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Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly.Featured
· Google for Startups, Monica +3 · SoMa
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AI Native Summit
· Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie +1 · FiDi · 438 going
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AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scale
· Leverage, RedHat +4 · Mission · 250 going
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| Time | Event | Host | Neighborhood | Access | Food | Price |
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| Monday, Oct 527 events | ||||||
| to 6:30 PM | OpsStars | LeanData, Tara Montanez | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 7 PM | Inception Co-Founder Matching Day | Inception Studio, Michael Liu, Mike +1 more | SoMa | Apply | Breakfast | |
| to 12:45 PM | Physical AI Hackathon: From Idea to Factory46 goingwith Eleanor Ketter, Kayci Bi | One Culture Foundation, xinye lin, echo | Embarcadero | Apply | ||
| to 2 PM | AI Native in Half a Day189 going | Corporate Accelerator Forum, University of San Francisco, Diana Joseph | FiDi | Apply | Lunch | |
| Free Coffee + Build Hour: Scale Your GTM Team on Genspark | Genspark.ai, Nellie - Genspark | Rincon Hill | Apply | Snacks, Soft drinks | ||
| Frontier Science AI Hackathon | Cinnamon Sipper, Cinnamon | Dogpatch | Apply | Breakfast | ||
| to 2:30 PM | AI Has Agents. What Should Human Agency Look Like at Work?165 going | Zhennovate | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 2 PM | Networking for Introverts: SF TechWeek Kick-Off * Virtual * | Catapult Circles, Sasha Grinshpun | Embarcadero | Apply | ||
| to 4 PM | AI-Native Design: Build with AI Agents | Koki AI, Koki Xu | SoMa | Apply | ||
| The AI-Native Finance Workshop (with The FP&A Guy Paul Barnhurst) | Pluvo | SoMa | Apply | |||
| to 5 PM | AI Readiness Audit Workshop | Lini, Sylvia | Hayes Valley | Apply | ||
| International Expansion: Is Your Startup Ready to Take on the World?97 going | Taylor Wessing | Union Square | Apply | |||
| to 4:30 PM | Psychological Burnout in the Age of AI79 goingwith Candice Balluru | The Workplace Psychologist PLLC, Candice Balluru, Margherita | Embarcadero | Open RSVP | ||
| to 4 PM | The Zero Marginal Cost Tax Department131 going | KPMG LLP, Alex Hanhan, Jenny Kim +2 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 9 PM | /build-with-AI Buildathon156 going | Mem0, Aishwarya Srinivasan, Zuny Molano | Palo Alto | Apply | ||
| Building on Hard Ground: AI, Child Safety, and the CSAM Problemwith Garima Lunawat, Aadi Shah | Shah Laboratories, Aadi Shah, Garima +1 more | Virtual | Apply | |||
| Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon Kickoff1 going | Airwallex, Rahul Kumar, Michael Morgenstern | Downtown | Apply | |||
| A Hack of All Trades13 goingwith Monet Sommers, Kamaka Martin, Jessica Ma, Sadia Raveendran, Donna Schut, Dr. Lily Jampol | Chief | Jackson Square | Apply | |||
| to 9 PM | Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI300 goingwith Fred Schott, Marissa Phul, Sunil Pai | Cloudflare | Embarcadero | Waitlist or full | ||
| Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Doubleword223 going | Overmind, Daytona, Doubleword | SoMa | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 7 PM | AI with Personality | Flair Labs, Stephen Willis | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Telemetry In, Fixes Out: Closing the Agent Reliability Loop (Talk, Demo, Pizza)75 goingwith Vipul Shah | Lumoz AI Inc., Vipul Shah | Downtown | Waitlist or full | ||
| to 9 PM | Automate Your SF Tech Week with n8n | Melinda Varga, Willie Macharia, Kaila Love +1 more | SoMa | Open RSVP | Snacks | Free |
| Can your agents actually ship?246 going | Virtus Lab, Weronika Wiernicka, Anna Klepacka +1 more | FiDi | Apply | |||
| Deciphering Medvi's playbook for Telehealth & D2C marketers23 going | marketingloops.ai, AC, Garvita Baldua | SoMa | Apply | |||
| to 10 PM | Shark Tank: Most “Ethical” Hackathon & Pitch Competition110 going | IRL Fandoms, Brent Chase | Mission Bay | Open RSVP | ||
| NEXT.BIO 2026 - The AI x BIO Dev Summit -#StartUp Battlefield67 going | Next Sequence, Loretta TIOIELA | Downtown | Apply | |||
| The most RSVPs, in time order. | ||||||
| Tuesday, Oct 634 events | ||||||
| to 9 AM | The Women’s Healthspan Lab: Pvolve + A Live Podcast on Hormones and Longevity with Clair Health | Clair Health | SoMa | Apply | ||
| Claude Founder House | Anthropic | SoMa | Apply | Soft drinks | ||
| to 5 PM | Neural Concept WorkShop | Neural Concept, Chase Zhang | Union Square | Apply | ||
| Open Source x Sovereign AI: 3-Day Track2 going | Apollo Innovation Commons | SoMa | Apply | Lunch, Drinks | ||
| to 10:30 AM | AI Marketing for Founders with Coffee | GoBazzinga Inc, Nikita Chavan | SoMa | Apply | Breakfast, Soft drinks | |
| to 12 PM | Make Content, Not Excuses488 goingwith Laura Burkhauser | Descript, Natalie Estrada | Mission | Apply | Breakfast, Soft drinks | |
| to 12 PM | SHIPPED SF1 going | Neighborhood Linguist, Ny Batieste | Embarcadero | Apply | ||
| Conversational AI x Gaming Hackathon96 going | Mano Games, Max Giang, Christopher K +1 more | Downtown | Apply | Snacks | ||
| Nugen AI Behaviour Lab: Beyond Fine-Tuning - From Model Intelligence to Reliable Behaviour | Nugen Intelligence, Sanket Badgujar | Virtual | Apply | |||
| to 1 PM | AI Has Changed the Economics of Going Global. Is Your Growing Startup Ready? - Why and How?25 going | Globiant, Middleware, Hans Bukow +5 more | FiDi | Apply | ||
| Every Action Is Checked: Governing AI Agents in Regulated Environments94 going | Outhora AI, Michael Walker, DragonflyAI | Virtual | Apply | |||
| to 2 PM | Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settings156 goingwith Rob Zuber | CircleCI, Angeline | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 1:30 PM | Sustainable AI for Practitioners: A Collaborative Workshop122 going | 9 Zero, 9Zero, Nolwenn Godard +1 more | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 3:30 PM | Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWS114 going | Dynatrace, Judy Breedlove | SoMa | Apply | Lunch | |
| to 1:30 PM | Own you Agentic Voice AMA72 going | Cloudonix, Inc, Eric Klein, Pritesh Kumar | Virtual | Open RSVP | ||
| [AI is not a project, it's an ecosystem] - []67 going | Aignos, Natalie Gil, Laura Tovar | Virtual | Apply | |||
| What did our AI Agent do?! The Missing Runtime Authorization Layer for Agents and Physical AI61 goingwith Marina Piller | OtisLabs.ai, Marina Piller | Virtual | Apply | |||
| to 5:30 PM | AI Founder Playbook: Stop building AI products without a plan to win | AI Founder Playbook by Byte&Chord, Inc, Alisha Outridge (Lish), Natalie Pan +1 more | Apply | |||
| to 6:30 PM | Your QBR, Reimagined: Fireside chat + build | Lovable | Downtown | Apply | ||
| Hacking AI For Fun and Profit140 going | Snyk, AI Security Engineers SF, Javier Garza | FiDi | Waitlist or full | Snacks | ||
| to 7:30 PM | The Imagination Layer93 going | Original Model, Insika, GenPeach AI +3 more | Dogpatch | Apply | Snacks | |
| Apollo Summit | Apollo GraphQL | Dogpatch | Open RSVP | Snacks | ||
| Build an AI-Native Company in a Day168 going | BotBot, FLORA, Steve Mayernick +2 more | SoMa | Apply | |||
| to 9 PM | Marathon Mode Hackathon (No Compaction Allowed)127 going | Subconscious, Jack O’Brien | Marina | Apply | ||
| Houston, We Have No Cloud: Build Your AI for the Moon172 goingwith Seongjun Kim, Viviana Marquez | Liquid AI, ZETIC, Viviana Márquez +2 more | Downtown | Apply | |||
| to 8:30 PM | Ship an AI Voice Agent Workshop | Leverage, Modulate, Shir Chorev +2 more | Civic Center | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Stop losing money on events: How we use AI to make $10k per event97 going | Press Club, Kathy Wang, Articuler.ai | FiDi | Apply | ||
| Workshop: Trust Me, I’m an Agentwith Vanessa Sauter, Nicole Dunn, Raji Vanninathan, Christina Hsu, Aarti Bharathan, Jenny Ni | SF Tech Unleashed, Baselayer, Deloitte +1 more | Downtown | Apply | |||
| Build the Context Layer for Your GTM | Riley, Claudia Natasia, Arlene | Downtown | Apply | |||
| to 9 PM | AI Heist Challenge with Cogent x Modal x LangChain111 going | Cogent, LangChain, Modal +5 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 9 PM | Practical AI for Documentation70 goingwith Ian Alton, Addison Schultz, Sarah Dugan | Doug Purcell | FiDi | Waitlist or full | Snacks | Free |
| Zero to Agent: Hands-on Agentic Workshop101 goingwith Mansi More | RocketRide, Mansi More | Embarcadero | Apply | |||
| to 9 PM | Cafe Compute: CTO Salon | Cerebras, Datadog, Diyi Zhu +2 more | FiDi | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 10:30 PM | [The Founder's Marketing Playbook: Master 'Build in Public' & Organic Distribution77 goingwith Angelina Li, Lomit Patel, Tom Capone, Jose Balbuena | Fund Bridge, Xiaowen Zu | Embarcadero | Apply | ||
| The most RSVPs, in time order. | ||||||
| Wednesday, Oct 743 events | ||||||
| to 12:30 PM | AI Agents for Legal Teams: A Hands-On Workshop91 going | Ping, Noa Davidson, Mel Foody | Downtown | Open RSVP | ||
| to 5 PM | Leverage IL W/ Anthropic, Palantir, Cognition, Greylock, Ribbit Capital and more | Nir Naamani | Tenderloin | Apply | Lunch | From $18 |
| to 6 PM | Recharge with OpenRouter | OpenRouter, Dasha, Anastasia Crew | FiDi | Apply | Breakfast | |
| to 12 PM | Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly.with Jen Hoskins, Dr. Arman Zaribafiyan, Len Henry, Kathryn Van Nuys, Sarah Wang, Maxim Fateev | Google for Startups, Monica, Victoria +2 more | SoMa | Apply | Snacks, Soft drinks | |
| to 11 AM | MCP, APIs & THE AGENT INTEGRATION LAYER127 going | Trekka, Open Future Forum, Yvonne +1 more | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 5 PM | AWS Expert Booth - #Startups@AWS115 going | AWS, Sathya Balakrishnan, Itzik Paz +2 more | Downtown | Open RSVP | ||
| to 5 PM | Build Agentic AI with AWS - #Startups @AWS28 going | AWS, Sathya Balakrishnan, Itzik Paz +2 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 1 PM | Making hard decisions in a world of AI and constant change104 goingwith Alesia S. | Writingmate.ai, Artem Vysotsky, Alesia Siarzhynskaya | SoMa | Apply | ||
| Under the Hood: AI meets Behavioral Science70 goingwith Marcella Gonzales, Enrique Suarez | Soft Agents, Marcella Gonzales | Virtual | Apply | |||
| to 12:30 PM | From Leader to Agent Builder: Live on Monqwith Yasin Bostanci | Monq, Yasin Bostanci | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 2 PM | Agentic AI on AWS: From Concepts to Hands-On Lab - #Startups@AWS27 going | AWS, Sathya Balakrishnan, Itzik Paz +2 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 1 PM | Apollo: Find Your Next 100 Customers44 going | Apollo.io, Jeanine | FiDi | Apply | Lunch, Soft drinks | |
| Embodied Intelligence Challenge | Cinnamon Sipper, Cinnamon | Embarcadero | Apply | Breakfast | ||
| to 2 PM | Founder meets Marketing118 going | Aim-Hi, Tuljai Parkar | Mountain View | Open RSVP | ||
| to 1:30 PM | Kill the Script | Flair Labs, Stephen Willis | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 4 PM | Ship Like a Baddie: Build an AI Product or Automate a Workflow in 5 Hours | AI Founder Playbook by Byte&Chord, Inc, Alisha Outridge (Lish), Natalie Pan +2 more | Open RSVP | |||
| Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode On - Sponsored by Anthropic113 going | Cresta | SoMa | Apply | |||
