AI Events in San Diego, CA
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in San Diego. Updated daily.
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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.
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
Agents, Everywhere: Bots, Channels, & More, Global Hackathon
by AI Tinkerers San Diego
AI Tinkerers San Diego’s day-long builder hackathon for creating working agent prototypes, with resources from OpenAI, CopilotKit and OpenRouter.
Sep
14
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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.
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.
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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.
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
AI Happy Hour: Drinks and Intelligent Conversation
Botanicaby San Diego AI Meetup Group
Weekly after-work gathering in North Park for San Diegans building with AI or simply curious about it. No talks and no slides, just an open bar-side conversation among practitioners, founders and newcomers.
Sep
24
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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