63 side events around SF Open Source AI Week on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, in Bay Area. Times are local. Most need their own registration, not a conference ticket.
A free three-day build sprint for pre-seed founders at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. Judges from Stanford, Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft AI watch teams build, then question them on their decisions. Hosted by Mark Evans and Sahar Mor; registration needs approval.
ANDOR is a community-based user group under the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), enabling scalable agentic AI adoption within and across enterprises.
The Healing Power of What You Wear — From Heritage to AI 穿戴的疗愈力 从传统到 AI——非遗香云纱 × 珠宝 × 智能穿戴品鉴茶会 一袭香云纱，一颗宝石，一枚智能手链，一杯茶。 从指尖传承的非遗匠心，到腕间相伴的智能科技，穿戴承载着美，也传递着我们对自己的关照。 10月21日，邀你来到 Satori Club，在香云纱的肌理、彩色宝石的光泽与一盏茶香之间，放慢脚步，感受传统工艺与当代科技的相遇，探索属于自己的穿戴之美。…
Equipping Pastors for the AI Age You're invited to an exclusive first look at Project 1232 — a new video curriculum built to help pastors and ministry leaders navigate the age of AI with wisdom, discernment, and hope.
Join MilliporeSigma CDMO specialists for a Lunch & Learn on four of the most in-demand contract development and manufacturing service areas in life sciences today: ADC & Bioconjugation, Lipid & LNP, Viral Vector, and BioReliance Contract Testing.
Calling all AI Founders, Researchers, Compute Providers, and Model Builders in the Bay Area! Join us for a high-signal evening of BBQ, drinks, and deep-tech discussions in San Jose.
A fireside chat with Trae Stephens, Founders Fund general partner and Anduril co-founder, at South Park Commons. Doors open early for mingling. For founders, researchers and technologists in the SPC community; registration needs approval.
Two Startup Ecosystems. One Global Opportunity. October 21, 2026 | 3:00–6:00 PM Venture Dock, Palo Alto, CA Korea and India are home to two of Asia’s most dynamic and rapidly evolving startup ecosystems.
Join fellow Long Angle members for a happy hour at Standard Deviant Pier 70. Members will pay their own tabs. Spouses/partners are welcome; they just need a ticket.
Founder speed dating, the low-key version. No stage, no slides, no badge scanning. Grab a drink at Bean Scene Cafe (on you, the event itself is free), come sit outside, and meet people who are actually building something.
✨🪽💜VALKYRIES VS DREAM GAME 3 WEDNESDAY 10/21🏀 Join us to watch the @valkyries take on the Dream in game 3 of the Finals! ✨🪽💜 🔥 RSVPs do not guarantee entry.
Join us for a happy hour! This private gathering will bring together a small group of technical builders and AI leaders to share and learn from each other and discuss the most cutting edge technical innovations that are practical to adopt.
In San Jose for AGNTCon + MCPCon? Join MCPJam , Arcade , and Agentic AI Foundation for an evening of drinks, demos, and good company with the developers, founders, and builders shaping the agent stack.
💬 Too many apps. Too many conversations. What needs your attention? A request on Slack. A follow-up on LinkedIn. A promise made on WhatsApp. Important messages—and the tasks behind them—can easily get lost.
About the event AI Infrastructure Night brings together founders and engineers building the systems behind production AI. Four technical talks on building, deploying, and operating production AI systems.
The biggest challenge in enterprise AI isn’t making models smarter. It’s making them useful.
In town for PyTorch Conf? Join the Cerebras team for great conversation, food, and drinks with folks working on inference, training, and systems. 🥂
Tomas Halgas sold his first startup to Twitter, and his last one to Lovable. I also want to learn his magic.
Picture a city where the economy actually works — for people and the planet. That's the doughnut. Come find out what it looks like in San Francisco. Join the SF Doughnut Chapter at Trellis for an evening of play, provocation, and real civic input.
Join Unicorn Battle - Ukrainian Founders to get a chance to personally meet top VCs and fundraise.
A meetup on keeping long-running AI agents reliable: surviving crashes, acting on outside systems and staying observable. Talks and demos from Temporal, Kernel and Oodle.ai, then a panel and networking. For engineers running agents in production; approval required.
An evening at Sentry's SF office on how AI agents, MCP and APIs are changing support engineering. Speakers from Sentry and Plain, audience Q&A and open discussion. For support and customer-facing engineers; approval required.
Dinner at Stanford with two short talks on colorectal cancer biology and AI virtual cell models, by Ganesh Pusapati and Angela Oliveira Pisco. For researchers, computational biologists and drug discovery teams. Hosted by The Frontier Syndicate; approval required.
Join us at the SF War Memorial's Green Room for a lecture from Os Guinness. Os Guinness is an author, social critic, and great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer.
Join us for an intimate, upscaled, private dinner bringing together a small group of Chiefs of Staff from scaling companies.
A casual hardware x AI happy hour at the SnapMagic office in Dogpatch. 🍻 Engineers will share projects they're working on, we'll show what AI can already do in PCB design, and you'll get time to meet other founders and builders working on robots and…
Where capital meets innovation, and the open source community shapes the future of AI.
Open Source + AI Policy Happy Hour Open source AI is in the spotlight, drawing growing attention from policymakers, researchers, industry, and civil society.
Save the date! Mountain View - Happy Hour at Ludwigs Beer Garden Join us for a fun evening of TA Talk in Mountain View Meet fellow talent acquisition professionals, discuss talent tech, network, and enjoy drinks and food in a relaxed atmosphere.
A free open-source happy hour at Cloudflare's SF office before func(tion) at Oracle Park, with drinks, food and a DJ. Intros from Evan You, Fred Schott, Ryan Dahl, Bert Belder and others. Free; currently full.
There's a version of you that exists in the gap between what you've already built and what you actually want next. You know the feeling. The plateau that shows up after the win, when everything should feel like enough and somehow doesn't.
An OSS Week evening at Hogpatch for founders, maintainers and engineers building with open-source AI tools. Speakers from PostHog, Cline, Unikraft and other open-source startups lead short round-table talks, then drinks. Hosted by PostHog and 1984 Ventures; rolling approval.
Bioptimus CEO Jean-Philippe Vert presents M-Optimus, a biology world model that combines histology, single-cell and spatial data. A demo, Q&A, food and drinks. Hosted by Bits in Bio SF and MBC BioLabs; currently waitlisted.
Nomad Global Hub brings together builders, founders, and tech professionals for a night of curated networking and high-impact startup pitches.
Get ready for the October Rust meetup! The theme for this meetup is embedded systems. And we'll meet back at the Atuin office.
RSVP to join guest list. Space is limited— Bringing it home! Join us for a cocktail party celebrating the US release, with an artist presentation at 7:15 PM. Books and prints will be available.
Day One AI A private dinner for Founders and CTOs building AI companies. More precisely: for the ones who can’t shake the feeling that someone, somewhere, is building the exact same thing — faster. They are. We invited them too.
🤝 Most B2B founders don't start out as salespeople. But when you're getting a company off the ground, you're usually the one closing the first customers. For the first Early Days event, we're joined by Pete Kazanjy, author of Founding Sales .
Join us in Menlo Park for an evening featuring 10 startups from the Global Market Expansion Program (GMEP) , plus a featured talk on go-to-market strategy with Dennis Yao Yu .
Come meet fellow Engineering Managers across the Leopard.FYI community for a low key, invite-only EM Dinner 🥟💜 Connect with peers at your level, talk candidly about the challenges you're navigating, swap advice, and get to know other engineers facing similar…
Ahoy there! Mograph Club is in San Francisco this month, spookin' it up with our friends at Standard Deviant in the Mission. Are you a mover of keyframes? Do you dig cutting it up on a timeline or drawing up and designing bits that do?
From Lore to Logic: Building Interactive Worlds with AI + Figma Workshop led by Erik B What happens when you treat AI not just as a tool for generating content, but as a creative partner for building interactive experiences?
About TechWalk We're building a different sort of networking event for members of the Tech and SaaS communities to get outside, meet new people, and enjoy some fresh air, while practicing mindful movement.
Work is changing fast. New tools, new expectations, reorgs, and roles that don't look like they did a year ago. Some of us want to lead this change. Some of us are worried about what it means for our role.
Grand Rounds is an intimate dinner series for the SF healthcare community. Hosted by Aditya Narayan (biotech & life science), Mat Giladi (healthcare SaaS), and Abhi Ghavalkar (care delivery), the series brings together founders – and soon investors, hospital…
Discuss the latest in LLMs, robotics, simulation, and BCI, and other state-of-the-art research in a casual setting. Come today for access to our exclusive robotics series every week. Enjoy pizza and beverages on us.
AI-native companies aren't simply traditional software companies with AI added to the product. They're beginning to operate differently from the inside out. What happens when agents can do work that previously required entire teams?
Wanna grab a tasty beverage and talk startupish nerdery? First round is on me. :) Hackers/Founders meetups are laid-back affairs. We find a quiet watering
A casual bar meetup where engineers from recent Y Combinator batches trade notes on stacks, infrastructure and architecture tradeoffs. Hosted by Infisical and Mintlify, with drinks on them. 21+; approval required.
Hosted by Scalekit and BrightData A private roundtable dinner for engineering leaders building and deploying AI agents at scale. The conversation centers on one question: what actually breaks when you move an agent from demo to production?
Join us for an evening with people who are taking AI out of the demo and into factories, warehouses, ports and regulated industries.
A conversation on what it takes to turn an idea into a company, find product-market fit, raise capital, and scale as a female founder.
Gigascale Capital, in partnership with University Climate Ventures and Stanford Climate Week, invites a small group of Stanford students to an intimate dinner on Oct. 21 focused on the climate and energy.
Jeffrey Xu and George Bian are hosting founders, builders, and friends at Press Club on the 21st. Open bar and good finger foods! Looking forward to seeing you all there.
Join us for the next installment of Bedazzling Night at The Love Potion Library, where books get a little extra sparkle and creativity gets to run wild. Bring a book from home, or pick one up here, then settle in and add some shine to your read.
Come join the Fearn team for a fireside chat about everything patent related. You'll get questions answered and get to hear about strategies for early stage startups building patent portfolios.
You Can See Everything 👀 Jack & Jill is hosting a private screening of You Can See Everything in SF . It’s hard to think of a more infamous Silicon Valley story, so we figured there was no better crowd to watch it with than founders and VCs!
Come as you are — this is for technologists, students, church folks, and anyone who's curious. No background required.
This week: (not set on meetup, check schedule sheet) This event is always hosted in the classroom , there may be simultaneous events in the main room. Will cancel these if nobody shows up by 7:15pm. Meetup for Modern C++.
Nick Cammarata, of Goodfire, claims: The cause of polysemanticity in early model organisms wasn’t superposition, but several ordinary, mostly fixable issues.
🌐 Can two rival superpowers cooperate their way out of humanity's biggest threats?
PolyPaths are always evolving. Along the way, we gather identities, dreams, expectations, relationships, and stories, and sometimes, as we enter a new season, we have to decide what comes with us and what we are ready to shed.
Short films. Tall drinks. One night of mingling, artsy-fartsing, and fundraising. ABOUT THIS EVENT Filmmakers Yoko Tamada, Madison Mendes, Sydney Rincón, and Paola Zavala share their works in an indie micro-theatre style showcase bringing together locals in…
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