SF Bay Area Events: August 10-16, 2026
A ranked shortlist of 17 verified Bay Area events for August 10-16, led by MongoDB.local Build Fest, WorkOS Agent Night, Frontier Day, a biopharma hack day, and a packed Thursday lineup, with access friction stated up front.
The week at a glance
Tuesday through Thursday carry the strongest technical choices: a hands-on Claude workshop, a full-day biopharma hack day, MongoDB's build festival, a context-focused sprint, WorkOS's agent demos, and an inference-measurement night. 1234
The weekend changes shape: ClawCamp runs across Saturday and Sunday, a 30-person AI researchers' roundtable is invitation-only, and Code & Coffee gives builders a lower-friction Sunday option. 567
This is a ranked shortlist for August 10-16, 2026, ordered by topic fit and visible quality signals: a concrete build or demo format, named speakers or teams, a credible organizer, stated selectivity, or a useful attendance signal. All times are Pacific. "Approval required," waitlists, hidden addresses, and missing prices are access constraints, not footnotes.
| Rank | When | Pick | Why it made the list | Access friction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thu, Aug 13; hours not listed | MongoDB.local Build Fest | Named AI and developer-platform speakers, workshops, hackathon, after-party | Approval required; founder pass is a separate route |
| 2 | Wed, Aug 12, 5:00-10:00 PM | WorkOS Agent Night | Large agent-focused program; 1,634 going; named speakers in the event artwork | Approval required |
| 3 | Wed, Aug 12, 1:00-7:00 PM | Frontier Day | Boris Cherny fireside, hands-on Claude workshop, startup demos | Invite-only; approval required; address hidden |
| 4 | Thu, Aug 13, 9:30 AM-8:30 PM | Biopharma Hack Day | Full-day build brief at the AI/biotech boundary; 134 going | Free; approval required |
| 5 | Thu, Aug 13, 12:30-8:00 PM | Persistent Context Sprint Hackathon | Four-person teams, judged demos, real-time audience vote | Approval required; exact address hidden |
| 6 | Mon, Aug 10, 5:30-9:00 PM | World Model Builders Meetup | World Labs and BITKRAFT, live demos, roughly 70-person limit | Approval required; exact address hidden |
| 7 | Wed, Aug 12, 6:00-8:30 PM | Artificial Analysis: Inference, Measured | Directly about inference speed, cost, and quality; 552 going | Approval required; speakers and address pending |
| 8 | Thu, Aug 13, 6:30-9:00 PM | AI for Science Demo Night | Five applied demos spanning lab hardware, sensing, and therapeutic research | Registration required; address hidden |
| 9 | Tue, Aug 11, 5:30-8:30 PM | Data Engineering Meetup with ClickHouse | Specific talks on observability and agent learning; 572 going | Full; waitlist only |
| 10 | Wed, Aug 12, 5:00-7:00 PM | Deep Tech Startups in the Age of AI | Fifty Years, Berkeley biotech, and Bakar Labs; featured speaker Alex Teng | Free; approval required; Berkeley address hidden |
| 11 | Tue, Aug 11, 1:00-5:00 PM | Claude Coworkshop | Live "day in the life" demo, hands-on Cowork session, and happy hour | Free; approval required; director-level and above |
| 12 | Tue, Aug 11, 6:00-9:00 PM | SF Hardware & Manufacturing Happy Hour | A builder room for engineers, operators, and physical-world founders; 308 going | Approval required; address hidden |
| 13 | Tue, Aug 11, 5:00-7:30 PM | Got an AI Business Idea? Pitch It | Spark Tank briefing with super{set}; 119 going; public venue | Registration required; price not listed |
| 14 | Thu, Aug 13, 6:30-8:30 PM | Founder Dinner | Series A+ founder room focused on fundraising, GTM, and scaling | Approval required; one spot remaining; address hidden |
| 15 | Sat, Aug 15, 3:00-5:00 PM | Top AI Researchers Roundtable & BBQ | Closed-door discussion with a stated 30-person cap | Invitation-only; address hidden |
| 16 | Sat, Aug 15, 9:00 AM-Sun, Aug 16, 9:00 PM | ClawCamp SF Summer Summit | Agentic-AI talks, workshops, demos, prizes, and a global livestream | Name-your-own-price ticket; address hidden |
| 17 | Sun, Aug 16, 2:00-5:00 PM | SF AI Code & Coffee | Low-ceremony networking and co-working for AI builders; 228 going | Registration required |
Monday, August 10
World Labs x BITKRAFT World Model Builders Meetup
Category: World models and spatial intelligence. When: 5:30-9:00 PM. Venue: Founders, Inc., San Francisco; the exact address appears only after registration. Host: BITKRAFT Events, with World Labs and Founders, Inc. Entry: Approval required; the page describes a roughly 70-person limit and does not list a price. Status: Confirmed. 8
The program is a fireside chat with World Labs, live demos, a showcase, and networking. No individual speaker names are published, so the useful signal is the combination of a named world-model company, a concrete demo format, and a deliberately small room. Register on Luma.
