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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · San Francisco

The Weekend

67 listings

Tech from Friday evening through Sunday night.

On now

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  • On now

    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics. SF 9/12

    Free · Approval required

Tomorrow · Thursday, September 10

1 listing

  • 9:00 AM

    Tech Weekend September 10-11, 2026 | Menlo Park | Silicon Valley

    Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park · $99

Friday, September 11

20 listings

  • 12:00 AM

    Agent Games: Agents Gone Wild

    Free · Approval required

  • 8:30 AM

    Techsuyo 2026: Human-Centered AI

    Venture Dock, Palo Alto · $59 · Approval required

  • 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…

    Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara · Free

  • 9:00 AM

    K-AI Tech Week - Silicon Valley

    Free

  • 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…

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy

    Come to European Startup Embassy, tell us what you're working on, and get things done before the weekend. Usually we grab a group lunch at Cafe Centro around 1:00 PM. Coffee is on us.

    European Startup Embassy · Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    Founder Friends: Coffee & Coworking

    Start your Friday with coffee, founder friends, and a coworking session. Tell us one goal you want to accomplish this month, and we’ll try to introduce you to someone who can help make it happen. Then, settle in to work alongside other founders.

    Free · Sold out

  • 1:00 PM

    AI Workshop: Getting Started with OpenClaw

    456 W Olive Ave, Sunnyvale · Free · Approval required

  • 1:00 PM

    Beta x Alibaba Cloud x AMD AI Agent Hackathon Demo Day

    The building is done. Now they ship it live. Over the past several weeks, teams from across the Bay Area and beyond built AI agents on Alibaba Cloud's FC Agent Sandbox, with AMD compute behind them.

    555 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    Breaking into the US for Korean founders @ K-Startup Center

    미국 진출을 준비하는 한국 창업자를 위한 자리입니다. 본 행사는 전 과정 한국어로 진행됩니다. K Night(9월 12일)을 앞둔 오후, 하루 먼저 도착하는 한국 창업자들을 한자리에 모읍니다. 이미 미국에 진출한 세 팀이 실제로 겪은 이야기를 나눕니다 — 첫 고객 확보, 미국에서의 세일즈, 그리고 법인과 오피스 셋업까지. 강연보다는 대화에 가까운 자리이고, 마지막에는 음식과 음료, 네트워킹으로 마무리합니다.

    100 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park · Free · Approval required

  • 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…

    Free

  • 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…

    Oakland, Oakland · Free

  • 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.

    Sports Basement Presidio · Free

  • 5:00 PM

    Women in AI Founders Pitch & 1000 Days of Love (TDOL)

    Free · Approval required

  • 5:30 PM

    Rethinking Your Career in the AI Era | Augmented Intelligence

    Career change in the AI era doesn't have to be theoretical. Join us for an evening fireside chat built for anyone rethinking their career path in the age of AI - not just engineers and technologists, but people across every role and background.

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:00 PM

    (Invitation Only) K-AI Tech Week Private Networking Reception

    Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara · Free · Approval required

  • 6:30 PM

    Raising Your First VC Dollar

    Free · Approval required

  • 6:30 PM

    SF | Show Your Hand: Founders Game Night

    Show Your Hand: Founders Game Night See how you play together. Most founder events start with introductions, pitches, and exchanging LinkedIns. This one starts at the game table.

    Free · Sold out

  • 7:00 PM

    Cocktails with Lyra | YC Demo Day Afterparty

    Free · Approval required

  • 8:00 PM

    Mockbyrd RDC26 Developer & Creator Mixer

    Free · Approval required

Saturday, September 12

34 listings

  • 7:00 AM

    Harness Engineering 2: Inspect and Improve

    $39

  • 8:00 AM

    Berkeley Ruby Early Birds

    Royal Ground Coffee, Berkeley · Free

  • 8:00 AM

    Workshop: Grow your e-commerce business with AI - Day 1

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Homecoming AI Educate Hackathon

    🛑 School is back. The tools that will actually teach are being built this weekend. Every classroom, every campus, every learner is asking the same question in 2026: what does AI change about how we teach and learn? Not the demos. The daily work.

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    🔥 Qoder AI Hackathon with $4500 cash prizes

    Free · Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    CoreWeave Hacks: Agent Loops Hackathon with Weights & Biases and AGI House

    About the event Come plug in and supercharge at our premiere CoreWeave hackathon! If you’ve had an idea for an autonomous loop that’s been burning away at you, this heavily-resourced hack is for you to make it happen.

    400 Alabama St ste 202 · Free · Approval required

  • 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.

    Free

  • 9:30 AM

    Sisters Female Founders Hike

    San Francisco · Approval required

  • 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.

    Maritime Museum · Free

  • 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.

    Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    US Market Entry: GTM & Sales Insights Meetup

    KOTRA Silicon Valley, San Jose · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    BURNING TOKEN, the AI Global hackathon

    Hosted by Francesca Sala & Mike Rice

    Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San Francisco · Free · Approval required

  • 10:00 AM

    Agents, Everywhere: Global Hackathon with OpenAI • CopilotKit • openrouter

    Agents, Everywhere: Bots, Channels, & More — Global Hackathon A global hackathon with OpenAI, CopilotKit, and openrouter On Saturday, September 12, AI Tinkerers cities around the world are joining one shared build day.

    San Francisco · Free · Sold out

  • 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!

