Workshops, talks, and gatherings to get you out into San Francisco.
AI Valley, MeritMap, and E1B2 will bring immigrant founders together for pickleball and conversation about building strong professional profiles, including pathways such as O-1A and EB-1A. The gathering will connect first-generation founders and entrepreneurs navigating their next steps in a relaxed, beginner-friendly setting.
Explore eventThe application-only AI Engineer Code Summit will bring together leading coding-agent builders and AI engineers for three days of focused exchange, November 10–12, 2026.
Explore eventCloudflare and U.S. Ski & Snowboard will launch a developer challenge using real competition footage and data to build AI-powered tools for snowboard trick analysis and alpine race telemetry. Developers will hear about the technical tracks, starter resources, and Cloudflare platform; submissions will be due November 30, with event VIP tickets and Cloudflare credits among the prizes.
Explore eventAttendees will need to register through the event page and complete a separate required registration form.
Explore eventBuild Club will host a three-hour voice AI hackathon ahead of VapiCon, where up to 80 approved builders will create, test, and demo working voice agents. Teams will compete for prizes from Vapi, Exa, Deepgram, Manus, and Seeed Studio, with approved attendees receiving $150 in builder credits.
Explore eventOpenRouter and Meta Superintelligence Labs will bring developers together for a talk on the Muse model family, led by Saurabh Baji, Meta’s Senior Director of Engineering, followed by a 60-minute hands-on build challenge with complimentary credits and product experts on hand. Participants can explore practical Muse applications and demo their creations.
Explore eventAICamp and Workato’s AI Dev Showcase Night will feature technical talks, Q&A, hands-on labs, demos, and networking focused on practical AI innovation. Speakers will include Chris Miller, Workato Staff Software Engineer, and Prathmesh Patel, CEO of MCPJam, with more to be announced.
Explore eventThe SF Database Meetup will feature Manish Rai Jain, Egres founder and Dgraph founder, on reimagining Postgres, and Xiangpeng Hao, SpiralDB creator of bbtree and LiquidCache, on building a high-performance Rust ordered map with LLMs and rigorous correctness checks. Talks, Q&A, networking, and database swag will round out the evening.
Explore eventBuilders Night will give software, hardware, business, and creative builders focused time to make progress alongside others, with a quiet work sprint and a share-back for lessons, asks, and peer support. It will bring together AI-first builders and operators seeking accountability and momentum.
Explore eventAfter Tokens will bring engineers building AI economy infrastructure together for technical talks and production-system breakdowns on metering, pricing, billing, entitlements, cost control, and moving beyond token-based models. Hosted by Stigg, the one-day conference will explore how AI usage connects to what customers actually buy.
Explore eventVantaCon will bring together 650+ practitioners from leading companies and leaders shaping AI trust and governance. Attendees will share proven AI-risk strategies, practical frameworks, and perspectives that will help set the agenda for trust.
Explore eventML engineers, data scientists, AI leaders, and infrastructure professionals will get hands-on experience fine-tuning NVIDIA Nemotron 3 with Amazon SageMaker AI, evaluating it against a baseline, and deploying it to a real-time endpoint. The workshop will cover when to prompt or fine-tune and how customization can improve production AI agents while managing accuracy, latency, and cost.
Explore eventRun by Apify will bring founders, developers, and technical teams building with Apify Actors together for a single-track day of keynotes, live demos, and practical lessons from production. Attendees will connect with experienced builders and the Apify team, with catering and an evening reception also planned.
Explore eventAI leaders from Akamai, NVIDIA, IDC, and Reactor will explore distributed inference, secure agentic workloads, and real-time multimodal AI through expert talks, live architecture demos, and hands-on infrastructure testing. CTOs, founders, and engineering leaders will also hear futurist Salim Ismail’s perspective on how AI will reshape organizations.
Explore eventThe Residency F26 Demo Day will showcase ambitious founders building across AI, robotics, computing, data networks, and hardware, with demos followed by networking and startup booths. The Residency’s proven global network spans 16 residencies across three continents and has supported seven companies valued at $100 million or more, including unicorn Prime Intellect.
Explore eventSmall-business operators will learn Notion fundamentals, explore workflows tailored to retail, e-commerce, or services, and build a practical Business OS with guidance from Notion experts. The beginner-friendly, hands-on session will also add an AI layer to a real business workflow such as scheduling, inventory, client management, or content.
Explore eventThe Terna Innovation Zone Forum 2026 will examine how AI, data center growth and digitalization are reshaping electricity infrastructure, with transatlantic perspectives on grid connections, capacity and deploying GridTech. Speakers will include energy and innovation leaders such as Steve Westly of The Westly Group, Terna’s Daniele Vitullo, and EPRI’s Sandra Chavez.
Explore eventSouth Park Commons’ Design Chat with Soleio will feature Alex Cornell, Design Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, discussing his work on Meta’s Muse AI agent and a product design career spanning Meta, Linear, Substack, and startups he co-founded. Cornell has led major products including Facebook Live and the Meta AI app, and his music has earned over 50 million Spotify plays.
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