Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT # AI infrastructure happy hours at SF Tech Week 2026 > SF Tech Week 2026 has 23 AI infrastructure happy hours between Monday, Oct 5 and Saturday, Oct 10, most with small guest lists: the median shows 122 RSVPs on its event page. Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 23. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page. ## At a glance - Turnout runs far below the week-wide median. - FiDi has 9 of the 23, more than anywhere else. - Weekdays only: nothing in this set runs after Saturday, Oct 10. ## Subscribe - Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/ai-infrastructure-happy-hours/calendar.ics - Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/ai-infrastructure-happy-hours/calendar.ics ## Events Columns: Time is Pacific time. Access: RSVP means a plain RSVP, Apply means the host approves each guest. Status: open, waitlist, closed or sold out, from the official Tech Week calendar. Food and Drinks: the host's own words ("mentions", not a promise). Price: only where the listing shows a price; a dash means no price listed. Featured: featured on the official Tech Week calendar. | Date | Time | Event | Host | Area | Access | Status | Food | Price | Featured | RSVP | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Mon, Oct 5 | 4 PM | From a Data Swamp to a Data Agent You Can Trust: What It Actually Takes | Virtus Lab, Weronika Wiernicka, Monika, Grzegorz Król, Peter Ratcliffe | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks, Open bar | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Air9OT3kYRs0gcg0Ldhd?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | AI Infra Seller Meetup #7, Tech Week Edition | Informal, 3 sellers from different compute companies, Joseph McConnell, Montana Showalter | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Ct3Oth7PxTKFI9Ki10pA?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM | The Data Center Summit | Zacua Ventures, Varad Mohod, Vivin Hegde, Pranathi Gompa | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/z6exIARUW4fDuPkwTA4x?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 6 PM | Continual Learning After Hours | Fusion Fund, Theresa, Charlotte Xia, James Langford, Daniel Paredes | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/M451cLAPnXY0UqZohQ3V?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 12 PM to 7 PM | Coding Agents Mini Conference | Querit, Pop Pop Tech | - | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/Sntm4iugIuqO6jsI8zDS?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 12 PM to 8 PM | DevTools Drink Up 💻🍕🍩🍸🥃 // Depot x Inference | Inference.net, Depot.dev, Victoria Liao | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jPHra803ClL6xQKEmpRa?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 3 PM to 5 PM | The Future of Inference / General Compute x Fenwick | Fenwick & West, Noa Lawrence | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Z8japSj4JZ8UiKo8IqyS?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM | Compute & Cocktails | Aranya, Cognee, Hyperbolic, Paper Compute Co., Lily Adlin, arya ondaatje, claire, Sasivarnan KS | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HAhuIDkqhItMDPXWKUH3?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM | Physical AI Happy Hour, hosted by CoreWeave | CoreWeave, Sacha G, Sasha Manuilova, Hannah Reid, JM | Cow Hollow | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Z2JcaSjMuPo5UZe8Lq86?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM | The Future of Personal AI: On-Device Intelligence | - | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/kp6dn1ka?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Physical AI Happy Hour: Plug and Play x Wittington Ventures | Wittington Ventures, Plug and Play, Tarek El Naggar, Jerry, Yukino Suzuki | Hayes Valley | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/wEsNrKqVGgtmWFsOaMS0?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 7 PM | The AI Convergence: Voice, Video, Agents & Infrastructure | Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/thtgzDIovjistP8GWvTd?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM | AI Beyond the Cloud: Developer Happy Hour with femtoAI | femtoAI, Megan Hartwick, Pong | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WuFzZ0szjP07HKqU0f7k?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Founders x Developers Roundtable - #Startups@AWS | AWS, Sathya Balakrishnan, Itzik Paz, Igor Fil, Alexander Medvedev | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/K9i9xXDogKI6TJNXAl0o?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Neural Concept VIP Happy Hour | Neural Concept, Chase Zhang | Salesforce Park | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/oLMID6xfrXbLu4nvzqNI?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 3:15 PM to 9 PM | Modular AI Infrastructure Tour + Happy Hour | Giga Energy | East Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/DpGFn9zGGHur7juRk8RD?