AI Events in San Diego, CA

Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in San Diego. Updated 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

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

Oct

Wed

8:00 AM – 8:00 PM PDT

Solix AI Hackathon

UC San Diego Atkinson Hall, Qualcomm Instituteby Solix Technologies, Inc.

Three-day enterprise AI hackathon at UC San Diego with tracks in data and AI, AI safety and security, pharma, finance, healthcare and social good.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

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

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