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The Bay Area’s best events—ranked by signal.

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This week’s signal board

July 27–August 2 · Curated · Times in PDT

Showing 116 of 116 relevant events

Must Attend

Tier 01 · 6 events

018.7Signal / 10Must AttendAIAgentic AI SummitSat · Aug 1, 9:00 AM UC Berkeley Campus BerkeleyTLDRUC Berkeley's RDI puts on a 2,400+ person summit on the hottest theme in tech — agentic AI — a top venue to scout frontier researchers, technical founders, and cutting-edge teams.Room signal2,486 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Official site

028.5Signal / 10Must AttendFintech/CryptoCircle × Pantera: The Agentic EconomyTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM Stanford, CaliforniaTLDRCircle (USDC) and Pantera Capital co-host a Stanford session on the agentic economy — where AI agents meet stablecoin payments, a hot fintech×AI frontier for investors and founders.Room signal119 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

038.4Signal / 10Must AttendAISF Private AI Founders & C-Suite Dinner ft. Partner at NEA ($35B+ AUM)Tue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM Private Upscale Venue (Location revealed upon RSVP approval) San FranciscoTLDRInvite-only, Chatham House Rule dinner of 25 for AI founders ($10M–$100M+ ARR), investors and enterprise AI leaders — featuring a partner from NEA ($35B+ AUM).Room signal25 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Supermomos

048.2Signal / 10Must AttendAILlamaIndex Founder Dinners 001: Loop EngineeringTue · Jul 28, 7:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRLlamaIndex's inaugural invite-only founder dinner — 15 seats for early-stage founders and CTOs actively shipping AI agents in production. Small, curated, and dead-on the hottest topic in AI infra.Room signal15 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

058.1Signal / 10Must AttendFounder/InvestorRobotics Founders & VCs Private Dinner · Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRInvite-style private dinner in Palo Alto bringing together robotics founders and VCs — an intimate 41-seat format ideal for sourcing physical-AI deals or meeting co-investors in a hot vertical.Room signal41 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

068.1Signal / 10Must AttendFounder/InvestorScaling revenue at Stripe and Vercel with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel)Thu · Jul 30, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRVercel COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser—who scaled revenue at both Stripe and Vercel—shares GTM playbooks; hosted by AI infra company Baseten with ~240 founders and operators.Room signal239 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

Strong Pick

Tier 02 · 69 events

077.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterprise AI at Scale: Talks + AI Agent Workshops, Ft Google, Snowflake, Thoughtspot & DatasaurTue · Jul 28, 3:30 PM 135 Constitution Dr Menlo Park, CaliforniaTLDREnterprise AI forum with hands-on AI agent workshops and talks from Google, Snowflake, ThoughtSpot & Datasaur teams — 800+ attendees make it a strong deal-sourcing and talent-scouting evening.Room signal993 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

087.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorOpen Batch 002 — Demo DayTue · Jul 28, 4:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRA batch demo day where early-stage founders pitch live to a 149-person room — prime turf for investors sourcing fresh deals and founders scouting talent and co-investors.Room signal233 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

097.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIMCP Graduation PartyTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMCP spec-graduation party from Arcade.dev and MCPJam drawing 300+ builders on the hottest agent-infra standard — prime turf to meet AI dev-tool founders and early engineers.Room signal308 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

107.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIPhysical AI over Coffee - Palo AltoTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM The Treehouse StanfordTLDRPhysical AI meetup near Stanford with 300+ builders and a deep speaker lineup — a hot-topic room for founders and investors scouting robotics/embodied-AI teams.Room signal318 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

117.8Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorFunding at the Frontier: hosted by ARIA, Bakar Labs, and IGIWed · Jul 29, 5:00 PM Berkeley, CaliforniaTLDR"Funding at the Frontier" pairs ARIA (the UK's ARPA-style research agency), Berkeley's Bakar Labs incubator, and IGI (gene-editing institute) — a deep-tech funding forum for founders and frontier-tech investors.Room signal99 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

127.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI SUMMIT @ STANFORDThu · Jul 30, 11:30 AM Stanford University, Stanford, CaliforniaTLDRAn AI Summit at Stanford with ~593 registered — a hot-topic gathering at a premier deep-tech campus, prime ground for sourcing AI teams and meeting technical founders.Room signal593 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Official site

137.8Signal / 10Strong PickAIBest Work Of Your LifeThu · Jul 30, 4:00 PM 275 Brannan St San FranciscoTLDRGitHub and design-tech leader John Maeda host a 300+ builder gathering in SoMa on doing your best work — a strong developer/founder crowd for talent and product-mindset networking.Room signal302 goingJohn Maeda · GitHub (Microsoft) · Tin Kadoic · OpenAIView on Luma

