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Hackathons

  • 72 events
  • 7 days, Oct 5 to Oct 11
  • 10 need no approval
  • Busiest Wed, Oct 7
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  • Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIWaitlist

    · Cloudflare · Embarcadero · 300 going

    Join waitlist

  • SpeedHacks: The Official speedrun HackathonFeatured

    · speedrun + speedrun Alpha, Mei +2 · Jackson Square

    Apply

  • AI Native Summit

    · Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie +1 · FiDi · 438 going

    RSVP

  • Builders & Brews SFFree

    · Tavily Events, Xaviera Ho +2 · Union Street · 249 going

    Apply

  • AI Video Hackathon: Build with Qwen × Vizard AgentFood

    · Vizard.ai, Alibaba +1 · Presidio Heights · 232 going

    Apply

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Most RSVPs

  • AI Native Summit

    · Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie +1 · FiDi · 438 going

    RSVP

  • Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIWaitlist

    · Cloudflare · Embarcadero · 300 going

    Join waitlist

  • Builders & Brews SFFree

    · Tavily Events, Xaviera Ho +2 · Union Street · 249 going

    Apply

  • AI Video Hackathon: Build with Qwen × Vizard AgentFood

    · Vizard.ai, Alibaba +1 · Presidio Heights · 232 going

    Apply

  • Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & DoublewordFood

    · Overmind, Daytona +1 · SoMa · 223 going

    Apply

Updated Sep 30 · from the official Tech Week calendar and each event’s own page

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Hackathons at SF Tech Week 2026: all 72 events by day, Pacific time
TimeEventHostNeighborhoodAccessFoodPrice
Monday, Oct 510 events
to 12:45 PMPhysical AI Hackathon: From Idea to Factory46 goingwith Eleanor Ketter, Kayci BiOne Culture Foundation, xinye lin, echoEmbarcaderoApply
Frontier Science AI HackathonCinnamon Sipper, CinnamonDogpatchApplyBreakfast
to 9 PMTrader Buildathon & Happy Hour100 goingTrue MarketsRincon HillApplySnacks
to 9 PM/build-with-AI Buildathon156 goingMem0, Aishwarya Srinivasan, Zuny MolanoPalo AltoApply
Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon Kickoff1 goingAirwallex, Rahul Kumar, Michael MorgensternDowntownApply
to 9 PMHack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI300 goingwith Fred Schott, Marissa Phul, Sunil PaiCloudflareEmbarcaderoWaitlist or full
Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Doubleword223 goingOvermind, Daytona, DoublewordSoMaApplySnacks
to 9 PMAutomate Your SF Tech Week with n8nMelinda Varga, Willie Macharia, Kaila Love +1 moreSoMaOpen RSVPSnacksFree
to 10 PMShark Tank: Most “Ethical” Hackathon & Pitch Competition110 goingIRL Fandoms, Brent ChaseMission BayOpen RSVP
NEXT.BIO 2026 - The AI x BIO Dev Summit -#StartUp Battlefield67 goingNext Sequence, Loretta TIOIELADowntownApply
Tuesday, Oct 65 events
Conversational AI x Gaming Hackathon96 goingMano Games, Max Giang, Christopher K +1 moreDowntownApplySnacks
Hacking AI For Fun and Profit140 goingSnyk, AI Security Engineers SF, Javier GarzaFiDiWaitlist or fullSnacks
to 9 PMMarathon Mode Hackathon (No Compaction Allowed)127 goingSubconscious, Jack O’BrienMarinaApply
to 8:30 PMShip an AI Voice Agent WorkshopLeverage, Modulate, Shir Chorev +2 moreCivic CenterApply
to 9 PMAI Heist Challenge with Cogent x Modal x LangChain111 goingCogent, LangChain, Modal +5 moreDowntownApply
Wednesday, Oct 714 events
The Coast-to-Coast Startup Lab™ - SF DEMO DAY59 goingwith Aadit Narayanaswamy, Ben Narasin, Benjamin Torrero, Vinit Bhansali, Sarah Romanko, Karishma RajRocket MixerUnion SquareApply
Embodied Intelligence ChallengeCinnamon Sipper, CinnamonEmbarcaderoApplyBreakfast
to 4 PMShip Like a Baddie: Build an AI Product or Automate a Workflow in 5 HoursAI Founder Playbook by Byte&Chord, Inc, Alisha Outridge (Lish), Natalie Pan +2 moreOpen RSVP
Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode On - Sponsored by Anthropic113 goingCrestaSoMaApply
to 6 PMBuild Personal AI with Coding Agents163 goingTiming, Eva, tiffany +2 moreMissionApply
to 6 PMCTRL Escape Room HackathonCenter for The Future (Hack Week), HCB by Hack Foundation, Hack WeekAlamo SquareApply
to 5 PMThe Musa Labs Hackathon123 goingMusa Capital, Stonebyte, Tokenly +2 moreDowntownApply
to 7:30 PMBuild a Company Brain: AI Agents with Memory, Context and Secure AccessScaleKit, Cognee, Tamilselvi Ramasamy +2 moreDowntownApply
to 7 PMBuild Mode: HubSpot's Hands-On AI Agent Lab for Real Work87 goingHubSpot, Jennifer Nixon, Sarah Jane (sj) Morris +2 moreSoMaApply
to 6 PMPax Silica Hackathon93 goingBuilderBase, Sean Chiu, Sam Karri +3 moreFiDiOpen RSVPFree
to 7 PMDon't Let Your LLM Go Rogue: AI Security & GuardrailsTrackIt, AWS, Chris Marchitelli +2 moreUnion SquareApplySnacks
to 8 PMMorph-a-thon : Describe Your App, Close Your Laptop45 goingMorph Systems, Akshay SharmaMountain ViewApplySnacks
to 6:30 PMTransformation, Unstuck: A Hands-On Leadership Hackathon8 goingPropellerRincon HillApply
to 9 PMMultiplayer Hackathon by Party (SoMa)Maitai, Inc, Julian AlbertsSoMaApplySnacks
Thursday, Oct 87 events
to 9 PMInception Studio AI BuildathonInception Studio, Michael Liu, Mike +1 moreSoMaWaitlist or full
to 8 PMTripothon S1 World-Building Demo Day @San FranciscoAI TripoSoMaApplyFree
to 12 PM​Lunch & Hack: The Latest SF Tech Trends75 goingwith Julian Weisser, Adelina MartiniucThe AI Collective, RoryPlans.ai, Adelina MartiniucVirtualApply
to 7:30 PM2036: A Day at the Office - A Design-Fiction HackathonAura Ventures, Australian American Chamber of Commerce, Build Club +2 moreUnion SquareApply
to 10 PMEveresteer Hedge Fund Hackathon80 goingwith Marton Peter PriceEveresteerApplyFree
Vibe Coach Hack NightHackerSquad, AJHayes ValleyApply
Vibe Night - Come Cook with Us at OBC60 goingOcean Beach Cafe, Joshua JamesApplyDinner, Drinks
Friday, Oct 913 events
to 7:30 PMCyberdefense Hackathonwith Henry HengTeam tokens&, AWS Builder Loft, Alessandro Amenta +1 moreFiDiApplyLunchFree
AI Native Summit438 goingToby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie, Karsten WadeFiDiOpen RSVPFrom $25
AI Video Hackathon: Build with Qwen × Vizard Agent232 goingVizard.ai, Alibaba, YaoPresidio HeightsApplySnacks
to 2:30 PMMake Content Hackathonfounderledmedia.com, Founder-Led MediaLower Nob HillApply
to 2 PMMiHu AI Hackathon & VC Panel53 goingMiHu AIUnion SquareOpen RSVP
to 6 PMSunset Neighborhood Build-a-thon98 goingJosh Nesbit, Anna SpisakOuter SunsetOpen RSVPBreakfast, Soft drinksFree
to 10 PMAI x Medicine: Hackathon + Speaker Night23 goingShravan Balaji, Arya Kulkarni, Prathamesh TrivediApplySnacks
to 10 PMBuilders & Brews SF249 goingwith Sujee Maniyam, Sarah Li, Matthew FerozTavily Events, Xaviera Ho, Replit Events +1 moreUnion StreetApplySoft drinksFree
Future of Work Hackathon: Building from the Farm @Stanford UniversityStanford GSB India Association, Debanjan Nayak, Astha +3 moreStanfordApplyLunch
to 6:30 PMSip & Startup with ProtoLive.xyz33 goingProtoLive.xyz, ProtoLiveSoMaOpen RSVPSnacks
to 9 PMThe AI Said It Was Done - AI Agent Divergence Hackathon39 goingMorfa AI, Inc, Jan, Kevin MelloDowntownApply
to 9 PMFind a Cofounder, Help or Join a Tech StartupRobert MaddoxCivic CenterOpen RSVPSnacks, DrinksFree
GTM HackathonAceMakers, Matt LakerMission BayApplySnacks, Drinks
Saturday, Oct 1014 events
AI x Pre-Construction HackathonBlueprints AI, Coco Cao, AlSoMaApplyBreakfast
Build For Her39 goingRoamHer, Glow Girl Social Club, Jaki WilliamsApply
to 9 PMOasis Multi-Agent HackathonOasis, Aaron ZhangFiDiApplySnacks
to 10 PMTalk to Users Hackathonwith Kieran John Keenan, Abel Dagne, Alspencer Omondi, Gal Dayan, Omri Ben Shoham, Ana Yoon Faria de Lima, Anthea Guo, Nick WalterStripe, Base44, Cognition, Sense AI, Daytona, FishAudio +5 moreSoMaApply
AI HackathonUC Santa Cruz Gen AI Center, Yi Zhang, Preet Karia +1 moreMountain ViewApplySnacks
to 6 PMMultiplayer Hackathon by PartyMaitai, Inc., Julian AlbertsPalo AltoApplyBreakfast, Soft drinks
to 5 PMBuild an AI-Native Company (In a Day)Kylon, Christina BowllanSoMaApplyLunchFree
to 8 PMCreative Data HackathonCalaMissionApply
to 3:30 PMDecision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trustwith Kiana Jafari, Bryant McCombs, Clark Barrett, Wesley Deng, Sarath SwaminathanEzio, TokenRouter, Avishi Agastwar +3 moreStanfordOpen RSVPSoft drinks
INTERFACE: Hack the Space Between8 goingField Lab, Sissi Wang, Iana LinSoMaApply
to 8 PMMake Your Store ChatGPT-Famous16 goingMervia AI, Zhuowei BaoSoMaApplyLunch, Drinks
to 6 PMBuild a BankGPTinterface.ai, Gil AcedilloFiDiApplySnacks
to 6 PMRenaissance CollectiveSoCo, Laasya GoripartiEast BayApply
Forward Deployed Engineer: Hear From Experts, Then Try It84 goingStanford University, Angelica Ly, Cheyoung Ahn +1 morePalo AltoApplySnacks
Sunday, Oct 119 events
to 8 PMAI-Native Startup HackathonVin Wanfan, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Finch ai +5 moreLower HaightApplyFree
to 9 PMSpeedHacks: The Official speedrun Hackathonspeedrun + speedrun Alpha, Mei, Katia Ameri +1 moreJackson SquareApply
to 8 PMThe Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling SF HackathonMongoDB, Patrick Steyn, Alexis Piligian +2 moreEmbarcaderoApplyFree
to 8 PMB@BHacks 2.0 ($10k+ in prizes)Hackathon Company, Mason ArditiEast BayApply
to 8 PMRecursive Self Improvement Hack: EvalsAutolab.ai, Gabriela Torres, Serge +1 moreCivic CenterApplyLunch
to 6 PMShopping 3.0: the AI Commerce Hackathon with Arcade63 goingwith Kirsten Green, Mariam Naficy, Ash HerrArcade AI, Kelley Lawson, Mariam Naficy +5 moreUnion SquareApply
to 10 PMtouch ./GRASS: The Outdoor Voice Agent Hackathon 🌿113 goingOpenbase, Maritime, Sundai Club +5 morePalo AltoApplyBreakfast
to 4 PMUC Berkeley Innovation Intelligence HackathonUC Berkeley SCET Innovators in Residence Program, Danica, Ronit +4 moreEast BayApply
to 9:30 PMMusical Hack NightEli Willis Music, EliSoMaApply

Questions

Which hackathons can I join without applying?

12 of the 72 are open RSVP; the other 60 ask you to apply.

  • Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIWaitlist

    · Cloudflare · Embarcadero · 300 going

    Join waitlist

  • AI Native Summit

    · Toby Founder @ AINative.Studio, Ayori Selassie +1 · FiDi · 438 going

    RSVP

  • Hacking AI For Fun and ProfitWaitlist

    · Snyk, AI Security Engineers SF +1 · FiDi · 140 going

    Join waitlist

  • Shark Tank: Most “Ethical” Hackathon & Pitch Competition

    · IRL Fandoms, Brent Chase · Mission Bay · 110 going

    RSVP

  • Sunset Neighborhood Build-a-thonFree

    · Josh Nesbit, Anna Spisak · Outer Sunset · 98 going

    RSVP

What do hosts ask when you apply?

Across 56 hackathons with an application form, 55 ask for a job title, 55 for a company, 56 for LinkedIn and 49 for GitHub.

Do SF Tech Week hackathons cost money?

Some do. 12 list a price and 11 are marked free on their event pages.

What are the main hackathons on Wednesday, Oct 7?

14 hackathons are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by Build Personal AI with Coding Agents and The Musa Labs Hackathon. Among them are Build Personal AI with Coding Agents (Wed 12:00 PM), The Musa Labs Hackathon (Wed 12:00 PM), Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode On - Sponsored by Anthropic (Wed 12:00 PM), Pax Silica Hackathon (Wed 3:00 PM) and Build Mode: HubSpot's Hands-On AI Agent Lab for Real Work (Wed 3:00 PM).

What are the main hackathons on Friday, Oct 9?

13 hackathons are listed for Friday, Oct 9, led by AI Native Summit and Builders & Brews SF.

Which hackathons have food?

29 of the 72 mention food (17 snacks, 6 breakfast, 5 lunch). Among them are AI Video Hackathon: Build with Qwen × Vizard Agent (Fri 11:00 AM), "Food and drinks"; Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Doubleword (Mon 5:00 PM), "Drinks and food"; Hacking AI For Fun and Profit (Tue 4:30 PM), "grab food and drinks, meet fellow AI builders"; touch ./GRASS: The Outdoor Voice Agent Hackathon 🌿 (Sun 10:00 AM), "Arrival, breakfast, and networking"; Trader Buildathon & Happy Hour (Mon 2:00 PM), "Drinks and Food 6-9".

Which hackathons have drinks?

8 mention drinks: 4 alcohol, 4 coffee or soft drinks.

Which hackathons have the most RSVPs?

AI Native Summit has the most, 438 RSVPs.

Who’s there

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Hosts 12

Speakers 34

Featured guests 36

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Updated Sep 30. Listings from the official Tech Week calendar and each event’s own page. #SFTechWeek is a community event; Chancity is not affiliated with it.
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