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

# Product manager events at SF Tech Week 2026

> SF Tech Week 2026 has 50 events for product managers across 7 days, starting Monday, Oct 5 and ending Sunday, Oct 11, and 96% require an application, so apply early.

Chancity tracks 1,832 SF Tech Week events (updated Sep 30, 2026); this page lists 50. Sources: the official Tech Week calendar (https://www.tech-week.com/calendar/sf) and each event's own page.

## At a glance

- Daytime-heavy: only 40% start in the evening.
- Tuesday, Oct 6 is the peak with 13.
- SoMa holds 11 of the 50.

## Subscribe

- Calendar feed (ICS, new events appear automatically): https://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/product-managers/calendar.ics
- Webcal: webcal://www.chancity.ai/events/sf-tech-week/product-managers/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 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 to 11 AM | Hardware Founders and Builders Breakfast | Byteforge Systems, Utsav | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/GUyVdHdlOrBVlsWwt6xI?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 12 PM to 2:30 PM | AI Has Agents. What Should Human Agency Look Like at Work? | Zhennovate | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/1O8PjsED8Wzoloqx5JCk?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 2 PM to 4 PM | AI-Native Design: Build with AI Agents | Koki AI, Koki Xu | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tNsxXknU1I9ORcQFUzyA?ref=chancity) |
| Mon, Oct 5 | 4 PM | From a Data Swamp to a Data Agent You Can Trust: What It Actually Takes | Virtus Lab, Weronika Wiernicka, Monika, Grzegorz Król, Peter Ratcliffe | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks, Open bar | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Air9OT3kYRs0gcg0Ldhd?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 | 9:30 AM to 12 PM | Breaking Things: An Off-the-Record AI Delivery Brunch | Impact.AI, Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uVCBe0iG7ngGQ1JpEkrD?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10 AM | AI Got Faster? We Audited our own PRs & Tickets - it wasn’t pretty! Yours Probably Won't Be Either | CXAI, Michael Young, Mark Maravilla, Chris Wiegand | Downtown | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tYs3AAbn7NC813X6nEV1?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 10 AM | Building Products That Scale Globally | Travelbay, Travelbay Events | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/AoDdm7VvtDv3s7yloVBJ?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 1 PM | From AI Prototype to Production | Streamlogic, Alex Dzenisionak | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/U7gMZLHuyCRmOoF4VoFd?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 2:30 PM to 4 PM | The Attention Arbitrage of Generative Media | Hellyeah AI, Cathy C, Jay, Kelly An | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Wvzw6AXYBzjkeWnWEKhc?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 4 PM to 6 PM | Off the Record Sauna Social w/88 Design Collective | 88 Design Collective, Kushal Dagli, Niomi Shah | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/uTc2qRYqqdpILWnYKWBE?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 7 PM | Building What's Next: Founders & Builders Happy Hour | Somnio Software | - | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/F5eSJtIgqcEHbVVJerE6?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5 PM to 8:30 PM | Product Builders Meetup by Lenny's Newsletter | Lenny's Newsletter, PostHog, Annie Warner, Amee Bhavsar, Diana Munoz | Lower Nob Hill | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/kpivlmwwOyTK54mgB2Vl?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 9 PM | From 0 to 100,000 Devices | intent, Acorn PD, Nordic Semiconductor, Filip Pietraszkiewicz, Wojciech Borkowski, Tony Lehmann | Union Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zlysjwxlpsuqHwaPdwO7?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Ugly Talk: What Agents Can't Buy (Yet) - Transacting in the Agentic Economy | UpScaleX, Ugly Talk, UGLY TALK - AMY, Ugly Talk HQ | Downtown | RSVP | open | - | - | - | [RSVP](https://partiful.com/e/kz60U5NzQViwwlIT6QmJ?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | AI, Product, & the Teams Building Both: A Dinner for CPTOs | Brief, Stephan, Drew Dillon | Downtown | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EdIq0UGqC8Pk1Qh0ZRCT?ref=chancity) |
| Tue, Oct 6 | 6 PM | Ugly Talk: Agentic Economy | Ugly Talk, UGLY TALK - AMY, Ugly Talk HQ | Union Square | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/7EyjPJo8rV6j34h5I9nC?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 9 AM | ProductCon | Product School | Mission | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/k0CZdGYW8CE3p6X0f13j?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 11 AM to 2 PM | Agentic AI on AWS: From Concepts to Hands-On Lab - #Startups@AWS | AWS, Sathya Balakrishnan, Itzik Paz, Igor Fil, Alexander Medvedev | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/i0LAU14UtPx50RJZemTE?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 | 4 PM to 6 PM | CTOs: Beyond Generalist AI: From Engineering Productivity to Enterprise Value | DesignVerse, Felipe Anholon, Jo Milonis, Raquel Magalhães, Stanislav Kuznetsov | South Beach | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/gGE7pZ3625DRY1aN3uGt?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 8 PM | The Product Loop: A Hexa & Amplitude Workshop | Amplitude, Hexa, Mary Tan | SoMa | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/2Q9kfEsM9qBxO2J7q5zl?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5 PM to 7 PM | The Voice AI Rooftop: Modulate x VoiceRun | Modulate, VoiceRun, Caitlin Stuewe, Nick, William Brown | SoMa | Apply | open | Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ubd3BbtuPLXNW4b2043D?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8 PM | Growth Engineering @ Perplexity | Perplexity, Sophia Feng | Downtown | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/1622j3qgPPdTGLfAvPRG?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM | Voice AI Product Leadership Panel | Rime Labs, Rime Events | Salesforce Park | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/qRX76YKI93J2I6sQ0mbN?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Building Production-Grade AI Agents for Regulated Industries | interface.ai, Gil Acedillo | FiDi | Apply | open | Dinner | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/tsv2I7ZpG7ju7IZu9Tnt?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 8 PM | GTM Engineering After Hours: Founders, Creators & Operators | Raymond Lee, Dhaval Bhatt, Twill Community | FiDi | Apply | open | - | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/twill-aipa-afters?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Multiplayer Hackathon by Party (SoMa) | Maitai, Inc, Julian Alberts | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/NkIXWEbYpOfes5rgixkn?ref=chancity) |
| Wed, Oct 7 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Plan, build, automate: Miro x n8n happy hour | Emilia Jankowska-Zimolag, Melinda Varga | Lower Nob Hill | RSVP | open | - | Free | - | [RSVP](https://luma.com/miro-kbu0?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 11 AM to 12 PM | ​Lunch & Hack: The Latest SF Tech Trends | The AI Collective, RoryPlans.ai, Adelina Martiniuc | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/EVxTzpl5RO32hXw0nLjT?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4 PM to 8 PM | The AI Product Builders Room | Rezoomex, Hrishikesh Bidwe | Union Square | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/sUg6yNmBNtTohY0zwUKD?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM | Serving Hospitality: OpenTable - San Francisco | OpenTable, Louise VanZandt | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks, Drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ecF8HmlSR8IeNNRHqNnq?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM | Build & Deploy Customer-Facing Agents in Production | ScaleKit, Plain, Tamilselvi Ramasamy, Bidisa, Shri Mithran, Prasanna V | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/6Y4gLZoKh1uEIs9xlKOP?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Cartesia x SF Tech Week: AI Builders Happy Hour | Cartesia | Potrero Hill | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/oO7NL7YyKAMkWYmNSVP1?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 8 PM | Hard Tech Happy Hour: Commanding the Physical World | Revel | FiDi | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/N9m7Uptg14BrPwE93ISw?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM to 9 PM | Hello Buddy: WorkBuddy SF Meetup | AI Builders, WorkBuddy, Lei Yang, Elenor Zhong | SoMa | Apply | open | Snacks | Free | - | [Apply](https://luma.com/workbuddysf?ref=chancity) |
| Thu, Oct 8 | 6 PM | The Long Table SF | IT ROCK, Hakuna, Max Dilger, Sebastian Colombo, Marcelo Angel | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Snacks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Ic78AT80eai2EOIRMzIw?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 8 AM to 9:30 AM | Walk the Patient Journey | BuildForward, Ankit Kumar | Embarcadero | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/ME2In9ivaqonZer9taMv?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 11 AM to 12 PM | Vibe Marketing in the Age of AI Agents - Live on Zoom | Juliet AI, Inc., Samir Patel @ www.juliet.space | Virtual | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mY2Cguz4gWaBawN1L0i2?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 2 PM to 4 PM | How does AI change product management? | Define, Eric Boduch | Downtown | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/mrcsL5ranJVvkeNhrtVM?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 4 PM to 6 PM | AI Is Changing the Job. Who Are You Becoming? | Zhennovate | Hayes Valley | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/zg2J0jhN8NNwW1x4fZTd?ref=chancity) |
| Fri, Oct 9 | 6:15 PM | Product Leader Dinner | Define, Eric Boduch | Pacific Heights | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/jXYPKkGUv6LCo0EtvGiM?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 8 AM | Friends in Product Walk | WIP India, Swati Awasthi | Golden Gate Park | Apply | open | Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/12iCPPhv0kM7D0GvFS04?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 9 AM | AI x Pre-Construction Hackathon | Blueprints AI, Coco Cao, Al | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/LrP0CRpP78s082KsGciu?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 9 AM to 11 AM | PrincipiumX: The First Principles Way to Find the Next 10X Opportunity Hiding in Your Product. | PrincipiumX, Sastry Chundury | SoMa | Apply | open | Breakfast | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/QK0IzhhRb1yO68X3WOIU?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 9:30 AM to 6 PM | Multiplayer Hackathon by Party | Maitai, Inc., Julian Alberts | Palo Alto | Apply | open | Breakfast, Soft drinks | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/Yli5RTuTNef8W1sIOzYN?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 1 PM to 5 PM | Rooftop 🔥 BBQ: Product folks, founders & investors | Buivo, Diana Munoz, Buivo AI | - | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/FJa8avNG8IZszdNgYF6a?ref=chancity) |
| Sat, Oct 10 | 1:30 PM to 5 PM | Meshy × Chrona: Build Multiplayer 3D Worlds With AI | alterverse.tech, bytedance, Bruce, yan, Meshy | FiDi | Apply | open | - | - | - | [Apply](https://partiful.com/e/hgyN4UiBL4s3vA0ATTbr?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) |

