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Tier 01 · 13 eventsAIAS+ 2026 — AI for Scientific Discovery
The Ritz-CarltonTLDRA 100+ person AI-for-scientific-discovery summit at the Ritz-Carlton mixing scientists, AI builders and investors — with a billed 2026 Nobel laureate and a Turing Award winner on the program.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup↗038.6Signal / 10Must AttendFounder/Investor
Startup World Cup 2026 Grand Finale
Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hilton San Francisco Union SquareTLDRStartup World Cup's global grand finale at the Hilton Union Square crowns one startup with a $1M prize — a room full of vetted finalists, VCs and press, and one of the few pitch nights worth clearing a Friday for.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup↗View on Eventbrite↗Design Chat with Ian Silber, Fmr. Head of Product Design, OpenAI
San FranciscoTLDRIntimate (~13-seat) design chat with Ian Silber, OpenAI's former Head of Product Design, hosted by South Park Commons — a rare look at how frontier AI products actually get designed and shipped.Room signal13 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Llama Lounge 27: The AI Startup Event Series
SAP Palo AltoTLDRJeremiah Owyang's 27th Llama Lounge packs 625 people into SAP Palo Alto for 10 AI startup pitches plus Blitzscaling Ventures' Chris Yeh and other heavy-hitter investors — a prime scouting night.Room signal625 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Braintrust CEO Ankur and Greylock Partner Corinne on how agents are changing evals
560 Davis St suite 250 San FranciscoTLDRBraintrust CEO Ankur and Greylock partner Corinne unpack how agent workloads are reshaping evals — a ~280-person AI infra crowd hosted by Baseten, squarely on the frontier-agent investing theme.Room signal283 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Reverie 2026
Contemporary Jewish MuseumTLDRA one-day technical summit at the CJM digging into the data systems behind world models, generative video, physical AI, multimodal search and agents — dense, on-thesis ground for AI investors and infra founders scouting the next layer.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on source↗AIE Code Summit 2026 Hackathon
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDROne-day frontier AI engineering hackathon (teams up to four) tied to the AI Engineer Code Summit and run by Cerebral Valley — a fast way to see shipping builders and scout teams before they raise.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Cerebral Valley↗Fireworks: Deploy Buildathon with Microsoft & NVIDIA
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRFireworks, Microsoft and NVIDIA host a one-day SF buildathon where teams of 2-5 ship and benchmark an open-model deployment on quality, efficiency and business value — a direct look at teams building on frontier AI infra.Room signal118 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗AgentCamp: An AI Agent Unconference
135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDRAn unconference on AI agents — participant-driven sessions, no canned keynotes — drawing ~360 builders to Menlo Park, run by the Silicon Valley AI Hub/TechEquity AI crew behind 30+ well-attended AI meetups. Good room for spotting agent teamRoom signal360 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗[Invite only] AI Foundry: Build Day with AWS
StartX Palo AltoTLDRInvite-only AI build day with AWS hosted at StartX in Palo Alto — just 14 seats, so it's a small-room, hands-on session to build alongside and size up early AI founders rather than a passive talk.Room signal14 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged, presented by WorkOS
SFJAZZ San FranciscoTLDRGergely Orosz interviews Bryan Cantrill (Oxide Computer co-founder/CTO) and Diogo Almeida on the future of software engineering — 344 attendees at SFJAZZ, hosted by WorkOS, whose events consistently draw 500+.Room signal344 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Bay Area Frontier Research Club #30 | Worlds for Agents (dinner + paper discussion @ SignalFire)
San FranciscoTLDRA 35-seat dinner and paper discussion on "Worlds for Agents" hosted at SignalFire — a rare chance to dig into frontier agent research with a curated room of AI builders and investors.Room signal35 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Strong Pick
Tier 02 · 51 eventsAgentic Aha'aina: A Payments & eCommerce Executive Roundtable Dinner
San FranciscoTLDRA 16-seat executive roundtable dinner on agentic payments and eCommerce — a tight, curated room where the AI-agents-meets-payments thesis is being built, ideal for sourcing and co-investor conversation.Room signal16 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Agentic Payments Startup Pitches & Institutional Digital Assets Panel | Plug and Play's Crypto & Digital Assets Expo @ Silicon Valley Summit
SunnyvaleTLDRPlug and Play's expo session pairs agentic-payments startup pitches with an institutional digital-assets panel — a direct look at two hot themes for fintech and AI investors scouting early deal flow.Room signal46 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗AI monetization salon
San FranciscoTLDRStripe Startups hosts a salon on AI monetization in SF — pricing, payments and revenue models for AI products are the live questions for both founders and the investors backing them, with 200+ expected.Room signal209 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Robotics Dinner with Notable Capital
