# Software engineer events in San Francisco in November 2026 Page: https://www.chancity.ai/guides/software-engineer-sf/november-2026/ · state: live · year: 2026 · updated: 2026-11-03 185 software engineer events listed for November, as of Oct 31. There are the most events on Nov 5 and 12, and the least on Nov 23 to 24. ## Picks for software engineers ### [BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026](https://lu.ma/box-dev-summit-2026) - date: 2026-11-05 08:00 · venue: San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco · organizer: [Box Devs](https://box.dev/) · price: free · registration: host approval ### [Greptile Outpost at SŌHN](https://lu.ma/greptile-tgrv) - date: 2026-11-14 09:00 · venue: SOHN, San Francisco · organizer: [Greptile](https://www.greptile.com/) · price: free · registration: open ### [BAND Dark Factory Buildathon: San Francisco](https://lu.ma/sf-kviz) - date: 2026-11-13 10:00 · venue: AWS Builder Loft, 2nd floor, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105 · organizer: [HackerSquad](https://hackersquad.io/) · price: free · registration: host approval ### [Open Source AI Breakfast with 1Password x Founders Bay x You.com](https://lu.ma/8h2gwtyy) @ Tesla - date: 2026-11-11 09:30 · venue: San Francisco, Cathedral Hill · organizer: [Founders Bay](https://www.foundersbay.com/) · price: free · registration: host approval ### [She Builds: A Women in AI × Lovable Hackathon](https://lu.ma/lw202zjx) - date: 2026-11-14 10:00 · venue: San Francisco, Rincon Hill · organizer: [Women in AI](https://womeninai.club/) · price: free · registration: host approval ### [Agent-Led Growth / Agent Experience Demo Night](https://lu.ma/axdemonight) @ Auth0/Okta (#7th Edition) - date: 2026-11-05 17:00 · venue: Okta, San Francisco · organizer: [Lightsage](https://lightsage.com/) · price: free · registration: host approval ## Other events for software engineers - [AI Startup Showcase](https://lu.ma/ae0nl5iu): date: 2026-11-04 09:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [San Francisco Tech & AI Social](https://lu.ma/c6xpohmx): date: 2026-11-04 17:00 · price: free · registration: open - [The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged, presented by WorkOS](https://lu.ma/pragmatic-engineer-unplugged): date: 2026-11-04 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Postgres Day SF Meetup](https://lu.ma/haxfnzo1): date: 2026-11-04 17:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Omarchy SF](https://lu.ma/7c2wohwf): date: 2026-11-04 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Wikidata's Birthday](https://lu.ma/5lq1nj44): date: 2026-11-04 18:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Fonzi's Devs & Drinks](https://lu.ma/ai-5oum): date: 2026-11-04 18:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Voice Agents Forum](https://lu.ma/voiceagentssf): date: 2026-11-05 09:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [ALD SF: The Enterprise AI Builders Conference](https://lu.ma/dsssf26): date: 2026-11-05 09:00 · price: paid · registration: host approval - [How to build Agents that act on Sensitive Data with Jev, Arcade, and Mastra](https://lu.ma/6q1pt61j): date: 2026-11-05 16:30 · price: free · registration: open - [SYSTEM UPDATE with The Pragmatic Engineer](https://lu.ma/systemupdate): date: 2026-11-05 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Go meetup in San Francisco · Hosted by Assembled](https://lu.ma/1z6h31hy): date: 2026-11-05 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Ramen pop-up // PlanetScale x Depot](https://lu.ma/jvrl5pcb): date: 2026-11-05 17:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [NVIDIA x Lawrence Harvey · CUDA Rust](https://lu.ma/iqe7wng1): date: 2026-11-05 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [PLATFORMday San Francisco 2026 Q4](https://lu.ma/platformday-san-francisco-2026-q4): date: 2026-11-06 09:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Code with Claude](https://lu.ma/nbo2dlnu): date: 2026-11-06 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [AI for Greater Good · RSI](https://lu.ma/kithb8c1): date: 2026-11-06 11:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Hack the Feed: Creator Tools Hackathon with Oriane, GMI Cloud & Lovable at Amplitude HQ!](https://lu.ma/92iq2a12): date: 2026-11-06 13:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Geospatial Developers Meetup](https://lu.ma/binndri6): date: 2026-11-06 16:00 · price: free · registration: open - [₊˚⊹♡ game dev showcase ♡⊹˚₊](https://lu.ma/zh78cm35): date: 2026-11-06 17:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [Diwali Special Founders Session](https://lu.ma/adalagent-gzch): date: 2026-11-06 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [MakerMods Physical AI Hackathon](https://lu.ma/pah): date: 2026-11-07 08:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Anything Applied Agentic Hackathon](https://lu.ma/gap48i1m): date: 2026-11-07 09:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Builders who Run](https://lu.ma/28hzh4b9): date: 2026-11-07 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [AIE Code Summit Hackathon](https://lu.ma/fetch-srjn): date: 2026-11-07 09:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Ship