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Tier 01 · 17 eventsOne Way Summit 2026: The Flagship Event for Immigrant Entrepreneurship
The Commonwealth Club San FranciscoTLDRA 1,000-person flagship summit at the Commonwealth Club with Duolingo's Severin Hacker, Slack's Cal Henderson and OpenAI Foundation's Anna Makanju on the main stage, plus a Startup Grind-run startup competition and a "VCs on the Immigrant ERoom signal550 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Running Production with Agents w/ Rootly AI, NVIDIA, Replit, PostHog, & WorkOS
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRPanel on running production with AI agents — WorkOS founder/CEO Michael Grinich, NVIDIA's Vishakha Sadhwani and Replit's Niall O'Higgins on agent on-call triage, code volume, and accountability, with 267 builders expected.Room signal267 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗First Rays - AI Portfolio Day
Palo Alto, CA Palo AltoTLDRFirst Rays Venture Partners opens its AI portfolio day in Palo Alto: senior enterprise-tech practitioners on the second-order effects of the AI infra shift, selected portfolio founders presenting what they're building, then cocktails with 2Room signal201 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Code Engineering: From Coding Agents to Software Factories
AWS Builder Loft San FranciscoTLDRAgent Engineering HQ's *.engineering series returns to AWS Builder Loft to dissect coding agents, agent harnesses, evals and "software factories" — its predecessor drew 300 attendees in SF.Room signal167 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Founders Inc: Physical AI at Open Campus
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRFounders Inc hosts ~10 founders building frontier tech — Physical AI and robotics — at its Open Campus showcase during Blueprint week four: a compact room for investors scouting hard-tech teams early.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗How to Sell to Muse, Grok Bot & Instinct: An Agent Led Growth Fireside
San FranciscoTLDRAgent-commerce deep dive in SF: Exa and Browserbase explain how agents search and buy, plus a live Muse demo and an AgentMail x TPC fireside — application-gated, 108 seats, built for founders shipping MCP/API products.Room signal108 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit
Terra Gallery & Event Venue San FranciscoTLDRClosed-door, single-room day on the agentic infra stack — orchestration, memory/context, inference economics, AI factory architectures — with practitioners from T-Mobile, PayPal, Adobe, Uber, Microsoft and Intuit on stage, plus original VenRoom signal355 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Surreal Dinner Series - Recursive Self Improvement talk w/ Recursive Co-founder
Qualia Contemporary Art Palo AltoTLDRA 50-seat Palo Alto dinner-talk on recursive self-improvement with Recursive's CTO/co-founder, hosted by Premise's Vanessa Larco and Mercedes Bent, whose prior dinners averaged 60+ founders and investors.Room signal50 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Breakfast & Agentic Hacking Challenge with Alt Security, Okta Ventures, and Runtime Ventures
San Francisco Proper Hotel San FranciscoTLDROkta Ventures and Runtime Ventures host an agentic-security CTF breakfast during Unprompted — steer an AI attack agent against a live enterprise target, then work the room of security leaders and VCs over espresso.Room signal66 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗The New AI Developer Stack: From Prototype to Production
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati San FranciscoTLDRAgent-infra deep-dive at Wilson Sonsini with Sarah Wooders (CTO/co-founder, Letta) on evals, tool calling, and customer-isolated runtimes — 200+ builders shipping agents to enterprise VPCs.Room signal208 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Who Controls the Future of AI Coding?
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRCline CEO Renee Huang and OpenRouter's Sunil Joseph debate open vs. closed AI coding ecosystems before a 480+ room of founders, engineers and researchers — high-momentum topic, long networking window, serious crowd.Room signal484 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Data Infrastructure for Self Improving Agents
San FranciscoTLDRJacopo Tagliabue (CTO of Bauplan, ex-Coveo AI lead, NYU ML Systems lecturer) presents his new paper "Skill Issues" on RL environments, self-improving agentic systems and verification — a 32-seat technical deep dive for agent builders.Room signal32 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗[RESCHEDULED] Open Source Higgsfield: ComfyUI Dev Platform Build Night
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRComfyUI's open-source Higgsfield build night: 149 builders, Comfy devs on hand for four hours of structured building, $10K grand prize plus three RTX 5090s from LTX, BFL and MiniMax — a live scouting ground for gen-media AI teams.Room signal149 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Robotics and Physical AI Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 33-seat curated three-course dinner in SF bringing robotics and physical-AI hardware founders, engineers and investors to one table — billed founder Ye Wang (EverCurrent, a16z Speedrun-backed, ex-Onshape/Google) anchors a small, high-signRoom signal33 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Entire Espresso with Gergely Orosz and Thomas Dohmke
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMorning coffee conversation with Thomas Dohmke (former GitHub CEO) and Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) — two of the most credible voices on developer tooling and AI coding, in a 200-person SF Tech Week room.Room signal204 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Fireside Chat with David Rhew, Chief Medical Officer and VP of Healthcare at Microsoft
StanfordTLDRFireside with David Rhew, Microsoft's Chief Medical Officer and VP of Healthcare — a rare chance to hear a top operator on clinical AI deployment, with ~300 founders and researchers at Stanford.Room signal298 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Strong Pick
Tier 02 · 74 eventsHow Partners Build on Lovable w/ Dan O'Leary
San FranciscoTLDRFireside with Lovable's Head of GTM Partnerships Dan O'Leary on where AI implementation/agency partners make money — plus the first live taping of The Partner Ship, hosted at SPC.Room signal75 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗You.com Agentic Hackathon – SF Edition
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA full-day SF buildathon with You.com and AWS, where builders ship working agentic-app demos — a direct look at early teams and frontier-agent tooling in one room.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site↗AI That Reasons and Acts: Carina Hong and Devi Parikh
Palo AltoTLDRA billed conversation on reasoning-and-acting AI with Devi Parikh and Carina Hong in Palo Alto — a substantive frontier-AI session with ~100 attendees, worth it for scouting agent architectures and the teams building them.Room signal98 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Considering Private AI: Protection, Price, and Performance
San Mateo, CA San MateoTLDRClosed-door exec roundtable on private AI economics (data protection, cost, performance) with Datasaur CEO Ivan Lee and Betterworks SVP Eng Maher Hanafi — a small, decision-maker room for anyone selling or backing enterprise AI infra.Room signal34 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Hack With YOU @AWS Builder Loft - Halloween Edition
AWS Builder Loft San FranciscoTLDRFull-day agent-building hackathon at AWS Builder Loft with 236 AI engineers and founders, building on You.com, CrewAI and Parasail APIs alongside the engineers who wrote them — a live scouting ground for agentic-AI teams.Room signal236 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗WorkOS Applied AI Showcase
WorkOS San FranciscoTLDRWorkOS hosts an applied-AI showcase demo night for ~178 builders in SF — a strong scouting stop for investors hunting early AI teams, backed by a host with a heavy track record of well-attended dev events.Room signal178 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Night Hack by Founders, Inc.
Fort Mason San FranciscoTLDRFounders, Inc. runs a five-hour build sprint at Fort Mason where ~45 builders ship a robot, AI agent, or game and demo for live judging — an intimate, high-signal room for scouting early hardware and agent teams.Room signal45 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit by VentureBeat | SF, Oct 28
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRVentureBeat's one-day SF summit is squarely on the agentic AI infrastructure layer — the compute, orchestration and tooling stack investors are actively underwriting, with VentureBeat's editorial curation behind the agenda.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup↗Agentic AI Day: From Models to Systems That Act
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAfternoon agentic-AI summit in SF: keynote, infrastructure panel and 10 live demos for 185 founders, engineers, researchers and investors — a solid room for scouting teams building agents that actually act.Room signal185 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗AI Is About to Break Your Org Chart: An Evening at Accel
Accel San FranciscoTLDRA 75-seat AI evening hosted at Accel's SF office on how AI reshapes org charts — a hot founder/operator topic in a small, curated VC-room setting.Room signal75 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Stanford LP Seminar Series #17 (ADIC; Bush Foundation; AccessLex; CBC Foundation; HRK Foundation; Patrimium)
EVGR, Building B StanfordTLDRStanford LP Seminar #17 puts institutional limited partners — Bush Foundation, AccessLex, CBC Foundation, HRK Foundation, Patrimium — in one room at EVGR with 138 attendees: a rare direct shot at LPs if you're raising a fund.Room signal138 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗The Builder Base: Hackathon
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAWS's Builder Base runs a full-day SF hackathon where engineers and founders team up to ship working prototypes and pitch — a cheap way to watch builders in action before they raise.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site↗307.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI
From Satellite to Signal: Building a Geospatial Agentic AI Stack on AWS and Wherobots
AWS Builder Loft San FranciscoTLDRHands-on build session at AWS Builder Loft: Wherobots CEO Mo Sarwat plus HERE Technologies' Hervé Utheza on giving AI agents deterministic geospatial answers — real technical depth for anyone scouting physical-AI/data infra.Room signal186 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗View on Meetup↗Silicon Valley Physical AI Workshop and Meetup
135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDRHands-on Physical AI session from Voxel51 and Nebius: workshop on DROID robotics data in FiftyOne's multimodal MCAP viewer, plus lightning talks and 136-person networking — a solid look at what robotics/data teams are actually building.Room signal136 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Securing agents in production: lessons from the frontline
Swig San FranciscoTLDRAgent security is the fastest-growing line item in enterprise AI budgets — hear Vercel's VP of Security Mukund Sarma, Notion's Jacob Brackett and Sierra's Aditi Gupta on where real incidents are happening and how CISOs are buying.Room signal124 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Carina Hong @ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Speaker Series (ETL)
Nvidia AuditoriumTLDRStanford's long-running Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series hosts Carina Hong for a founder fireside in the Nvidia Auditorium — a free, high-signal hour inside Stanford's dense founder/investor orbit.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site↗347.5Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon
Robot Hackathon: Harnessing Physical AI & Data
Robotics Center of Silicon Valley San FranciscoTLDRHands-on buildathon at the Robotics Center of Silicon Valley hosted by robotics-platform startup Viam and MongoDB — a direct look at the physical-AI + robotics data stack and the builders working on it.Room signal80 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup↗View on Luma↗AWS Agentic Partner Showcase Extended - Temporal, Arize, Databricks
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAWS's agentic partner showcase at the SF Builder Loft brings engineering teams from Temporal, Arize and Databricks to demo real agent infrastructure — a solid night for scouting the orchestration/eval stack, with 240+ builders expected.Room signal243 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Steering Agents with Policies: an engineering session
San FranciscoTLDRA genuine engineering deep-dive on runtime agent policies: Failproof AI's Nikita Agarwal (co-author of the FIRE paper) walks through real failed traces, allow/deny/instruct tradeoffs, and what made policy sets 50% more expensive.Room signal57 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗SE Ventures 5th Annual Innovation Day
San FranciscoTLDRSE Ventures (Schneider Electric's CVC) packs ~300 founders, industry operators and Schneider execs into an afternoon of panels on AI for energy and industrials, plus a two-hour reception — a strong room for energy/deep-tech dealflow.Room signal298 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Drinks Around The Fire: Cartesia x Lorikeet x Speak
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRVoice AI founders and builders from Cartesia, Lorikeet and Speak host a fireside on the emerging tech and field lessons — a 160+ person room squarely in the real-time voice/agents wave.Room signal163 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗STRANGER BUILDS I 10k in PRIZES I Halloween hackathon
San FranciscoTLDRHalloween-day SF buildathon with $10k in prizes and 200+ builders, hosted by The AI Collective (averaging 300+ per event) — a cheap way to meet shippable AI talent and early teams in one day.Room signal211 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗From Silicon Valley to Langley: Fireside Chat with Nand Mulchandani
StanfordTLDRCIA and DoD JAIC former CTO Nand Mulchandani talks defense-tech and AI adoption in government at a 30-seat Stanford fireside — a rare direct read on where dual-use and national-security dollars are heading.Room signal30 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗/pay™ SF Edition: test your product and get paid inside AI.
San FranciscoTLDRA ship-it night for the agentic payments stack: talks on monetizing inside Claude/ChatGPT/Cursor, then a hands-on build session with MCPJam and SolvaPay to turn your MCP server into a paid tool before the bar.Room signal76 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Git Your Ship Together: Multiplayer AI for Product and Engineering (Pre-GitHub Universe)
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRPre-GitHub Universe panel with PromptQL's Tanmai Gopal and Optimal AI's Iba Masood on "multiplayer AI" workflows — where the bottleneck moves once agents write the code — for a small room of product and engineering leaders.Room signal42 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Multiplayer Build Night & Mixer by Party (Peninsula)
810 Hamilton St Redwood CityTLDRParty packs ~88 engineers, PMs and founders into one live shared build session in Redwood City — a hands-on, three-hour chance to ship alongside agents and scout technical co-founders and early teams.Room signal88 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Company brain dinner
Union Square San FranciscoTLDRAn invite-only, ~10-seat Union Square dinner where founders, CEOs and COOs of 10+ person teams compare notes on building a shared "company brain" for their AI agents — no pitches, just food and honest war stories.Room signal13 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport BurlingameTLDRODSC AI and Nebius kick off a three-week buildathon to ship a verifiable research agent on Nebius Token Factory + Tavily, with live engineering support and a public-repo demo for judging.Room signal94 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Autonomous Innovation and Product Development
Post-Industrial Institute Menlo Park, CaliforniaTLDRApplication-only forum on agents running the innovation process themselves — Mitsubishi Electric's VP of Innovation and Palo Alto Networks' SVP of Engineering present, then roadmap the open problems.Room signal3 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Physical AI Workshop and Meetup
Silicon Valley AI HubTLDRNebius and Voxel51 (FiftyOne) host a hands-on Physical AI workshop in the Valley — a room of robotics/CV engineers worth scouting for technical talent and infrastructure-adjacent early-stage teams.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite↗Bay Area Biosecurity Lightning Talks 03
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA serious biosecurity lightning-talk night: Jonas Sandbrink (CEO, BioTrust) on AI biorisk evaluation plus talks on function-based pathogen screening and Far-UVC — a rare room of deep-tech founders worth sourcing.Room signal93 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Build Night | TinyFish x Vorflux x HydraDB
San FranciscoTLDRIntimate 51-person build night for AI-agent builders hosted by TinyFish, YC F26-backed Vorflux and open-source HydraDB — engineers on hand, free credits, and a room of people shipping agents tonight.Room signal51 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRApplication-only, limited-seat AI buildathon hosted by ODSC and Nebius — a full day with SF's AI builders, and a good room for scouting early teams and technical talent in person.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup↗Crescendo Live | 2026
Terra Gallery & Event VenueTLDRAI-in-CX summit with a genuine investor draw: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja is billed alongside Crescendo's James Green on practical enterprise AI deployments — a room of CX leaders plus a top-tier VC voice.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site↗Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAn agent-focused breakfast in SOMA drawing ~184 founders, PMs and eng leaders for unstructured conversation — a high-density room for scouting agent builders, with commandAGI founder Jacob Valdez among the billed names.Room signal184 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗The FDE Conference III
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA full afternoon on forward-deployed engineering — tactical breakouts, firesides and company spotlights with ~190 FDEs, founders and operators in SF, the function now driving AI product deployment.Room signal189 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Personal Agent Era: Eval & Training of the Best Personal Agent
Mountain ViewTLDRAn intimate Mountain View session on how the best personal agents are evaluated and trained — real technical depth on a hot AI theme, hosted by Beta University, whose Bay Area builder events consistently draw a serious crowd.Room signal44 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Making First Contact: Space & Deep Tech Mixer
San FranciscoTLDRGeneration Space, a dedicated SpaceTech investment firm, hosts an Arrival-themed mixer for ~113 space and deep tech founders, investors and builders, with an interactive team puzzle built to force real conversations and intros.Room signal113 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Who Killed the Build? 💀 A Halloween DevTools Murder Mystery with Flox
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA hands-on AI/devtools night from AI Valley and Flox: four infra builders — Flox, Runpod, Resolve AI and FriendliAI — live-debug a broken dev environment, with a Halloween mixer to scout teams afterward.Room signal127 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Octen Agent Build Night
300 Brannan St San FranciscoTLDRHands-on build night where you wire Octen's search and extract APIs into a live-web AI agent — 49 seats, food and drinks, and a room of builders to meet as a founder scouting agent talent or an investor watching what gets shipped.Room signal49 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗AI Transformation Leaders Meet-up 10/27: Transformation Design Sprint
San FranciscoTLDRSmall, application-only working session on AI transformation design, led by Microsoft's AI transformation lead and Uber's head of AI products — past rooms included leaders from OpenAI, Adobe and ServiceNow.Room signal4 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗597.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI