This Week in SF AI — August 16, 2026

Your weekly guide to AI and tech events happening in San Francisco this week.

Sunday, August 16

Bog-a-thon III — rust, incremental comp, & agents

1:00 PM · GenAI SF

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SF AI Code And Coffee Sunday August 16th!

2:00 PM · Salesforce Park, 425 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA · GenAI SF

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Monday, August 17

AI Agent Builder Day

9:30 AM · GenAI SF

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Stripe Startups Build Day Sydney

4:00 PM · ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia · Build Club

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Reading Group (+🧋): Train-to-Test (T²) Scaling Laws

4:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Tuesday, August 18

Move it Forward: Workato × AI Valley

5:00 PM · GenAI SF

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🌐 AI Cluster Meetup - Neuromorphic Computing: The Brain’s Lesso

5:00 PM · 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, 350 California St 4th floor, San Fr · GenAI SF

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Moonlighting with Gemini + Exa

5:30 PM · WorkOS, 660 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA · Build Club

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Builders Campfire

6:00 PM · Homebrew Club, 111 Maiden Ln #540, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA · GenAI SF

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Trossen Academic Night @ Mission Robotics

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Scrappy AI Founders Play Soccer

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Grow your startup through content

6:30 PM · AI Events SF

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AI Founders Lunch & Learn

1:30 AM · Maria 01, Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180 Helsinki, Finland · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-fi-8-18

ModCon 2026

7:30 AM · Grand Hyatt San Francisco, 345 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA 941 · GenAI SF

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Founder Breakfast

9:00 AM · GenAI SF

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Wednesday, August 19

The Agent Harness Workshop

5:00 PM · 525 Market St. 2nd Floor AWS Builder Loft · SF Builders Collective

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Salt Bread Maxxing: Shio Pan x Multiplayer AI, feat. Tano SF

5:00 PM · GenAI SF

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SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with VAST Data

5:30 PM · DG717, 717 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · AI Events SF

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The AI Dev Stack: Beyond Code w/ Antimetal, Fireworks, Braintrust

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Agentic AI Knight Turku

7:00 AM · Business Turku, Tykistökatu 4 B, 20520 Turku, Finland · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-fi-8-19

AI Fundamentals for Small Business Owners (w/ The AI Collective)

2:30 PM · Improving, 11675 Rainwater Dr #100, Alpharetta, GA 30009, USA · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-at-8-19-1

Building with AI: Stamford Micro-Hackathon (w/ The AI Collective)

2:30 PM · GenAI Collective

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3:00 PM · GenAI Collective

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Vibe Coding for Non-Technical LeadersHands-on Virtual Workshop by

4:00 PM · Build Club

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Thursday, August 20

Recursively Self-Improving AI & AI Neofactories

5:00 PM · JJ Lake Business Center, 340 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain View, CA · GenAI SF

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Agents in Production: DevTools demo night

5:30 PM · Build Club

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Bring Your Own Cloud: Running Software in Customer Environments

5:30 PM · AI Events SF

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Seltz & Friends Private Dinner

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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AI After Hours - Luma, Dolby & Pickford

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Venture Week Afterparty - Finding next Moat

6:30 PM · San Francisco, CA, USA · AI Events SF

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Founder Dinner

6:30 PM · GenAI SF

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A Poem is a Machine Made Out of Words: Writing and AI

7:00 PM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF

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PDX AI Expo Second Webinar

7:00 PM · GenAI Collective

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Batchery Startup Studio Office Hours (w/ The AI Collective)

7:00 AM · GenAI Collective

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Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF

8:00 AM · GenAI SF

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Burning Budgets on Agents That Don’t Deliver?

9:00 AM · GenAI SF

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AI Infrastructure: Talks + AI Agent Workshops

3:00 PM · 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA · GenAI SF

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Prompting Desvelado: Secretos que Funcionan (w/ The AI Collective)

3:00 PM · GenAI Collective

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Pickle Talk: Manufacturing Execs × AI Founders (seed to series A)

4:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Friday, August 21

SF Rooftop Tech Mixer & Demo Night

5:00 PM · AI Events SF

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Seattle RAG & Agent Context with Vector Stores | AI Hacknight

5:30 PM · AI Builders SF

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Build a Dataset, Fine-Tune a Model: One Night on Nebius - Open Reg

6:00 PM · Frontier Tower 🧑‍🚀, 995 Market St, San Francisco, CA 9410 · AI Events SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/build-a-datase

Open Models, Production Agents: The New Economics of AI-Native Eng

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Agents are changing the web with Parag Agrawal (founder, Parallel)

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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Trossen + Intel - Industry Night @ Mission Robotics

6:00 PM · 3001 19th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA · GenAI SF

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ai open mic | comedy night

7:00 PM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF

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AI Founders + Engineers Billliards Night

7:00 PM · GenAI SF

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ClawCamp Nairobi

12:00 AM · ALX Kenya - The Piano, The Piano, 171 Brookside Dr, Nairobi, Keny · Build Club

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/clawcamp-nairo

How To Build A One Person Company With AI

5:00 AM · GenAI Collective

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Hack for Humanity: Canberra

5:00 AM · Birch Building #35, 2.39, Level 2, Room/35 Science Rd, Acton ACT · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/h4h-canberra

Friday Build & Bluff: Co-working + Poker at AGI, Inc.

10:30 AM · GenAI SF

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Reinforcement Learning in MuJoCo - AI Build & Learn

12:00 PM · AI Builders SF

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Saturday, August 22

AI Happy Hour with WeAreDevelopers

5:00 PM · SF Builders Collective

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Become an AI Builder: Create Your First Project in One Night

6:00 PM · AI Events SF

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[Beginner 101] Claude Dashboard for CEOs and HODs

6:00 PM · GenAI Collective

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A Night of Computational Theater

6:30 PM · tiat, 151 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA · AI Tinkerers SF

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Practical Agentic AI - Build with AI Series (w/ The AI Collective

10:30 PM · GenAI Collective

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Build with AI

10:30 PM · GenAI Collective

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Penang Coffee Tech Talk #001

11:30 PM · GenAI Collective

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Founder Brand Lab: Personal Branding Workshop for Founders (w/ The

1:30 AM · GenAI Collective

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The Invisible Hand: How AI is Quietly Shifting Power in Pakistan (

4:00 AM · GenAI Collective

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Next Stop: Antigravity Games [Indonesian]

5:30 AM · Build Club

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AI JamFest at Backboard.io | Saturday Build Session (w/ The AI Col

9:00 AM · 34 Capital Dr, Ottawa, ON K2G 0E9, Canada · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-ot-8-22

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