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Our future. Built Together. Four locations across the Bay Area! Hosted by Kyle Valiton and Mari. 28+ attendees interested. In Oakland, CA.

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Silicon Valley’s go-to AI monthly forums, workshops, and summits. 👇Join membership below for exclusive access Hosted by TechEquity Ai and Sheena Tu. 894+ attendees interested. In Menlo Park, CA.

**Important note:** Register on the [AICamp Event Website ](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026082017)is REQUIRED for admission. **From Code to Production - Building Production-Ready AI Agents on AWS** The AWS Agentic AI Partner Showcase features experts from **AWS,** **TiDB, Fireworks AI, LaunchPad, Grafana Lab, CrowdStrike**, who will demonstrate how to build production-ready agentic AI systems from cod…

**Important note:** Register on the [AICamp Event Website ](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026082017)is REQUIRED for admission. **From Code to Production - Building Production-Ready AI Agents on AWS** The AWS Agentic AI Partner Showcase features experts from **AWS,** **TiDB, Fireworks AI, LaunchPad, Grafana Lab, CrowdStrike**, who will demonstrate how to build production-ready agentic AI systems from cod…

Outdoor endurance community for founders in the Bay Area. Hard hikes, camps, dirt-biking, MTB, go-karting, pickleball & poker nights. --> Join us @ www.12scrappyfounders.com Hosted by Denis Belyavsky. In San Francisco, CA.

Themes: Machine Learning/AI, Open Ended, Beginner Friendly. Prize pool: $ 33,900. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by OSC.

AI-native on-call and incident response. Trusted by leading companies like NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Figma, and more. Hosted by Rootly and Zesty .co. 383+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

In celebration of our first anniversary, we are honored to invite you to the second edition of Aureum Aestivalis — our signature summer gathering and one of…

We help founders land press via cold outreach. Landed clients on Forbes, TechCrunch, and Axios. We consistently average at a 10% journalist response rate, compared to the industry average of 0.5%. Hosted by Kathy Wang and Yuichi Okuhama. 205+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Hosted by Baseten and Parallel Web Systems. 302+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

The open model ecosystem has achieved something extraordinary with Gemma—powering everything from edge AI and cancer research to deploying models in space! T...

The era of AI-driven software development is here, are your teams ready? Join us for an evening exploring how open models and autonomous AI agents are…

Baseten is proud to present Heavyweights, a series of talks where AI founders learn from the greats. As AI agents start to take over the web, search needs to…

Hosted by Trossen Robotics and Marc Dostie. In San Francisco, CA.

Hosted by OpenHands Events and Alex Campos. In San Francisco, CA.

Join us for an evening of live pitches and demos from hardware founders working on frontier technologies for the physical world. We'll be showcasing 6…

Community, resources, and space to build for hardware startups and entrepreneurs. Hosted by Nate Padgett. 284+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Exclusive access to LlamaIndex developer events, workshops, executive conferences, and more. Hosted by Judgment Labs and Modal. In San Francisco, CA.

**Join Us Weekly: AI Innovation Office Hours** Prefer something one on one: Book some time with me https://www.claritybusinesssolutions.ca/booking Curious about how Artificial Intelligence can supercharge work? Drop into our weekly *AI Innovation Office Hours*—an open, collaborative space for exploring the latest techniques in AI and business integration. Whether you’re experimenting with machine learning models, au…

Start your journey into MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) with our FREE 1-Day Live Online Webinar designed for beginners, students, freshers, software developers, data scientists, machine learning enthusiasts, IT professionals, and career switchers. This 2-hour webinar provides a beginner-friendly introduction to MLOps, Machine Learning Operations, Python, Machine Learning Model Deployment, ML Pipelines, Docker, K…

If you're new or looking to get more connected to SF tech: bookmark these 55+ irl events 🗓️ A list of what's happening this week (Aug 17 - Aug 24) ⬇️

An Evening for Founders Building on the Frontier A Frontier Table Dinner, hosted by Obvious AI is changing how we build products at a dizzying rate. But it's…

Hosted by AGI Inc. and Juliana C. In San Francisco, CA.

