Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT

# Most popular events at SF Tech Week 2026

> These 100 featured and most-RSVPed SF Tech Week 2026 events draw a median of 352 RSVPs each, and 84% need host approval, so request a spot early.

Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 100. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page.

## At a glance

- Median 352 RSVPs per event, several times the week's typical event.
- a16z runs the most of them: 7.
- Only 37% start in the evening. Most are daytime.

## Subscribe

- Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/best-events/calendar.ics
- Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/best-events/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 | 6:15 AM to 10 AM | Science x AI Breakfast | Endpoint Arena, Michael F | Marina | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NuJIL6o1KBCUnGaAOrLS?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelines | Bria, Fal, LTX, gal davidi | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/9OQfXbXauvFiBYUoEekQ?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 9 AM | AGI, Inc. Store - Wearables Pop-up | AGI, Inc., Juliana Chyzhova, Chaitanya (CK) Khot, Jordan Ruppert | Mission | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/oZm5m0LpvJi2ziHpN1fO?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 9 AM to 3 PM | Founders' Coffee | Y·US Ventures, Bridgit | Dogpatch | RSVP | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/DtHdOqLhnKv0vsthORJJ?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 9:30 AM to 11 AM | The MCP Gateway during SF a16z TechWeek | Murray Newlands, Paulina Xu, Yvonne Newlands | SoMa | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/scorx7qo?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 10 AM to 1 PM | Cyberglam NFC Nail Party | hallucinate LLC, Benjamin Jay Barber, Abby Morse-Golub | Hayes Valley | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cMV0MP8PxuhXIAFt4QIo?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 10 AM to 2 PM | Shaping What’s Next with Techstars, Zendesk & DigitalOcean | Techstars, DigitalOcean, Zendesk | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2kPuURvKMjzx8ceGHlRi?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 12 PM | USER EXPERIENCE - new expressions in tech | USER EXPERIENCE by Material Album, presented by Forerunner Ventures, Material Album | Union Square | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/Jl7wC4UPm4fV5XZFCWA1?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Investor Founder Mixer | OnlyExit Ventures, Ankur Tyagi, Sahil Sorathiya | Mission | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/hTRXcs1RRUYumlOzSCGX?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 2 PM to 5 PM | AI Buyer Pitch Teardown @ Auth0 | Auth0, Calah Vargas, Shreya, Laura, Adam O'Donnell | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/rtaNxMHufDNSg4ZVDGDT?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM | Future of Creativity, Experiences & Play | Gold House Ventures, Ted Wint, Daniel Suh, Amandeep Dosanjh, Maggie Sin | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2i2ezrcDZaa8Evezzzag?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Building the Future of Preventive Health | Fenwick & West | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/AwSqINGcVmfVJOTdFSYF?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Watts & Wisdom: An Evening with Filippo Pozzato | a16z, Rillet, Ivan Makarov, Erika Bracken, stephen hedlund | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/U8s958NJIwIFvAMydIEr?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM | Marketers' Hot Take Happy Hour: An Evening of Agree or Disagree | Big Valley Marketing | SoMa | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/RxkakL6ey0GFQdeeTCGF?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM to 6 PM | GTM Panel: When and How to Expand Beyond Your Core Business | Skillsheet, Viktoriia Bezushko | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qBF6UygsJmFejka29GBW?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM to 9 PM | Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI | Cloudflare | Embarcadero | RSVP | waitlist | - | - | yes | [View](https://partiful.com/e/eCaHdWFnG2wup28XcOHi?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 6 PM to 10 PM | Fireworks x a16z: Official Tech Week Kickoff w/ Vercel, ElevenLabs, & Stripe | Fireworks, Stripe, Vercel, Michaela Landgraf | Mission Bay | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Fp4oMyFGQC6HzotKXc8T?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Ship it & Sip it: Software Factories Night | Sofía Sánchez-Zárate, Uli Barkai, Sienna Cole, Laura Dang, Ella Schlaghecke, Erika Lee | Union Square | RSVP | sold out | - | Free | - | [View](https://luma.com/copilo-y6wx?