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The Bay Area’s best events—ranked by signal.

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This week’s signal board

July 28–August 2 · Curated · Times in PDT

Showing 125 of 125 relevant events

Must Attend

Tier 01 · 5 events

018.7Signal / 10Must AttendAIAgentic AI SummitSat · Aug 1, 9:00 AM UC Berkeley Campus BerkeleyTLDRBerkeley RDI's two-day Agentic AI Summit draws 5,000+ academics and industry leaders on the hottest frontier AI topic — a prime scouting ground for investors and founders building with agents.Room signal2,620 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Official site

028.4Signal / 10Must AttendFintech/CryptoCircle × Pantera: The Agentic EconomyTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Stanford StanfordTLDRCircle (USDC) and Pantera Capital dig into AI agents meeting payment rails at Stanford Open Lab — a timely stablecoin-meets-agentic-commerce night for fintech/crypto founders and investors.Room signal133 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

038.4Signal / 10Must AttendAISF Private AI Founders & C-Suite Dinner ft. Partner at NEA ($35B+ AUM)Tue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM Private Upscale Venue (Location revealed upon RSVP approval) San FranciscoTLDRInvite-only, Chatham House Rule dinner of 25 for AI founders ($10M–$100M+ ARR), investors and enterprise AI leaders — featuring a partner from NEA ($35B+ AUM).Room signal25 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Supermomos

048.4Signal / 10Must AttendAILlamaIndex Founder Dinners 001: Loop EngineeringTue · Jul 28, 7:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRLlamaIndex's inaugural invite-only founder dinner — 15 early-stage founders and CTOs shipping AI agents in production, hosted by a leading agent-framework brand. Curated, small, and squarely on the hottest topic in AI.Room signal15 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

058.1Signal / 10Must AttendFounder/InvestorRobotics Founders & VCs Private Dinner · Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRInvite-style private dinner in Palo Alto bringing together robotics founders and VCs — an intimate 41-seat format ideal for sourcing physical-AI deals or meeting co-investors in a hot vertical.Room signal40 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

Strong Pick

Tier 02 · 79 events

067.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorOpen Batch 002 — Demo DayTue · Jul 28, 4:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRA 235-person startup demo day in SF — a prime venue to source early-stage deals and meet founders, with Brex's Chris DN (ex-Sequoia) among the hosts.Room signal235 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

077.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIPhysical AI and Robotics MeetupTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRPhysical AI & robotics meetup drawing 137 engineers, founders and investors; hosted by a Category Ventures partner alongside an Apple robotics engineer and AI startup founders — a hot deep-tech theme with real buyers in the room.Room signal137 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

087.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIMCP V2 RELEASE EVENTTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMCP V2 launch night — the biggest update to the Model Context Protocol (stateless core, Extensions, MCP Apps, Tasks), hosted by Manufact (YC S25) with 146 AI builders. Prime turf for agent-era founders and dev-tool investors.Room signal146 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

097.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorFunding at the Frontier: hosted by ARIA, Bakar Labs, and IGIWed · Jul 29, 5:00 PM Berkeley, CaliforniaTLDR"Funding at the Frontier" pairs ARIA (the UK's ARPA-style research agency), Berkeley's Bakar Labs incubator, and IGI (gene-editing institute) — a deep-tech funding forum for founders and frontier-tech investors.Room signal99 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

107.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI SUMMIT @ STANFORDThu · Jul 30, 11:30 AM Stanford University, Stanford, CaliforniaTLDRAn AI Summit at Stanford with ~600 registered — a hot-topic gathering at a premier tech/founder campus, prime for sourcing AI talent, co-founders and deal flow.Room signal598 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Official site

117.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI☕️ OpenAI Codex Community Meetup-San Francisco #8Thu · Jul 30, 5:00 PM Sports Basement Stonestown San FranciscoTLDROpenAI Codex meetup #8 with OpenAI technical staff and YC founders talking real-world AI coding agents — a hot topic and a builder-heavy room of ~500 to source talent and deals.Room signal498 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

127.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Builders Pitch Night @ BrexThu · Jul 30, 5:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAI startups pitch to a panel including Cota Capital, Meta and Stanford investors, hosted at Brex by ex-Sequoia's Chris DN — a strong 163-person founder-investor pitch night.Room signal163 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Eventbrite

