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

# Events in the Mission at SF Tech Week 2026

> The Mission has 116 SF Tech Week 2026 events from Oct 5 to Oct 11, with 37 on Wednesday, Oct 7 alone and 57% starting in the evening.

Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 116. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page.

## At a glance

- Wednesday-heavy: 37 of 116 fall on Wednesday, Oct 7.
- Leans late: 66 start in the evening.
- 100 of 116 need host approval, and 16 take a plain RSVP.

## Subscribe

- Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/mission/calendar.ics
- Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/mission/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 | 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 | 12 PM to 2:30 PM | FinTech Founders' Lunch | Leverage | Mission | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FaxYdhmYnPx7FJX706n3?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 | 1 PM to 5 PM | Builders Beyond Barriers - Vibe Coding Showcase | EchoHer, Hackathons at Berkeley, MemOS, Pebblebed, bing, qianwen chen, Joyce Qiao, Nicole Levin | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mGyFYFRLUKRuPrt92A6e?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Sensors, Signals & Self: Consumer Healthtech Coffee | SensePulse, Julia Yelick | Mission | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Nuifvy0DvOtgAinX8Je7?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM to 8 PM | AI Beyond the Screen | House of 434, Shilpi Nayak, Mattie Fairchild | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jpm7z2Y4Ja02KSZj2JrH?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5 PM | AI in XR | ReactVision, Sakshi | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/gYEbnfoUIt3aSBEhW6qZ?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Actually, I AM the Manager - Women Building Next Gen VC Firms | Entelechy Ventures, NDVC, Monique Barbanson, Lauren M Taylor | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GtjBUp6J5ejAnQuUtTPf?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Field Trips: Family Movie Night | Gigascale Capital, Merrill Feather, Aaron Bernstein | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4O5SjUTp6CmTX0yvROWV?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | How to get press without a PR agency | Press Club, Kathy Wang, David Sheen, Farouk Ramzan, Articuler.ai | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/CPjgUCjZH9VEdENr8rGG?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 6 PM to 8 PM | First drinks Aussie style - Co Ventures x Airtree | Co Ventures, Airtree, Jo Lawson, Sid Kasbekar | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/h6Jz0kpPtBTMQ1SoWTd0?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Agentic Business Cards Are Here | Purpose:Labs, Alkinoos Sarioglou | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Z52L19HqU1hDA5Ky0hOB?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 6:30 PM | Be honest. You're not really doing evals, are you? | ZenML GmbH, ZenML Labs, Adam Probst | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zy0l9HXxDxSvxglXOwtQ?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 7 PM to 10 PM | IRL Events Re-imagined | SubWire, Mike Terry (SubWire) | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nYOdy7mIB0OKwitWWYyr?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 7 PM | The Leap: From Executive to Founder (invite only) | Build Momentum, Eylo, Michael Meo | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner | Free | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/xKNFAwslWqcLJUqNdHx6?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Omakase for Builders: A Breakfast | Aikido Security, Michiel Denis, Grant Millette, Jeff Poczatek, Chris Kosrow | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/9J8NhsZmHLG5pj7w8zhe?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM | Paws & Portfolios: Founders & Funders Breakfast | Stay Pet Health, Stay. | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NueRCViSNysSdh6tT6rn?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 9 AM | Made in SF: Breakfast Burritos & Hardware | Vulcury Venture Studio and Advisors, Vulcury, Cullen Hilkene, Divyansh Agarwal | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BYImaBtsAHxQOlpOIabi?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 | 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM | Building Teams That Cross Borders: Insights on Mobility and Expansion | Deel, Sterling Brokers, Taylor Merkley, Elda Shawil, Sunny Ruprai | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/6sWxjKVVUnJqt7W5YKNI?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10:30 AM | Pink Out! Marketing Fireside Chat: Earning Loyalty | Vester, Darius, Arianna Daringa, David Bruining, Articuler.ai | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/u5KK34XZKOTRKCsoTxem?