SF Social Club - June 29th, 2026

Your backstage pass to SF's top tech & startup events this week

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Matthew Taksa
June 29, 2026

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Hey SF Social Club, Happy Monday!

I’ve curated a list of over a dozen fantastic events happening in San Francisco this week.

SF Social Club is brought to you by Matt Taksa (Founder at Nextdev Labs - Hire Top 1% AI Engineers). Since late 2022, I’ve hosted over 100 tech events in San Francisco and built a community of 10,000+ people along the way. Why? Because I’ve seen firsthand that the city feels most alive when founders, engineers, and dreamers come together in person.

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Event Lineup 🍾

Time: 6pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Artificial Analysis in San Francisco

​Following the recent release of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1, join the Artificial Analysis team and AI frontier leaders, Google, NVIDIA, and MiniMax for an evening of talks on how we measure language model intelligence and the tradeoffs between models.

Jun 29th, 2026 - Model Independence Day

Time: 6pm - 10pm

Hosted by Factory in San Francisco

​Come celebrate Independence Day with us! Except, this one is about being independent of model choice.

​You are welcome to join us in The Melody, and learn more and discuss building with LLM-agnostic tech stack, optimizing model costs, or the state of open-source models.

Jun 30th, 2026 - Coffeeflare

Time: 7am - 10am

Hosted by Cloudflare in San Francisco

​​Pre-game Day 2 of AI Engineer World's Fair with the Cloudflare crew! ☕️

​We're taking over Sightglass Coffee to talk all things AI, agents, and architecture. Come grab a brew, tell us what you're building, and peer into our product pipeline.

Time: 3pm - 10pm

Hosted by Braintrust in San Francisco

​The inaugural Agent Open SF 2026 is happening. An afternoon of AI conversations and a pickleball tournament full of engineers that take both their agents and backhand seriously.

​Play pickleball? Come show us your skills. First come, first serve to play.

Jun 30th, 2026 - SF Devtools Drinkup

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Hosted by WorkOS in San Francisco

​​​Love APIs and dev tools? Building something cool with AI?

​Come have a drink and meet new folks! 🚀

Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm

Hosted by [SF] Builders Collective in San Francisco

​A focused afternoon for builders who want to get hands-on with practical AI technologies instead of sitting through another slide-heavy meetup.

Time: 6pm - 10pm

Hosted by Warp in San Francisco

​Join Warp and Sequoia for an exclusive evening of exciting conversation, handcrafted cocktails, and exceptional company. Hear from Sequoia’s Andrew Reed followed by a fireside chat with Zach Lloyd, Peter Steinberger from OpenAI, and Paige Bailey from Google DeepMind on Crafting Software Factories. Then enjoy an evening of networking, food, and handcrafted cocktails.

Jul 1st, 2026 - AI Engineer After Dark

Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Hosted by Vercel in San Francisco

​Join Vercel x Merge x Factory for the official AI Engineer After Party, where the people building the future of AI swap the conference floor for good music, good drinks, and even better company. Catch quick-fire lightning talks from the teams behind some of the most exciting AI tools in the space.

Time: 7:30am - 9:30am

Hosted by EWOR in San Francisco

​​Coming to SF. A 4-week running series bringing together founders, investors, and builders for an active morning through the city.

Jul 2nd, 2026 - AI Engineer Trivia Night

Time: 4:30pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Entire in San Francisco

​​​Sanity, Temporal, OpenAI, and Entire.io are teaming up for a night of trivia built for the people actually shipping AI products. Think of this as the anti-networking event. You'll be too busy arguing with your team over whether that's a real model name or something your coworker hallucinated to make small talk.

Jul 2nd, 2026 - {AI} in Production

Time: 6pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Inngest in San Francisco

​{AI} in Production is an event series of talks and panels by builders and leading experts. Engineers, teams, and founders who've built, run, and scaled AI systems. People who've solved these problems for real.

Time: 6:30pm - 10:30pm

Hosted by Userlens in San Francisco

Join the newest Y Combinator batch for an unforgettable evening aboard a luxury yacht on the San Francisco Bay.

Celebrate Independence Day with fellow founders, mentors, and the YC community as we cruise past the iconic Golden Gate Bridge — watching a rare and historic fireworks display launched directly from the bridge towers for the first time in 14 years (only the third time in the bridge’s history).

That’s it for this week!

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