AI Events in San Francisco

During SF Tech Week, NEXA will use AI-powered, opt-in matchmaking to connect attendees with potential hires, customers, and investors at events they already plan to attend. The week will bring together startup and VC professionals across the tech ecosystem, with introductions made only when there’s a strong fit.

An early-morning breakfast during SF Tech Week will bring founders, researchers, investors, engineers, and scientists together to discuss how AI will reshape discovery, biology, medicine, and research. The informal gathering will focus on conversation over coffee and breakfast, with no panels or long talks.

Brain Gains will run a live mental performance leaderboard throughout Tech Week, using Soma’s voice-based analysis to track focus and performance. Participants and their companies will compete for the top rankings, with only leaderboard standings made public.

Startup Grind and Bright Data will kick off SF Tech Week with a relaxed gathering of founders, engineers, product leaders, and investors exploring real-world agentic AI, from deployed agents to emerging opportunities and challenges. Supported by Microsoft for Startups, the event will center on practical conversations and connections among people building, funding, and deploying AI agents.

Three AI companies—LTX, Bria, and fal—will dig into building generative media pipelines with open-weights models, with their respective creative technologists and engineers breaking down what's newly possible, what they've shipped, and where things still need work. Developers, product managers, and AI execs will hear from the teams behind these tools and get hands-on time to explore how to integrate them into their workflows.

AI infrastructure builders at Tesla will connect over coffee, pastries, and conversation as part of SF Tech Week, a series of events hosted by VCs and startups across the tech ecosystem.

Raisable will open SF Tech Week 2026 with a curated breakfast connecting corporate venture investors from global leaders such as Samsung, Microsoft, and Hitachi with Series A robotics founders whose systems are already operating in real-world settings. The 20-seat gathering will feature introductions and pre-arranged investor-founder conversations, with no pitches or panel.

A panel discussion and breakfast during #SFTechWeek will explore the tension between AI privacy and usefulness: systems that know less about us may also be less able to help. Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Nicole Ozer and a founder to be announced will lead the conversation.

SimpleClosure and Carta will host a panel on how AI will reshape legal work and create new possibilities for startups and established firms. The discussion will feature Cambrian Founder and GP Rex Salisbury, DLA Piper Partner Abrar Hussain, SimpleClosure CEO Dori Yona, and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Alastair Goldfisher.

Attendees will test agentic commerce on wearable glasses, using an on-device agent to buy shelf items with a glance, no app or checkout line required. AGI, Inc builds on-device models and agents that take actions across apps on phones, tablets, and wearables.

Bond’s curated guide will track the full Tech Week 2026 schedule from October 5–11, with Bond AI’s approved picks clearly marked.

Inception Studio will host a full-day co-founder matching workshop for 45 curated founders, featuring speed dating, team and co-founder exercises, presentations, judging, and networking. The event will bring together entrepreneurs developing AI ventures and is part of SF Tech Week.

On October 5, BUILD HUMAN FUTURES will bring creators, founders, investors, and cultural leaders together for a hands-on Physical AI hackathon, turning ideas into factory-ready product concepts and pitches. Guests will include Australian and Greek diplomatic community representatives, a YC alum and serial entrepreneur, DrawBridge’s executive director, and a hardware-focused venture investor.

EchoHer’s #SFTechWeek meetup will blend free espresso, live music, and bold ideas, with a bunny adding a playful twist. The nonprofit empowers women and non-binary founders and funders through networking, pitch nights, and community programs.

Open Future Forum, sponsored by Agentic Fabriq, will host a practical developer-focused discussion on MCP gateways-the security and infrastructure layer connecting AI agents to production tools and data. AI engineers, platform teams, and security leaders will explore architecture, access controls, credentials, observability, and operating agent integrations at scale.

Scientists, AI researchers, engineers, PhDs, and undergraduates will team up for a one-day hackathon, using Godela’s AI architectures to build applications that predict, simulate, or explain real-world physical systems. Teams will pitch and demo projects spanning areas like fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, biomechanics, and climate, with awards recognizing scientific value, technical ambition, originality, and clear demonstrations.

This half-day, hands-on AI workshop will help participants identify worthwhile problems, build and test prototypes quickly, and spot work that could be automated. Designed by a learning scientist with a track record of guiding hundreds of non-programming professionals, it will be co-hosted by the Corporate Accelerator Forum and University of San Francisco.

Techstars, Zendesk, and DigitalOcean leaders will explore how founders can differentiate, build trust, and make smart calls as AI reshapes business. The panel will feature DigitalOcean CRO Kevin Van Gundy, Zendesk COO Craig Flower, Smart Bricks founder Mohamed Mohamed, and Techstars Managing Director Kerty Levy as moderator.

SF Tech Week will kick off with an informal night bringing together founders, AI builders, and others exploring what comes after AGI. Expect drinks, music, bold predictions, and plenty of chances for unexpected connections.

Teams of up to four will build persistent AI agents that plan, delegate, recover from errors, and operate with minimal oversight using Crusoe Managed Inference, NVIDIA infrastructure, and open models like Nemotron. Approved participants will compete for $25,000 in cash prizes and an NVIDIA RTX 5090.