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 6 PM to 9 PM | The Founders & Funders Mixer / Showcase | Musa Capital, Collide Capital, Mayer Brown LLP, Rho, Allen Smith, Monica Pool Knox, Elias Mufarech, Aaron Samuels | Civic Center | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2tq9G7ZFGlW9OMN2qob1?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 7 PM to 9 PM | Founders & Investors Mixer | Technology Founders of America | SoMa | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/CTvj6axNLLyKnFMmjl12?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8 AM to 10 AM | a16z & Friends: Morning Bike Ride | a16z, Ivan Makarov, Erika Bracken | Golden Gate Park | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/66XOKvswRUO9rn2vFCfw?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8 AM | Claude Founder House | Anthropic | SoMa | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/XaBTYkfWChPrquuI6uPH?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8 AM to 11 AM | Meet the Lab: Mistral | Mistral, Melissa, Dave | SoMa | Apply | closed | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/ZHJuwImyrtzO0VoIkH4I?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Advancing Collaborative AI Drug Discovery | a16z, Lilly, a16z Events, Ellen Tunoa, Vanessa Braunstein, Zak Doric | Mission Bay | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ccQ8p5st5UNpGXyFZHiT?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8:30 AM to 11 AM | This Week in Fintech x SVB: SF Fintech Coffee | This Week in Fintech (TWIF), Dylan Lisle, Joanne Hoang, Kourosh Adlparvar | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ed7G6ENHHKenyIKTWrpK?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9 AM to 12 PM | Make Content, Not Excuses | Descript, Natalie Estrada | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2DaT8iADDtBmumFW4UvN?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9 AM to 11:30 AM | Rise&Raise Founder Breakfast: Raisi, Seed2Table, Frontier Tower + The Network Firm | Raisi AI, Seed2Table, Robert Harary | Union Square | RSVP | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/ZIn5gXyJNvIEUKqm88s1?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9:30 AM to 12 PM | Google for Startups: Engineering 10x with Dr. Astro Teller and Google DeepMind | Google for Startups, Brittney Glass, Monica, Victoria, Emily Duke | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GS2y8UzXQRzCZEw0M1ya?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10 AM to 1 PM | AI Visionaries Forum | AWS for Startups | FiDi | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Q3cYt55IgBwTZvFytDc1?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10 AM to 12:30 PM | Built on Her Terms: Lovable + Wispr Flow brunch discussion | Lovable | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3Ry3L216NJtUGGiI8LN4?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 12 PM | Founder Lunch Club w/ Fin and Stripe | Fin, Stripe, Asya Bradley | Dogpatch | Apply | open | Lunch | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PwDKrPTS03ZD3sGuLeog?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 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Capturing the Value of Intelligence | HSBC, a16z Speedrun | Telegraph Hill | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/9VljRP0TkkEpT8B3jcVF?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 4 PM to 8:30 PM | Google for Startups x Google DeepMind: AI Panel, Happy Hour & Demo Slam | Google for Startups, Brittney Glass, Monica, Victoria, Emily Duke | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Wj7GOgAhHlPx7gWo9QEu?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 4 PM to 7 PM | The Investment Game: In Pursuit of Series A [LIVE with a16z!] | HubSpot, Liz Raigoso, Mahir | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BCHDlHtW5ZmNYvk4RTYN?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Models to Medicine Series: From AI Drug Discovery to Patient Engagement | AWS for Startups | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5rxnA733OHsnEYVyJVRd?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | State of Models by OpenRouter | OpenRouter, Dasha, Anastasia Crew | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/eTTiAwr4mf8SdDKsj6CR?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | Founder-led sales night - Grok Bot x Stage2 Capital | SpaceXAI, Sarah Goomar, Simon Lackowski | North Beach | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nu8YJ4BILlhMZjmD3pbF?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | HR executives dinner: Rethinking burnout | Function Health | Marina | Apply | open | Dinner | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/aHAaXtxILhzbFZSvdONz?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 10 PM | WEARABLES: The Future of Health/HAPPY HOUR (Free Food + Drinks) | Lenn AI, Ryan | SoMa | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/5zxFQnsPYteUHVWlBTYi?