Calendar
What is on in the Bay.
The rooms worth a builder's evening: SF Tech Week first, then the conferences after it. Every listing links to its organizer.
5 to 11 October
SF Tech Week
A selection from the official calendar, which lists close to two hundred events. Most need approval, and many addresses appear only after you register.
Monday
October 5
- 3 to 8 PMLongevity and healthMolecules, Models & Agents: Accelerating scientific research and developmentGitHub, with Baird, NVIDIA and Microsoft · South Beach, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 4:30 to 6:30 PMFounders and capitalBuilt in SFGarry's List · Financial District, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 5 to 9 PMAI and automationModel Training NightOvermind, Daytona and Doubleword · House of AI, San Francisco · Free
- 6 to 8:30 PMFounders and capitalFounder Friends San FranciscoHustle Fund · Union Square, San Francisco · Waitlist
- 6 to 9 PMAI and automationThe Missing Layer: What It Takes to Build Reliable AgentsAI Circle and EPAM · Financial District, San Francisco · Free, by approval
Tuesday
October 6
- through October 8AI and automationOpen Source x Sovereign AIApollo Commons · San Francisco · Ticketed
- 9 AM to 5 PMAI and automationAI 2030 SummitAI 2030 · Financial District, San Francisco · Ticketed
- 10:30 AM to 12 PMRobotics-1 to Physical Intelligence with Sergey LevineSouth Park Commons · South Beach, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 2 to 5 PMFounders and capitalCarta Presents: The State of the RoundCarta · Chase Center, San Francisco · Waitlist
- 5 to 8 PMCompute and hardwareCompute Trading Happy HourSilicon Data · Chotto Matte, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 5:30 to 7:30 PMFinancial infrastructureAgentic Now & Agentic Next: Mastercard in SFMastercard · China Basin, San Francisco · Waitlist
- 6 to 9 PMRoboticsPhysical AI Operators #02: The Data Layer of Physical AIPhysical AI Operators and the Robotics Center of Silicon Valley · 90 Welsh St, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 6:30 to 8:30 PMAI and automationHaunted Agent + Infra Horror NightHeavybit and Tailscale · SVB Experience Center, San Francisco · Free, by approval
Wednesday
October 7
- 8 AM to 5 PMAI and automationinit() by WorkOSWorkOS · SFJAZZ, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 9 AM to 5 PMCompute and hardwareBuild Better Electronics Manufacturing Summit 2026Instrumental · USS Hornet Museum, Alameda · Ticketed
- 5 to 7:30 PMFounders and capitalAI Demo Night: Startup Grind, AI Collective & Alumni VenturesStartup Grind, The AI Collective and Alumni Ventures · Financial District, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 5 to 8 PMCompute and hardwareHardware hackathon: turn a vintage toy into a voice agentAssemblyAI · Northern Waterfront, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 5:30 to 8:30 PMAI and automationOpen Source AI Stack: Models, Inference, and Agent HarnessNous Research and Novita AI · Financial District, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 5:30 to 7:30 PMLongevity and healthThe New Infrastructure of Biotech EntrepreneurshipMelanInScience and MBC BioLabs · MBC BioLabs, San Francisco · Free
- 6 to 9 PMRoboticsLearning From Human Video & Scaling VLA TrainingHackerSquad · 625 2nd St, San Francisco · Free
- 6 to 9 PMCompute and hardwareOpen-weight models and sovereign AI, a Compute Connect Fireside ChatImpossible Cloud · Mission District, San Francisco · Free, by approval
Thursday
October 8
- 8:30 AM to 5:30 PMCompute and hardwareNeoCloud Summit 2026Ignite · Hotel Kabuki, Japantown, San Francisco · Ticketed
- through October 9SecurityNational Security + Space Innovation SummitVetsinTech · Klamath, the historic ferry, San Francisco · Ticketed
- 5:30 to 9:30 PMAI and automationState of AI Report 2026: SF launch eventAir Street · Central Waterfront, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 6 to 9 PMAI and automationDevelopers after DarkWorkOS, Browserbase, PlanetScale and Laravel · Exploratorium, San Francisco · Free, by approval
Friday
October 9
- 9:30 AM to 7:30 PMSecurityCyberdefense Hackathontokens& and AWS Builder Loft · Financial District, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- through October 10AI and automationAI Native SummitAINative Studio · Financial District, San Francisco · Ticketed
- 12 to 6 PMAI and automationSF Tech Week Agent DayOpen Source for AI · Menlo Park · Free, by approval
- 4 to 10 PMFounders and capitalBuilders & Brews SFTavily, Replit and Merge · Motoring Coffee, San Francisco · Free, by approval
- 5 to 9 PMCompute and hardwareHardware FYIHardware FYI · Dogpatch Studios, San Francisco · Waitlist
- 5 to 8 PMLongevity and healthHuman Performance, Capital & InnovationMelanInScience, BLCK VC and NSBE Bay Area Professionals · The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco · Free
- 6:30 to 9 PMAI and automationHard Negatives Meetup: Engineers Debate NightQdrant and Neo4j · Manny's, San Francisco · Free
Saturday
October 10
Sunday
October 11
Monday
October 12
Fixed dates
Conferences through December
The larger dates in San Francisco and down the Peninsula.
- October 6 to 9AI and automationCOLM 2026The research conference on language models: three days of talks and posters, then a day of workshops.Conference on Language Modeling · Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco
- October 12 to 15Compute and hardwareOCP Global Summit 2026Open hardware for the data center: racks, power, cooling and networking for AI clusters.Open Compute Project · San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose
- October 13 to 15Founders and capitalTechCrunch Disrupt 2026Three days of founders and investors, with the Startup Battlefield pitch competition.TechCrunch · Moscone West, San Francisco
- October 13 to 15Compute and hardwareSEMICON West 2026The semiconductor industry's trade show: equipment, materials and packaging.SEMI · Moscone Center, San Francisco
- October 15AI and automationVercel Ship SFVercel's one-day conference for teams building on the web.Vercel · Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
- October 20 to 21RoboticsRoboBusiness 2026Commercial robotics: the developers, the suppliers and the companies deploying them.RoboBusiness · Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara
- October 27 to 29AI and automationODSC AI West 2026Applied AI and data science: training sessions, workshops and talks.ODSC · Hyatt Regency SFO, Burlingame
- October 28 to 29AI and automationGitHub Universe 2026GitHub's annual developer conference.GitHub · Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
- December 1 to 2RoboticsHumanoids Summit Silicon ValleyHumanoid robots: the builders, the suppliers and the investors.Humanoids Summit · San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo