This Week in SF AI — May 17, 2026
SF Bay Area AI and tech events for the week of May 17, 2026 through May 23.
Your weekly guide to AI and tech events happening in San Francisco this week.
Monday, May 18
AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 | Bay Area
5:00 PM · AI Events SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/bootcamp-aiboo
Building Real AI Agents in Notion 🙆🏻 @Brisbane
12:00 AM · The Precinct, Level 2/315 Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006 · Build Club
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/0dd4m7we
Build with v0: Singapore Build Night ⚡
3:30 AM · Build Club
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/4nat4j3g
AWS Partner Showcase - Accelerate Agentic AI in Production
4:30 PM · AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA · SF Builders Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/r5u9sul6
Tuesday, May 19
From Demo to Production: Building Reliable AI Agents | Hands-On Wo
5:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/sw2vpqnl
Livecoding Music - Auwen Workshop
6:30 PM · 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/v3eqazw8
AI + Breakfast in Etobicoke
4:00 AM · Stacked Pancake & Breakfast House, 460 Renforth Dr #15, Etobicoke · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ai-breakfast5
Bring OpenClaw Into Your Mobile and Web App — Live Workshop, Mou
9:30 AM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/9bs9dyg7
🔥 GGW Pitch Bootcamp — Make Your Pitch Fundable
10:00 AM · AI Events SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/vv6bf8dw Ho
LLM fine-tuning with LoRA & QLoRA
12:00 PM · AI Builders SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/qph41frc Ho
Taco’bout AI Tuesday @ Tin Lizzy’s Kennesaw (w/ The AI Collective
1:30 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-at-5-19
🛋️ Vibe Coding Lounge
1:30 PM · Distillery Labs, 201 SW Adams St, Peoria, IL 61602, USA · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/kjq95rxy
West Midtown May Social (w/ The AI Collective)
2:30 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-at—wmid-5
Hack Day: Context Graphs for Multi-Agent AI
3:00 PM · AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/bchosur4
Genspark Claw World Tour - Boston
3:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/bgvmd18c
Wednesday, May 20
Agentic AI Founders’ Night-Out | Beyond Copilots, the Rise of Ag
5:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/hb9qgvun
Break My AI (May)
5:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/xtbpdx4q
SF Voice AI Meetup: Build a Voice Agent in 1 hour 🎙️
5:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/v2bksbb8
Level Up: GTM Leaders Meetup
5:00 PM · Newhall Nest Event Space, Swift Real Estate Properties, 260 Calif · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/8kcmp0v3
Founders Workshop w/ Pilot, Deel, Manifest Law, Scrut and SVB | Th
6:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/BoringYetImpor
Page One Accelerator Demo Day! - Cohort #1
6:00 PM · DG717, 717 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/machine-ejtc
AI Governance After Hours - San Francisco
6:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/sfaigovops
beginner touchdesigner workshop
6:30 PM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/jlj691zs
Zen & AI — What a Zen Physicist Sees: An Evening of Exchange wit
6:30 PM · Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center, 1972 Rock St, Mountain View, CA · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/f0nl3h4p
Luo esityksiä, jotka jäävät mieleen - Create presentations tha
7:00 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-fi-sales-a
The AI Collective Poland | AI–Human Synergy (Wroclove)
7:30 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-pl-5-20
Agents & Bagels #2: Weekly breakfast meet up for agent builders
8:00 AM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/bgrvu1wb
All The Things: IT & AI In Action
10:00 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/it_ai_action
AI Collective Casablanca #1 — Cas d’usage de Claude pour les ent
10:30 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ai-collective-
Founder Showdown: Signal or Noise?
