AI Events in San Francisco

On Oct 24–25, 175 hand-picked founders and professionals with 2+ years of experience will use AI and Emergent’s tools to turn ambitious ideas into working products, with YC judges awarding up to $10,000 and a direct interview for an upcoming YC batch. The weekend will welcome pre-seed and pre-company builders across engineering, product, design, operations, sales, and finance, even those new to coding.

The third annual Hack for Social Impact will bring technical and non-technical innovators together for a weekend of building solutions in climate, mental health, justice reform, and art and design, with nonprofit partners including the UNCCD. Winners will share $5,000 in prizes, and the event will offer sponsor credits, building on alumni successes that include UN Climate Conference presentations and YC-backed startups.

Builders will push Gemini 4 Argon through projects in advanced reasoning, visual coding, robotics, and world models, competing for $20,000 in prizes.

NewKid will bring families, researchers, educators, and startup founders together for conversations and hands-on experiences exploring AI, child development, and the future of education. Highlights will include product showcases, expert panels, a brain-development exhibition, and a philosophy workshop on whether a robot can be a friend.

SF AI→SI Code & Coffee will bring the community together for coffee and conversation around AI and software innovation, building on last month’s 1,000+ RSVPs.

On October 26, 2026, University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Daniel Rock will present as part of the lab’s seminar series.

The discussion will explore how investors evaluate and fund enduring companies across enterprise software, AI, health, fintech, and frontier tech. Speakers will include NFX General Partner Omri Amirav-Drory, a Ph.D. scientist and founder, alongside venture, family-office, and technology leaders with experience at Plug and Play, BlackRock, Samsung Electronics, and Luminar Ventures.

Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker will discuss the intersection of privacy, AI, and resistance, drawing on her leadership of one of the world’s leading encrypted messaging platforms.

The first official exe.dev meetup will explore whether more AI agents and parallel tasks actually make software development better, with short technical talks and an open Q&A. Speakers will include exe co-founder Josh Bleecher Snyder, DatologyAI engineer Josh Wills, and Amp’s Beyang Liu, former Sourcegraph founder.

A large networking mixer will bring together entrepreneurs, startups, and business professionals to build connections and exchange ideas. Eventbrite RSVP will be required for attendance.

Enterprise AI leaders—CDOs, Chief AI Officers, and VP-level practitioners—will converge to tackle governance, agentic automation, and AI ROI strategy alongside speakers like Michael I. Jordan, Peter Norvig, and Chip Huyen in an exclusive 250-person summit. The three-day event will dig into AI adoption, ethics, workforce transformation, and agent systems through intimate peer validation and strategy alignment with your core team.

C- and VP-level AI leaders will weigh the protection, cost, and performance trade-offs of private AI against hosted open models and proprietary services. Datasaur CEO Ivan Lee and Betterworks SVP of Engineering Maher Hanafi will share practical insights, helping participants develop a decision framework for evaluating real workloads.

Data and AI professionals will dive into cutting-edge workshops and hands-on training led by industry experts, while business leaders and career switchers gain strategic insights on navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape. The three-day event will feature thought leaders sharing the latest breakthroughs and practical applications shaping the future of data science and AI.

Practitioners, business leaders, and AI enthusiasts will gather to explore reskilling opportunities and connect with others navigating the AI landscape. The event brings together professionals at various stages of their AI journey to share insights and build their expertise.

AWS and Wherobots will lead a hands-on workshop, bringing together expertise from both organizations for practical learning.

Data and ML engineers will build an end-to-end agentic geospatial pipeline, turning satellite and weather data into hazard-risk scores and interactive Felt dashboards using Apache Sedona, Wherobots, and Amazon Bedrock. Led by Wherobots, an AWS Partner founded by the creators of Apache Sedona, the hands-on workshop will cover spatial SQL, data pipelines, natural-language map creation, and live data connections.

Engineering leaders will explore how AI can move beyond code generation to support context-aware decisions, reliable production applications, and stronger code review, quality, and security. Speakers include PromptQL CEO and co-founder Tanmai Gopal, Optimal AI’s Iba Masood, and RocketRide.ai co-founder and COO Joe Maionchi.

The AI Engineer Code Summit Hackathon will bring teams of up to four together for a one-day challenge tackling frontier AI engineering problems, with Meta, Google DeepMind, MongoDB, and Fetch.ai as partners. Approved attendees will compete for $11,000 in prizes, including partner awards.