SF Events: July 13-19
A weekly planning guide to SF Bay Area events from July 13-19, led by AI operator rooms, hackathons, and free weekend anchors.
The strongest planning move this week is to pick one Tuesday AI/operator room, then reserve the weekend for either a hands-on hackathon or a free outdoor reset. Tuesday has the densest conflict stack: AI for GTM at Notion, Holo AI Night, agent data demos, token economics, and a database meetup all overlap in the early evening. 12345
The weekend is more split. Builders get Loop Engineering, Embodied Metal, Ebolathon, AI safety, DeepLearning.AI voice, and Stanford x DeepMind. 67891011 Everyone else gets a useful run of free anchors: Hayes Valley Carnival on Saturday, then Stern Grove, Japan Day, Sunday Streets Tenderloin, and the World Cup Final watch party on Sunday. 1213141516
Full-week quick scan
| Day | Best fit | Event | Venue / location | Access |
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| Mon 7/13 | AI research and compute | Holo AI Night w/ NVIDIA & Black Forest Labs | Ayoub & Kubein Building, 972 Mission St, SF | Free; registration required; 436 going 2 |
| Mon 7/13-Sat 7/18 | Multi-day build sprint | Sports World Cup Hackathon | AI House for days 1-3; final day at Homebrew Club, 868 Mission St, SF | Free; approval required; 133 going 17 |
| Tue 7/14 | GTM demos | Show & Tell: AI for GTM @ Notion | Notion HQ, SF | Free; open registration; 669 going 1 |
| Tue 7/14 | Agent infrastructure | Agent Night: Live Web Data, Memory, Identity & Actions | Bright Data Web Data Loft, 625 2nd St, SF | Free; approval required; 89 going 3 |
| Tue 7/14 | AI model economics | Rethinking Token Economics | Salesforce Tower, SF; exact address for registrants | Free; approval required; limited capacity 4 |
| Tue 7/14 | Free culture/social | Bastille on Belden | Belden Place, SF Financial District | Free; food and drink for purchase 18 |
| Wed 7/15 | Coding-agent benchmark | Reading Group: Senior SWE-Bench | 101 Second Street, SF | Free; approval required 19 |
| Wed 7/15 | Builder social | Battle of the Paddles: AI Builders Edition | SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom St #100, SF | Free; approval required; 424 going 20 |
| Thu 7/16 | Voice AI build night | ElevenLabs x Sauna Hack Night | Wordware office, 1185 Mason St, SF | Free; open registration 21 |
| Thu 7/16 | AI and biotech | AI x Biosecurity: LatchBio Benchmark Launch | SF; exact address for registrants | Free; approval required 22 |
| Fri 7/17 | Large engineering hackathon | Loop Engineering Hackathon | SF; exact address for registrants | Free; open registration; $50K+ prizes 6 |
| Fri 7/17-Sun 7/19 | Robotics hackathon | Embodied Metal Hackathon | Mission District factory loft, SF; exact address for registrants | Free; approval required; 3 spots remaining 7 |
| Sat 7/18 | Neighborhood reset | Hayes Valley Carnival 2026 | Hayes Valley, SF | Free 12 |
| Sat 7/18 | Bio/ML hackathon | Ebolathon: Compute to Cure | SF; exact address for registrants | Free; approval required; 54 going 8 |
| Sun 7/19 | Free outdoor concert | Stern Grove Festival: Charley Crockett | Stern Grove, SF | Free; not sold out in the listing 13 |
| Sun 7/19 | Gemini hackathon | Stanford x DeepMind Hackathon: Build with Gemini | 291 Campus Drive, Stanford | Free; approval required; in-person and online tracks 11 |
Tech and startup picks
Holo AI Night w/ NVIDIA & Black Forest Labs
Date/time: Monday, July 13, 6:00-9:00 PM PDT. 2
Venue/location: Ayoub & Kubein Building, 972 Mission St, San Francisco. 2
Host/organizer: H Company hosts the meetup, with Jules Belveze, Nolwenn Guiban, and Mathieu Diaz listed as hosts. 2
Category: Technical talk / mixer. 2
Entry type/access: Free; registration required with token verification; the listing shows 436 going. 2
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is the Monday opener if you want technical density without a full hackathon commitment. The talk lineup lists Kyle Kranen of NVIDIA on Dynamo for reinforcement learning, Saksham Consul of Black Forest Labs on compute operations, and Jules Belveze of H Company on computer-use agents that learn from failures. 2
Sports World Cup Hackathon
Date/time: Monday, July 13 through Saturday, July 18, 10:00 AM-9:00 PM PDT daily; the final day is listed at Homebrew Club. 17
Venue/location: AI House hosts days 1-3, and Homebrew Club at 868 Mission St hosts the final day. 17
Host/organizer: AI House organizes the hackathon, with Modal and AWS Activate listed as community sponsors. 17
Category: 5-day hackathon. 17
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; the listing shows 133 going. 17
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: The tracks are AI Agents, DeFAI, Cloud Infrastructure, Web3 x AI, and Trading Agents, with $300 cash plus sponsor prizes and an interview on "The Hacking" pod for the best project. 17
Show & Tell: AI for GTM @ Notion
Date/time: Tuesday, July 14, 6:00-9:00 PM PDT. 1
Venue/location: Notion HQ, San Francisco. 1
Host/organizer: Upside hosts the demo night with Mada Seghete and Dan Ahmadi, in partnership with Notion. 1
Category: Demo night / GTM automation. 1
Entry type/access: Free; open registration with token verification; the listing shows 669 going. 1
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is the clearest Tuesday pick for founders and operators who care about revenue workflow. The format is demo-only, with GTM leaders from Cognition, Baseten, Samsara, Notion, Upside, and Browserbase listed on the page. 1
