SF Bay Area Events: May 26–27
17 events across Tuesday May 26 evening and Wednesday May 27. Tuesday update: Operationalizing Agents, Running AI at Enterprise Scale, and Foresight AI Salon all flipped to EVENT FULL — two events (No Evals/No Optimization and How to AI Pill Your Company) remain open for RSVPs. Wednesday is the week's densest day: AI DevSummit 2026 Day 1 in South San Francisco (50+ speakers, $195 OPEN pass / free via Eventbrite) and the AI Agent Security Summit at Commonwealth Club (Zenity-hosted, free, 17+ practitioners) run all day simultaneously, with nine community events spanning Agents & Bagels at 8 AM through the Google DeepMind SkillsBench 1.1 launch party at 9 PM.
Three Tuesday evening events flipped to EVENT FULL since this morning — Operationalizing Agents, Running AI at Enterprise Scale, and Foresight AI Salon are all waitlist-only now. Two of tonight's five events still have open RSVP slots. Wednesday is the main event: two major AI conferences open simultaneously, plus nine community meetups spanning 8 AM bagels to a 9 PM DeepMind launch party.
Coverage: tonight (Tuesday, May 26) and tomorrow (Wednesday, May 27, 2026).
Tonight — Tuesday, May 26 (evening)
Three of tonight's five SF events closed registration during the day. The two that remain open:
No Evals, No Optimization, No Production
| Time | 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM PDT |
| Venue | 300 Grant Ave, Suite 500, San Francisco |
| Host | MEGA Code; Chanwoo Song, Isaac Bang, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Win Yee |
| Category | AI evals · production readiness |
| Access | Free — RSVP via lu.ma (approval required) |
| Register | lu.ma/9kag32ur 1 |
Still accepting registrations as of this afternoon. 1 Hosted by MEGA Code with Sahar Mor (Bond AI) — Bond AI runs one of the more consistent SF AI community series. The topic is evaluation frameworks and what "production-ready" actually means for LLM-based systems: a focused technical conversation rather than a broad panel. Address is publicly listed.
How to AI Pill Your Company — Decagon × a16z × Accel
| Time | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT |
| Venue | San Francisco, CA (address disclosed upon approval) |
| Host | Decagon (Daniel Liem), a16z, Accel |
| Category | AI adoption strategy · VC-backed |
| Access | Free — RSVP via lu.ma (approval required) |
| Register | lu.ma/7cojgbhq 2 |
134 registered as of today's status check; still active. 2 Decagon (AI customer support platform) co-hosted by a16z and Accel on integrating AI end-to-end, not bolted on as a feature. The VC co-hosting applies some selection pressure on who gets in.
Status on the three full events: Operationalizing Agents (Google DeepMind/Snowflake/Google Research at SignalFire, 5:30 PM), Running AI at Enterprise Scale (Rootly/Port.io/Twingate/Descope with Anthropic speaker, 5:00 PM), and Foresight AI Salon (The Fold, 6:00 PM) are all EVENT FULL with waitlists available. 345 If you're already registered, they're all still on.
Tomorrow — Wednesday, May 27
Wednesday runs from 8 AM through 9 PM across SF and the Bay Area. Two full-day conferences open simultaneously, plus nine community events. Below are the highest-signal picks by time of day.
8:00 AM — Agents & Bagels (weekly, SF)
| Time | 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT |
| Venue | Secret location, San Francisco, CA (disclosed upon approval) |
| Host | Scalekit (YC-backed auth stack for AI agents); Tamilselvi Ramasamy, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Amy Quan |
| Category | AI agents · developer networking |
| Access | Free — invite-only (approval required) |
| Register | lu.ma/agents-and-bagels-3 6 |
The weekly recurring breakfast for builders working on production-grade agents. Scalekit provides an SDK for connecting AI agents to enterprise SaaS apps, APIs, and MCP servers. Typical attendees are YC founders and engineers from Meta, NVIDIA, Walmart, and OpenAI. Limited seats — approval required. Format is explicitly no panels and no pitches.