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 3:30 PM to 8 PM | [Workshop] Build AI Agents with Auth0 | Auth0, Shreya, Calah Vargas, Jessica Quick, Jennifer Kim, Cheri Lai | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zlmTqYKeEARu8g53wE9a?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 4:30 PM | Agents & Integrations Night · Nebius x Adyen x APIMatic | Adyen, Nebius, APIMatic, Ameer Hassan | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/UQgxfEPD3eladqkmZ6ek?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 4:30 PM to 8 PM | AI & Platform Engineering Developer Meetup | Intuit, Christy Bergman | Mountain View | RSVP | open | Drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/sOfd7rMDByrMoLDuie2u?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Building Vertical AI: An Engineering Conversation & Happy Hour | Cara, Simone Singh, vic yeh | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/v607pArtGtrdNFw0pwrQ?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with H Company | Hope Wang, Nolwenn Guiban, H Company, LMSYS Org | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/3iobavjj?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 9 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Securing the Agentic Era | pop pop tech, Querit AI | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/fydKEQfpntZAzzQtbN85?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 10 | 6 PM | Backlog to PR- An Evening with Vorflux | Vorflux, Arjun Bindra | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MfchyWbPwcU9ay1rwLGK?ref=chancity) | ## Who is there - Hosting: Pop Pop Tech (2); Adyen (1); Alexander Medvedev (1); Ameer Hassan (1); APIMatic (1); Aranya (1); Arjun Bindra (1); arya ondaatje (1); Auth0 (1); AWS (1); Calah Vargas (1); Cara (1) - Speaking: Dr. Henry Kang; Dr. Mei Han; Holly Zheng; Dr. Li Zhang; Dr. Ruichao Ren; Usman Asim; Adeel Ali; Hendrik Krak; Srinivas Dharmasanam; Bala Sadhu; Tanya Munikoti; Aparna Dhinakaran; Zhanghao Wu; Léonard Benedetti; Yuwei An - Featured guests: David Wang; Simon Shu; Hao Chen; Martin Wang; Henry Wang; Joseph Sciacchetano; Nita Anbani; Joshua Elkington; Matt O"Brien; Brad Zellman; Gorka Aranzabal; Anton Dziatkovskii; Xinxia Ling; Enrico Ros; Rohan Sehgal; James Jacobs; Daniel Slupskiy; Casey N; James Le; Alex Kekulov ## FAQ ### Which AI infrastructure happy hours can I join without applying? 2 of the 23 are open RSVP; the other 21 ask you to apply. Among them are Coding Agents Mini Conference (Tue 12:00 PM) and AI & Platform Engineering Developer Meetup (Thu 4:30 PM). ### What do hosts ask when you apply? Across 19 AI infrastructure happy hours with an application form, 18 ask for a job title, 18 for a company, 19 for LinkedIn and 11 for GitHub. ### Are AI infrastructure happy hours free? None of the 23 is marked free or paid on its event page. ### What are the main AI infrastructure happy hours on Tuesday, Oct 6? 6 AI infrastructure happy hours are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by The Future of Inference | General Compute x Fenwick and Compute & Cocktails. ### What are the main AI infrastructure happy hours on Wednesday, Oct 7? 5 AI infrastructure happy hours are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by Founders x Developers Roundtable - #Startups@AWS and Physical AI Happy Hour: Plug and Play x Wittington Ventures. Founders x Developers Roundtable - #Startups@AWS (Wed 5:30 PM, AWS); Physical AI Happy Hour: Plug and Play x Wittington Ventures (Wed 4 PM, Wittington Ventures); The AI Convergence: Voice, Video, Agents & Infrastructure (Wed 4 PM, Comcast Ventures); AI Beyond the Cloud: Developer Happy Hour with femtoAI (Wed 5 PM, femtoAI); Neural Concept VIP Happy Hour (Wed 5:30 PM, Neural Concept). ### Which AI infrastructure happy hours have food? 12 of the 23 mention food (12 snacks). ### Which AI infrastructure happy hours have drinks? 5 mention drinks: 1 open bar, 4 alcohol. SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with H Company (Thu 5:30 PM, Hope Wang); From a Data Swamp to a Data Agent You Can Trust: What It Actually Takes (Mon 4 PM, Virtus Lab); Founders x Developers Roundtable - #Startups@AWS (Wed 5:30 PM, AWS); DevTools Drink Up 💻🍕🍩🍸🥃 // Depot x Inference (Tue 12 PM, Inference.net); AI & Platform Engineering Developer Meetup (Thu 4:30 PM, Intuit). ### Which AI infrastructure happy hours have the most RSVPs? The Data Center Summit has the most, 214 going. The Data Center Summit (Mon 5:30 PM, Zacua Ventures); SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with H Company (Thu 5:30 PM, Hope Wang); Compute & Cocktails (Tue 6:30 PM, Aranya); [Workshop] Build AI Agents with Auth0 (Thu 3:30 PM, Auth0); From a Data Swamp to a Data Agent You Can Trust: What It Actually Takes (Mon 4 PM, Virtus Lab). --- HTML version: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/ai-infrastructure-happy-hours Full SF Tech Week schedule: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/schedule For AI agents: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/agent