The Nexus.
Curated hackathons and local developer meetups to find your co-conspirators.
Last Brew Time: May 22, 2026, 7:39 AM PT
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18 EventsHackdays Lucknow
Themes: Beginner Friendly, Education, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by MLH.
Build the Future with AI — From Code to No-Code
Themes: Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Innovation Hacks.
Code Crest
Themes: Design, Enterprise, Fintech. Prize pool: $ 3,500. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Codecrest AI.
Quantumhack
Themes: Databases, Education, Health. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by csforeach.
SunnyHacks June 2026
Themes: Beginner Friendly, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by SunnyHacks.
Far Away
Themes: Beginner Friendly. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by zuup.
SUMMER HACKATHON 2026
Themes: IoT, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Spectrum Circle.
Techspire
Themes: Education, Enterprise, Fintech. Prize pool: $ 2,500. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Tech Builders COE.
Mega Agent-A-Thon
Themes: Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Vzone.
Evorozen Innovators Hackathon
Themes: Beginner Friendly, DevOps, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by MLH.
STEMINATE HACKS 2026
Themes: Health, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by STEMINATE.
Global Tech Innovation 2026
Themes: Cybersecurity, IoT, Web. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Hackverse X.
USAII® Global AI Hackathon 2026
Themes: Beginner Friendly, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 15,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by USAII.
Youth Code x AI
Themes: Beginner Friendly, Mobile, Web. Prize pool: $ 2,700. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Youth Code Foundation.
Galuxium Nexus V2
Themes: Enterprise, Machine Learning/AI, Productivity. Prize pool: ₹ 99,999. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Galuxium.
Hack for Humanity | Summer 2026
Themes: Beginner Friendly, Health, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Hack for Humanity.
DevNetwork [API + Cloud + AI] Hackathon 2026
Themes: IoT, Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by DevNetwork.
OneAquaHealth IEEE Global Hackathon
Themes: Health, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Prize pool: $ 3,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by OneAquaHealth.
SF Bay Area
50 Events
AI in Production Mini Conference, May 2026
Providing all developers the resources to understand, use, and contribute to the development and direction of AI Hosted by Yujian Tang. 567+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Buddhist Wisdom and AI Emotions
A 16-floor nexus for frontier tech in SF. Join us at https://frontiertower.io/apply Hosted by Frontier Tower and Zan Lowe. 47+ attendees interested.

Canopy Festival
42,000 sq ft. for the world's most ambitious. These are the events happening on campus. Hosted by Stavan Patel and Adrianna Lakatos. 2057+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.
Caltech Longevity Hackathon 2026
Themes: Health. Prize pool: $ 4,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Caltech Longevity Club.
BlairHacks 8
Themes: Beginner Friendly, Design, Education. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by BlairHacks.
Build with AI 2026 x MLH Hackathon in Ahlen
Themes: Communication, Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by GDG Ahlen. MLH (Major League Hacking)
Agentic Engineering Hack
Themes: IoT, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Prize pool: $ 5,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Creators Corner.

(AI) Happy Hour at BTRAX
Join us for a casual evening of networking, conversations, and good vibes with special guests visiting from Japan. Our guests are part of the growing AI community, and this is a great opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and meet new people in a relaxed atmosphere. Light food and drinks will be provided. Come hang out, make connections, and have a good time. 日本から来るスペシャルゲストを迎え、カジュアルな交流とネットワーキングを楽しむイベントを開催します。 ゲストは急成長中のAIコミュニティに関わるメンバーたち。リラックスした雰囲気の中で、新しい出会いやアイデア交換を楽しめる場です。 軽食とドリンクもご用意しています。 ぜひお気軽にご参加ください。楽しい時間を一…

Post-I/O: After Work with Google DeepMind
Connect with the Google DeepMind Developer Experience Team 400+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Build the Future: AI, Spatial & Android
Hosted by GDG San Francisco and Anu Mittal. 231+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Frontier Happy Hour by Obvious.ai x E2B
Catch us while the room is still buzzing at Frontier, an autonomous engineering workshop by Obvious, sponsored by E2B. Come grab a drink with teams who just shipped 12 weeks of engineering in 48 hours — and hear what it actually felt like. → Learn more at obvious.ai/frontier Frontier attendees & alum, Obvious partners, and local builders who want to see-and-believe are all welcome. About E2B E2B gives AI agents computers with real-world tools. Fast, secure, and built for scale, it powers the infrastructure behind…

Generative 3D Printing: beginners workshop
A 16-floor nexus for frontier tech in SF. Join us at https://frontiertower.io/apply Hosted by Frontier Tower and Rayyan Zahid. 13+ attendees interested.

HackStorm 2.0: Vibe Coding to Physical AI
Hosted by HackStorm and Zhennian Liang. 203+ attendees interested. In Mountain View, CA.

V.I.Pika Party @Pika Headquarters
Come spend a good and chill Friday night with us! We’re hosting an in-person event this Friday evening to chat, chill, and showcase some of our latest creative explorations & technology from the team. You’ll have time to meet the team leads, talk about the future of AI, and hang out with good barbecue, drinks, music, small games, and fun activities at our headquarters. We’ll also demo some of the team’s recent explorations and share more access with attendees. Polaroids included :) This is an approval-to-join even…

Google I/O Side Event丨The Bill Comes Due: How the AI Math Actually Works
Open the gateway to a more diverse, collaborative, and globally representative AGI world. Hosted by GenAI Assembling and Rachel Wu. In Menlo Park, CA.

AI vs Human Roast Battle - Open Registration
A 16-floor nexus for frontier tech in SF. Join us at https://frontiertower.io/apply Hosted by Frontier Tower and Gage Olesen. 9+ attendees interested.

【详细演讲主题】清华大学115周年校庆暨硅谷清华论坛本周六5/23日见!
Hosted by 硅谷清华校友会 and Yucheng Huang. 435+ attendees interested. In Sunnyvale, CA.

ALPHAG3N 2026 HAI Hackathon @ Stanford
Join us at Stanford on May 23–24 for the ALPHAG3N HAI Hackathon , an in-person build sprint centered on human-centered AI. Hosted at the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center , this event brings together ambitious builders, students, and founders to turn ideas into working prototypes in a focused, high-energy setting. This year’s challenge is about building AI as a partner, not just a replacement. Teams will create tools that help people work, learn, create, or access opportunities more effectively while keeping human…

Google I/O Kickoff: Pre-World Cup Hack ⚽
Hosted by Francesca Sala and Roan Weigert. 580+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Eazo AI 2026 Global Hackathon: Silicon Valley | $300K Prize Pool (Mountain View, CA Only)
Hosted by Yang Xie and Lyn Zhang. 212+ attendees interested. In Mountain View, CA.

Scalekit x Apify x Entire.io Hackathon - Build Day SF
Auth stack for AI applications Hosted by Tamilselvi Ramasamy and Sahar Mor (Bond AI). In San Francisco, CA.

Physical AI Co-working & Office Hours ☕️ by Savant & Boost VC
Join us for a laid back Saturday of investor conversation, and building genuine connections with top physical AI / robotics builders in the city! What to expect: Office hours with investors from DCVC, Samsung Next, Boost VC , Savant and more! Curated group of Physical AI founders and builders Specialty espresso pop up and pastries on us! Hardware space with tools & machines to build Serendipitous connections What does the physical AI lab consist of? The lab is a 6,200+ sq ft space located in a vibrant part of San…

Super Solo OPC: Build Your Team of AI Employees | 4-Week Practical Training Camp
California Science and Technology University Event Calendar Hosted by CSTU and Daisy. 17+ attendees interested. In Milpitas, CA.