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM | AWS × NVIDIA AI Pitch Competition | AWS Startups, NVIDIA Inception, Kobina Ansah (AWS Startups), Darren Hsieh | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Ac0K8kEf23vKSJnAfaVQ?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM | Pasta Making Healthier Intelligence & a16z | a16z, Healthier Intelligence, Jane Rhee, Roshan Swaroop, ally nakamura | North Beach | Apply | open | Dinner, Drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/JnHGAZG2h3ca7B9Fp8nc?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10 PM | Courtside Capital Fintech Founders NBA Game w/ Deel & AWS | Deel, Jordynn Johnson | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lZV4IwrOGzGafdeG5qb5?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 8:30 AM | The Future of Health Summit | ŌURA, Able Partners, J.P. Morgan, Benito Aguila | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/dph5jMcY5O6B931f6nHu?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM | Deep Tech Investor Breakfast | Renegade Partners, a16z Speedrun, Jess, Renata Quintini | Jackson Square | Apply | closed | Breakfast | - | yes | [View](https://partiful.com/e/l2OOsMB3MHZJ9b8lzhmq?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM to 6:30 PM | Fuel & Focus Hub: WeWork & DoorDash for Business | DoorDash for Business | SoMa | Apply | open | Lunch, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qb3liosKxBHWoz14Iq3z?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM | Never Finished: The Next Chapter / Conversations on Reinvention | Gap Inc., Silicon Foundry, Brittany McG, Holly | Embarcadero | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lqb1UAMj3QC5BvnuKMdi?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM to 4:45 PM | Pioneer: A summit for CX Leaders | Fin | Lower Nob Hill | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/IxRXR5EjY21ZnL5llJgo?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM to 11 AM | Unprompted: Founders building the next thing people do for fun | Fenwick & West, Sophia Xing, Will Black, Lucky, Vanessa Larco, Coco, Ryan So | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/6nYbFMRG6CSAERI5EDP4?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9:30 AM to 12 PM | Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly. | Google for Startups, Monica, Victoria, Emily Duke, Brittney Glass | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MXd2fC8umpyvOwQ3KP3S?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 5 PM | 🤝 MATCH HOUSE San Francisco | MATCH HOUSE, Boop, FirstGlance, Horacio Rilo, shawheen, Jonny, Patrick Steyn | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/xK3d559vfUGIIipkw8yp?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12:30 PM to 5:15 PM | Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Scaling Velocity, Open Infrastructure, and Frontier AI | Google for Startups, Monica, Victoria, Emily Duke, Brittney Glass | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/DH6cYUdnnwdmcVhZgyT4?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 1 PM to 5 PM | Decentralized Neurosymbolic AI Braindump | hallucinate LLC, Linux Foundation, Benjamin Jay Barber, Abby Morse-Golub, Victor Rielly | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/c4VYA1o4qL66PF1ei1jV?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM to 5 PM | The New Finance: AI. Data. Talent. Governance. Scale. | PwC, Amanda Ritchey, Jen Wallner, Monalisa Chakraborty | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Y6YRmkZdw6iAez2CBSRX?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM | Adobe Presents: The GTM Inflection Point | Adobe, Adobe Ventures | Design District | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/hz8GwrZVJxgiqhlAPSIh?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4:30 PM | Creator Clubhouse with Replit, Gamma and ElevenLabs | Passionfroot, Figma, Gamma, Replit, Sophia Wu, Vera Hanson, McCall Turner | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ZAxqIIxvUpPC4947hvmu?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 7:30 PM | Agents at Altitude w/ Salesforce, Fin | Fin, Salesforce, Salesforce Launchpad for Starups | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5BKkDUZiqxPXnkRhlaeg?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM | Beyond AGI: AI Societies and the Future of Decision-Making | Cognizant AI Lab, Julianna Nijmeh | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/JkhxZpuS0aJLaIGFVDgm?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 7 PM | CEO Confessions: Town, Augment and their Coaches | Clutch, Cloudbreak, Deb Ellisen, Steph Usry, Joe Dunn | Telegraph Hill | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EQVHCcOrPV6clFpoqJQK?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM | NexxaWorld - presented by Nexxa.ai & a16z | Nexxa.ai, Jibran Hamady, Philipp Wehn | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uJMR8t2zTYWJiNyS7VLp?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 7 PM | The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Tech | Xometry, Emily Alpert | Embarcadero | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cQFMFICpNWW3JMjVyVHx?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Vibe Coding Demo Night with Lovable & Atlassian | Atlassian, Lovable, Philip Braddock, Steph Toh | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HmMfcGORXFTAMuLl26WT?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | AI Tool Evaluations with AICamp, ScaleKit, and Workato | Workato, ScaleKit, Emily Fang, Tamilselvi Ramasamy, Shri Mithran, Leila, Kayla Hamahashi | Dogpatch | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/JKlWYyso3nX213VINcoQ?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Deep Tech x Deep House Happy Hour | Google for Startups, Monica, Victoria, Emily Duke, Brittney Glass | SoMa | Apply | open | Open bar | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PyFVw6ENftBzf671ycQm?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM | Agentic Knowledge Happy Hour | Pinecone, Aaron Kao | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/v6nBj3CCfP9ZwfcyHMNT?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Databricks for Startups Networking Party | Databricks for Startups, Denny Lee, Kateri | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/x6eA2bIYn8udQ73qpKHN?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Fight On, SF: Where The Next Round Starts | USC, Salmon, Hubspot, Perfect Corp, Pebl, Troy Collective, Salmon, Troy Collective, Michael T, Ritu Riyat, Kevin Liu, Joshua Morgan, Mahir | Downtown | Apply | sold out | - | Free | yes | [View](https://partiful.com/e/OUC3HeAlVDEzIeF4VMSs?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 8:30 PM | Stripe and a16z B2B AI Supper Club | Stripe, Pranav Ashok, Joey Malysz | SoMa | Apply | open | Dinner | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ljNVe4NFK28RZbWMcLbP?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM | Benchmark AI Dinner | Vercel | FiDi | Apply | open | Dinner | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/OYitylvrnt5tXcBtWXug?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 9 AM to 11:30 AM | CxO Roundtable: How Enterprise Really Buys AI | a16z speedrun | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/gO6FKtjLPpSGbyaCPWgF?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 9 AM to 4 PM | The Cortex Cafe by Snowflake & Google Cloud | Verci, Snowflake | Dogpatch | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/CWvFkZaS7ZAxBfmrxZyv?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 10 AM to 12 PM | 3M to 100M Users: How Gamma Actually Did It | AKG Media, Aryan Gulzar, Alex Lund Scobie | FiDi | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3OvkylJXptvhiEVFZ5wq?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 10 AM to 1:30 PM | Accredited Investor AI Briefing: Scaling to $19.7B Exit and Beyond 🛡️🤖 | Equity X Investments, LLC | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FFqdxOWC2l0l6gr1TZWF?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 10 AM to 12:30 PM | Axios Live: Data Governance in the AI Era | Axios Media, Sonia | FiDi | RSVP | closed | - | - | yes | [View](https://partiful.com/e/f2YatCxWj3K9EULa32fi?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 10 AM to 7 PM | Founder Investor Day at Finix HQ | Raisi AI, Finix, Robert Harary | Union Square | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/rwZZUmN3siT93N8cdnfz?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 1 PM to 5:30 PM | Come Touch the Future: Hard Tech Expo with Third Sphere | Third Sphere, Miela Mayer, Shaun Abrahamson, Stonly | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/saw6fM3hd8YEuIHP9hUi?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 1 PM to 2:30 PM | The Founder Reset: Zero to Unicorn with Bolt.new CEO | Unicorner, SimpleClosure, Deck | Russian Hill | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mV93caH0Cl9Xb3LEkcsk?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 2:45 PM to 6 PM | Aaron Levie + Tanay Kothari @ AGI House / Turing Frontier Fellows | Turing, Dhanasree Rao, Sanjit Kotwal | Hillsborough | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/YwGPnj6HscW9g3D9uA4t?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 3 PM to 5 PM | Built by community | Reddit, Kirin Sennik, Marisa Blanke, Ana Rodriguez | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/g7T5GSDUlro0XwbsaGFI?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Fenwick × Databricks × a16z: Founders & Investors Happy Hour | Fenwick & West, a16z, Databricks | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/cpZOouiK83s6U6J2CKjO?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM to 7 PM | Fund or Fold - How VCs Actually Decide | G2C Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Polsky Center at Chicago Booth, Vik Ghai, Sunil Grover, Anita Khamvongsa, Gautam Krishnamurthi, Ethan Gillman | South Beach | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/C8TTwFzzRDoUwsiySUk4?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5 PM to 8 PM | Love at First Slide with Gamma & Atlassian | Atlassian, Gamma, Philip Braddock | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Iok3TlIvDZje7pSm3ufb?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | "New Money" - Fintech Founders & Investors Mixer | Rolla, Kemi Bolatito | Downtown | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/eibfBrP1R5t5XkienJHt?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | Analog Extravaganza w/ Fin, Vanta, Fireworks, Linear, Dust | Fin, Fireworks, Vanta, Janet Gehrmann, vanessa yuri chung | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4SlE28ImtRvwFcIiwHEz?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 10 PM | Deel After Dark - Gala | Deel, Sydney, Triana Jewell, Madeleine Futterman, Bailey Anderson | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | Free | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/XoCAdDroW1gxp3dpgm1f?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Pitch Roast Live | Pitch Roast Live, Atlassian, Philip Braddock | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | yes | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/JcEUr4O1D7JWI9Yl4D9E?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 10 PM | Who Will Own the Future? | ARK Invest, Chase Prather | Marina | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/xoXjF4aybCw6UY4XxY80?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM | Cocktail Camp w/ Backbone Systems & a16z | a16z, Jane Rhee, Jay Rughani, Manan | Duboce Triangle | Apply | open | Drinks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/0RDsKrHGKMKddgnOGwG0?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 9 AM | IBM Sports Tech Startup Challenge Showcase co-hosted with a16z Speedrun | IBM, a16z Speedrun | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/QZh9lyv8awyY0k32mYHq?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 10 AM | AI Native Summit | Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie, Karsten Wade | FiDi | RSVP | open | - | From $25 | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/3t95uj7s?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 10:30 AM to 5 PM | a16z speedrun AI Faire | a16z speedrun | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WrF0Hv7cZLnp5fHzjYAC?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM | AI Frontier Summit - Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips | AI Pioneer Club, UC Santa Cruz Gen AI Center, Jun Li, Yi Zhang, Sarah Pu, lotus | Mountain View | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/yFLBq1ig9Mu3UXvAAc1X?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 12 PM to 6 PM | SF Tech Week Agent Day | Yujian Tang | Menlo Park | Apply | open | Lunch | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/7wn8tsf7?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 12 PM to 4 PM | The Tech Week Flyover | Sentry, Exa.ai, Neon by Databricks, Hayden Bleasel | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/yvoeWd6BJMUB12yutJLl?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 8 PM | a16z x Unicorner x Notion: The Official Afterparty | Unicorner, a16z, Notion | Lower Nob Hill | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/B4aoD6pHjieqe40KRfl0?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 8:30 PM | OOO - The Techno Sound | Hellyeah AI, Eragon, Cathy C, Aaron, Jay, Kelly An, Ruolin(Lyn) Zhang, Carina | Mission Bay | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/UVJ5gVaeo5EfF29j2hs2?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 9 AM to 9 PM | SpeedHacks: The Official speedrun Hackathon | speedrun + speedrun Alpha, Mei, Katia Ameri, AJ | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | yes | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tthQk11QYKKZJRKvLGBQ?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM | Brain optimization summit 2026 | NeuroAge Therapeutics, Christin Glorioso, Marah, Maksym Shevchenko | Dogpatch | RSVP | open | - | - | yes | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/PILcXc8bpt6AwQJxMrUZ?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 10 AM to 6 PM | The AI-Native Talent Hunt with Codex | Emergences Labs, Darijan Ducic, TinyFish | SoMa | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/yjt7f4ty?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 5 PM to 9 PM | The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI | Natalia Bielczyk, Ontology of Value, Pavel Vinitsky, Olga Grafkova, TatianaSF com, Natalie Pan, Funding Breakthrough Lab | SoMa | RSVP | open | - | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/qo2dliwb?ref=chancity) |

