AI meetups in San Francisco

San Francisco'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

Sat

2:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

AI Infra Signal: Build, Operate and Monetize Intelligence

by Openstages

A Sunnyvale afternoon for practitioners discussing the rapidly changing AI stack, from model development and deployment systems to operating intelligence as a product.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Sun

2:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT

Agentic Commerce: Designing the Next Business Infrastructure

Plug and Play Tech Centerby UCAN by Alibaba Design

A Sunnyvale gathering on agentic commerce, examining how AI systems can take trusted, controllable action across sourcing, fulfilment, service and business workflows.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

2:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT

Agentic Commerce: Designing the Next Business Infrastructure

Plug and Play Tech Centerby UCAN by Alibaba Design

A Sunnyvale meetup at Plug and Play Tech Center on agentic commerce, examining how autonomous AI systems may reshape the infrastructure behind business transactions.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Tue

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Working with AI: Guard Rails

O'Reilly's Pubby San Francisco Working with AI / Developers Interest Group

A free weekly San Francisco developers round table, this week on the safety and security practices teams put around LLM-driven projects before they ship.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Wed

5:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT

Data for AI: Access to Understanding

Silicon Valley AI Hubby Data For AI Events

A Menlo Park evening for engineers working on the data and context layer behind useful AI agents and production AI systems.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Thu

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

AI Demo Series: September Edition

by Startup Grind Silicon Valley

Startup Grind Silicon Valley's in-person San Francisco AI demo night, with rapid founder demos, investor feedback and networking for local builders.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Sat

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Bay Area AI War Room: San Francisco Edition

Joe & The Juice Market Streetby Bay Area AI War Room

The San Francisco leg of a free biweekly Saturday morning AI discussion group, meeting at a Market Street cafe. Open, drop-in, and driven by whatever attendees bring.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralDevelopers

Sep

Tue

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Working with AI: Unit Tests

O'Reilly's Pubby San Francisco Working with AI / Developers Interest Group

A free weekly San Francisco developers round table, this week on what LLMs do to test coverage and whether generated tests reduce or quietly add technical debt.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Tue

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Daytona AI Builders: SF, September 2026

by Daytona

A San Francisco AI engineering meetup from Daytona with WorkOS and LlamaIndex, featuring technical talks, product demos and time to meet local builders.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Working with AI: Requirements

O'Reilly's Pubby San Francisco Working with AI / Developers Interest Group

A free weekly San Francisco developers round table, this week on using LLMs to sharpen requirements work before any code gets written.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopers

Sep

Wed

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT

AI Workflows PMs Use Every Day

Criblby ProductTank SF

A San Francisco ProductTank gathering where product practitioners share the dependable AI workflows they use day to day, including the context, tools and human checks that make them work.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Sat

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Bay Area AI War Room: Berkeley Edition

Victory Point Cafeby Bay Area AI War Room

A free biweekly Saturday morning AI discussion group at Victory Point Cafe in Berkeley, covering models, agents, systems, ethics, law, business and art in an open format.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralDevelopers

Oct

Sat

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Bay Area AI War Room: San Francisco Edition

Joe & The Juice Market Streetby Bay Area AI War Room

A free biweekly Saturday morning AI discussion group meeting at a Market Street cafe in San Francisco. Drop-in format, no speakers, wide-ranging conversation.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralDevelopers

Oct

Wed

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT

Agents in Production: DevTools Demo Night

by Scalekit

A Menlo Park demo night from Scalekit on the developer tools, permissions and infrastructure required to operate AI agents in real products.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Nov

Wed

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST

Agents in Production: DevTools Demo Night

by Scalekit

The November San Francisco edition of Scalekit's recurring demo night for developer tooling built around production AI agents.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Nov

Sat

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST

Bay Area AI War Room: Berkeley Edition

Victory Point Cafeby Bay Area AI War Room

A free biweekly Saturday morning AI discussion at Victory Point Cafe in Berkeley. Open, drop-in, covering models, agents, systems, ethics, law, business and art.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralDevelopers

Nov

Mon

9:30 AM – 7:00 PM PST

2026 Super Demo Day

by Open Source for AI

A San Francisco AI demo day from Open Source for AI, showcasing selected startup demos and offering a full day for builders to see emerging AI products.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessResearchers