightsage (formerly Sapient).
5:00 PM
Bay Area Founders Pitch & Startup Networking
Join StartupA2Z for Founders Pitch & Mix, an evening designed to bring founders, builders, investors, and startup ecosystem partners together to connect, learn, and exchange ideas.
5:00 PM
Houston: Product Demo & AI Agents Workshop
5:00 PM
Kiro CLI: tu coding agent, potenciado por tus propios superpoderes
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-4juBO1cMRSHThLf Kiro CLI es tu Coding Agent, pero los superpoderes los colocas tú 🚀 Los Coding Agents están cambiando la forma en que construimos software.
5:00 PM
WeAreDevelopers Happy Hour
AI Demos WeAreDevelopers Happy Hour Join us in San Francisco on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, for an informal pre-conference happy hour ahead of WeAreDevelopers. We'll see cool demos before the happy hour official kicks off.
5:00 PM
Codenames Game Night - GTM Edition
GTM has developed its own language: pipeline, positioning, attribution, growth. Half the fun is pretending we all mean the same thing. GTM Codenames is a low-stakes, high-opinion game night built around a custom deck of 400 GTM terms.
5:30 PM
localhost · vol 2 · for CTOs
5:30 PM
Beyond XGBoost: An Evening for ML Engineers & Leaders
Getting upstairs: After the turnstiles, turn right and use the middle elevator bank. San Francisco, CA United States An evening with the researchers, founders, and applied ML leaders and practitioners building the next generation of foundation models for structured and tabular…
5:30 PM
Meet On-Device AI Builders and Investors (Chance to win a Mac mini)
5:45 PM
AI Credits & Metering Workshop [SF]
Thinking about adding AI credits to your product? This workshop is for PMs and engineers building credits and metering. It will be especially useful if you’re shifting from seats or any existing pricing model.
6:00 PM
Dev Tools & Infra Demo Night at Hogpatch 🦔
Dev Tools & Infra Demo Night at Hogpatch in San Francisco 🦔 We're partnering with PostHog and putting together an evening of demos from people building dev tools and infrastructure products.
6:00 PM
An Insider's Look at Accelerator Science at SLAC
6:00 PM
Blinkko Launch Party: A first look at the social wearable that brings AI into real-world connection.
Meet Blinkko, a tiny companion for discovering the world around you. Blinkko is a small creature that sits on your shoulder. It glows, reacts, and goes where you go. The app turns the city into a map of places, prompts, and light left by other people.
6:00 PM
Bay Area AI Artists: September Show, Critique, & Promote Night
This will be an event to show your art work to other attendees. The rule is simple: - Present one piece of art work you've recently made - Share your social media account so folks in the room can help you promote it - Audience will each offer a compliment and a critique, to help…
6:00 PM
Bay Area AI Artists Group Monthly Meeting
We're the only group of AI artists in the SF Bay Area. This event will be a community showcase to demo each other's AI artwork, provide critiques, and help each other promote their work.
6:00 PM
AI Insiders: Government & Policy Dinner
6:30 PM
AI Internal Tools Happy Hour | Massive Tech Ventures x Rho
6:30 PM
AI for the Common Good: Shaping Technology in Service of Humanity
🤖 Part of Zen Lab—a community exploring the intersection of Zen, technology, and working life in Silicon Valley. This month, join us for a special panel discussion on one of the defining questions of our time: How can we shape AI to serve the common good?
6:30 PM
Lightning Talks & Project Show 'n Tell
We're back with some OG EA SF programming! Have a cool coordination project you're working on? Dying to talk about an article you read like Meditation on Moloch? Want to share your new donation strategy in the age of AGI?
6:30 PM
Poker Night
Building a startup is a gamble, even when you're holding pocket aces. Join us for a night of Texas Hold'em with the people making those bets: founders, engineers, and the operators building the next generation of AI. Two tables run all night.
6:30 PM
YC Alumni Demo Day Afterparty
6:30 PM
pAIthon Meetup
We build things. Usually in Python. Often with AI assistance. Come join the discussion! This interactive and inclusive event welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds to learn from one another.
6:45 PM
Tech Leader Dinner Series - San Francisco
7:30 PM
Founder Poker Night: Concentrate × Pentagon (YC)
8:00 PM
The AI Workforce Shift — CHRO/HR (Exclusive Workshop 1 of 3)
Wednesday, September 9
2:00 AM
Warum selbst großartige Startups schlechte Investments sein können
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-DoPiDy8JjR36Of6 Warum scheitern selbst Startups, die auf dem Papier alles richtig machen: ein starkes Team, eine überzeugende Idee, ein wachsender Markt? Genau diese Frage beantwortet Dr.
2:30 AM
Grok Bot Cotonou Hackathon (Virtual)
7:00 AM
Intern Office Hours
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-EVBYxaZ622GzN8p It's like therapy, but for crypto marketers. Join both of us for a casual office hours between fellow interns!
8:00 AM
What SDR Leaders Need to Know About the EU AI Act (Before It Takes Effect)
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-bJwBvUSzvv5XlCU The EU AI Act is coming into effect soon, and sales organizations targeting the European market must understand its implications.
9:00 AM
Building a (Slopless) Investor Pitch Deck with AI
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-oINXFvqEBClCi8g Experienced investors can spot it a mile off: the deck that ChatGPT built. The fluent nonsense, the expository bloat, and, worst of all, the vaseline lens gloss that screams "Nano Banana image generator".
9:00 AM
Top Founders Summit - SF (Napa Valley)
9:00 AM
PEF: The Relationship Strategy Playbook: Building High-Trust Connections That Outlast Any Business
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-dyy7wLbnJf9JATc Let's be real — as founders and business builders, we've spent years getting really good at building relationships that serve the business. The investor who funded the round. The hire who saved our sales team.
9:00 AM
From Prompt to Peptide: Designing AI Workflows That Keep the Scientist in the Loop
9:30 AM
Year 12 Strategy Session
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-GrRrrwtg512xGA6 I’m Elijah, co-founder of Black Apprentice Network & Black Undergrad. In this Year 12 Strategy Session, I’ll show you how to turn your GCSE results into real opportunities.
10:00 AM
Webinar "Building Context-Aware AI Agents with Real-Time Data"
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-4igvHyd0MNf6IT5 Pre-Registration is REQUIRED. Joining link - https://streamyard.com/watch/YsJkDEA9NqRb This event is part of the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator, bringing together AI and data professionals for practical, expert-led sessions on…
10:00 AM
From Brief To Launch - How Lean Mktg Teams Ship Faster In 2026
Copy takes a minute now. Campaigns still take a month. AI made the drafts instant - but the brief still gets re-explained, feedback still scatters across three channels, & the approval still sits in someone's inbox while launch day slips. AI can write your copy.
10:00 AM
Cocktails & Tech Happy Hour
Join us for our Cocktails & Tech Happy Hour on Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 from 6PM to 8PM PDT at Novela San Francisco The Professional Connector next Cocktails & Tech Happy Hour is on Wednesday, September 9th, 2026 from 6PM to 8PM PDT at Novela San Francisco…
10:00 AM
Build Your First Agent (September Cohort)
10:30 AM
Agentics Foundation London Bi-Weekly Live Coding & Showcase
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-S9D3znq2FAqEu7Q Join the Agentics London Chapter for our recurring bi-weekly online app build & showcase, powered by RuFlo, Claude Code, Codex, Opencode. We are tool and LLM agnostic.
11:00 AM
Light DAO Town Hall
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-ZXPDboyQHxQiS1k Gather with conscious entrepreneurs and investors from around the world for Light DAO’s monthly Town Hall — offering an inside look at what's unfolding across our global ecosystems, and a space to align, activate, and…
11:00 AM
Agentic AI in Action: 10-Minute Demo Spotlights from the Frontier Q3
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-PPLc7dYeCxGKFVO Explore the real-world impact of Agentic AI in our fast-paced, insight-packed virtual showcase. Each 10-minute session features a live demo from a leading innovator in the Agentic AI space—highlighting practical…
12:00 PM
Lunch, Learn, Cowork: Lens AI x Homebrew
12:00 PM
Design Essentials for Climate Conscious Leaders
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-zF3en3qJCZJPNSw Design Essentials for Climate Conscious Leaders In September, we're hosting Marc O'Brien, co-founder of Climate Designers a 100% volunteer-led organization that addresses the skills gap many of us find ourselves in: how to…
12:00 PM
AVA Onboarding Session
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-vMoVrwJ1gh3AZv7 Join Laura, AVA Co-Founder & CEO, for a live onboarding session as you familiarize yourself with AVA.
12:00 PM
Tejas Project C (Path to CXO): Dressing the Part: Power Dressing and Grooming Fundamentals for the C-Suite
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-8UVeqKY1cH6ip19 People form an impression of you within seven seconds, and research on Fortune 1000 CEOs shows that how leaders dress shapes how much authority they are granted before they make a single decision.
12:00 PM
Practical AI at Work: Let's Tour the New ChatGPT App
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-LpD3BrLUqC8VgNg Chat. Work. Code. See where your next piece of work belongs. Your next task might begin as a quick question, grow into a finished deliverable, or need a code-focused space.
12:00 PM
Curious Conversations
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-aCnk8EnsfftAOJC Curious Conversations is the easiest room you'll be in all week. Amanda shows up, somebody asks a real question about AI, and we just follow it wherever it goes. No lecture. No slides. No agenda taped to the wall.
12:00 PM
AI for All: Investment, Innovation & Workforce Panel - Lunch & Networking Event
AI is transforming how we work, build, invest, and compete. Realizing its full potential requires more than just technology: it demands an AI-literate workforce, responsible adoption, innovative founders, and capital committed to building what is next.
12:30 PM
Innovation Connect
South Korea's next wave of startups is coming to Silicon Valley for a day of pitches and networking with investors, industry experts, and corporate partners. 15 startups selected through the Global Market Expansion Program (GMEP) and Invest Seoul's Snowflake AI Startup Launchpad…
1:00 PM
AI Foundations | Building Better Products With AI [Expert Level]
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-91BTxiUA25t5R88 About The Session Learn how to transform your product roadmap by embedding AI where it matters most. Discover the frameworks and tools needed to design, validate, and launch AI-driven products that delight users and scale…
2:00 PM
AI Product Pricing Workshop AWS x Archera x Arhasi
An invite-only evening for AI founders and engineering leaders in SF. Koyel De, GTM Principal Advisor at AWS and Bill Tarr, AWS Solutions Architect will lead an interactive session on how the best AI companies think about pricing, unit economics, and cost per tenant, with real…
2:00 PM
Founders Weekly Check-In For Pre & MVP Stage
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-Iqg9GgTlPrjFWRJ A weekly meeting for pre- and MVP-Stage founders to share struggles and celebrate successes. Join us for a weekly check-in for very early stage founders who need a community of peers.
2:00 PM
🎤 Pitch Slam: Craft the 1-Minute Pitch That Wins Sales, Investors, and Attention with Helen Murphy
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-ZHJ1OdZGWwFcrbp In this hands-on session, Frank Schneider shares frameworks for building a compelling strategic narrative—one that inspires belief, builds trust, and drives alignment across product, marketing, and fundraising.
4:30 PM
Building a Team Brain: Connecting Code, Customer Context, and Production Agents
A hands-on technical workshop on building a live product and engineering context layer over your production apps like Zendesk, Datadog, Granola, and Asana. About the workshop Most engineering time goes into what to build.
4:30 PM
Building A Team Brain w/ Scalekit - Code, Context & Production Agents
A hands-on technical workshop on building a live product & engineering context layer over your production apps like Zendesk, Datadog, Granola, & Asana. About the workshop Most engineering time goes into what to build.
5:00 PM
The Corgi Cup 🏁🏆
Join Arize on September 9 at Corgi Cafe for The Corgi Cup, an RC car racing tournament built around the same problem AI teams face in production: spotting the pattern behind a bad run before it happens again. Between races, see Signal in action.
5:00 PM
Founder Storytelling & Go-To-Market Insights with Tae Hea Nahm
5:00 PM
AI Creative Lab: Create Beautiful Reports, Slides, Posters & Videos
A hands-on workshop for turning ideas into polished visual content with the latest AI tools. AI can generate more than text. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how to use the latest AI tools to create beautiful, professional-quality reports, presentations, posters, and…
5:00 PM
Networking Event: Where Founders Meet Funders
5:00 PM
Founders Inc: Open Campus (Blueprint Edition)
5:30 PM
“AI Agents & The Future of AI” VC Insights• Founder Pitches
5:30 PM
Applied AI Society x SIT SV Hub Present: The Future of Data Centers, Deep Tech & AI Investing
✨ About the Event Join Applied AI Society and Startup Island TAIWAN – Silicon Valley Hub for an evening of insightful conversation, light refreshments, and meaningful connections exploring the future of data centers, deep technology, and AI investing.
5:30 PM
AI Dev Night - Coding agents and AI-native Development
Welcome to the 'AI Dev Showcase 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
AI Dev Showcase Night at Workato
Join us for AI Camp and Workato's AI Dev Showcase Night! At this September Edition, we team up with Coder to dive deep into Coding Agents and AI-Native Development. Please arrive by 6 PM.
5:30 PM
How to Break into Silicon Valley Featuring Kyle Wong - Founder of InstaAgent
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-Nc3GzlSBC9DewO9 InstaAgent (YC P26) is an AI-native marketing company that helps B2C companies turn a single campaign brief into hundreds of personalized social media creatives.
5:30 PM
AI x Hardware Engineering Dinner
5:30 PM
Design + AI Mentor Night
5:30 PM
MotherDucking Data + AI Happy Hour
Join our MotherDuck team for an invite-only, limited capacity happy hour (yes, we will have plenty of pizza too). We power local companies like David AI, Together AI, and other fast-growth companies and will be hosting an evening of future-forward conversations and drinks around…
5:30 PM
Bay Area Frontier Research Club #22 | Robotics & Embodied AI (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)
5:30 PM
NVIDIA Dev Community Meetup | San Francisco
Overview Join fellow developers and AI enthusiasts for an engaging meetup focused on the technologies shaping high-performance, scalable AI applications. Hear from experts and explore the latest developments in: NVIDIA Nemotron Lightning — Learn how NVIDIA’s newest Nemotron…
5:45 PM
CTO Fund LP Dinner #4
6:00 PM
AI-Native Growth & Customer Operations: From First Touch to Retention
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-YgNkyqn5Rr4d9IH How founders and GTM leaders design persistent context systems across acquisition, onboarding, and retention. Event Live Stream Link: https://go.foundercoho.com/livestream-9-9 📝 Event Description Most AI tooling in GTM…
6:00 PM
TechWalk | Silicon Valley, 9/9
About TechWalk We're building a different sort of networking event for members of the Tech and SaaS communities to get outside, meet new people, and enjoy some fresh air, while practicing mindful movement.
6:00 PM
Private dinner: The New Tech Talent Equation | Leaders deciding what to build in-house, who to hire, and when to bring in external experts
6:00 PM
GTM Unblocked: Stop Being the Glue Between Your GTM Tools
Stop Being the Glue Between Your GTM Tools If you’re running GTM at a growing company, AI hasn’t transformed your day. It’s added another tab. You’re still the human integration layer. Copying context between Gmail, Slack, your CRM, and a dozen other tools.
6:00 PM
Software Factories Meet Production
6:00 PM
AI Startup Pitch & Investor Networking I San Francisco
6:00 PM
VC / LP Happy Hour @ Millenium Tower
6:00 PM
AI Enggrs Tech Talk
Join us for the September edition of the San Francisco AI Engineers Tech Talk, a gathering focused exclusively on AI engineering. Whether you're a seasoned machine learning engineer or a fullstack dev curious about how to work with LLMs, this is your space to dive deep into…
6:00 PM
Judgement Labs CEO: Agentic Judges
6:00 PM
VC Networking: Pitch Day — San Francisco
6:00 PM
PauseAI Canada monthly video call: The Hugging Face Incident and Other Topics
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-ADU3IGQtlnEU99p This is a video call gathering Canadians interested and curious about PauseAI. Newcomers are welcome! Come and meet other like minded people, discuss AI-safety-related news, and ask questions about PauseAI.
6:00 PM
AI 101 Series: Is AI Recommending You? How to Check, Fix, and Climb
A live 90-minute training on measuring how often AI recommends you, understanding why it does or does not, and systematically climbing into the answers that matter. Somewhere right now, someone is asking an AI a question you are the perfect answer to.
6:00 PM
AI Tech & Startup Night — San Francisco
6:00 PM
Agentic PM Kickoff
As software drives itself, what happens to the PM role? The night before Lenny's Summit, PostHog, Linear, Supabase, & Dreambase will demo how their products are automating PM work, from triaging bugs to writing specs. Then we open the floor for a roundtable Q&A.
