Fri, Oct 9
Rally picks
Mixer / networking
Engineers debate spicy topics like banning open weights in one-on-one matchups, and the audience votes live on each winner. This night with Qdrant and Neo4j is built for engineers, AI researchers and builders, with prizes for winners.
Morning
Mixer / networking
A 6-mile sunrise run at zone 2 pace ending at the Ferry Building, paired with conversations about AI in fitness wearables. You'll run with people actually invested in the intersection of health tech and the Bay's tech scene.
Mixer / networking
Forgepoint Capital and Ashurst Perkins Coie are hosting experienced surfers and investors in the water, with beach breakfast for those watching. A rare chance to network with founders and capital in the lineup or over coffee on the sand.
Mixer / networking
Marketing and growth folks swap their latest challenges over coffee at Painted Leopard. Real talk on SEO, paid ads, and organic growth from people actually in the trenches.
Mixer / networking
A morning walk along the Embarcadero for founders and clinicians rethinking healthcare from what patients actually need. Small group conversations about patient-centered health tech with no panels or pitches, just coffee and honest thinking.
Mixer / networking
Small-group walk through SF's hidden corners with fellow people ops leaders, ending at a quality bakery. A quieter way to connect with peers driving team success during Tech Week.
Mixer / networking
CodeRabbit's wrapping SF Tech Week with early-morning surf, a cold plunge, and breakfast at Ocean Beach. All skill levels welcome, with loaner boards available while supplies last.
Mixer / networking
Small table of people actually running world models on GPUs, talking through memory constraints and serving bottlenecks over coffee. The kind of conversation where someone mentions what broke in their stack this year and everyone nods.
Mixer / networking
Mixer / networking
A casual morning for active investors to swap deal flow, market observations, and co-investment ideas over coffee and breakfast. No panels or pitches, just substantive conversations with people actually deploying capital across the AI and startup ecosystem.
Mixer / networking · Talks & panels
An intentional networking event where founders and investors actually have real conversations over coffee and breakfast. Dave Garland from Second Century Ventures leads a fireside chat, then you've got unstructured time to find your next collaborator or idea partner.
Demo night · Talks & panels
Twenty founders demo AI applied to hard industries like robotics and infrastructure, pitching two minutes each to active investors for prizes and real feedback. Sharp product stories, no fluff, just founders building for the physical world competing live.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
IBM and a16z Speedrun are hosting founders pitching sports tech solutions to investors including IBM Ventures and Sony Ventures. A solid networking play if you're tracking where capital flows in sports tech, even if applications closed.
Mixer / networking
Spring Fertility hosts a breakfast for female founders, funders, and tech innovators with their fertility specialist discussing career and family-building balance. Free coffee and food make this a low-friction way to connect with peers navigating similar life decisions.
Talks & panels
Private equity and venture capital CFOs get practical coverage of AI in fund reporting, compliance workflows, and QSBS tax optimization alongside regulatory updates. Walk away with a playbook for deploying AI safely while maximizing early-stage equity advantages.
Mixer / networking · Talks & panels
A morning gathering for women building in AI with coffee, breakfast, and a fireside chat. This is part of SF Tech Week, so expect solid conversation and real community from InstaLILY AI's returning event.
Workshop / hands-on
Kat Rucker runs small-group office hours on founder-led sales, pipeline building, and GTM strategy for early-stage B2B startups. Bring your specific challenges around messaging, outreach, or turning conversations into revenue and get practical troubleshooting from someone who has built scalable sales systems.
Mixer / networking
Casual morning with Austrian founders from the GoUSA Silicon Valley cohort and Bay Area builders, no pitches or agenda required. Good for making real connections if you're curious about European founders breaking into the startup scene.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Full stack AI infrastructure in one room: sovereign compute, enterprise production systems, agentic AI, and physical robotics. Worth attending if you're building under the condition that infrastructure constraints now define what's possible.
Mixer / networking
Goodwin partners are hosting casual morning tennis during SF Tech Week with founders, investors, and operators. Low-pressure networking disguised as friendly competition if you want to meet people actually building in the ecosystem.
Mixer / networking
A casual morning mixing pickleball with breakfast for founders building physical infrastructure, robotics, and the real-world economy. Good excuse to meet other operators in construction, real estate, data centers, and energy without the usual pitch deck pressure.
Hackathon
AI is making cyberattacks faster and more sophisticated, but it's also giving defenders new tools to fight back. This hackathon brings together builders to prototype threat detection, attack intelligence, and autonomous remediation systems that actually scale.
Talks & panels · Workshop / hands-on
Two days of nonstop technical talks, hands-on build labs, and the AINative Hack Champion Finals where regional winners compete for a community-powered prize pool. Serious builders only: bring code, ship something, compete at the highest level.
Workshop / hands-on
Learn why products are shifting into chat, then build a real MCP app that lives inside ChatGPT and Claude with sign-in and integrations working by day's end. Walk in with an idea, walk out with something live to show investors.
Workshop / hands-on
Founder-CEOs often can't scale sales because their winning motion lives in their head, not in a system. This workshop extracts your playbook into an actual onboarding SOP so your next hire actually has a shot.
Mixer / networking
Low-key way to meet AI founders while actually playing basketball instead of networking over another coffee. H.O.R.S.E at SF Tech Week if you want to shoot around and build real connections.
Mixer / networking
A waterfront run along the Embarcadero with AI founders, builders, and VCs during SF Tech Week, ending with coffee at Fort Mason. All paces welcome, no pitches or awkward networking required.
Talks & panels
Matt Gore has helped founders raise over 3 billion dollars, and he's breaking down exactly what investors need to see on each slide to actually move the conversation forward. Learn the structure, story, and common mistakes that separate decks that get checks from ones that don't.
Workshop / hands-on
Three hours to ship a real portfolio piece tied to your idea, not another tutorial project everyone's built. Working product deployed before you leave, with the room helping you through the inevitable walls.
Workshop / hands-on
Most founders skip video because they think it requires a budget and skills they don't have. This hands-on session gets you launch-ready assets in three hours, walking out with an explainer video and demo clips actually ready to ship.
Mixer / networking
Intimate coffee for qualified purchasers closing out SF Tech Week with candid peer exchange on asset allocation, deal flow, and macro dynamics. Vetting ensures a high-signal room capped at twenty.
Talks & panels
Three panels covering agents, physical AI, and infrastructure built by founders and researchers actually shipping systems. Well-connected crowd if you're exploring where the next generation of intelligent systems is heading.
Talks & panels
World models are moving fast, and this daylong dive covers video prediction, 3D generation, and reasoning systems from researchers at Harvard, Stanford, and builders shipping these systems now. The panel on what's next makes it worth blocking your whole Friday.
Research & papers · Talks & panels
Three teams debate two papers with prep work done upfront, so you skip the recap and jump straight into where people actually disagree. Smart format if you want real technical discussion instead of surface-level takes.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Walk the floor and see what a16z speedrun's latest cohort is building across AI B2B. Dozens of live demos and direct conversations with founders who are 12 weeks into shipping real products.
Research & papers · Talks & panels
Roy Nissim from Red Hat walks through a May paper on disaggregated MoE serving while Shraddha Sridhar moderates, but the real value is the discussion that starts where people actually disagree. Everyone reads the paper beforehand, so this skips the fluff and digs into the hard questions.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Kindred is retrofitting classic cars with modern engineering and AI-driven systems. This factory tour shows their design process, lets you test drive the results, then kicks off with food and drinks.
Mixer / networking
Watch the Blue Angels tear across the bay from a private waterfront chalet with Together AI, DTCP, and NVIDIA leaders. Speed and precision metaphors work better when there's actual precision happening overhead.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Your production logs are already your test suite if you know how to use them. ZenML's showing engineers how to replay real sessions against every change before users see the fallout.
Talks & panels
Biotech founders juggle investor timelines against scientific rigor, and this panel unpacks how to scale without compromising either. Hear from operators who've navigated hiring, burn, and regulatory pressure while keeping the science intact.
Hackathon · Mixer / networking
Live alternate reality game where you build a fake billion dollar business through puzzles and hacker challenges against other founders. Inception Studio's take on founder simulation beats talking about it.
Hackathon
A hands-on hackathon exploring video creation and editing through AI conversation with Qwen and Vizard Agent. Build something tangible in hours, whether you're a developer, founder, creator, or designer, no coding required.
Workshop / hands-on
Samir Patel walks through a live agentic marketing system that connects research, planning, content, and tools into one coordinated campaign. See how connected agents handle paid media, SEO, social, and performance feedback, then map your first workflow.
Workshop / hands-on
A hands-on workshop for marketing teams building AI workflows into their paid media operations. You'll learn which processes to automate first, how to structure data and approvals, and leave with a blueprint for your team's first custom workflow.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Creator Gold gathers founders, creators, investors, and brand leaders during SF Tech Week for candid panels on AI, creator economics, and brand strategy. Curated introductions and small-group conversations replace typical networking, designed so you actually leave with people worth staying connected to.