Saint Michael's Alley Palo AltoTLDRA 12-seat robotics dinner in Palo Alto convened with Notable Capital — a rare small-room shot at physical-AI founders, Stanford researchers, and the fund writing the checks.Room signal12 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗187.6Signal / 10Strong PickAI
TechEquity Ai Summit 2026: Talks + Workshops + Hackathon, Ft Google, Nvidia, DeepMind, Snowflake and more
135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDRFour days of AI keynotes, workshops and a hackathon in Menlo Park, drawing 1,600+ founders, investors and AI leaders — a big-room scouting opportunity even if the billed line-up is thin on marquee names.Room signal1,624 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗View on Eventbrite↗Make SF Better: A Hack Night with Mistral AI
33 New Montgomery St San FranciscoTLDRA hands-on hack night co-branded with frontier lab Mistral AI (and Elastic) — a real build session for applied-AI devs, run by a host whose past four events averaged ~150 attendees.Room signal44 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Voice Agents Forum
Digital Jungle SF San FranciscoTLDRA production-focused voice AI forum at Digital Jungle SF — engineers, founders and researchers on latency, turn-taking and the engineering realities of shipping voice agents, hosted by Bond AI's Sahar Mor (100+ Bay Area AI events).Room signal31 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Million Dollar Secret - AI Founders + VCs
Menlo ParkTLDRStartup Grind's Silicon Valley chapter caps this Menlo Park AI founders-and-VCs gathering at 40 seats — a small, curated room in VC territory built for actual conversation rather than stage talks.Room signal40 goingStartup Grind · Startup GrindView on Luma↗Pitch Competition hosted by Founders Bay
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAI startups pitch applied solutions and frontier research to a room of investors, operators and AI experts — with a DCVC Bio investor named on the panel — in a tight 42-person setting built for deal scouting.Room signal42 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Inference Routing Summit
SVB Experience Center San FranciscoTLDRA full-day summit on inference routing — the layer deciding cost, latency and model choice in production AI — drawing 120+ builders and infra buyers to SVB's SF Experience Center.Room signal123 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Driverless: What Waymo Can Teach Voice AI About Going to Production | Founder Dinner with Coval & Rho
San FranciscoTLDRA curated SF founder dinner from Coval and Rho built around one sharp question — what Waymo's path to production teaches voice AI teams — with a tiny, high-signal room for operators and investors in voice agents.Room signal4 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Hack the Feed: Creator Tools Hackathon with Oriane, GMI Cloud & Lovable
Amplitude AnalyticsTLDRAn 83-person AI creator-tools buildathon hosted by GPU-cloud provider GMI Cloud (avg 186 attendees across 7 prior events) with Lovable and Oriane.xyz — a solid room for scouting early AI builder teams and video-intelligence talent.Room signal83 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗MCP in Production: What’s Missing?
33 New Montgomery St San FranciscoTLDRArcade.dev and JD Armada (avg 328 and 149 attendees per past event) host a practical deep-dive on what breaks when MCP servers hit production — a timely room for anyone building or backing agent infrastructure.Room signal85 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗The CVC Playbook: Investing in AI with AI
Vina Enoteca Palo AltoTLDRPlug and Play hosts a ~10-seat dinner in Palo Alto on how corporate VCs actually deploy AI to source, diligence and manage AI deals — small enough that every seat is a conversation.Room signal10 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Company Brain Hackathon: Build an AI Agent That Knows Your Organization
135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDRA Menlo Park buildathon on the hottest enterprise AI problem — agents with real organizational memory — run by Silicon Valley AI Hub and TechEquity AI, whose past events have drawn 350–550+ people; 126 builders already signed up.Room signal126 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Desafia Fall 2026 Demo Day
AWS Builder LoftTLDRTen Spanish startups from Desafía's U.S.-market accelerator pitch across AI, fintech, healthtech and climate at the AWS Builder Loft — a compact curated room for sourcing early deals.Room signal41 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Agent-Led Growth / Agent Experience Demo Night @ Auth0/Okta (#7th Edition)
Okta San FranciscoTLDR7th edition of Tenki Cloud's agent-experience demo night at Okta/Auth0 — 245 builders and founders shipping agent-led growth, a solid room for scouting agent-infra teams before they raise.Room signal245 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗139th SF Hardware Meetup @ Vizcom | Manufacturing and Design
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRThe 139th edition of SF's long-running hardware meetup lands at Vizcom with manufacturing and design talks plus an open mic — a solid room of ~250 hardware builders for anyone scouting physical-AI and deep-tech teams.Room signal253 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Decision Models SF | Demo Night
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRLiquid AI's demo night showcases "decision models" — calibrated-probability systems spanning text, vision and audio — with a Meta Llama applied-AI engineer on the bill, in a tight 43-person room that's easy to work.Room signal43 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗GamesBeat Next 2026
