Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT # Jackson Square events at SF Tech Week 2026 > Jackson Square has 38 SF Tech Week 2026 events between Monday, Oct 5 and Sunday, Oct 11, and only 3 take open RSVPs while 35 need a host's approval, so apply early. Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 38. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page. ## At a glance - Small rooms: the median event here shows 18 RSVPs, well below the week as a whole. - Wednesday, Oct 7 is the peak, with 14 of the neighborhood's 38 events. - That's 38 of the 1832 events on the official Tech Week calendar, spread over 6 days. ## Subscribe - Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/jackson-square/calendar.ics - Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/jackson-square/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 | 8 AM to 12 PM | BrewBird’s Coffee Before the Chaos | BrewBird | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ky1vbbVkLF1q0PfvSYTl?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM | Rho Women's Brunch: Founders x Funders | Rho, Pivot North, Tarlon Khoubyari | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/wAQkxMGy4uzgoyxACm5K?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 11 AM to 12:30 PM | You Didn't Sign Up to Run Marketing: Why Growth-Stage GTM Stalls | Andyama Advisory, Stacy Anderson | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nlsfEobpS2ps8p5kTC7a?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 12 PM to 2 PM | Jackson Square Lunch for Early Stage Founders & Investors | Precursor Ventures, Stripe, Bain Capital Ventures, Samantha Quist, Daniel Guo | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/03LAQ7giVi9tHrbO76p7?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM | A Hack of All Trades | Chief | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5cGcV5GboXf1yB6KsrZ9?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Liquidity, Before the Exit | Section Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, Emma Yurochko | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/I5KrM62j4kRlVLB0R2zb?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 7 PM to 10 PM | European Private Dinner at The Battery SF | Autopoiesis Sciences, Mike, Mune Biotech | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/DZg8gm1QiQWbYjPBVI1P?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 10 AM | Mercury Bookstore | Mercury | Jackson Square | RSVP | open | Snacks, Soft drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/EK8RuGJHGnj6NrXuzfD2?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 12 PM to 6 PM | Voice & Chill Ice Cream Truck | AssemblyAI | Jackson Square | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/81UFMe5uTqCmmZSZygWE?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 3 PM to 6 PM | Building Construction Tech | Brick & Mortar Ventures, Alice Leung | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4I1CR25AY6S0UOeeYGjE?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Growth-Stage (or soon to be) Founder Dinner, hosted by Giano Capital | Giano Capital, Mauro Marconi, Niraj Pabari | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Lfj2NrC8gUAtgviuT9ZN?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 8 AM | Ideacoil Breakfast & Coffee Networking | Ideacoil, Laurent Delly | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/5pUpqwuWN84EN46UOpwI?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 | 12 PM to 3 PM | Early-Stage GP Lunch, hosted by Giano Capital | Giano Capital, Mauro Marconi, Niraj Pabari | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NbzfdAw4jHvZRx4cQ9kD?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 1:30 PM | Founder Lunch: Founders who inherited marketing #San Francisco TechWeek | Andyama Advisory, Stacy Anderson | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/l0ogzLKbtFX9oEcBPvlN?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Launch & Scale Your Fractional Business | A Good Reputation, Renee L Frojo, Darin Swanson, Kaleana Quibell, Kate Kruizenga, Tamsin | Jackson Square | RSVP | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/ADQ48cPVt0VzJevNMxYq?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM | The Next Era of Leadership | Surge People Partners, Natalie Mueller, Samantha Jenkins, Monique Johnson | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/h4UrdrbYgNCRptEerN5p?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Building the Onchain Capital Stack | Kindred Ventures, Stable Sea | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NOyPEpmBOYAxWCojU1iQ?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Dimension ML x Bio Mixer | Dimension, Rami | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EugYNVBnohQQPmKIPNjU?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM | Canadian Founders in the Bay | TechTO, Megha Kandoi | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uhq6lxyRQyPxPp4Goemz?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM | Truffle Security Dinner at Quince | Truffle Security | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/8OS1KnVOGFiGRnXTSoqI?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM | can you hear me now - a voice ai "speech" easy event | Hippocratic AI, Hakluyt, Cynara Lilly | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RIR5ez9fOVuIiQySRWI5?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 6:30 PM | CONSUMER FOUNDER HAPPY HOUR | Helium, Zach Witzel, San Thu | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FEiweVZfuAEk9hz2VHfT?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Truffle Security Dinner | Truffle Security | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/sAyiXU39SWt6AAoScdBt?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 8:30 PM | speedrun × OpenAI / Founder Night at new speedrun HQ | a16z speedrun, Joan DeGennaro, Samira Behrouzan | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/QS7Lp5wN0FKbHjCXiwTP?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 | 12 PM to 3 PM | FO & UHNW Lunch, hosted by Giano Capital & 3i Members | 3i Members, Giano Capital, Anthony Nardini, Mauro Marconi, Cissy Hu, Niraj Pabari | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/E6jXu2Bq7B7GredAnJhN?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 3 PM to 7 PM | New Media Creators Summit | NEW ECONOMIES, Hyeri Jo, Seoyoung Youn, Ollie Forsyth, Jiyoon Lim, Jemin Park, Helen Tsim, TaeYong Kim | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/m1LzbOAmD3FbuqP95EDJ?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM | See You Outside: The Future Is IRL | SPECS, Jaiya | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/8Drwso1qE3HIBy69JsrG?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Agent memory & learning | Letta, Sarah Wooders | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/sYfPT3uHC2xaQH7uBp2K?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | From Model to Market: Healthcare AI Happy Hour | Flare Capital Partners, CVS Health Ventures, JP Morgan, Amanda DiTrolio, Payal, Manasa Gummalla | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/8i9L4Ywp2IgRCDzfhMA1?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | tech is politics, politics is tech with Sway | Sway, Andrew Sun, Claire Shorall, Genevieve, Ali Partovi, kayla, Barak Gila | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qoO5WEnisleqOXIOVpyj?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | AI Strikes Oil II: World Models Go Downhole | BriqScore, Navneet Sankarambadi | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/fUAsA7ki7DpfbeBCw6BZ?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 7:30 PM | Focus on Demand - Train Your Brain with Neurotech & VR | Vayu Labs, Ian Cross | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/iapOoXyHNTSpsgG3TzD9?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 | 12 PM to 1:30 PM | Female Founders & Capital Allocators Lunch, hosted by Renegade & 3i Members | 3i Members, Renegade Partners, Anthony Nardini, Tess Baker, Cissy Hu | Jackson Square | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ROLbhXcjbtwfasbXqrU0?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 9 | 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM | EWOR Demo Day - Investors Only | EWOR, Gigi Brett | Jackson Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/iVRmbMz5TmTkRshMwk1m?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) | ## Who is there - Hosting: a16z Speedrun (4); Giano Capital (3); Mauro Marconi (3); Niraj Pabari (3); 3i Members (2); Andyama Advisory (2); Anthony Nardini (2); Cissy Hu (2) ([X](https://x.com/cissyrxhu)); Renegade Partners (2); Stacy Anderson (2); Truffle Security (2); A Good Reputation (1) - Speaking: Monet Sommers; Kamaka Martin; Jessica Ma; Sadia Raveendran; Donna Schut; Dr. Lily Jampol; Sally Mace; Kyle Stanford; Zachary Johnson; Zane Veater; Eike Gerhardt; Jo Teichmann; Mike Mahlkow; Darin Swanson; Kaleana Quibell; Kate Kruizenga; Tanner Taddeo; John Whelan; Andrew D’Souza; Avlok Kohli; Nibedita (Nivi) Baral; May Wang; Macy Mills; Jonathan Hunt; Brian Alvey; Peter Yang; Viraj Ala; Brooke LeBlanc ## FAQ ### Which events in Jackson Square can I join without applying? 3 of the 38 are open RSVP; the other 35 ask you to apply. Voice & Chill Ice Cream Truck (Tue 12 PM, AssemblyAI); Launch & Scale Your Fractional Business (Wed 2 PM, A Good Reputation); Mercury Bookstore (Tue 10 AM, Mercury). ### What do hosts ask when you apply? Across 35 events in Jackson Square with an application form, 35 ask for a job title, 35 for a company, 35 for LinkedIn and 24 for GitHub. ### Are Jackson Square Tech Week events free? Most pages don't say. Just 0 is marked free and 0 lists a ticket price on its event page. ### What are the main events in Jackson Square on Monday, Oct 5? 7 events in Jackson Square are listed for Monday, Oct 5, led by Jackson Square Lunch for Early Stage Founders & Investors and A Hack of All Trades. They include Jackson Square Lunch for Early Stage Founders & Investors (Mon 12:00 PM), A Hack of All Trades (Mon 5:00 PM), European Private Dinner at The Battery SF (Mon 7:00 PM), BrewBird’s Coffee Before the Chaos (Mon 8:00 AM) and Rho Women's Brunch: Founders x Funders (Mon 8:30 AM). ### What are the main events in Jackson Square on Wednesday, Oct 7? 14 events in Jackson Square are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by Deep Tech Investor Breakfast and Launch & Scale Your Fractional Business. ### Which events in Jackson Square have food? 13 of the 38 mention food (6 snacks, 3 dinner, 2 breakfast). They include Deep Tech Investor Breakfast (Wed 9:00 AM), "exclusive breakfast gathering"; tech is politics, politics is tech with Sway (Thu 5:30 PM), "light bites on us"; European Private Dinner at The Battery SF (Mon 7:00 PM), "great food, drinks, and conversation"; The Next Era of Leadership (Wed 5:00 PM), "an intimate dinner and roundtable"; Rho Women's Brunch: Founders x Funders (Mon 8:30 AM), "Expect breakfast and coffee". ### Which events in Jackson Square have drinks? 6 mention drinks: 2 alcohol, 4 coffee or soft drinks. ### Which events in Jackson Square have the most RSVPs? Deep Tech Investor Breakfast has the most, 157 going. --- HTML version: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/jackson-square 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