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EVENT SPOTLIGHT
 
 
WEEK OF NOV 02
Saturday, Nov 07

Nov 07
8:00am
 Free
Popular Event
 
Makermods Physical AI Hackathon 
Founders SF Lab, 2 Marina Blvd, B300, San Francisco

With MakerMods & Dream Labs.

Nov 07
10:00am
 Free
 
TechWalk 
Golden Gate Park, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 07
10:00am
 Free
Popular Event
 
Ship Happens - A Seldon Hackathon 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 07
11:00am
 Free
Gary Event
 
Founders Paintball 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Shor, Corgi, Rho.

Nov 07
11:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
AI Research Hackathon 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
Sunday, Nov 08

Nov 08
4:00pm
 Free
 
Rally: Visa Pathways & Pickleball For Immigrant Founders (SeedSeries A+) 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
WEEK OF NOV 09
Monday, Nov 09

Nov 09
4:00pm
 Free
 
Antler & Friends Tennis Session 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 09
4:45pm
 Free
 
5K Run with Apify 
Fort Point National Historic Site, 201 Marine Dr, San Francisco

Nov 09
5:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
AI Builders Night 
AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, First Market Tower, San Francisco

With Elliot Marx (Founder, Chalk), William Manning (Principal Solns Architect, Docker).

Nov 09
5:00pm
 Free
 
Side Quest Hotline Vapi Hackathon 
Venue, 150 Spear St, San Francisco

Nov 09
5:30pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
AI Dev Showcase Night 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Prathmesh Patel (CEO, MCPJam), Chris Miller (S/w Enggr, Workato).

Nov 09
6:30pm
 Free
 
AI Founders Execs Michelin Dinner 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 09
6:30pm
 $10 
Music Hardware Is A Fashion Accessory - Design Workshop 
Tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco
 
Tuesday, Nov 10

Nov 10
8:00am
 Sponsored Event 
After Tokens 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Dor Sasson (CEO, Stigg), Jonah Cohen (Tech Lead Financial Engg, OpenAl), Stefanie Tignor (Head of Data, Clay), Vidhi Agrawal (Dir., Databricks), Matan-Paul Shetrit (SVP, Writer), Erick Bett (Engg, Webflow), Christopher Bonadonna (S/w Enggr, Mixpanel).

Nov 10
9:00am
 $499Popular Event 
VantaCon 
Convene 100 Stockton, 40 O'Farrell St, San Francisco

With Christina Cacioppo (CEO, Vanta), David Kwong (Mentalist & Netflix Host), Jack Levy (CISO, Amplitude), Eric Freeman (CISO, Writer), Stephan Germain (AI Security Enggr, Aledade), Dongting Yu (Security Enggr, Clay).

Nov 10
2:30pm
 Free
 
Culture Slop Live 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With founders Andrew McClintock (Culture Slop), Tyler Mincey (Baukunst), Eugenia Kuyda (Wabi), Dylan Abruscato (TBPN).

Nov 10
4:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Korea Startup Center (KSC) Founders Pitch Day 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 10
4:30pm
 Free
Gary Event
 
Design Chat w/ Meta 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Alex Cornell (Design Dir., Meta Superintelligence Labs MSL).

Nov 10
4:30pm
 Free
 
[SV] AWS AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Caylent, Temporal, LaunchPad 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 10
5:00pm
 Free
 
Foundry Live Demo Night 
GitHub, 88 Colin P Kelly St, San Francisco

Nov 10
6:00pm
 Free
 
Agents Need Solid Ground: An Archil Hackathon 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
Wednesday, Nov 11

Nov 11
8:00am
 $1250Popular Event 
VapiCon 2026 
Festival Pavilion, 2 Marina Blvd, #260, San Francisco

With Scott Stephenson (CEO, Deepgram), Justin Uberti (Head of Realtime AI, Open AI), Jordan Dearsley (Founder/CEO, Vapi), Anna Oh (Head of Product, Norbert Health), Martin Siniawski (Founder, Rest), Brandon Yang (Founder, Cartesia AI).

Nov 11
9:30am
 Free
Popular Event
 
Stripe Startups Build Day 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 11
9:30am
 Free
 
Open Source AI Breakfast 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With 1Password, Founders Bay, You.com.

Nov 11
4:00pm
 Free
Gary Event
 
Open Models, Security & AI Defensibility 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Google DeepMind & Antler.

Nov 11
4:30pm
 Free
Gary Event
 
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders w/ Acrew Capital 
Stanford, 475 Via Ortega, Nvidia Auditorium, Stanford

With Lauren Kolodny (Founder, Acrew Capital).

Nov 11
5:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Annual Veterans Day Get-Together 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With VetraFi, Context Ventures, The Military Veteran.

Nov 11
5:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Notion Presents - The Software Factory Debate 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Ben Levine (CPO, Candidly).

Nov 11
5:00pm
 Free
 
BioPioneers Cycore: AI & Biotech Happy Hour 
Madarae, 46 Minna St, San Francisco

Nov 11
6:00pm
 Free
 
Founders After Hours: Mahjong Night (SeedSeries A+) | AI Valley Antom 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 11
6:30pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Your Move - What Ukrainian Drone Operators Taught NATO 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 11
6:30pm
 Free
 
Pitch & Run 
Venue, Willie Mays Gate, San Francisco
 
Thursday, Nov 12

Nov 12
7:00am
 Gary Event 
Cerebral Valley AI Summit 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Dario Amodei (Co-Founder/CEO, Anthropic), Ali Ghodsi (Founder/CEO, Databricks), Nikesh Arora (CEO, Palo Alto Networks).

Nov 12
9:00am
 $649Gary Event 
SGLang Summit 
Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco

With Lip-Bu Tan (CEO, Intel), Soumith Chintala (CTO, Thinking Machines), Aravind Srinivas (Co-Founder/CEO, Perplexity), Bill Jia (VP Engg, Google), Luis Ceze (VP AI, Nvidia), Colin Brace (VP, Annapurna Labs at AWS), Lilian Weng (OpenAI).

Nov 12
2:00pm
 Free
 
Embed Demo Day 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
2:00pm
 $40Popular Event 
Physical AI Conference 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Yun-cheol Koo (ex-Deputy Prime Minister, S Korea), Yelin Kim (ML Lead, Amazon Last Mile), Kevin Kim (Odyssey Ventures), Prajwal Deshkar (Plug & Play), Soy Choi (CEO, Dentronic), Jung Hee Cheon (CEO, CryptoLab).

Nov 12
2:00pm
 Free
Gary Event
 
Fireside Chat w/ CloudFlare 
Founders Campus, 2 Marina Blvd, C300, San Francisco

With Michelle Zatlyn (Co-Founder/COO, CloudFlare).

Nov 12
3:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Fireside Chat w/ Wispr Flow 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Tanay Kothari (Founder/CEO, Wispr).

Nov 12
3:00pm
 $65 
Catalyst 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
4:30pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
How To Build Better Products w/ AI Evals 
Intuit, 2600 Casey Ave, Bldg 9, Mountain View

With Hamel Husain (AI Enggr, Parlance Labs), Shreya Shankar (Author, Evals For AI Enggrs).

Nov 12
4:30pm
 Free
 
[SF] AWS Partner Showcase Extended with Anthropic, Grafana, Supabase, Miggo 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
5:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Mahjong Party For AI Builders 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
5:00pm
 Free
 
SVC Open Innovation Mixer 
Venue, 100 Middlefield Rd, Menlo Park

Nov 12
5:00pm
 Free
 
Global Strategic Litigation Council Happy Hour 
Venue, 10 Mint Plaza, San Francisco

With Bella Mosselmans (Dir., Global Strategic Litigation Council).

Nov 12
5:15pm
 Free
 
GTM Lab Series 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Michelle Zhang (RevOps Enggr Customer Growth, Von).

Nov 12
5:30pm
 Free
 
Assets & Access 
Rickhouse, 246 Kearny St, San Francisco

Nov 12
5:30pm
 Free
 
AI Meets Private Markets 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
5:30pm
 Free
 
Let's Shape The Future Of AI 
Venue, 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park

With Telle Whitney (Founder, Grace Hopper Celebration), Nidhi Vyas (Google DeepMind), Tatyana Mamut (Founder/CEO, Wayfound), Telle Whitney (Founder, Grace Hopper Celebration), Sireesha Pulipati (Staff Data Engineer, Recommendations, Shopify).

Nov 12
6:00pm
 Free
 
Antler SF After Dark V2 
Antler, 144 Townsend St, San Francisco

Nov 12
6:00pm
 Free
 
Stacked - Dinner On Agentic Data Stack 
Venue, To Be Announced

With Kyle Rozanitis (Soln Architect, ClickHouse).

Nov 12
6:00pm
 Free
 
The Build Boutique: Base44 x AI Valley Women's Build Night 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
6:30pm
 Free
 
Build Night - Build Hardware w/ Flux 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
6:30pm
 Free
 
YC F26 Foot Massage 
Dogpatch, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 12
7:00pm
 Free
 
VapiCon 2026 After Party 
Thriller Social Club, 508 4th St, San Francisco
 
Friday, Nov 13

Nov 13
9:00am
 Free
 
Multi-Modal AI For Education Hackathon 
Venue, To Be Announced, Menlo Park

Nov 13
3:00pm
  
Founders Inc Investor Showcase 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
Saturday, Nov 14

Nov 14
9:00am
 Free
Popular Event
 
DNAForge MTC - AI Biology Hackathon 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 14
9:30am
 Free
 
Drexathon: Nace AI's Decision Model Hackathon (win Mac Mini!!) 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 14
10:00am
 Free
 
Berkeley x DeepMind Hackathon: Build. Ship. Pitch. Win. 
Venue, Cheit Lane, Berkeley

With Amit Vadi (Head of Community, Google DeepMind), Joana Carrasqueira (Senior Manager, Google DeepMind), Naman Goyal (Researcher, Google DeepMind), Nancy Wang (Partner, Felicis), Anne Dwane (Founder & Partner, Village Global), Vig Sachidananda (Partner, Gradient Ventures), Andy Tang (Founding Partner, Draper Dragon), Shahram Seyedin-Noor (Founder & Managing Partner, Civilization Ventures), Celestine Schnugg (General Partner, Boom Capital), Derick En'Wezoh (Partner, Susa Ventures), Iris Sun (Partner, 500 Global).

Nov 14
12:00pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Biohackathon Haus F26 
Frontier Tower @ Spaceship, 995 Market St, San Francisco

Nov 14
12:30pm
 $128Gary Event 
Decode Conference 
Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Goldman Theatre, Berkeley

With Vaibhav Aggarwal (Head of Growth Engg, OpenAI), Mayank Mehta (Founder/CEO, Gather), Guy Marion (CMO, Chargebee), Yuriy Timen (Head of Growth, Superhuman), Jeetu Patel (CPO, Cisco), Shuo Chen (IO VC), Anu Bharadwaj (ICONIQ), Ty Sbano (CISO, Webflow).
 
Sunday, Nov 15

Nov 15
10:00am
 Free
 
The Big Hack Game Stanford vs Berkeley $10K 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
WEEK OF NOV 16
Monday, Nov 16

Nov 16
9:30am
 Free
 
2026 Super Demo Day 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Demos by CloudAEye, Ipsion AI, Swytchcode, CMEM, Constants AI, Guild AI, GitHits, Descope, Langfuse, Mux, Vapi, Boson AI, CData.

Nov 16
6:00pm
 Free
 
Women In GTM - Transitioning Into An AI-native company 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Melanie Goelz (Head of Sales, Reducto), Desanka Aleksov (Head of Solutions Engineering, Reducto).
 
Tuesday, Nov 17

Nov 17
5:00pm
 Free
Gary Event
 
AI Infrastructure Night 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Jayram Palamadai (CEO, BytePort), Sonam Gupta (Dev Advocate, Telnyx), Dustin Healy (Full Stack S/w Enggr, ClickHouse), Aditya Mahamuni (Ambassador, Alien).
 
Wednesday, Nov 18

Nov 18
6:00pm
 Free
 
Bay Area Rust - Social Night 
Convex, Convex, 444 De Haro St #218, San Francisco

Nov 18
6:00pm
 Free
 
TFOT: The Robots & AI Holiday Meetup 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

Nov 18
6:30pm
 Free
 
Pitch & Run 
Venue, Willie Mays Gate, San Francisco
 
Thursday, Nov 19

Nov 19
2:30pm
 Free
Popular Event
 
Deep Tech Pitch Competition & Happy Hour 
Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Rd, Menlo Park

Nov 19
5:00pm
 Free
 
Tech Weekend Happy Hour 
Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Rd, Menlo Park
 
Friday, Nov 20

Nov 20
9:00am
 $99Popular Event 
Startup Day At Tech Weekend - Pitch Competition & Happy Hour 
Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Rd, Menlo Park

With Adam Menges (Founder, Crusoe), Giorgi Gulabyan (Product Serverless Inference, Crusoe).

Nov 20
2:30pm
 $49 
Tech Weekend - AI Startup Pitch Competition & Happy Hour 
Allied Arts Guild, 75 Arbor Rd, Menlo Park

Nov 20
6:00pm
 $40 
Agentic Commerce Summit 
Venue, 760 Market St, San Francisco
 
Wednesday, Dec 02

Dec 02
10:00am
 Free
Sponsored Event
 
SF Coffee Club - Early Stage B2B Tech Founders & Funders 
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco

With Deirdre Clute & Sruthi Sivanandan (Forum Ventures).

Dec 02
4:00pm
 Free
Sponsored Event
 
Founders Worldwide - Incorporate Your Startup, Manage Funds & Fundraise 
Venue, Online, San Francisco

Covering what Stripe Atlas does, incl. forming Delaware company, getting US tax ID, issuing founder equity & filing 83(b) election. Also, focus on managing funds & getting ready to fundraise.

Dec 02
5:00pm
 Gary Event 
Y Combinator Demo Day 
Venue, To Be Announced
 
Thursday, Dec 03

Dec 03
12:30pm
 Free
 
Blueprint II Demo Day  
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
WEEK OF DEC 07
Monday, Dec 07

Dec 07
6:00pm
 $20 
SF Table - Investors Dinner 
Poesia, 4072 18th St, San Francisco
 
Tuesday, Dec 08

Dec 08
6:00pm
 $20 
SF Table - Founders Dinner 
Poesia, 4072 18th St, San Francisco
 
Wednesday, Dec 09

Dec 09
5:00pm
 Free
 
Llama Lounge 28: The AI Startup Event Series @ Adobe SF  
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
Thursday, Dec 10

Dec 10
5:00pm
 Free
 
Deep Tech Breakthrough Summit | $25K Founder Opportunity  
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
Wednesday, Dec 16

Dec 16
7:00am
  
Startup & Tech Mixer 
Toy Soldier, 52 Belden Pl, San Francisco
 
Saturday, Nov 07

Feb 10
8:00am
 Free
 
The Pragmatic Summit 2027  
Venue, To Be Announced, San Francisco
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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