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JOE & THE JUICE, San Francisco.
Open Future Forum explores secure connections between AI agents, tools and data. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
This Week in AI: 30 Tech Week Events | October 5 to 11
Your weekly guide to learning, connecting and putting AI to work.
Happy Monday! SF Tech Week is here, with plenty of ways to meet people, learn something useful and put AI to work. Pick the rooms that match what you want to build next.
Here’s what’s captivating our attention this week:
- Hands-on building: Try workflow automation, coding agents and weekend hackathons.
- Practical AI: Explore reliable agents, open models and data tools.
- CAL conversation: Hear Sabrina Ramonov in Menlo Park on building with AI.
- Silicon Valley connections: Meet San Jose builders or join an online infrastructure talk.
Explore the events below, find your fit, and have a great week!
Monday, October 5
Model Training Night
House of AI, San Francisco.
Overmind, Daytona and Doubleword host talks and hands-on model training. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Computational Safety for Generative AI
500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara; organizer lists Bergin Hall Room 116, SCDI.
IEEE hosts IBM researcher Pin-Yu Chen on AI safety, jailbreaks and robust evaluation. Admission price not stated; confirm room details at registration.
Selling to Agents: Cloudflare, Stripe and Runtype
101 Townsend St, San Francisco.
Cloudflare, Stripe and Runtype discuss onboarding, billing and provisioning software for AI agents. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
SF Tech Week Workflow Workshop with n8n
Digital Jungle SF, San Francisco.
n8n community ambassadors lead a hands-on workflow-building evening. Bring a laptop. Organizer lists free admission.
The Missing Layer: Building Reliable Agents
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
EPAM and AI Circle discuss context, tools and evaluation for reliable enterprise agents. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Tuesday, October 6
Coding Agents Mini Conference
Sports Basement Stonestown, San Francisco.
PopPopTech brings coding-agent demos, company booths and a founder-investor panel, powered by AWS. Organizer lists free admission.
Live Models Fireside Chat: Visko × Google
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Visko and Google explore real-time AI worlds and the infrastructure behind them. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Provisioning AI Infrastructure: A Distributed Systems Perspective
Online.
IEEE hosts Oracle engineer Arun Anbumani on cloud infrastructure, reliability and provisioning, followed by Q&A. Organizer lists no admission charge.
Wednesday, October 7
init() by WorkOS
SFJAZZ, San Francisco.
WorkOS brings founders and engineers together to discuss building AI products. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
AI-Native Startup Hackathon: Opening Build Day
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Build an AI-native startup prototype. This is the opening build day; the organizer lists follow-on activities separately. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
CAL Fireside Chat with Sabrina Ramonov
Snowflake - Silicon Valley AI Hub, 135 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park.
Cal Alumni of Silicon Valley hosts Blotato founder Sabrina Ramonov on building a business with AI systems. Organizer lists free admission.
Open Source AI Stack
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Novita AI, Nous Research, AWS Builder Loft and LMSYS host a panel on models, inference and agent tools. Ages 18+; physical photo ID required. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
AI Tinkerers: San Jose Launch Meetup
Downtown San Jose; exact address after approval.
AI Tinkerers hosts technical demos and discussion for hands-on AI builders. Organizer lists free admission; applications screened.
Thursday, October 8
MCP4GTM Workshop: Mastra, Elastic and Arcade
33 New Montgomery St, San Francisco.
Build a go-to-market agent with permissions, policies and auditability at this Arcade.dev workshop. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Agents in Production: The Auth Stack
Industrious, San Francisco.
Open Future Forum and Agentic Fabriq explore authentication and access control for production agents. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Shipping Open Models to Production
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Fastino Labs convenes builders to discuss deploying open models in production. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Open Lakehouse & AI Meetup
355 Clementina St, San Francisco.
Lenses hosts data engineers and AI builders for lakehouse architecture talks and live demos. Organizer lists free admission.
Spec-Driven AI-Assisted Data Engineering
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
ODSC AI explores using specifications to guide AI-assisted data engineering, with demos and a community mixer. Organizer lists free admission.
Women Leading AI at Work
Bar Sprezzatura, San Francisco.
Luna Hote and Ana-Maria Constantin host a curated gathering for women executives working on enterprise technology. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Friday, October 9
Cyberdefense Hackathon
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
tokens& and AWS Builder Loft host an AI security hackathon. Separate AWS registration also required through the event page; ages 18+ with physical government photo ID. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
SF Tech Week Agent Day
Menlo Park; exact address shared through registration.
OSS4AI hosts agent talks, workshops and demos with local builders. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
AI × Marketing Shopify Meetup
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Humanic brings Shopify and ecommerce operators together to explore AI for retention and marketing. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
AI Builders Summit
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Founders Bay hosts startup demos, lightning talks and conversations for AI builders. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Hard Negatives: Engineers Debate Night
Manny’s, San Francisco.
Qdrant and Neo4j host an engineers’ debate night on controversial AI topics. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
AI Marketing Meetup with REHATCH
Dragon Horse, San Francisco.
REHATCH hosts a meetup about applying AI to marketing work. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Saturday, October 10
AI-Native Startup Hackathon
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
BondHaus hosts a build day for prototyping businesses with AI teammates using Kylon. Organizer lists free admission.
Build 3D Worlds with AI
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Meshy, Chrona and Spatial Frontier Club present 3D-world demos, conversations and hands-on experiences. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
Sunday, October 11
Multi Model Hackathon
Frontier Tower 🧑🚀, San Francisco.
Builder Base, Women in AI and The AI Collective host a day of building with multiple AI models. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.
After Abundance: What Makes AI Content Worth Making
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
OpenStages and Bond gather creators and AI-tool builders to discuss quality in AI-generated content. Apply using the Partiful link on the event page; approval required. Organizer lists free admission; approval required.