Top pick for software engineers
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
Software engineer events in San Francisco in November 2026
There are the most events on Nov 5 and 12, and the least on Nov 23 to 24.
Picks for software engineers
· 9 AM–4 PM
Greptile Outpost at SŌHN
Greptile · SOHN
Free Register directly
· 10 AM–8 PM
BAND Dark Factory Buildathon: San Francisco
HackerSquad · AWS Builder Loft
Hackathon 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
· 10 AM–7 PM
She Builds: A Women in AI × Lovable Hackathon
Women in AI · Rincon Hill
Hackathon Free Request to join
· 5–9 PM
Agent-Led Growth / Agent Experience Demo Night
@ Auth0/Okta (#7th Edition)
Lightsage · Okta
Talk Free Request to join
Other events for software engineers
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- 9:30 AM AI Startup Showcase Financial District Free
- 5 PM San Francisco Tech & AI Social Bella lounge and bar SF Free
- 5 PM The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged, presented by WorkOS SFJAZZ Free
- 5:30 PM Postgres Day SF Meetup PlanetScale Free
- 5:30 PM Omarchy SF Cloudflare Free
- 6 PM Wikidata's Birthday The Fold Free
- 6 PM Fonzi's Devs & Drinks Hayes Valley Free
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- 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 Go meetup in San Francisco · Hosted by Assembled Assembled, Inc. Free
- 5:30 PM Ramen pop-up // PlanetScale x Depot PlanetScale Free
- 5:30 PM NVIDIA x Lawrence Harvey · CUDA Rust House of AI Free
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- 9 AM PLATFORMday San Francisco 2026 Q4 Sentry Free
- 9 AM Code with Claude San Francisco Free
- 11:30 AM AI for Greater Good · RSI Financial District Free
- 1 PM Hack the Feed: Creator Tools Hackathon with Oriane, GMI Cloud & Lovable at Amplitude HQ! Amplitude Analytics Free
- 4 PM Geospatial Developers Meetup Peacock Meadow Free
- 5 PM ₊˚⊹♡ game dev showcase ♡⊹˚₊ Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE), Oakland
- 5:30 PM Diwali Special Founders Session SoMa Free
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- 8 AM MakerMods Physical AI Hackathon Founders, Inc. | San Francisco Lab Free
- 9 AM Anything Applied Agentic Hackathon San Francisco Free
- 9 AM Builders who Run Presidio of San Francisco Free
- 9 AM AIE Code Summit Hackathon Shack15 Free
- 10 AM Ship Happens: A Seldon Hackathon SoMa Free
- 10:30 AM Zero To Demo By: NemulAI X Hack District Free
- 12 PM Grok Bot Build Day SF: Real-World Agents Free
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- 12 PM YPE SF Bay Area Annual Career Expo Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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- 5 PM AI Builders Night AWS Builder Loft Free
- 5:30 PM THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: November PlanetScale Free
- 5:30 PM Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta Embarcadero Free
- 6 PM AiOS Meetup - San Francisco Edition Convex Free
- 6:30 PM Builders Night Full Studio Free
- 7 PM SF Lean Meetup Mox Free
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- 8 AM After Tokens TERRA Free
- 8 AM San Francisco Ruby Conference SFJAZZ
- 10 AM Run by Apify The Pearl
- 5 PM Built on Bedrock Demo Night AWS Builder Loft Free
- 5 PM Biryani Maxxing: A Diwali Feast & Multiplayer AI Mixer Free
- 5:30 PM San Francisco Apache DataFusion Meetup Rincon Hill Free
- 6 PM Code & Cocktails in SF with Fireworks & MiniMax Union Square Free
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- 5 PM Agentic Web #02 Free
- 5 PM North Star: Demo Night in SF North Beach Free
- 5:30 PM SGLang x NVIDIA Meetup Fort Mason Free
- 6 PM Developer meetup with Wavelabs Full Studio Free
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- 9 AM SGLang Summit 2026 by LMSYS Fort Mason Center
- 10 AM Rails Girls 2026 Financial District Free
- 4:30 PM [SF] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Grafana, Supabase, Miggo Financial District Free
- 4:30 PM FDE Meetup: Recruiting & Retaining FDEs SoMa Free
- 4:30 PM Google Happy Hour Radhaus Free
- 5 PM Windsurf, Cursor, Cognition & DeepMind alumni happy hour Free
- 5 PM Humanmade Hardware Accelerator Demo Day Free
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- 9 AM AIE x MLH Hackathon Mid-Market Free
- 10 AM SF Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory SoMa Free
- 10 AM Frontier Builders San Francisco Free
- 1 PM When SI Meets Agents: Meetup San Francisco Free
- 3 PM The Multimodal Hackathon Focus Innovation Studio Free
- 5 PM On-Device AI Hackathon: Cleared for Takeoff SoMa Free
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- 9 AM AI Research Hackathon Mission District Free
- 9 AM Drones for Good · UXDuck Hackathon Hogpatch Free
- 9 AM Builders who Run SF — 5K Golden Gate Park Free
- 9:30 AM Founders & Techies Go Dirt-Biking San Francisco
- 9:30 AM Drexathon: Nace AI's Decision Model Hackathon Mid-Market Free
- 12 PM Biohackathon: Haus F26 - Members +3 Frontier Tower @ Spaceship Free
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- 5 PM Co-Founder or Die II by Draki Fort Mason Park Free
- 5 PM Web Data for Startups #02 Free
- 5:30 PM Demo Night WorkOS Free
- 6:30 PM Builders Night 540 Cafe Free
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- 9 AM Backprop Summit Financial District Free
- 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
- 5 PM San Francisco Data Engineering Meetup with ClickHouse CANOPY Jackson Square Free
- 5 PM Builder Night San Francisco · n8n x Vercel Financial District Free
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- 9 AM Food Biz AI Hackathon Oakland, Downtown Free
- 5 PM From Azure Spend to Business Value Yerba Buena 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
- 5:30 PM What If No One Plays My Game? Discovery is Broken. Let's Talk About The Fix. DNA Lounge Free
- 6 PM SF AI Startup Showcase in Nov Financial District
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- 9 AM FUSE San Francisco The Foundry SF
- 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
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- 9:30 AM Personal Agents Hackathon Financial District Free
- 6 PM ⋆˚࿔ lavender town: queer game dev meetup ࿔˚⋆ Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE), Oakland
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- 10 AM SF Writing Club 540 Cafe Free
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- 7 PM Martin Allen at the SF Lean Meetup Mox Free
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- 9:30 AM HackwithBay 4.0 Financial District Free
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- 9:30 AM Physical AI Hack Dogpatch Free
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- 6 PM Agentic Loops Happy Hour: Making Agents Reliable in Production San Francisco Free
- 7 PM Alex Krentsel at the SF Lean Meetup Mox Free
Questions
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: