AI Conferences & Events in San Francisco (Oct 2026): 217 Listed

AI Events in San Francisco

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

Weekly AI events in San Francisco.

AI events in San Francisco, in numbers

In SF next week. Anything good going on?

This week the rooms with the most people going are 📚 Short Story Symposium (Wednesday), OSA Con 2026 - The Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI (Monday) and BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026 (Thursday). Thursday is the busiest night. The list above runs soonest first, 30 days out, and updates daily.

There's an AI event every night. Which ones are actually worth it?

Two things we'd go by. The meetups people keep coming back to: Builders Night, d_model Tuesday Social and SF Lean Meetup. The rooms that fill up: 📚 Short Story Symposium (1081 going), OSA Con 2026 - The Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI (1035 going) and BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026 (451 going). Every listing shows who's hosting.

Which of these can I actually get into?

23 of this week's 47 let anyone sign up. 22 need the host to approve you, and those say so on the list. 2 are full. The private dinners that never get posted aren't here; founders and investors can apply for those on this page.

Do you list the dinners and parties, or just talks?

Both. This month it's mostly dinners, parties and demo nights, 68% of them after 5pm.

New to SF. Which events should I go to first?

A meetup that runs every week or two: Builders Night, d_model Tuesday Social and SF Lean Meetup. The same people come back, so the second time is easier than the first.

Any must-go conferences coming up in SF?

Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2026 on Thu, Nov 12, Microsoft Ignite 2026 on Tue, Nov 17 and Fortune Brainstorm AI 2026 on Mon, Dec 7. The flagship conferences for the field are listed further down the page.

Running a meetup in SF. How do I get it on here?

Add it with the link at the top of the list. If you post on Luma and we already follow your calendar, it shows up on its own within a day.

AI Events in San Francisco

Upcoming Events

Private events for founders and investors

Fireworks: Deploy Buildathon with Microsoft & NVIDIA

OSA Con 2026 - The Anti-Hype Conference for Open Source Analytics and AI

Leading finance in the AI era

The SF Table: Founders Dinner 11.02.2026

ClawCamp Campfire: Sovereign AI - Own Your Stack

SF AI Weekly: next week's picks by email

Builders Night

SF Lean Meetup

FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!

Make SF Better: A Hack Night with Mistral AI

d_model Tuesday Social

Decision Models SF | Demo Night

Off Topic & On Tap: The Night Before Current

Find what's broken on your site before a customer does.

How to get press without a PR agency

angels & alumni demo day

The Machine That Builds Failproof: an engineering session

The SF Table: Investors Dinner 11.03.2026

SF CogSci #34: Tapes Together Strong

Reading Group (+🧋): How Efficiently does AI Turn Energy into Useful Work?

Robot Learning #02 — World Models & Dexterous Manipulation

Venue Placeholder - Startup Valley Pitch Night - Members Only

Women Behind the Win

Bay Area Frontier Research Club #30 | Worlds for Agents (dinner + paper discussion @ SignalFire)

Desafia SF Fall 2026 Demo Day

Women in AI Executive Dinner: CFOs, Founders & Investors

AI monetization salon

Market Price

Driverless: What Waymo Can Teach Voice AI About Going to Production | Founder Dinner with Coval & Rho

📚 Short Story Symposium

Startup Pitch & Networking in San Francisco

AIAS+ 2026 — AI for Scientific Discovery

Private events for founders and investors

BoxWorks Dev Summit 2026

AIAS+ (Chen Institute Symposium for AI Advancing Science and Society)

Voice Agents Forum

ALD 🌁 SF: The Enterprise AI Builders Conference

Foresight Open Coworking

Korean AI Startup Demo Day - Open Registration

Mixpanel x Replit - Ship It: The Product Builders' Hackathon

AIAS⁺: Beyond the Sessions

NVIDIA x Lawrence Harvey | CUDA Rust

Braintrust CEO Ankur and Greylock Partner Corinne on how agents are changing evals

Fireside Dinner with Patreon CEO Jack Conte

Cypherpunk Society Inaugural Meeting - Members +3

Founders, Operators & Investors: Rooftop Social

Tech Leader Premium Series - San Francisco (Miami Heat @ Golden State Warriors)

Building and Monetizing Agents: Fireside with Dan Moroz

Hack the Feed: Creator Tools Hackathon with Oriane, GMI Cloud & Lovable at Amplitude HQ!

Built at the Frontier: AIAS⁺ Startup & Builder Night

AIE Code Summit 2026 Hackathon

Ship Happens: A Seldon Hackathon

Founders Paintball - Shor x Corgi x Rho

Zero To Demo By: NemulAI X Hack District

Venue Block - Spaceship Fashion Show - Open Registration

Cloud Native Hackathon with Kelsey Hightower Win $10K in Prizes -

GitOps Workshop with Kargo and Argo CD Sign Up Now

Win $20K at the Cloud Native Hackathon with Kelsey Hightower - Sign Up Now

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Hands-On with Apple Open Source Tooling

Kubernetes Automation Day with Kelsey Hightower & Liz Rice -

Lunchtime Rave at DSS Day: Distributed SQL Summit SLC -

Observability with ClickStack Fundamentals Kubecon Training -

LearnKube Day

AgentCore Workshop: Build Agents on AgentCore. Scale Them with Confidence.

5K Run with Apify

AI Builders Night

Akuity Happy Hour with the Creators of Argo CD & Kargo

Build Day: OpenRouter x Meta

AI SRE Meet Up

eBee Quest Workshop & Dinner

House of Kube Salt Lake City

IaCConf Connect Salt Lake City

The Premier Speakeasy Experience

Builders Night

KubeCon Welcome Crew: AI for On-Call Happy Hour -

SF Lean Meetup