147.6Signal / 10Strong PickAIDurable Multimodal AI Meetup with HeyGen, Vapi, and ModalTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRMultimodal AI builder meetup co-hosted by Temporal, Vapi, Modal, and HeyGen — strong infra/dev-tool brands and a solid technical crowd for founders scouting agent and voice/video AI stacks.Room signal186 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

157.6Signal / 10Strong PickAI☕️ OpenAI Codex Community Meetup-San Francisco #8Thu · Jul 30, 5:00 PM San FranciscoTLDROpenAI Codex Community Meetup #8 in SF — a recurring, well-attended (231) developer gathering around frontier AI coding agents, hosted by HackathonSF and Funding Breakthrough Lab; strong builder crowd for founders scouting talent and trends.Room signal231 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

167.5Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonBuilt Different: Auth0 x Stripe HackathonThu · Jul 30, 12:00 PM Okta San FranciscoTLDRAuth0 x Stripe developer hackathon hosted at Okta HQ in SF — a strong builder gathering where 131 developers ship on auth + payments infra, ideal for spotting technical co-founders and early talent.Room signal131 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

177.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIBuilding Decagon from 0 to 1Mon · Jul 27, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDRA "0 to 1" founder story on building Decagon (AI customer-support unicorn), co-hosted by Decagon's Ashwin Sreenivas — a concrete blueprint for founders on going from idea to breakout AI company.Room signal113 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

187.4Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorPebblebed's Builders Late Night CaféMon · Jul 27, 7:30 PM San FranciscoTLDRPebblebed (an OpenAI-alumni seed fund) hosts a late-night builders café for 130 in SF — a relaxed founder-meets-VC scene to swap ideas and get on a seed fund's radar.Room signal130 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

197.4Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonAgents You Love 2 Hackathon - Open RegistrationTue · Jul 28, 8:30 AM Frontier Tower @ Spaceship 995 Market Street, San FranciscoTLDRA hands-on AI agents hackathon at SF's Frontier Tower — a full builder day on the hottest frontier-AI theme, ideal for founders scouting co-builders and investors spotting early teams.Room signal4 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

207.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI × Health Happy Hour at Esther Wojcicki’sTue · Jul 28, 4:30 PM Stanford, CaliforniaTLDRIntimate 45-person AI × Health happy hour hosted at Esther Wojcicki's Stanford home — a curated, small-format mixer at the intersection of two hot founder/investor themes.Room signal45 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

217.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIPhysical AI and Robotics MeetupTue · Jul 28, 5:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRPhysical AI & robotics meetup hosted by Category Ventures — a hot, timely deep-tech theme with ~78 attendees, good for founders and investors scouting the robotics frontier.Room signal126 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

227.4Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorThe European Founder RoomTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRIntimate 23-person room pairing European founders and technical builders with SF investors over warm 1:1s; hosted by ElevenLabs' GTM lead Marcos Valera.Room signal23 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

237.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIIntelligence in the Open — Edition 01: Reasoning, Evaluation & Long-Horizon AgentsTue · Jul 28, 6:00 PM San FranciscoTLDRFrontier-AI technical night on reasoning, eval and long-horizon agents — squarely on-trend for AI founders/investors, co-hosted by MiniMax, AI Valley and The AI Collective with 83 guests.Room signal83 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

247.4Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/CryptoHappy Hour with Monad Foundation, Electric Capital and Cloudflare @ SBCWed · Jul 29, 4:30 PM Palo Alto, CaliforniaTLDRCrypto happy hour co-hosted by Monad Foundation, Electric Capital and Cloudflare during SBC week in Palo Alto — a strong founder/investor mixer with Hack VC's Rodney and Electric Capital in the room.Room signal84 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

257.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIEngineering self-improving AI systemsWed · Jul 29, 5:00 PM AWS Builder LoftTLDRHosted at AWS Builder Loft with Qdrant, this 155-person builder gathering digs into production AI agents—self-improvement, safeguards, and feedback loops after agents go live.Room signal155 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

267.4Signal / 10Strong PickAICan We Close the Sim2Real Gap?Wed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM San FranciscoTLDRA focused robotics/physical-AI evening on closing the sim2real gap — a hot frontier topic for founders and investors scouting embodied AI and robotics teams, at intimate 56-person scale.Room signal56 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

277.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIBay Area Frontier Research Club #15 | Embodied AI (dinner + paper discussion @ Mission Robotics)Wed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDR15th edition of the Bay Area Frontier Research Club: an intimate 41-person dinner + embodied-AI paper discussion at Mission Robotics — curated technical company for founders and investors tracking physical AI.Room signal41 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

