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

Sep

Thu

Tomorrow

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Nucleate San Diego Inside Series: State of AI x Biotech

Bioterraby Nucleate San Diego

Panel at Bioterra in Sorrento Valley on where AI is already producing measurable value in biotech R&D, covering foundation models for biology, AI-enabled discovery platforms, lab automation and the experimental validation problem.

MeetupFreeIntermediateResearchersBusiness

Sep

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

Sep

Mon

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Autonomous Vehicle (RC): Beginners and Builders

Coronado Brewing Company San Diego Tasting Roomby San Diego Robotics Club

Monthly DIYRoboCars build night in San Diego where attendees work on neural-network-driven autonomous RC vehicles, from small scale models up to full size, over food and drinks. Beginners welcome.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

Prototyping in the AI Era

San Diego Made Factoryby SDXD (San Diego Experience Design)

Free San Diego panel on how AI is changing product-design prototyping, featuring designers and Magic Patterns leaders discussing tools, tradeoffs, evolving roles and practical workflow changes.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Sep

Mon

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

IEEE Consultants' Network: Use and Deployment of AI Specialists

Leucadia Pizza UTCby IEEE San Diego Section

IEEE San Diego's Consultants' Network hosts Matthew Zimmer for a practical discussion of how AI specialists create value, the skills non-specialists need to work effectively with them, and peer networking for regional technology consultants.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Sep

Tue

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Open Source, On-Premises AI: A Practical Implementation Guide

Venture X San Diegoby San Diego Software Engineers

Practical San Diego session on running AI locally, covering open-source models, graphical and agentic tools, virtualization and self-hosted LLMs. The talk includes demonstrations of an on-premises workflow for engineers exploring more control over their AI stack.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Wed

4:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

San Diego AI Studio Sharathon

Brew Coffee Spotby San Diego AI Studio

An in-person La Mesa show-and-tell for people building with AI. Bring a project to share, trade notes on tools such as Claude Code or Codex, or simply meet local developers, founders and curious newcomers.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Sep

Thu

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

AI Meetup San Diego: GenAI, LLMs, and Agents

by Google Cloud San Diego Meetup

Local AI developer meetup in San Diego featuring technical talks, hands-on code labs and workshops on generative AI, large language models and agents, plus food, drinks and networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersResearchersStudents

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Google Cloud San Diego Community Meetup

Google San Diego, Building 6420by Google Cloud San Diego Meetup

Evening community meetup at Google's San Diego campus covering AI, cloud infrastructure, big data and emerging technology, with talks and networking for local engineers and architects.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Where Does WordPress Fit Today? The Right Tool for the Right Job

Ansir Coworkingby San Diego WordPress Meetup

San Diego WordPress Meetup explores how AI-generated sites compare with WordPress for long-lived business work, covering maintainability, ownership, practical development tradeoffs and an open community discussion.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Thu

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Claude Code Users Group: October 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

Oct

Sat

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

North County AI Coffee Chat

Pannikin Coffee & Teaby North County AI

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

Oct

Mon

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Autonomous Vehicle (RC): Beginners and Builders

Coronado Brewing Company San Diego Tasting Roomby San Diego Robotics Club

Monthly DIYRoboCars build night in San Diego where attendees work on neural-network-driven autonomous RC vehicles, from small scale models up to full size, over food and drinks. Beginners welcome.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

Oct

Sat

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

North County AI Coffee Chat

Pannikin Coffee & Teaby North County AI

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

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