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Must Attend

Tier 01 · 6 events

019.0Signal / 10Must AttendAI

Bay Area Frontier Research Club #23 | Founders Edition (dinner + paper discussion @ AGI House SF)

Wed · Sep 16, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 36-seat founders' dinner plus frontier-AI research paper discussion at AGI House SF — curated, tech-substantive, and hosted by Frontier Syndicate's Kristopher Floyd (11 prior events, avg 155 attendance).Room signal36 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

Strong Pick

Tier 02 · 47 events

077.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Demo Night @ WorkOS (September)

Mon · Sep 14, 5:30 PM WorkOS San FranciscoTLDRWorkOS's SF Demo Night packs 400+ builders and investors to watch product demos — a strong night for scouting early-stage teams and meeting co-founders in the dev-tools scene.Room signal402 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

087.8Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

AI Infra Summit Hackathon

Tue · Sep 15, 8:00 AM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDREngineers build AI infra and compute solutions at a hackathon inside the AI Infra Summit — a prime scouting ground for founders hunting technical talent and co-founders.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

097.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

SF Private CFO & Finance Leaders Dinner

Tue · Sep 15, 6:00 PM Venue to be shown publicly San FranciscoTLDRInvite-only, off-the-record Michelin dinner for 16-20 growth-stage CFOs, with AI-curated seating and candid conversation on where AI creates real value in finance — a rare room of senior operators.Room signal25 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Supermomos

107.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

AI Forum Americas 2026 - INST

Fri · Sep 18, 3:00 AM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA two-day INSEAD alumni forum in SF on the physical AI frontier — robotics/embodied AI is the hottest deep-tech theme, worth an investor or founder's day to scout deals and ideas.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

117.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

How VCs Really Evaluate AI Startups — with Alumni Ventures Managing Partner Ray Wu

Fri · Sep 18, 7:00 PMTLDRIntimate fireside with Alumni Ventures Managing Partner Ray Wu on how VCs actually evaluate AI startups — direct insider insight for founders pitching and investors scouting deal signals.Room signal8 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

127.6Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

AI Infra Summit Hackathon

Tue · Sep 15, 8:00 AM Santa Clara Convention Center Santa ClaraTLDRAI infra hackathon at the Santa Clara Convention Center drawing 282 builders, run by AI-hackathon platform lablab with Founders Bay — a hands-on way to scout emerging AI infra teams and talent.Room signal282 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

137.6Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Founder Dinner

Wed · Sep 16, 6:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 12-seat curated dinner for Series A+ founders scaling AI companies, with candid talk on fundraising and growth — a small, high-signal room of peers and operators.Room signal12 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

147.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

All Things Agent Setups

Tue · Sep 15, 5:30 PM Sentry San FranciscoTLDRTen developers lightning-demo their real agentic stacks — frameworks, deployment and tooling choices — at Sentry's SF HQ with ~500 builders in the room: a concrete read on how agent products are actually being shipped.Room signal502 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

157.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

AI Demo Series: September Edition - Startup Grind

Thu · Sep 17, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRStartup Grind's monthly AI Demo Series puts early-stage founders on stage to pitch raw, unpolished AI products in 2-minute bursts — a fast, cheap way to scout pre-launch teams before they're priced in.Room signal59 goingStartup Grind · Startup GrindView on Luma

167.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

MCP Apps Night 👾

Thu · Sep 17, 5:30 PM WorkOSTLDRMCP Apps demo night at WorkOS with CopilotKit — builders showing real interfaces that make agents useful, a front-row look at the hot agents/dev-tools stack for a 170-strong SF crowd.Room signal170 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

177.3Signal / 10Strong PickAI

AI Engineering Leaders Dinner/Networking/Talks

Tue · Sep 15, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 45-seat AI engineering leaders dinner/CTO meetup drawing senior talent from Stripe, GitHub and Google — a high-signal room for founders scouting technical hires or co-founders and investors sizing up teams.Room signal45 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

187.3Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/Crypto

AI x Finance: Founding Engineer Panel

Wed · Sep 16, 3:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRFounding engineers from AI-finance names Ramp, Rogo, Rowspace and Tabs break down what it actually takes to build and scale an AI-native finance product — a solid technical room for founders and fintech investors.Room signal99 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

197.2Signal / 10Strong PickAI

MCP Connect

Mon · Sep 14, 9:00 AM GitHub HQTLDRFull-day hands-on MCP developer sessions at GitHub HQ on the hottest agent-infrastructure standard — the right room to scout AI tooling builders and platform teams.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site

207.2Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Prior Labs x SAP: Foundation Models for Structured Data

Mon · Sep 14, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRSAP and Prior Labs leadership (incl. their CTO and Chief AI Officer) share upcoming product announcements on foundation models for structured data — a small, ~21-seat AI session with real technical and enterprise relevance.Room signal21 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

217.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Antler SF After Dark

Thu · Sep 17, 4:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAntler's after-hours working session for operators and builders to prototype and test ideas alongside other founders — a solid room for investors scouting early teams and founders hunting co-founders.Room signal72 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

227.1Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

B2B Founder/VC Breakfast @ Focus Innovation Studio

Fri · Sep 18, 10:00 AM San FranciscoTLDRIntimate 8-seat B2B founder/VC breakfast from Founders Bay and Brex's Chris DN (ex-Sequoia) — a small, curated room for early-stage deal flow and co-founder conversations.Room signal8 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

237.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Bringing Vision Intelligence to the Edge: A Workshop Co-Hosted by Qualcomm, Innodisk, and EyePop.ai

Mon · Sep 14, 8:30 AM Building F | QualcommTLDRQualcomm co-hosts a tight 32-seat technical workshop with Innodisk and EyePop.ai on running vision intelligence on-device — a solid scouting stop for edge-AI and infra deals.Room signal32 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

247.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

MCP Community Connect

Mon · Sep 14, 2:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA full day of talks at GitHub HQ on Model Context Protocol — a high-signal room for scouting the agent-infra and dev-tool builders defining the AI stack, with 173 attending.Room signal173 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

257.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

AI Infra Summit 2026 - Complimentary Ticket Application

Tue · Sep 15, 7:30 AM Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara Convention CenterTLDRA large AI infrastructure summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center, squarely on the hottest segment for investors scouting infra and deep-tech startups.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

267.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

The Tasting Menu: 5 Course AI Startups (Dreamforce Edition)

Tue · Sep 15, 5:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRFive AI startups pitch live products to Fortune 500 GTM, engineering and platform leaders during Dreamforce week — a 186-person scouting room for founders and investors, with direct post-pitch access to the teams.Room signal186 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

277.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Data for AI: Access to Understanding

Wed · Sep 16, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRSilicon Valley AI Hub and Bond AI pull 286 builders into a technical deep dive on the semantic layers and ontologies that make data machine-readable for AI agents — strong ground for founders and investors scouting AI infra.Room signal286 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

287.0Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

MantisGrid AI Hackathon & Summit 2026

Thu · Sep 17, 8:00 AM Mitchell Park Community Center Palo AltoTLDRA 254-person AI hackathon-and-summit in Palo Alto — a solid buildathon format to scout frontier-AI builders and teams early, with speakers including Kylon founding-team member Christina Bowllan.Room signal254 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

297.0Signal / 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

307.0Signal / 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

317.0Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Inside Summit 2026

Fri · Sep 18, 12:00 AM Four One Nine San FranciscoTLDRA day-long SF summit from The Room Podcast bringing investors, founders, and operators together for networking — a solid room for deal flow and co-founder hunting.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

327.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Build an AI Startup in One Day

Fri · Sep 18, 9:30 AM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDROne-day hands-on workshop to launch an AI startup from scratch, with mentorship from industry veterans (Gravitational) and a 310-person SF builder crowd — solid for founders hunting teammates, tactics and early deal flow.Room signal310 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

336.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Agents & Bagels: Weekly meet up for agent builders

Tue · Sep 15, 5:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRWeekly no-frills meetup of AI agent builders in SF, drawing YC founders and engineers from Meta, NVIDIA, and OpenAI — prime ground for scouting co-founders, early talent, and what's being built.Room signal1 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

346.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Foundry Live Demo Night

Tue · Sep 15, 5:00 PM GitHub San FranciscoTLDRA live demo night at GitHub SF with ~105 builders showing off what they're shipping — a solid scouting stop for investors hunting early teams and founders reading the room.Room signal105 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

356.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Builder After Hours: Durable Agents with MongoDB, Temporal & Keycard.ai

Tue · Sep 15, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRBuilder-focused evening in SF on durable AI agents, hosted by the MongoDB, Temporal and Keycard teams — real infra/agent-reliability depth for founders scouting the agent stack and its builders.Room signal119 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

366.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Startups & Networking in San Francisco

Wed · Sep 16, 12:00 AM AI Start Academy San FranciscoTLDRLive startup pitches with direct investor feedback plus a focused networking room — a direct shot at deal flow and co-founder connections in SF.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

376.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Voice AI Meetup: Introducing StepAudio 3 🚀

Wed · Sep 16, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRStepFun unveils StepAudio 3, its next-gen real-time voice model, with a billed line-up that includes Novita AI co-founder/COO Junyu Huang (ex-Scale AI, YC W24) — a timely look at frontier voice AI in SF.Room signal69 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

386.8Signal / 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

396.8Signal / 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

406.8Signal / 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

416.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

The New Model Dilemma: Should You Switch?

