Updated: Sep 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM PT # Events with Microsoft speakers and builders at SF Tech Week 2026 > Microsoft speakers or builders appear at 31 SF Tech Week events between Monday, Oct 5 and Sunday, Oct 11, and 27 of them require a host's approval, so apply early. Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 31. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page. ## At a glance - Larger rooms than the week overall: the median here lists 123 RSVPs. - 7 happen on Thursday, Oct 8, the opening day. - 5 are marked free and 6 carry a ticket price. ## Subscribe - Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/microsoft/calendar.ics - Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/microsoft/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 | 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Physical AI Series A founders & CVCs Breakfast | Raisable, Vasyl Dub, Sacha | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/e116G5oDSjhCjQjBVVxi?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 11:30 AM to 10 PM | FARR Summit Oct 5th | FARR Summit, Soha Zadeh, Suzanne Zadeh | - | Apply | open | - | From $250 | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/FARRsummit?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 3 PM to 5 PM | Bringing a Chief of Staff Mindset to AI Transformation | Ask a Chief of Staff | FiDi | RSVP | waitlist | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/5cmqIMMKXvXHnbENxX8S?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 3 PM to 8 PM | Molecules, Models & Agents: Accelerating scientific research and development | Kevin Crosby | South Beach | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/Molecules2Agents?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 4 PM to 7 PM | Architecting AI-Native GTM | Amdahl, Agu Vaitkus, Annette Sung | FiDi | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/DeVaHuQMKsIDTYlO4j7g?ref=chancity) | | Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Private dinner: The New Tech Talent Equation / Leaders deciding what to build in-house, who to hire, and when to bring in external experts | Bayteq, José Alvarez | Palo Alto | Apply | open | Dinner | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/77y6mljh?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 11 AM | Techonomy26 | Worth Media Group | Union Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FReBp8EVikvNdpsi8Eai?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 2 PM | The Next Layer of AI: From Models to Real-World Intelligence TFOT: Global Innovation Summit | TeroAI, RYAN RAMIREZ, The Future of Tech | Mission Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jd5d9xryCa9FeSrpJKzL?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 4 PM | How startups can sell and scale with the government #B2B #Cybersecurity #EnterpriseAI | Okta Ventures and M12, M12, Okta Ventures | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/PoSbaQBaUPOGcpKsDGPr?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | The Evolution Of GTM In 2027 | George Portillo, James Gee | SoMa | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/9cp2xvj9?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Bridging Innovation & Defense: A special event for Defense Innovators at | RapidFort, Tracy Toschi, Austin Sedaghatpour | Marina | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/vmzI2Tf6Cnk89BfyEBaM?ref=chancity) | | Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 8:30 PM | Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor | Swissnex in San Francisco, Sarah BK. Swissnex, Andrea Cross @Swissnex, Julia Kuhn Mirza | Mission Bay | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WHfwx55GwbeRGaZb6Q6B?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 5 PM | The Musa Labs Hackathon | Musa Capital, Stonebyte, Tokenly, Allen Smith, Selina | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tjiOWQ6R0REOGWjUZ3Kf?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM to 5 PM | Applied AI, Live Asks & Offers: Chiefs of Staff and Microsoft Data Scientists | Ask a Chief of Staff | FiDi | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/1rqjB8IqhlhVGcqjLvap?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | 10x Your Impact: Leadership in the Age of AI: Panel discussion | Lovable | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/z2b7KeZ5M4wYHbOinP2U?ref=chancity) | | Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 8:30 PM | Private Mixer: Engineering, product, talent and procurement at | Silicon Valley Delegations, Bayteq, José Alvarez | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | Free | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/IR5LwWf49vyv2yrWGClC?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 | 5 PM to 8 PM | AI Founder/VC Dinner | You.com, Mariane Bekker | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/rZ1l4jj2oHRIS8EAyUZS?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Physical AI VC <> Founders Pitch Night @Mission Robotics | Raisable, Vasyl Dub, Sacha, Mattie Fairchild, Kateryna | Palo Alto | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/J83OkLfSCZsmT6DXJiKy?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Funders & Founders Mixer | Founders Bay, Mariane Bekker | Marina | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/YnaOKTdxUx0DJqFVQGCk?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 9 PM | SF Tech Week Private Dinner & Fireside Chat: Beyond the Base Model / Post-Training, Evals & Agentic Systems | Lauren Vang - Prolific, Gabrielle Halady, Albert Chun, Bradley Fehler | - | Apply | open | Dinner | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/prolific-j12n?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | Translation AI at | ModelFront, Cecilia Yalangozian, Adam Bittlingmayer | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nalVTU28EjvOXU9psTtP?ref=chancity) | | Thu, Oct 8 | 6:45 PM to 9:45 PM | Solve your PMF & Retention | Fund Bridge, Xiaowen Zu | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ZoZsx1SZZNkmDYZCqU8t?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 | 5 PM | From Agents to Production - Founder Exchange & After Hours | FounderCoHo Community, FounderCoHo | Palo Alto | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/tqX7BGeGKHpIg005UD85?ref=chancity) | | Fri, Oct 9 | 6 PM to 9 PM | AI Builders Summit | Founders Bay, Mariane Bekker | FiDi | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/M8o8swbgQoidMEvbEgwR?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 10 | 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM | Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trust | Ezio, TokenRouter, Avishi Agastwar, Arushi Agastwar, Amitesh Gargapati, Ricky Mo | Stanford | RSVP | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/VVaPHqxrY0UYMInN3HZY?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 10 | 11 AM to 1:30 PM | AI Wearables / Flexible Biosensors | Catalyst Bay, Liudmyla, Oleksandra Kviatkovska, Alina Blyzniuk, Victoria, Jacqueline Adami | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mYGS6wUpaPlN9kijg6yv?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 10 | 5 PM | Raisable Founders & Investors Night | Raisable, Vasyl Dub, Sacha | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3BZkPE3Z6tiJiurNeLqK?ref=chancity) | | Sat, Oct 10 | 8 PM to 9 PM | [The Second Act: Post-Exit Strategy & 0-to-1 Blueprint for Serial Founders] | Fund Bridge, Xiaowen Zu | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4sFCEahxeoZMUX0fWKZC?ref=chancity) | | Sun, Oct 11 | 10 AM | Raisable Founders & Investors Hike | Raisable, Vasyl Dub, Sacha | Stanford | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/6gkWkl17DZIpVMe2dhLP?ref=chancity) | ## Who is there - Hosting: Raisable (4); Sacha (4); Vasyl Dub (4); Mariane Bekker (3) ([X](https://x.com/marianebekker)); Ask a Chief of Staff (2); Bayteq (2) ([Website](https://www.bayteq.com/?ref=chancity)); Founders Bay (2); Fund Bridge (2); José Alvarez (2) ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josealeac)); Xiaowen Zu (2) ([X](https://x.com/YouraisefundBBF)); Adam Bittlingmayer (1) ([X](https://x.com/bittlingmayer)); Agu Vaitkus (1) - Speaking: Sam De Brouwer; Clara Ma; Jordan Ramsay; Prashant Varshney; Vega Shah; Zack Ulissi; Annette Sung; Mihail Eric; Jeson Patel; Aman Azad; Margaret Zhang; Susmitha Marupaka; Michelle Lim; Dave Anderson; Constantinos Yenis; Christopher Hooton; Martijn Lancee; Erin Knese; Derek Strausbaugh; Greg Hall; Allison Baum Gates; Eric Martin; Kevin Murphy; Vishal Amin; Richard G. Moore, Jr.; Arthur Grijalva; Malina Johnson; Nitin Mehta; Richard Frey; Prof. Henry Markram; Valerie Bertele; John Robins; Daniel Lütgehetmann; Rebecca Yeung; Josephine Chua; Nikhil Saukhla; Abhishek Sriram; Mitko Vidanovski; Elena Verna; Adam Fishman - Featured guests: Joaquin Porteiro; Devon Lin; Alexander Morris; Amit Bakshi; Amanda Ye; Vadym Muraviov; Kyle Bimm; Matt O"Brien; Oscar Zapata; Bojana Petkovic ## FAQ ### Which events with Microsoft speakers or builders can I join without applying? 4 of the 31 are open RSVP; the other 27 ask you to apply. From Agents to Production - Founder Exchange & After Hours (Fri 5 PM, FounderCoHo Community); Bringing a Chief of Staff Mindset to AI Transformation (Mon 3 PM, Ask a Chief of Staff); Applied AI, Live Asks & Offers: Chiefs of Staff and Microsoft Data Scientists (Wed 3 PM, Ask a Chief of Staff); Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trust (Sat 10:30 AM, Ezio). ### What do hosts ask when you apply? Across 22 events with Microsoft speakers or builders with an application form, 22 ask for a job title, 22 for a company, 22 for LinkedIn and 15 for GitHub. ### What are the main events with Microsoft speakers or builders on Monday, Oct 5? 6 events with Microsoft speakers or builders are listed for Monday, Oct 5, led by Physical AI Series A founders & CVCs Breakfast and FARR Summit Oct 5th. Near the top are Physical AI Series A founders & CVCs Breakfast (Mon 8:30 AM), FARR Summit Oct 5th (Mon 11:30 AM), Bringing a Chief of Staff Mindset to AI Transformation (Mon 3:00 PM), Molecules, Models & Agents: Accelerating scientific research and development (Mon 3:00 PM) and Architecting AI-Native GTM (Mon 4:00 PM). ### What are the main events with Microsoft speakers or builders on Tuesday, Oct 6? 6 events with Microsoft speakers or builders are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by How startups can sell and scale with the government #B2B #Cybersecurity #EnterpriseAI and Designing for Physical AI: From Innovation Lab to Factory Floor. ### Which events with Microsoft speakers or builders have food? 9 of the 31 mention food (4 dinner, 3 snacks, 1 lunch). Near the top are Accredited Investor AI Briefing: Scaling to $19.7B Exit and Beyond 🛡️🤖 (Thu 10:00 AM), "Networking with Light Bites & Beverages"; AI Frontier Summit - Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips (Fri 10:30 AM), "Lunch, networking, demo showcase"; AI Founder/VC Dinner (Thu 5:00 PM), "Intimate dinner with AI founders and VCs"; AI Builders Summit (Fri 6:00 PM), "Curated Networking & Dinner"; Translation AI at (Thu 6:00 PM), "Snacks and drinks will be provided". ### Which events with Microsoft speakers or builders have drinks? 3 mention drinks: 1 alcohol, 2 coffee or soft drinks. ### Which events with Microsoft speakers or builders have the most RSVPs? AI Frontier Summit - Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips has the most, 425 going. ### Which events with Microsoft speakers or builders are hands-on? 4 are workshops or hackathons: 2 workshops and 2 hackathons. The Musa Labs Hackathon (Wed 12 PM, Musa Capital); Solve your PMF & Retention (Thu 6:45 PM, Fund Bridge); Applied AI, Live Asks & Offers: Chiefs of Staff and Microsoft Data Scientists (Wed 3 PM, Ask a Chief of Staff); Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trust (Sat 10:30 AM, Ezio). --- HTML version: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/microsoft 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