Demo Day: Managing Context for Agents
The AI workspace that works for you. Startups move fast — and Notion helps you move faster. Get up to 6 months of Notion's Business plan with Notion AI included: https://www.notion.com/startups Hosted by Zara Zhang and Jules Qiu. 98+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Robotics & World Models Reading Club 09: CVPR Warm-up & Founders Spotlight — DeltaWorld + VisuoTactile Dexterous Hands | San Francisco 0523
🤖 Saturday Reading Club on Robotics & World Models for AI Researchers in SF Hosts: Junfan Zhu, Aurora Feng discord.gg/WH7DrTHRXK Hosted by Junfan Zhu and Aurora Feng. 67+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

What Is an AI-Native Law Firm?
This week, Anthropic launched Claude for Legal — 20+ connectors, 12 practice-area plugins, direct integrations with Thomson Reuters, Harvey, DocuSign, iManage, and more. The foundation model layer is now reaching into the workflows where lawyers actually live and work. Meanwhile, YC keeps backing AI-native law firms. Lawhive raised $60M. Eudia raised $105M. Carta acquired a law firm and transfer itself from a tech company to a real law firm! But what does "AI-native" actually mean — and what does it mean for every…
Learn Claude Code For Beginners (Women’s Workshop)
An event series teaching women how to use Claude Code, and make friends. Hosted by Jesse. 34+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Geospatial AI Happy Hour
An informal drink for people building in geospatial, Earth observation, remote sensing and climate mapping across SF and the Bay. The community here is real - Planet, Loft Orbital, Felt, Capella, Pachama, Sust, CarbonMapper, Clay, Atmo, Niantic Spatial, Saildrone, the Stanford remote-sensing crowd, indie founders but we're spread across a lot of different companies, modalities and use cases. Rarely all in one room. TerraByte is hosting. We come out of stealth Tuesday morning (GeekWire piece dropping), so we figure…
Stanford Dish Hiking
Hike & Chat: AI, Robotics, and Fresh Air Tired of staring at a screen all week? Let’s get outside, get moving, and talk about the stuff we love. This is a casual hiking event for builders, thinkers, and anyone curious about the future. What we’re doing: Get Fit: A good walk to get the heart pumping. It’s better than the gym and way better for your brain. Meet Cool People: No boring networking here. Just a chance to make new friends and meet interesting people. Talk Tech: We’ll be chatting about the latest in AI an…

Inference Mode #2: DeepSeek-V4
Let's discuss the DeepSeek-V4 technical report . We'll focus on optimizations for inference. Learn more here . Can't make it but want to come next time? Sign up for the mailing list .

The 0th World
"AI no longer creates dividends. It creates stratification." — Anthropic, 2026 AI in 2026 isn't about tools anymore. It's about who gets to stay in the economy. 🌍 Anthropic's founder just predicted the rise of "World Zero" — 10 million people globally, with 7 million packed into the Bay Area and 3 million scattered across the rest of the world . 50% GDP growth, a fully self-contained economy, structurally decoupled from everyone else. For the first time, the top no longer needs the bottom. This isn't inequality. I…

The Age of Agents: How AI × Web3 Is Reshaping Payments and Wealth
Eminence Tea House is a Bay Area-based house for Chinese AI founders worldwide to gather, connect, and exchange insights on global GTM and fundraising. Hosted by Eminence Tea House and Jessica Toh. SVP, Marcom Alpha Ladder. In Los Altos Hills, CA.

(For Visitors) HackStorm 2.0: Demo Show
Hosted by HackStorm and Zhennian Liang. 52+ attendees interested. In Mountain View, CA.
SummerBuild 2026
Themes: Beginner Friendly. Prize pool: $ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by DevHub@iLab, Innovation Lab @ NTU CCDS. NTU students

How an Agent-Native Language Can Make Agents More Reliable in Production
AI agents are moving from demos into real product workflows. But once agents are used in production, the challenge is no longer just “is it reliable?” If you are thinking about how to make AI agents more reliable in production, this will be a practical discussion on where agent workflow infrastructure may be heading next. We’ll discuss: Why current agent workflows are difficult to scale How to optimize your agent workflow to make them prod ready MDA, proposed intermediate language for making agent workflows execut…

AI x Hardware Engineering Dinner
Empowering Rapid, Data-Driven Decisions Across the Product Lifecycle Hosted by Burak Yenier | Scaling AI x Physics and Ceylin Yenier. In Mountain View, California.

Robots, AMRs & Autonomous Systems Night
Hosted by Pratik Sharda and Sanjil from Drift (godrift_ai). 16+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.
90/30 Club (ML reading) #54: TPU Performance
We meet weekly in-person to talk about new ML papers! Come and join the discussion! Hosted by James Burrell and Luke. 28+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Agent Skills Workshop at CAIS 2026
Workshop Link: https://agentskills-workshop.github.io/ Schedule: 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:15 Keynote: Foundations of Agent Skills 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 Keynote: Benchmarking Agent Augmentation 11:15 Contributed Talks — 4 papers 12:00 Lightning Talks 12:30 Lunch & Poster Setup 14:00 Keynote: Skills Optimization and RL 14:45 Contributed Talks — 3 papers 15:30 Poster & Demo Session 16:00 Live Skills Design Challenge — SkillsBench 16:45 Panel: Future of Procedural Knowledge 17:15 Best Paper Award & Closing Hackathon…

AWS x YC Founders Residency: Cowork from AWS & Build Your AI Stack
Hosted by Lea Twizer and Sahar Mor (Bond AI). 26+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

From Agentic AI to Physical AI: Talks + AI Agent Workshops, Ft AWS, Bedrock Robotics, Zoox & Knightscope
Silicon Valley’s go-to AI monthly forums, summits, and workshops hosted by TechEquity Ai for builders, leaders, and changemakers. 👇Join membership below for exclusive access👇 Hosted by TechEquity Ai and Sheena Tu. 859+ attendees interested. In Menlo Park, CA.

Build Night: Web Research Agents That Don’t Break in Prod x HackerSquad
Hosted by Bright Data and Adam Chan. 180+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.
SF AI Infra Seller Meetup #3
Hosted by Joseph McConnell and Daniel. 8+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Running AI at Enterprise Scale
AI-native on-call and incident response. Trusted by leading companies like NVIDIA, Squarespace, Canva, Figma, and more. Hosted by Rootly and Port.io. 94+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.

Engineering Leadership LIVE
Engineering leaders are holding excitement and dread about AI at the same time. The job description is changing faster than anyone can rewrite it. Engineering Leadership LIVE is an evening for that conversation. Three speakers, a room of peers, networking and snacks after. Speakers Gregor Ojstersek, CTO and author of Engineering Leadership , the newsletter read by 188K+ engineers and managers Talk: AI-Native Engineering Leadership Vinay Perneti, VP of Engineering, Augment Code Talk: We Thought AI Transformation Wa…

☕️ Codex Community Hackathon - San Francisco #5
Codex Community Mini-Hackathon, San Francisco With Guest Judge from OpenAI / OpenAI Codex Important note!!! Please come prepared with a ready idea, product concept, or pitch. There will be no dedicated coding time during the event. If you do not have a team yet, you will have about 30 minutes at the event to meet people and form a team. Before pitches begin, each team must submit an application through the QR code. Pitch session starts at 6:00 PM. Each team will have: 2 minutes to pitch 2 minutes for Q&A 1 slide m…
Google Gemini at Acropolis
Themes: Machine Learning/AI. Prize pool: ₹ 0. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by AITR Indore.

Frontier Tower AI Paper Reading Club - Week 17 - Open Registration
A 16-floor nexus for frontier tech in SF. Join us at https://frontiertower.io/apply Hosted by Frontier Tower and Thomas. 6+ attendees interested.
Cursor Hackathon Toronto Tech Week
Themes: Open Ended. Prize pool: $ 1,000. Upcoming submissions window. Hosted by Cursor.

How to AI Pill Your Company - by Decagon x a16z x Accel
Hosted by Matthew Portnov and Daniel Liem. 114+ attendees interested. In San Francisco, CA.