SF Social Club - May 31st, 2026

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

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Matthew Taksa
May 31, 2026

Hey SF Social Club, Happy Sunday!

This week may be NY Tech Week, but you don’t need to travel 3,000 miles to find top-tier tech events. I’ve curated a list of over a dozen fantastic events happening right here in SF this week.

SF Social Club is brought to you by Matt Taksa (Founder & CEO at Nextdev - AI SWE Hiring). 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.

Interested in getting involved?

Event Lineup 🍾

Time: 5:30pm - 9:30pm

Hosted by Alpic in San Francisco

​​SaaS isn't dead... it's headless!

​Don't listen to the word on the street. SaaS is still alive and kicking, it's just getting a makeover! The APIs are still there, the data is still there, and the UI? It's becoming generative. MCP is what lets agents actually use all of it. This edition of MCP Connect looks at what that shift looks like in production with three teams who've shipped it.

Jun 1st, 2026 - Solana x Corgi: After-Work Builder Hang

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by Solana Foundation in San Francisco

​Solana and Corgi are teaming up for an after-work hang at the Corgi Cafe, come swing by, mingle with the Solana and Corgi teams, and enjoy drinks and pastries on us.

​Open to developers, founders, and technologists building at the edge of new markets, anyone exploring how AI, crypto, robotics, biotech, and high-performance networks are creating opportunities that weren't possible before.

Jun 1st, 2026 - Agents that Pay

Time: 6pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Exa in San Francisco

​Agents can search. Agents can plan. Now agents can pay. The payment stack for the agentic web is being built in public, and it is already live.

Visa is bringing agent transactions onto the world's largest card network. Coinbase's x402 turned HTTP into a checkout counter. And Nevermined and Exa just closed the loop: an agent can now buy Exa API calls autonomously with no human in the middle, no API key handoff, and just cardholder defined guardrails and a transaction itself.

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Hosted by Frontier Tower SF in San Francisco

​The OpenClaw movement is not just an evolution – it’s a revolution.

Agenda for this ClawCamp Campfire:

  • ​Getting Up and Running with Your Personal Agent

  • ​Vibe Coding Nights: Build Your Second Brain: Memory for Your Agent

Time: 7pm - 10pm

Hosted by MotherDuck in San Francisco

​Night 1 of Snowflake Summit starts here. High Tide at The Dive is an invite-only evening of drinks, a DJ set, and good company with teams from MotherDuck, Braintrust, Hex, Reducto and Airbyte. Come up for air with us.

Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Hosted by MotherDuck in San Francisco

​Join us for a special edition of our MotherDuck + DuckDB meetup at our event space "The Dive"! Hear some talks and meet good folks. If you are new to DuckDB or you are a power user, we have you covered. This month, AI is also at the heart of both topics.

Jun 2nd, 2026 - Happy Hour at MS Build

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Hosted by Cerebras in San Francisco

​Cerebras is the world’s fastest AI inference, up to 15x faster than leading GPUs. Cerebras Inference is powered by our Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3) - the world's largest AI chip. Wait until you see what we are doing with GitHub Copilot and VS Code!

Time: 9am - 11:30am

Hosted by Principled Business in San Francisco

​A curated morning for fintech founders who are deep in the build — payments, lending, banking infrastructure, compliance, and everything in between.

​We're keeping this small on purpose. Every person in the room is either building a fintech platform or backing the ones that matter.

Time: 5:15pm - 8:45pm

Hosted by GitHub in San Francisco

​Join us at GitHub HQ for an evening dedicated to the builders pushing the frontier of agentic systems with OpenClaw.

​This is not a conference session, it's a curated gathering of engineers, open source maintainers, and founders who are actively building with OpenClaw to meet the creators, see what’s real, what’s hard, and what’s next.

Time: 5pm - 7:30pm

Hosted by Datadog in San Francisco

​Catan, Dominion, Poker, and more! Let’s game! Come to Datadog, just two blocks from First Thursdays, to play some games with other technical startup leaders. Bring your friends. Beat them at board games.

Time: 2pm - 7pm

Hosted by AI Insiders in San Francisco

​The AI buildout is moving at full speed. Markets are volatile. Exploit timelines have collapsed to zero. And security for AI clocked in at just 2.6% of total cyber funding in 2025.

​This invite-only salon brings together 150 security leaders, AI founders, and investors to confront what's real, what's hype, and where the next wave of cyber defense is actually heading.

Time: 9am - 5pm

Hosted by Weights & Biases in San Francisco

​On June 6th - 7th 2026, come to the Weights & Biases SF office to have the most fun building self-improving agents you'll have this year. This time, we're growing the team: orchestrating pipelines and wrangling swarms.

​Agent capabilities have advanced a lot over the last year — even by their own doing. This can mean better memory systems, new forms of RL and fine-tuning, new ways of dynamic tool creation, self improving loops like Ralph, GasTown etc. Agents that run while we go play with robot dogs--let's build agents that work together while we're away.

That’s it for this week!

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