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 12 PM | The Builder's Table with Adobe for Startups | Adobe | Mission | Apply | open | Lunch | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Z6enmnvzTVgiZhHIWV53?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 2 PM to 5 PM | Women-Led Startups Pitch & Network | EchoHer, Pebblebed, bing, Nicole Levin, qianwen chen | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mTnO1ArLMfjKqBMk7VCm?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 4 PM | OnlyExit: Monopolize the Pitch Happy Hour - 2026 | Vester, Darius, Ankur Tyagi, Sahil Sorathiya | Mission | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/i1ryIwFT2hgrxVO8fUD0?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 8 PM | NO BORDERS: Global Founders & Investors Mixer | TiE Mumbai, Vaishnavi Dhotre, Trupti Sharma, Naveen Raju, Shabnam Khan | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FsxZU3ARWGIo3PB0ab0m?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Consumer Apps Rooftop Mixer | Yesterday, Overtake, Aditya, Anish Lat | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/f9i4wniSfH4HxIil25cR?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Ember’s US Launch Party: Bonne Chance is not a Strategy | Ember, Lauren Schmidt, Joffroy Louchart | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Jfl4uusQxNbqYDpbWqeL?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Batter Up San Francisco! | Kate Shepherd, Mariane Bekker | Mission | RSVP | sold out | - | Free | - | [View](https://luma.com/xenl8z74?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | Building the New Space Economy | Katalyst Space, Makena Burns | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Q6QAZuwzfhPWjfUGeXtm?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | Government, Media & AI: the Future of Public Affairs | Locunity Inc., Jonathan Bash, Dev Iyer | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/KZPzVo8qH8FP3SXfEgxu?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Open Social Web Meetup | Habitat, Arushi Bandi | Mission | RSVP | open | Drinks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/rOlLWCjeCKEk8WZIGeIa?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Sushi-Making with Fearn and Kindred Ventures | Kindred Ventures, Fearn, Angela, Kevin Bennett, Han | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Wn9UsaQDG7NeKhO2zSiM?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Agentic Business Card Experiment | Purpose:Labs | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/KQRhXX3UIQFBh6su28bF?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 | xxx | Hedra, ameya | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/blsn0kfGCa083X4zGzxY?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 7 PM | Prompts vs. Presence: Reclaiming Cognitive Bandwidth in the Age of AI | Novale, Bio & Everything, The Meeting Room | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/ol0bMOoCgEq1DZDIDVAs?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 7:30 PM | Vintage & Venture A Founder and Investor Wine Tasting | AI.FO, Joe McCann | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ij1k4hMXA2Lkq6JvJbtN?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 8:30 AM | Breakfast: Expanding to the US: What Nobody Tells You | Business Sound, Jordan Butler | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/7Y2mqVTDyuRtVF6fau7c?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 8:30 AM to 10 AM | Marketing Salon: How B2B brands turn creators into growth | Passionfroot, Tuongvan Le, Jen Phan, Vera Hanson, McCall Turner | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/P0DOfp70zsMmVYtVrmh5?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM | ProductCon | Product School | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/k0CZdGYW8CE3p6X0f13j?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 10 AM to 1 PM | EdTech Morning Matcha Talk | KlikLabs, Jerzy Kalina, Ben Anthony Minervino | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/rdAiZtshNrgGjdE9zY1u?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 2 PM | Build Anywhere, Scale Everywhere: Global Founders Picnic | Afro Adventurer, Quiana | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/UvLt5Z0RVVLVcOsbSkMS?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 12 PM to 6 PM | Build Personal AI with Coding Agents | Timing, Eva, tiffany, Pop Pop Tech, Anthony Bonvino | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ueTU4FKbsep0oN5MAtU8?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 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Every Token Has a Price | Compute Exchange, Dmytro Lokshyn | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/TCbzFycPMc8s5fYu0pSM?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Why AI Design slop is hurting your growth - w/88 | 88 Design Collective, Kushal Dagli, Niomi Shah | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/AAggvs330D8DGOH7WbqB?