## Who is there

- Hosting: 88 Design Collective (2); Define (2); Diana Munoz (2) ([X](https://x.com/dianamunozlar)); Eric Boduch (2); Julian Alberts (2); Kushal Dagli (2) ([LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/kushaldagli)); Niomi Shah (2); Ugly Talk (2); UGLY TALK - AMY (2); Ugly Talk HQ (2); Zhennovate (2); Acorn PD (1)
- Speaking: Guy Bar Hava; Gal Davidi; Lovis Odin; Alan Aqrawi; Mario Schlener; Luis Tong; Melanie Rosenberg; Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte; Dr. Marie-Ange Eyoum Tagne; Johnny Ho; Raman Malik; Sophia Feng; Jordan Ellis; Josh Burnell; Shiv Indap; Lily Clifford; Jessica Powell; Brooke Hopkins; Srinivas Njay; Julian Weisser; Adelina Martiniuc; Sagar Mehta; Shayani Roy; Julia Borghini; Sarah Fleming; Amazasp Shaumyan; Ravi Madabhushi; Simon Rohrbach; Homer Wang; Amanda Martin; Scott Morton; Miles Grimshaw; Samir Patel; Dan Olsen; Eric Boduch; Yiqi Zhao; Tony Liu; Jinnan Chen
- Featured guests: Sung Eun Choi; Ashley Trick; Pavan Adipuram; Erick Pinos; Saad Ali; Carmen Gerea; Victoria Mardueño; Mary Pavlenko; Diksha Marathe; Alex Kekulov; Mark Chen; Gorka Aranzabal; Arseniy Seroka; Diana Hlinska; Karl Dang; Yannis Poulakis; Soorya Parameswaran; Keyur Shah; Danil Kislinskiy; Creao AI; Anil Shah; Bryson Benjamin; Michelle Dang; Valeri Sabev; Scott Bourke; Erica Luong; Arnold Lee; Joe Tam; Cristina Iscenco

## FAQ

### Which Product managers events can I join without applying?

2 of the 50 are open RSVP; the other 48 ask you to apply. Ugly Talk: What Agents Can't Buy (Yet) - Transacting in the Agentic Economy (Tue 5:30 PM, UpScaleX); Plan, build, automate: Miro x n8n happy hour (Wed 6 PM, Emilia Jankowska-Zimolag).

### What do hosts ask when you apply?

Across 45 Product managers events with an application form, 44 ask for a job title, 44 for a company, 45 for LinkedIn and 31 for GitHub.

### Do PM events cost money?

4 are listed as free and 4 have a price. Most don't state either on the event's page.

### What are the main Product managers events on Tuesday, Oct 6?

13 Product managers events are listed for Tuesday, Oct 6, led by Meet the Lab: Mistral and Product Builders Meetup by Lenny's Newsletter. They include Meet the Lab: Mistral (Tue 8:00 AM), Product Builders Meetup by Lenny's Newsletter (Tue 5:00 PM), Ugly Talk: What Agents Can't Buy (Yet) - Transacting in the Agentic Economy (Tue 5:30 PM), The Attention Arbitrage of Generative Media (Tue 2:30 PM) and From AI Prototype to Production (Tue 1:00 PM).

### What are the main Product managers events on Wednesday, Oct 7?

12 Product managers events are listed for Wednesday, Oct 7, led by Voice AI Product Leadership Panel and Plan, build, automate: Miro x n8n happy hour.

### Which Product managers events have food?

21 of the 50 mention food (11 snacks, 8 breakfast, 2 dinner). Near the top are Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelines (Mon 8:30 AM), "Breakfast and real espresso included"; Meet the Lab: Mistral (Tue 8:00 AM), "over coffee and breakfast"; From a Data Swamp to a Data Agent You Can Trust: What It Actually Takes (Mon 4:00 PM), "Open bar and food"; Hello Buddy: WorkBuddy SF Meetup (Thu 6:00 PM); Serving Hospitality: OpenTable - San Francisco (Thu 4:30 PM), "happy hour with food and drinks".

### Which Product managers events have drinks?

9 mention drinks: 1 open bar, 2 alcohol, 6 coffee or soft drinks.

### Which Product managers events have the most RSVPs?

The AI-Native Talent Hunt with Codex has the most, 571 RSVPs.

## Same page at the other tech week

- At LA Tech Week (Oct 12 to 18): 12 Product manager events: https://www.chancity.ai/events/la-tech-week/product-managers
  Both weeks: https://www.chancity.ai/events/tech-week/product-managers

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