Agent Night: Live Web Data, Memory, Identity & Actions
Date/time: Tuesday, July 14, 5:30-8:30 PM PDT. 3
Venue/location: Bright Data Web Data Loft, 625 2nd St, San Francisco. 3
Host/organizer: TechEquity Ai - Silicon Valley and Bright Data organize the event, with Dave Nielsen and Tamilselvi Ramasamy listed as hosts. 3
Category: Tech talk / demo night. 3
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; the listing shows 89 going. 3
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: Choose this over Notion if your work is closer to agent plumbing than GTM workflow. The speaker list maps cleanly to production-agent needs: Swetha Kolli of Bright Data on live web data, Dave Nielsen of Cognee on graph-based memory, and Satya Devarakonda of Scalekit on delegated auth and scoped permissions. 3
Rethinking Token Economics
Date/time: Tuesday, July 14, 5:30-8:30 PM PDT. 4
Venue/location: Salesforce Tower top floor, San Francisco; exact address is for registrants. 4
Host/organizer: OpenRouter Events hosts the fireside chat, with Dasha Shunina listed as host. 4
Category: Fireside chat / model economics. 4
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; capacity is limited and subject to approval. 4
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is the Tuesday pick for people pricing LLM usage or routing across providers. The speakers are Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures and Shashank Goyal, founding engineer and head of provider ecosystem at OpenRouter; the listing says OpenRouter routes about 25 trillion tokens weekly across 400+ models from 60+ providers. 4
Battle of the Paddles: AI Builders Edition
Date/time: Wednesday, July 15, 6:00-9:00 PM PDT; tournament play starts at 6:30 PM. 20
Venue/location: SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom St #100, San Francisco. 20
Host/organizer: MongoDB hosts the event, with Temporal listed as co-sponsor. 20
Category: AI builder social / ping-pong tournament. 20
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; the listing shows 424 going. 20
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is a strong midweek social pick because it has a clear format and a large RSVP base. The listing promises food and drinks, open-play tables all evening, and prizes that include Apple AirPods Max 2, a Ninja Creami, and a $100 Amazon gift card. 20
ElevenLabs x Sauna Hack Night
Date/time: Thursday, July 16, 5:30-9:30 PM PDT. 21
Venue/location: Wordware office, 1185 Mason St, San Francisco. 21
Host/organizer: [SF] HackerSquad, formerly Builders Collective, hosts the night with Sauna, ElevenLabs, Adam Chan, and Jonathan Chang. 21
Category: Hack night / voice AI. 21
Entry type/access: Free; open registration. 21
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is the Thursday practical build slot. The event is framed around building with ElevenLabs voice AI, with demos and a sprint format rather than a panel. 21
Loop Engineering Hackathon
Date/time: Friday, July 17, 9:30 AM-7:30 PM PDT. 6
Venue/location: San Francisco; exact address is for registrants. 6
Host/organizer: tokens& organizes the hackathon. 6
Category: Engineering hackathon. 6
Entry type/access: Free; open registration. 6
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: The listing advertises more than $50,000 in prizes and sponsors including AWS, Zero.xyz, Nexla, Pomerium, Metaview, and Akash. 6
Embodied Metal Hackathon
Date/time: Friday, July 17, 5:30 PM through Sunday, July 19, 12:00 PM PDT. 7
Venue/location: Mission District factory loft, San Francisco; exact address is for registrants. 7
Host/organizer: Mission Robotics organizes the hackathon with Mattie Fairchild, Jeson Lee, Miki Safronov-Yamamoto, Sahar Mor of Bond AI, and Junfan Zhu listed as co-hosts. 7
Category: Robotics / embodied AI hackathon. 7
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; the listing shows 3 spots remaining and nearly full. 7
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is the most physical builder event on the list. Each team gets a robot to hack, Modal is listed as a compute and inference sponsor, and the assignment is to train a robot to do "something surprising." 7
Ebolathon: Compute to Cure
Date/time: Saturday, July 18, 1:00-10:00 PM PDT. 8
Venue/location: San Francisco; exact address is for registrants. 8
Host/organizer: onepot and muni co-host the hackathon, with Kat Yenko, Derek, Andrei Tyrin, Daniil Boiko, Yurii Moroz, and Dasha Shunina listed as hosts. 8
Category: Computational biology / antiviral design hackathon. 8
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; the listing shows 54 going. 8
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is the specialist Saturday pick for ML researchers, structural biologists, and computational chemists. The goal is to design antiviral candidates for Bundibugyo ebolavirus, and the listing says top submissions will be synthesized and tested in a lab through the onepot platform. 8
Stanford x DeepMind Hackathon: Build with Gemini
Date/time: Sunday, July 19, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM PDT; the online-track deadline is listed for the end of the day. 11
Venue/location: 291 Campus Drive, Stanford, California. 11
Host/organizer: GDG Stanford and Google DeepMind organize the hackathon, with Dan Goncharov, Jessy Tang, Amit Vadi, and Ivan Leo listed as hosts. 11
Category: Gemini hackathon / startup prototype sprint. 11
Entry type/access: Free; approval required; in-person and online tracks are listed. 11
Registration link: Lu.ma event page.
Why go: This is worth the Stanford commute if you want investor-facing output from a short build sprint. The prize package includes 30-minute pitch meetings with VCs writing $500K-$5M seed checks, plus $15K in Google Cloud credits for the in-person track and $5K for the online track. 11
Culture and social anchors
Bastille on Belden
Date/time: Tuesday, July 14, 4:30-8:30 PM PDT. 18
Venue/location: Belden Place in San Francisco's Financial District. 18
Host/organizer: Belden Place restaurants organize the block party. 18
Category: Festival / street party. 18
Entry type/access: Free; food and drink are available for purchase at restaurants. 18
Registration link: Funcheap listing.
Why go: This is the best non-tech Tuesday counterweight: a free Bastille Day block party in SF's historic French Quarter, with French food, wine, music, and dancing. 18
Hayes Valley Carnival 2026
Date/time: Saturday, July 18, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM PDT. 12
Venue/location: Hayes Valley, San Francisco. 12
Host/organizer: The public listing does not name a single organizer. 12
Category: Neighborhood festival / carnival. 12
Entry type/access: Free. 12
Registration link: Funcheap listing.
Why go: This is the Saturday social anchor if you want an easy daytime plan inside SF rather than a full hackathon slot. 12
Stern Grove Festival: Charley Crockett
Date/time: Sunday, July 19, 2:00 PM PDT. 13
Venue/location: Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco. 13
Host/organizer: Stern Grove Festival presents Charley Crockett. 23
Category: Free outdoor concert. 13
Entry type/access: Free; the Funcheap listing flags the concert as not sold out. 13
Registration link: DoTheBay listing.
Why go: Stern Grove access often closes early, so this is the rare week where the free Sunday concert still appears actionable in the listings. 13
Japan Day 2026
Date/time: Sunday, July 19, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM PDT. 14
Venue/location: Japan Center / Japantown, San Francisco. 14
Host/organizer: Organizer not listed.
Category: Annual cultural festival. 14
Entry type/access: Free. 14
Registration link: Funcheap listing.
Why go: This is the better Sunday daytime choice if you want a neighborhood cultural festival instead of a concert lawn or watch party. 14
Sunday Streets Tenderloin
Date/time: Sunday, July 19, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM PDT. 15
Venue/location: Tenderloin, San Francisco. 15
Host/organizer: Sunday Streets Tenderloin is the named event; a specific organizer is not listed. 15
Category: Neighborhood street festival. 15
Entry type/access: Free. 15
Registration link: Funcheap listing.
Why go: This is the most flexible Sunday option because it runs during the same 11:00 AM-4:00 PM window as Japan Day and can pair with a later Stern Grove or World Cup plan. 15
World Cup Final at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Date/time: Sunday, July 19, 2:00 PM PDT. 16
Venue/location: Yerba Buena Gardens / Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, San Francisco. 16
Host/organizer: Yerba Buena Gardens Festival is the event setting. 16
Category: World Cup Final watch party. 16
Entry type/access: Free. 16
Registration link: Funcheap listing.
Why go: This is a public World Cup Final plan inside SF, with a 2:00 PM start time that lines up against Stern Grove rather than the 11:00 AM-4:00 PM street-festival window. 16
Watch-outs before committing
- Tuesday evening is overloaded. AI for GTM at Notion, Agent Night at Bright Data, Rethinking Token Economics, the SF Database Meetup at PlanetScale, and AI Philosophy Nights all overlap in the 5:30-9:30 PM band, and at least one of those rooms is already event-full or approval-gated. 134524
- Some strong rooms are approval-required, full, or nearly full. Embodied Metal shows 3 spots remaining, Bits in Bio shows 3 spots remaining, and Escaping Flatland is event-full with a waitlist. 72526
- Commute-heavy picks need a higher bar. GTLC is in San Jose, DeepLearning.AI Voice AI is in Mountain View, the Scrappy AI Founders mountain-biking outing is in the South Bay / Santa Cruz area, and Stanford x DeepMind is at Stanford. 10112728
Cover image: image from Lu.ma / H Company: Holo AI Night w/ NVIDIA & Black Forest Labs
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- 14Funcheap: Japan Day 2026 at Japan Center
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