Workshop / hands-on
Founders and investors who know they should be posting finally get a concrete afternoon to actually do it. You'll write, film, and publish a finished piece with storytelling coaching and AI tools handling the tedious parts.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Personal AI's exploring how intelligence moves to the network edge, with NVIDIA, Comcast, and AT&T weighing in on distributed AI architecture and what actually changes when compute gets closer to users. The CTO session and founder panel dig into making AI more personal and resilient than just bigger.
Afternoon
Mixer / networking
Rooftop perch above the Bay with founders and builders from Sentry, OpenAI, Neon, and Exa, plus cold drinks and Blue Angels overhead. Perfect excuse to actually talk to people in the scene while the sky puts on a show.
Mixer / networking
A private lunch connecting female founders with capital allocators from 3i Members and Renegade Partners during SF Tech Week. Solid for expanding your network and hearing directly from investors shaping early-stage funding.
Talks & panels · Demo night
Five tech talks covering search, git workflows, and agent fundamentals, plus ten demos competing for top prize and five hands-on workshops. A solid way to close tech week if you're shipping AI in the Bay.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Step up to the mic and pitch your company story in 60 seconds to seasoned tech reporters and marketing experts who'll score you on the spot. Stick around for networking and one-on-one feedback on what worked and how to strengthen your narrative.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
An immersive look at how production agents use live web data, featuring the stack behind Nebius, LangChain, and Tavily with enterprise customers sharing real deployments. Startups get announced access to the Tavily Startup Program with 100K free credits and dedicated support.
Talks & panels
Chris Sheng ran accountability groups with 40+ founders and turned the patterns into a concrete playbook: binary milestones, backward planning, and what actually separates founders who execute from those who don't. This is building in public that works, not LinkedIn noise.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Tavily's immersive launch shows how production agents ground reasoning in live web data, with Nebius and LangChain unpacking the stack. Startups get 100K free credits and network access through the new Tavily Startup Program.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Cell and gene therapies work, but economics keep them from patients. Bluezone Capital convenes founders and investors at SF Tech Week to explore how deep tech startups can fix the business model and unlock the next decade of growth.
Mixer / networking · Demo night
Two blacksmiths and a real anvil demonstrate their craft during SF Tech Week, with drop-in sessions throughout the day. Stick around between demos to talk infrastructure and production AI with CoreWeave's teams in a deliberately low-conference setting.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Physical AI's moving from lab demos to actual deployment, and this summit maps what that transition requires. Five emerging Taiwan-based companies present alongside investors and infrastructure leaders thinking about scale beyond the prototype phase.
Mixer / networking · Talks & panels
Tech Week's relentless pace makes The Oasis a rare pause to breathe and think clearly about what matters. This gathering digs into how AI reshapes work itself, exploring what gets freed up when automation handles necessity and how to build lives that thrive in that shifted reality.
Workshop / hands-on
You bring a passion or profession you understand deeply, and leave with a working marketplace built on Exonome's platform. Three hours to validate whether that "someone should build this" idea actually has legs with real users.
Talks & panels
Kevin Liu and Miles Deamer break down what early-stage investors actually look for in founders, then give live feedback on real startup pitches. Sharp insights on team evaluation and what tips the scale from pass to lean-in.
Mixer / networking
A casual gathering where builders and founders working on what's next actually talk to each other about what they're making. Skip the pitch deck energy and just show up to meet people doing interesting things.
Hackathon
Neighbors pitch local dreams like a community garden or babysitting co-op, then form teams to build tangible first artifacts together. This grounded alternative to downtown Tech Week hype includes local food and a kids corner.
Workshop / hands-on
This small-group practice helps founders and builders navigate uncertainty by reconnecting with self-trust and discernment rather than optimizing for more data. Expect guided reflection, paired exercises, and honest conversation about what you're actually moving toward and the next step you're ready to choose.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Dan Olsen and Eric Boduch examine how AI is reshaping product work, from discovery through launch. A sharp panel discussion with drinks and networking afterward.
Workshop / hands-on
Your next customer is asking AI who to buy from, not scrolling your posts. This three-hour build gets you a working go-to-market asset and the repeatable process before you leave.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
MedPhone AI is bringing physicians, founders, and investors into one room to dig into what AI actually changes in healthcare delivery. Worth attending if you're building in this space and want to understand the clinical constraints that separate real products from hype.