137.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorScaling revenue at Stripe and Vercel with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)Thu · Jul 30, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRVercel COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (ex-Stripe) unpacks scaling GTM/revenue at two iconic dev-tool companies — hosted by AI-infra startup Baseten; a sharp session for founders building revenue engines.Room signal272 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

147.8Signal / 10Strong PickAITaste: A Physical AI Data Happy HourThu · Jul 30, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRUnusual Ventures + HumanSignal (Label Studio) host a Physical AI happy hour drawing frontier AI researchers, robotics builders, and data engineers — with VC partners like Nick Landolfi in the room.Room signal142 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

157.6Signal / 10Strong PickAIMCP Graduation PartyTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMCP (Model Context Protocol) spec-finalization party hosted by Arcade.dev and MCPJam — a 355-strong gathering of AI agent builders at the center of a hot developer-infra moment.Room signal355 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

167.6Signal / 10Strong PickAIQualcomm x ZETIC x Liquid AI: Edge AI Builders MeetupThu · Jul 30, 5:00 PM Hanwha AI Center San FranciscoTLDRQualcomm, ZETIC.ai and Liquid AI co-host an edge/on-device AI builders meetup at Hanwha's AI Center — 100+ builders on a hot frontier topic with brand-name hosts and a deep speaker lineup.Room signal104 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

177.5Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorCapital and Cocktails: LP x GP ReceptionThu · Jul 30, 3:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAn intimate LP x GP reception (21 seats) from RoundTable Ventures focused on capital formation and co-investment — a targeted room for GPs sourcing LPs and investors hunting co-invests.Room signal21 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

187.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI × Health Happy Hour at Esther Wojcicki’sTue · Jul 28, 4:30 PM Stanford, CaliforniaTLDRIntimate 45-person AI × Health happy hour hosted at Esther Wojcicki's Stanford home — a curated, small-format mixer at the intersection of two hot founder/investor themes.Room signal45 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

197.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIPhysical AI over Coffee - Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM The Treehouse StanfordTLDRPhysical AI meetup hosted by Menlo Research (team behind Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot) in Palo Alto — a hot robotics/embodied-AI theme with a builder-heavy crowd and a VC among the speakers.Room signal934 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

207.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIIntelligence in the Open — Edition 01: Reasoning, Evaluation & Long-Horizon AgentsTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRFrontier-AI talks on reasoning, eval and long-horizon agents — one of the hottest research themes — hosted by MiniMax with AI Valley, The AI Collective and Diversis Capital's AI partner; 249-seat builder crowd.Room signal249 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

217.4Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/CryptoHappy Hour with Monad Foundation, Electric Capital and Cloudflare @ SBCWed · Jul 29, 4:30 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRCrypto happy hour co-hosted by Monad Foundation, Electric Capital and Cloudflare during SBC week in Palo Alto — a strong founder/investor mixer with Hack VC's Rodney and Electric Capital in the room.Room signal84 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

227.4Signal / 10Strong PickAICan We Close the Sim2Real Gap?Wed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRPanel on the sim-to-real gap in physical AI/robotics with the VP of Eng at Generalist AI, Reactor & Antioch founders, and Nebius Field CTO Jonathan Lwowski—hosted by Savant's physical-AI GP Jeson Lee.Room signal100 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

237.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIBay Area Frontier Research Club #15 | Embodied AI (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)Wed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRCurated 56-person embodied-AI paper discussion + dinner at Mission Robotics — a high-signal room of researchers and builders on physical AI, ideal for scouting frontier talent and deep-tech deals.Room signal56 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

247.4Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorThe European Founder RoomWed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRIntimate 24-person founder–investor mixer pairing European AI builders with SF investors via warm 1:1s; hosted by ElevenLabs' GTM lead Marcos Valera. Curated size means real conversations, not a crowd.Room signal24 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

257.4Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonHack the Video Agent Context Graph (OpenAI + Neo4j + AWS + TwelveLabs)Thu · Jul 30, 9:30 AM AWS Builder LoftTLDRA hands-on AI hack night pairing OpenAI, Neo4j, TwelveLabs and AWS to build video-agent context graphs at the AWS Builder Loft — a strong spot to scout builders and agentic-AI talent.Room signal239 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

267.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIBest Work Of Your LifeThu · Jul 30, 4:00 PM 275 Brannan St San FranciscoTLDRGitHub hosts a 300-person AI + design gathering led by John Maeda (VP Design/AI, GitHub×Microsoft), with speakers from OpenAI, Figma, and fintech founders like Biptap's Jonathan Low.Room signal300 goingJohn Maeda · GitHub (Microsoft) · Tin Kadoic · OpenAIView on Luma

277.4Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonHack Night - Can Your Agent-Written Code Survive Production?Thu · Jul 30, 4:30 PM Bright DataTLDRHands-on hack night stress-testing AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor) in production, hosted at Bright Data with Benjamin Hindman (Apache Mesos/Mesosphere co-creator) and the Reboot team — sharp builder crowd on a hot topic.Room signal204 goingBenjamin Hindman · Reboot.dev · Bright Data · Bright DataView on Luma

287.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIBay Area Voice AI Night ｜StepFun X Seamate with PLAUD, Firework & CrestaThu · Jul 30, 5:00 PM 883 N Shoreline Blvd d100 Mountain ViewTLDRVoice AI night hosted by StepFun & Seamate featuring builders from PLAUD, Firework and Cresta — a focused, timely gathering on a hot AI vertical with 90+ founders and operators in Mountain View.Room signal91 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

297.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIBuilder NightThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM 660 Market St San FranciscoTLDRWorkOS and Pieces co-host a technical Builder Night on making AI agents production-ready—identity, tooling, and infra—drawing ~200 builders and stealth founders; strong for meeting technical talent and early teams.Room signal196 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

307.2Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonAgents You Love 2 Hackathon - Open RegistrationTue · Jul 28, 8:30 AM Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoTLDRAn AI agents hackathon at SF's Frontier Tower — a hot topic and a builder-heavy room ideal for founders scouting technical talent and co-founders; features founders like Jacob Valdez (commandAGI) and Gergana Quievy (Querii).Room signal76 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

317.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterprise AI at Scale: Talks + AI Agent Workshops, Ft Google, Snowflake, Thoughtspot & DatasaurTue · Jul 28, 3:30 PM 135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDREnterprise AI talks plus hands-on AI-agent workshops in Menlo Park featuring Google, Snowflake, ThoughtSpot & Datasaur — a large (~1000) forum for building and scouting enterprise AI.Room signal1,002 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

327.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIDurable Multimodal AI Meetup with HeyGen, Vapi, and ModalTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMultimodal AI agents meetup co-hosted by HeyGen, Vapi (voice AI, Series B), Modal, and Temporal—strong builder crowd (186) at the frontier of voice/video agents and heavy compute.Room signal186 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

337.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIEngineering self-improving AI systemsWed · Jul 29, 5:00 PM AWS Builder LoftTLDRBuilder-focused night on self-improving AI agents—feedback loops, safeguards, production systems—hosted by Future AGI and Qdrant at AWS Builder Loft, drawing 227 hands-on AI builders.Room signal227 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

347.2Signal / 10Strong PickAITelemetry-aware AI agents that act in Slack, Linear, and GitHub, without your production data leaving your cloudWed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM Mindspace Coworking San Francisco San FranciscoTLDRgroundcover + incident.io host a deep-dive on telemetry-aware AI agents acting across Slack, Linear & GitHub while keeping prod data in your cloud — a timely agents/infra topic drawing ~196 builders.Room signal196 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

357.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorTech Teams Today Fireside Chat with Webflow CEO, Linda Tong - San FranciscoWed · Jul 29, 6:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRIntimate 18-person fireside with Webflow CEO Linda Tong (ex-Google, Cisco, AppDynamics)—an unscripted look at scaling product and eng, ideal for founders and operators sourcing talent and insight.Room signal18 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

367.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIFrom Agents to Teams: The Future of Multi-Agent SystemsThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM San FranciscoTLDRMulti-agent systems — one of AI's hottest frontier topics — with a stacked speaker lineup and an intimate ~62-person room; strong technical evening for founders building agentic products.Room signal62 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

377.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterpriseMCP Night Series at WorkatoThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRWorkato + Agentic AI Foundation engineers (backed by Anthropic, Block, OpenAI) unpack building enterprise MCP/agentic systems — a hot, timely topic for builders scouting the agent stack.Room signal61 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

387.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIDynamo After HoursThu · Jul 30, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDR288-person AI dev meetup with lightning talks from teams at Azure, AWS SageMaker, Baseten, Perplexity, and Decart — strong technical signal and prime turf for scouting AI builders and infra talent.Room signal288 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