"The 'AI as a feature' phase is over. Now it's about shipping production-grade agents — serving your customers, running inside your org, holding up at scale." 6
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11:00 AM — HeyGen's "Infinitely Me" pop-up
| Time | 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM PDT |
| Venue | Culinary Artistas, 851 Beach St, San Francisco, CA 94109 |
| Host | HeyGen Community Events (Anne Pham, Audrey Van Zee) |
| Category | AI video / avatar · creator networking |
| Access | Free — invite-only (approval required) |
| Register | lu.ma/1eilqafb 7 |
HeyGen (well-funded AI video and avatar platform) is running a drop-in pop-up with free digital twin filming by professional videographers — first-come, first-served, not guaranteed. Also on offer: custom HeyGen lattes, limited-edition swag, and networking. 1,226 registered; the event page notes space is extremely limited. 7 Attendees consent to being photographed and recorded for promotional use.
All day (10 AM–6 PM+) — AI DevSummit 2026, Day 1 ⚠️ South SF
| Time | Wed May 27 – Thu May 28 (Day 1 starts ~10:00 AM PDT) |
| Venue | South San Francisco Conference Center, 255 S Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080 ⚠️ |
| Host | DevNetwork |
| Category | AI engineering & management conference |
| Access | Paid — OPEN Pass $195; group (3+) 25% off; student/government 30% off; free OPEN passes via Eventbrite |
| Register | aidevsummit.co 8 |
Two-day conference with 7 tracks across AI executive leadership, AI ops & technology management, AI strategy & case studies, ML models & architectures, AI frameworks & tools, data access & management, and AI enterprise development. 8 50+ speakers, 60+ sessions, 30+ exhibitors, and 1,000+ expected attendees.
The OPEN Pass at $195 covers keynotes, open sessions, the expo floor, and community events. PRO ($1,050 at door) adds all breakout sessions and certificate programs. Free OPEN passes are available through Eventbrite. 9
Notable speakers include Amjad Shaikh (VP Platform & AI, ServiceNow), Sumeet Kumar Agrawal (VP Product Management, Salesforce), and Archie Sharma (COO, Zencoder). 8 ⚠️ Located in South San Francisco, not SF proper — BART/Caltrain + shuttle, or drive.
All day (exact start TBD) — AI Agent Security Summit, SF
| Time | Wednesday, May 27 (full day; networking happy hour in evening) |
| Venue | Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA |
| Host | Zenity |
| Category | AI agent security · practitioner summit |
| Access | Free |
| Register | zenity.io/resources/events/ai-agent-security-summit-san-francisco 10 |
Community-led, practitioner-only summit covering the security threat surface of AI agents: prompt injection, memory poisoning, tool manipulation, runtime defense, agent supply chain attacks, and the AIUC-1 standard (first agentic AI standard). 10 17+ speakers across 11 sessions — no vendor or product talks.
Key speakers: Michael Bargury (co-founder & CTO, Zenity, keynote), Vivek Vinod Sharma (Lead AI Security Architect, Microsoft), Aron Eidelman (Sr. Developer Relations Engineer, AI Security, Google), Travis McPeak (Security Lead, Cursor), Ben Sadeghipour / Nahamsec (Hacker & CEO, HackingHub), and Jim Reavis (CEO, Cloud Security Alliance). 1112
Audience is CISOs, security architects, security researchers, and AI builders on enterprise agentic systems. Free registration.
5:00 PM — Mango Maxxing mixer (PromptQL × Gully Labs, SF)
| Time | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT |
| Venue | PromptQL Office, San Francisco, CA (address disclosed upon RSVP) |
| Host | PromptQL Events × Gully Labs (Rajoshi Ghosh, Shreyash Mishra, Lili Riahi, Gaurav) |
| Category | Social mixer · food & drink · tech |
| Access | Free — RSVP required (no approval needed) |
| Register | lu.ma/mangomaxxing 13 |
One-night-only mango season party: Alphonso, Kesar, Banganpalle, and Langra mango tasting, chai and bites, Gully Labs (Indian sneaker brand, first SF pop-up) kicks preview, music, and giveaways. 568 registered. 13
"No talks. No demos. No panels. Just good people, good music, and things we genuinely like." 13
No tech content. PromptQL is a team AI for organizing shared context; Gully Labs is the Indian sneaker brand making its SF debut alongside.