Tuesday, August 11
Claude Coworkshop - San Francisco
Category: Applied AI workflow and Claude Cowork. When: 1:00-5:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact address is revealed after registration. Hosts: Build with Claude and Provectus, presented by Claude Workshops. Entry: Free, approval required, and aimed at director-level attendees and above; the registration is non-transferable. Status: Space is limited; confirmed. 1
The format is practical: a live "day in the life" demo, a hands-on Cowork session, and a networking happy hour. There is no named speaker list on the accessible page. Request a spot on Luma.
Got an AI Business Idea? Pitch It
Category: Founder pitch preparation and startup ideas. When: 5:00-7:30 PM. Venue: The House by Edge & Node, Building 103, 103 Montgomery St, San Francisco. Hosts: The House by Edge & Node, Manav Johar, and Deirdre Mahon. Entry: Registration required; price is not listed. Status: 119 going; confirmed. 9
The evening introduces super{set}'s Spark Tank format, with Peter Day, a general partner at super{set}, scheduled for the introduction. It is better for a founder deciding how to frame an idea than for someone looking for a technical build session. Register on Luma.
San Francisco Data Engineering Meetup with ClickHouse
Category: Data infrastructure, observability, and agent learning. When: 5:30-8:30 PM. Venue: CANOPY Jackson Square, 595 Pacific Ave, 4th floor, San Francisco. Host: ClickHouse Events, hosted by Zoe Steinkamp. Entry: Registration required. Status: Full; waitlist only; 572 going. 10
The published program names talks by Julian Bouchard and Daniel Wintermeyer of Clera, Sherwood Callaway of Sazabi, and Abhi Aiyer of Mastra. Topics include an observability platform and agent learning on ClickHouse Cloud, which gives this event more technical specificity than a general data meetup. Join the waitlist on Luma.
SF Hardware & Manufacturing Happy Hour
Category: Hardware, manufacturing, and physical AI. When: 6:00-9:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact location is released after approval. Host: Hardware FYI, with Benji Chia. Entry: Approval required; price is not listed. Status: 308 going; confirmed. 11
The organizer describes a shop-talk room for engineers, operators, and founders building in the physical world. There is no speaker list or formal agenda, so choose it for peer density and hardware conversations, not a scheduled talk. Request approval on Luma.
Wednesday, August 12
Frontier Day: Building an AGI-Pilled Company
Category: AI-native startups and Claude products. When: 1:00-7:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact address is shown after registration. Host: Claude Startups. Entry: Free, invite-only, approval required, and non-transferable. Status: Limited availability; confirmed. 12
The afternoon combines a fireside with Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, a hands-on workshop using current Claude products, and startup demos. This is the week's clearest choice for founders who want product access and company-building examples in the same room. Register on Luma.
Deep Tech Startups in the Age of AI by Fifty Years
Category: Deep tech, biotech, and scientist-to-founder paths. When: 5:00-7:00 PM. Venue: Berkeley; the exact address is released after registration. Hosts: Fifty Years, Biotech at Berkeley, and Bakar Labs. Entry: Free, approval required; food and drinks are included. Status: Confirmed; capacity is not stated. 13
Alex Teng, a partner at Fifty Years, is the featured speaker in the Scientist to Founder Series. The event is aimed at PhDs, postdocs, and engineers evaluating whether research can become a company, rather than at founders already scaling a product. Apply on Luma.