Workshop / hands-on · Talks & panels
Self-improving agents are moving from theory to practice, and this hands-on workshop walks you through building one on ApexClaw infrastructure. Panel discussion with academic and industry leaders followed by live implementation for anyone shipping agents, research tools, or AI employees.
Talks & panels · Demo night
The PULL merges emerging fashion with retail technology at Macy's during SF Tech Week, featuring designer discovery, an interactive app experience, and industry panels. It's a concrete look at how tech platforms are reshaping fashion commerce and creator visibility.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Three panels and open networking connecting founders and operators exploring how AI and blockchain intersect in practice. Worth attending for the concrete use cases and crowd of people actually shipping at this intersection.
Mixer / networking
The Girls in Growth crew is taking over Marina Green for wine, snacks, and Fleet Week views after a long tech week. Bring a blanket and decompress with people actually building at scaling startups.
Talks & panels
Data provenance, consent trails, and vendor risk are now table stakes in healthtech fundraising and diligence. This panel of founders, operators, and legal experts walks through the architectural questions that separate companies actually built to scale from those bolting compliance onto a pitch deck.
Mixer / networking
Mayer Brown is hosting a rooftop gathering at 1 Hotel during SF Tech Week with founders, investors, and Bay Area tech leaders overlooking the Blue Angels. It's a straightforward scene to see who's building and investing while taking in the city's best waterfront views.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Two founders pitch their real financial models while investors tear them apart on stage, exposing exactly where the numbers work and where they don't. Forecastr's co-founders then rebuild one live, showing you the gaps founders typically miss and what actually passes diligence.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Investors tell you what actually gets funded, what kills deals, and why, with no pitch deck theater. Real founders get real-time reactions and finally ask the questions that matter.
Talks & panels
Voyage is exploring how neuroscience principles like dynamic compute allocation and selective search can power test-time cognition without retraining models. A conversation with neuroscientists building AI companies on what brains teach us about frontier research.
Talks & panels
Harrison Jiang from Waybox walks through the actual path from prototype to production: EVT/DVT/PVT stages, BOM and tooling costs, ODM selection, FCC certification, and managing manufacturing from San Francisco. Real prototypes and boards on the table, plus a hardware cheat sheet you'll take home.
Mixer / networking · Demo night
Hardware is where AI moves beyond screens into objects you actually interact with. Expect working prototypes, founders shipping physical AI, and a host who built a voice device solo in five months using AI tools.
Talks & panels
Two investor and founder panels exploring where AI capital moves next, from infrastructure and physical AI to security and robotics. Women X convenes venture leaders and builders during SF Tech Week to discuss the evolving phase of AI investment and opportunity.
Talks & panels
Founders, investors, and corporate development leaders discuss how today's funding terms shape exit options. A rare look at structuring rounds that work for both IPO and acquisition paths, from people who've actually navigated them.
Mixer / networking
Mixer / networking
Tabmac Inc explores idempotency beyond payments, focusing on system architecture and fault tolerance in hospitality tech. Casual networking over drinks with founders and investors tackling the unglamorous work of building reliable operations.
Talks & panels
Seventy senior investment professionals from Bay Area firms gathering under Chatham House rules to discuss why AI adoption lags model development in institutional finance. Fireside, demos, and panels on research and quant desks with speakers from labs actually shipping these systems.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Japan's government is mobilizing $2.1 trillion across 17 strategic sectors and wants global VCs in the room. This is a direct line to Japanese capital, corporate customers, and policy makers orchestrating the country's startup push.
Mixer / networking
A casual mixer for early-stage founders to play games and connect over pizza with Flex Capital's team. Low-pressure way to meet other builders and see what people are shipping in the current scene.
Mixer / networking
A no-pitch chance to actually talk shop with GTM folks while unwinding with whisky and cigars. Perfect for resetting after a brutal week without the usual startup theater.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Live product demos and direct access to founders building across AI, robotics, fintech, and deep tech. Best for mapping the ecosystem and having real conversations that pitches can't capture.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Live product demos where founders show what they're actually building, followed by open networking with investors and builders across physical AI, infrastructure, consumer apps, and deep tech. Three hours to see emerging companies beyond the pitch deck.
Mixer / networking
IIT alums scattered across the Bay reconnecting over chai and samosas, now shipping companies and leading teams instead of cramming for exams. Worth showing up to find collaborators or just expand your network with people actually building something.
Demo night
EWOR's first US Demo Day surfaces their top 0.1% portfolio companies, averaging $10M raises, in an investor-only setting with tight capacity. Early access to genuinely vetted founders beats the typical demo day grind if you're actually writing checks.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Ondu's smart ring demo anchors this Tech Week afterparty at ERIA Marina, where you can see proactive AI and health tracking on your wrist while drinks and a DJ set keep things loose. Worth the trip if you're curious whether the post-screen AI interface actually lives on your hand.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
A book launch during SF Tech Week bringing together lessons from Fortune 100 companies and startups into an 18-element marketing framework. Worth attending for the practical ideas and the champagne.
Workshop / hands-on · Hackathon
Hands-on build day with workshops, mentorship, and free platform credits from Nebius, Replit, and Tavily. Compete in the global hackathon for $50K in prizes or just show up to build, ideate, and meet other AI builders without submitting anything.
Workshop / hands-on · Demo night
ProtoLive is showing off a no-code tool for building interactive experiences, and they're letting you test it hands-on with a live demo and 30-minute buildathon. Cash prizes and free membership go to the most interesting build and whoever breaks it best.
Hackathon
Build AI-native systems that actually work at an overnight hackathon with mentors from Replit, Google, Apple, and NVIDIA. Winning team gets office visit, lunch with engineers, and sponsor credits to ship faster.
Talks & panels
Founders building farms, factories, and brands share why they stopped chasing what's cool and started building what they love. A refreshing break from AI hype to explore how the biggest opportunities might be hiding in the physical world.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
North Bay builders gathering to hear talks on GPU-accelerated agents and personal AI operating systems, then breaking into office hours and lightning pitches. If you're shipping agents in Sonoma Wine Country's orbit, this is the rare local crowd doing that work.
Mixer / networking
This is a salon on identity and reinvention for people whose work is being reshaped by AI, not a networking mixer or skill-sharing event. If your role is changing and you're asking bigger questions about who you're becoming and what matters, this structured reflection with others navigating the same shift is worth your time.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Growth stage founders and investors closing out SF Tech Week at Rick & Roxy's with hip-hop, arcade games, and a founder panel on AI infra, GTM, and raising. Skip the stiff networking for real conversations where actual relationships happen.
Mixer / networking
Tech Week winds down at this password-protected happy hour hosted by Deel, Rillet, and Corgi Insure. No panels, just founders, operators, and finance leaders closing out the week with solid drinks and conversation.
Mixer / networking
Smartlead and Chatbase are hosting a low-key bowling night with forty spots for people actually shipping AI in the Bay. No pitches, no panels, just lanes and conversation with the sharpest teams in the space.
Mixer / networking
Early-stage startups pitch accredited investors, angels, and VCs over dinner in a luxury San Mateo suite with demos from AI and robotics companies. Worth attending if you're fundraising or looking to meet founders across enterprise tech.
Workshop / hands-on
This two-hour workshop explores how AI can strengthen democracy through hands-on experimentation with civic tools. You'll work through practical challenges around transparency, organizing, and accountability while grappling with who controls these systems and what could go wrong.
Evening
Mixer / networking
After five days of panels and demos, this is the actual payoff: a DJ, drinks, and finally meeting the people you've been meaning to talk to all week. No thought leadership, just the close-out SF Tech Week earned.
Mixer / networking
The AI startup scene's best padel player finally has their moment. Teams compete for bragging rights and a limited-edition tournament tee featuring every participating startup's logo.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Hardware folks actually show up to this one during Tech Week to talk AI, manufacturing, and robotics with founders and investors doing real work. Dogpatch Studios, drinks, light food, and a fireside chat with people shipping actual products.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Founders and engineers shipping production agents will break down what actually breaks when real users show up, from multi-agent coordination to the economics of scale. Lightning talks and honest trenches conversation on the gap between demo and dependable product.
Demo night
Get your pitch in front of founders and investors with real-time feedback from experts, whether you're pre-launch or scaling. Top five submissions compete live for three grand on October 9th.
Mixer / networking
Intimate gathering of GPs, LPs, and family office leaders discussing venture secondaries and private-market liquidity at Salesforce Tower. Intentionally capped at 80 to prioritize genuine conversations over the usual conference noise.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Thirty engineers at a sushi counter hearing from people actually running agents in production, followed by omakase conversations that only work at this scale. Real code, real numbers, no future-of-AI theater.
Mixer / networking
A craft beer tasting for builders with side projects stuck in final_final_v7, hosted by each::labs and Bria during SF Tech Week. Bring your idea that needs images, video, or audio, and meet people who actually want to see how you did that.
Mixer / networking
Computer-use builders and artists collide on the question of what humans do when machines handle digital labor. Pixel art, live music, and hands-on time with autonomous agents in an intimate Mission space designed to explore creativity and autonomy.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Modelence is hosting early-stage founders for a crash course in production cloud setup with demos on graduating from serverless. Food and cocktails fuel the networking from 5pm onward.
Mixer / networking
Investor networking event on a private rooftop with GPs, LPs, and founders discussing LP-GP relationships and tech trends. Three portfolio companies present: AudioCu on high-fidelity audio over power lines, YOUID on data ownership, and Brainworks on AI disrupting venture capital.
Mixer / networking
Hackathon
Teams race to break AI-built code that passed its own review, using proprietary divergence tech to explore genuinely different failure modes and improvements. Winner isn't who finds most bugs, but who uncovers the widest range of distinct, working solutions.
Mixer / networking
A rooftop dinner where investors air their actual hot takes on deals and hype cycles under Chatham House rules. One conversation, one mic, anonymous prompts, and the kind of candor you won't find at typical mixers.
Talks & panels
Venture capital is flooding sports tech, health optimization, and AI as science redefines human performance and longevity. If you're tracking where capital flows across biotech, defense, and emerging performance infrastructure, this Commonwealth Club convening maps the ecosystem.
Mixer / networking
A straightforward community gathering for African diaspora builders and investors around food, music, and conversation. The firepit and bay views make for a genuinely relaxed space to connect without the startup theater.
Hackathon · Talks & panels
Berkeley faculty working on AI health will keynote, then you've got three hours to build on either clinical ML or hospital operations problems. Judges from academia and local digital health ops will pick winners, and the networking block beforehand is built for finding teammates.
Mixer / networking
E-commerce leaders gathering during SF Tech Week to talk honestly about what AI is actually doing for retention, lifecycle marketing, and growth. Small group, no pitches, just operators comparing notes on what's working versus the hype.
Mixer / networking
Mixer / networking
AI Fund is actively hiring for their venture studio: either as an Engineer in Residence doing a 12-week Mountain View sprint to prototype, or joining the build team full-time to validate new company ideas. This mixer is your direct line to that conversation if you've shipped GenAI in production or move fast with AI tools.
Demo night · Mixer / networking
Local builders showcasing what they're shipping on AWS, with low friction to see real projects and meet the people behind them. Food and a relaxed vibe make this the kind of thing that actually leads to conversations worth having.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Bret Waters and a room of founders and investors are rethinking what actually works in 2026, beyond the playbook that built Silicon Valley. Worth attending if you're curious how the rules have shifted and want to hear from people already adapting to them.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Speakers from OpenAI, Snyk, and Querit walk through shipping coding agents from demo to production, covering codebase understanding, implementation, and reliability. Practical for founders and engineers shipping agent tooling, plus investors backing developer tools.
Talks & panels
The infrastructure race for AI is reshaping global economics, with Saudi Arabia's energy and capital positioning it as a serious compute player against Silicon Valley. This conversation explores who actually powers the next era of AI and what each ecosystem learns from competing for dominance.
Talks & panels
A primer on neurotech investing from someone betting on the space before it peaks. Covers how AI is reshaping treatment for Alzheimer's, sleep disorders, stroke, and the wilder possibilities at the frontier.
Mixer / networking
An immigration attorney walks you through O-1 visa realities without the pitch, answering your specific questions and connecting you with founders already building here. Worth attending if you're weighing your visa path and want honest clarity from someone who handles these cases daily.
Talks & panels
Long-running agents on Temporal need human oversight before irreversible actions. This talk covers approval gates, live workflow visualization, and decision trails through architecture and a live demo.
Mixer / networking
Kairo and a16z are sponsoring a pickleball tournament with open play before elimination rounds, winner takes a custom Vespa. Good way to network with founders and AI builders while actually competing for something real.
Mixer / networking
Eric Boduch and Dan Olsen host twelve CPOs at a Michelin-starred restaurant for off-the-record conversations about product strategy. Rare access to peers operating at scale, with someone who built Pendo and the author of Lean Product Playbook.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
House of AI tackles the messy reality of agentic systems with real economic skin in the game: what breaks when AI controls transactions, owns assets, and operates in the physical world? Talks and networking on agent economies, robotics, and the infrastructure needed when machines actually spend money.
Mixer / networking
Mixer / networking
Flex is hosting a curated dinner for GPs, VCs, and ecosystem leaders during SF Tech Week. Application-only attendance keeps the group tight and the conversation substantive.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
The SF Tech Week edition gathers founders, engineers, and investors to talk infrastructure, agents, and what's actually shipping in AI right now. Lightning talks and a panel with builders from You.com, Dust, and TensorWave make this worth the trip for practitioners who want concrete lessons over hype.
Talks & panels
Most AI adoption fails not because the technology doesn't work, but because human brains resist change at a neurological level. David Rock explores what neuroscience reveals about how AI actually rewires attention, decision-making, and collaboration at work.
Talks & panels
Agents accumulate memory over weeks and months, but storing information and storing it correctly are entirely different problems. This session digs into knowledge graphs, contradictory facts, and what it takes to make agent memory trustworthy enough for production.
Mixer / networking
Audrey Chou brings her practice spanning dance, media, and tech to SF for conversations with interactive designers, performers, and creative technologists. This is a rare chance to explore how dance and emerging tech can actually collaborate beyond the surface level.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Founder life is absurd, and this open mic turns that chaos into comedy during SF Techweek. A small room for the stories too real for LinkedIn, where operators share the launches that aged them and the spreadsheets that haunted their weeks.
Mixer / networking
A dinner conversation about what AI should remember, who decides, and what gets inherited versus copied. Intimate, no panels or pitches, just coconut-shaped food and the table itself as interface.
Mixer / networking
Red String is an AI relationship OS built on decades of research into what makes couples last, designed for any stage from dating to married. Friday night wine and food beats another conversation about burn rate anyway.
Mixer / networking
Monthly rooftop gathering where SF founders, investors, and builders collide over sunset conversations. The access gap closes when the right people are in the same room.
Mixer / networking
A Shabbat dinner closing out Tech Week with intentional seating that actually gets you talking to new people in the scene. Long tables, wine, bread, and the kind of gathering that reminds you why community matters.
Mixer / networking
A chance to network with founders and investors while learning salsa during SF Tech Week's Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. Private room, tapas, optional dance class, and actual rhythm involved if you want it.
Mixer / networking
Deel and AWS are hosting a founders celebration during SF Tech Week to connect the startup ecosystem. Worth attending if you want to network with other founders and see what's happening across the Bay.
Mixer / networking
The night before the Robot Show opens, the teams exhibiting are gathering with founders and investors in the robotics ecosystem. Thirty spots to actually connect with people building hardware and physical AI.
Hackathon · Mixer / networking
Founders pitch live startups and attendees vote on which team to join for the night. Fast way to find cofounders, get feedback, or jump into something at the earliest stage.
Mixer / networking
A Shabbat dinner closing out Tech Week with intentionally mixed seating, designed so you actually know people by the end of the night. Long tables, wine, and a reminder that building in SF works better when the community eats together.
Mixer / networking · Talks & panels
The real conversation happens after SF AI Summit ends, when infrastructure leaders, founders, and investors actually sit down together at this deliberately curated dinner downtown. Limited seats mean you're dining with people you'd want to meet anyway, followed by brief talks designed to fuel table arguments rather than dominate the evening.
Mixer / networking
HR and People leaders finally get a dedicated space to discuss what "executive presence" actually means. The Leadership Signals Guide breaks down seven research-backed communication behaviors you can take back to your team.
Mixer / networking
A no-buy-in poker night at Julia Morgan Ballroom where AI founders and builders trade cards instead of pitches, with drinks and actual raffle prizes backing the stakes. Good cards, better company, and a chance to see who's really bluffing.
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A curated mixer for angels and fund operators actively writing checks into AI startups. Solid for finding co-investment partners and discovering deal flow from people actually deploying capital in the space.
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A Friday rooftop closer to SF Tech Week with AfterQuery, offering drinks and low-pressure mingling for builders and researchers. Solid way to cap the week with people actually shipping things in the Bay.
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European Startup Embassy marks year one with rooftop views, live music, and basement DJ across three floors. A genuine celebration of the founders and investors building Europe's presence in Silicon Valley.
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A relationship-first gathering for South Asian founders, investors, and builders to connect over meaningful conversations without the formality. High-quality networking in a relaxed space where you'll meet peers and leaders shaping the tech ecosystem.
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A curated social during SF Tech Week designed around actual conversations instead of the usual networking routine. Founders, builders, investors, and operators meeting over drinks to find collaborators, customers, and maybe even co-founders.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Tight crowd of engineers and founders actually building AI into CAD, 3D modeling, and manufacturing tools. Short talks from people shipping in this space, not the usual conference circuit noise.
