Bay Area Events For The Week Of May 11
Hi BFC Fam ~
I’m excited to share that over the past year, 134 community builders have submitted events to the Bay Area Founders Club Luma calendar. Thank you all for helping build such an incredible ecosystem together.
As BFC evolves into BFC Global, we will stop updating the old calendar starting next week. Moving forward, for Bay Area events, please submit your events to our new BFC Palo Alto calendar:
https://luma.com/bfcpaloalto
Selected events will also have the opportunity to be featured in our Substack, reaching 120K+ founders, investors, and operators worldwide.
To help community builders connect, collaborate, and cross-promote events together, I’ve also created a dedicated WhatsApp group.
To join the group chat, please submit at least one event within the next two weeks and DM me on LinkedIn. We’d love to have more active builders supporting each other in the ecosystem.
This Week in the Bay Area: 52 Curated Events
What’s New This Week?
AI conversations are becoming far more human-centered. Events like Human Creativity + AI, Spirituality+AI, AI Comedy Night, and Designing Ethical AI Tools show the conversation expanding beyond models and infrastructure into creativity, identity, relationships, and everyday life. The conversation is expanding from “what AI can do” to “how AI changes people.”
We’re also seeing a shift from learning → shipping. Demo nights, workshops, launch parties, and hackathons are taking over the calendar. Builders are testing ideas in public faster than ever.
And with SaaStr Week, Human+Tech Week, and multiple AI community gatherings overlapping at once, this week has an unusually high concentration of founders, researchers, creatives, and operators all crossing into the same rooms.
This Week's Bay Area Guide: Find Your Event
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Listen to me walk through this week’s top founder, AI, and VC events happening across Silicon Valley.
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Monday, May 11
1. Walk the streets that built SaaS | Founder’s SF tour @SaaStr AI’26
Presented by: Sprinto
Hosted by: Team Sprinto
📍 San Mateo, CA
⏰ 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/sf-founder-walk
2. ClawCamp @ Human+Tech Week: How OpenClaw & Personal Agents Increase Abilities + Launch Your Agent
Presented by: ClawCamp.us
Hosted by: ClawCamp Community, Human+Tech Week, Colin Nebius, Devinder Sodhi, Dave Nielsen, Marko Calvo-Cruz, Dr. Lucas Root, De Kai, Rayyan Zahid, Anand Vallamsetla (The Why Man)
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/clawcamp-human-tech
3. [TEST] Designing Ethical AI Tools for Everyday Life: A Hands-On Workshop
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Test
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/vyk22xvn
4. (TEST) Human Creativity+AI: Unleashing Artistry in the Age of Algorithms
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Test
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/hj82v3op
5. Desafía SF Spring 2026 Demo Day
Presented by: —
Hosted by: SOSA
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/1aovajig
6. AI + Infrastructure Leaders Dinner in SF
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Cleric .ai
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/tu0atvh0
7. The Initial Commit: Day 0 Welcome Party with Bessemer, Zetta & Zero Prime
Presented by: AI Council
Hosted by: Pete Soderling, Yang Tran, Bessemer, Apoorva Pandhi, Lauri Moore
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/0o8y6jdb
8. CMO & Marketing Leaders Roundtable Dinner
Presented by: Omnibound AI
Hosted by: Omnibound AI, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Al Lalani, Akash Iyer
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/0ojy9hqr
9. AI Comedy Night: Builder’s Confessions
Presented by: Tanagram Community Events
Hosted by: Kaia, Paulina Laba, Feifan Zhou, Michael Ludden, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Brooke LeBlanc
📍 Corgi offices 425 Bush St floor 5
⏰ 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/snz96e5m