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 2:30 PM to 5 PM | SELL TO AMERICA: The Brutally Practical US GTM Playbook | TiE Mumbai, Vaishnavi Dhotre, Naveen Raju, Shabnam Khan, Trupti Sharma | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BZGIw6j0S4ktJwMEOkYT?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM | Building Consumer Startups in Public | Chimeboard, AGI House SF, Avivi W, Chinat Yu | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/D0pS4YPveEhJXzzFjWed?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 3 PM | The Marketplace Economy in the Age of AI | Spectus Ventures, Dots, Rob Mihalko, Simran Handa - Dots (YC S21) | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Z1FWbh8EJZRCEkiYfvoW?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 4 PM to 7 PM | AI Filmmaking Mixer | AI on the Lot | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/A9K3vE8pGsceYeu4yl1h?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 PM | Robotics model, hardware and data quick hang w/ Pixelstwo | Pixelstwo, Akshaj Jain | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/13YAGGHHLUfzSZzhex1B?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM | Untangling the Healthcare Experience | Joji Health, Juan Sanabria | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/sG0OJj3ikuYE4FjaeUYc?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Own the Intelligence | Future AGI, Nikhil Pareek, Vrinda Damani | Mission | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/Q0t9NuXxZumV4XLCTH3a?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Rethinking Venture Allocation: Where Should LPs Put Their Venture Dollars Now? | Savant Ventures, Jeson Lee, April Liu | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/BYLH0QxlxnvpAzypv3VP?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM | 🤖 Robotics, Off the Record @Mission Robotics | PeKe Labs, Asma, Thane, Mattie Fairchild | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/TprLtwRJBJaBwIY6n3i1?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | AI Benchmarking & Evaluation Ecosystem Dinner | Lauren Wagner, ARC Prize Team, Snorkel AI, Vincent Chen | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/1fg5tvf7?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Building an Inevitable Brand w/Block, Coinbase, Linear, Plaid, and Warp Leads | warp.co, Linear, Amy Yang, vanessa yuri chung, naime | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2RDOLZR1FZrXr63mLwPU?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM | Hardware Pitch Night @ S45 / 🩺Wearables for Health & Medicine | informal LLC, Nate!, Jocelin Zheng | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/m7BF3YTvCjL5IbM2hX4O?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Killing Meetings with Zoom [IRL] | Zoom Communications, Sunny Sun, Sophie Liu, Jay Wu | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GNxwwNeujmWUt6d18EBX?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Open-weight models and sovereign AI, a Compute Connect Fireside Chat | Impossible Cloud, Ryan Miller, Jan Constantin Roehl | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/jvzztdz5?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Pitch and Startup Networking by Startup Valley | Startup Valley | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/s5CNBrv0KQNnxShAbNga?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 8:30 PM | The Frontier of Finance | AfterQuery, Goldman Sachs, Michelle Choe | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/aguF7pJZfiwtwOyWglbP?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 7:30 PM | Wire a Voice Agent Into a Real Workflow | Olive, RemoteRee | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/LqXEYtmayKc22xp5sATo?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 10 PM | 🎹 LIVE CONCERT "Pursuit of Happiness": Demonstration of Whitney Device by Uhura Bionics at | Uhura Bionics, Konrad Zieliński | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/CiWnDUw4k3MeebEm4jmB?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6:30 PM | EliseAI x Baseten: Open Source in Production + Arcade Night | EliseAI, Baseten, Kuba, Maria Morin | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qZ9tQNSPOgpvxNYkMZVD?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Naming What's Next: From Invention to Culture | Kalleko, Hendrika | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/WUegd5M9AsXDw4jF7yic?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | The Meaningful Handshake Experiment | Purpose:Labs | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/u7imLR9eaFNcdKkcudql?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM | Be honest. You're not really doing evals, are you? | ZenML GmbH, ZenML Labs, Adam Probst | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/e1ylZcEsWzY0b7j6ttAe?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM | Clouted x &FRIENDS mid week party | Clouted, Adriel yong | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/N0mfJ9HUGqjSdgPX7glH?