    All Good Pizza, Bayview · Free

  • 10:00 AM

    Live Models Hackathon, hosted by Visko x Reactor x Nebius

    Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    The AI Trust: Compliance as Competitive Advantage

    KavehG, Danville · Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    🦞 The Personal AI (PAI) Starter Lab: Create Your OpenClaw Strategy by Learning

    $10 · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    AI Agents Workshop

    We welcome you to a free, intensive one-day workshop: a guided tour of how modern AI agents are designed, connected, evaluated, and governed. Participants will learn about: Foundations of AI Agents Agentic Design Patterns Single vs Multi-agent Systems Harness: The Runtime that…

    SupportVectors, Fremont · Free

  • 12:00 PM

    From Idea to Startup: enterpreneurship basics for young founders

    Menlo Park, Menlo Park · Free · Approval required

  • 12:30 PM

    HYSTA Founders Club Annual Roadshow Preliminary Pitch

    Free · Approval required

  • 1:00 PM

    AI Safety Summit at Stanford

    A focused half-day forum bringing together frontier AI labs, researchers, builders, investors, and policymakers to examine one increasingly urgent question: As AI becomes more capable and autonomous, how do we ensure it remains safe, controllable, and aligned with human…

    Stanford, Stanford · Free · Approval required

  • 1:00 PM

    AI音乐创作工作坊:零基础手把手现场演示AI Music Workshop: From Zero to One Song

    1629 S Main St, Milpitas · Free · Approval required

  • 1:00 PM

    How Can AI Empower Me—Today and in the Future?

    California Science And Technology University, Milpitas · Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    AI Is Changing Everything. What Should Stay Human?

    Something about your work is changing, and you didn't choose it. Maybe a tool now does something you were good at. Maybe everyone around you sounds certain and you don't.

    Frontier Tower @ 14th Floor: Full Floor 995 Market Street

  • 2:00 PM

    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: DYNA-2, Dyna Robotics. 9/12

    Robotics & World Models Reading Club 28: DYNA-2, Dyna Robotics. 9/12 A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence.

    Free · Sold out

  • 2:00 PM

    AI Infra Signal: From Research to Production

    The whole stack is still moving — the models, the systems that train them, the systems that run them in production. None of it has settled yet. Most AI events optimize for volume.

    Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    AI Infra Signal - Build, Operate & Monetize Intelligence

    The whole stack is still moving - the models, the systems that train them, the systems that run them in production. None of it has settled yet. Most AI events optimize for volume.

    Free

  • 2:00 PM

    Golden Gate Society of Women Engineers: Napa Valley Wine Tasting

    Bouchaine Vineyards, Napa · $60 · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    TSVC x TYCon Pitch Competition

    TSVC, Los Altos · $35 · Approval required

  • 3:24 PM

    heyBTW API probe (HEY-1481) - ignore, will be canceled

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-TiKULhDFHNHA9v5 Hosted by Anthony Perritano

    Free

  • 4:00 PM

    Bayview Happy Hour Cleanup

    Join the Civic Joy Fund, Refuse Refuse, SF Public Works, and the Bayview community for a friendly neighborhood clean

    5299 3rd St, Bayview · Free

  • 4:30 PM

    China/US AI Safety Coordination Meetup

    Welcome to the inaugural Bay Area China/US AIS coordination meetup! Come join us if you think international coordination between China and the US is important for AI Safety.

    Mox, SoMa · Free

  • 6:30 PM

    AI Founder & Researcher Happy Hour | WSGR x Goaly

    The Sea by Alexander's Steakhouse, Palo Alto · Free · Approval required

  • 7:00 PM

    YC S26 DEMO DAY PARTY CELEBRATION

    Thriller Social Club, SoMa · Free · Approval required

Sunday, September 13

11 listings

  • 9:00 AM

    Sunday Founder Rides: Low-Gear, High-Connection

    Approval required

  • 9:00 AM

    Replace Your SaaS Stack with AI

    Click to join: https://luma.com/join/g-YsWdFtKNT0CFdSD Bring your SaaS bill. Pick one tool. Build what you actually need instead. How many subscriptions are sitting in your stack because you need one or two features from each of them?

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    AI Filmmaking Masterclass + Hackathon

    Stop making AI slop. Learn to direct AI films that actually look professional, then premiere yours on the big screen. Roan Weigert will lead a practical masterclass covering creative direction, traditional filmmaking, AI generation, visual consistency, editing, sound, &…

    Free

  • 9:00 AM

    AI Filmmaking Masterclass + Hackathon

    Free

  • 9:30 AM

    AI Security Hackathon - By Hackathons.team

    Marina District · Free

  • 10:00 AM

    Recursive Self Improvement Hack: AI for Science

    Free · Approval required

  • 11:00 AM

    Evals & Metrics for RAG & Agents Workshop

    We welcome you to a free, intensive one-day workshop: a guided tour of how RAG systems and AI agents are measured, judged, and improved. Participants will learn about: Why Evals Matter for RAG and Agents Retrieval Metrics Generation Metrics LLM-as-a-Judge Trajectory-based Agent…

    SupportVectors, Fremont · Free

  • 2:00 PM

    Sundae Robotics 08: Surprise...

    84 Serrano Dr, Atherton · Free · Approval required

  • 2:00 PM

    Volta Foundation Startup Network Presents: Founders & Friends Picnic

    Shakespeare Garden · Free

  • 3:00 PM

    Mount Tam, Tacos and Sunset: A Founders' Hike

    Marin County, CA · Approval required

  • 3:00 PM

    AI in the Wild: Silicon Valley Backyard BBQ

    Free · Sold out