Spend your Friday building with us & stay to play. We're opening a floor of the AGI, Inc. office for a full day of co-working. Bring your laptop, grab coffee…

where we pick a new topic and learn by building together. This event is about training reinforcement learning agents in MuJoCo, the open-source physics engine widely used for robotics and continuous control. We'll set up simulated environments, train policies to control them, and watch the agents actually learn to move. MuJoCo (Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact) simulates rigid-body physics fast enough to train on,……

where we pick a new topic and learn by building together. This event is about training reinforcement learning agents in MuJoCo, the open-source physics engine widely used for robotics and continuous control. We'll set up simulated environments, train policies to control them, and watch the agents actually learn to move. MuJoCo (Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact) simulates rigid-body physics fast enough to train on,……

4:50 to 5:15 pm Welcome! 5:15 to 5:40 pm Networking 5:40 to 6:00 pm Magic Moments 6:00 to 6:40 pm Gemini Meetup 6:40 to 7:00 pm Networking 🪪 Google Security…

Prove you can build. Hosted by BuilderPub Team and Felix Liao. In San Francisco, CA.

Hosted by Mistral AI. 196+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Hosted by WeMakeDevs and Bright Data. 454+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Don’t build an app. Build a company’s entire AI team—in one day. Most hackathons ask you to ship something with an LLM. This one is different: you’ll build a…

An AI agent can reason well and still make the wrong call. Often, the problem isn’t the model. It’s what the model knows when it acts. A relationship agent…

Hosted by Kris and Chana Messinger. 354+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

**The AI World Has Changed. Have you?** A few years ago, **Machine Learning** was considered the gateway to AI. Today, the conversation has exploded into LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, MCP, Copilots, and Agentic AI. Most people are trying to learn these technologies one by one without understanding **how they are connected**. That creates a dangerous illusion: **you know the tools, but not the system behind them**. This live…

**The AI World Has Changed. Have you?** A few years ago, **Machine Learning** was considered the gateway to AI. Today, the conversation has exploded into LLMs, AI Agents, RAG, MCP, Copilots, and Agentic AI. Most people are trying to learn these technologies one by one without understanding **how they are connected**. That creates a dangerous illusion: **you know the tools, but not the system behind them**. This live…

Sundai: - a room full of people building moonshots - every sunday. - born out of MIT & Harvard. 135+ hacks. - aspire to beat the norm. aim…

Join Ray Summit in San Francisco, Aug 24–26, for technical talks on foundation model training, multimodal AI, RL, and other AI in production systems.

Cash pay got a generation of digital health companies to scale, including GLP-1s, birth control, hair medications, and sexual health drugs. Insurance is where…

How Top Startups Build Lean, AI-Powered GTM Stacks For SaaS & AI founders scaling beyond the early stage. Getting to your first customers is one challenge.…

Whether you're building your MVP, raising your first round, or scaling to Series A and beyond—we're here to help you grow. Hosted by Startup Grind and James Gee. In San Francisco, CA.

Neon’s AI workforce jumps over the hurdles that block patient access -- getting patients the treatments and services they need twice as fast and 80% cheaper. Hosted by Stedman Blake Hood and Myra Ahmad. In San Francisco, CA.

Join the vLLM community and the NVIDIA Dynamo team for an evening of tech talks and conversation during vLLM conference week. We'll dig into what it takes to…

Join the vLLM community to discuss optimizing LLM inference! Hosted by Joe Cotant and Yasong Wang. 667+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Learn how Work IQ helps agents understand the people, projects, and information that matter most in your organization. See how richer context can make your agents more relevant, grounded, and effective in everyday work. ------------------------------------------- [**Copilot Developer Camp**](https://aka.ms/copilotdevcamp) 📍 [Learn more about the series](https://developer.microsoft.com/reactor/series/S-1696/?wt.mc_id…

Join our virtual meetup to hear talks from researchers at NYU on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. **Date, Time and Location** Aug 25, 2026 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST Online. **[Register for the Zoom!](https://voxel51.com/events/advances-in-ai-at-nyu-august-25-2026)** **Using Computer Vision to Advance the Sciences** I'll present some of our ongoing work on using computer vision to create impact in…

Come join us for a night of deep-dive discussions and networking focused on the next frontier of Embodied & Physical AI. Agenda 6:00 to 6:30 PM: Reception,…

Venture capital is entering a new era, one where AI agents support across the investment process and actively run parts of it. In this virtual session, we…

**August's book is "Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)"!** This is a casual-style event. Not a structured presentation on topics. Sometimes, the discussion even drifts away from the chapters, but feel free to grab the mic to help steer it back. Feel free to join the discussion even if you have not read the book chapters! :) Want to discuss the contents during the reading week? Join the Flyte MLOps Slack group [h…

Themes: IoT, Machine Learning/AI, Serverless. Prize pool: $ 12,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by OpenCV.

Take your agents to production Hosted by Tamilselvi Ramasamy. In San Francisco, CA.

One night. Five hidden challenges. Build an AI agent that improves itself. On August 25, approximately 100 engineers, researchers, and technical founders will…

Deadline for startup pitches: Sunday, August 23rd, 23:59 PT Last batch of decision emails: Monday, August 24th, 23:59 PT Join us in downtown San Francisco for…

OpenAI Codex community meetups in San Francisco with Guest Speakers from OpenAI Codex Join us in 📍Sports Basement Stonestown, San Francisco for an evening designed for both beginners and experienced users to connect, learn, share, and explore how Codex is changing the way people build. ​​​​​​​​​Invited Speaker : 1. Kashyab Ambarani , Founder @ Verbiflow (YC W25) 2. Rishi Mahadevan , co-Founder Verbiflow (YC W25) 3. Ojas Kandhare, Founder Opentrade (YS S26) 4. Liran Kogan , CPO & Co-founder @ Verdict Machine (YC S2…

Hosted by Baseten and Philip Kiely. In San Francisco, CA.

Discover every agent, observe every decision, secure every action. Across any framework, any cloud. Hosted by Angela Chen and Neeraj Sabharwal. In Menlo Park, CA.

High-end career incubator and talent intelligence platform for managing careers and teams in the AI-first economy. We build lighthouses and telescopes for the leaders of the future. Hosted by Natalia Bielczyk, PhD and Ontology of Value. 495+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Hosted by Joseph McConnell and Daniel. 18+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Start your MLOps career with our FREE 5-Day MLOps Bootcamp designed for beginners who want to become MLOps Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, DevOps Engineers, AI Engineers, or Cloud Engineers. This live online MLOps Bootcamp covers Machine Learning Operations, Python, Linux, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, ML Pipelines, Model Deployment, Model Monitoring, Cloud Computing, and DevOps fundamentals with hands…

**[AI & Machine Learning Essentials with Google Cloud](https://www.netcomlearning.com/webinar/ai-machine-learning-essentials-with-google-cloud?advid=1196&utm_source=meetup&utm_medium=event&utm_campaign=google_fy26_q3&utm_content=master_classes&utm_term=shubhra)** Join this session to understand how: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transforming the way organizations innovate, automate proce…

World's most engaging hackathons and GTM events. Hosted by Kunal Kushwaha and Dana Fine. 398+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Hosted by Daytona and Descope Inc.. 415+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

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Are you working in artificial intelligence, data science, or machine learning? Whether you're a developer, researcher, startup founder, or aspiring tech enthusiast — **AIDataTech Connect** is your go-to **AI networking event online** designed to foster career growth, real-time collaboration, and innovation exchange in a dynamic, community-driven environment. This event brings together a global **virtual AI community…

**Important note:** Register on the [AICamp Event Website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026082717)[ ](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026082017)is REQUIRED for admission. **From Code to Production - Building Production-Ready AI Agents on AWS** The AWS Agentic AI Showcase features experts from **AWS,** **MongoDB and LangChain**, who will demonstrate how to build production-ready agentic AI sy…

**Important note:** Register on the [AICamp Event Website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026082717)[ ](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026082017)is REQUIRED for admission. **From Code to Production - Building Production-Ready AI Agents on AWS** The AWS Agentic AI Showcase features experts from **AWS,** **MongoDB and LangChain**, who will demonstrate how to build production-ready agentic AI sy…

