Events

ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, BurlingameFree

Fig AI Design Makeathon 2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Fig AI Design Makeathon 2026 November 7–9 · Online Makeathon November 14 · Winner Demo · Third Coast Foundry, San Francisco AI is creating new products, behaviors, workflows, and interaction patterns faster than traditional design practices can keep up.

Coworking Friday

HeartLab$30

The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Monday, Nov 9

Location not listedFree

Brand Lab workshop for early-stage tech startups

Location not listed$100Approval required

Gerrit User Summit

Google Building MP6, SunnyvaleFree

AI Agent Escape: Hugging Face Warning Shot

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8IYptES4RReCw2R1FqStTQFree

NXT-G3NERATION - Networking Event

Location not listedFree

5K Run with Apify

Fort Point National Historic SiteFreeApproval required

AI Builders Night

AWS Builder Loft, Financial DistrictFree

The How-To of Digital Transformation: A Practical AI Leadership Playbook to Stand Out in Your First 90 Days [Workshop]

UCLA Anderson School of Management, Room G305Free

Cloudflare x U.S. Ski & Snowboard SF Happy Hour

Shotski’sFree

Build something that could change how the world’s best skiers and snowboarders train. Join Cloudflare and U.S. Ski & Snowboard in San Francisco on November 9 for the launch party of a new winter sports technical challenge for builders. Cloudflare and U.S.

Side Quest Hotline Vapi Hackathon

150 Spear St, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

The go-to hackathon for building and running voice agents. Join us inside Vapi's San Francisco office for an exclusive night of building with top Vapi users, founders and AI builders, in the lead-up to VapiCon! ⚡ 🎟️ Limited spots.

Stanford LP Seminar Series #19 (KfW Capital; Rogue Insight Capital; Abu Dhabi Pension Fund; Andreani & Associés; IMF)

Stanford Graduate School of Business, StanfordFreeApproval required

You’re invited to Stanford LP Seminar Series #19—the 19th edition of the Stanford AI & Investment Series, co-organized by the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Alumni Chapter, AIx2, and Stanford xBuilders.

[SF] AI Dev Night at Workato

Location not listedFree

Welcome to the 'AI Dev Night SF' series, co-hosted with Workato. This series bring the Workato and AICamp communities together for an evening dedicated to deep-dive tech talks, hands-on labs, and high-impact technical networking.

THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: November

PlanetScaleFree

Join us on November 9th for the SF Database Meetup, where we'll hear about two brand-new projects: a database built to answer what Postgres would look like if it were designed today, and the fastest ordered map in Rust, written by LLMs and verified with fuzzing, formal proofs,…

Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Build Day: OpenRouter × Meta Something we've never done before... On November 9, OpenRouter x Meta Superintelligence Labs are teaming up for our first-ever Build Day in San Francisco. One evening. A room full of builders. And 60 minutes to turn an idea into something real.

The Early Days: Inside the Startup Journey

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The Early Days: Inside the Startup Journey What really happens behind the scenes when building a startup? Join Draper University for a special evening bringing together people from across the Silicon Valley startup community.

Physical AI Founder × Funder: San Francisco

Location not listed$50Approval required

Meet the ChipStart UK Semiconductor Startups

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The Power of US: Women Shaping What's Next Together

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial District$25Approval required

AI Dev Showcase Night at Workato

Location not listedFreeApproval required

San Francisco HR Executive Dinner

The ProgressFreeApproval required

AI for Compute/Efficient AI

Marufuku Ramen - Palo Alto, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

Scrappy Founders Play Soccer

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Energy & Defense Founder Dinner at The Art of SF

The Art of San Francisco, Financial DistrictFreeSold out

AiOS Meetup - San Francisco Edition

ConvexFreeApproval required

AiOS San Francisco is happening—and you’re invited! 🤖 Join us for an evening with people who are as excited about AI and Apple platforms as you are. Whether you’re building with the latest Apple frameworks, experimenting with on-device AI, or simply curious about what’s next,…

Dinner & Plant-Making Workshop | Quivly × Okta

ArcanaFreeApproval required

Stanford Workshop: Leading the AI-Powered Organization to Create Value - Strategy and Execution

Location not listedFreeApproval required

An interactive workshop with Stanford HAI Professor Arvind Karunakaran Monday, November 9 | Stanford GSB, Gunn G101 5:30 PM - Check-in opens 6:10–9:10 PM - Interactive workshop Pizza and drinks will be provided. Launching an AI pilot is one thing.

