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Mixer / networking

A 25-mile no-drop road ride with Canyon ambassadors and featured athletes, launching from The Motoring Club with pre-ride coffee and pastries at 8 AM. Perfect for building fitness and community with the SF AI builder crowd who actually ride.

Mixer / networking

Three miles at conversational pace through San Francisco before the week's meetings and pitches take over, with walkers and runners finishing together for coffee. A Stanford-backed reset hosted by Skye Air Mobility, for people who need their brains working better than pitch-room sharp.

Mixer / networking

Early morning spin along the water with founders and finance leaders before Tech Week chaos sets in, followed by free coffee and tax advice from actual CPAs. One random startup wins five grand of Vecty services.

A casual 5-mile run through SF's best parks with the Tokens& crew, starting at Alamo Square and looping through the Panhandle and Golden Gate Park. Social pace, good energy, no networking angle, just people who build things moving together.

Hackathon

Build a working multi-agent app in a day using Oasis, mixing Claude, OpenAI, and any framework with real policies and integrations. Food, mentors, and workspace are provided, so bring a laptop and an idea if you want to ship something that actually works.

Mixer / networking

A waterfront 5K-7K run with healthcare founders, operators, clinicians, and investors during SF Tech Week, split into two pace groups. No pitches, just coffee and conversation afterward at Philz.

Workshop / hands-on

PrincipiumX walks founders through a structured method for moving beyond surface-level product moves to find genuine 10x opportunities. An interactive breakfast workshop using a real business case to uncover deeper customer needs and translate them into defensible differentiation, sharper positioning, and durable growth.

Hackathon

Twelve hours to build a feature, test it with real users from your target market, and iterate before the demo ends. You get mentorship from a16z and YC founders on what actually matters when you're shipping products people want.

Workshop / hands-on

PX Thinking translates first-principles work into concrete 10x moves: sharper positioning, defensible pricing, new growth paths. This breakfast workshop walks through a real case, then hands you the method to apply to your own startup.

Mixer / networking

A beginner boxing class where tech folks work on footwork and fundamentals without contact. It's the anti-networking event: get a workout while meeting people from the scene during SF Tech Week.

Hackathon

A one-day hackathon for women builders across engineering, AI, product, and design tackling women's health, economic mobility, and safety. Multidisciplinary teams build and pitch working prototypes, no prior team or idea required.

Hackathon

Party's turning the solo hackathon format on its head: full day, full teams, agents doing the heavy lifting while you all steer together in one session. $25k in prizes, food included, and you walk away with something real you actually built alongside people who just became your friends.

Hackathon

Construction wastes billions of hours on manual drafting and permitting, and this hackathon gives you eight hours to build the AI solution that hasn't existed yet. Dell and NVIDIA are providing top-tier hardware for ideas spanning code compliance, sketch-to-blueprint generation, and permit acceleration.

Mixer / networking

A 5K through San Francisco with founders, investors, and tech builders at a pace that's actually social, ending with coffee and snacks at Golden Gate Park. MongoDB is sponsoring, so grab your free startup credits while you're networking between miles.

Mixer / networking

An hour Golden Gate walk with founders and operators who actually want to talk, followed by coffee. No panels, no pitches, no performance, just the networking that matters.

Mixer / networking

A workout mixer where founders and operators actually connect through movement and intentional conversation, not small talk. TAYWay leads the fitness piece while Velle curates real introductions for people who take their wellness as seriously as their work.

Workshop / hands-on

Hands-on SF Tech Week workshop where you'll build a working AI team around your actual workflow in a single day. Turnstone and Corgi provide the tools and guidance; you bring the problem you want solved.

Mixer / networking

Exited AI founders and qualified purchaser allocators swap notes on a coastal walk, discussing high-growth verticals and portfolio allocation strategies off-the-record. A curated 20-person session designed for peer-level deal sourcing and candid market insight.

Mixer / networking

PlantWave translates real-time plant electrical activity into ambient soundscapes at 1 Hotel during Tech Week. A rare chance to step away from screens and hear nature compose music through artist Joe Patitucci's bioelectronic setup.

Mixer / networking

A low-key stroll through Golden Gate Park where founders can ask startup and VC lawyers their actual questions without the pitch-deck formality. Wrap up with coffee and donuts at The Coffee Movement.

Talks & panels

A live moot court staging an AI agent failure lawsuit to expose real liability questions between founders, insurers, and lawyers. Watch both sides argue negligence, contracts, and insurance coverage before the audience delivers a verdict on who actually pays.