| to 6 PM | Build Personal AI with Coding Agents163 going | Timing, Eva, tiffany +2 more | Mission | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | CTRL Escape Room Hackathon | Center for The Future (Hack Week), HCB by Hack Foundation, Hack Week | Alamo Square | Apply | ||
| to 5 PM | The Musa Labs Hackathon123 going | Musa Capital, Stonebyte, Tokenly +2 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 7:30 PM | Build a Company Brain: AI Agents with Memory, Context and Secure Access | ScaleKit, Cognee, Tamilselvi Ramasamy +2 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| 20,000 Emails. Two Replies. The 25-Minute Masterclass on Aiming Before You Automate | DragonflyAI | Virtual | Apply | |||
| to 5 PM | Applied AI, Live Asks & Offers: Chiefs of Staff and Microsoft Data Scientistswith Josephine Chua, Nikhil Saukhla, Abhishek Sriram, Mitko Vidanovski | Ask a Chief of Staff | FiDi | Open RSVP | ||
| to 7 PM | Build Mode: HubSpot's Hands-On AI Agent Lab for Real Work87 going | HubSpot, Jennifer Nixon, Sarah Jane (sj) Morris +2 more | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | Pax Silica Hackathon93 going | BuilderBase, Sean Chiu, Sam Karri +3 more | FiDi | Open RSVP | Free | |
| to 5 PM | The Pitch Is a Story: Presence, Narrative, and Connection for AI Founders | Fenwick & West | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | Beyond Burnout: Designing for the Senses | InnovatorX, Sike Li | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 7 PM | Don't Let Your LLM Go Rogue: AI Security & Guardrails | TrackIt, AWS, Chris Marchitelli +2 more | Union Square | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 6 PM | GTM AI Paradox You Got Speed, But Lost the System80 going | Entry Point 1, Tim Hillison, Lydia Flocchini | Downtown | Waitlist or full | ||
| AI 10158 going | Mensch AI, Zemen Berhe | Virtual | Open RSVP | |||
| to 8 PM | Executive Roundtable: Future of People Tech | All Good HR / Founders Foundry, Rami A | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Morph-a-thon : Describe Your App, Close Your Laptop45 going | Morph Systems, Akshay Sharma | Mountain View | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 9 PM | StartupShip1 going | Tenki Cloud, Colin, Peter Lee | South Beach | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 8 PM | The Product Loop: A Hexa & Amplitude Workshop30 going | Amplitude, Hexa, Mary Tan | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 8:30 PM | Playwright + AI Agents: Workshop | TestDino, Pratik Patel | SoMa | Apply | Snacks | Free |
| to 8:30 PM | The Closed Table: Salon of Second Offers1 goingwith Yasin Bostanci, Max Matthews | Monq, Yasin Bostanci | Downtown | Apply | Dinner | |
| to 9 PM | Multiplayer Hackathon by Party (SoMa) | Maitai, Inc, Julian Alberts | SoMa | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 7 PM | Prompt a full stack app and drink while you wait | Remy / MindStudio, Elly Lin | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 7:30 PM | Wire a Voice Agent Into a Real Workflow76 going | Olive, RemoteRee | Mission | Open RSVP | ||
| Your AI bill is a context problem: token economics for AI-assisted engineering24 going | Tentaro, Aleksandra Bury | Downtown | Apply | |||
| Your Favorite AI Teammate Starts Tonight | Lava | FiDi | Apply | |||
| Can AI File Your Patent? What Founders Should Know75 going | Plat4orm, Landfallip, Valerie Chan | Embarcadero | Apply | |||
| to 10:45 PM | Open-Source GEO: Get Cited by AI in 45 Minuteswith Selina Huang | Aigeo,Inc., Selina | FiDi | Apply | ||
| The most RSVPs, in time order. | ||||||
| Thursday, Oct 833 events | ||||||
| to 11:30 AM | Run a Fund Like an AI-Native Company | Kylon, Christina Bowllan | SoMa | Apply | Breakfast | |