5:00 PM — Vibe-coding SaaS happy hour ⚠️ Mountain View
| Time | 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM PDT |
| Venue | Morph's Office, downtown Mountain View, CA ⚠️ (address disclosed upon RSVP) |
| Host | Morph (Nora Peterson, Akshay Sharma), Sahar Mor (Bond AI) |
| Category | Developer meetup · vibe-coding · SaaS |
| Access | Free — RSVP required (no approval needed) |
| Register | lu.ma/3nrjpigv 14 |
Builders-only happy hour at Morph's Mountain View office — drinks, bites, and real talk about building agentic SaaS applications: security edge cases, scalability, reliable UX, pricing. No stiff panels or long demos. 14 94 registered. ⚠️ Mountain View — Caltrain-accessible.
5:30 PM — Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup
| Time | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT |
| Venue | CANOPY Jackson Square, 595 Pacific Ave, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94133 |
| Host | Postman Developer Events (Patricia Dugan) |
| Category | Developer meetup · AI agents · APIs |
| Access | Free — RSVP required (no approval needed) |
| Register | lu.ma/agents-ai-api-may 15 |
Postman (major API platform) hosts a live-demo session at CANOPY Jackson Square. Four demos on the bill: 15
- Firebase Agent Skills — Cynthia Jiang & Charlotte Liang (Google): building agentic apps from prompt to production
- Public.com API & Agents — Tarric Sookdeo & Matthew Foster: the first agentic brokerage, giving LLMs direct access to real market data and order execution
- Interfaze — Yoeven D Khemlani (founder, YC P26): deterministic AI for tech stack integration
- Postman Collections as guardrails — Tristan Denyer (Sr. Engineering Manager, Postman): agent that researches portfolio catalysts, drafts trade proposals, and asks for human approval via Telegram
415 registered; space is limited. Address is public.
5:30 PM — Systems Trivia Night @ Convex (SF, invite-only)
| Time | 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT |
| Venue | Secret location, San Francisco, CA (disclosed upon approval) |
| Host | Convex.dev (Fayeeza Shaikh, Wayne Sutton, James Cowling) |
| Category | Systems engineering · social trivia |
| Access | Free — invite-only (approval required) |
| Register | lu.ma/8p7rw4m5 16 |
Convex (open-source reactive database repositioned as "backend building blocks for agents") hosts a trivia night for systems and backend engineers. 16 Questions cover distributed systems, databases, networking, scaling failures, and legendary postmortems. Food and drinks provided; come with a team or join one on arrival. 52 registered; approval required.
5:30 PM — Moontech: The New Space Economy ⚠️ Berkeley
| Time | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT |
| Venue | Berkeley Gateway Accelerator HQ, Berkeley, CA ⚠️ (address disclosed upon RSVP) |
| Host | Berkeley Gateway Accelerator |
| Category | Space economy · panel |
| Access | Free — RSVP required (no approval needed) |
| Register | lu.ma/ixt4xv7p 17 |
Panel and lightning talk on the commercial space economy with a lunar focus: NASA's $4.2B CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) contract, launch infrastructure, data layers, and autonomy. 17 240 registered. ⚠️ Berkeley.
Panelists: Terry Fong (Senior Scientist and Chief Roboticist, NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group), Alex Greenberg (Co-founder & COO, Loft Orbital), Patrick Beatty (Managing Director, Beyond Earth Ventures), Emerson Garnett (Principal, Balerion Space Ventures). Lightning talk: Raphael Attié, PhD (NASA Goddard; President, HelioArc Foundation). Moderator: Izen Thornton (founder, FRANK Autonomous). 17
6:00 PM — Beyond the Build: Rise of the Product Engineer (SF, invite-only)
| Time | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT |
| Venue | Secret location, San Francisco, CA (disclosed upon approval) |
| Host | Nooks (Payal Patel) |
| Category | Product engineering · GTM · panel |
| Access | Free — invite-only (approval required) |
| Register | lu.ma/l75r3gjo 18 |
Nooks (VC-backed GTM intelligence platform) hosts a panel on the emerging "product engineer" — technical operators who own the full motion from build to market. 18 Panelists: Rohan Suri (CPO & co-founder, Nooks; previously Stanford AI Lab), Breuer Brass (RVP Solutions, Decagon), Alex Laubscher (Field CTO, Parallel), Shail Pokhral (Codex Forward Deployed, OpenAI). Food and drinks provided.