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM | Creating Content That Converts | Table For One, Main Thing Social, Durva Mathure, Priya Ganguly | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/9LVVRbY3gWQ3UQitVCnc?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7:30 PM | NOCHE DE LOTERÍA | Pesito, OnlyExit.ai, Pesito.la, Ankur Tyagi | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kqeHy7wDKBWBiKCCeT6H?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 7:30 PM | Open to Work: The Game Show | Khwajalabs, RemoteRee | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/PRAWaWbHzADgRkN5M6BX?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 8 PM to 10 PM | Dinner with 14 Investors + 1 Imposter | OnlyExit Ventures, Ankur Tyagi, Sahil Sorathiya | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/6rjykg0wVlXaYeKnRhFp?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 8:30 AM | Pets of Tech Week | Omelo Inc, Amogh | Mission | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/hwuJQiaVZp5hj5h7f5Ec?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 9 AM to 11 AM | Founder Flow State: Yoga & Investor Networking | Tranquility, Andy Lee | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/IFqeD0ysXSmkXiKFs0Vp?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 10 AM to 2 PM | AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scale | Leverage, RedHat, Sasa Zelenovic, Grace, Roy Nissim, Dilkhush Engineer | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/63yfXybwQqlyQ5W7dC2j?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 1 PM to 6 PM | The New Rules of Video Marketing | Wistia | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Uhauyx04mjbQJisChHta?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 PM | Kingscrowd Startup Showcase: San Francisco | Kingscrowd, Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau, Karina | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RplW4JNxJKDMu5g2nEDn?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 9 PM | Deployment Is the Moat with Jason Ma (Dyna Robotics) | Savant Ventures, Jeson Lee, April Liu, Moritz Schiebold | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HBTLlZJitmBshf1Oufqb?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM | Post-SaaS: The New Era of Agentic Software | Pickaxe, Chris Peterson | Mission | RSVP | open | Snacks | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/oqLkwTIhFY21kSy99WDK?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | How to Hire Your First CX Engineer | delight.ai, Abhijit Jothingam | Mission | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/3Z6e5kD69jj4rTZAXzvE?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 8 PM | Strategy as an Emotional Act: An Interactive Practice for Changemakers | Gravel Road Consulting, Chelsea Borruano | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/HIRifNNc0v6rnOzM1i9u?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | What It Means to Be AI-Native / Emerging Leaders Dinner | AlixPartners, AXOM Partners, Ipsita Sai, Rachel Geffner, Genevieve Werner, Robert Chen, Tianyi Li | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4PO1OMR8Cut4ZxL4Uz24?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 10 PM | Women Founders Dinner: The Founder You Become | The Thoughtful Society, Wilson Sonsini, Alesya Macwaters | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner | Free | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Vl4MklwFzklTuUKk5vA3?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM | Endeavor Founders Night | Endeavor, Empire Records, Endeavor SF Hub | Mission | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kEWQHfwiBt3KUrSkbOGR?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM | Founder's Table | Lightfield, Cura, Andrew Swisher, Matt Serna, Isabella Gibim | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/q9dQT5wID3v5xYt9zpgS?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Human OS: A Physical and Mental Reset | Techqueria: Bay Area Chapter, Life Stages, Daniela, Z.Y. Terrones | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/J7HX1UWRofKcBPkM0UC4?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Inside the startup hiring process: Equity, Comp, and Red Flags | Clera Labs Inc., Elaine, Joseph Mamondol, Clera | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/lszNG9X6i1U636A7EgiB?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Find a Cofounder Happy Hour: Founders + Tech Professionals | Robert Maddox | Mission | RSVP | open | - | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/ecns4lay?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 7 PM to 10 PM | Fintech Founders + Funders Happy Hour by OnlyExit and Nesta | OnlyExit Ventures, Ankur Tyagi, Sahil Sorathiya | Mission | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Fy7j1kvHjqoMymx7w6mt?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 9 AM to 11 AM | Women in Tech Coffee & Breakfast Networking! - Hosted by Spring Fertility | Spring Fertility | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/YzF3eqGZxQwwBoYxQudr?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 10 AM to 1 PM | Want a promotion or a new job? Ship a Real AI Portfolio Live | Arjita Sethi | Mission | Apply | sold out | - | Free | - | [View](https://luma.com/15mxjb6o?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 11 AM | Be honest. You're not really doing evals, are you? | ZenML GmbH, ZenML Labs, Adam Probst | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/MIicrYpiWuanNRyGiiTH?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 1 PM | Live Blacksmithing with CoreWeave | CoreWeave, JM | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/RqWSbc0B7ZyB4xSqHDVE?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Building Self-Improving AI Agents: From Loop to Deployment | GRAIL, Sabrina Sun, Mayank Kejriwal | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kjGchjNe9n25GHihcHhY?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 2 PM to 5 PM | Get Found on AI: Build the playbook so your business is recommended in AI chats in One Afternoon | Arjita Sethi | Mission | Apply | sold out | - | Free | - | [View](https://luma.com/6uwkydou?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 2:30 PM to 4 PM | THE MONEY ROOM: What Actually Gets Funded Today | TiE Mumbai, Vaishnavi Dhotre, Naveen Raju, Trupti Sharma, Shabnam Khan | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/nrFwA98brLuJFib5mv5u?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 4 PM to 5:30 PM | I AM UNSEXY. AND I LIKE IT: The Passion Projects of Founders Who Build What They Love | TiE Mumbai, Vaishnavi Dhotre, Naveen Raju, Shabnam Khan, Trupti Sharma | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/hEoNOFbx0vHwEtqT2T2I?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 6 PM | Loop - a supper on the physical economy | Allometry, Taylor Gendron | Mission | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/C1GaGH4ik0eGVvJenCSH?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 6:30 PM to 9 PM | Hard Negatives Meetup / Engineers Debate Night with Qdrant & Neo4j | Qdrant Devrel | Mission | RSVP | open | Snacks | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/sf-meetup-oct26?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 7 PM | Oct 9- Pitch Slap Tech Comedy | Pitch Slap Comedy, Elizabeth Swaney | Mission | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/43Cg6YqMHic6F9ElHMyX?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 7 PM | Silicon Valley Idol | Human Internet Project, Samantha Gardner, Autumn-Kyoko Cushman | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/VmtG1fBNSZyZOlZeFDo7?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 10 AM to 8 PM | Creative Data Hackathon | Cala | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/4Nry0dbtCjTQvjewRNx3?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 10 AM to 8 PM | Production Agent Lab - Workshop | Team tokens&, Alessandro Amenta, Jacopo Piazza | Mission | Apply | open | Soft drinks | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/oct10lab?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 11 AM to 2 PM | CarShowAndWine | OnlyExit Ventures, Ankur Tyagi, Sahil Sorathiya | Mission | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/gbrzbkq3jIn2vZF9AlXm?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 1 PM to 5 PM | Frontier in Action: Physical AI Demo Day | fig studio | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/7XM8nAxogCgC4onY5eA1?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 2 PM to 5 PM | Design in the age of AI | UXPie, Industrial Designers Society of America, San Francisco, Mia Guo, Antonio Borja, Mike Jin | Mission | RSVP | waitlist | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/SWYE5SbpdaBXFZGZ8RZQ?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 3:30 PM | Tech Parents & Founders: Donuts & Dolores Park Social 🍩 | Office Hours Consulting, Caleb Rhee | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/oD0yFgQHyeGJ2869qNSw?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 4 PM | Data Moats in AI: An Founder Roundtable | Typicity, Esther Huang | Mission | Apply | closed | - | - | - | [View](https://partiful.com/e/1chsYdY0Ci2dRicb3D8I?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Engineered Serendipity Party | Purpose:Labs | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/QAafuIpRXubOX4wXcOqg?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 1 PM | Sunday Signals: AI, Risk & Real Estate | VERICASA, Rodolfo Santos | Mission | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ovzVaWYQaouiaxK3efp1?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 2 PM to 4 PM | Talk On The Hill | Horizon House, MacKenzie Fisher | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/LNwDocRvYRHUbYy48Zb8?ref=chancity) |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 2 PM | The Afterparty for Your Nervous System | Infinity Angels 777, Jessica Maez | Mission | Apply | open | Snacks, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mcwbUvvhY0RMBqOTJNZ5?ref=chancity) |