| to 11 AM | Build Your AI Chief of Staff with Claude at #sf-tech-weekwith Arjita Sethi | Arjita Sethi, Rhythm Gandhi, Build with AI Club | Apply | Free | ||
| to 9 PM | Inception Studio AI Buildathon | Inception Studio, Michael Liu, Mike +1 more | SoMa | Waitlist or full | ||
| to 2 PM | AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scale250 going | Leverage, RedHat, Sasa Zelenovic +3 more | Mission | Apply | ||
| to 11 AM | Scale Client Delivery, Not Headcount: The AI-Native Agency Workshop66 goingwith Samir Patel | Juliet AI, Inc., Samir Patel @ www.juliet.space | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 2 PM | You, the Frontier Professional100 goingwith Bill Raymond, My Luu | Cambermast, Base44, Bill Raymond +4 more | FiDi | Waitlist or full | Free | |
| to 1 PM | Defending Your Value: Career Positioning for Tech Leaders26 goingwith Twisha Anand | Elevate With Twisha, Twisha Anand, Phd | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Tripothon S1 World-Building Demo Day @San Francisco | AI Tripo | SoMa | Apply | Free | |
| to 1:30 PM | You Have Traction - and That’s Helped You Raise Some Money. Now What?40 goingwith Elisabeth Bykoff, Pere Codina | Globiant, Boxsy, Middleware +5 more | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 12 PM | Lunch & Hack: The Latest SF Tech Trends75 goingwith Julian Weisser, Adelina Martiniuc | The AI Collective, RoryPlans.ai, Adelina Martiniuc | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 1 PM | Build the AI-Native Office of the CFO Stack | Summation, LevelPath, Maxima +4 more | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 5 PM | AI IRL17 going | Isabell Alzate | Chinatown | Open RSVP | Free | |
| Designing and leading a blended human and agentic workforce17 going | Surge People Partners, Natalie Mueller, Samantha Jenkins +1 more | FiDi | Apply | |||
| to 5 PM | Hands-on workshop: build an MCP app | Myop, Keren Fanan | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 5 PM | Wings of Desire-Titan Gauntlets Demowith Mickey McManus, Karan Pandey | Department of Strategic Surprise, Titan Gauntlets, Haus of Hyte +1 more | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | [Workshop] Build AI Agents with Auth0182 going | Auth0, Shreya, Calah Vargas +3 more | FiDi | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 7 PM | AI Orchestration Agents and the Human Bottleneck198 goingwith Chris Sheng | Mucker Capital, Lara Bandeira, Tony Yang +1 more | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | How to Scale with Agentic Teams223 going | Musa Capital, Stonebyte, Allen Smith | Downtown | Apply | Drinks | |
| to 6:30 PM | Vibe Code Lab by Female Founder Collective x Vibe Code Mama9 goingwith Alison Wyatt, Jenna Cao, Kendall Crocker | Female Founder collective | East Bay | Open RSVP | ||
| to 7:30 PM | 2036: A Day at the Office - A Design-Fiction Hackathon | Aura Ventures, Australian American Chamber of Commerce, Build Club +2 more | Union Square | Apply | ||
| to 8:30 PM | MCP4GTM Workshop with Mastra, Elastic, & Arcade | Arcade.dev, Thierry Damiba, Ashwin Mudaliar +1 more | SoMa | Apply | Free | |
| +31% ROAS with AI marketing 🟦 | Uplane Inc., Uplane, Inc., Uplane (YC F25) | FiDi | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 7 PM | Closed-door Q&A: Exited founders + active Seed/A VCs (private office)58 going | ADHD Ventures, Joshua Levy, Wyatt Lovera +3 more | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 10 PM | Everesteer Hedge Fund Hackathon80 goingwith Marton Peter Price | Everesteer | Apply | Free | ||
| Vibe Coach Hack Night | HackerSquad, AJ | Hayes Valley | Apply | |||
| Vibe Code your first MVP: What to Build, What to Skip58 goingwith Yujian Yao | Table for One, Floot, Inc, Durva Mathure | Virtual | Open RSVP | |||
