AI events in San Diego this week

Your next seven days of San Diego AI: every meetup, workshop, hackathon, and networking night coming up this week, verified daily.

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U.S.-Mexico AI Summit 2026

Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicineby U.S.-Mexico AI Summit

Cross-border summit in La Jolla on artificial intelligence governance, innovation and policy collaboration between U.S. and Mexican academic, public-interest and technology partners.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsResearchersBusinessDevelopersStudents

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT

CNS Research Review 2026

UC San Diegoby UC San Diego Center for Networked Systems

Two-day UC San Diego research review for corporate members and invited guests, covering networked systems research including machine learning systems, generative AI, AI infrastructure and data-driven computing.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedResearchersDevelopersBusiness

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT

AI in Healthcare Forum

Omni San Diego Hotel at the Ballparkby HIMSS

Two-day San Diego conference for clinicians, health-system leaders, technologists and researchers on deploying AI safely, equitably and at scale across healthcare organizations.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessResearchersDevelopers

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT

HIMSS AI in Healthcare Forum 2026

Omni San Diego Hotel at the Ballparkby HIMSS

Two-day San Diego forum for clinicians, health system leaders, technologists and innovators focused on real-world healthcare AI, including implementation, governance, policy and responsible adoption at scale.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessResearchersDevelopers

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

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