Everything on the calendar from today through Sunday (Nov 3–8) in San Francisco and the Bay Area. The mix: 20 talks and panels, 20 meetups, 12 parties and socials and 11 workshops. For a shorter list, see the best of the week or filter by topic with the guides below.
- Hello World, A Linq Event
Tier AA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 1:00 PM PT · Exploratorium · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Make SF Better: A Hack Night with Mistral AI
Tier AAA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · 33 New Montgomery St · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Building Voice AI That Holds Up in Production: Coval x Cloudflare
Tier AA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · 101 Townsend St · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- NETWORKING EVENT - LATEST DANISH LIFE SCIENCE INNOVATIONS
Tier AA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · 1485 Bay Laurel Dr · Menlo Park · Luma · Free
- Proof & Pour - by SignPath and Zisher
Tier AAA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · 135 Main St · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- angels & alumni demo day
Tier AAA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Stefanie Hutka // What Your Machines Should Do: The Science and Strategy of Human-Centered Automation
Tier AAA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation · Berkeley · Luma · Free
- Tommy Orange and Shane Hawk talk indigenous horror stories
Tier A · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma · Free
- interface.CLUNK - a hands-on edition of interface.click
Tier A · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · tiat · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Booked: Dating Night for Readers
Tier AA · Tue, Nov 3, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · The Love Potion Library - Books, Tea, Wine · San Francisco · Luma
- Golden Goat Pop-up // Postgres Day 2026
Tier A · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 9:00 AM PT · Golden Goat Coffee · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Different by Design: Lessons from Building Lovable
Tier AAA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 11:00 AM PT · Stanford · Luma · Free
- Notion x Clover: Security Leaders Building for the AI Era
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 4:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- BGA Speaker Series: Why Place Matters, Even Today with Jon Metzler
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 4:00 PM PT · 2168 Shattuck Ave. · Berkeley · Luma · Free
- Design Chat with Ian Silber, Fmr. Head of Product Design, OpenAI
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 4:30 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Robot Learning #02 — World Models & Dexterous Manipulation
Tier AAA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · 625 2nd St · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- The Pragmatic Engineer Unplugged, presented by WorkOS
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · SFJAZZ · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- An Evening with Denmark's AI Enterprise Alliance
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Menlo Park · Luma · Free
- Omarchy SF
Tier A · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Cloudflare · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Postgres Day SF Meetup
Tier AAA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · PlanetScale · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Self-Improving Products with Codex
Tier AAA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Amplitude · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Women Behind the Win
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Central & Eastern European Founders Night
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · European Startup Embassy · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Off The Clock
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- AI monetization salon
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Women in AI Executive Dinner: CFOs, Founders & Investors
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Spellbooks & Charms!
Tier A · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · The Love Potion Library - Books, Tea, Wine · San Francisco · Luma
- Blackboard Lectures on Tap
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- 📚 Short Story Symposium
Tier AAA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · 540 Laguna St · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Command Line Music - Auwen Workshop
Tier A · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · 151 Powell St · San Francisco · Luma
- Engineering Telekinesis: Restoring Movement with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · Madrone Art Bar · San Francisco · Luma
- Analog Evening: Cozy Cubs in Cozy Pubs
Tier AA · Wed, Nov 4, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · Yancy's Saloon · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- AIAS+ 2026 — AI for Scientific Discovery
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 8:00 AM PT · The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco · Luma · Free
- European Founders Brunch: Best Practices & Pitfalls
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 11:00 AM PT · European Startup Embassy · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Mixpanel x Replit - Ship It: The Product Builders' Hackathon
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 3:00 PM PT · Pier 1 · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- SYSTEM UPDATE with The Pragmatic Engineer
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · The Howard SF · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Agent-Led Growth / Agent Experience Demo Night @ Auth0/Okta (#7th Edition)
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · Okta · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- 🍜 Ramen pop-up // PlanetScale x Depot
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · PlanetScale · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- AIAS⁺: Beyond the Sessions
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Taking Tech Off Campus: Navigating University Tech Licensing
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Berkeley · Luma · Free
- NVIDIA x Lawrence Harvey | CUDA Rust
Tier AAA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · House of AI · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Braintrust CEO Ankur and Greylock Partner Corinne on how agents are changing evals
Tier AAA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · 560 Davis St suite 250 · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Even Day SF: Build for the Glasses of the Future with Even Realities
Tier AAA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- GTM Series #03: Stevie Case (x-CRO Vanta)
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Women Building & Leading Organizations
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma · Free
- Stanford Energy VC Dinners: Prelude Ventures
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Ferry Building · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- LangChain SF Meetup with TypeSafe AI: Judgment Call
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Stripe Developer Meetup San Francisco November 2026
Tier AAA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Stripe · South San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Art Walk @ Art Space Lower Polk
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Lower Polk CBD · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- 139th SF Hardware Meetup @ Vizcom | Manufacturing and Design
Tier A · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- SPC Demo Night
Tier AA · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · 380 Brannan St · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- LPL Book Club: Into the Blue
Tier A · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · The Love Potion Library - Books, Tea, Wine · San Francisco · Luma
- Meditation & Creative Mini Retreat: Escape the Everyday
Tier A · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · Gallery House · Menlo Park · Luma
- fight nights @ the MADE
Tier A · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE) · Oakland · Luma
- manual reading club: the practice of machine reading
Tier A · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · tiat · San Francisco · Luma
- The Side of San Francisco’s Homelessness Crisis We Don’t See
Tier A · Thu, Nov 5, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · Decentered Arts Studio · San Francisco · Luma
- Biotech Open Pitch Session
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM PT · Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center · Stanford · Luma · Free
- Not so European Fridays at European Startup Embassy
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM PT · European Startup Embassy · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Hack the Feed: Creator Tools Hackathon with Oriane, GMI Cloud & Lovable at Amplitude HQ!