Mixer / networking

A Berlin DJ and espresso after five days of back-to-back pitches and panels during SF Tech Week. Perfect decompression before the weekend hits.

Hackathon

Creators sprint to transform trending topics into viral-ready videos in real time. It's less about polished production and more about capturing what actually resonates on social right now.

Workshop / hands-on · Talks & panels

LLMs are moving from text generation to real decisions, which means confident mistakes now cost real money. This Stanford buildathon tackles the missing piece: systems that verify claims, surface uncertainty, and decide when outputs actually deserve to drive action.

Mixer / networking

High-end cars and wine for founders and investors who are done with rooftop bars. No panels, no performance, just walk around, drink something good, and talk to people actually building things.

Workshop / hands-on · Mixer / networking

Watch real tools and workflows ship actual products in real time while you build your own idea alongside experienced makers. A collaborative space designed for people already in motion to get sharper and ship faster.

Workshop / hands-on

Build a working AI Chief of Staff inside Claude that holds your priorities, surfaces what needs attention, and drafts in your voice, then test it on your actual workload before leaving. Arjita Sethi walks you through the overhead problem most operators face and the standing context setup that fixes it.

Talks & panels · Workshop / hands-on

A panel and workshop on embedding AI agents into how your team actually operates, hosted by founders who scaled real companies with them. Bring an idea, leave with a working agent and clarity on what AI should own versus what stays human.

Hackathon

A 24-hour hackathon betting on the next computing breakthrough through novel interfaces. Bring your hardware chops and crazy ideas to define how we interact with machines and each other.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

Researchers and founders exploring flexible biosensors and on-device AI for physiological data, with speakers from stealth startups and Microsoft on wearable form factors and signal processing. Second year of Catalyst Bay's wearables session during SF Tech Week, mixing talks with open networking.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

Jaya Gupta from Foundation Capital breaks down how investors move from pitch to conviction, alongside Bhargavi Varma who's backed twelve South Asian female-led startups. Useful whether you're considering angel investing, raising capital, or just curious about how the check actually happens.

Talks & panels

NGEN brings top student founders from Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech, and the Ivy League for SF Tech Week's only dedicated student founder event, with over $200K in funding on the line. Pitch for $10K with Blue & Gold Ventures, get fast-tracked to a $150K national competition, and meet Boost VC about their $50K fellowship.

Mixer / networking

The productivity gains from AI agents hit a wall when organizational context lives in a few heads and approval processes become the new bottleneck. This closed breakfast brings engineering leaders shipping at scale to talk through the structural problems tooling alone can't solve.

Workshop / hands-on

**Personal Assistant Robot Building** Build a functional personal assistant robot from scratch in this hands-on workshop. You'll work with motors, sensors, and voice recognition APIs to create a bot that can handle real tasks—from fetching items to responding to commands. Walk away with working hardware and the skills to iterate on your own.

Mixer / networking

Unstructured time with the people actually building frontier models, scaling compute, and shipping AI infrastructure across the Bay. If you're thinking seriously about the stack below the applications, this crowd is worth knowing.

Hackathon

One day to turn datasets into something genuinely novel, with workspace and caffeine provided. Teams build, iterate, and present for prizes rewarding both technical sharpness and creative originality.

Mixer / networking

Fresh oysters from Tomales Bay roasted over mesquite at Baker Beach while the Blue Angels fly overhead during Fleet Week. A 40-year SF tradition that started the year after Burning Man, now packed with good food, good people, and the kind of scene-grounded community you actually want to be part of.

Workshop / hands-on

Can AI shopping agents actually discover your products, or does your catalog get lost in the noise? Mervia AI's hosting a Saturday co-build where small teams compete to make a Shopify store visible to AI agents, with founders building alongside you the whole afternoon.

Mixer / networking

Waybox is washing cars free while their CEO learns what actually happens during your commute, no pitch, just questions about your driving habits. You get a Founding Driver spot on the Miles waitlist and a genuinely clean car.

Demo night · Talks & panels

Ten physical AI startups demonstrate working robots and autonomous systems, followed by investor perspectives on defensibility and capital in the space. This is the venue to see what's actually shipping across robotics, world models, and embodied agents.

Mixer / networking

Investors and creators exploring how AI is reshaping media production economics and enabling studios to build global franchises. A look at financing and scaling the next generation of entertainment IP in a transformed industry.

Hackathon

Build an AI agent that solves a real financial problem, from forgotten subscriptions to stretched paychecks, using synthetic data. You'll ship by 6pm with judges evaluating whether it actually changes behavior, not completion.

