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#TechWeek2026

AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops

  • 185 in SF, Oct 5 to 11
  • 79 in LA, Oct 12 to 18

SF Tech Week, Oct 5 to 11: 185 events

  • Make Content, Not ExcusesFeatured

    · Descript, Natalie Estrada · Mission · 488 going

    Apply

  • Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIWaitlist

    · Cloudflare · Embarcadero · 300 going

    Join waitlist

  • Claude Founder HouseFeatured

    · Anthropic · SoMa

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  • Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly.Featured

    · Google for Startups, Monica +3 · SoMa

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  • SF Tech Week Agent DayFree

    · Yujian Tang · Menlo Park · 680 going

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See all 185 at SF Tech Week

LA Tech Week, Oct 12 to 18: 79 events

  • Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWSFeatured

    · Amazon Web Services, Sunil Paramel +1 · Santa Monica · 180 going

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  • Vibe Code Mama Presents: AI Creator Salon with Michelle PhanFeatured

    · Vibe Code Mama, Meg Button · Culver City · 50 going

    RSVP

  • Google Codelabs atFeatured

    · Google for Developers, Marty +1 · Venice

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  • AI Orchestration Agents and the Human Bottleneck

    · Mucker Capital, Lara Bandeira +3 · Santa Monica · 193 going

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  • Build AI Agents on AWS

    · Amazon Web Services, Sunil Paramel · Santa Monica · 166 going

    Apply

See all 79 at LA Tech Week

Hosts in both weeks

At a glance
  • 10% of SF Tech Week's events are on this list, and 10% of LA Tech Week's.
  • Busiest days: Wednesday, Oct 7 in SF (43), Tuesday, Oct 13 in LA (18).
  • 22 hosts run them in both weeks, led by AWS (4 in SF, 1 in LA).

Questions

Does SF or LA Tech Week have more AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops?

SF Tech Week has more: 185 in SF and 79 in LA. As a share of each week, that is 10% in SF and 10% in LA.

When are the AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops at SF and LA Tech Week 2026?

SF Tech Week runs Oct 5 to 11 and LA Tech Week runs Oct 12 to 18, back to back: SF has them on 8 days, LA on 6.

Do I need to apply for AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops at SF and LA Tech Week?

159 in SF and 66 in LA ask you to apply; 26 in SF and 13 in LA are open RSVP.

Who hosts AI hackathons, buildathons and workshops at both SF and LA Tech Week?

AWS, Juliet AI, Inc., Myop, Outhora AI, Mucker Capital and 17 more host them in SF and again in LA.

Listings from the official SF Tech Week and LA Tech Week calendars and each event’s own page. Tech Week is a community event; Chancity is not affiliated with it. Every number is that week’s own count.
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