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.

xAI Founding Engineers Dinner

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI Founders/Executives Michelin Dinner

Location not listedFreeApproval required

HACKER'S MOVIE NIGHT

Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree

Music Hardware Is a Fashion Accessory: A Design Workshop

tiatFree

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.

1 Milly Party

Location not listedFreeApproval required

7 months of helping startups announce their fundraises in the news later... ....Press Club has officially hit $1 MILLION in annual run rate 💸 Here's a toast to FUNdraising announcements (yes, we'll have an open bar) 🥂 This is a private party for our team, our customers, our…

Fund It, Fix It, or Kill It: Thiel Fellows Pitch Roast (IRL in SF + Zoom)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Theranos of AI industry? YCSE Debrief & AI Chat

Location not listedFreeApproval required

San Francisco Ruby Conference

SFJAZZ$350Sold out

After Tokens

TERRAFreeApproval required

Mission Founders Running Club

Arizmendi Valencia BakeryFreeApproval required

SF Fintech Coffee

Location not listedFreeApproval required

SF Fintech Coffee, hosted by This Week in Fintech and SVB , is an event for Fintech founders, investors & enthusiasts to gather around and talk everything Fintech. This is a no-agenda event, just drop by to make new Fintech friends over breakfast. See you there!

GovTech Smart Cities

War Memorial Veterans BuildingFreeApproval required

San Francisco Founder & VC Roundtables, presented by The Pitch (DEEL)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

VantaCon 2026

Convene 100 Stockton$499

Be an agent of change VantaCon is the only place where the leaders writing the playbook for AI trust & governance come together. Because in an AI-first world, the real agents of change aren't automated tools-they're you.

The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Tuesday, Nov 10

Location not listedFree

Accelr8 | Cowork Club

712 Polk StFree

Bring your laptop and join fellow residents and the Accelr8 team for Work Club at 712 Polk St., from 9:30am to 12pm. Coffee’s on us! Set aside some time for whatever will move your venture forward, whether that’s reaching out to customers, refining your pitch, shipping a…

[SF] AWS x NVIDIA Workshop for Model Customization

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Join us for a hands-on workshop on model customization with AWS and NVIDIA. As companies move from AI prototypes to production, off-the-shelf models may not meet the accuracy, latency, and cost requirements.

Run by Apify

The Pearl, Dogpatch$299Approval required

Verifying the Unverifiable: Testing AI-Generated Code (and AI-Generated Worlds)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Akamai AI Summit

Oracle ParkFreeApproval required

Experience the future of AI — here’s what’s waiting for you Join us for one of the most exciting San Francisco tech events this November, connecting AI leaders and innovators.

Agilent Lab Productivity Forum

1030 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFree

Discovery Series: Silicon Valley Faculty Talks | Session 3 with Ilmi Yoon, Khoury College

Northeastern University Silicon Valley, San JoseFree

Pre-event "Create immersive media experiences for spatial computing."

Location not listedFree

[NOT AN OFFICIAL APPLE EVENT] Come and meet other developers, directors and producers working in Apple Immersive Video and other formats, before the event in Cupertino on the 11th. Informal set-up, coffee and snacks served on site!

Culture Slop Live!

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Notion 101 for Small Businesses SF

Location not listedFreeApproval required

partner demo day

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Nordic Capitalism in the AI Economy

Location not listedFreeApproval required

FIG AI Design Makeathon 2026 | AI video Office Hour With Storyverse | Online

San FranciscoFree

Terna Innovation Zone Forum 2026 | Innovating the Grid: Next-Gen Power for AI and Data Centers

Mind the Bridge, SoMaFreeApproval required

Terna Innovation Zone Forum San Francisco 2026 Powering What’s Next: AI, Energy and Infrastructure Join us on November 10 at the Mind the Bridge Innovation Center in San Francisco for the 2026 edition of the Terna Innovation Zone Forum.

AI Builder Pickleball Tournament

The HUB Pickleball Club - Silicon Valley, CampbellFreeApproval required

Contamination & Cocktail Hour

Location not listedFreeApproval required

tea time

Mox, SoMaFree

[SV] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Caylent, Temporal, LaunchPad

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Design Chat with Alex Cornell, Meta

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Foundry Live Demo Night

GitHubFreeApproval required

Foundry Live Agentic AI demo night Join us for an exciting evening of live demos from local, Bay Area Agentic AI startups. Agentic AI represents the most significant shift in the Gen AI landscape today - changing our daily lives and the way we work.