WorkOS Agent Night
Category: Agentic AI and developer tools. When: 5:00-10:00 PM. Venue: The Regency Ballroom, 1300 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco. Host: WorkOS Events, with Michael Grinich. Entry: Approval required; price is not listed. Status: 1,634 going and space is limited; confirmed. 4
The page promises live demos, discussions, and hallway conversations. Its published speaker artwork names Jaya Gupta, David Crawshaw, Irina Nazarova, Brian Douglas, Swyx, Flo Crivello, and Abhi Aiyer. That combination of a large audience signal and a named lineup makes it the broadest networking-and-demos bet of the week. Request approval on Luma.
Artificial Analysis: Inference, Measured
Category: Model inference, latency, cost, and quality. When: 6:00-8:30 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact location is released after registration. Host: Artificial Analysis, with Emily, Ben Bayliss, George Cameron, Micah Hill-Smith, Wanda Wang, and The AI Collective. Entry: Approval required; price is not listed. Status: 552 going; speakers are still to be announced; confirmed. 14
Doors open at 6:00 PM, followed by an Artificial Analysis talk, a panel, and networking with food and drinks. If you are choosing between agent hype and operating data, this is the more focused room: the event description starts with the speed, cost, and quality of every request an application makes. Request a spot on Luma.
Thursday, August 13
MongoDB.local Build Fest: San Francisco
Category: AI applications, data platforms, and developer tooling. When: Thursday, August 13; the accessible Luma detail page does not state public start and end times. Venue: Pier 48, Shed A, San Francisco, CA 94158. Host: MongoDB. Entry: Approval required; the page mentions a complimentary Founder Pass for approved founders through MongoDB for Startups, but gives no general ticket price or capacity. Status: Confirmed. 3
The published lineup includes MongoDB CTO Jim Scharf, OpenAI developer-experience engineer Jason Liu, LangChain deployed engineer Liam Bush, Rivian AI Platform senior manager Pranil Vora, and other cloud and AI infrastructure guests. Workshops, a Persistent Context Sprint Hackathon, and an after-party with Loud Luxury are also listed. Verify the public hours in the registration flow before planning around it. Register on Luma.
Biopharma Hack Day at AWS
Category: AI for pharma, biotech, clinical workflows, and regulated data. When: 9:30 AM-8:30 PM. Venue: AWS Builder Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco. Hosts: [SF] HackerSquad, Adam Chan, HackerSquad, and AWS Builder Loft. Entry: Free, approval required; food is provided. Status: 134 going and space is limited; confirmed. 2
The day moves from a challenge brief into build time, office hours, submissions, and final demos. It is the best fit for a builder who wants a domain-specific problem rather than a generic agent hackathon. Apply on Luma.
The Persistent Context Sprint Hackathon
Category: Memory, retrieval, and agent systems. When: 12:30-8:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact location is revealed after registration. Host: MongoDB. Entry: Approval required; teams may have up to four people; price is not listed. Status: Space is limited; confirmed. 15
Teams get roughly four hours to build, three finalists demo on stage, and the audience votes in real time before the Loud Luxury after-party. The application also serves as registration for MongoDB.local Build Fest, so check whether you need both event flows before applying. Apply through the MongoDB Build Fest registration.
AI for Science Demo Night @ Edison Scientific
Category: AI for science, lab hardware, sensing, and therapeutic research. When: 6:30-9:00 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the exact address is hidden until registration. Hosts: Worldwide Studios, with Michael Raspuzzi and Dylan Holland. Entry: Registration required; price is not listed. Status: 194 going; confirmed. 16
The announced demos cover an open-source co-scientist, a DIY self-driving lab, sensor-integrated agentic workflows, a reaction-time device for cognitive impairment, and reinforcement learning for therapeutic hypotheses and gene editing. Arrivals run from 6:30-7:00 PM, demos from 7:00-8:00 PM, and an open mic follows. Register on Luma.
Founder Dinner
Category: Founder dinner, fundraising, GTM, and scaling. When: 6:30-8:30 PM. Venue: San Francisco; the address is shown after registration. Host: Brderless, with Amy Quan, Baargav Duggirala, and Austin Cai. Entry: Approval required; price is not listed. Status: One spot remaining; confirmed. 17
The room is intended for a highly curated group of Series A+ founders and is built around tactical conversations rather than a stage program. Choose it only if the access constraint matches your profile; the source does not publish individual speakers. Request the remaining spot on Luma.
Saturday, August 15 through Sunday, August 16
ClawCamp SF Summer Summit
Category: Agentic AI, workshops, demos, and tech-social community. When: 9:00 AM Saturday through 9:00 PM Sunday. Venue: Exact address is released after ticket purchase. Hosts: ClawCamp Community, Steven Echtman, and Nikhil Tayal. Entry: Ticketed on a name-your-own-price basis; the event will also be livestreamed globally through TapIn and the Future Caribbean community. Status: Ticket availability is not stated; confirmed. 5
The program lists keynotes, sponsor credits and prizes, talks, workshops, demos, cocktails, and networking. The published mentor and speaker list includes Dave Nielsen, Colin Lowenberg, Srini Pagidyala, Anand Vallamsetla, Nalini Garg, Michael Maximilien, and others. This is the broadest weekend option if you want agentic-AI community energy rather than a single technical track. Get tickets on Luma.
Top AI Researchers Roundtable & BBQ Party
Category: Frontier AI research, infrastructure, models, compute, and physical AI. When: 3:00-5:00 PM. Venue: Woodside, CA; the exact address is private. Host: Bay Area Founders Club, with Dr. Paul Fang and Jany Hejuan Zhao. Entry: Invitation-only. Status: 30 curated attendees; confirmed. 6
The format is closed-door and off the record: no presentations, panels, media, or public recordings, followed by a private BBQ reception. The event page says the group is intended to include researchers and operators from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, xAI, and other frontier organizations; it does not publish a named speaker lineup. Review the invitation details on Luma.
Sunday, August 16
SF AI Code And Coffee
Category: AI builder networking and co-working. When: 2:00-5:00 PM. Venue: Salesforce Park, central grassy area, 425 Mission St, San Francisco. Hosts: San Francisco AI Code And Coffee, with John Komarnicki, Pat Santiago, and Sahar Mor of Bond AI. Entry: Registration required; price is not listed. Status: 228 going; confirmed. 7
The format is informal: an introduction circle around 2:15 PM, short standup rounds about current work and hiring, and open co-working. It is the easiest Sunday choice for meeting builders without a stage, a pitch competition, or an approval-only room. Register on Luma.
How to choose
- Want one serious build day: Pick Biopharma Hack Day for a domain-specific brief, or MongoDB.local Build Fest if the platform, speaker, and after-party mix is more useful. The Persistent Context Sprint is the narrower choice if you already have a team of up to four.
- Want agent product depth: Frontier Day has the strongest announced hands-on access; WorkOS Agent Night has the widest speaker-and-demo surface; Artificial Analysis is the focused pick for inference economics.
- Want to meet founders in a small room: The Founder Dinner has one reported spot left, while the Top AI Researchers Roundtable is capped at 30 and invitation-only. Neither is a casual walk-in.
- Want a lower-friction weekend plan: ClawCamp is the broad, ticketed summit. Code & Coffee is the simpler Sunday plan at Salesforce Park.
- Want physical-world work: The Hardware & Manufacturing Happy Hour is the peer room; AI for Science Demo Night is the better choice if you want to see working projects rather than only trade contacts.
Access notes
The most constrained options are already full or close to it: ClickHouse is waitlist-only, the Brderless Founder Dinner reports one spot remaining, and several events require approval before the address is revealed. MongoDB.local Build Fest and its Persistent Context Sprint also use separate registration paths, so confirm which program you are applying for before making travel plans.
Prices are unusually incomplete this week. The accessible pages explicitly mark Claude Coworkshop, Frontier Day, Deep Tech Startups in the Age of AI, and Biopharma Hack Day as free; the dinner, workshop, and ticketed events either omit a price or use a separate checkout. Recheck the registration page before paying or commuting.
SF Tech Week is not part of this issue: the official calendar places SF Tech Week on October 5-11, 2026, outside August 10-16. The Partiful results available in this run did not yield an in-window dated detail page, and the Cerebral Valley page did not expose a second accessible dated event for this week. I left those out rather than turn a shell page or a stale result into a recommendation. 18
Check every registration page again before leaving, especially for approval-only events, hidden addresses, and waitlists.
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SF Bay Area Events of the Week
Weekly scrape of curated SF Bay Area events this week on Lu.ma / Eventbrite / Partiful / Cerebral Valley / SF Tech Week (AI demo day / hackathon / founder dinner / themed party), ranked by topic and quality
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