SF Tech Week Events
Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026 — San Francisco, USA
SF Tech Week Events runs Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026 in San Francisco, USA. 500 side events on the schedule.
Side events
- WNBA Semifinals: Golden State Valkyries vs. TBD - Home Game 2 (Date: TBD - If Necessary)
Find tickets & information for WNBA Semifinals: Golden State Valkyries vs. TBD - Home Game 2 (Date: TBD - If Necessary). happening at Chase Center, San Francisco, CA on Sun, 04 Oct, 2026 at 03:30 am PDT. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information.
- Crosstown Trail: Forest Hill to Lands End
Begin your Walktober with Crosstown Trail founder Bob Siegel, as we walk the second half of the original Crosstown Trail. From Forest Hill, we'll walk about 9 miles through the stairway mosaics of Golden Gate Heights, Golden Gate Park’s Blue Heron Lake and Rose Garden, and along Mountain Lake…
- Genuinely not for everyone. Unless you're really into health. #SFTechWeek
Probably not for you. Not if you want to rush through another room. Not if you have zero interest in how you actually feel and perform. Not if you'd rather collect cards than actually know someone. Not if meeting the people shaping where health goes next sounds like work. Still reading? Good.…
- Pear VC x Harker Office Hours (PearX and Pear Prime)
Pear VC × Harker: Office Hours with Pear Partners 10/4/26 Building a startup? Interested in joining one as a founding engineer? Come meet the Pear team at our office in SF or over zoom if you're not local. Pear has deep roots in the Harker community. Three of our partners are Harker alumni: Ajay…
- Founder Wellness Morning
Join us for an intimate founders wellness session for founders and creators based in San Francisco, brought to you by FOUNDER.ORG and 529 Labs. We’re bringing together 30 founders and creators for a sound meditation experience. We know that as founders and creators ourselves, building can be…
- Cafecito and Crafts Club (SF)
Cafecito & Crafts Club | San Francisco Creative Event | October 4, 2026 Your new favorite creative café experience has entered the chat. Join That Art Party for a 3-hour open-studio hangout featuring specialty coffee, freshly filipino-inspired pastries, mixed media supplies, and a live DJ — all…
- Coworking [SF]
no sunday scaries here. come sip coffee and get some work done (optional). for members of the collective.
- 30th Annual Middle Eastern Food Festival - Sunday
Get ready for a delicious celebration of Middle Eastern food, culture, and community!
- Community Screen-printing Open Shop
Drop into YAX’s Community Screen-Print Open Shop—print your own designs, connect with community, and create together.
- ✨🪽💜VALKYRIES VS ACES SUNDAY 10/4🏀
✨🪽💜VALKYRIES VS ACES SUNDAY 10/4🏀 Join us to watch the @valkyries take on the Aces in game 1 of the semifinals! ✨🪽💜 Doors open at 11am so get here early to see Liberty vs Dream! 🔥 RSVPs do not guarantee entry. Entry will be on a first-come, first-serve basis and is open to all so please plan…
- Welcome to SF TECH WEEK dinner
Warm welcome to the kick-off of the Nordic AI Frontiers Delegation, hosted by Swenode.ai and Nebius! 🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇮🇸 We’re excited to have you all with us! During the kick-off, we’ll walk through the agenda for the week, set the stage for what’s ahead, and of course enjoy great conversations…
- silver working sunday 🪙 2
a Sunday gathering for designers and creatives. come read, journal, and doodle. we're opening up a communal space to slow down and do something creative just for yourself, with coffee, tea, and mostly classical and jazz playing in the background. time: drop in anytime between 5 and 8pm. stay for…
- SF Tech Mix & Mingle
Meet here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/J45u2B1cEiD1q7nN6?g_st=ic ………………. Mix & mingle with other smart ppl in tech No agenda. Just great conversations. ……….. Connect with Chris: LinkedIn.com/in/ChristopherCarew … Stay in the loop with tech in your city: The-Tech-Scene.com … Founder? Join…
- Castro Street Fair After Party Ft Octo Octa, Beya, Mark O'Brien
- LPL Writing Meet-Up
Bring your current project or half-finished draft to an evening of focused writing at The Love Potion Library in San Francisco. We’ll kick things off with quick introductions and a chance to share what you’re working on, then settle into a stretch of silent writing so you can finally make progress…
- Pre-event dinner: LATAM Founders | 5th Cohort Silicon Valley Delegations
Kick off the LATAM Founders Delegation to Silicon Valley with a relaxed pre-event dinner in SF. It’s a great chance to settle in, meet fellow founders, investors and guests, and start the week with good food, easy conversation, and plenty of energy for what’s ahead. Hosted by José & Carlos, this…
- Bilmuri @ The Masonic
- I Like China and China Likes Me
For this performance, the artist and a Unitree Go2 Quadruped are enclosed together inside of a dog crate for an extended period of time. ⭑.ᐟ About the artist Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is an American artist whose artistic practice is rooted in the belief that technology can only be comprehensively…
- Dizney Gay - A Parody Drag Show at Cobbs Comedy Club
Find tickets & information for Dizney Gay - A Parody Drag Show at Cobbs Comedy Club. happening at Cobbs Comedy Club, San Francisco, CA on Sun, 04 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm PDT. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information.