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A Geoguessr tournament where the winner picks their prize: a precious metal ingot or a donation to shrimp welfare. Low-stakes fun that's the right vibe for SFTechWeek's ecosystem gathering.
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Healthcare AI builders and clinicians converging to talk clinical agents and new care models without the panel theater. Networking event with people actually shipping in one of AI's biggest opportunities.
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Bring one real bottleneck, watch five founders tear it apart for twenty-five minutes while you take notes. The room votes on problems, solves them out loud, then matches you with someone useful before you leave.
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Marketing teams are rethinking workflows as AI shifts what the role actually demands. This SF Tech Week dinner brings together practitioners from Japan and the Bay to swap real experiences on what's already working and what comes next.
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The official close to SF Tech Week brings founders, investors, and creators together when the real conversations happen. Over 700 people last year stayed for this, making connections that actually move the needle.
Workshop / hands-on · Mixer / networking
You find a co-founder by working next to them, not reading a profile. Two hours solving real problems with eight to ten people filters better than any matching algorithm.
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Three artists translate early generative video testing artifacts into textile, media, and performance works that mine beauty from AI's unstable outputs. This opening reception shows what happens when you look back at generative tools before they got polished.
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A reliably funny night that mixes stand-up comedy with tech roasting, returning as a SF Tech Week staple. Perfect if you want to laugh at the industry's absurdities without the usual conference exhaustion.
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The East Bay's highest penthouse hosts the crowd that actually moves GTM deals and product launches during tech week. Network with operators, creators, and founders who know how to build momentum in this market.
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Ukrainian founders gathering to reconnect and plot what's next without the formal pitch circus. YEP Accelerator and Mazepa League are hosting this before Disrupt, so expect the actual conversations that matter.
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Robots & Bevs brings together founders, researchers, engineers, and investors for a casual evening during Tech Week. It's the right crowd if you're thinking about embodied AI and physical systems.
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A black-tie evening at the Redwood Room with founders and investors across the agent ecosystem, from consumer products to infrastructure to evals. No panels, just cocktails, live jazz, and the people actively building the next wave of agent-native companies.
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Live singing competition with judges who've trained Michael Bublé and Michael Jackson, plus DJ Izzy and a surprise performance. Actual entertainment during tech week networking, not another panel.
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A mixer for founders who've closed rounds and are in active growth mode, surrounded by peers navigating the same challenges. Food and drinks included, part of SF Tech Week.
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A murder mystery for SF Tech Week where you're assigned a character with secrets no one else knows, then spend the night making alliances and interrogating other founders and investors to find the killer. Curated guest list, actual stakes, beats another networking dinner.
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Photon's hosting a small Michelin dinner for consumer founders to dig into how users actually interact with AI, what onboarding should feel like, and designing friction out. Limited seats means real conversation with operators and builders shaping what consumer AI becomes next.
Talks & panels · Mixer / networking
Vault launches a fashiontech platform for community-driven discovery during SF Tech Week, following a Berkeley case competition earlier that day. Expect fireside chats with fashion and tech leaders, plus networking and celebration with founders, investors, and creatives across the Bay Area.
Demo night
Weave just closed a $13.5M Series A to measure and improve engineering work, already adopted by Robinhood and PostHog. Their SF office launch is Thursday with demos, food, and a chance to see what founders Adam and Andrew are building firsthand.
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International founders in the Bay Area and visiting for SF Tech Week will find solid networking over bowling and food at Lucky Strike. No experience needed, just bring yourself or a friend for stories and some friendly competition.
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The official SF Tech Week afterparty brings together the VC and startup crowd for cocktails hosted by Unicorner, a16z, and Notion. Vetted crowd, cocktail attire, government ID required for this closing move of the week.
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A founder-turned-investor hosting a casual mixer with an unconventional premise: find your person while meeting the SF tech crowd. Single, ambitious builders looking for connection will appreciate the refreshingly honest blend of community and possibility.
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A curated night off the networking circuit where founders and builders from YC, HF0, and a16z actually dance instead of pitch. Live AI-powered visuals, six DJs, and a strict ban on talking shop on the dance floor.
Mixer / networking · Demo night
The AINative Summit wraps but the real conversations start at Shotwell's late-night speakeasy with builders, founders, and infrastructure makers from across the country. Expect demos, themed discussion circles on agents and dev tools, and the kind of networking that happens after midnight.
Mixer / networking
A late-night gathering during SF Tech Week with a mysterious address drop keeping things intentionally minimal. Shows up in the schedule if you're already plugged into the ecosystem and want something stripped-back from the usual conference circuit.
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