Mixer / networking

Agents passing the bar exam but failing on dropdowns reveal the frontier of computer-use research. This intimate salon brings together researchers from frontier labs, startups, and universities to trade notes on world models, software redesign, and what actually works.

Demo night · Talks & panels

Ten curated physical AI startups demo working products in robotics, world models, and embodied agents, followed by a VC panel on capital, defensibility, and category evolution. High-signal networking connects founders and Silicon Valley investors exploring how intelligence moves off-screen into the real world.

Mixer / networking

A 127-acre retreat in the hills with no cell reception, just founders, BBQ, and actual conversation. Perfect decompression after a week of panels and pitches.

Talks & panels · Demo night

Meshy and Chrona are launching persistent multiplayer 3D worlds you can build together using AI, with live demos and talks from Meta and Roblox on what comes after video. Step into a world built for the event, compete for cash prizes, and grab ten grand in model credits.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

Real talk on the infrastructure needed for agents to work across company boundaries without locking everything behind walled gardens. A panel tackles the technical and business fundamentals of actually making an open agentic web work.

Mixer / networking

A casual court session for tech founders, developers, and investors to network while playing basketball. Coffee and hangout afterward if you want to keep the conversation going.

Mixer / networking

A book swap activation that gets readers in a room to trade physical copies and ideas face-to-face. Bring whatever you're done reading, leave with something new, and connect with people who actually read.

Mixer / networking

Astia's watching the Blue Angels from Russian Hill with founders they think have real potential. Food, drinks, and networking with a VC that actually funds inclusive teams across any sector.

Workshop / hands-on · Mixer / networking

Five Claude ambassadors walk you through five builds in 25 minutes each, so you leave Saturday afternoon with working code, CAD files, and design work instead of just notes. Research teams, 3D-printable parts, visual design, and two more builds you'll actually ship.

Mixer / networking

Mixer / networking · Workshop / hands-on

A hands-on mixer where physical AI founders and investors build with popsicle sticks to cap off SF Tech Week. Low stakes, high signal for meeting people actually shipping robotics and hardware projects.

Mixer / networking

A casual stroll through Golden Gate Park with TinyFish and the broader SF AI builder community, wrapping up this year's SFTW. Low-key way to meet founders, engineers, and operators actually shipping things in the city.

Workshop / hands-on

A rare chance to sit with what actually matters as AI reshapes work and life, facilitated by a leadership coach who specializes in the human side of change. Small group, in person, no easy answers required.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

Designers from Meta and Vizcom break down how AI is reshaping workflows across digital and physical products, from early exploration through implementation. If you're building products, this is worth understanding how the design side is actually shifting.

Talks & panels

Stanford's bringing together researchers and founders building remote care tech, from wearables to robotics, to discuss what actually works today for helping families support aging parents from a distance. Two panels dig into sensing wellbeing and independent living systems, with concrete talk about where the hardest problems still sit.

Talks & panels

Sabrina Ellis, former Pinterest CPO and 12-year Google veteran who led Android and Pixel's camera AI, talks product strategy at scale with Spotify's Priscilla Chan. Lunar Accel's closing keynote brings the Asian American tech community together for insights from someone who's shaped billions of users' experiences.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

South Asian founders and investors trade honest takes on fundraising, traction, and long-term alignment during SF Tech Week. Real talk from both sides of the table, plus meaningful networking with people who get the journey.

Talks & panels

Beauty discovery is shifting from generic ratings to personalized intelligence that understands individual needs and what actually works for different people. A conversation with beauty and tech leaders on building more inclusive recommendation systems.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

A curated afternoon bringing together 100+ founders, investors, and developers during SF Tech Week with Steve Hoffman sharing perspectives on AI and building global companies. GCSx SF positions itself as the intimate networking format for practical business connections across innovation hubs.

Mixer / networking

A low-key Saturday afternoon for tech parents and founders to decompress at Dolores Park without the networking pitch. Grab a picnic blanket, find the green balloons by 18th Street, and talk shop with people actually managing both kids and startups.

Mixer / networking

Plants generate real-time music through their electrical activity in this immersive listening experience at 1 Hotel San Francisco. Step away from Tech Week noise and hear nature compose ever-evolving soundscapes from the waterfront.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

This goes beyond the usual AI cheerleading to tackle what actually matters: trust, culture, and who bears the real costs of adoption. A panel on ethics and governance with drinks after, for people tired of hype and serious about building responsibly.

Workshop / hands-on · Talks & panels

The forward deployed engineer role is suddenly everywhere, and this event cuts through the hype with a panel of people actually doing it plus a two-hour sprint where you scope a real problem and demo a working prototype. Leave knowing whether this job fits you and how AI companies actually ship.