## Who is there

- Hosting: a16z (7); a16z Speedrun (5); Brittney Glass (5); Emily Duke (5); Google for Startups (5) ([X](https://x.com/googlestartups)); Monica (5); Victoria (5); Fenwick & West (4); Fin (4) ([X](https://x.com/Fin_ai)); Atlassian (3); Philip Braddock (3); Stripe (3)
- Speaking: Guy Bar Hava; Gal Davidi; Lovis Odin; Kevin Van Gundy; Craig Flower; Mohamed Mohamed; Kerty Levy; DJ Sampath; Sridhar Katere; Andrew Yu; Javier Lopez; Manoj Pahuja; Jenny Duan; Jonathan Swerdlin; Stefano Quintini; Jane Rhee; Filippo Pozzato; Court Lorenzini; Dave Hersh; Fred Schott; Marissa Phul; Sunil Pai; Alberto Chalon; Laura Burkhauser; Dr. Astro Teller; Derek Andersen; Paige Bailey; Teresa Nguyen; Andrew Mauboussin; Lindon Gao; Ariel Shulman; Andrew Wooten; Grace Velker; Matt Bornstein; Anastasios Angelopoulos; Kabir Nagrecha; Alex Choy; Emily Bennett; Dr. Mary Rozenman
- Featured guests: Rihards Okmanis; Anna Kalil; Vedh Krishnan; Yannis Poulakis; Dylan Ler; Katrin Zlobina; Danil Kislinskiy; Angelea Rombeiro; Federico Lombardozzi; Alexander Jung; Ahan Sabharwal; Erick Pinos; Valeri Sabev; Santiago Pineda; Felipe Domínguez; Herman Sanghera; Vladimir Petrov; Jennyfer Mogollon; Arihant Bansal; Lorenzo Borsi; Ryan _w4; Arnav Shah; Simon Shu; Franco Ghio; Dana Roh; Noah Lee; 松倫 蔡; Clemens Janicki; Yinchao Xu; Batuhan Aydin; Raphaël Vullierme Groth; Swayam Pandya; Rehema Nkisi; John Sandoval; Jiaying Fu; Pavina Adunratanasee; Mark Miller; James Jacobs; Sarah Hack

## FAQ

### Which featured and most-RSVPed events can I join without applying?

16 of the 100 are open RSVP; the other 84 ask you to apply. They include Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI (Mon 5:00 PM), Pitch Roast Live (Thu 6:00 PM), Axios Live: Data Governance in the AI Era (Thu 10:00 AM), Brain optimization summit 2026 (Sun 9:30 AM) and OOO - The Techno Sound (Fri 8:30 PM).

### What do hosts ask when you apply?

Across 81 featured and most-RSVPed events with an application form, 81 ask for a job title, 81 for a company, 81 for LinkedIn and 54 for GitHub.

### Are the most popular events free?

7 are marked free and 8 list a ticket price. The rest don't show a price on the event's page.

### What are the main featured and most-RSVPed events on Monday, Oct 5?

20 featured and most-RSVPed events are listed for Monday, Oct 5, led by Fireworks x a16z: Official Tech Week Kickoff w/ Vercel, ElevenLabs, & Stripe and GTM Panel: When and How to Expand Beyond Your Core Business.

### What are the main featured and most-RSVPed events on Tuesday, Oct 6?

23 featured and most-RSVPed events are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by Google for Startups x Google DeepMind: AI Panel, Happy Hour & Demo Slam and Make Content, Not Excuses. Google for Startups x Google DeepMind: AI Panel, Happy Hour & Demo Slam (Tue 4 PM, Google for Startups); Make Content, Not Excuses (Tue 9 AM, Descript); AI Visionaries Forum (Tue 10 AM, AWS for Startups); Models to Medicine Series: From AI Drug Discovery to Patient Engagement (Tue 5 PM, AWS for Startups); The Future of Inference | General Compute x Fenwick (Tue 3 PM, Fenwick & West).

### Which featured and most-RSVPed events have food?

41 of the 100 mention food (21 snacks, 12 breakfast, 4 dinner).

### Which featured and most-RSVPed events have drinks?

24 mention drinks: 1 open bar, 5 alcohol, 18 coffee or soft drinks. Make Content, Not Excuses (Tue 9 AM, Descript); The Cortex Cafe by Snowflake & Google Cloud (Thu 9 AM, Verci); 3M to 100M Users: How Gamma Actually Did It (Thu 10 AM, AKG Media); Beyond AGI: AI Societies and the Future of Decision-Making (Wed 5 PM, Cognizant AI Lab); Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelines (Mon 8:30 AM, Bria).

### Which featured and most-RSVPed events have the most RSVPs?

Fireworks x a16z: Official Tech Week Kickoff w/ Vercel, ElevenLabs, & Stripe has the most, 919 going. Fireworks x a16z: Official Tech Week Kickoff w/ Vercel, ElevenLabs, & Stripe (Mon 6 PM, Fireworks); Google for Startups x Google DeepMind: AI Panel, Happy Hour & Demo Slam (Tue 4 PM, Google for Startups); The Founders & Funders Mixer / Showcase (Mon 6 PM, Musa Capital); SF Tech Week Agent Day (Fri 12 PM, Yujian Tang); OOO - The Techno Sound (Fri 8:30 PM, Hellyeah AI).

## Same page at the other tech week

- At LA Tech Week (Oct 12 to 18): 100 Most popular events: https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/best-events

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