This Week in SF AI — September 20, 2026

SF Bay Area AI and tech events for the week of September 20, 2026 through September 26.

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Weekly What's happening in Bay Area AI this week.

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

Sunday, September 20

SF AI Code And Coffee Sunday September 20th!

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

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/fxkf0luc

💎GemJam: Use AI to Make & 3D Print Jewelry in One Night!

2:00 PM · AI Tinkerers SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/machine-tc6s

Monday, September 21

Battle of the Personal Brains Hackathon 🧠

4:00 PM · Bright Data, 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/sep-21-cognee-

Tuesday, September 22

STUDIO WORKS #1/7 | On artist studios

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

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/studioworks1

Daytona & ZeroClick AI GTM Breakfast - SF, September 2026 @Corgi C

9:00 AM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ai-gtm-breakfa

Rows & Columns Summit

9:30 AM · The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/clickh-wavw

Office Hours (w/ The AI Collective)

2:00 PM · TolHouse, 1447 N Summit St, Toledo, OH 43604, USA · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/tol-office-hou

Wednesday, September 23

Robotics Demos & Meet

5:00 PM · Bright Data, 625 2nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA · SF Builders Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/bright-hboi

WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America (with Docker & GitHub

5:00 PM · San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose · SF Builders Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/fdz7uw6n

A Night with AI Builders, Startup Stories & Community — Celebrati

5:00 PM · 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/7mdzwof8

Agents & Bagels: Weekly meet up for agent builders

5:00 PM · GenAI SF

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

Graphs for Engineering

5:00 PM · AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA · GenAI SF

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

The Kickoff: Larry Fitzgerald on Backing Founders

5:00 PM · AI Events SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/j31j5oee

The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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

Stripe Developer Meetup San Francisco September 2026

6:00 PM · Stripe, 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ntusn7f5

🧠 AI Founders Roundtable with The AI Collective SF x Avahi

6:00 PM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/avahi-sf-0926

Blackboard Lectures on Tap

6:30 PM · SF Builders Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/greptile-ke3n

Tasmanian AI Collective || Monthly Meetup (Hybrid) (w/ The AI Coll

1:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/pxaox8dc_ A

AI and the Future of Work (w/ The AI Collective & netlight)

8:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-industry-b

Builders Breakfast & Cowork

8:30 AM · Corgi Cafe, 9 Claude Ln, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA · SF Builders Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/cometml-dbzj

Technology, AI and Addictive Behaviors: Can They Be Treated?

9:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-gl-9-23

AI transformations: Do’s & Don’ts

9:00 AM · Bugatti Rimac d.o.o., Kerestinečka cesta 54, 10431, Kerestinec, · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/AI-transformat

Tomorrow’s Builders: A Showcase of Young Innovation (w/ The AI Col

2:30 PM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-at-9-23

Thursday, September 24

Twilio Assemble SF: The Future of Comms + AI

5:00 PM · Studio By Tishman Speyer, 365 Toni Stone Xing, San Francisco, CA · SF Builders Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/kwdnwg1g

AI Trivia and Game Night: WeAreDevelopers Pre-Party with PagerDuty

5:00 PM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/prtcc7pw

Daytona & SambaNova AI Builders - San Jose, September 2026

5:30 PM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/ai-builders-sa

Cut Your Cloud Bill Without Breaking What Works

6:30 PM · UTS Startups, 3 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia · Build Club

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/hof4dskb

Physical AI Deployment in Business

6:30 PM · AI Events SF

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

Build Something Useful With AI — Live

9:45 PM · UTS Startups, 3 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia · Build Club

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/6ll2qt4j

Vibe-Coded It. Now Make It Real.

11:00 PM · UTS Startups, 3 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia · Build Club

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/fssj2bdb

Sovereign by Design: Control, Resilience and Innovation (w/ The AI

8:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/NEA-IAC-on-sov

AI and the Future of Work in the EU (w/ The AI Collective)

8:30 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-buc-fow

DevGuild: The Long Horizon Stack

9:00 AM · AI Events SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/long-horizon-s

Lunch & Hack: AI Agents vs Agentic Workflows (w/ The AI Collective

10:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-gl-9-24

Building Brands AI Can’t Fake (w/ The AI Collective)

11:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-gl-9-25

Building Brands AI Can’t Fake

11:00 AM · GenAI Collective

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Practical AI at Work: Create a “Write Emails Like Me” Skill

12:00 PM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/xb9vlwe9 Ho

HackerSquad Meetup @ WeAreDevelopers

3:00 PM · San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 150 W San Carlos St, San Jose · SF Builders Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/hackersquad-me

From AI User to AI Builder - Base44 x AI Collective (Miami)

3:00 PM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/AIC-Base44-FIU

Codex Meetup & Talk – Charlotte

3:00 PM · CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) Connection Center, 14815 Ballantyne Vill · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-ch-9-24

Scrappy AI Founders Play Pickleball (Seed to Series A)

4:00 PM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/tvnkm13y

AI and the Future of Work (w/ The AI Collective) in Tulsa

4:00 PM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-tu-9-3

The Token Economy: Programmable Money Meets Real Commerce differen

4:30 PM · 1070 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/beta-17kf A

Friday, September 25

Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup

5:30 PM · CANOPY Jackson Square, 595 Pacific Ave 4th floor, San Francisco, · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/Sept-SF-Agents

Post Training (for Humans): Chess Night

5:30 PM · 1841 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/dosu-7bzh A

AI Happy Hour with WeAreDevelopers

6:00 PM · SF Builders Collective

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

Wine Down with Women in ML - Encord

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

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

AI Product GTM Session: Build Your Growth Experiment Engine

6:00 PM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/23q8emyx

6:00 PM · European Startup Embassy, 461 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94107, · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/peqlbc2t

Building active-active, multi-cloud systems

6:00 PM · 560 Davis St suite 250, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/rgj99uu9

How do you know your agent works when it scales beyond 1K sessions

6:00 PM · AI Events SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/gtmgg065

SF AI Takeover: Road to Basecamp

6:30 PM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/sui-vf50

Command Line Music - Auwen Workshop

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

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/uxq27x7y

TRACE THE UNSEEN: Climate Intelligence Build Day

5:30 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/etc-climate-ny

Demo Night #3 — Nos problèmes, nos solutions IA (w/ The AI Coll

11:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-ab-9-25

Saturday, September 26

El Pulso de la Innovación: IA y el Futuro de los Sistemas de Salu

5:00 PM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-ca-9-25

#chinamaxxing | Exhibition Opening @ TIAT

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

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

Hack for Humanity: Pune

8:30 PM · GenAI Collective

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

Hack for Humanity: Islamabad

11:00 PM · GenAI Collective

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

Hack for Humanity: AI for a Smarter Tirana | How AI can make every

1:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/h4h-ai-for-a-s

GTM Marathon

1:30 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-gtm-marath

Hack for Humanity with Qwen (w/ The AI Collective)

4:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-qwen-na-9-

Thunder Bay AI Hackathon

5:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-th-9-26

Building enterprise AI agents with Microsoft Foundry

5:30 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-co-9-26

Hack for Humanity: Build Day

7:00 AM · GenAI Collective

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/aic-dc-9-26

Hack for Humanity: Macon

7:00 AM · GenAI Collective

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

Hack for Humanity: Ottawa

8:00 AM · Sprott School of Business, Nicol Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, · GenAI Collective

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

Build Your AI Co-Founder Hackathon

9:00 AM · GenAI SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/26lidgb2

Showerhacks

10:00 AM · Entrepreneurs First, 501 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA · Build Club

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/99857qk9

Healthcare AI Hackathon

10:00 AM · AWS Builder Loft, First Market Tower, 525 Market St Entrance, San · AI Events SF

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/e9z9vuxz

See all events on the full calendar.