Cloudflare Connect 2026
Moscone West, San Francisco
Cloudflare hosts sessions on agents, infrastructure and security. Main sessions run October 20 and 21; the optional University add-on is sold out.
This Week in AI: 40 Events | October 19 to 25
Your weekly guide to learning, connecting and putting AI to work.
Happy Monday! Open Source AI Week brings a practical question into focus: how do we turn promising tools into systems people can use? This week offers plenty of ways to explore that together. Here’s what’s captivating our attention this week:
- Build: Workshops on agents, memory, retrieval and model performance.
- Connect: Founder conversations, investor discussions and community meetups.
- Learn: PyTorch and AGNTCon bring the open AI ecosystem to San Jose.
- Reflect: Stanford explores the creative leaps that distinguish human learning.
Choose a conversation that stretches your thinking, bring a question, and make room to meet someone new. Have a wonderful week!
Monday, October 19
Scala Summit 2026: A Full Day of Scala in the Bay Area
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Bay Area Scala hosts talks on programming tools, AI-assisted development and safer agents. Tickets are non-refundable but transferable.
MCP in the Wild: Agents That Know You
Silicon Valley AI Hub, 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Snowflake, ODSC AI and partners discuss personal agents, memory, secure actions and MCP integrations in production.
Tuesday, October 20
PyTorch Conference North America
San Jose Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose
PyTorch Foundation hosts technical talks on training, inference, infrastructure and open AI applications.
Inference & RL Coffee Club at Pytorch week
San Jose, CA; exact address shared through registration
Anyscale, Nscale and Inferact host coffee and informal conversations with the Ray and vLLM community. Drop in during the daily window.
Will AI Recommend Your Business?
The HUB @ Office Logic, 1501 Biscayne Blvd #501, Miami, FL 33132, USA
The Source Groups hosts a workshop on appearing in AI search answers. Bring a phone for practical exercises. In person in Miami.
Thinking Fast or Slow: Open Source AI Edition
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Compare small decision models with reasoning models, including cost, latency and how to route tasks between them.
OpenClaw & Friends Meetup w/ NVIDIA & Microsoft
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
OpenClaw Foundation, NVIDIA and Microsoft host demos and discussion about open-source agents, followed by networking.
Overmind Arcade 🕹️ (Open Source AI Week)
Joey the Cat's Arcade, 3252 19th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Overmind hosts informal networking for the open-source AI community at an arcade. No talks or panels.
Lightning AI Fireside Chat & Happy Hour @ PyTorch Conference
San Jose, California; exact address shared through registration
Lightning AI hosts a fireside chat on scaling reinforcement learning with PyTorch, followed by networking and arcade games.
Powering an AI Workforce
80 Langton St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Builders discuss autonomous agents, integrations, evaluation, credentials and access for an AI workforce.
Founders Panel: The Agentic Stack
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Leaders from Laravel, PlanetScale and WorkOS discuss where agents help, the risks they encounter and building on agent stacks.
AI Infra Night @PyTorchCon with dstack, Crusoe, and SGLang
San Jose, CA; exact address shared through registration
Meet dstack, Crusoe and SGLang teams to discuss GPUs, training and inference. Age 21+; valid ID required. Capacity is first come, first served.
Flow State Lounge (after hours) | Boundless
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Boundless offers an evening coworking space for founders and technical teams. Bring your current project; the session runs past midnight.
Wednesday, October 21
ANDxOR End User Group Meetup
US-SVL-MPD217, 217 Moffett Park Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA
The Agentic AI Foundation user group shares enterprise deployment case studies. Discussions follow the Chatham House Rule.
Bring Your Own Agent to a Shared Room
Online
Rooms by Aurmada hosts an online workshop connecting agents through MCP and A2A. Bring a laptop and an MCP-capable client.
AI Infrastructure Night
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Technical talks cover agent monitoring, customer-cloud deployments and operating production AI. Meet other infrastructure builders.
Durable AI (October Edition)
500 Sansome St, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
Temporal and Kernel bring teams together to discuss long-running agents, recovery from failures and observing what agents do.
Agentic Runtime Security Demos - AARM Intercept Demo Night
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
AARM runtime-security discussions, a panel on authorization and live demos explore protecting agents that act on real systems.
Investing Capital in Open Source & Applied AI / SI
1070 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Applied AI Society brings investors and founders together to discuss funding open-source companies and applied AI.
Milvus Meetup - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Milvus maintainers and AWS architects discuss combining vector, full-text and structured retrieval in production. Bring photo ID; check-in has two stages.
Open Source AI + Policy Happy Hour
GitHub, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
GitHub hosts conversations on open AI policy, security and collaboration across government, research and industry.
Lessons from Open Source DevTools Founders w/ PostHog, Cline and more
Hogpatch, 2360 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
PostHog and 1984 Ventures host founder discussions on open-source growth, security and finding product-market fit.
Basecamp 2026
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Campfire brings finance and accounting professionals together to discuss AI workflows. Host vetting required. Workshops are full; this listing covers the reception and conference.
Thursday, October 22
ALL DAY AI 🐔
Online
Anaconda and Kilo present online sessions on building, leading, securing and shipping with AI. Register at alldayai.com as well as Luma for platform access.
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America
San Jose Convention Center; October 22 online livestream available
Agentic AI Foundation brings builders together for talks and workshops on agents, MCP, testing and security. The livestream covers part of the program.
AI and the Brain
MIT Welcome Center, 292 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
MIT researchers discuss AI use, cognition and learning, and plans for a long-term study. In person in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Inversion - AI Week Side Event
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
OnePiece Labs explores agent-run business workflows, autonomy and human oversight through talks, panels and demos.
Elevate Your LLM Performance: LMCache Meetup + Hands-on Workshop
Samsung, 3655 N First St, San Jose, CA 95134, USA
A hands-on LMCache workshop covers cache management, testing and optimizing model inference with engineers and researchers.
Open Source AI Summit
The House by Edge & Node, Building 103, 103 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94129, USA
Buildplanet, Open Intelligence Foundation and NEAR AI host technical talks on open AI with researchers and founders.
Production Agent Lab - Workshop & Pitch Night
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
tokens& hosts hands-on agent workshops and a pitch night. Choose the appropriate ticket; presenters require selection. Approved registration is mandatory for entry.
Build Day #5: A developer hiring event
AI House, 2801 Alaskan Wy, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
AI House brings engineers together with startup founders who are hiring. Review participating companies before the small-group conversations.
Open Infra Night for Agent Builders #Open Source AI Week
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Strukto.AI, Infron.AI and XTrace discuss virtual environments, agent tools, inference and open infrastructure.
Your AI Agents Are Burning Tokens. Let's Fix That: Hands-on Workshop
605 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Bring a laptop and your coding agent to explore token use and context compaction with open-source Nasiko.
Multimodal Engineering Night - SF Community Meetup
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
Engineering talks and community demos explore multimodal retrieval, 3D scenes and voice-agent evaluation.
Step 5 Preview Launch Night 🚀 & AI Founders Meetup @SF
San Francisco, CA; exact address shared through registration
StepFun and Together AI host model demos, questions and a founder panel on building with open-weight models.
Training Agents IRL
GitHub, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
GitHub and Hugging Face host short talks and a panel on reinforcement learning, rewards and evaluating agents.
Friday, October 23
What AI Can’t Do (Yet), and Why
Online
Stanford’s Douglas Guilbeault explores creative leaps in human learning and how they differ from AI. Part of Contemplation by Design.
Saturday, October 24
Agent Builders Hackathon
639 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Build and deploy a working agent in one day. Teams of up to four; bring ideas rather than completed projects.
Sunday, October 25
SF AI->SI Code And Coffee Sunday October 25th!
Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Code & Coffee brings builders, founders and curious newcomers together at Salesforce Park. All experience levels welcome; no coding required.
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