11:00 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/2uyzceoo Ho
🧠 AI Founders Lab with The AI Collective NYC x Avahi
2:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/fdt12aoq
Demo Night: Personal Productivity (w/ The Hartford AI Collective)
2:30 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-ha-5-20
Building with AI: Claude Code and More (w/ The AI Collective)
2:30 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-st-5-20
AI Governance: From the Boardroom to the Battlefield (w/ The AI Co
2:30 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-at-5-20
The Rise of Everyday Data Scientists & Prompt Engineers 🚀 | The
3:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-mtl-5-20
AI x Mental Health Series - Session 4: Generative Art Therapy and
3:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aimentalhealth
AI Collective X UNT at Frisco: Pitch, Solve, Build
3:15 PM · UNT at Frisco, 12995 Preston Rd, Frisco, TX 75033, USA · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/n6phyi33
🧠 The AI Collective Salt Lake City | Building AI Governance: Po
4:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-sl-AI-Lega
Thursday, May 21
Scrappy (AI) Founders Go Karting
5:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/r68epw5k
Building Data Infrastructure for AI Agents
5:30 PM · Trellis Coworking & Events, 981 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 941 · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/5zskcl5y
AI Agents + Full-Stack Demo Night with Convex PostHog & AgentMail
5:30 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/mayconvexagent
[Workshop] Build your Agentmaxxing Team
6:00 PM · Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San Francisco · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/kylon-agentmax
Open Sound (open decks) - Every Wednesday
7:30 PM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/pxtznznf
Anyone Can AI - Singapore
2:30 AM · Build Club
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/4mgvoh1p
AI+CX Coffee/Breakfast Alpharetta (w/ The AI Collective ATL)
5:00 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-at-5-21-2
Validated: A Practical AI-Powered Ideation & Validation Workshop f
6:30 AM · Maria 01, Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180 Helsinki, Finland · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-fi-5-21
Muuta myyntidata ennakoiviksi päätöksiksi - Turn sales data int
7:00 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-fi-sales-a
Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF
8:00 AM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/v53ex8ug
The AI Collective #1 Prague Meetup
9:00 AM · TOK, Nitranská 985/13, 130 00 Praha 3-Vinohrady, Czechia · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/6ei9eat7
AI Collective × Descript: How leaders make Linkedin video in less
12:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-gl-4-30
AI Meetup Hudson Grille Tucker (w/ The AI Collective)
2:30 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-atl-5-21-t
Papo de Founders - Dilson, da CertiFace - Encontro #11 AI Collecti
3:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-sa-5-21
AI Demo Night (w/ The AI Collective)
3:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-bogota-dem
Scrappy (AI) Founders Play Pickleball
4:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/w52qaztf
Friday, May 22
SF Monthly Build Night
5:00 PM · AI Events SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/arize-build-ni
ICLR Paper Discussion (w/ AI Research Collective + Protege)
5:00 PM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-sf-5-21
GenAI: Tech Deep Dive into Real-Time Video Generation (Vol 2.)
5:30 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ndd8f9d0
Where is AI in 2026 and Where is it Going?
6:00 PM · Berkeley Public Library - North Branch, 1170 The Alameda, Berkele · AI Events SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/73k7v2bp
CapCut x Design Buddies Design Hackathon powered by Design Studio
6:00 PM · Pebblebed, 1417 15th St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · Build Club
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/design-hackath
Private Dinner: Scaling Shopify DTC Brands in 2026
6:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/qc2fp9nn
The missing data layer for ML: dltHub x LanceDB x DataHub @ SVAI
6:00 PM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/80pocni3
From Zero to YC to AI Scale: How to Build, Benchmark, and Raise.
7:00 PM · AngelList, 90 Gold St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA · AI Events SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/scaletoyc A
Creative Mornings San Francisco - register on CreativeMornings sit
8:30 AM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ie53itmw
AI in Production Mini Conference, May 2026
9:30 AM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/kv5fbucl
Cognee: Open-source Memory Layer for AI Agents - AI Build & Learn
12:00 PM · AI Builders SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/1kd5i9x8 Ho
Saturday, May 23
🛖 Hack am Hof | Buildathon #3 | The AI Collective Innsbruck
4:30 AM · Museum Tiroler Bauernhöfe, Angerberg 10, 6233 Kramsach, Austria · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/AICollective_I
Scalekit x Apify x Entire.io Hackathon - Build Day SF
9:00 AM · GenAI SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/hgje3k5a
Beyond the Chatbot: A Tour of the AI Universe (w/ The AI Collectiv
10:00 AM · GenAI Collective
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ai-that-touche
Cyberdeck Workshop
2:00 PM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF
Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/cyberdeck A
See all events on the full calendar.