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Must Attend

Tier 01 · 5 events

018.7Signal / 10Must AttendFounder/Investor

One Way Summit 2026: The Flagship Event for Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

028.3Signal / 10Must AttendAI

First Rays - AI Portfolio Day

Wed · Oct 28, 4:00 PM 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

038.1Signal / 10Must AttendAI

Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

048.0Signal / 10Must AttendHackathon

[RESCHEDULED] Open Source Higgsfield: ComfyUI Dev Platform Build Night

Wed · Oct 28, 3:00 PM 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

058.0Signal / 10Must AttendAI

Robotics and Physical AI Hardware Founder Dinner with Rho

Wed · Oct 28, 6:30 PM 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

Strong Pick

Tier 02 · 17 events

067.9Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

You.com Agentic Hackathon – SF Edition

Wed · Oct 28, 9:30 AM 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

077.8Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

Hack With YOU @AWS Builder Loft - Halloween Edition

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

087.6Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit by VentureBeat | SF, Oct 28

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

097.5Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

Carina Hong @ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Speaker Series (ETL)

Wed · Oct 28, 4:30 PM 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

107.4Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

SE Ventures 5th Annual Innovation Day

Wed · Oct 28, 3:00 PM 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

117.4Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Drinks Around The Fire: Cartesia x Lorikeet x Speak

Wed · Oct 28, 6:30 PM 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

127.3Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

137.3Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Autonomous Innovation and Product Development

Wed · Oct 28, 5:00 PM 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

147.2Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Crescendo Live | 2026

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

157.2Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

ODSC AI x NEBIUS | Hackathon

Wed · Oct 28, 9:00 AM 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

167.0Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

Wed · Oct 28, 5:30 PM Antler San FranciscoTLDRNebius and Voxel51 run a hands-on Physical AI workshop at Antler, working with real robotics data and multimodal models — a practical way to see who's actually building in physical AI right now.Room signal150 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup View on Luma

176.9Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Building Products For Agents

Wed · Oct 28, 6:00 PM VapiTLDRA timely session on building products for AI agents, hosted at Vapi's HQ by Product Tank SF with a separate access form — so the room is curated toward product builders shipping agent products rather than a general Meetup crowd.Room signalRoom TBDHosts not yet researchedView on Meetup

186.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/Investor

GitBlame: Werewolf Happy Hour @GitHub Universe

Wed · Oct 28, 5:00 PM Lobalita San FranciscoTLDRHeavybit's GitHub Universe afterparty: 100+ DevOps, platform and AI-infra engineers plus founders at Lobalita, with a werewolf social game as the icebreaker — no slides, no pitches, just the infra crowd worth meeting.Room signal107 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

196.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Data for Agents: The New Database User

Wed · Oct 28, 5:30 PM 135 Constitution Dr Menlo ParkTLDRTechnical deep-dive with VeloDB and StreamNative engineers on data freshness, parallel queries and permissions for AI agents — a useful read on the agent-infra stack, ~205 RSVPs in Menlo Park.Room signal205 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

206.8Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Rootly AI Executive Dinner

Wed · Oct 28, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRA ~17-seat executive dinner hosted by Rootly AI on AI-driven reliability and incident management — a small, curated room of infrastructure leaders, good for relationship-building though it's vendor-hosted and light on billed speakers.Room signal17 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

216.7Signal / 10Strong PickHackathon

ElevenLabs x Posthog x Nimble Fox x Meshy x Shardflux Game Jam

Wed · Oct 28, 5:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRElevenLabs, PostHog, Meshy and Shardflux co-host a small (15-seat) game jam — a hands-on look at how builders are wiring generative voice and 3D tooling into games, and an easy room to meet AI-native makers early.Room signal15 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

226.5Signal / 10Strong PickAI

Agentic Web #01 — Why fetch() Isn't Enough: Reliable Web Access for AI Agents

Wed · Oct 28, 5:00 PM 625 2nd St San FranciscoTLDRA 120+ person SF builder night on the unglamorous plumbing of agent reliability — how AI agents actually get trustworthy web access — hosted by Bright Data and developer-community veterans with a solid track record.Room signal123 goingBright Data · Bright DataView on Luma