EVERY MEETUP, HACKATHON, AND DEMO DAY
SF tech events, every week.
We track the San Francisco tech calendar for a living: it tells us where crews are needed next. Here is what is coming up across the city and the wider Bay Area, refreshed every night. Hosting one of these? We cover it.
Saturday, October 17
Sunday, October 18
12:00 PM
Cybersentics Book Club October 2026: Here/There
**HYBRID IN-PERSON / ONLINE** Join us for October's Cybersentics Book Club, where we'll discuss a chapter on artists' work with telepresence, focusing on the Satellite Arts Project—pioneerin...
4:00 PM
InclusionAI Tech Night: Your AI Reality Check
Join inclusionAI for happy hour during Open Source AI Week 2026. Grab a drink, enjoy some food, and meet the developers and researchers building open models and agent systems.
4:30 PM
Bio-Data Hackathon Demos + Prizes at SPC
This weekend, ML researchers, wet-lab biologists, bioinformaticians, and founders are hacking at SPC on multimodal patient datasets. On Sunday, they show their work.
Monday, October 19
10:00 AM
Arm Create: Hands-on AI with Google, Renesas & Nota AI
Learn how to deploy and optimize AI workloads on Arm from cloud to edge through technical sessions, demos, and interactive experiences.
11:00 AM
Cline, Parallel, & Composio Hackathon
Join Cline and Composio for an Open Source AI Week Hackathon event! Get inference and tool call credits to help you build a great agent or AI tool.
5:00 PM
Open Source AI Week 2026 | Open Weight Debate Night
Open Source AI Week 2026 | Open Weight Debate Night The Open Weight Debate is where Open Source AI Week gets into discussion, opinions, and fun.
5:30 PM
THE SF DATABASE MEETUP: October
Join us on October 19th for the SF Database Meetup where we'll dive into the fundamentals of databases and learn about some new storage systems built for agents.
7:00 PM
STUDIO WORKS #5/7 | On production
STUDIO WORKS - Developing objects people want from the ideas artists care about. ꕤ｡˚⋆ STUDIO WORKS is an experimental Studio incubator.
Tuesday, October 20
4:30 PM
SOUTH BAY PHYSICAL AI AND ROBOTICS - ROBOBUSINESS EDITION
SOUTH BAY PHYSICAL AI AND ROBOTICS Happening after RoboBusiness 2026 in Santa Clara. This is an unofficial robo-business event We’re getting people from across robotics and physical AI toget...
5:30 PM
GTM & Marketing Hackathon by Granola x Anthropic
What would you build if you had a dedicated evening to experiment with Claude? Join us at Granola SF for a hackathon for GTM and Marketing operators! No technical background needed.
6:00 PM
OpenClaw & Friends Meetup w/ NVIDIA & Microsoft
Your AI. Your rules. Better together. Join the OpenClaw Foundation and Friends during Open Source for AI Week for a meetup about AI you can own, understand, and control.
6:00 PM
Overmind Arcade 🕹️ [Open Source AI Week]
Open source has always been a multiplayer game. For one day during Open Source AI Week, we're making it literal.
6:30 PM
AI Infra Night @PyTorchCon with dstack, Crusoe, and SGLang
Join dstack, Crusoe, and SGLang for an AI Infra Night in San Jose during PyTorch Conference.
6:30 PM
Founders Panel: The Agentic Stack
Founders & leaders from Laravel, PlanetScale, and WorkOS talk building and scaling on their agent stacks.
6:30 PM
Powering an AI Workforce
Teams building sophisticated AI systems and agents today have to consider several factors: how to build them, what to integrate with, how to run version control, how to run evals, how to man...
8:00 PM
Flow State Lounge [after hours] | Boundless
Flow State Lounge is coming to San Francisco After debuting Flow State Lounge in NYC on September 10th, Boundless is bringing the lounge to the West Coast.
Wednesday, October 21
5:00 PM
AI Won't Deploy Itself — In conversation with Arjun Prakash (CEO of Distyl)
The biggest challenge in enterprise AI isn’t making models smarter. It’s making them useful.
5:30 PM
Support Is an Engineering Problem Now — Plain × Sentry
An evening at Sentry's SF office for support and customer-facing engineers on how agents, MCP, and APIs are changing the work, and how to move faster with them.
5:30 PM
Open Source AI + Policy Happy Hour
Open Source + AI Policy Happy Hour Open source AI is in the spotlight, drawing growing attention from policymakers, researchers, industry, and civil society.
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