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AI Events in San Francisco This Week

We read every founder and investor event in San Francisco each week and list the ones worth your evening.

Oct 11 to Oct 18, 2026. 54 AI events in San Francisco in the next seven days, 11 of them on Monday, and 111 in the next month. Mostly dinners, happy hours and workshops, 57% of them after 5pm. 92% of the ones that state a price are free. Regular rooms this month: The Midway, AWS Builder Loft, 625 2nd St and Mind the Bridge. The full San Francisco calendar.

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Today Sunday, October 11 7 events
SF High Signal

Physical AI Research Breakthroughs

Sun, Oct 11 · 12:00 PM PT Downtown (SF)
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15th Pakistan Tech Summit - #SFTechWeek

Sun, Oct 11 · 12:00 PM PT 945 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA 78 attending Free
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After Abundance: What Makes AI Content Worth Making - #SFTechWeek

Sun, Oct 11 · 1:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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VC/Founders BBQ - Bay Area

Sun, Oct 11 · 2:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA 55 attending Sold out
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staaake Skybar AI/Tech Founders Hangover Event — Reverse Network Meet

Sun, Oct 11 · 5:30 PM PT Starlite, 450 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA 394 attending Free

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International Reception at the European Startup Embassy

Sun, Oct 11 · 6:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA 421 attending Sold out
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Sunset & Tacos on Mt Tam w/ IsraValley

Sun, Oct 11 · 6:30 PM PT TBD Free Approval required
Tomorrow Monday, October 12 11 events
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Open Intelligence Summit: Hands-On Workshop Day

Mon, Oct 12 · 9:00 AM PT The Midway, 900 Marin St, San Francisco, CA 94124, USA Sold out
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Build AI agents that own their inference - #SFTechWeek

Mon, Oct 12 · 9:30 AM PT San Francisco, CA, USA Free
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Venue Placeholder - MAPS Day 2 - Members Only - Members Only

Mon, Oct 12 · 11:00 AM PT TBD Free
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Pickup Basketball Game 🏀 Proof of Buckets ⛹️ ⛹️‍♀️ ⛹️ San Francisco

Mon, Oct 12 · 1:00 PM PT Embarcadero YMCA, 169 Steuart St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA Free
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THE CUSTOMER IS IN THE ROOM: A live AI focus group for DTC brands - What if you could ask your customers what they think before you ship?

Mon, Oct 12 · 4:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI

Mon, Oct 12 · 5:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA 869 attending $199
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Free Cookies | w Chronos

Mon, Oct 12 · 5:00 PM PT 501 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA 44 attending Free
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TechCrunch Disrupt and Money 2020 Pre Event in SF

Mon, Oct 12 · 5:00 PM PT Market Street & 3rd Street, Market St & 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA $20
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The Big Cayman Bash: SF Funds Week Kick-Off Party 🥳

Mon, Oct 12 · 6:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer

Mon, Oct 12 · 6:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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Builders Night

Mon, Oct 12 · 6:30 PM PT TBD 5 attending Free
Tuesday, October 13 10 events
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HOLD - 2nd Floor Private Rental (Comfy)

Tue, Oct 13 · 8:00 AM PT TBD Free
SF High Signal

EXECUTIVE INNOVATION BREAKFAST WITH FINCANTIERI: Dual-use technologies, naval operations and the future of maritime security

Tue, Oct 13 · 8:30 AM PT Mind the Bridge, 450 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA 33 attending Free Approval required
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AWS Community Day - AI Edition

Tue, Oct 13 · 9:30 AM PT AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, Courtyard Entrance, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA Free
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Open Intelligence Summit

Tue, Oct 13 · 11:30 AM PT San Francisco, CA 180 attending Free Approval required
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Open Intelligence Summit

Tue, Oct 13 · 1:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA, USA
SF High Signal Direct from OpenAI

In Person Event: Game Changers Summit: How AI Is Shaping the Future of Sports

Tue, Oct 13 · 1:30 PM PT TBD
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Open Call: ComfyUI Dev Platform Challenge Build Night

Tue, Oct 13 · 3:00 PM PT Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀, 995 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA 65 attending Free
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Roast My Deck - the AI picks apart your deck live. Then the investors do.

Tue, Oct 13 · 5:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA 187 attending Free Approval required
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AI Builder's Night

Tue, Oct 13 · 6:00 PM PT Local Edition, 691 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA Free Approval required
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EdgeM8: B2B Partnership Mixer (TechCrunch Disrupt Special Edition)

Tue, Oct 13 · 6:00 PM PT 139 Steuart St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA 301 attending Free Approval required
Wednesday, October 14 8 events
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ELC 26 Eng Leader Happy Hour

Wed, Oct 14 · 4:00 PM PT San Francisco, California Free Approval required
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Ai Salon: Humans in love with AI companions - a documentary screening + director Q+A [SF]

Wed, Oct 14 · 5:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA 7 attending Free Approval required
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SF High Signal

Bay Area Frontier Research Club #27 | Embodied AI (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)

Wed, Oct 14 · 5:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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ELC Annual 2026 Afterparty w/ Rootly AI, Swarmia, & More!

Wed, Oct 14 · 5:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA 32 attending Free Approval required
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Best Move Club: Chess Community Event Series

Wed, Oct 14 · 6:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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Junto Founder Dinner (hosted by Andrew Yeung and friends)

Wed, Oct 14 · 6:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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Launch Party: Unveiling the World’s First Agentic Network(Claim 1 of the First 1,000 Personal Agents) #SFTechWeek

Wed, Oct 14 · 7:00 PM PT 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA 426 attending Free
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SignalFire's Disrupt Arthaus After-Party

Wed, Oct 14 · 7:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
Thursday, October 15 11 events
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LlamaIndex x Corgi: Doc Chai Launch Party 🦙🌟

Thu, Oct 15 · 8:00 AM PT Corgi Cafe, 9 Claude Ln, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA Free Approval required
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Private Tour - Community Only

Thu, Oct 15 · 9:00 AM PT TBD Free
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Orkes Shift

Thu, Oct 15 · 10:00 AM PT San Francisco, CA 206 attending Free Approval required
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HUMANOID HUB Conference

Thu, Oct 15 · 10:00 AM PT First Market Tower, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA Free
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Pebbles Lunch

Thu, Oct 15 · 12:45 PM PT TBD Free
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PickleTalk: Enterprise Operators × AI Founders (Seed to Series A)

Thu, Oct 15 · 4:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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NachoThursday: TechCrunch Disrupt SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour

Thu, Oct 15 · 5:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
SF High Signal

CoreWeave x NVIDIA Dynamo Meetup

Thu, Oct 15 · 6:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA 88 attending Free Approval required
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Smash bugs by day, smash serves by night (eng + data sci ping pong meet up)

Thu, Oct 15 · 6:00 PM PT SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom St #100, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA 24 attending Free Approval required
SF High Signal

Extraordinary Founders Dinner (hosted by Andrew Yeung)

Thu, Oct 15 · 6:30 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free Approval required
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TechCrunch Disrupt Week VIP Closing Party with Synexis & Funding Breakthrough Lab (90 VCs, FOs, and Angels)

Thu, Oct 15 · 7:00 PM PT Allsteel Showroom, 4 Maritime Plz, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA $349 Approval required
Friday, October 16 4 events
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Investor Mixer - Venture.Community x Frontier Tower

Fri, Oct 16 · 1:30 PM PT TBD Free Approval required
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Maritime Dual-Use Hackathon

Fri, Oct 16 · 4:30 PM PT Mind the Bridge, 450 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA $20 Approval required
SF High Signal

Open Together: AI Builders Unite

Fri, Oct 16 · 6:00 PM PT The Midway, 900 Marin St, San Francisco, CA 94124, USA 1565 attending Free
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HOLD - 2nd Floor Private Rental (Startup Oasis)

Fri, Oct 16 · 7:00 PM PT TBD Free
Saturday, October 17 3 events
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ExecuTorch Hackathon

Sat, Oct 17 · 10:00 AM PT Founders, Inc. | San Francisco Lab, 2 Marina Blvd B300, San Francisco, CA 94123, USA Free
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Show Your AI Setup

Sat, Oct 17 · 3:00 PM PT San Francisco, CA Free
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Lynkable: The Partnership Pipeline - Members +3

Sat, Oct 17 · 5:00 PM PT TBD 39 attending Free Approval required

AI events in San Francisco, in numbers

How many AI events are in San Francisco this week?

54 between Oct 11 and Oct 18, 111 in the next 30 days. The list above is updated daily from every organiser's own calendar.

Are AI events in San Francisco free?

Most are. Of the 101 upcoming events that state a price, 92% are free to attend; conferences and some dinners are ticketed. Free events usually still need an RSVP, and some require organiser approval.

Where do AI events in San Francisco happen?

This month the venues hosting more than one event are The Midway, AWS Builder Loft, 625 2nd St and Mind the Bridge. Many organisers only reveal the address after you RSVP; those show the city on the list and the venue once you are in.

Which AI meetups in San Francisco recur?

Open Intelligence Summit and Best Move Club: Chess Community Event Series each have more than one upcoming edition on the calendar. Recurring meetups are the easiest way in: the same people come back.

What are the biggest AI events in San Francisco coming up?

By listed RSVPs: Open Together: AI Builders Unite (1565 going, Fri, Oct 16), The Future of Work Social Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Robotics & Agentic AI (869 going, Mon, Oct 12) and Launch Party: Unveiling the World’s First Agentic Network(Claim 1 of the First 1,000 Personal Agents) #SFTechWeek (426 going, Wed, Oct 14).

Which AI conferences are coming to San Francisco?

GitHub Universe 2026 on Wed, Oct 28, Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2026 on Thu, Nov 12 and Microsoft Ignite 2026 on Tue, Nov 17. The flagship conferences for the field are listed further down the page.

How do I get my AI event listed in San Francisco?

Add it with the link at the top of the list. Events published on Luma by an organiser we already follow appear on their own within a day.

AI events in San Francisco

San Francisco is home to some of the world's leading AI labs: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind are all based here. Events span SoMa, the Mission, and the broader Bay Area startup corridor, covering everything from early-stage founder meetups to research previews and accelerator demo days.

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