SF Tech Week 2026: the events worth your week

First morning of the week and already one of the biggest rooms — the agent-infrastructure crowd, before the evening events split everyone up.

Founders who will be launching in the next two quarters, in one room, with no stage. The best hour of the week for a first conversation.

Live product demos in front of a developer audience. Watch how the ones that land are structured — it is the same job a creator video has to do.

Hustle Fund’s pre-seed founder crowd. Small teams, real products, launch budgets that have to work the first time.

Hands-on rather than a panel, and it teaches the thing every one-person GTM team needs: automating the week’s follow-ups.

A full-day summit on a Tuesday — the one daytime event that week with the broad AI-industry audience rather than a single vendor’s.

Demo night for AI products specifically. If you want to see what the field is shipping this quarter, this is the cheapest survey available.

Production agents, not prototypes. The audience is the people who will evaluate your product harshly — worth hearing what they ask.

WorkOS’s all-day developer conference. Developer-tool marketing at its most serious; the talks are the content strategy.

The one explicitly GTM-titled session of the week: growing without adding headcount, which is what a creator channel is for.

Nous Research, LMSYS and AWS on the open-source AI stack. The open-model builders are exactly who technical creators cover.

Open pitch and networking night. Early founders practising the story they will later need a creator to tell.

A sales-copilot hackathon with one of the largest registrations of the week. Builders and go-to-market people in the same room for once.

The biggest pitch night on the calendar. Paid, which filters for people who mean it.

Late, loud, and the only afterparty with GTM in the name. The people running growth at AI companies end up here.

A full-day AI-native summit on the Friday with several hundred registered. Good for meeting builders who were too busy earlier in the week.

Agent Day: an afternoon of agent builders and demos. The most concentrated group of AI-agent founders on the calendar.

A workshop on getting recommended by ChatGPT and other AI answer engines — GEO, in other words. We write about this; go hear how others teach it.

Tavily and Replit hosting builders on a Friday evening. Developer-tool companies that grew through creators and community, in person.

Weekend hackathon for AI-native startups. Teams form here; a few of them will be the launches you read about in the spring.

Monday after the week ends, and one of the largest registrations of all: open demos across worktech, robotics and agents. A good last stop before LA.

A live AI focus group for DTC brands — the only event on the calendar about how customers actually react to AI products, which is the whole creator-marketing question.