Tier AAA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 1:00 PM PT · Amplitude Analytics · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Founders GTM Coffee Meetup
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 2:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Geospatial Developers Meetup
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 4:00 PM PT · Peacock Meadow · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- MTC x CalMSA x Manara West College Transfer Application Workshop & Campus Tour
Tier A · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 4:00 PM PT · The Gateway · Berkeley · Luma · Free
- Qualcomm UNO Q Hack Night #3
Tier AAA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · Qualcomm · Santa Clara · Luma · Free
- ₊˚⊹♡ game dev showcase ♡⊹˚₊
Tier A · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE) · Oakland · Luma
- Built at the Frontier: AIAS⁺ Startup & Builder Night
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Dimensional Office Warming
Tier AAA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- “OUTSIDE - The Escape” Opening Reception
Tier AAA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Oakland · Luma · Free
- Visioning the Future: A Climate Action Collage Soirée
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · The Faight Collective · San Francisco · Luma
- An epic family read, Kirk Lombard's The Shadow Stream
Tier A · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma · Free
- Spill the Tea
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · The Love Potion Library - Books, Tea, Wine · San Francisco · Luma
- LE ROUGE @ AMÉLIE
Tier AA · Fri, Nov 6, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · Amelie Wine Bar · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- SoCo x MTC x Replit x Tech For Palestine x Stem4Palestine Colabathon
Tier AA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:00 AM PT · Berkeley · Luma · Free
- Just in Time 5K
Tier A · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:00 AM PT · Golden Gate Park - Polo Field · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- Hands-On Seed Processing with Farmer Sama
Tier A · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 10:30 AM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma
- Badminton | TinyFish x Mireye x Vorflux
Tier AA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 12:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Oakland Noticing Club: Myth
Tier A · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 1:00 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma · Free
- 💻 interactive fiction meetup 💻
Tier A · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 1:00 PM PT · Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE) · Oakland · Luma · Free
- nathan fielder/elizabeth holmes look alike contest
Tier AAA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 1:00 PM PT · Lafayette Park · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- Level Up Your Personal Website
Tier AA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 2:00 PM PT · San Mateo · Luma · Free
- Surfrider Foundation Dune Revegetation
Tier A · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 3:00 PM PT · Judah St, San Francisco, CA · Partiful · Free
- ✩₊°.⋆ 15 Years of Playable Culture ⋆⁺₊✧
Tier AA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE) · Oakland · Luma
- Kitchen Stories 2: Sharing Home Recipes and Why They Matter to Us
Tier A · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma · Free
- only book club w afters 😝
Tier AAA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 5:30 PM PT · Mr. Mahjong's · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- Diwali by the Bay
Tier AA · Sat, Nov 7, 2026 · 7:00 PM PT · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Diwali at LPL
Tier AA · Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 11:00 AM PT · The Love Potion Library - Books, Tea, Wine · San Francisco · Luma · Free
- Nathan Fielder & Elizabeth Holmes Lookalike Contest
Tier A · Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 2:00 PM PT · Dolores Park · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
- "How to Get Home in the Dark" Poetry Anthology Reading and Generative Workshop
Tier A · Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 3:00 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma
- tinker nights!!!1!!!11!1
Tier A · Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 5:00 PM PT · Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment - (MADE) · Oakland · Luma · Free
- Parakeet's Fresh Works, a reading of works-in-progress
Tier A · Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 6:00 PM PT · Local Economy · Oakland · Luma · Free
- 👢Free Line Dancing🪩♥️
Tier A · Sun, Nov 8, 2026 · 6:30 PM PT · Scott St & Page St · San Francisco · Partiful · Free
FAQ
What are the top SF events this week?
Ranked by RSVPs, host and listing quality, the standouts are 📚 Short Story Symposium (Wed Nov 4, 6:30 PM); “OUTSIDE - The Escape” Opening Reception (Fri Nov 6, 6:00 PM); and nathan fielder/elizabeth holmes look alike contest (Sat Nov 7, 1:00 PM). The full list of 90 events is above, sorted by start time.
Are there free SF events this week?
Yes. 75 of the 90 events here are listed as free on Luma or Partiful, for example Hello World, A Linq Event (Tue Nov 3, 1:00 PM); and Make SF Better: A Hack Night with Mistral AI (Tue Nov 3, 5:00 PM). Many free events still require registration or host approval, so RSVP early.
Where do SF events happen?
By neighborhood or city, the most listings this week are in Oakland (14), Mission Bay & Potrero Hill (8) and Rincon Hill & South Beach (7). Some hosts only reveal the exact address after you register.
How often is this list updated?
Every morning, Pacific time. Party Animal re-checks Luma and Partiful daily and rebuilds this page; this version was generated on Tue, Nov 3, 2026. Party Animal is not the organizer, so confirm details with the host.
Party Animal is a discovery tool, not the organizer. Confirm details with the host.