287.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIQualcomm x ZETIC x Liquid AI: Edge AI Builders MeetupThu · Jul 30, 5:00 PM Hanwha AI Center San FranciscoTLDREdge AI builders meetup co-hosted by Qualcomm, ZETIC and Liquid AI at Hanwha's AI Center — a focused, timely gathering on on-device/edge inference with serious corporate backing.Room signal58 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

297.4Signal / 10Strong PickAIEnterpriseMCP Night Series at WorkatoThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRWorkato + Agentic AI Foundation engineers (backed by Anthropic, Block, OpenAI) break down building enterprise MCP — a technical, timely night for builders working on agents and AI infra.Room signal34 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

307.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIAutonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Supply Chains - Silicon Valley Physical AI MeetupMon · Jul 27, 3:30 PM San Jose, CaliforniaTLDRPhysical AI meetup on autonomy across drones/UAV/USV/UUV and supply chains — a hot deep-tech theme with a full speaker slate and ~82 builders in San Jose, good for scouting robotics teams.Room signal82 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

317.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorFounder Gala | YC Startup School AfterpartyMon · Jul 27, 6:00 PM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDROfficial-adjacent afterparty for YC Startup School with ~178 founders — a prime, high-density night to meet YC-caliber builders and co-founder/deal prospects in SF.Room signal178 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

327.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIMCP V2 RELEASE EVENTTue · Jul 28, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDRMCP (Model Context Protocol) V2 release event hosted by Manufact (YC S25) with ~146 builders; features speakers from CopilotKit and YC-backed AI startups—a timely agent/dev-tools gathering for AI founders.Room signal146 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

337.2Signal / 10Strong PickFintech/Cryptoon Mercury - SFWed · Jul 29, 9:00 AM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDRMercury — the go-to bank for startups — hosts a 700+ person tech gathering in SF; a strong room of founders and operators for anyone building or sourcing in the startup ecosystem.Room signal717 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

347.2Signal / 10Strong PickAITelemetry-aware AI agents that act in Slack, Linear, and GitHub, without your production data leaving your cloudWed · Jul 29, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CaliforniaTLDRgroundcover x incident.io host a 190-person night on telemetry-aware AI agents acting across Slack/Linear/GitHub while keeping prod data in-cloud — a timely, technical draw for AI infra founders and dev-tool investors.Room signal192 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

357.2Signal / 10Strong PickHackathonHack Night - Can Your Agent-Written Code Survive Production?Thu · Jul 30, 4:30 PM Bright DataTLDRHands-on hack night stress-testing AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor) against real production, hosted at Bright Data — a builder-heavy room of 163 for founders scouting agent-dev talent and edge cases.Room signal163 goingBenjamin Hindman · Reboot.dev · Bright Data · Bright DataView on Luma

367.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIAgents and APIs Developer MeetupThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM CANOPY Jackson SquareTLDRAI-native design patterns and practical agent implementations at CANOPY Jackson Square — a hot topic drawing 347 builders, with a startup co-founder among the speakers. Solid ground for founders sourcing talent and technical co-founders.Room signal347 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

377.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Builders Pitch Night @ BrexThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM San Francisco, CA San FranciscoTLDRAI founder pitch night hosted at Brex's SF office — a curated ~50-person room of AI builders and investors, ideal for sourcing early deals or meeting technical co-founders.Room signal50 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Eventbrite

387.2Signal / 10Strong PickAIBuilder NightThu · Jul 30, 5:30 PM 660 Market St San FranciscoTLDRWorkOS and Pieces host a 124-person Builder Night in SF's FiDi — a developer-focused evening for founders and technical talent to network, demo, and swap notes on building modern software.Room signal124 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

397.2Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorPalo Alto, CA - Deep Tech Connections Networking BreakfastFri · Jul 31, 8:30 AM Palo AltoTLDRA 195-strong deep tech networking breakfast in the heart of Palo Alto — solid morning venue for founders and investors to source deals and talent across frontier tech.Room signal195 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

407.0Signal / 10Strong PickFounder/InvestorInvestors Summer DrinksMon · Jul 27, 5:30 PM Palo AltoTLDRAn investor-focused summer mixer in Palo Alto drawing ~82 guests — a low-key, well-sized networking evening for founders raising and VCs sourcing in the heart of Sand Hill country.Room signal117 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma

417.0Signal / 10Strong PickAIAI Breakfast @ Tesla hosted by Founders Bay x You.comWed · Jul 29, 10:00 AM Tesla San FranciscoTLDRCurated AI founder breakfast for ~63 at Tesla, co-hosted by Founders Bay and You.com — a solid, on-topic networking morning for builders and investors in the SF AI scene.Room signal214 goingHosts not yet researchedView on Luma View on Eventbrite