AI 20/20 | WEEKLY EVENT LISTINGS | SEPTEMBER 21–27, 2026
| Monday, Sep 21 | |||
 | Free / September 21, 4 to 9 p.m. PDT Bright Data, 625 2nd Street, San Francisco. Hosted by Bright Data and Cognee. Build a personal agent with memory, web data and tools, then demonstrate what it does. Bring a laptop and a problem to work on. The organizer lists free general admission. | ||
 | Free, online, apply / September 21 through 28; starts 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT Online. Hosted by Bloomreach; registration requires host approval. A commerce-focused agent-building sprint connecting Bloomreach, Google Cloud, Shopify and Databricks. The organizer sends the full brief and next steps after confirmation. The organizer lists free general admission, subject to approval. | ||
| Tuesday, Sep 22 | |||
 | Free, apply / September 22, organizer agenda: doors 9 a.m.; keynote 10 a.m. PDT Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco. Presented by ClickHouse Events with an independent organizing board. Explore how transactional and analytical systems support real-time data and AI workloads. The organizer lists free admission by application, with talks and a reception. | ||
 | Online, register / September 22; start time not published on the overview Online, Americas session. Hosted by SAP. Price not listed on the overview. SAP's webinar demonstrates agent workflows for finance, supply chain and purchasing, followed by questions. Useful if you want to examine the vendor's implementation approach rather than a general AI overview. Check the registration page for the session time. | ||
 | Free / September 22, 6 to 8 p.m. PDT Stripe, 354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, San Mateo County. Hosted by Stripe Developer Meetups. Talks cover agentic commerce with Stripe and Amazon Bedrock, and selling to AI agents. The organizer lists free general admission; registration is required and capacity is limited. | ||
 | Free, apply / September 22, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. PDT All Spice, 1602 South El Camino Real, San Mateo, San Mateo County. Hosted by Brett Foreman and Dining Series for engineering and product leaders building or buying AI platforms. Discuss agents, evaluations and infrastructure over dinner. The organizer covers dinner; attendance requires host approval. | ||
| Wednesday, Sep 23 | |||
| Free, online / September 23–24, 2026 Online livestream. Hosted by Meta. Explore Meta’s latest work in AI, AI glasses and VR, with a keynote from Mark Zuckerberg and technical sessions for developers. Meta lists free virtual attendance; in-person attendance is by invitation. Keynote: Wednesday, September 23, 4 p.m. PDT. Developer State of the Union: Thursday, September 24, 10 a.m. PDT. | ||
 | Ticketed / September 23, 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. PDT SFMOMA, 151 3rd Street, San Francisco. Hosted by The Information. Conversations and live questions with AI researchers and business leaders, led by its reporting team. The organizer welcomes subscribers and non-subscribers and advertises a subscriber discount; check registration for current ticket prices. | ||
 | Free, apply / September 23, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. PDT San Jose, Santa Clara County; exact address shared through registration. Hosted by Daytona and SambaNova. Talks explore computer-use agents, inference latency and deploying agents for real users, followed by networking. The organizer lists free general admission, subject to host approval. | ||
| Thursday, Sep 24 | |||
 | Free, apply / September 24, 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. PDT San Francisco; exact venue disclosed through registration. Hosted by fal. A conference about generative media across creative tools, entertainment and production workflows. The organizer admits approved guests only. The organizer lists free general admission, subject to approval. | ||
 | Free, online / September 24, starts 10 a.m. EDT / 7 a.m. PDT; closing session 1:55 p.m. EDT / 10:55 a.m. PDT Online. Hosted by Evolve, with Joey Price as emcee. Sessions cover AI adoption in HR, learning and development, practical tools and implementation mistakes. The organizer offers free tickets and includes a networking break for participants to discuss their own questions. | ||
 | Free / September 24, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. PDT; doors 5:15 p.m. CANOPY Jackson Square, 595 Pacific Avenue, 4th floor, San Francisco. Presented by Postman Developer Events. Learn from developer talks and live demonstrations about agents and APIs, with time to meet other builders. The organizer lists free general admission; register before attending. | ||
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