SF Bay Area Events: July 27-August 2, 2026
A ranked local shortlist for the week ahead, led by enterprise AI workshops, production-agent meetups, two substantial hackathons, physical AI, and Berkeley's Agentic AI Summit.
The week at a glance
Tuesday through Thursday carry the strongest technical calendar: enterprise AI workshops, a packed multimodal-agent meetup, a research salon on long-horizon agents, a production-operations demo, and two substantial builder events. The weekend has one large summit in Berkeley plus a smaller creative-community option in San Francisco.
A public weekly Bay Area digest lists 48 events for July 27-August 2, including remote programming. This is the shorter local shortlist, ordered by topic fit and quality signals such as a concrete agenda, a credible host, a technical audience, or visible demand. 1
All times are Pacific. Registration status can change quickly. Treat "approval required," "event full," and "register to see address" as real access constraints, not small print.
| Rank | When | Pick | Best for | Access |
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| 1 | Sat-Sun, Aug 1-2 | Agentic AI Summit | Research, founders, and AI policy | Paid tickets; exact venue after registration |
| 2 | Thu, Jul 30, 12:00-7:30 PM | Built Different: Auth0 x Stripe Hackathon | Shipping a monetized SaaS prototype | Approval required; prizes; 21+ |
| 3 | Tue, Jul 28, 3:30-8:30 PM | Enterprise AI at Scale | Enterprise AI, MCP, and workshops | RSVP required; limited capacity |
| 4 | Tue, Jul 28 | Durable Multimodal AI | Voice, video, and production agents | Approval required; 125 going |
| 5 | Thu, Jul 30 | Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup | Developers building AI-native software | Registration required; space limited |
| 6 | Tue, Jul 28, 6:00-9:00 PM | Intelligence in the Open | Researchers and technical founders | Approval required |
| 7 | Wed, Jul 29, 5:30-9:00 PM | Can We Close the Sim2Real Gap? | Robotics, simulation, and embodied AI | Approval required |
| 8 | Tue, Jul 28, 5:00-8:00 PM | Physical AI and Robotics Meetup | Robotics community building | Full; join the waitlist |
| 9 | Thu, Jul 30, 5:00-8:30 PM | Edge AI Builders Meetup | On-device AI and hardware | Full; join the waitlist |
| 10 | Wed, Jul 29, 5:30-8:00 PM | Telemetry-aware AI agents | SRE, platform, and security teams | Registration required |
| 11 | Wed, Jul 29, 5:30-8:00 PM | CSA San Francisco Chapter | AI governance and cloud security | In person; ticket details not listed |
| 12 | Mon, Jul 27, 6:00-9:00 PM | Light DAO Salon | Founder and investor conversations | Private club; approval review |
| 13 | Wed, Jul 29, 8:00-9:00 AM | Agents & Bagels | Builders shipping agents | Invite-only; approval required |
| 14 | Thu, Jul 30, 6:00-9:00 PM | Taste: A Physical AI Data Happy Hour | Robotics data and human judgment | Full; join the waitlist |
| 15 | Fri, Jul 31, 8:30-10:30 AM | Deep Tech Connections breakfast | Deep-tech founders, investors, and researchers | Full; join the waitlist |
| 16 | Fri, Jul 31, 6:30-9:30 PM | Beyond Founder-Led Sales | Early-stage B2B and AI founders | Closed door; approval required |
| 17 | Tue, Jul 28, 7:00-10:00 PM | SF Tech Startups, Investors, Experts Networking & Pitch | Founders, investors, and operators | In person; 21+; drink purchase |
| 18 | Sat, Aug 1, 12:00-5:00 PM | Draw Together, Be SEEN | A low-pressure creative and founder-social option | Free; approval required |
Monday, July 27
Light DAO Salon
Category: AI-native startup salon. When: 6:00-9:00 PM. Venue: SOMA, San Francisco; the exact address is released after registration. Host: Light DAO, with Ruby Yeh and Payam Safa. Audience: Founders, investors, engineers, AI practitioners, and non-technical builders. 2
The evening centers on how trusted allies and community help founders move at hackathon speed. The page lists Sako, founder of the 1,000-plus-member LPM Alliance community, and Ruby Yeh, Light DAO co-founder, for the conversation. Entry is through a private membership club; applications are reviewed for alignment and wallet ownership verification is required. Price is not listed. Register on Luma.
Tuesday, July 28
Enterprise AI at Scale: talks and AI agent workshops
Category: Enterprise AI, MCP, and applied workshops. When: 3:30-8:30 PM. Venue: Snowflake Silicon Valley AI Hub, 8th floor, 135 Constitution Dr, Menlo Park. Host: TechEquity AI - Silicon Valley, with Sheena Tu, Mahan Soltanzadeh, Dave Nielsen, and the Silicon Valley AI Hub. 3
This is the most complete Tuesday program: an MCP security workshop, talks on enterprise AI, a panel on scaling from strategy to execution, and a Cortex Code workshop. Named participants include Zongjie Diao from Google, Okhtay Azarmanesh from Snowflake, Ashish Shubham from ThoughtSpot, Ivan Lee from Datasaur, and Abhijeet Joshi from Nvidia. RSVP is required and capacity is limited; the page also lists online access. Ticket pricing is not visible in the accessible event details. View the event and RSVP.
Physical AI and Robotics Meetup
Category: Robotics and physical AI community meetup. When: 5:00-8:00 PM. Venue: Category Ventures office in downtown San Francisco; the exact address is shown after registration. Hosts: Çağla Kaymaz, Mahmut Demir, Hakan Gunturkun, Ayhan Sebin, and Category Ventures. 4
This kickoff is designed around introductions and small-group conversations among engineers, founders, researchers, investors, and students. The Luma page is already marked event full, with a waitlist available. Join the waitlist.
Durable Multimodal AI Meetup with HeyGen, Vapi, and Modal
Category: Multimodal AI and production infrastructure. When: 5:30-8:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact address is released after registration. Hosts: Temporal Community, Vapi Events, Modal, and HeyGen Community. 5
The technical program moves past text-only agents. Adham Fawal of Vapi is scheduled to discuss durable voice agents at scale; Andrew Hinh of Modal will cover reinforcement-learning agents in Street Fighter III; and Bin Liu plus James Russo of HeyGen will discuss context engineering for multimodal AI. The page shows 125 going and approval-required entry, with food and drinks included. Request approval on Luma.
Intelligence in the Open, Edition 01
Category: AI research salon. When: 6:00-9:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact address is released after registration. Presented by: MiniMax, hosted with AI Valley, UpScaleX, The AI Collective, and others. 6
The discussion is aimed at researchers, engineers, technical founders, and investors working on reasoning, evaluation, post-training data, multimodality, and long-horizon agents. The announced speakers include Matt Turk of Protégé, Federico Bianchi of Together AI, Will Keating of Artificial Analysis, and Isha Chaturvedi of Keenable AI. Approval is required and price details are not listed. Request a spot.
SF Tech Startups, Investors, Experts Networking & Pitch Event
Category: Founder, investor, and operator networking. When: 7:00-10:00 PM. Venue: Hawthorn SF Nightclub and Lounge, 46 Geary St, San Francisco. Host: The Founders Club. 7
The audience includes startup founders, VCs, developers, AI and ML professionals, and operators. It is an in-person, 21-plus event; guests must buy one drink at the bar, including a nonalcoholic option. Ticket pricing is not listed. See the Eventbrite listing.
Wednesday, July 29
Agents & Bagels
Category: Curated builder breakfast. When: 8:00-9:00 AM. Venue: Mission Provisions, 555 Mission St, San Francisco. Host: Scalekit, hosted by Tamilselvi Ramasamy. 8
This is the smallest room on the list and one of the clearest audience matches. Scalekit describes it as an invite-only weekly series for people shipping customer-facing agents or running them internally, with builders from companies such as Meta, Nvidia, Walmart, and OpenAI represented in prior rooms. Approval is required and seats are limited. Request an invitation.