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRGamesBeat Next packs ~500 games and interactive-entertainment leaders — 80% C-level — into two days of curated networking and deal-making in SF, a compact room for sourcing gaming and consumer-tech founders and co-investors.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site↗angels & alumni demo day
San FranciscoTLDRAn angels-and-alumni demo day in SF with ~58 seats: a tight, curated room to watch early startups pitch, including deciqAI CTO Brad Ju (ex-Instacart/Yelp), from a host with a track record of well-attended events.Room signal58 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗357.2Signal / 10Strong PickAI
Data Outpost
San Francisco San FranciscoTLDRTwo days of hands-on data/AI workshops and talks from MotherDuck with OpenAI, Stripe, Vercel, Clay, Braintrust and Sigma engineers — a solid scouting ground for the data-infra and agent stack.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Official site↗View on Luma↗Women in AI Executive Dinner: CFOs, Founders & Investors
San FranciscoTLDRA nine-seat executive dinner putting AI founders, CFOs and investors at one table in SF — the kind of small-room format where a single conversation can turn into a deal or a co-founder.Room signal9 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗When Agents and Humans Ship: The New Engineering Playbook
San FranciscoTLDRSmall (38-seat) SF session on how teams actually ship with AI agents in the loop — a timely engineering-playbook topic for founders building agent products, run by organisers whose past events have drawn 130+.Room signal38 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Reverie
The Contemporary Jewish MuseumTLDRA one-day, two-track summit from LanceDB gathering the builders behind ambitious training runs to dig into the data systems powering modern models — a compact, high-signal room for anyone scouting AI infra.Room signal53 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗ALD: The Enterprise AI Builders Conference
AWS Builder LoftTLDRA 300-person enterprise AI builders conference at AWS Builder Loft — ML engineers, architects and tech leaders talking real deployment/infra problems, a solid room for scouting enterprise-AI teams and talent.Room signal300 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Korean AI Startup Demo Day
Frontier Tower 🧑🚀 San FranciscoTLDRA demo day for Korean AI startups at Frontier Tower — a direct sourcing window for investors scouting cross-border AI teams, with PEN Ventures' established SF run of founder-investor events behind it.Room signal49 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗AI For Future - 2nd Edition - Pitching, Funding and Speech
Mind the Bridge San FranciscoTLDRAn AI-focused pitching and funding night at Mind the Bridge (a host with 6 well-attended Bay Area events behind it), drawing ~140 founders and investors — good room for sourcing early AI startups and meeting co-investors.Room signal140 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Founder/VC Breakfast @ Focus Innovation Studio
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA 26-seat curated founder/VC breakfast from Founders Bay (200K+ member AI founder-investor community, 40 prior events) for candid talk on fundraising, growth, and building AI — small enough to actually meet the room.Room signal26 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Festiverse 2026: The World’s Biggest Festival Hackathon
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRCerebral Valley's Festiverse hackathon pulls builders, designers and founders to prototype AI/AR-driven festival tech in SF — a full-day buildathon to scout early technical talent and nascent teams.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Cerebral Valley↗OSA Con 2026 - The Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI
AWS Builder Loft San FranciscoTLDRA 886-person, deliberately under-hyped open-source analytics + AI conference at the AWS Builder Loft — real engineering depth on the data infra layer under AI products, with minimal vendor gloss.Room signal886 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗457.0Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon
Own Your AI: Build an Agentic AI Model Factory - Hack Night
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRHands-on build night in SF: ship a LangGraph ML-engineer agent that evaluates, fine-tunes, deploys and retrains open models on your own AWS — real engineering depth for scouting agentic-AI talent and teams.Room signal128 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup↗View on Luma↗Korean AI Startup Demo Day - Open Registration
Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoTLDROpen-registration demo day putting Korean AI startups in front of SF investors at Frontier Tower — a concrete sourcing opportunity, though no presenting companies or speakers are named yet and the room is small (~10 RSVPs).Room signal10 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗Agentic Internet Workshop* #3 AIW3
Computer History Museum Mountain ViewTLDRA full-day, open-agenda workshop at the Computer History Museum where AI agent protocol developers hash out cross-standard interoperability — real depth on the agent-infra layer worth scouting for early teams.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Eventbrite↗GTM for AI Native Startups
San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAlchemist-backed panel on the unglamorous half of AI startups — customer discovery, pricing and turning early traction into repeatable growth — with 130+ founders and startup leaders in the room.Room signal134 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma↗496.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI