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Must Attend

Tier 01 · 2 events

018.5Signal / 10Must AttendAI

AI-Pilling Your Company: A Builder Show & Tell – by Decagon, Accel & a16z

Thu · Sep 17, 5:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRAccel, a16z and Decagon co-host a builder show & tell on AI-pilling companies — a tight, curated SF room with a billed line-up including Ann Miura-Ko demoing how teams rebuild around frontier AI.Room signal57 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

028.2Signal / 10Must AttendAI

Ground Truth with Sphere (a16z/YC-backed)

Thu · Sep 17, 1:00 PM Dogpatch, San Francisco Dogpatch, San FranciscoTLDRSenior engineers from Anthropic and Harvey dive into building bulletproof AI for regulated industries — a high-signal technical session for AI investors and founders tracking enterprise adoption.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on source

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Tier 02 · 12 events

037.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Ground Truth by Sphere ft. a16z /// For Engineers Building AI in Regulated Industries

Thu · Sep 17, 1:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRSphere HQ's Ground Truth, featuring a16z, packs 156 builders for two panels on AI reliability and human oversight in regulated industries — real technical depth for scouting applied-AI teams.Room signal156 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

087.0Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

The Acquired Meetup

Thu · Sep 17, 5:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRAcquired's SF meetup draws a 760-person crowd of founders, operators and investors from the podcast's audience — a strong, high-signal room for network-building, hosted with Sentry.Room signal760 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

096.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

NachoThursday: SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Rooftop Happy Hour

Thu · Sep 17, 2:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 296-person SaaS & AI founder–investor rooftop happy hour in SF, hosted by the Venture Week series (avg ~199 attendance across 9 prior events) — an easy, high-volume room for casual dealflow and co-founder conversations.Room signal296 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

106.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (Seed to Series A)

Thu · Sep 17, 4:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRTwelve curated AI founders and early-stage investors on private courts — a small, high-touch mixer built for seed-to-Series-A deal flow and co-founder connections.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

116.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

How to deploy a multi-model architecture

Thu · Sep 17, 6:00 PM 150 Pacific Ave San FranciscoTLDRBaseten-hosted technical session on multi-model architectures—why specialized models beat generalists on speed and cost—with speakers from Gradium, Synthefy, and Sid.ai, capped at 50 seats for a tight AI-infra crowd.Room signal50 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

126.7Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders

Thu · Sep 17, 8:00 AM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRCasual SF breakfast for ~74 experienced founders, PMs and eng leaders building AI agents, with live demos—an easy room to scout agent teams and swap notes early in the day.Room signal74 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

136.5Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Pars Talk | Fireside Chat with Faraj Aalaei (San Jose)

Thu · Sep 17, 12:00 AM 1635 The Alameda San JoseTLDRFireside chat with Faraj Aalaei, co-founder, chairman & CEO of AI-chip startup Cognichip — a direct look at building in semiconductors for founders and investors scouting AI hardware.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

146.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

AI Journal Club ft. Google + NVIDIA

Thu · Sep 17, 5:30 PM San FranciscoTLDRAn AI journal-club meetup in SF (~150 attending) for paper-level technical discussion, with Google + NVIDIA connections in the room — a solid place to meet AI engineers and researchers, if not deal-focused.Room signal154 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma