AI meetups in San Diego

San Diego's AI meetups are where the scene actually gathers: LLM and machine-learning nights, live demos, and the hallway conversations that happen after the talks. Every upcoming AI meetup in the city, verified daily and almost always free to join.

Workshops Hackathons Conferences Networking Free events

Oct

Thu

5:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

Platform Engineering & AI: San Diego

by Intuit Open Source Meetup

Intuit Open Source Meetup hosts a San Diego evening of platform-engineering and AI discussions, developer talks, demonstrations and networking for people working with open-source technology.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Retrieval vs Inference

Venture X San Diegoby San Diego Software Engineers

Technical San Diego Software Engineers talk on when strong retrieval instructions and the right information can solve a problem without relying on more model inference.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Oct

Sat

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

North County AI Coffee Chat

Pannikin Coffee & Teaby North County AI

Informal Saturday morning coffee meetup in Oceanside where North County builders, practitioners and learners compare AI projects, tooling and open questions. No agenda, no speakers, just conversation over coffee.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

Nov

Mon

4:30 PM – 8:00 PM PST

San Diego Data Foundations Meetup

Intuit Incby Raj Parameswaran

San Diego practitioner meetup hosted by Intuit on the data platforms, semantic layers and reliable foundations that AI products depend on. The agenda is still being finalized, but registration is open.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Thu

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PST

Claude Code Users Group: November Monthly Meeting

University of San Diego Loma Hallby Claude Code Users Group

Monthly San Diego session at the University of San Diego working through agentic coding practice: Claude Code fundamentals, the Claude API, and building with the Model Context Protocol.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Nov

Sat

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST

North County AI Coffee Chat

Pannikin Coffee & Teaby North County AI

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

Dec

Sat

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST

North County AI Coffee Chat

Pannikin Coffee & Teaby North County AI

An informal Saturday coffee meetup in Oceanside for North County people building with, working with or learning about AI. Bring a current project, a question or simply curiosity and meet local practitioners.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

Dec

Sat

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PST

North County AI Coffee Chat

Pannikin Coffee & Teaby North County AI

Informal Saturday morning coffee meetup in Oceanside for North County people building with, working with or learning about AI. Bring a project, a practical question or simple curiosity, and meet local practitioners.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral