Every startup, founder, investor and tech event worth going to in Bay Area, in one calendar. Picked by Yorkseed, updated continuously.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A two-day Linux Foundation conference in San Jose on open agentic AI: agent architectures, infrastructure and interoperability protocols like MCP. Speakers from Anthropic, Google and AWS, for engineers running agents in production. Paid tickets.
A half-day seminar of technical talks and panels on emerging open-source AI research, with speakers including Peter Norvig and Illia Polosukhin. Hosted by BuildPlanet with the Open Intelligence Foundation and NEAR AI. Approval required.
A Halloween networking happy hour in San Carlos for early-stage biotech founders, builders, investors and industry experts. A fireside chat and Q&A, then drinks, food and a costume contest. Co-hosted by Twist Bioscience, MBC BioLabs and others; approval required.
StepFun launches its open-weights Step 5 Preview model for developers, founders and investors, co-hosted with Together AI. A model walkthrough, a panel with Pear VC, Cline and Harvey, live Q&A and networking. Approval required.
A one-day hackathon at the AWS Builder Loft where builders, researchers, founders and investors build multimodal products using models from AWS and OpenAI. Teams of two to four must ship a working demo. Hosted by Beta University; approval required.
A weekend build event at Y Combinator's SF office where 175 selected builders use AI to ship products, with YC and partners judging. Open by application to pre-company founders, designers and non-engineers with two or more years of experience.
A weekend hackathon where engineers, designers and non-technical builders take on nonprofit challenges in climate, mental health, justice and the arts. Run by Hack for Social Impact with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and local nonprofits, with $5,000 in prizes. Approval required.
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