Mahjong Party for AI Builders

Location not listedFreeApproval required

🌐 Battery & Energy Storage Meetup: Navigating Brand Identity Through Uncertainty for Startups, with Alison Wynn, Founder of EKĀ atelier

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

Built on Bedrock Demo Night - Nov 2026

AWS Builder Loft, Financial DistrictFree

Come celebrate what's being built on Amazon Bedrock! Every month we gather at the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco to watch founders and developers show off what they've been cooking, and November is shaping up to be a great one.

dbt Meetup: Featuring dbt Charts / Jev Models

Fivetran, OaklandFree

Calling all data friends, chart enthusiasts, and dbt fans! 📊 We're getting the community together for a November dbt Meetup featuring dbt Charts, Jev Models, and something a little unexpected: a pop-up Museum of Fine Charts from RJ Andrews!

AI is here. Use it better.

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Scaling Robotics - Hosted by MoFo and Founders Inc.

Founders, Inc. Campus | 2 Marina Blvd C300, San Francisco, CA 94123FreeApproval required

Join Morrison Foerster and Founders Inc. for an evening exploring the future of robotics and physical AI, featuring Angela Du, Partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA) and Seth Graham, Technology Transactions Partner, Morrison Foerster.

Synexis Premium Program – Consumer, Creator Economy & Entertainment Investor Dinner [By Approval Only]

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Valkey x OpenSearch @ Uber, Sunnyvale

Uber Sunnyvale, SunnyvaleFree

Join the Valkey and OpenSearch communities for an evening of talks, pizza, drinks, and networking at Uber's Sunnyvale office. Two Linux Foundation projects. One open source data stack. Zero lock-in.

AI for Small Business: Bring Your Problem —> Solve It Live

Location not listedFreeApproval required

iMasons Women’s Event at Crusoe | San Francisco

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Biryani Maxxing: A Diwali Feast & Multiplayer AI Mixer

Location not listedFreeApproval required

🍛 Biryani Maxxing Join fellow founders, builders, and team leaders at the PromptQL office for a Diwali celebration with biryani, music, and new connections. If you’re the one trying to keep your team of humans and bots aligned, this night is for you.

Tech & Chess | Season Finale

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Apollo AI Accelerator | Founders & Builders Meetup

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Meet the teams behind Apollo, connect with AI founders, and discover what’s next. Join 0G and xBuilders for an exclusive meetup bringing together AI founders, builders, investors, and members of the Apollo AI Accelerator community.

Venue Placeholder - Vistara Ventures Evening Event - Members Only

Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoFree

San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup

Location not listedFree

Join us for an evening of talks and community discussion about Apache DataFusion and its growing role in modern data infrastructure. This meetup will spotlight real-world applications, performance innovations, and evolving integrations NOTE: due to venue requirements, it is…

Learning Layer Paper Reading Club - Week 39 - Harness^2: Recursive Agents

111 Maiden Ln #540, San Francisco, CA 94108Free

B^2 Founder Stories Panel

Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, BerkeleyFreeApproval required

Startup Catalyst Community & Other "Former Students of Mark" (FSM) Meetup (plus demos!)

Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, BerkeleyFreeApproval required

Andrew Hogan // The New Rules of Design

Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, BerkeleyFreeSold out

Canadians in San Francisco Meetup

Location not listedFreeApproval required

10x the company, not the IT team: how the fastest-growing AI companies run IT

Dawn ClubFreeApproval required

Founder Sessions #2: Three Questions Before You Manufacture

Studio 45 - informal spaces SF$20

SF Happy Hour

577 Howard St, SoMaFreeSold out

Private Dinner in SF: AI Agents — From PoC to Production

San FranciscoPrice not listedApproval required

Amy Guarino Pitch Night

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Notre Dame Pitch Night & Amy Hirsh Guarino Award Join the Notre Dame Bay Area community on November 10 for an evening celebrating entrepreneurship, innovation, and the Notre Dame network.

Headshots for Founders, VCs and Tech Partners!

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Say Cheese! 📸 Your New Headshot Awaits Founders, VCs & Tech Partners — this one’s for you! Your next great headshot is on us. Join us for a fun, relaxed evening where you and your team can refresh your professional profiles with complimentary headshots, enjoy delicious…

Funded Founders x Foundess Dinner

Location not listedFreeSold out

CaptivateConnect: AI Unfiltered

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Signal vs. Noise: Picking Consumer AI Winners

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Personal agents have become the hottest topic in AI for founders and investors alike. Is this the moment consumer AI finally breaks out, or is the real explosion still ahead?

The Build Room: San Francisco

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Berkeley Quantum Pitch Night

2168 Shattuck Ave., BerkeleyFreeApproval required

Join us at the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator for an evening bringing together quantum founders, researchers, investors, academics, and industry leaders from across the Bay Area.

Funded Founder & CFO Dinner, San Francisco

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Every Agent, Accounted For

The Sea by Alexander's Steakhouse, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

Farm-to-Table: Founders Dinner Series

Pear VC - Pear Studio SFFreeApproval required

SF Beer at Crafty Fox

1700 Mission StFree

Bio Action Plan Workshop with Geoff Ralston

Mox, SoMaFreeApproval required

The Sri Lankan Founder Network - San Francisco

Location not listedFree

Code & Cocktails in SF with Fireworks & MiniMax

Location not listedFreeApproval required

What Did Your Agent Learn This Week? - A Voice AI Leaders Dinner

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Innogate USA: SF Gathering

e2vcFreeApproval required

ISC2 Silicon Valley - November 2026 Chapter Meeting

Location not listedFree

Powering AI

Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View$18Sold out

Bay Area AI Artists November Show, Critique & Promote Night

Hacker Dojo, Mountain ViewFree

Code Summit AI Chef's Table | G2i

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI Transformation Leaders Salon: Future of Jobs with AI

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Agents Need Solid Ground: An Archil Hackathon

Location not listedFree

Join Archil's first official hackathon for agent builders. Archil is the serverless runtime for agents that provides file systems, sandboxes, and databases for agent builders. Every day the models get better, you can do more with fewer people in less time.

Startup Leaders Dinner: Building on the Inference Layer, hosted by You.com

NightbirdFreeApproval required

OpenOakland - Civic Tech for the Community

1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, OaklandFreeSold out

Intro to AI Safety DeCal Dinner

Cloyne Court Hotel, BerkeleyFree

Uploading for Structural AI Safety: happy hour

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Night Ventures Dinner: Growth in SF

Via AureliaFreeApproval required

Bots & Bottles - Corgi x Gradient

425 Bush StFreeSold out

[26.11] FounderFuel Dinner Series

Location not listed$125Approval required

Deel at the Table

Location not listedFreeSold out

Greenfield X GTM Builders

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Hardware Hack Night & Fixit Clinic

sudoroom, OaklandFree

Bedrock Robotics: Test Site Field Trip @ CoRL

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI Agents in Healthcare | Operator Breakfast

Location not listedFreeApproval required

The Pitch SF

Chief Clubhouse$1500Approval required

The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Wednesday, Nov 11

Location not listedFree

The AI Collective Podcast is a live weekday show hosted by AJ Green and Catherine McMillan: the AI news that matters, what's happening inside The AI Collective, and lightning interviews with the people building the field.

Inception Co-Founder Matching Day #5 2026

Location not listedPrice not listedApproval required

European Startup Embassy Coffee Pop-Up with DJ☕🥐

European Startup Embassy$3Approval required

Open Source AI Breakfast with 1Password x Founders Bay x You.com @ Tesla

Location not listedFreeApproval required

🤖 Building the future of AI starts with the people building it. Join 1Password, Founders Bay, and You.com for an exclusive breakfast at Tesla, bringing together AI founders, open-source builders, engineers, and investors.

Stripe Startups Build Day San Francisco

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Meet and cowork with Stripe experts and the founder community Join the Stripe founder community for a day of hands-on building and coworking with the Stripe team. Whether you’re looking for a chance to connect with other founders, 1:1 guidance from the Stripe team, or just a…

IGI BioML Journal Club - Protein Sequence Domain Annotation using Language Models

Innovative Genomics Institute Building, BerkeleyFree

AI Literacy to AI Fluency: Confidence, Voice, and Optionality

Register for Link$15

S1E2: Daniel Rupawalla

Location not listedFreeApproval required

What’s in a Name (and a Brand): Naming, Positioning & Brand Building for Early-Stage Founders

StartX, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

Founders Inc: Physical AI at Open Campus

Location not listedFreeApproval required

INFERENCE: NOVEMBER // Cowork & Chill 🧑‍💻☕️

8 California St floor 2, Financial DistrictFree

Every second Wednesday, we’re opening up the Inference office for an afternoon of coworking, hanging out, and meeting new people. 2:00–6:00 PM — come whenever, stay as long as you want.

Demo Day UDAX - UC Berkeley 2026

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Best of Belgium Silicon Valley at TBS Design Gallery

TBS Design Gallery, Santa ClaraFreeApproval required

Medal x General Intuition @ Stanford

Location not listedFreeApproval required

BGA Speaker Series: Startup Fundraising - How to Raise a Pre-seed with Sam Wong

2168 Shattuck Ave., BerkeleyFree

BGA presents a speaker series for deep tech founders and builders. The Berkeley Gateway Accelerator Speaker Series puts experienced operators and investors in a small room with the people building what’s next.