Fri · Sep 18, 12:00 PM San FranciscoTLDROpenRouter — the LLM-routing infra company founders actually build on — hosts a practical session on when to switch foundation models, a live question for anyone shipping AI products. ~179 builders expected.Room signal179 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

426.8Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

Dream AI Hackathon 2026

Sat · Sep 19, 8:00 AM Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San Francisco San FranciscoTLDROne intense day shipping an AI MVP from scratch with cash prizes and Founder Institute ties — a practical way to meet builders and scope co-founder/team talent in SF.Room signal102 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

436.8Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

Alpaca x Conviction Trading Hackathon

Sun · Sep 20, 12:00 PM Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoTLDRA hands-on buildathon at Frontier Tower pairing Alpaca's trading/brokerage API with Conviction — a solid afternoon to ship fintech tooling and meet builders, though the billed line-up is junior.Room signal21 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

446.7Signal / 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

456.7Signal / 10Strong PickAI

AI Code and Coffee

Sun · Sep 20, 2:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAI devs, engineers, founders, and investors convene for a casual code-and-coffee session with 567 RSVPs — a high-footfall room organized by Bond AI's Sahar Mor for sourcing, hiring, and co-founder scouting.Room signal567 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

466.6Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Build With Korea | Showcase Day

Wed · Sep 16, 12:00 PM Draper University San MateoTLDRA Korea-focused showcase/demo day at Draper University in San Mateo — a curated 59-person room to scout cross-border Korean startup teams and meet builders across the Pacific.Room signal59 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

476.6Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Deep Tech Networking Brunch

Fri · Sep 18, 9:00 AM BerkeleyTLDRDeep-tech networking brunch convened by Bakar Labs and the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator — a solid morning to meet Berkeley founders, researchers and deep-tech investors, no speakers billed.Room signal131 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

486.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Building the Agentic Enterprise

Mon · Sep 14, 3:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 126-person SF summit where execs and practitioners shipping agentic AI in production hash out cost, sovereignty and deployment realities—on-target for anyone scouting the enterprise-agent wave.Room signal126 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

496.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

3x GTM: Selling at AI Speed

Tue · Sep 15, 6:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAI-era go-to-market is a live pain point for founders, and this 94-person SF evening — hosted by AI proptech company EliseAI — mixes drinks with dedicated breakout sessions for top sales operators from hypergrowth companies.Room signal94 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

506.5Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Investor Connect: Pitch & Deal Flow Night in San Francisco

Wed · Sep 16, 12:00 AM AI Start Academy San FranciscoTLDRLive startup pitches with direct investor feedback plus founder/networking time in SF — a solid deal-flow night for scouting early deals and meeting teams.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite

516.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Humongous AI Meetup

Wed · Sep 16, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA sizable SF AI meetup (~200 expected) for founders, engineers, and investors — a solid networking night for sourcing AI deal flow and meeting builders.Room signal202 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

526.5Signal / 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

536.5Signal / 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

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

Next week’s signal board

🔥Must Attend

Fireside with Qasar Younis, Applied Intuition

AI Infra Summit 2026

SPC Post-Training Forum: Mercor CEO, Brendan Foody

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

Ground Truth with Sphere (a16z/YC-backed)

Bay Area Frontier Research Club #23 | Founders Edition (dinner + paper discussion @ AGI House SF)

⭐Strong Pick

Demo Night @ WorkOS (September)

AI Infra Summit Hackathon

SF Private CFO & Finance Leaders Dinner

AI Forum Americas 2026 - INST

How VCs Really Evaluate AI Startups — with Alumni Ventures Managing Partner Ray Wu

AI Infra Summit Hackathon

Founder Dinner

All Things Agent Setups

AI Demo Series: September Edition - Startup Grind

MCP Apps Night 👾

AI Engineering Leaders Dinner/Networking/Talks

AI x Finance: Founding Engineer Panel

MCP Connect

Prior Labs x SAP: Foundation Models for Structured Data

Antler SF After Dark

B2B Founder/VC Breakfast @ Focus Innovation Studio

Bringing Vision Intelligence to the Edge: A Workshop Co-Hosted by Qualcomm, Innodisk, and EyePop.ai

MCP Community Connect

AI Infra Summit 2026 - Complimentary Ticket Application

The Tasting Menu: 5 Course AI Startups (Dreamforce Edition)

Data for AI: Access to Understanding

MantisGrid AI Hackathon & Summit 2026

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

The Acquired Meetup

Inside Summit 2026

Build an AI Startup in One Day

Agents & Bagels: Weekly meet up for agent builders

Foundry Live Demo Night

Builder After Hours: Durable Agents with MongoDB, Temporal & Keycard.ai

Startups & Networking in San Francisco

Voice AI Meetup: Introducing StepAudio 3 🚀

NachoThursday: SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Rooftop Happy Hour

Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (Seed to Series A)

How to deploy a multi-model architecture

The New Model Dilemma: Should You Switch?

Dream AI Hackathon 2026

Alpaca x Conviction Trading Hackathon

Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders

AI Code and Coffee

Build With Korea | Showcase Day

Deep Tech Networking Brunch

Building the Agentic Enterprise

3x GTM: Selling at AI Speed

Investor Connect: Pitch & Deal Flow Night in San Francisco

Humongous AI Meetup

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

AI Journal Club ft. Google + NVIDIA

Must Attend

Strong Pick