Happens: A Seldon Hackathon](https://lu.ma/seldon-4b3d): date: 2026-11-07 10:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Zero To Demo By: NemulAI X Hack District](https://lu.ma/6vb82jnj): date: 2026-11-07 10:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Grok Bot Build Day SF: Real-World Agents](https://lu.ma/ba9sivsv): date: 2026-11-07 12:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [YPE SF Bay Area Annual Career Expo](https://lu.ma/2026careerexpo): date: 2026-11-08 12:00 · price: paid · registration: host approval - [AI Builders Night](https://lu.ma/clickh-z8rr): date: 2026-11-09 17:00 · price: free · registration: open - [THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: November](https://lu.ma/planet-vxwl): date: 2026-11-09 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta](https://lu.ma/openro-lu9g): date: 2026-11-09 17:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [AiOS Meetup - San Francisco Edition](https://lu.ma/wy0z8tek): date: 2026-11-09 18:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Builders Night](https://lu.ma/uxgeq9db): date: 2026-11-09 18:30 · price: free · registration: open - [SF Lean Meetup](https://lu.ma/ojuor138): date: 2026-11-09 19:00 · price: free · registration: open - [After Tokens](https://lu.ma/after-tokens): date: 2026-11-10 08:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [San Francisco Ruby Conference](https://lu.ma/sfrubyconf2026): date: 2026-11-10 08:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [Run by Apify](https://lu.ma/runbyapify): date: 2026-11-10 10:00 · price: paid · registration: host approval - [Built on Bedrock Demo Night](https://lu.ma/orz2anv8): date: 2026-11-10 17:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Biryani Maxxing: A Diwali Feast & Multiplayer AI Mixer](https://lu.ma/biryanimaxxing): date: 2026-11-10 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup](https://lu.ma/k04h0om1): date: 2026-11-10 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Code & Cocktails in SF with Fireworks & MiniMax](https://lu.ma/gmhodha7): date: 2026-11-10 18:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Agentic Web #02](https://lu.ma/agentic-web-browser-runtime-nov11-2026): date: 2026-11-11 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [North Star: Demo Night in SF](https://lu.ma/q69w8grn): date: 2026-11-11 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [SGLang x NVIDIA Meetup](https://lu.ma/SGLSummitNVMeet): date: 2026-11-11 17:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Developer meetup with Wavelabs](https://lu.ma/the-w4xy): date: 2026-11-11 18:00 · price: free · registration: open - [SGLang Summit 2026 by LMSYS](https://lu.ma/sglang-summit): date: 2026-11-12 09:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [Rails Girls 2026](https://lu.ma/railsgirls2026): date: 2026-11-12 10:00 · price: free · registration: open - [\[SF\] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Grafana, Supabase, Miggo](https://lu.ma/i8avg1wp): date: 2026-11-12 16:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [FDE Meetup: Recruiting & Retaining FDEs](https://lu.ma/8cotl6cw): date: 2026-11-12 16:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Google Happy Hour](https://lu.ma/sjndgq98): date: 2026-11-12 16:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Windsurf, Cursor, Cognition & DeepMind alumni happy hour](https://lu.ma/brzs3bax): date: 2026-11-12 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day](https://lu.ma/yoytbej3): date: 2026-11-12 17:00 · price: free · registration: open - [AIE x MLH Hackathon](https://lu.ma/AIECodeSummitHackathon): date: 2026-11-13 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [SF Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory](https://lu.ma/frontierSF-2): date: 2026-11-13 10:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Frontier Builders](https://lu.ma/frontier-builders): date: 2026-11-13 10:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [When SI Meets Agents: Meetup](https://lu.ma/finch-SGL): date: 2026-11-13 13:00 · price: free · registration: open - [The Multimodal Hackathon](https://lu.ma/adalagent-i97q): date: 2026-11-13 15:00 · price: free · registration: open - [On-Device AI Hackathon: Cleared for Takeoff](https://lu.ma/0nsdnkoa): date: 2026-11-13 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [AI Research Hackathon](https://lu.ma/sht6n8du): date: 2026-11-14 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Drones for Good · UXDuck Hackathon](https://lu.ma/z5jnppl3): date: 2026-11-14 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Builders who Run SF — 5K](https://lu.ma/yq0dkv81): date: 2026-11-14 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Founders & Techies Go Dirt-Biking](https://lu.ma/5ujzrfo5): date: 2026-11-14 09:30 · price: paid · registration: host approval - [Drexathon: Nace AI's Decision Model Hackathon](https://lu.ma/nace-drexathon): date: 2026-11-14 09:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Biohackathon: Haus F26 - Members +3](https://lu.ma/biohackathon-haus-f26): date: 2026-11-14 12:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Co-Founder or Die II by Draki](https://lu.ma/e7i41xq3): date: 2026-11-16 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Web Data for Startups #02](https://lu.ma/web-data-startups-search-nov16-2026): date: 2026-11-16 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Demo Night](https://lu.ma/demo-night-nov2026): date: 2026-11-16 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Builders Night](https://lu.ma/the-2jbd): date: 2026-11-16 18:30 · price: free · registration: open - [Backprop Summit](https://lu.ma/backprop): date: 2026-11-17 09:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [PortCon 2026 | The AI Software Factory Summit](https://lu.ma/Portcon.port.io): date: 2026-11-17 12:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [Zero to Hundred: GTM Vibe Coding Hackathon](https://lu.ma/sml53r17): date: 2026-11-17 15:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [AI Infrastructure Night](https://lu.ma/1ihtxydc): date: 2026-11-17 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [San Francisco Data Engineering Meetup with ClickHouse](https://lu.ma/clickh-z0ty): date: 2026-11-17 17:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Builder Night San Francisco · n8n x Vercel](https://lu.ma/0qn71c42): date: 2026-11-17 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Food Biz AI Hackathon](https://lu.ma/5chb737c): date: 2026-11-18 09:00 · price: free · registration: open - [From Azure Spend to Business Value](https://lu.ma/c07h5h6p): date: 2026-11-18 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [ClawMax.ai Build Night San Francisco](https://lu.ma/clawmax-build-night-1): date: 2026-11-18 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Take a Break from Ignite with Pinecone!](https://lu.ma/pinecone-g22t): date: 2026-11-18 17:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [What If No One Plays My Game? Discovery is Broken. Let's Talk About The Fix.](https://lu.ma/sf-game-development-viverse): date: 2026-11-18 17:30 · price: free · registration: open - [SF AI Startup Showcase in Nov](https://lu.ma/zome6moq): date: 2026-11-18 18:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [FUSE San Francisco](https://lu.ma/FUSE-San-Francisco): date: 2026-11-19 09:00 · price: paid · registration: host approval - [Agentic + AI Night: AI Agents Across the App Stack](https://lu.ma/Agentic_AI_Night-11-19): date: 2026-11-19 16:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Graphs for Engineering, Part 2](https://lu.ma/js68jbj1): date: 2026-11-19 17:00 · price: free · registration: open - [AI Infra for Physical AI: Mind Robotics x Anyscale](https://lu.ma/anyscale-gbln): date: 2026-11-19 18:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Personal Agents Hackathon](https://lu.ma/personalagenthack): date: 2026-11-20 09:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [⋆˚࿔ lavender town: queer game dev meetup ࿔˚⋆](https://lu.ma/9z9xg354): date: 2026-11-20 18:00 · price: paid · registration: open - [SF Writing Club](https://lu.ma/the-yne9): date: 2026-11-22 10:00 · price: free · registration: open - [Martin Allen at the SF Lean Meetup](https://lu.ma/zc0quhtf): date: 2026-11-23 19:00 · price: free · registration: open - [HackwithBay 4.0](https://lu.ma/x05cmrqh): date: 2026-11-24 09:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Physical AI Hack](https://lu.ma/physicalhack): date: 2026-11-28 09:30 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Agentic Loops Happy Hour: Making Agents Reliable in Production](https://lu.ma/gmicloud-hed0): date: 2026-11-30 18:00 · price: free · registration: host approval - [Alex Krentsel at the SF Lean Meetup](https://lu.ma/djqpgaqm): date: 2026-11-30 19:00 · price: free · registration: host approval ## FAQ ### What's on today/tomorrow in San Francisco? 37 software engineer events in San Francisco are on Wed and Thu, Nov 4–5, as of Oct 31. - Wed 5 PM · [San Francisco Tech & AI Social](https://lu.ma/c6xpohmx) - Thu 8 AM · BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026 - Thu 5 PM · Agent-Led Growth / Agent Experience Demo Night See more software engineer events in San Francisco. ### What's on this weekend in San Francisco? 10 software engineer events in San Francisco are on Sat and Sun, Nov 7–8, as of Oct 31. - Sat 8 AM · [MakerMods Physical AI Hackathon](https://lu.ma/pah) - Sat 9 AM · [AIE Code Summit Hackathon](https://lu.ma/fetch-srjn) - Sat 9 AM · [Anything Applied Agentic Hackathon](https://lu.ma/gap48i1m) See more software engineer events in San Francisco. ### Are most software engineer events in SF free? Yes, most are. 164 out of 185 (89%) of software engineer events in SF in November are free (as of 31 Oct). All events recommended on this page are free. ### Do you need approval to attend software engineer events in SF? Most do. In order to ensure a quality experience at their events, 106 out of 185 (57%) of events require approval to attend their events in November. ### Are software engineer events in SF during the evening? Yes, most are. The majority of software engineer events in SF start at or after 5pm. This is so software engineers can attend after work hours. ### What software engineer events in SF can I join without approval? This free event in November doesn't require approval: - Greptile Outpost at SŌHN