| Vibe Night - Come Cook with Us at OBC60 going | Ocean Beach Cafe, Joshua James | Apply | Dinner, Drinks | |||
| Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angular32 going | Workflow Builder, Mateusz Masiczak | Downtown | Apply | |||
| to 8 PM | How Do I Lead Through Change and Uncertainty?with Nima Imani | Insightsout, Nima Imani | Hayes Valley | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | ODSC AI Skills Acceleratorwith Keith Belanger | ODSC AI, Snowflake, Julia Voichuk | Union Square | Apply | Snacks | |
| World Model Workshop: See the World Through Your Pet's Eyes | Aesthetic Intelligence Circle, Linli Wang | Palo Alto | Apply | |||
| to 9:45 PM | Solve your PMF & Retention33 goingwith Angelina Li, Lomit Patel, Sravya Antharam, Balaji Abhishek, Ed IH Tan | Fund Bridge, Xiaowen Zu | SoMa | Apply | ||
| Why ChatGPT Doesn’t Recommend Your Company (GEO/AEO) playbook)77 going | The Knowledge Company, Leanid Palkhouski | East Bay | Open RSVP | |||
| The most RSVPs, in time order. | ||||||
| Friday, Oct 923 events | ||||||
| to 7:30 PM | Cyberdefense Hackathonwith Henry Heng | Team tokens&, AWS Builder Loft, Alessandro Amenta +1 more | FiDi | Apply | Lunch | Free |
| AI Native Summit438 going | Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie, Karsten Wade | FiDi | Open RSVP | From $25 | ||
| to 1 PM | Founder Office Hours: Fundraising, GTM & AI | Malaika Commons | Downtown | Apply | ||
| to 11:30 AM | Hands-on workshop: build your first MCP app. | Myop, Keren Fanan | SoMa | Apply | ||
| to 1 PM | Want a promotion or a new job? Ship a Real AI Portfolio Live101 going | Arjita Sethi | Mission | Waitlist or full | Free | |
| AI Video Hackathon: Build with Qwen × Vizard Agent232 going | Vizard.ai, Alibaba, Yao | Presidio Heights | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 2 PM | MiHu AI Hackathon & VC Panel53 going | MiHu AI | Union Square | Open RSVP | ||
| to 12 PM | Vibe Marketing in the Age of AI Agents - Live on Zoom109 goingwith Samir Patel | Juliet AI, Inc., Samir Patel @ www.juliet.space | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 6 PM | SF Tech Week Agent Day680 goingwith Nathan Burg, Matt Brown, Shirley He, Rishabh Gupta, Ranjan Goel, Junaith Shahabdeen, Aryan Vij, Tun Shwe, Hang Huang | Yujian Tang | Menlo Park | Apply | Lunch | Free |
| Live Blacksmithing with CoreWeave167 going | CoreWeave, JM | Mission | Apply | |||
| to 5 PM | The Oasis @ SF Tech Week - Future of Work112 going | Vibe Space, AI Collective, Flowstate +2 more | FiDi | Apply | ||
| to 4 PM | Building Self-Improving AI Agents: From Loop to Deployment81 going | GRAIL, Sabrina Sun, Mayank Kejriwal | Mission | Apply | ||
| to 5 PM | Get Found on AI: Build the playbook so your business is recommended in AI chats in One Afternoon128 going | Arjita Sethi | Mission | Waitlist or full | Free | |
| to 6 PM | AI Is Changing the Job. Who Are You Becoming?3 going | Zhennovate | Hayes Valley | Apply | ||
| to 10 PM | AI x Medicine: Hackathon + Speaker Night23 going | Shravan Balaji, Arya Kulkarni, Prathamesh Trivedi | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 10 PM | Builders & Brews SF249 goingwith Sujee Maniyam, Sarah Li, Matthew Feroz | Tavily Events, Xaviera Ho, Replit Events +1 more | Union Street | Apply | Soft drinks | Free |
| Future of Work Hackathon: Building from the Farm @Stanford University | Stanford GSB India Association, Debanjan Nayak, Astha +3 more | Stanford | Apply | Lunch | ||
| to 7 PM | Personalizing Long-running Agents192 goingwith Allison Ding, Russell Horton | Sonoma AI, SOMO Cowork, Christy Bergman | Open RSVP | |||
| How to Use AI to Build a Better Democracy62 going | Action Labs, Carol Dunn | East Bay | Open RSVP | |||
| to 9 PM | The AI Said It Was Done - AI Agent Divergence Hackathon39 going | Morfa AI, Inc, Jan, Kevin Mello | Downtown | Apply | ||
| The AI-Native Fund: Rebuilding Investment Management for the Agent Era | Podium Finance, Ryan Bok | Castro | Apply | |||
| GTM Hackathon | AceMakers, Matt Laker | Mission Bay | Apply | Snacks, Drinks | ||
| to 9:45 PM | Steal AEO Playbook & Be the Answer in AI | Aigeo,Inc., Selina | FiDi | Apply | ||
| Saturday, Oct 1018 events | ||||||
| AI x Pre-Construction Hackathon | Blueprints AI, Coco Cao, Al | SoMa | Apply | Breakfast | ||
| to 9 PM | Oasis Multi-Agent Hackathon | Oasis, Aaron Zhang | FiDi | Apply | Snacks | |
| to 10 PM | Talk to Users Hackathonwith Kieran John Keenan, Abel Dagne, Alspencer Omondi, Gal Dayan, Omri Ben Shoham, Ana Yoon Faria de Lima, Anthea Guo, Nick Walter | Stripe, Base44, Cognition, Sense AI, Daytona, FishAudio +5 more | SoMa | Apply | ||
| AI Hackathon | UC Santa Cruz Gen AI Center, Yi Zhang, Preet Karia +1 more | Mountain View | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 6 PM | Multiplayer Hackathon by Party | Maitai, Inc., Julian Alberts | Palo Alto | Apply | Breakfast, Soft drinks | |
| to 5 PM | Build an AI-Native Company (In a Day) | Kylon, Christina Bowllan | SoMa | Apply | Lunch | Free |
| to 8 PM | Creative Data Hackathon | Cala | Mission | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Production Agent Lab - Workshopwith Amaury Desrosiers, Abby Morgan | Team tokens&, Alessandro Amenta, Jacopo Piazza | Mission | Apply | Soft drinks | Free |
| to 3:30 PM | Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trustwith Kiana Jafari, Bryant McCombs, Clark Barrett, Wesley Deng, Sarath Swaminathan | Ezio, TokenRouter, Avishi Agastwar +3 more | Stanford | Open RSVP | Soft drinks | |
| INTERFACE: Hack the Space Between8 going | Field Lab, Sissi Wang, Iana Lin | SoMa | Apply | |||
| to 1 PM | Sip & Ship: The Un-Hackathon | Your Next Win, Angelina Millare, AstroTwins (Ophira Edut) | Virtual | Apply | ||
| to 8 PM | Make Your Store ChatGPT-Famous16 going | Mervia AI, Zhuowei Bao | SoMa | Apply | Lunch, Drinks | |
| to 6 PM | Build a BankGPT | interface.ai, Gil Acedillo | FiDi | Apply | Snacks | |
| Data Moats in AI: An Founder Roundtable | Typicity, Esther Huang | Mission | Waitlist or full | |||
| Forward Deployed Engineer: Hear From Experts, Then Try It84 going | Stanford University, Angelica Ly, Cheyoung Ahn +1 more | Palo Alto | Apply | Snacks | ||
| to 8:30 PM | Eatopia Dinner Lab @ Stanford University: Personalized Nutrition Protocol111 goingwith Cecilia Chen | Eatopia, Cecilia Chen | Palo Alto | Apply | ||
| Harness in Frontier AI systems150 goingwith Jiaxin Pei, Alex Pentland | SystemPromptIndex, Xiangning(Shining) Lin, Jiaxin Pei | Downtown | Apply | |||
| When off-the-shelf doesn't fit: owning your schematic tooling4 going | Workflow Builder, Mateusz Masiczak, Mateusz Jagodziński | Downtown | Apply | |||
| Sunday, Oct 116 events | ||||||
| to 8 PM | AI-Native Startup Hackathon | Vin Wanfan, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Finch ai +5 more | Lower Haight | Apply | Free | |
| to 8 PM | The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling SF Hackathon | MongoDB, Patrick Steyn, Alexis Piligian +2 more | Embarcadero | Apply | Free | |
| to 8 PM | Recursive Self Improvement Hack: Evals | Autolab.ai, Gabriela Torres, Serge +1 more | Civic Center | Apply | Lunch | |
| to 6 PM | Shopping 3.0: the AI Commerce Hackathon with Arcade63 goingwith Kirsten Green, Mariam Naficy, Ash Herr | Arcade AI, Kelley Lawson, Mariam Naficy +5 more | Union Square | Apply | ||
| to 10 PM | touch ./GRASS: The Outdoor Voice Agent Hackathon 🌿113 going | Openbase, Maritime, Sundai Club +5 more | Palo Alto | Apply | Breakfast | |
| to 4 PM | UC Berkeley Innovation Intelligence Hackathon | UC Berkeley SCET Innovators in Residence Program, Danica, Ronit +4 more | East Bay | Apply | ||
| Monday, Oct 121 event | ||||||
| THE CUSTOMER IS IN THE ROOM: A live AI focus group for DTC brands - What if you could ask your customers what they think before you ship?with Michael Ronen | Michael Ronen, Domenick Cimino | Mission Bay | Apply | Free | ||
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Questions
Which AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops can I join without applying?
26 of the 185 are open RSVP; the other 159 ask you to apply. Among them are Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI (Mon 5:00 PM), AI Native Summit (Fri 10:00 AM), Personalizing Long-running Agents (Fri 4:00 PM), Hacking AI For Fun and Profit (Tue 4:30 PM) and Founder meets Marketing (Wed 11:00 AM).
What do hosts ask when you apply?
Across 147 AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops with an application form, 147 ask for a job title, 147 for a company, 147 for LinkedIn and 121 for GitHub.
Do AI hackathons at SF Tech Week cost money?
Most don't list a price. 22 show a ticket price on the event's page.
What are the main AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops on Tuesday, Oct 6?
34 AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by Make Content, Not Excuses and Claude Founder House.
What are the main AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops on Wednesday, Oct 7?
43 AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly. and Build Personal AI with Coding Agents.
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Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly.Featured
· Google for Startups, Monica +3 · SoMa
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Build Personal AI with Coding Agents
· Timing, Eva +3 · Mission · 163 going
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MCP, APIs & THE AGENT INTEGRATION LAYER
· Trekka, Open Future Forum +2 · SoMa · 127 going
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The Musa Labs Hackathon
· Musa Capital, Stonebyte +3 · Downtown · 123 going
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Founder meets Marketing
· Aim-Hi, Tuljai Parkar · Mountain View · 118 going
Which AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops have food?
48 of the 185 mention food (25 snacks, 11 lunch, 10 breakfast).
Which AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops have drinks?
15 mention drinks: 5 alcohol, 10 coffee or soft drinks.
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Make Content, Not ExcusesFeatured
· Descript, Natalie Estrada · Mission · 488 going
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Claude Founder HouseFeatured
· Anthropic · SoMa
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Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly.Featured
· Google for Startups, Monica +3 · SoMa
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Builders & Brews SFFree
· Tavily Events, Xaviera Ho +2 · Union Street · 249 going
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How to Scale with Agentic Teams
· Musa Capital, Stonebyte +1 · Downtown · 223 going
Which AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops have the most RSVPs?
SF Tech Week Agent Day has the most, 680 RSVPs.
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SF Tech Week Agent DayFree
· Yujian Tang · Menlo Park · 680 going
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Make Content, Not ExcusesFeatured
· Descript, Natalie Estrada · Mission · 488 going
- RSVP
AI Native Summit
· Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie +1 · FiDi · 438 going
- Join waitlist
Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIWaitlist
· Cloudflare · Embarcadero · 300 going
- Apply
AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scale
· Leverage, RedHat +4 · Mission · 250 going
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