Investors & Mentors Speed Matching

Orrick, SoMaFreeApproval required

HerPower Wednesday - Founder Speed Dating

Location not listedFree

NextGen Leaders Series powered by Kauffman Fellows #3: The Next Frontier of B2B: Products That Will Reshape Industries

Japan Innovation Campus, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

Early Days #02 with Google DeepMind: Open Models, Security & AI Defensibility

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Join Antler and Google DeepMind for an exclusive discussion on the power of Gemini 4 Argon & open-weight Gemma models + how to create defensibility in the era of AI. Explore the groundbreaking innovations emerging from Google DeepMind and discover how founders can leverage these…

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders w/ Acrew Capital

Stanford, StanfordFree

Lauren Kolodny co-founded Acrew Capital & leads the firm's fintech investment practice. Her investments have included companies such as Chime, Gusto, Plaid, Divvy, & Clara. This appearance by Lauren Kolodny is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

thoughtbot Happy Hour at SF Ruby

Location not listedFreeApproval required

F25 1 Year Reunion

Southern Pacific BrewingFreeApproval required

Four Winds & Founders

Matter Venture Partners, Los AltosFreeSold out

Join founders, operators, and investors from across the deep tech community for an evening of mahjong at the Matter office. We’ll have lessons for anyone new to the game, along with dinner, drinks, and plenty of time around the table.

Notion Presents: The Software Factory Debate

Location not listedFreeSold out

🌐 What is Happening in the Bay Area Blue Economy? 🌊

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

North Star: Demo Day in SF

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

The Bay Area doesn’t get the Northern Lights, so we’re bringing them to you 🌌 This is the night where we celebrate Nordic-born startups and the VCs, accelerators, hacker houses, and operators who make it easier for them to build and grow here.

Annual Veterans Day Get-Together

Location not listedFreeApproval required

BioPioneers × Cycore: AI & Biotech Happy Hour

Madarae, SoMaFree

STATION F x GitHub | AI Founder Demo Night

Location not listedFreeApproval required

A new wave of AI founders from Europe is coming to San Francisco On November 11, GitHub and STATION F are bringing together 40 founders from 23 early-stage AI startups, alongside a handpicked group of investors, founders and technical leaders from San Francisco's startup…

Enterprise Sales Workshop for Founders with Peter Kazanjy

Location not listed$50

BITS × IITs | Frontier AI Dinner

2209 Van Ness AveFreeApproval required

Agentic Web #02 — The Browser as an Agent Runtime

625 2nd StFreeApproval required

Bay Area Frontier Research Club #31 | Intelligence Meets Matter: Imitation, Curiosity & Touch (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)

Location not listedFreeApproval required

AI and Headcount: Are We Planning for a Workforce That Won't Exist?

25 LuskFreeApproval required

Healthcare AI: Trust Is the Product

Location not listedFreeApproval required

November's Off the Record: AI in Marketing, What's Working, What's Not

Location not listedFreeApproval required

I4CS Pitch Night & Final Team Formation Mixer

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2), StanfordFree

CISO Strategy Salon - San Francisco Bay Area

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Scrappy Founders Go Karting

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Vlad Tenev (Co-Founder, RobinHood & HarmonicMath) @ Stanford AI Club

Stanford University, StanfordFree

Stanford AI Club is excited to announce that Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood, will join us for our ’26–’27 Speaker Series! Vlad co-founded Robinhood in 2013 to make investing more accessible.

The Rise of Enterprise AI Agents: From Internal Copilots to Customer-FacingByWeShine7 followers0 eventsFollow

5 Palo Alto Square, Palo AltoFreeApproval required

SGLang x NVIDIA Meetup

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Overview Join NVIDIA, SGLang and Modal for an evening of developer conversations, demos, and community the night before the inaugural SGLang Summit. Whether you’re in town early for the Summit or just want to connect with the open models and inference community in SF, this is…

The Autonomous Enterprise: How AI Agents Will Restructure Knowledge Work

Location not listedFreeApproval required

📝 Event Details AI are moving from answering questions to taking action. What capabilities will define the next leap—and what should founders build toward today? Join FounderCoHo at AWS Builder Loft for a conversation with frontier researchers, founders, and investors exploring…

SF Healthcare Startup Meetup

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Come join us for a fall happy hour for healthcare practitioners, startup operators, founders and investors. The goal is to create a room where people working across different parts of the healthcare system can challenge each other’s thinking, share what they’re…

Researchers, Paper and Pizza

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Discuss the latest in LLMs, robotics, simulation, and BCI, and other state-of-the-art research in a casual setting. Come today for access to our exclusive robotics series every week. Enjoy pizza and beverages on us.

AI Tech & Startup Night — San Francisco

Location not listedFree

Fresh Connections by Oxylabs: VapiCon Afterparty

BarrioFreeApproval required

Join us for a VapiCon afterparty hosted by Oxylabs. A little extra for the first 20 to register: a special tequila tasting experience! 🍋‍🟩🌵 Connect with fellow AI builders, industry professionals, and the Oxylabs team over drinks, snacks, and great conversations at Barrio, a…

Beyond Vibe Code: Are You Production Ready?

Assembly SFFreeApproval required

🚀 AI Can Build an App in Minutes. But Can It Run in Production? AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, and Replit are changing how software gets built. Today, almost anyone can turn an idea into a working application using natural language.

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…

AI 101 Series: Your AI Research Desk

Shack15FreeApproval required

A live 60-minute training where you run a full research brief on a question that actually matters to you — scope, source, synthesize — and leave holding the finished brief. "Can you look into this?" is the request that eats a week.

CTO Club: Private Dinner with Pindrop's Neeraj Gupta on Trust, Hype, and Hiring in the AI Era

Alexander's Steakhouse San Francisco 165 O'Farrell St, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102FreeApproval required

About Event Join a private dinner in San Francisco for CTOs and engineering leaders, hosted by Alcor with a special guest – Neeraj Gupta, CTO of Pindrop. It's created specifically for venture-backed growth and late-stage, PE-backed, and pre-IPO, product companies with AI on the…

Atlassian Code Summit Happy Hour

Cityscape, TenderloinFreeApproval required

Join Atlassian Engineering & Product teams for an intimate happy hour during AI Engineer Code Summit. Step away from the conference, enjoy drinks and bites 46 floors above San Francisco, and connect with the engineering and product leaders shaping the future of AI-native…

Golden Gate Ventures: SF Dinner & Mixer

Location not listedFree

An Evening of Cross-Border Dialogue Golden Gate Ventures and Enterprise Singapore invite you to an intimate dinner and mixer in San Francisco. You’ll join a curated group of founders, investors, corporate leaders and ecosystem builders from around the world.

Wavelabs Demos & Dinner: Presented by TensorWave

550 Laguna St, San Francisco + Full StudioFreeApproval required

TensorWave’s developer demo night · In partnership with Spacesheep, SFcommons and Chosenhq. Live demos, networking and dinner. No slide decks, just things running. Run of show 6:00 pm — Doors open · 6:30 pm — Welcome from TensorWave & Wavelabs- Prithvi Mattur, Tensorwave 6:40pm…

High Stakes Poker Night: Engineers v Investors

Location not listedFreeApproval required

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

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Building your payment stack or preparing to expand into new markets? Join AI Valley × Antom for an evening connecting founders exploring payment solutions for their businesses—with a focused conversation, Q&A, and casual mahjong.

AI Owners Club at Hacker Dojo

3200 Patrick Henry Dr suite 250, Santa ClaraFree

November 11th topic: Agent Zero for local AI bookkeeping The AI Owners Club (OwnersClub.ai) is for people who want to own their local-first AI agentic systems. We help each other install and learn tools like Unsloth Desktop, Agent Zero, and OpenRouter.

Meridian № 06

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Enterprise Agent Builders Dinner

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

Cold Drinks - Factory X Parallel Happy Hour

Cold Drinks Bar, North BeachFreeApproval required

Founders, Operators & Investors: Data Center Drinks

Location not listed$20Approval required

Casco Dreams of Sushi

OkaneFreeApproval required

Pitch & Run San Francisco

Willie Mays GateFreeApproval required

*** JOIN OUR NEXT RUN 11/11! RSVP-> TBD 🗓️ Wednesday, 11/04 ⏰ 6:30p 📍 Willie Mays Plaza at Oracle Park, bag drop at Underdogs Cantina across the street 💨 Run 1 mile sets with interval training in between, 5 miles total 🌮 Buy your own: cool down, relax, connect over food and…

Let's talk about Power Concentration!

Location not listedFree

As AI systems grow more capable, a small number of companies, governments, or individuals could gain unprecedented control over the economy, information, and decision-making. How would that actually happen, and what can we do about it?

Your Move: What Ukrainian Drone Operators Taught NATO

Location not listedFree

The battlefield is changing. During Exercise Hedgehog 2025 in Estonia, Ukrainian drone teams exposed vulnerabilities that left two NATO battalions unable to continue fighting within a day under exercise conditions.

Dinner: Founders Building the Agentic Economy

Location not listedFreeApproval required

CISO Executive Dinner | San Francisco

Location not listedFreeApproval required

Night Ventures Dinner: Content & Social in SF

Wayfare Tavern, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

founders table: private dinner with agentrelay

TBDFreeApproval required

HerTable: Agent Identity

Flour + WaterFreeSold out

Keeping the Lights On When Cyberattacks Go Physical

473A Haight St$27

Cambrian Night #1: against humanoids.

Location not listedFreeApproval required

allthings/aie

Location not listedFreeApproval required

An official community event of AI Engineer Code Summit: an open floor for people building with and for coding agents, from summit attendees to San Francisco builders from allthings.

The Dinner Table: An Evening with Kalpa Labs

Greens RestaurantFreeApproval required

Day of Shecurity Conference 2026 - San Francisco & Virtual

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AIHA WORKSHOP 06 of 08: From Assistants to Agents: Let AI Start Do the Work

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Mercury & Picnic Presents: Diwali Coffee

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Diwali Coffee with Picnic and Mercury Celebrate Diwali with a morning of South Indian filter coffee at the city’s new favorite South Indian coffee shop. Founders Milana and Himanshu will share how they started the company to save Milana's family coffee farm in Chikmagalur, which…

Context Corner: A Breakfast Club · 03

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Women in Startups Breakfast — SF

The BatteryFree

Granola Breakfast Club

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SGLang Summit 2026 by LMSYS

Fort Mason Center, Marina$349

The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Thursday, Nov 12

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BARA Series: November Meeting

340 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain ViewFreeApproval required

The Bay Area Robotics Association (BARA) and ALM Ventures invite you to our bimonthly series of half-day events connecting robotics and physical AI startups with investors, engineers, and industry leaders.

Coffee Meetup (In-Person)

9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Financial DistrictFreeApproval required

Join the #1 Energy Tech Meetup in the Bay! Join fellow grid professionals for our in-person coffee chat dedicated to advanced tech strategies and real-world implementations on the power grid. What topics are discussed?

Aligned on Decisions: How Our Product Lead Builds with Data Agents in MotherDuck

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Accelr8 | Founders Brew

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Good coffee, fresh perspectives, and time to build. Founders Brew by Accelr8 brings 8 founders together at a local café for a productive morning of working and connecting. Bring your laptop and something you’re excited to move forward. Coffee’s on us!

MPL Live San Francisco (2026)

Envoy, SoMa$175

Do Not Disturb HACKATHON

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Your phone is on Do Not Disturb. Your agent isn't. Join us on November 12 and 13 in San Francisco for a 32 hours hackathon where 100 builders deploy AI agents to use the phone, competing for $3,000 in cash! In partnership with LangChain, Bond AI, Intertech Talents.

Rails Girls 2026 @ Mux HQ

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Algorave x Dancing Bot: CoreWeave Forge @ Corgi

9 Claude LnFree

Hey builders! Are you looking for something to do while your agents cook? Need a little pick me up to meet that deadline? Fuel up with our new "Coretado" and supercharge your agent loops in the Forge.

AGENT GRAND PRIX | STRAIKER + AWS

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An AI Builders and Leaders Summit | Win F1 Tickets!! Thu Nov 12, 2026 // Sonoma Raceway A one-day summit at Sonoma Raceway for the people who build AI agents and the leaders accountable for them. Builders ship an agent and watch Ascend AI attack it live.

Lunch & Hack: The Browser Is Becoming an AI Runtime (w/ The AI Collective)

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Abundant's Frontier Forum w/ Robin Faro

143 2nd St floor 3, SoMaFree

Abundant's Frontier Forum is a recurring speaker series bringing researchers together to talk through their work. Just real conversation over snacks and drinks. This session, Robin Faro (https://x.com/robinfaro13) joins us to present his paper, Frontier Learning: Training LLM…

Contenting-Day- Camp

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Stanford Computational Medicine Research Colloquium | Responsible AI in Healthcare: From RWE to Agentic Systems

3180 Porter Dr, Palo AltoFree

Office Hours w/ PostHog, Brex & Supabase

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Hey everyone! The technical team at PostHog is partnering with Supabase and Brex to offer hands-on guidance and support to all our products. Swing by for free lunch and demo in a casual setting what you're building; we'll use the time to provide valuable feedback to you and…

The AI-Native Startup: Prototyping, Prompting, and Building as a Team

2232 Piedmont Ave, BerkeleyFree

Daytime Third Space (Formerly Community Create & Cowork)

2355 Broadway, OaklandFree

Fireside Chat + Hands-on Robot Workshop with Lucen Robotics

4 N 2nd St, San JoseFree

Lucen Robotics builds one software stack for every robot body: bipeds, wheeled robots, quadrupeds and arms, all on the same actuators and an open SDK. On Thursday, Nov 12, co-founders Linyan Fu and Apheth D'Almeida bring four of their robots to campus: a biped, a wheeled biped,…

How an AI Token Meets the best Product？@Microsoft GCR Incubator🦄

Microsoft, Mountain ViewFreeApproval required

AI tokens are powering innovation. But what turns AI capabilities into products people actually want? Join us at Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus for Founder Ascend — Silicon Valley Stop, bringing together Microsoft leaders, AI founders, builders, and industry…

BritChip Pitching: Meet the Latest UK Semiconductor Startups

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SGLang Summit Workshop by LMSYS: Local AI Coding Lab

Fort MasonFreeApproval required

SGLang Summit Workshop by Nebius

Fort MasonFreeApproval required

Fireside Chat w/ CloudFlare

Founders Campus, MarinaFree

There's a good chance you used Cloudflare to load this page. Michelle Zatlyn co-founded the company in 2009 after meeting Matthew Prince at Harvard Business School. They started with a plan to make websites safer & faster.

Embed Batch 7 Demo Day

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Physical AI Conference 2026

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Penelope's Coffee with Lexi Ventures

Penelope's Coffee and Tea, Foster CityFreeApproval required

Fireside Chat with Tanay Kothari, Wispr Flow

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Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything with Augment Ventures

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Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything — Palo Alto, CA Augment Ventures invites you to the next Founders & Funders: Ask Me Anything, an intimate afternoon for founders, investors and operators building AI for the real economy. Most enterprise AI never makes it past the pilot.

SGLang Summit Workshop by Crusoe: Serving SGLang on AMD and NVIDIA with Kubernetes

Fort MasonFreeApproval required

The Founder Game ARG - Realm 1

San FranciscoFreeApproval required

Think what you have what it takes to be a founder? Come join us for the world's first in-person AI Alternate Reality Game where you take on the role of a budding founder building your very first billion dollar business.

MBC BioLabs AI Discovery Platforms Innovation Forum

1030 Brittan Ave, San CarlosFreeApproval required

Pitch Day - Biotech Startups

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

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FDE Meetup: Recruiting & Retaining FDEs

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FDE Meetup: Recruiting & Retaining FDEs Demand for FDEs has jumped roughly 10x in the last 18 months, and it's still the hardest role to hire for. The case-study round alone screens out about 60% of candidates, and plenty of good hires leave within a year or two.

How To Build Better Products w/ AI Evals

Intuit Building 9, Mountain ViewFree

Join us for this exciting AI Evals book launch event! As AI becomes central to product development, teams need a systematic way to know whether their AI features are actually working.

Biotech and Neurotech Fireside Chat

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Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day

655 Bryant St, SoMaFree

Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day Join us as the 2026 Humanmade Hardware Accelerator cohort takes the stage to showcase six months of building, testing, and refining their companies.

AWS Day at Cal State East Bay

The CORE - University Libraries, HaywardFree

Unicorn Battle - Central Eurasian Founders

724 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo ParkFree

Global Strategic Litigation Council Happy Hour

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Join Bella Mosselmans, Director of the Global Strategic Litigation Council, & friends for drinks, snacks & the chance to learn a bit about their work & mission. The Council is a young & global organization that has protected & advanced the rights of over 500,000 refugees,…

DMBA x TDP AI Hackathon

California College of the Arts (CCA)$18

Founders Showcase | StartX International Program

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ProductTank SF: After Hours

1 Ferry Building suite 201, EmbarcaderoFreeApproval required

A big thank-you to Productboard for making this ProductTank SF community evening possible! "Connection is why we're here." — Brené Brown On November 12, join ProductTank San Francisco at SHACK15 for a social evening with the people who make this community happen: our members,…

P-1 AI Happy Hour

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Join us at the P-1 AI office in San Mateo for our happy hour, bringing together AI researchers, engineers, and technical builders. There will be no talks or agenda - just casual conversation with interesting people working at the frontier of AI.