Join us for another awesome Agents and APIs Developer Meetup brought to you by Postman! Come check out live demos from Anthropic, Postman, Supabase, and Vercel! Meet new folks in the AI community, plus play trivia for the chance to win cool prizes, and get free credits! Don’t miss this one! Agenda: 5:15p doors open 5:30-6p: mingling & 🍕 6-7:15: demos & trivia! 🪎 test your knowledge for prizes! 7:15-7:30p mingling and 👋 Speakers Josh Weimer, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic An Early Look at the Next Year of Bui…

This is the main calendar for ClickHouse events held across the world! Hosted by Zoe Steinkamp. 350+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Welcome to AI Build & Learn, a weekly AI engineering stream where we pick a new topic and learn by building together. This event is about robotics simulation with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a simulation platform built on NVIDIA Omniverse for developing, testing, and training robotic systems in realistic virtual environments. We'll set up simulated robots, interact with sensors and environments, and experiment with controllin…

Welcome to AI Build & Learn, a weekly AI engineering stream where we pick a new topic and learn by building together. This event is about robotics simulation with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a simulation platform built on NVIDIA Omniverse for developing, testing, and training robotic systems in realistic virtual environments. We'll set up simulated robots, interact with sensors and environments, and experiment with controllin…

BuidlPlanet (prev KryptoPlanet) is focused on hosting builder friendly events around the world and creating curated, focused communities. Follow us for the latest events and join our community! Hosted by Erica Kang. 224+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Themes: Cybersecurity, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by IEEE CMU Africa.

Themes: Beginner Friendly, Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: ₹ 30,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by AbhiyantiX.

Themes: E-commerce/Retail, Fintech, Web. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Campus Hackers.

Hosted by WeMakeDevs and Kerry Farrell. 394+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Themes: Beginner Friendly, Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by PropNote AI.

Themes: Beginner Friendly, Machine Learning/AI, Open Ended. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by GatewayGS.

Themes: Beginner Friendly, Machine Learning/AI, Open Ended. Prize pool: $ 53,585. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by GatewayGS.

Go beyond chat by connecting MCP Apps to Declarative Agents and delivering rich, interactive experiences directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot. Hear from the product team and see how custom user interfaces can turn agent responses into actionable workflows. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [**Copilot Developer Camp**](https://aka.ms/copilotdevcamp) 📍 [Learn more about the series](http…

[AI TechWorld 2026](https://aitechworld.co/) (Sept 1-3, Santa Clara, CA) showcases the newest AI Engineering & AI Infrastructure technologies for AI developers and Ops engineers. The event is a comprehensive conference & expo focused on AI-Infrastructure technologies, tools, and platforms powering the modern AI ecosystem. It brings together AI engineers, software developers, data scientists, and technology leaders t…

Plenty of experienced developers don’t trust AI-generated code, and on a large codebase the agent has never understood they’re right not to. The problem isn’t the model; it’s the missing context. Without a structured, current understanding of the codebase, agents hallucinate, duplicate logic that already exists, and introduce changes no one asked for. This session takes the skepticism head-on and shows what changes……

**The next quarterly HedgeWestSF meetup in San Francisco is on September 1, 2026 from 6pm to 9pm. Join us at The House of AI at 40 Boardman Place in San Francisco's West SOMA Neighborhood** **near 7th and Bryant Streets. Parking available at 71 Boardman Place.** Presentations: Vinesh Jha ( ExtractAlpha.com ) - *Advances in Alternate Data Alpha. New research, emerging signals, and what systematic investors should be……

**SESSION TRACK:** Excel **SESSION OUTLINE:** AI is changing the way we work with data — but where does it actually fit alongside Excel? In this session, Fay Bordbar will walk us through practical, real-world use cases where AI tools and Excel work together, from speeding up everyday tasks to tackling problems that used to feel out of reach. You'll leave with concrete ideas you can apply straight away, whatever your…

Models, agent, systems, ethics, the law, business, art and impact we discuss it all. With the DeepSeek hoopla fading, what of Reasoning models? Inspired by the Berkeley AI War Room, we invite you to join us at the same venue, same time, and with the same dynamic community. Come share your interests, showcase your projects, and discuss the latest trends and news that's shaping the AI landscape at a rapid pace. Hosted…

Hosted by TatianaSF com and Yar Doroshenko. 428+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, California.

Explore a developer-first approach to building and evaluating agents using M365 Agent Evals and skill-based tooling. From the command line to production readiness, learn how to test, measure, and improve agent quality with confidence. ------------------------------------------- [**Copilot Developer Camp**](https://aka.ms/copilotdevcamp) 📍 [Learn more about the series](https://developer.microsoft.com/reactor/series/S…

**Add to your calendar: [https://streamyard.com/watch/YsJkDEA9NqRb](https://streamyard.com/watch/YsJkDEA9NqRb)** **Speakers:** **\- Karan Sachdeva\,** Global Lead, IBM Google, Strategic Partnership, IBM **\- Sean Falconer\,** Head of AI, Confluent **\- Sohrab Rahimi\,** Director and AI/ML Lead, Google Cloud This event is part of the **ODSC AI Skills Accelerator,** bringing together AI and data professionals for prac…

Agent Experience Platform for DevTool companies. Ensure your product/API/CLI/MCP can be discovered, recommended and used by agents. Hosted by Jun Liang and Nebius AI. 266+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

🔔 **Please Note:** RSVP on Meetup **does not guarantee entry**. To attend, you **must register through the official ticket link** here: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-ai-tech-startups-investors-innovators-networking-mixer-tickets-1996215260581](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-ai-tech-startups-investors-innovators-networking-mixer-tickets-1996215260581) Step into the vibrant world of artificial intelligence and mac…

### Tickets on sale at https://luma.com/aimentornight **You MUST purchase a ticket via Luma to attend this event** Join us for an evening of **1:1 mentorship for designers, startup founders, and builders navigating an AI-driven world.** Bring your **portfolio, product, prototype, or startup idea** and get direct feedback from experienced product designers and design leaders. Each attendee will receive **20-minute 1:…

Founded April 2023. AI startups are featured on the demo floor, lightning talks, pitches, and networking. Hosted at top bay area organizations. Led by Jeremiah Owyang. Hosted by Jeremiah Owyang and Valerie Bertele. 446+ attendees interested. In Mountain View, CA.

Marketing For Startups Hosted by Gregory Kennedy and Arjun Dev Arora. 450+ attendees interested. In Menlo Park, California.

This is a hardware community of 10,500+ builders who meet monthly. From first time founders to experts and entrepreneurs who have done it before, everyone is welcome! Hosted by Nate Padgett and Michael Raspuzzi. 250+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

​Welcome to AI Build & Learn, a weekly AI engineering stream where we pick a new topic and learn by building together. ​This event goes bigger on world models with NVIDIA Cosmos, an open family of world foundation models built for physical AI. Where DreamerV3 learns a small world model for a single agent, Cosmos is a large generative model that simulates the physical world itself: predicting future video, running ac…

Themes: Health, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 3,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by OneAquaHealth.

Thank you to everyone who voted for our next reading! We will be reading [Behave, by Robert Sapolsky](https://www.amazon.com/Behave-Biology-Humans-Best-Worst/dp/0143110918/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=185640360919&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8m5zMolcM56CW1dLiaitGI3e263eV1M7LIK_TqNqcGIfNFuf1r0Q8uyTCBGQE30qfnHSES0v7kzleJ5ZnV9dWsj8giV3SPFEsZIfSCmzQBKfYuoiv2YfzgDaIfqYexk2_TtO3huixKm1qPmdfzVRSH-DLGvDXG7HpBJJDugp-qerq6ICYSk_jP9A_aZKHBdRwR7-dF…

# DASEIN: EMERGENCE **Thursday, September 17, 2026** **6:00 PM–9:30 PM** **Upcider, 1160 Polk Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco** **$13 · Limited to 50 guests** Dasein Creative Circle returns with **Emergence**, our second bi-monthly community screening following the first annual Dasein AI Film Festival and July’s Dasein Continuum event. This international one-hour film program will present a new selection of short w…