Top pick for AI infra engineers
· 9 AM–8 PM
Anything Applied Agentic Hackathon
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AI infrastructure events in San Francisco, November 2026
Busiest days
Nov 5 and Nov 12 have the most AI infrastructure events in SF.
Our picks for November 2026
A few we'd look at if we were in SF: BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026 (Nov 5 to Nov 6, Box Devs)
· 5:30 PM
SGLang x NVIDIA Meetup
Fort Mason
Free Request to join
· 5–9 PM
On-Device AI Hackathon: Cleared for Takeoff
Liquid AI · SoMa
Hackathon Free Request to join
· 6–8:30 PM
Braintrust CEO Ankur and Greylock Partner Corinne on how agents are changing evals
Talk Free Request to join
Thu, Nov 5 to Fri, Nov 6 · ends 6 PM
BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026
Box Devs · San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Conference Free Request to join
· 9:30 AM–12 PM
Open Source AI Breakfast with 1Password x Founders Bay x You.com
@ Tesla
Founders Bay · Cathedral Hill
Talk Free Request to join
Other events for AI infra engineers
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- 4 PM Reading Group: How Efficiently does AI Turn Energy into Useful Work? SoMa Free
- 5:30 PM Self-Improving Products with Codex Amplitude Free
- 6 PM AI 101 Series: Build the Tool You Keep Asking Someone Else to Build Shack15 Free
- 6:30 PM Blackboard Lectures on Tap Fort Mason Free
- 6:30 PM Market Price The Anchovy Bar Free
- 6:30 PM Driverless: What Waymo Can Teach Voice AI About Going to Production | Founder Dinner with Coval & Rho North Beach Free
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- 8 AM Reverie The Contemporary Jewish Museum Free
- 9 AM Voice Agents Forum Digital Jungle SF
- 9 AM ALD SF: The Enterprise AI Builders Conference AWS Builder Loft
- 4:30 PM How to build Agents that act on Sensitive Data with Jev, Arcade, and Mastra Free
- 5 PM SYSTEM UPDATE with The Pragmatic Engineer The Howard SF Free
- 5:30 PM NVIDIA x Lawrence Harvey · CUDA Rust House of AI Free
- 5:30 PM The CISO Table Fang Free
- 6 PM LangChain SF Meetup with TypeSafe AI: Judgment Call Rincon Hill Free
- 6 PM Shepherd AI Engineers Dinner Free
- 7 PM Better Call Claude Free
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- 9 AM Code with Claude San Francisco Free
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- 10 AM Ship Happens: A Seldon Hackathon SoMa Free
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- 5 PM AI Builders Night AWS Builder Loft Free
- 5:30 PM Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta Embarcadero Free
- 6 PM AiOS Meetup - San Francisco Edition Convex Free
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- 8 AM After Tokens TERRA Free
- 12 PM Akamai AI Summit Oracle Park Free
- 1:30 PM Claude SMB Workshop with Clindata Insight Inc. - Lafayette, CA Free
- 6 PM Code & Cocktails in SF with Fireworks & MiniMax Union Square Free
- 6 PM Agents Need Solid Ground: An Archil Hackathon SoMa Free
- 6:30 PM Startup Leaders Dinner: Building on the Inference Layer, hosted by You.com Nightbird Free
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- 5 PM Agentic Web #02 Free
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- 9 AM SGLang Summit 2026 by LMSYS Fort Mason Center
- 4:30 PM [SF] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Grafana, Supabase, Miggo Financial District Free
- 4:30 PM Google Happy Hour Radhaus Free
- 5 PM SGLang Summit Opening Reception by Crusoe & Women in AI Fort Mason Free
- 5:30 PM Secret Agent(ic) Unicorns: AWS GameDay AWS Builder Loft Free
- 5:30 PM RL & data meetup: SkyRL x Mercor x Harbor SoMa Free
- 6:30 PM Neocloud and AI Executive Cocktail Party San Francisco Free
- 6:30 PM AI Engineer CODE Summit Official After Party Financial District Free
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- 10 AM SF Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory SoMa Free
- 10 AM Frontier Builders San Francisco Free
- 12 PM Claude SMB Workshop with ASMR Automations - San Francisco Free
- 5:30 PM AI Software Factories in the Enterprise: Panel Discussion with BAND AWS Builder Loft Free
- 6:30 PM Decode & Mingle by Walnut AI: Founder & Researcher Afterparty@SGLang Summit, Meet the People Your Agent Picked for You San Francisco Free
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- 9 AM AI Research Hackathon Mission District Free
- 9:30 AM Drexathon: Nace AI's Decision Model Hackathon Mid-Market Free
- 12:30 PM Graphs for Engineering AWS Builder Loft Free
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- 12 PM PortCon 2026 | The AI Software Factory Summit Embarcadero
- 3 PM Zero to Hundred: GTM Vibe Coding Hackathon Financial District Free
- 5 PM AI Infrastructure Night Financial District Free
- 6 PM Root Cause SF: An engineering dinner China Basin Free
- 6 PM Build Your First Phone Voice Agent Free
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- 4:30 PM Reading Group: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents SoMa Free
- 5 PM ClawMax.ai Build Night San Francisco Digital Jungle SF Free
- 5 PM Take a Break from Ignite with Pinecone! China Basin Free
- 5 PM What Breaks Deploying AI Agents: Conversations with Enterprise AI Leaders & Startups Free
- 5:30 PM The AI Cost Trap San Francisco Free
- 6 PM Ultra-Fast Inference & Open-Weight Models FriendliAI Free
- 6 PM On-Device Agents with Liquid AI x AI Socratic SoMa Free
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- 4 PM Agentic + AI Night: AI Agents Across the App Stack Terra Gallery & Event Venue Free
- 5 PM Graphs for Engineering, Part 2 AWS Builder Loft Free
- 6 PM AI Infra for Physical AI: Mind Robotics x Anyscale Anyscale Free
- 6 PM AI’s Missing Layer: Building the Data Foundation for Secure, Reliable AI Clarendon Heights Free
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- 7 PM Agentic Engineering Guild of San Francisco: November Edition San Francisco Free
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- 6 PM Agentic Loops Happy Hour: Making Agents Reliable in Production San Francisco Free
Questions
Are AI infrastructure events in SF free?
75 of 79 (95%) AI infrastructure events in San Francisco in November are free (as of Oct 31).
Does the host have to approve each guest?
56 of 79 events require approval.
What time do these events start?
50 of 79 (63%) begin at 5 PM or later, after the work day.
Which AI infrastructure events in SF don't need approval?
This free event we picked doesn't need approval: Anything Applied Agentic Hackathon.