SF Bay Area Events: August 3-9, 2026
A ranked shortlist of 17 verified Bay Area events for August 3-9, led by hands-on agent builds, production AI demos, a robotics fair, and a Sunday voice hackathon, with access constraints called out.
The week at a glance
Monday through Thursday have the highest-density technical options: two hands-on agent builds, YC production stories, model-inference demos, an open-source model night, and a hardware demo night. The weekend is more varied: a two-day robotics fair, a voice-only hackathon, a small founder camping trip, and a ticketed online growth class.
This is a ranked local shortlist for August 3-9, ordered by topic fit and visible quality signals such as a concrete build target, named speakers or demos, a credible host, selectivity, stated capacity, or demand. All times are Pacific. Registration status can change quickly. Treat approval, waitlist, hidden-address, and extra-registration requirements as real access constraints.
| Rank | When | Pick | Best for | Access and status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon, Aug 3, 9:30 AM-7:00 PM | Memory Meets Motion: Hackathon | Stateful AI and agentic workflows | Approval required; 308 going; time discrepancy on page; confirmed |
| 2 | Mon, Aug 3, 5:45-8:30 PM | Agents That Pay | Agents, payments, and autonomous purchasing | Approval required; separate AWS registration; 160 going; confirmed |
| 3 | Tue, Aug 4, 6:00-8:00 PM | Built by Agents | YC founders building agents in production | Approval required; confirmed |
| 4 | Tue, Aug 4, 6:00-8:00 PM | Built on Baseten: AI Demo Night | Inference, models, and early-stage demos | Approval required; address after registration; limited space; confirmed |
| 5 | Thu, Aug 6, 6:00-9:30 PM | Open-Source Evening | Open models and inference engineering | Full; waitlist; 403 going; confirmed |
| 6 | Sat-Sun, Aug 8-9, 9:30 AM-5:00 PM | Silicon Valley Robotics Fair 2026 | Robotics, AI showcases, and family-friendly demos | Ticketed; San Mateo; 308 going; confirmed |
| 7 | Sun, Aug 9, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM | Hack with VoiceOS | Voice-controlled product building | Approval required; 100 builders; prizes listed; confirmed |
| 8 | Wed, Aug 5, 5:00-8:30 PM | AI Startup Pitch Night | Founders and early-stage investors | Luma approval plus AWS signup; confirmed |
| 9 | Thu, Aug 6, 6:00-8:30 PM | AI Agent Founder Dinner | Agent founders, partnerships, and monetization | $40; approval required; address after registration; confirmed |
| 10 | Tue, Aug 4, 5:00-7:00 PM | AI After Hours | GTM leaders operationalizing AI | Registration; confirmed |
| 11 | Thu, Aug 6, 6:30-9:30 PM | 136th SF Hardware Meetup | Physical product demos and hardware builders | Full; waitlist; 400 going; confirmed |
| 12 | Wed, Aug 5, 5:30-8:30 PM | Frontier Research Club AI x Bio dinner | Researchers and technical founders | Approval required; address after registration; confirmed |
| 13 | Wed, Aug 5, 8:00-9:00 AM | Agents & Bagels | Builders taking agents to production | Invite-only; approval required; confirmed |
| 14 | Thu, Aug 6, 6:30-9:00 PM | Extraordinary Founders Dinner | Immigrant and high-performing founders | Full; waitlist; 16 spots; confirmed |
| 15 | Thu, Aug 6, 5:00-8:00 PM | Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley | Startup pitches and investor networking | Eventbrite ticket details; Menlo Park; confirmed |
| 16 | Fri, Aug 7, 4:00 PM-Sun, Aug 9, 11:00 AM | Scrappy AI Founders Go Camping | A small founder and investor retreat | Ticketed; exact location after approval; confirmed |
| 17 | Sat, Aug 8, 7:00-9:00 PM PT* | From Zero to $10M AI Growth Bootcamp | AI founders working on growth | Ticketed online; source time conflict; confirmed with caveat |
Monday, August 3
Memory Meets Motion: Hackathon
Category: Stateful AI and agentic workflows. When: The Luma header says 9:30 AM-7:00 PM; the detailed agenda runs from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Venue: Frontier Tower @ Spaceship, 995 Market St, San Francisco. Host: Devnovate, with Aviral, Mansi More, Joe Maionchi, Jugal Bhatt, Sahar Mor, Mr SK, and RocketRide. Entry: Approval required; 308 going; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed for August 3, with a time discrepancy that should be checked before travel. 1
The build target is agentic workflows and stateful AI. The event page schedules opening presentations, a build block, a 3:30 PM submission deadline, final presentations from the top five teams, and a closing ceremony. That makes this the clearest choice for someone who wants to leave with a concrete prototype rather than a new set of slides. The page does not state a prize amount. Register on Luma.
Agents That Pay
Category: Agent payments and autonomous purchasing. When: 5:45-8:30 PM. Venue: AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, Courtyard Entrance, San Francisco. Hosts: Nevermined, Josh Wadinski, Nicole Dunn, Sahar Mor, AWS Builder Loft, and Braintrust. Entry: Approval required; the page also asks attendees to register through AWS; price is not listed. Quality signal: The organizers say the first edition was 10x oversubscribed, and this page shows 160 going. Status: Confirmed. 2
This is a live workshop, not a panel about the agentic economy. The announced speakers include Don Gossen of Nevermined, Scott Langille of Exa, Tim Hyde and Nicole Dunn of Baselayer, and Jon Low of Braintrust. Bring a laptop, an agent you are already working on, and a credit card you have permission to use. The build goal is an agent that can buy API access within guardrails. Register on Luma and complete the AWS registration.
Tuesday, August 4
Built by Agents: How Leading YC Companies are Building AI in Production
Category: Production agents and AI infrastructure. When: 6:00-8:00 PM. Venue: Digital Jungle SF, 972 Mission St, San Francisco. Host: E2B, with Alexandria Yip. Entry: Approval required; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed. 3
Founders from Runtime, Paper Instruments, Lark, 21st, and Replicas are scheduled to explain the decisions and tradeoffs behind their products. The agenda gives each group a 6:45-7:45 PM slot, with networking before and after. This is the strongest Tuesday option for readers who want production lessons from named teams rather than a generic AI networking room. Request approval on Luma.
Built on Baseten: AI Demo Night
Category: Model ownership, inference, and early-stage AI demos. When: 6:00-8:00 PM. Venue: Baseten HQ in San Francisco; the exact address is shown after registration. Hosts: Baseten and CapitalG, with Aishwarya Goel. Entry: Approval required; space is limited; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed. 4
Four founders are listed for 15-minute demos: Arjun Karanam of Trajectory, Jack O'Brien of Subconscious, Saad Jamal of Antigen, and Kenneth Acquah of Kaizen. The demos focus on owning models, controlling inference, and building the stack behind the product. If you are comparing Tuesday events, this is the more technical pick; E2B is better for production stories, while Baseten is better for seeing early-stage systems on stage. Request a spot on Luma.
AI After Hours: GTM Leaders Meetup
Category: AI in go-to-market and revenue operations. When: 5:00-7:00 PM. Venue: Saluhall, 945 Market St, Floor 2, San Francisco. Host: Relevance Events, Kim-Mai Underwood, and Tony Mai. Entry: Registration; price is not listed. Speaker: Rich Campbell, AI Solutions Lead for GTM at Canva. Status: Confirmed. 5
The conversation covers prospecting, RevOps, enablement, customer growth, and the move from automation to AI agents inside enterprise teams. This is a better fit for revenue leaders and operators than for model builders, and it is the easiest Tuesday option to attend without an approval gate. Register on Luma.
Wednesday, August 5
AI Startup Pitch Night with Early Stage Investors
Category: AI startup pitches and early-stage capital. When: 5:00-8:30 PM. Venue: AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, Courtyard Entrance, San Francisco. Hosts: Walnut AI and AWS Builder Loft, with Nicole, David Shao, and Sahar Mor. Entry: Luma approval plus a second signup on AWS; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed. 6
Eight pre-seed startups will each get a five-minute pitch and three to five minutes of live Q&A. The judge panel includes Ryan Green of Antler, Lan Wu of Fusion Fund, and Gavin Zhu of Llama Ventures. The top winner is also offered an interview opportunity for Antler's next residency batch. Apply on Luma and complete the AWS signup.
Frontier Research Club #16: AI x Bio dinner
Category: AI research, biology, and technical founder discussion. When: 5:30-8:30 PM. Venue: Stanford; the exact address is shown after registration. Host: The Frontier Syndicate. Entry: Approval required; dinner is included; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed. 7
Doors open at 5:30 PM for networking and a light dinner. Research presentations and discussion run from 6:30-8:00 PM. The accessible page confirms the AI x Bio track launch but does not name the speakers in the extracted event details, so readers should use the registration page for the final program. Request approval on Luma.
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. Entry: Invite-only and approval required; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed. 8
Scalekit describes this as a weekly room for YC founders, engineers, AI executives, and technical PMs who are moving agents from demo to production. The organizer names builders from Meta, NVIDIA, Walmart, and OpenAI among the community's prior attendees. There are no panels or pitches, so this is for peer conversation rather than a public program. Request an invitation.
Thursday, August 6
Open-Source Evening with MiniMax, Moonshot, Baseten, Modal & Factory
Category: Open models and inference engineering. When: 6:00-9:30 PM. Venue: Factory HQ, 475 Brannan St, San Francisco. Hosts: Factory Events, Tereza Tizkova, Philip Kiely, MiniMax, and Factory. Entry: Event full; join the waitlist; 403 going. Status: Confirmed, waitlist only. 9
The program has lightning talks from Baseten, Factory, MiniMax, and Moonshot, one community demo, and a short panel moderated by Ray Fernando. The topic is practical: running and fine-tuning open weights in production, model sovereignty, and what it takes to build on models a team can actually own. This is the week's clearest open-source event, but it is no longer a walk-in option. Join the waitlist.
Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley
Category: Startup pitch competition and investor networking. When: 5:00-8:00 PM. Venue: Silkroad Innovation Hub, 724 Oak Grove Ave, Menlo Park. Organizer: Unicorn.Events. Entry: Eventbrite registration; ticket details are not visible in the accessible page. Status: Confirmed. 10
The format combines startup pitches, judge Q&A, networking, food, and drinks. The listing says seven startups will present and ten VC funds will attend; it also describes Network.VC as the organizer behind a global event series with 100-plus investments. Treat those figures as organizer-provided signals, not independent performance data. View the Eventbrite listing.
AI Agent Founder Dinner: Landing Platform Partnerships & Enterprise Sales
Category: Agent founders, partnerships, and monetization. When: 6:00-8:30 PM. Venue: A San Francisco restaurant; the address is shared with approved guests. Host: Agents and the Future, with John Bohlmann, Vivian Lei, Mikhil Raja, and Ted Nyman. Entry: $40 and approval required; limited capacity; price includes dinner, drinks, and appetizers. Status: Confirmed. 11
Alex Xue, an account executive at Stripe, is announced as a guest. The discussion covers platform partnerships, agentic commerce, pricing AI products, and what enterprise buyers will pay for. This is the strongest Thursday choice for an AI founder who wants a small, practical room; it is a poor fit if you need a public event with a known venue. Request approval on Luma.
136th SF Hardware Meetup @ Studio 45 | Demo Night
Category: Physical products and hardware demos. When: 6:30-9:30 PM. Venue: Studio 45 in San Francisco's Mission/Bernal area; the exact address is released after registration. Host: SF Hardware Meetup, with Michael Raspuzzi, Nate Padgett, Miguel A Villafuerte, Mariana Ortiz, Garvin Meyers, and Tyler Lux. Entry: Event full; waitlist; 400 going. Status: Confirmed, waitlist only. 12
This is the 136th edition of a monthly series. There is no fixed agenda: people walk around with products, prototypes, components, and other physical demos. The organizer describes the broader community as having more than 10,500 builders, but the event page does not promise a particular demo list. Join the waitlist.
Extraordinary Founders Dinner
Category: Founder dinner and immigrant-founder community. When: 6:30-9:00 PM. Venue: Private dining room in San Francisco. Host: Andrew Yeung, with Attio, Plain, and Rho. Entry: Application only; event full; waitlist; 16 spots. Status: Confirmed, waitlist only. 13
The dinner is aimed at founders who built companies after moving to the United States, and the page promises a three-course meal plus conversations with other startup leaders. Andrew Yeung says he has hosted more than 300 events for a community of 50,000 founders, operators, investors, and technology professionals. Those are host-provided credentials, but the 16-seat limit is a clear selectivity signal. Apply on Luma.
Friday, August 7 through Sunday, August 9
Scrappy AI Founders Go Camping (+ hiking)
Category: Founder retreat and outdoor social. When: Friday, August 7, 4:00 PM through Sunday, August 9, 11:00 AM. Venue: Bay Area campsite; the exact location is shared after registration approval. Host: 12 Scrappy Founders, with Denis Belyavsky and Alena Beliauskaya. Entry: Ticket purchase; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed. 14
The organizer describes a vetted group of 12 founders and investors, with camping gear, campsite setup, dinners, and drinks included. It is a real alternative to another networking night, but the small capacity and hidden location make it a poor last-minute plan. Buy a ticket on Luma.
Silicon Valley Robotics Fair 2026
Category: Robotics, AI showcases, competitions, and workshops. When: Saturday, August 8, 9:30 AM through Sunday, August 9, 5:00 PM. Venue: San Mateo County Event Center, Fiesta Hall, 1346 Saratoga Dr, San Mateo. Host: Be The Change Foundation, with the listed robotics and AI community partners. Entry: Ticketed; price is not listed. Demand and program: 308 going on Luma; the organizer advertises 5,000-plus attendees, 30-plus exhibitors, 30-plus speakers, 50 robotics teams, and six hands-on workshops. Status: Confirmed. 15
This is the weekend's broadest public option. It combines the Lobster Cup competition, AI and robotics showcases, talks, live demos, and family workshops, so it works for visitors who want to see the physical-AI ecosystem rather than sit through another startup panel. The official Robotics Fair site has the event's current registration and program information.
From Zero to $10M: The Silicon Valley AI Growth Bootcamp
Category: AI founder growth and go-to-market. When: The detailed schedule says Saturday, August 8, 7:00-9:00 PM PT; the page header renders the same session as Sunday, August 9, 2:00-4:00 UTC. Format: Online. Host: Bay Area Founders Club, with Chang Chen. Entry: Ticket purchase; price is not listed. Status: Confirmed with a source time-zone discrepancy; verify before paying. 16
The first session is part of a four-session program whose later dates are August 22, September 5, and September 19. The topic is growth for AI founders, not model development, and the accessible page does not show a full speaker roster. The date conflict is visible on the source page, so use the detailed PT schedule only after confirming it with the registration flow. View the bootcamp page.
Hack with VoiceOS | $5k in OpenAI Credits
Category: Voice-first product hackathon. When: Sunday, August 9, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM. Venue: Frontier Tower, 11th floor, 995 Market St, San Francisco. Hosts: Ka Seng Sam, Jonah Daian, Diego Limo, Maksim, and the VoiceOS team. Entry: Approval required; 100 builders. Prizes: $3,000, $1,500, and $500 in OpenAI credits, plus $500 for best video demo and $100 for best VoiceOS feedback. Status: Confirmed. 17
The constraint is unusually clear: submitted products must be built to be controlled and operated primarily with voice commands. That makes this the best Sunday pick for builders who want a narrow product brief and a visible prize structure. Apply on Luma.
How to choose
- Want to build an agent this week: Choose Memory Meets Motion if you can handle the time discrepancy, or Agents That Pay if your existing agent can be wired to a payment flow.
- Want production-agent depth: Choose Built by Agents for founder case studies, Built on Baseten for inference and model ownership, or AI After Hours for enterprise GTM execution.
- Want a selective room: Agents & Bagels, the AI Agent Founder Dinner, and Extraordinary Founders Dinner all trade public access for a smaller audience. Apply early and do not assume a waitlist will clear.
- Want hardware or physical AI: The Robotics Fair is the best public weekend anchor. The SF Hardware Meetup has the more builder-centric demo format, but it is already waitlist-only.
- Want a constrained hackathon brief: Hack with VoiceOS has a clear voice-only requirement, a 100-builder cap, and a stated prize structure.
Access notes
The most in-demand events are already full or close to it: Open-Source Evening, SF Hardware Meetup, and Extraordinary Founders Dinner show waitlist status. Several other events require host approval, and Baseten, the founder dinner, and the Frontier Research Club hide the exact address until registration. Prices are listed only for the AI Agent Founder Dinner at $40; other pages either say ticketed or do not expose a price.
The page for Memory Meets Motion lists different time windows in its header and agenda. The AI Growth Bootcamp also shows a Pacific-time schedule that conflicts with its UTC header. These are source-level discrepancies, not assumptions to smooth over; confirm both before arranging travel or paying.
SF Tech Week is not part of this issue: the official calendar places San Francisco Tech Week on October 5-11, 2026. The Partiful pages that surfaced in this run were outside the August 3-9 window, and no additional Cerebral Valley event had an accessible dated detail page strong enough to include. 18
Check each registration page again before leaving, especially for approval-only, waitlist, and hidden-address events.
References
- 1Memory Meets Motion: Hackathon
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- 2Agents That Pay
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- 5AI After Hours
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- 10Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley
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- 17Hack with VoiceOS
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- 18SF Tech Week 2026 calendar
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