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B2B Founders Sail in the Bay
Monday, 5:00 PM PT · Fisherman's Wharf · BDev Ventures, Western Alliance Bank
An evening sail on the Bay with B2B founders and the VCs who back them.
Unofficial guideSan Francisco, Oct 5 to 11
SF Tech Week, Sorted.
1,586 events across 7 days. Here are the 49 worth your time, sorted by day and by lane. All times PT.
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Editor's Picks
The ones we would not skip, plus the week's featured events.
Fireworks, Stripe, VercelFireworks x a16z: Official Tech Week Kickoff w/ Vercel, ElevenLabs, & StripeMon at 6:00 PM · Mission Bay
AnthropicClaude Founder HouseTue at 11:00 AM · SOMA
Pitch Roast Live, AtlassianPitch Roast LiveThu at 6:00 PM · Mission
Unicorner, a16z, Notiona16z x Unicorner x Notion: The Official AfterpartyFri at 8:00 PM · Lower Nob Hill
Bria, Fal, LTXBria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights PipelinesMon at 8:30 AM · SOMA
AWS for StartupsAI Visionaries ForumTue at 10:00 AM · FiDi
HSBC, a16z SpeedrunCapturing the Value of Intelligence - #SFTech WeekTue at 4:00 PM · Telegraph Hill
HubSpotThe Investment Game: In Pursuit of Series A [LIVE with a16z!]Tue at 4:00 PM · SOMA
Plan by Day
Every pick for the day you choose. Full and closed events are hidden.
Sunday, Oct 11
Morning
9:00 AMJackson SquareOpen
SpeedHacks: The Official speedrun Hackathon
speedrun + speedrun Alpha
Demos: The official closing hackathon of SF Hack Week: 12 hours, starting from zero.
9:00 AMEmbarcaderoOpen
The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon
MongoDB
Builders: A hackathon on agent memory, persistence and self-evolving systems.
10:00 AMUnion SquareOpen
Shopping 3.0: the AI Commerce Hackathon with Arcade
Arcade AI
Demos: An AI commerce hackathon with Arcade, sponsored by Forerunner Ventures.
Afternoon
12:00 PMCivic CenterOpen
15th Pakistan Tech Summit
Ejad Labs
Founders: The 15th Pakistan Tech Summit returns to San Francisco.
Pick Your Lane
Five ways through the week, time-sorted and grouped by day.
Builders. AI, agents, infra and dev tools.
Mon 10/5
8:30 AMSOMAOpen
Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelines
Bria, Fal, LTX
Builders: Open-weights models changed what you can build, and how much of the pipeline you own.
5:00 PMSOMAOpen
Eon x Shaun Maguire Fireside
Eon.io
Builders: Shaun Maguire and Eon's CTO Ron Kimchi on building for AI agents.
Tue 10/6
10:00 AMFiDiOpen
AI Visionaries Forum
AWS for Startups
Builders: A morning forum where the builders of physical AI come together.
11:00 AMSOMAOpenDon't miss
Claude Founder House
Anthropic
Builders: Anthropic's home base for the week: build, connect and take the stage.
5:00 PMFiDiOpen
Models to Medicine Series: From AI Drug Discovery to Patient Engagement
AWS for Startups
Builders: Pharma leaders, life sciences investors and AI-native biotech founders, in one room.
5:30 PMFiDiOpen
State of Models by OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Builders: Benchmarks show how models perform. This looks at how AI is actually used.
Wed 10/7
5:00 PMDowntownOpen
Far From the Frontier
Fana Labs, The Tribe Collective
Builders: A Tech Week evening for Black folks in AI, cohosted with Fana Labs.
Thu 10/8
2:45 PMHillsboroughOpen
Aaron Levie + Tanay Kothari @ AGI House | Turing Frontier Fellows
Turing
Builders: A private gathering for Turing Frontier Fellows and a curated group of builders.
Sat 10/10
9:00 AMFiDiOpen
Oasis Multi-Agent Hackathon
Oasis
Builders: A full-day hackathon for shipping something real with AI agents.
10:00 AMUnion SquareOpen
AI on Trial: The Liability Moot Court by Ollive
Ollive AI
Builders: An AI agent makes a costly mistake. A moot court on who is liable.
Sun 10/11
9:00 AMEmbarcaderoOpen
The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon
MongoDB
Builders: A hackathon on agent memory, persistence and self-evolving systems.
Survival Kit
Four rules, counted from all 1,586 events.
1,493
Still open to RSVP. Most events are approval-based. Apply today.
39
On a waitlist. Waitlisted? Show up anyway. Spots open as RSVPs drop.
49%
The top 3 neighborhoods (SOMA, FiDi, Downtown) host 49% of events. Stack your day in one.
386 vs 756
Morning has 386 events vs 756 in the evening. Fewer people, more face time.
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Unofficial guide by the CreateOS team. Not affiliated with a16z or Tech Week. Event data from tech-week.com, last updated .