- Lang Lang @ Davies Symphony Hall
- Funded Female Founders VII - #SFTechWeek
Where Venture-Backable Founders Meet Capital Join us again for Funded Female Founders VII at SF Tech Week! Funded Female Founders is one of the largest curated deal flow rooms for venture-scalable women founders. After five successful Silicon Valley events with 1,500+ attendees, we took the room…
- YC Founders Mixer — SF Tech Week 2026
Join YC founders from across batches for drinks, light bites, and founder-to-founder conversation during SF a16z Tech Week 2026. Following the strong response to our recent YC founder gatherings, we’re bringing the community together again for a relaxed evening designed around useful conversations…
- Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Prima Labs #SFTechWeek
A hackathon where everyone ships a post-trained model. Turn yourself into a lab for a night: bring a laptop and the agent that is not good enough, and go home with a sandbox to run it in, a model trained on your own traces, and somewhere to serve it that is not someone else's API. Short talks…
- Funded Female Founders VII
Featured in TechCrunch and Inc. Magazine, join us for Funded Female Founders VII, hosted by Superconnected & Startup Grind, overlooking the
- Meet All3 Mantis: Live Demo in San Francisco
On 5 October in San Francisco, we're showcasing the next generation All3 Mantis, our autonomous heavy-duty quadruped construction robot, to the Bay Area robotics and physical AI community for the first time. It's a small gathering of engineers, investors, and a few journalists. At the demo, the…
- CFO from the Future Roundtable - #SFTechWeek
Picture your CFO self three years from now pulling up a chair next to you at dinner. What would they tell you about how AI actually changed the finance function? We're getting 14 CFOs in B2B SaaS together to find out - a private dinner on how AI-native tools are reshaping finance right now, and…
- AI-POWERED NETWORKING
Networking, but more intentional. At this event, we’re using an AI-powered matchmaking tool to help you connect with people you’re likely to have especially relevant or interesting conversations with. Before the event, you can either call the AI or fill out a short online form. You’ll answer a few…
- Selling to Agents: Cloudflare x Stripe x Runtype - #SFTechWeek
Your next user may arrive through a coding agent, not your homepage. Can that agent understand what your product does, try it, and get to a useful result? And where should a person approve access, accept terms, or authorize spend? Join Cloudflare, Stripe, and Runtype at Cloudflare's San Francisco…
- Clay in San Francisco: Breaking the Mold 💥
✨ Purpose Just a few days before Clay's Sculpt Conference, we're gathering a special group for one goal: everybody leaves with an aha moment. Clay's community team will share the history of the Clay Community & where it's going next. Our Amsterdam Clay Club Hosts have flown in to share their…
- Founder Friends San Francisco
Let's hang! Join the San Francisco founder community to connect with other founders and hear stories from a founder who went through the wringer and came out the other side. The Schedule: 6-7pm: Get here, eat pizza, make friends 7-7:30pm: Fireside chat 7:30-8pm: Q&A 8-8:30pm: Finish pizza, make…
- Silicon Xchange × Asana: Africa–Silicon Valley + OpenAI @ SF Tech Week
Capital, talent and ideas cross borders through people. Join founders, investors and operators for candid stories about building, backing and expanding companies between Africa and Silicon Valley. ARRIVE EARLY · TURKISH AIRLINES RAFFLE Enter in person from 5:00–5:19 PM only. Turkish Airlines will…
- Tech Week: Funded Female Founders Happy Hour
hi!! during SF Tech Week, Founders on Tap and Every are hosting a small, private happy hour for women founders who have raised capital, and if you're reading this, we'd love to have you there 🥂 it’ll be at SHACK15 with stunning views, light bites, drinks, and a group of female founders who really…
- SF Tech Week AI Demo Night
Skip the slide decks. Just show us what you built. Join ClickHouse, Artie, LlamaIndex, Langfuse, and LibreChat, for an evening of live AI demos from developers and founders actually shipping. No theory. No pitch competitions. Just "here's what I built — watch it work." Anyone is welcome, you dont…
- Nordic AI Frontiers Reception
Nordic AI Frontiers Reception Build in Europe. Scale Global from Day One. Join us during SF Tech Week for an invite-only evening bringing together some of the most ambitious Nordic AI founders, Silicon Valley investors, and global AI leaders. The Panel: Howard Wright , VP Ecosystems, NVIDIA…
- Compute Trading Happy Hour
An exclusive evening for those trading and building compute. We’ll be at Chotto Matte in Union Square on Tuesday, October 6, during SF Tech Week to talk about the future of compute trading and hedging. It’s invite-only, so every RSVP is approved by hand. Request an invite early. Hosted by Silicon…
- Reliability and Security in AI Native products
How do leaders build AI products that people can truly trust? As AI shifts from prototype to production, the conversation has moved beyond raw capability to operational reliability, data privacy, and enterprise security. AI-native products introduce unique vulnerabilities—from non-deterministic…
- Shipping Agents you can Trust
Agents are moving into real production workflows - they handle sensitive data, execute long horizon tasks and act autonomously. We're bringing together agent builders and practitioners from across security and trust and safety to exchange thoughts on building, shipping and securing agents in real…
- Ship an AI Voice Agent w/ Modulate, Tavily & Plivo
A crash course, then a build sprint: bring your own voice agent stack, layer real-time guardrails on top - fraud, hallucinations, compliance - and your agent answers a live phone call in front of judges. API credits at the door, and mentors from voice teams build next to you the whole session. For…
- Ready for Anything: IPOs, SPACs and Capital Market Shifts
The path to liquidity has rarely been harder to predict. IPO windows can open and close within weeks. The SPAC market continues to evolve. Private equity timelines shift unexpectedly. At the same time, growth companies are under increasing pressure to be prepared for multiple strategic outcomes.…
- SF Tech Week: Building Your Discord Server Through Every Stage of Game Development
SF Game Development is excited to be hosting an event during SF Tech Week with a hands-on session from Discord on building community around your game. Join us in person at DNA Lounge on Tuesday, October 6th from 5:30pm–9:00pm. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn from an industry expert…
- 🌐 The Future of “New” Luxury: From Remake to a Circular Textiles Economy
Why consumer demand, AI, regulation and new business models are creating the next opportunity in fashion What if the next era of luxury isn't defined by making more but by creating more value from what already exists? Join Shamini Dhana, Founder & CEO of Dhana Inc. and creator of D/Sphere, and…
- Compute Markets Mahjong
- Hardware hackathon: turn a vintage toy into a voice agent
[Invite-Only] Build a voice agent, put it inside a vintage toy, and then take it home with you 👀 Voice agents can do a lot: take notes, fact-check, keep kids entertained, or keep someone company. In this hands-on workshop, you'll build a fully interactive voice agent with AssemblyAI's Voice Agent…
- AI Demo Night: Startup Grind, AI Collective & Alumni Ventures
Startup Grind Silicon Valley is continuing our a new monthly AI Demo Series—a high-energy showcase for the next generation of AI founders. Strictly not a pitch event. Demo only. This is scrappy. Things break. The energy is electric. But you get to show what you're actually building. Judges: Bryan…
- Why Portugal?
Why Portugal? with Patreon, Iberis Capital, Gama Gloria, Unicorn Factory & The Consulate General of Portugal Building, Hiring & Scaling in Europe Wednesday, October 7, 2026 | 5:00–7:30 PM Cooley LLP | 3 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco SF Tech Week 2026 Building, Hiring & Scaling in Europe How…
- Human Connections via AI — The Good, The Bad & The Robotic
Human Connections via AI — The Good, The Bad & The Robotic 4:45 to 5:00pm Doors open / Check-in 5:00 to 5:30pm Snacks 5:30 to 6:15pm Panel 6:15 to 7:00pm Pizza & Networking AI is involved in how we build relationships, but what happens when technology starts mediating something fundamentally…
- Speed-dating * Let Fo do the first move
Speed-friending, minus the small talk. Fo does that part. You will receive an email to sign up to Fo (with a code), link your email and phone number. Then, day or two before the party, Fo (the AI assistant we're building at Wajo) reads what's public about everyone coming, picks the three or four…
- Lightfield: The Startup Odyssey — In conversation with Keith Peiris
Keith and Henri previously built Tome, an AI presentation tool that grew to 25M users in less than a year, then did the hardest thing founders can do: pivoted, shrank the company to seven people, and rebuilt the company as Lightfield. Join us for a conversation with Keith Peiris, CEO and…
- The Model Decision: Optimizing Cost, Control, & Speed
Featured Guest Speakers: Ollama - Jeffrey Morgan, CEO and Co-founder Trajectory - Michael Elabd, Co-founder Crusoe - Erwan Menard, SVP of Product Management Every team building on AI faces the same decision: call a closed frontier model, run and customize on open models, or train something…
- 🌉 Founder & Investor Rooftop Mixer | SF Tech Week
An evening of real conversations, not panels. Join founders and investors for drinks, amazing firepit, and casual networking on one of SF's best rooftops. "15+ investors already registered on official SF Tech week calendar - limited founder spots" 🔥 Firepit + Bay skyline views 🥂 Drinks & light…