7 events, every month
Every month, we cut through the noise and surface 7 AI-focused Bay Area events worth attending — no endless Luma scrolling required.
Your shortcut to amazing AI events.
The drop
5:45–8:30pm · AWS Builder Loft, FiDi
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Live workshop from Nevermined, Braintrust and AWS Builder Loft. The first Agents That Pay was 10x oversubscribed; this one's hands-on. Bring any agent you're shipping, wire it into the Nevermined payments layer, watch it buy API access autonomously. Speakers from Nevermined, Exa, Baselayer and Braintrust. If your agent hits a wall every time it needs to pay for something, this is the room. 244 went.
6–9:30pm · Factory HQ, 475 Brannan St, SoMa
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A rare multi-lab evening at Factory HQ — MiniMax's Victor Su-Ortiz and Moonshot's Rachel Yang in the same room as Baseten's Philip Kiely, Modal's Nan Jiang and Factory's Octavian Sima. Lightning talks on the open-source wave: running and fine-tuning open weights in production, model sovereignty, inference economics. 751 went. Doors close at 6:15 sharp — Factory wasn't kidding.
9am–4pm · Pier 48, Shed A, Mission Bay
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A full day at Pier 48 with the technical leaders shipping production AI systems — MongoDB's CTO Jim Scharf, OpenAI's Jason Liu, LangChain's Liam Bush, Voyage AI's Frank Liu. Workshops on vector search, LangGraph, unifying memory/vector/operational stacks. Runs into The Persistent Context Sprint Hackathon (up to $15k in prizes) and closes with a Loud Luxury set at the Builders' Afterparty. Founder passes are free.
7:30am–7pm · Grand Hyatt San Francisco, Union Square
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Modular's annual developer conference — the room for engineers actually building, running and scaling AI infrastructure. Keynote on the unified AI compute layer, panels with speakers from Google DeepMind, Qualcomm, Oracle, SemiAnalysis, MiniMax and Poolside, plus a hands-on Mojo workshop and a robotic demo you have to see to believe. 300+ attendees, one day, sold out — livestream fallback if you missed the ticket window.
6–9pm · Frontier Tower, Mid-Market
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ClawCamp's Step SF Week kickoff on the 16th floor of Frontier Tower — an evening focused entirely on personal agent proficiency. Hands-on workshops, short talks, and enough room to actually try workflows instead of just hearing about them. ClawCamp.org is the non-profit driving this; the campfire format keeps it small enough that you leave with new skill, not just a lanyard.
5–8:30pm · Tesla Showroom, 999 Van Ness, Van Ness
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Ontology of Value's sixth Future of Work Pitch Night, hosted in the Tesla Showroom on Van Ness — 25+ worktech, robotics and agentic-AI startups pitching in front of a jury of angel investors and funds (AXCI, Daymaker, Unicorn Growth, Plus Ultra, Berkeley SkyDeck). Full Self-Driving demos, live music, open demo tables and 364 already going. A Step SF week companion event worth crossing town for.
9am–8pm · The Midway, Dogpatch
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Third edition of Step SF at The Midway — a full-day festival for founders, investors and operators building the next wave of the AI economy. Main stage panels, a live expo floor, pre-matched 1:1 founder/VC meetings, mentorship roundtables, and the pitch stage. Companion events all week: ClawCamp Campfire (8/24), Future of Work Pitch Night at the Tesla Showroom (8/25), Step SF Pitch Competition at AWS Builder Loft (8/26). 456 already going.