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4–8pm · Belden Place, FiDi
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The unofficial kickoff mixer for AI Engineer World's Fair week, co-hosted by Bond AI (Sahar Mor's 140k+ community), Buildify and drft. Belden Place is where a huge slice of AIE speakers, sponsors and cross-city attendees actually met each other before the panels started. 268+ signed up. If you arrived on time you were networking on the street.
6:30–10pm · European Startup Embassy, San Francisco
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The closing-night rooftop for AI Engineer World's Fair, co-hosted by Apify, Massive and TopK. By the third night of AIE the good conversations had already surfaced — this is where they got finished. European Startup Embassy rooftop was small enough to keep the room curated, big enough to catch the last few speakers before flights out.
5–9pm · Okta, SoMa
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The 5th edition of one of the most-anticipated agentic events in SF, running since early 2026. Format was tight: eight teams, ten minutes each, live demos. Sponsors included Auth0, Nebius, and .Agent Community. 477 RSVPs. The room where you saw what actually worked in production before it hit Twitter.
6–10pm · Ayoub & Kubein, San Francisco
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NVIDIA and Black Forest Labs co-hosted an evening on holographic and image generation AI. Hosts included Jules Belveze (Black Forest Labs) and researchers from both teams. Format leaned toward technical talks with room for hands-on demos. The kind of evening you left with a paper reading list and a clearer sense of where visual AI is going in the next twelve months.
5:30–10pm · ElevenLabs SF, San Francisco
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ElevenLabs and Sauna co-hosted a voice-AI-focused hack night in the middle of July. ElevenLabs engineers on the floor to unblock voice-pipeline issues, live demos scheduled for the last hour, Sauna's Nordic-format networking in between. Voice AI has been the fastest-improving corner of the space this year — this was the SF room actually shipping in it.
9:30am–5pm · Bright Data, SoMa
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Bright Data hosted a full-day Saturday hackathon dedicated to agent infra — data pipelines, web-scraping tooling, structured retrieval. Bright Data engineers embedded across the room. Not a demo night, an actual working day. Attendees brought their projects and left with shipping artifacts. Ended with a meaningfully-better repo than it started.
6:30–9:30pm · AI Tinkerers x Tensorwave, San Francisco
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An invite-only, 20-seat dinner from AI Tinkerers × Tensorwave. Off the record, Chatham House rules. CTOs, VPs of Engineering and senior technical leaders argued through the AI tool stack being rewritten right now — inference hardware economics, orchestration gaps, evals, build-vs-buy in 2026. Tensorwave's senior team at the table to participate, not to pitch.