AI 20/20 | WEEKLY EVENT LISTINGS | SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2026
Planning your week in AI? Here are 10 AI events to explore September 14-20, with seven in the Bay Area and three online.
Explore this week's picks, with venues and registration links below. Prices, capacity and access are as each organizer lists them. Check the event page before you go.
San Francisco Bay Area
1. MCP Community Connect
When: September 14, 2026 | 2 to 8:30 p.m. PDT
GitHub HQ, 88 Colin P. Kelly Junior Street, San Francisco
Hands-on sessions and talks on building with the Model Context Protocol, including client integration, plus community showcases of real implementations. Hosted by Global AI San Francisco. Price not listed on the event page.
2. All Things Agent Setups
When: September 15, 2026 | Free · 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. PDT
Sentry, 45 Fremont Street, San Francisco
Three-minute lightning demos of the agent setups people actually run. Which harness or framework, laptop or remote, and what makes each one unusual.
3. AI Infra Summit 2026
When: September 15, 2026 | Runs through Thursday · registration opens 7:30 a.m. PDT
Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway
Eight stages across the AI stack. The organizer lists an expo pass at $597, full access at $3,297, a complimentary ticket for qualifying enterprise end-users and hyperscaler technical staff, 250-plus partners, and 8,000 attendees.
4. Paper Club: Agents at GTM Scale
When: September 16, 2026 | Free, host approval · 6 to 8:30 p.m. PDT
San Francisco, venue shared on approval
The technical conversation the keynotes skip, timed for the week the go-to-market ecosystem is in town: what it actually takes to run agents at scale.
5. INSEAD AI Forum Americas 2026
When: September 18, 2026 | Ticketed · runs through Saturday, from 10 a.m. PDT
INSEAD San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation, 224 Townsend Street
Friday is an alumni-led community day of workshops and discussions. Saturday is the forum itself, produced by INSEAD HUMII, with faculty, industry leaders and guests.
6. TrueFoundry Agent Harness Hackathon
When: September 19, 2026 | Free, host approval · 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. PDT
3120 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara, final venue and arrival details shared on approval
A full-day build for taking agents from prototype toward production: model routing, controlled tool access, MCP workflows, observability, evaluation loops, fallbacks and budget controls. Hosted by TrueFoundry and HackerSquad. Bring a laptop and a concrete use case. The organizer states that space is limited.
7. Dream AI Hackathon 2026
When: September 19, 2026 | Free, apply · 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. PDT
Frontier Tower, 995 Market Street, San Francisco
A one-day build: pick a real problem, build a working AI product and pitch it. Check-in and team formation at 9, submissions close at 4:30, then finalist presentations, awards and a reception. Co-hosted by LIKELION US, Founder Institute and Sazze Partners. Admission requires an approved application through Luma, and each team member applies separately.
Online
8. AI-Native Workplace Summit 2026
When: September 16, 2026 | Free, online · European hours, US morning
A community-run conference on AI-native ways of working, Microsoft AI, and future-of-work technology.
9. AI Security Summit 2026: State of Trust
When: September 16, 2026 | Free, online · runs through Thursday
Cloud Security Alliance. Agentic and autonomous AI security, quantum readiness, non-human identity, governance and assurance, and adaptive threat defense. Built on CSA's vendor-neutral research.
10. AI Insights Summit 2026
When: September 17, 2026 | Free, online · runs through Saturday, 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET
Applying AI across industries, organizations and careers. The organizer states 45-plus speakers and no speaker pitches.
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