397.0Signal / 10Strong PickAIAgents & Bagels: Weekly breakfast meet up for agent buildersWed · Jul 29, 8:00 AM Mission Provisions San FranciscoTLDRWeekly curated breakfast for AI agent builders shipping production systems, hosted by Scalekit's Tamilselvi Ramasamy — a small (36-seat) room of practitioners, ideal for founders scouting agent talent and co-builders.Room signal36 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

407.0Signal / 10Strong PickAIAgents & APIs SF Developer MeetupThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM CANOPY Jackson Square San FranciscoTLDRPostman-hosted meetup on AI-native design patterns and practical agent implementations, ~391 devs at CANOPY Jackson Square — a strong spot to scout AI builder talent and agent-stack momentum.Room signal391 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

417.0Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonSF Make-a-thonThu · Jul 30, 6:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRA hands-on SF make-a-thon (~70 builders) with CopilotKit's Sofía Sánchez-Zárate in the mix — a solid evening to meet hackers, dev-tools folks, and potential co-founders/early talent.Room signal70 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

427.0Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorPalo Alto, CA - Deep Tech Connections Networking BreakfastFri · Jul 31, 8:30 AM Palo AltoTLDRDeep tech networking breakfast in Palo Alto drawing 220+ founders, investors and researchers — a well-attended, on-target morning for sourcing deals or co-founders in the heart of the Valley.Room signal221 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

437.0Signal / 10Strong PickAIHack VC AI Meetup - Open RegistrationFri · Jul 31, 1:00 PM Frontier Tower @ Human Flourishing Full Floor 995 Market Street, San FranciscoTLDRIntimate AI meetup hosted by Hack VC (early-stage crypto/AI fund, incl. GP Rodney) at Frontier Tower — a small-room chance for founders to meet an active investor team plus journalist Brady Dale.Room signal15 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

446.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Demo Series: July Edition - Startup Grind + Bright DataTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Bright Data officesTLDRStartup Grind Silicon Valley's AI Demo Series: early-stage founders pitch products live at Bright Data's offices, with The AI Collective's Ash Kumra and BFC's Dr. Paul Fang in the mix — an intimate 23-seat founder/investor room.Room signal23 goingStartup Grind · Startup Grind · Bright Data · Bright DataView on Luma

456.8Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/CryptoRiskCon Bay Area with Oscilar & MastercardTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Menlo Park, CaliforniaTLDRRiskCon Bay Area co-hosted by Oscilar and Mastercard — a fraud/risk & fintech gathering in Menlo Park drawing ~89 practitioners; solid for founders and investors tracking payments and risk infrastructure.Room signal89 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

466.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAgentic AI Meets Go-to-Market: Panel and Mixer for Marketing and Growth LeadersTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Palo AltoTLDRPanel + mixer on agentic AI for go-to-market with 120 marketing/growth leaders in Palo Alto; founder speakers from AgentWeb, Mindra and Makora make it a solid AI-GTM networking night.Room signal120 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

476.8Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/Cryptoon Mercury - SFWed · Jul 29, 9:00 AM SOHN San FranciscoTLDRMercury — the fintech banking platform used by thousands of startups — hosts a 741-guest SF gathering; strong founder/operator draw and a natural room for meeting builders and investors.Room signal741 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

486.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Breakfast @ Tesla hosted by Founders Bay x You.comWed · Jul 29, 10:00 AM Tesla San FranciscoTLDRFounders Bay x You.com breakfast at Tesla for 200+ founders and AI builders digging into production-grade AI—agents, infra, and real-world deployment—with IBM's Grishma Jena among the speakers.Room signal216 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Eventbrite

496.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIBuilding data agents enterprise can actually trustWed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM Palo Alto, CA Palo AltoTLDRAn Oracle AI-infra veteran unpacks what actually makes enterprise data agents work at scale (hint: it's not the LLM)—a timely, technical talk in Palo Alto for founders building agentic infra.Room signal89 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

506.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIEmergent Builders & Bites. Open House EP1Wed · Jul 29, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDROpen-house mixer thrown by Emergent (fresh off a Series C) for AI founders and builders — a relevant, timely room to meet operators and technical talent in SF.Room signal63 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

516.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAgent (After) Hour: Building Production Agents with Mastra + MongoDBWed · Jul 29, 6:00 PM Motoring Coffee San FranciscoTLDRHands-on AI agent builder night hosted by Mastra + MongoDB (with CopilotKit's Sofía Sánchez-Zárate) — a solid spot for founders and engineers shipping production agents to swap notes and scout talent.Room signal168 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Official site