Mixer / networking

A gathering for Albanian tech folks across the Bay Area to connect, share experiences, and build professional relationships. Whether you're founding, building, or investing, this is where the community meets.

Mixer / networking

Tunji Adeniyi-Jones has already landed work in The Met and represented Nigeria at Venice at 33, before most artists peak. This intimate salon in a collector's living room offers direct access to see his West African modernism before the market catches up.

Mixer / networking

Modern women are redefining elegance through digital design and smart innovation at this fashion-tech evening. Styling, beauty tips, networking, and music in a relaxed environment where you set the pace.

Demo night · Mixer / networking

Interf is launching with demos on context-first systems and knowledge graphs for agents, plus the kind of conversations that happen when builders actually care about getting context right. Decent food and possible StarCraft afterwards if you're into that.

Mixer / networking · Demo night

iViz launches with live data visualization on the walls while you dance to Bollywood beats, bringing together biotech founders, computational biologists, and design folks who actually care about what data looks like. This is what a proper tech mixer looks like when you skip the small talk and render your dataset instead.

Mixer / networking

Maritime (YC F26) is launching at Corgi Cafe with free merch, agent-themed drinks, sushi, and actual corgis. It's a rare chance to see what a cohort of fast-moving AI builders are shipping and meet people serious about the agentic future.

Mixer / networking

Practice pitching in real conversation with a research-backed guide on presence and vocal authority. Walk away with actionable tools you'll actually use when it matters.

Mixer / networking

Raisable is wrapping Tech Week with an invite-only evening for founders, investors, and researchers who actually want to talk instead of pitch. One conversation and a fireside with a special guest, then real time to connect.

Mixer / networking

A low-key closer to SF Tech Week with board games, pizza, and people who actually build AI stuff. Settlers of Catan and Codenames beat another panel any day.

Demo night · Mixer / networking

Ten robots from SF startups compete live while you vote on the winner and grab cash prizes. It's part demo, part controlled chaos, with dinner and dancing afterward at Frontier Tower.

Workshop / hands-on · Mixer / networking

Eatopia translates wearable data and health goals into personalized seven-day meal protocols you can actually follow. This hands-on dinner lab explores why more health information doesn't automatically lead to better decisions without professional dietitian guidance.

Demo night · Mixer / networking

Canyon's wrapping up Tech Week with their team and brand ambassadors at The Motoring Club, serving drinks and music alongside hands-on demos of their micro-radar and optical sensors. Last chance to test their real-time hazard detection system before the night winds down.

Talks & panels

Long-running agents need humans to approve irreversible actions, but most durable execution engines ignore this entirely. This talk covers building approval gates, live workflow visibility, and decision trails on top of Temporal with a demo of what actually broke.

Mixer / networking

Curated experiences mixing emerging tech, Web3, and art across a global circuit that's drawn over 40,000 attendees. Private event with limited capacity, so RSVP early if you want in.

Demo night · Mixer / networking

Watch an AI agent work through actual engineering backlog items in real time while you grab drinks with founders and builders. You can bring a ticket from your repo and leave with a PR, or just hang and see what autopilot for software engineering actually looks like.

Talks & panels

For hardware teams stuck between outdated desktop tools and overpriced vendor lock-in, this explores building schematic tooling on an open-source foundation your team actually controls. A live demo shows the realistic scope: where custom tooling wins, where you hand off cleanly, and how AI fits into engineer-driven design.

Mixer / networking

Most great connections happen by accident, but this party is testing what deliberate design can do. Context-driven matchmaking instead of forced small talk, with founders and builders actually finding their people.

Mixer / networking

A salon questioning what parts of human work and creativity should stay off-limits to AI, bringing together builders and thinkers across tech, education, and design. Intimate conversation over wine beats panels when the stakes feel this real.

Talks & panels · Mixer / networking

Real estate investors and AI builders exploring how predictive analytics and automated underwriting are reshaping valuations and deal flow. Panel includes founders and a Meta data scientist sharing concrete patterns they're using in production systems.

Mixer / networking

A black tie cocktail event during SF Tech Week for making connections across the local tech scene. Good if you want to network in a more formal setting alongside founders, investors, and builders.

Mixer / networking

Serial founders swapping playbooks on what actually changes the second time around, especially in today's AI-first market. Off-the-record roundtable with exited founders, investors, and operators digging into unlearning old habits, validating 0-to-1 ideas fast, and structuring smarter capital.