7:00 PM — SkillsBench 1.1 Launch Party @ ACM CAIS (SF, invite-only)
| Time | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT |
| Venue | Secret location, San Francisco, CA (disclosed upon approval) |
| Host | Google DeepMind Developer Experience Team (Ivan Leo, Xiangyi Li, Nicholas Kang) |
| Category | AI benchmarking · launch event |
| Access | Free — invite-only (approval required); limited spaces |
| Register | lu.ma/deepmind-634c 19 |
Afterparty for the ACM CAIS Agent Skills '26 workshop, celebrating the launch of BenchFlow's SkillsBench 1.0 — 100+ expert-curated tasks measuring how well agents use skills across complex domains. 19 Live demos on creating benchmarks and RL environments with the BenchFlow SDK, plus takeaways from Kaggle's new Agent Benchmarks program. 258 registered; limited spaces. Hosted in partnership with Kaggle and Kernel Labs.
Wednesday cultural picks
Two non-tech options for a break from the agent stack:
Quick-reference
| Event | Day | Time (PDT) | Location | Access | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Evals, No Optimization, No Production | Tue 5/26 | 5:30–8:00 PM | 300 Grant Ave, SF | Free / RSVP | lu.ma/9kag32ur |
| How to AI Pill Your Company | Tue 5/26 | 5:00–8:00 PM | SF | Free / RSVP | lu.ma/7cojgbhq |
| Operationalizing Agents (EVENT FULL) | Tue 5/26 | 5:30–8:30 PM | SF | Waitlist | lu.ma/2x62tiuu |
| Running AI at Enterprise Scale (EVENT FULL) | Tue 5/26 | 5:00–8:30 PM | SF | Waitlist | lu.ma/0y8tu80a |
| Foresight AI Salon (EVENT FULL) | Tue 5/26 | 6:00–9:00 PM | The Fold, SF | Waitlist | lu.ma/3ilmfjb7 |
| Agents & Bagels | Wed 5/27 | 8:00–9:00 AM | SF (secret) | Free / invite-only | lu.ma/agents-and-bagels-3 |
| HeyGen "Infinitely Me" pop-up | Wed 5/27 | 11:00 AM–3:00 PM | 851 Beach St, SF | Free / invite-only | lu.ma/1eilqafb |
| AI DevSummit 2026 Day 1 ⚠️ | Wed 5/27 | All day | S. San Francisco CC | $195 OPEN / Free on Eventbrite | aidevsummit.co |
| AI Agent Security Summit | Wed 5/27 | All day | Commonwealth Club, SF | Free | zenity.io/…/ai-agent-security-summit-san-francisco |
| Morph vibe-coding happy hour ⚠️ | Wed 5/27 | 5:00–7:30 PM | Mountain View | Free / RSVP | lu.ma/3nrjpigv |
| Mango Maxxing mixer | Wed 5/27 | 5:00–8:00 PM | SF (PromptQL office) | Free / RSVP | lu.ma/mangomaxxing |
| Moontech: The New Space Economy ⚠️ | Wed 5/27 | 5:30–7:30 PM | Berkeley | Free / RSVP | lu.ma/ixt4xv7p |
| Systems Trivia Night @ Convex | Wed 5/27 | 5:30–9:00 PM | SF (secret) | Free / invite-only | lu.ma/8p7rw4m5 |
| Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup | Wed 5/27 | 5:30–7:30 PM | 595 Pacific Ave, SF | Free / RSVP | lu.ma/agents-ai-api-may |
| Beyond the Build: Product Engineer | Wed 5/27 | 6:00–8:30 PM | SF (secret) | Free / invite-only | lu.ma/l75r3gjo |
| Rise Over Run Rooftop R&B | Wed 5/27 | 6:00–9:00 PM | 33 Turk St, SF | Free | OpenTable |
| Adeena Sussman "Zariz" cookbook event | Wed 5/27 | 7:00–8:30 PM | JCCSF, 3200 California St, SF | Ticketed | jccsf.org |
| SkillsBench 1.1 Launch Party | Wed 5/27 | 7:00–9:00 PM | SF (secret) | Free / invite-only | lu.ma/deepmind-634c |
⚠️ = outside SF proper. "Secret location" = address disclosed after registration approval. Verify capacity status before heading out — lu.ma events can fill quickly.
Cover photo: AI-generated
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