Startup Speedrun Hackathon
Cloudflare, 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco.
Brainbase Labs hosts a day of building agent-powered startups. The organizer lists free admission; host approval required. Bring a laptop.
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AI events in San Francisco
The San Francisco listings from the Sunday edition of AI 20/20, September 28 to October 4, 2026, with the organizer's own dates, prices and registration links.
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AI events in San Francisco, every Sunday.
Sunday brings the week's AI events with dates, prices and the organizer's link. Friday brings who raised, who shipped and who is hiring. Free, one email each.
This week, September 28 to October 4, 2026
Monday, September 28
Tuesday, September 29
CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026
Moscone South, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco.
CoreWeave brings AI infrastructure builders together. The organizer lists a $899 standard pass; restricted complimentary passes are not general admission.
Fix My Agent: Make Your Agent Production-Ready
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
AI Valley, PostHog and GMI Cloud host hands-on agent troubleshooting. The organizer lists free admission, subject to approval. Bring a project to improve.
Wednesday, September 30
The AI Conference — Main Conference
Pier 48, San Francisco.
The AI Conference covers engineering, research and deployment. Main-conference tickets are paid; check pricing. The sold-out Day ZERO workshop is excluded.
Runway AI Summit
The Masonic, San Francisco.
Runway brings creative and AI practitioners together. The organizer lists a $350 in-person ticket. Explore how AI is changing creative production.
Flower AI Day: Collaborative Superintelligence
The Pearl, 601 19th Street, San Francisco.
Flower Labs explores open models, private AI and cooperating agents. The organizer lists free admission; register for talks, demonstrations and discussion.
Bay Area Frontier Research Club: Recursive Self-Improvement
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
Frontier Syndicate hosts a research-paper discussion on self-improving AI. The organizer lists free admission, subject to approval. Best for technically curious readers.
STACKED: Sandboxes, Inference, & Observability
San Francisco; exact address shared through registration.
E2B, Fireworks AI and Braintrust discuss infrastructure for production agents. The organizer lists free admission, subject to host approval.
Thursday, October 1
LLMday San Francisco 2026 Q4
Harness headquarters, 55 Stockton Street, San Francisco.
LLMday brings practitioners together to discuss applied language models. Tickets vary by attendee category; check eligibility and current pricing before registering.
Friday, October 2
Assembling 2026 | AI Summit
TERRA Gallery, San Francisco; confirm arrival details through registration.
GenAI Assembling convenes AI founders, builders and investors. The organizer offers multiple ticket categories; some require approval. Check current price and eligibility.
Saturday, October 3
The AI Commerce Gallery — Hackathon
Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco; confirm arrival details through registration.
AI Valley and Zoo Work host commerce-agent building and demonstrations. The organizer lists paid ticket options; standard participation requires approval.
Recent weeks
Week of September 21 to 27, 2026
Monday 21
Battle of the Personal Brains Hackathon
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.
Tuesday 22
Rows & Columns Summit
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.
Wednesday 23
The Information's AI Agenda Live SF 2026
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.
Thursday 24
GenMedia Conference 2026
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.
Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup
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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