## Who is there

- Hosting: Ankur Tyagi (6); Sahil Sorathiya (5); Naveen Raju (4); OnlyExit Ventures (4); Purpose:Labs (4) ([X](https://x.com/alk_sarioglou)); Shabnam Khan (4); TiE Mumbai (4); Trupti Sharma (4); Vaishnavi Dhotre (4); Adam Probst (3); ZenML GmbH (3)
- Speaking: Shilpi Nayak; Cecily Mak; Liz Hartley; Jessica Karr; Rachel Chalmers; Ruby Bolaria Shifrin; Monique Barbanson; Lauren M. Taylor; Mike Schroepfer; Hamza Tahir; Laura Burkhauser; Joffroy Louchart; Ghonhee Lee; Neil Chase; Reed Albergotti; Odessa Yabut; Swetha Garimalla; Jans Aasman; Benjamin Barber; Yogev Bar-On; Victor Rielley; Marius Dinu; Sam Dare; Carmen Li; Radhika Malik; Daniel Svonava; Waleed Atallah; JR Garage; Elise Pham; Ambry Mehr; Isael Silva; Pear Chotbunwong; Nila Makhfi; Anthony Waller; Venkatesh Ragala; Ben Shen; Cristina Cordova; Gaby Garcia; Hannah Hughes; Michael Duane
- Featured guests: Rihards Okmanis; Jan Constantin Roehl; Ryan Miller; Dylan Ler; Abhilasha Purwar; Omar Ebrahim; Phillip An; Gorka Aranzabal; Rehan Panjwank; Sung Eun Choi; Touko Ursin; Katie Choy; Mark Lichman; Jess Zhang; Daniel Slupskiy; Amelija Supulniece; Helen Rowe; Saad Ali; Adil Saleh; Arham Shah; Jasmin Young; Umang Chhaparia; Magesh Vadivelu; Arnold Lee

## FAQ

### Which events in Mission can I join without applying?

16 of the 116 are open RSVP; the other 100 ask you to apply. Pitch Roast Live (Thu 6 PM, Pitch Roast Live); Post-SaaS: The New Era of Agentic Software (Thu 5:30 PM, Pickaxe); Design in the age of AI (Sat 2 PM, UXPie); Oct 9- Pitch Slap Tech Comedy (Fri 7 PM, Pitch Slap Comedy); Creating Content That Converts (Wed 7 PM, Table For One).

### What do hosts ask when you apply?

Across 95 events in Mission with an application form, 93 ask for a job title, 95 for a company, 95 for LinkedIn and 64 for GitHub.

### Do Mission Tech Week events cost money?

Most pages don't say. 10 are marked free and 10 list a price.

### What are the main events in Mission on Tuesday, Oct 6?

22 events in Mission are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by Make Content, Not Excuses and Women-Led Startups Pitch & Network. They include Make Content, Not Excuses (Tue 9:00 AM), Women-Led Startups Pitch & Network (Tue 2:00 PM), Compute & Cocktails (Tue 6:30 PM), Building the New Space Economy (Tue 6:00 PM) and NO BORDERS: Global Founders & Investors Mixer (Tue 5:00 PM).

### What are the main events in Mission on Wednesday, Oct 7?

37 events in Mission are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by Creator Clubhouse with Replit, Gamma and ElevenLabs and Decentralized Neurosymbolic AI Braindump.

### Which events in Mission have food?

40 of the 116 mention food (24 snacks, 7 breakfast, 7 dinner). They include Make Content, Not Excuses (Tue 9:00 AM), "Coffee and breakfast provided"; How to get press without a PR agency (Mon 5:30 PM), "food will be served!"; IRL Events Re-imagined (Mon 7:00 PM), "food, drinks, and discussion"; AI Founder/VC Dinner (Thu 5:00 PM), "Intimate dinner with AI founders and VCs"; Killing Meetings with Zoom [IRL] (Wed 6:00 PM), "artisan pizza and drinks".

### Which events in Mission have drinks?

19 mention drinks: 9 alcohol, 10 coffee or soft drinks.

### Which events in Mission have the most RSVPs?

Make Content, Not Excuses has the most, 488 going.

---

HTML version: https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/mission
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