6:15 PM
Faithful Leadership — Networking, Dinner and Fireside Chat with Tech Leaders and Founders
6:30 PM
PMM Leaders Dinner by 3AM Recruiting
6:30 PM
SF CTO Dinner
6:30 PM
Virtual Civic Hack Night
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-CAeeLcmvTPrmx3t Looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? All you need is your brain, your passion, and your openness when you come to SF Civic Tech's (formerly Code for San Francisco's) weekly Hack Night.
6:30 PM
Product & Engineering Leaders Dinner
6:30 PM
Agents in Sales: Fireside Chat with Bobby Morrison (ex-Shopify CRO)
6:30 PM
Open Source as Political Theology: Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Decentralization w/ Michael Millerman
6:30 PM
engineering serendipity
7:00 PM
The True Cost of Every Prompt: The Sustainability of AI and Data Centers
7:00 PM
Poker (Top Founder Summit)
8:00 PM
Beyond the Pilot — CIO/CDTO (Exclusive Workshop 2 of 3)
Thursday, September 10
8:00 AM
What do you actually mean by sovereign AI?
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-OIVFP1bmcp87ub5 Ask five organisations what "sovereign AI" means, and you'll get five different answers. The catch is all of them are right.
8:00 AM
RDC26 - Roblox Developers Conference
RDC 2026 is happening on September 10 - 12 in San Jose! Yup, you read that right It's 3 days! RDC is returning to San Jose from September 10 - 12, 2026! What's RDC? The Roblox Developers Conference is our flagship gathering for the global creator community.
9:00 AM
Tech Weekend September 10-11, 2026 | Menlo Park | Silicon Valley
9:00 AM
Startup & VC Day at Tech Weekend San Francisco — Deep Tech Pitch, Panels & Mixer
9:00 AM
[AI x Growth Workshop] The Six Quality Dimensions Behind Every GrowthX Deliverable
9:00 AM
Ark by Arkzphere · Founder Webinar with Jackson Greene
9:00 AM
Women in Retail & E-commerce | Startup Women 2026
9:00 AM
AI Summer School Part 2/2: Build Your Career Operating System With Claude Code
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-p0e2XdAhYQfaPGY IMPORTANT! This session is part 2 of 2 · in this session we'll dive into Claude Code AFTER we build our first automation (part 1) in Cowork. If you missed part 1, pls watch the recording first.
9:00 AM
Ask Stripe Anything: Payment Infrastructure for Digital Health Startups
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-MGeeBcZv7yyAN6w This is the first event we’re hosting within the new Stripe HealthTech Community platform, and we’re excited to bring everyone together and introduce the space where we’ll continue building this community!
9:30 AM
SmartAI: L'AI oltre il chatbot — il panorama completo in un'ora
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-gL0iv1SMUrA645O Un'ora, insieme, per farti un'idea chiara di cosa l'intelligenza artificiale sa fare oggi — con esempi veri, non slide di teoria.
10:00 AM
Talk to AI better by learning how to talk about art
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-HZZ1EGT46xeNPn4 Why can't you write or speak as clearly as you think? Join us for an experimental online event where we practice how we instruct AI! But not through "prompt hacking", but through describing art out loud.
10:00 AM
The Founder Nervous System: Stress, Uncertainty, and Regulation
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-EnMjgEGCcSKnP4W 🧠 The Founder Nervous System: Stress, Uncertainty, and Regulation Building a company can be exciting, meaningful—and incredibly demanding.
10:00 AM
Build One Agent, That Talks to Three Surfaces: Slack, Teams, and React
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-FMuQfbT5has91f9 Build one agent that talks to three surfaces: Slack, Teams, and React Join us as Tyler Slaton wires up an agent once with CopilotKit and AG-UI, then ships it into three places people already work.
11:00 AM
Founders Bay Virtual Workshop: Peptides and the Future of Health
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-OP9jmVC1xgX6Hwa A deep dive into peptides and everything we know about them so far. You'll learn the histroy of peptides, why they're so popular, the most common peptides and their uses, how to find them, and information on the most…
11:00 AM
Bridging Fashion & Beauty Innovators — Virtual Pitch Competition v4
Bridging Fashion & Beauty Innovators — Virtual Pitch Competition From Concept to Catwalk: Empowering the Next Wave of Fashion & Beauty Tech This online gathering is designed for founders, funders, technologists, and community builders in the fashion and beauty tech ecosystem.…
12:00 PM
Lunch & Hack: How AI Is Reshaping Industrial Operations (w/ The AI Collective)
12:00 PM
Bridging Fashion & Beauty Innovators — Virtual Pitch Competition v3
Bridging Fashion & Beauty Innovators — Virtual Pitch Competition From Concept to Catwalk: Empowering the Next Wave of Fashion & Beauty Tech This online gathering is designed for founders, funders, technologists, and community builders in the fashion and beauty tech ecosystem.…
12:00 PM
Sidebar Speaker Series: Your executives don't understand AI. That's your problem to solve with Michael Hirsch
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-XtbnUHZ0CJMOKCD Every company says it's going all in on AI. Then you look up the org chart and the people setting the mandate barely touch the tools.
12:00 PM
October Programming - Office Hours!
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-2yZZMNvjo0hNsfQ Come with questions, ideas, feedback, concerns, and everything in between to make your program in October a success!
1:00 PM
Private Founders Gathering
2:00 PM
Biotech Coffee Meetup with Lexi Ventures
3:00 PM
Twin Atlas RDC 2026 Developer Mixer Ft. Gamebeast
3:00 PM
Cheat or Teach: Is AI Breaking Education or Rebuilding It?
4:00 PM
B2B Founders Chocolate Tasting 🍫
4:00 PM
Future Tech Careers: AI, Robotics & Electric Vehicles (Get Hired Faster)
Robotics is no longer confined to research labs. It is powering automation, autonomous systems, advanced manufacturing, logistics, and emerging AI-driven hardware. But breaking into Robotics requires more than theory.
4:00 PM
B2B Founders Chocolate Tasting
Join a curated group of B2B software founders for a relaxed afternoon at Alegio Chocolat / Claudio Corallo in Palo Alto You will learn their story & the journey of the most unique chocolate in the world; not because it is the only true-tree-bean-to-bar made chocolate, but also…
4:00 PM
Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (seed to series A)
4:30 PM
GTM 201: Strategy’s Set. Now Go Get Revenue.
4:30 PM
AI Design Thinking Workshop by SDN SF x Miro
5:00 PM
Llama Lounge 26: The AI Startup Event Series @ Microsoft
- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin). - Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev. - Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered and approved.
5:00 PM
AI for Writers
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-eWjxFYODqULdL24 If AI can find your writing, can it actually use it well? That question is becoming part of the writer’s job. In this webinar, we’ll explore information retrieval and evals – the systems that shape what AI finds, what it…
5:00 PM
Mahjong Party for AI Builders
5:00 PM
Llama Lounge - AI Startups
- Event Founder: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (Linkedin). - Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev. - Gov ID required for entry. Must be registered & approved.
5:00 PM
GTM After Dark
5:00 PM
The AI Factory: Reinventing How the World Builds
5:00 PM
San Francisco CFO Sisters Back to School Social
5:30 PM
AI Infrastructure Night
About the event AI Infrastructure Night brings the developer community together for an evening at the frontier of AI infrastructure, where the people building it show what's actually working.
5:30 PM
Sustainable Seafood Meets Biotech: Wildtype
5:30 PM
AI meetup (SV) for GenAI, LLMs, and Agent
5:30 PM
How to Build a Working AI System in Life Sciences
5:30 PM
THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: September
5:30 PM
Designing with AI: Panel hosted by Amplitude
5:30 PM
Vibe Your SaaS: Startup Pitch Competition + VC/Founder Mixer @ Snowflake HQ
We are no longer accepting pitch or demo submissions. Apply for #005 in November if you want to submit a pitch. The VYS Startup Pitch Competition Finalists: Seerlex AI PiTrade Biobytes Peazy Labs Hey Greta Plus startup demos from: StratoNext DiagPro Pesito Special Korean startup…
6:00 PM
Funders & Founders Happy Hour @ ERIA
Join us for an evening of conversations, connections, and good vibes with AI builders, founders, engineers, and tech leaders. Come meet people building the next generation of AI products, exchange ideas, share what you're working on, and connect with others across the AI…
6:00 PM
From AI Hype to AI ROI Roundtable: An invitation-only evening for enterprise data and AI executives.
6:00 PM
The AI Foundry Series- San Ramon Chapter
The AI Foundry is a community-driven initiative bringing together startups, investors, government leaders, and academic institutions to collaborate on responsible AI innovation.
6:00 PM
Private Fireside with Leigh Marie Braswell - First Product Manager at Scale AI to now leading investments at the frontier of AI
6:00 PM
Punk Software Hack Night: Data liberation ✊
more info TBD SCHEDULE 6pm - 6:30pm — meet people, brainstorm ideas. There'll be a big co-ideation collaborative editing document to throw them around! 6:30pm — kickoff 6:30 - 9:00pm — quiet time, work solo or in groups on your project 9:00 - 9:30pm — demos.
6:00 PM
Stanford LP Series #9 (Avvashya Capital; Ellesfo; NYC Comptroller; Stone Garden Group; Enduran Companies; El Daba Holding)
6:00 PM
VC casual poker night
6:00 PM
Networking Cocktail Party for Devtool Founders & Marketers
6:00 PM
anti-pitch pitch night
6:00 PM
Founder VC Dinner Happy Hour
Join us for a relaxed evening bringing together founders, funders, investors, & startup leaders at ERIA. This is a casual, curated gathering to meet interesting people, exchange ideas, & build meaningful connections across the startup & venture ecosystem.
6:00 PM
AI in Hospitality Summit at Finix
6:00 PM
Startup Pitch Night
6:00 PM
The Argument You Keep Having — a 2-hour co-founder & team session
6:00 PM
Exec Dinner w/ FS Vector at ACAMS Norcal
6:15 PM
Agents with Taste: Building Visual Design Agents That Ship
6:30 PM
137th SF Hardware Meetup @ Mission Robotics | Physical AI Robotics
6:30 PM
SF Hardware Meetup - Physical AI Robotics
Join us for our 137th SF Hardware Meetup @ Mission Robotics. We'll be covering everything physical AI related. Bring physical demos for open mic! It can be products, prototypes, components, or anything physical.
6:30 PM
AI Art Workshop: Create a Place You Wish Existed
6:30 PM
Araya Ventures: Inside the Corporate Development Playbook (M&A Panel + Portfolio Showcase)
6:30 PM
Founders & Sales Leaders Dinner
6:30 PM
AI Art, Design and Self-Expression: a fireside chat with @covacut
6:30 PM
Private Healthcare AI Networking for Leaders, Founders & Investors - Members +3
7:00 PM
September SF - Marvins Founder Dinner
8:00 PM
Leading the Next Business Shift — CEO / BUSINESS LEADER (Exclusive Workshop 3 of 3)
Friday, September 11
12:00 AM
Agent Games: Agents Gone Wild
3:00 AM
OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-NFKmuFKnROzlGnE OpenAI Codex Masterclass: From Prompting to Agentic Workflows Most people use AI in a simple loop: ask a question, get an answer, then ask another question. But that is only a small part of what these tools can do.
3:30 AM
AI but make it work
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-OfOKJItu8R18oBR AI but make it work is a 60-minute online workshop where you turn one recurring task into an agent that does it for you, using nothing but the chat tool already open in your browser.
8:30 AM
Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy
8:30 AM
Techsuyo 2026: Human-Centered AI
9:00 AM
K-AI Tech Week @ Silicon Valley
1). About K-AI Tech Week @ Silicon Valley 2026 2). Overview - Title: K-AI Tech Week @ Silicon Valley 2026 - Date & Time: September 11 (Friday), 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (PDT) - Venue: Santa Clara Marriott Hotel, California Ballroom and Hall of Cities - Hosts: # Ministry of Science and…
9:00 AM
AI for Everyone: A Full-Day Bootcamp
9:00 AM
Cyber X AI Reading Group
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-nW47wQHHCKqjBId This week’s AI x Cyber reading group will discuss RAND’s 2024 Security Levels (SL) framework for protecting frontier AI model weights from theft and misuse.
9:00 AM
Bootstrappers Breakfast for San Francisco Startups
Bootstrappers Breakfast for San Francisco Startups Come Meet Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast At a Bootstrappers Breakfast® we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cash flow and organic profit: this is for founders who are actively…
9:00 AM
K-AI Tech Week - Silicon Valley
9:30 AM
Data & AI Hackathon: SF
🎉 Data & AI Hackathon: 8-Hour Innovation Sprint at AWS Builder Loft, SF 🎉 Join us for the Data & AI Hackathon, an electrifying 8-hour sprint bringing together the brightest minds in data engineering, machine learning, and AI, all under one roof at the iconic AWS Builder Loft…
10:00 AM
Founder Circle: You Did the Thing. Now What?
12:00 PM
World Models with NVIDIA Cosmos: Physical AI - AI Build & Learn
Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-MS7SYg4UcWb8mLv Welcome to AI Build & Learn, a weekly AI engineering stream where we pick a new topic and learn by building together.
12:00 PM
Understanding Venture Debt: A Founder’s Guide with Jose Esquer-Romero
1:00 PM
AI Workshop: Getting Started with OpenClaw
1:00 PM
Beta x Alibaba Cloud x AMD AI Agent Hackathon Demo Day
2:00 PM
Breaking into the US for Korean founders @ K-Startup Center
2:00 PM
Founder Group Coaching and Peer Support: Working Through Overwhelm, Uncertainty, Co-Founder or Team Relationship
2:00 PM
Founder Group Coaching and Peer Support: Working Through Overwhelm, Uncertainty, Co-Founder or Team Conflict
2:00 PM
Investing in Startups: Live Networking
3:00 PM
Arāya Sessions: AI & Fundraising
Arāya Ventures × Plug and Play Arāya Ventures is teaming up with Plug and Play for a one-day AI & Fundraising session. The day is split into four focused segments and groups, each pairing active investors and operators with founders for candid, practical conversations you won't…
3:00 PM
All Aboard with Transit CEOs
All Aboard with Transit CEOs will be held on Friday, September 11th starting at around 3:00pm in Oakland with rides on AC Transit, BART, SF Muni, and Caltrain. The theme of the ride is financial efficiency and raising awareness of the $1 billion in cost-saving measures taken by…
5:00 PM
neocomputing niche tech meetup - jujutsu and version control of the future
An informal evening centered around questioning the computing primitives and ideas of the present. Anything goes: niche typesetting systems, agent harnesses, CPU architectures, RAG optimization techniques and beyond.
6:00 PM
(Invitation Only) K-AI Tech Week Private Networking Reception
6:30 PM
SF | Show Your Hand: Founders Game Night
7:00 PM
Cocktails with Lyra | YC Demo Day Afterparty
8:00 PM
Mockbyrd RDC26 Developer & Creator Mixer
Saturday, September 12
7:00 AM
Harness Engineering 2: Inspect and Improve
8:00 AM
Workshop: Grow your e-commerce business with AI - Day 1
9:00 AM
Homecoming AI Educate Hackathon
9:00 AM
🔥 Qoder AI Hackathon with $4500 cash prizes
9:00 AM
CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House
9:30 AM
Open Model Hack
Open models are improving faster than most teams can evaluate them. Every release introduces new capabilities, new tradeoffs, & new decisions around inference, fine-tuning, serving, & production performance.
9:30 AM
Sisters Female Founders Hike
9:30 AM
Founders Running Club: SF
Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We'll run 5 or 10km at your conversational pace.
9:30 AM
Open Model Hack - Gradient x Google Deepmind
Open models are improving faster than most teams can evaluate them. Every release introduces new capabilities, new tradeoffs, and new decisions around inference, fine-tuning, serving, and production performance.
10:00 AM
BURNING TOKEN, the AI Global hackathon
Hosted by Francesca Sala & Mike Rice
10:00 AM
Agents, Everywhere: Global Hackathon with OpenAI • CopilotKit • openrouter
10:00 AM
Bayview 3rd Street Cleanup
Join the Civic Joy Fund, Refuse Refuse, SF Public Works, and the Bayview community for a friendly neighborhood cleanup!
11:00 AM
The AI Trust: Compliance as Competitive Advantage
11:00 AM
🦞 The Personal AI (PAI) Starter Lab: Create Your OpenClaw Strategy by Learning
12:00 PM
From Idea to Startup: enterpreneurship basics for young founders
12:30 PM
HYSTA Founders Club Annual Roadshow Preliminary Pitch