Telemetry-aware AI agents in Slack, Linear, and GitHub
Category: AI observability, incident response, and security. When: 5:30-8:00 PM. Venue: Mindspace Coworking San Francisco, 575 Market St, 4th floor. Host: groundcover, with incident.io. 9
The live demo follows an agent reading production telemetry, isolating an anomaly, and acting through Slack, Linear, and GitHub without moving production data into the vendor's cloud. Matt Brown from groundcover and Maggie Baxter from incident.io are listed speakers. The intended audience is platform, SRE, engineering, and security teams. Registration is required; price is not listed. Register on Luma.
Can We Close the Sim2Real Gap?
Category: Robotics, simulation, and embodied AI. When: 5:30-9:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact location is released after registration. Host: Savant VC. Speakers: Evan Morikawa of Generalist AI, Bryce Schmidtchen of Reactor, Harry Mellsop of Antioch, moderated by Jonathan Lwowski of Nebius. 10
The panel asks whether simulation, synthetic data, and world models can replace enough real-world data to make physical AI scale. It is aimed at robotics researchers, embodied-AI founders, frontier-lab builders, infrastructure teams, and investors. Approval is required and price details are not listed. Request a spot.
CSA San Francisco Chapter July 29
Category: AI governance and cloud security. When: 5:30-8:00 PM. Venue: 600 Illinois St, San Francisco. Host: Cloud Security Alliance San Francisco, in partnership with the ISC2 East Bay Chapter. 11
The evening combines networking with a keynote from Frederick Kautz on continuous compliance for AI systems, followed by audience Q&A. The organizers are targeting security leaders, AI practitioners, CISOs, engineers, researchers, students, founders, and technology leaders. The Eventbrite page does not show a ticket price. Get the Eventbrite details.
Thursday, July 30
Built Different: Auth0 x Stripe Hackathon
Category: SaaS hackathon. When: 12:00-7:30 PM. Venue: Okta's Auth0 office, 100 1st St, 6th floor, San Francisco; check-in is in the lobby and the event is on floor 13. Hosts: Auth0 Events - San Francisco and Stripe. 12
Teams of one to three will build a monetized, multi-user SaaS app using Stripe Projects and Auth0. The prize package includes Amazon gift cards, Stripe credits, and three months of an Auth0 B2B Pro plan, with $2,000 in Amazon gift cards per first-place team. Lunch, coffee, and happy hour are included. Approval is required and guests must be 21 or older; ticket price is not listed. Apply to hack.
Qualcomm x ZETIC x Liquid AI: Edge AI Builders Meetup
Category: On-device AI and hardware. When: 5:00-8:30 PM. Venue: Hanwha AI Center, 300 Grant Ave, Suite 500, San Francisco. Host: ZETIC, with Qualcomm and Liquid AI. 13
The lightning-talk program includes Yeon Kim of ZETIC, Alan Wong of Liquid AI, a Qualcomm director for AI technology and product marketing, and a Meta ML product lead. The event is designed for founders and builders working across hardware, models, and products. The page shows 100 going, but registration is full; use the waitlist rather than assuming walk-in access. Join the waitlist.
Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup
Category: Developer meetup and live demos. When: 5:30-7:30 PM. Venue: CANOPY Jackson Square, 595 Pacific Ave, 4th floor, San Francisco. Host: Postman Developer Events. 114
Postman has lined up Kwindla Hultman Kramer of Daily and Pipecat, Avyay Varadarajan of dari.dev, Matthew Colozzo of Postman, and Clement Hugbo of CodeRabbit. Topics include AI-native software, cache-aware routing, agent platforms, and interfaces built directly in the monorepo. The page shows 369 going and asks attendees to register; pizza is included. Register with Postman.
Taste: A Physical AI Data Happy Hour
Category: Physical AI data and robotics social. When: 6:00-9:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; exact address after registration. Hosts: Unusual Ventures and HumanSignal. 15
This is a discussion-led alternative to a slide-heavy event. The organizers are bringing together people working on egocentric data, teleoperation, simulation, and human judgment, with tastings and sensory challenges built into the evening. Food and drinks are provided, but the event is already full; join the waitlist if the topic fits your work. Join the waitlist.
Friday, July 31
Deep Tech Connections Networking Breakfast
Category: Deep-tech founder and investor networking. When: 8:30-10:30 AM. Venue: Palo Alto; the exact address is released after registration. Host: Deep Tech Connections. 16
The monthly breakfast is aimed at entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, corporate innovators, and government professionals. The page points readers to the organizer's archive for past editions and says demand has been high; this edition is full with a waitlist available. Join the waitlist.
Beyond Founder-Led Sales: A Closed-Door GTM Session
Category: Founder-led sales and early-stage go-to-market. When: 6:30-9:30 PM. Venue: San Francisco; exact address after registration. Host: OpenStages. 17
This is for pre-seed to Series A founders and GTM operators working through pricing, positioning, partnerships, pipeline, or the move from first customers to repeatable sales. It is a closed-door session with host approval, so it is a better fit for people already in market than for general networking. Price is not listed. Request access.
Saturday and Sunday, August 1-2
Agentic AI Summit
Category: Agentic AI summit. When: Saturday, August 1, 9:00 AM through Sunday, August 2, 6:00 PM. Venue: UC Berkeley campus; exact location after registration. Hosts: RDI Foundation and Berkeley RDI. 18
This is the week's highest-ceiling option for readers who want a broad view of agentic AI. The 2026 speaker list includes Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, Sergey Levine, Martin Casado, Alfred Lin, Sanja Fidler, Jim Fan, and many others. The page says the 2025 summit drew 2,000-plus in-person attendees and 40,000-plus virtual participants. Tickets are required, with wallet verification; the accessible page does not show the current ticket price. View tickets and the speaker list.
Draw Together, Be SEEN
Category: Creative-community social. When: Saturday, August 1, 12:00-5:00 PM. Venue: an.ä.log SF, 886 Capp St, San Francisco. Host: Regina Liao, with Project SEEN and Mootsy. 19
For a lower-pressure weekend option, this free, all-ages showcase pairs student artwork with collaborative drawing tables, food, and drinks. It is not an AI event, but it gives founders and creator-economy people a useful change of scene. The page shows 52 going and approval-required entry. Request a spot.
How to choose
- Want to build: Apply first to the Auth0 x Stripe hackathon. It has a defined output, teams of one to three, live demos, and a stated prize package.
- Want production-agent depth: Choose Durable Multimodal AI for voice and video infrastructure, Agents & APIs for developer tooling, or the groundcover session for observability and incident response.
- Want physical AI: The Sim2Real discussion has the clearest debate format; Edge AI and the Physical AI meetup are strong alternatives if a waitlist spot opens.
- Want a selective room: Agents & Bagels, the MiniMax salon, Light DAO, and the closed-door GTM session all ask hosts to approve attendees.
- Want one large weekend anchor: The Agentic AI Summit is the obvious choice, with a Berkeley campus setting and a speaker list spanning research, startups, cloud, and venture capital.
Access notes
Several popular events are already waitlist-only, including the Physical AI and Robotics Meetup, the Edge AI Builders Meetup, Taste, and the Deep Tech Connections breakfast. Luma often hides the address until registration and may request wallet verification; do not infer a venue beyond what the event page states.
The Cerebral Valley public events page did not expose dated event details in this run, so no listing above is attributed to Cerebral Valley. No qualifying SF Tech Week listing was included in this week's window. The shortlist therefore relies on accessible event pages from Luma and Eventbrite, with the weekly Bay Area digest used for discovery and date cross-checking. 1
Check the registration page again before leaving, especially for approval-only and waitlist events.
References
- 1Bay Area Events For The Week Of July 27
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