10. New Cybernetic Esoterica
Presented by: tiat (the intersection of art & technology)
Hosted by: ash, Erik Davis, Megan Phipps
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/techgnosis
Tuesday, May 12
11. FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Presented by: Founders Common
Hosted by: Founders Common, Nikki Heyder, Chris Ashley
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/2opylbqn
12. JSV Book Club: Runnin’ Down a Dream with Bill Gurley
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Jackson Square Ventures
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/t8ejcw9j
13. [May 12th] CMU Builder Demo Night & Founder Mixer at Foundation Capital (ft. Powell St)
Presented by: CMU T&E
Hosted by: CMU Tech & Entrepreneurship, Kevin Fang, Leo Lu, Lanzo Small, Yas
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/c30s4ba3
14. Vibe Your SaaS: Startup Pitch Competition + VC/Founder Mixer @ Entrepreneurs First
Presented by: Vibe Your SaaS // IRL
Hosted by: Gregory Kennedy, Arjun Dev Arora
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/000fneuw
15. Streaming the Future: Kafka & The Agentic Era
Presented by: Aiven
Hosted by: Hugh Evans, Florian from Aiven, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Fahad Shah, Yingjun Wu, Emma Tian
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/ub9sq0u5
16. AI-pilled teams
Presented by: PromptQL Events
Hosted by: Rajoshi Ghosh, PromptQL Events, Abhishek, Sahar Mor (Bond AI)
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/aipilled
17. After Hours at The Detour: AI Council x LangChain Interrupt Happy Hour
Presented by: MongoDB
Hosted by: MongoDB
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/w2a5ugda
18. SaaStr Week Founder Mixer 🍕🍺Step Out. StepFun In.
Presented by: SEAMATE
Hosted by: SEAMATE
📍 San Mateo, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/4cqlswgf
19. Tech Leaders Meetup with Qoder AI Coding
Presented by: AI Builders
Hosted by: AI Builders, Qoder
📍 San Jose, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/qodermeetup
20. Women + AI: An SF Dinner Party Series, No. 3
Presented by: Women + AI
Hosted by: kylee lessard
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/aeo57uee
Wednesday, May 13
21. Getting Started with OpenClaw: Workshop
Presented by: TechEquity Ai - Silicon Valley
Hosted by: TechEquity Ai, Sheena Tu, Mahan Soltanzadeh, Dave Nielsen
📍 Sunnyvale, CA
⏰ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/may-openclaw-workshop
22. Agent Building Day @ Corgi Cafe
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Graham Cummings, natasha, Brooke LeBlanc, Laura Dang, Sahar Mor (Bond AI)
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/b7kg8vno
23. Reading Group (+🧋): Code Synthesis for Agentic Decision-Making: Code World Models and Autoharness
Presented by: Snorkel AI Community Events
Hosted by: David Burch, Incynthia Truong
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/i3x1qxpm
24. SF DEMO NIGHT 🚀 (w/ The AI Collective)
Presented by: The AI Collective
Hosted by: The AI Collective, Chappy Asel, Stephen Campbell, Ash Kumra, Adelina Martiniuc, Dmytro Spodarets, My Luu, Wanda Wang, Layan Khrais, Christopher O’Dore, Anthony Garcia, Ash K., Ravi Sharma, Roan Weigert, Yi Ding, Eric Fett, AWS Builder Loft, Human+Tech Week, Bill Raymond
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/may-demo
25. Research Meetup: Agentic Code (SF)
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Scale Events
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/sf-agentic-code-meetup
26. “LLMs War”, “AI in Blockchain / Retail” keynotes + Startup Pitches
Presented by: WeShine
Hosted by: WeShine, Bernie K
📍 Palo Alto, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/5jazoh37
27. Spirituality+AI: Building the Relational Infrastructure
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Anna Spisak, Human+Tech Week, Doruk Kurt, Stacey Lawson, Alexis Hamill, Compassion 2.0, Eddy Vaisberg, Nazar, Positive AI Labs, Giselle Tomimbang-Mercado, Jonatan Littke, Flourishing Systems Foundation
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/8rhqg24d
28. Uncorked: Reversed Pitch at a Winery (Unofficial SaaStr side event)
Presented by: Salesbricks
Hosted by: Lani Rich, Jiefry Loremas, Team Sprinto, Karishma Bali, Austin Madden
📍 Redwood City, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/nrgih27n
29. UAtech Venture Night @ Saastr Annual – The Ultimate Startup & Investor Experience!
Presented by: UAtech.events
Hosted by: UAtech.events, Catalyst Bay, Volodymyr Demianenko, Reply, SurveyMonkey, Nazar Gulyk, Anna Shchehula, Juliana C, Yurii Filipchuk, Alina Blyzniuk, Yevgeniy Drobot, C UKRAINE SAN FRANCISCO, Consulate General of Ukaine in SF
📍 San Mateo, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/SF_May26
30. Databricks @ AI Council26 Networking Event
Presented by: Databricks Community
Hosted by: Lizzie S, Denny Lee, Josh Lillie, Pete Soderling, Brooke
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/tbgqqhp3
31. Fin x Metronome: Pricing Strategies for AI Agents
Presented by: Fin
Hosted by: Kelly Farrell, Chen-Chen from Intercom, Metronome Events
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/finxmetronome
32. SPC Demo Night
Presented by: South Park Commons
Hosted by: South Park Commons, Gopal Raman
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/rwkc1a72
Thursday, May 14
33. Agents & Bagels: Interrupt’26 + SaaStr Breakfast
Presented by: Scalekit
Hosted by: Tamilselvi Ramasamy, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Adam Chan, Shrimithran, AI+, Amy Quan
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/blsf0q7p
34. Agent Builders Breakfast - Founders & Builders in SOMA, SF
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Michael Ducker
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/nhvmcczj
35. Bring OpenClaw Into Your Mobile and Web App — Live Workshop, San Francisco
Presented by: Bond AI - San Francisco and Bay Area
Hosted by: mesibo, Sahar Mor (Bond AI)
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/7x7jsej2
36. Hello World Launch Party by Anything
Presented by: Anything
Hosted by: Ariella
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/h06u0dux
37. 2026 Saastr AI Demo Day&After Party
Presented by: FounderGro Events
Hosted by: EpicConnector, Josh Norris, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), asuka, Frontier Tower, Susana Bao, Sophie Suo, Winni Chen
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/saastr2026
38. The CFO Playbook for Value Creation in a Volatile Market
Presented by: The CFO Community
Hosted by: Murray, Armello Rodriguez, Christina Bui, Louis Lehot, Bernard Mendoza, Sabrina Ritchie
📍 Menlo Park, CA
⏰ 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/n6q6vmi2
39. CoCo Labs - Bay Area Snowflake User Group
Presented by: Silicon Valley AI Hub
Hosted by: Silicon Valley AI Hub
📍 Menlo Park, CA
⏰ 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/i78wufyv
40. GitTogether (AI-First Event) + Free Swags
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Neha Gupta, Keploy Inc, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Prad .
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/lr79szro
41. Hello, Operator: A product launch from Fin
Presented by: Fin
Hosted by: Liam Keegan
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/customer-agent
42. AI Healthtech Night
Presented by: Workato Developer Events
Hosted by: Emily, Workato, Leila Rishniw, Workato, Arjun Subedi
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/yjw3kqez
43. AI x Single-cell Biology Reading Group
Presented by: —
Hosted by: Kenny Workman, Kyle Giffin, Zhen Yang, Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/scpifdyp
44. The Sound of Intelligent AI – Palo Alto Happy Hour
Presented by: Centific
Hosted by: David No, Abhishek Mukherji
📍 Palo Alto, CA
⏰ 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/6sazx5iw
Friday, May 15
45. What GTM Support Should Founders Expect from Investors, Big Tech and Advisors？
Presented by: Eminence Tea House
Hosted by: Eminence Tea House, Emma Wang, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Wade Song, Warren Li, Jason Liang, Kelly at Buda AI
📍 Los Altos Hills, CA
⏰ 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/8byko77w
46. Building the Future: AI, Startup Cities & the Next Era of Human Potential (SF)
Presented by: Light DAO
Hosted by: Ruby Yeh, Payam Safa, Human+Tech Week
📍 San Francisco, California
⏰ 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/LightDAOHTW
47. Stop Building Goldfish Agents: Build Real Memory with Oracle AI Database and LangChain
Presented by: San Francisco MLOps Community
Hosted by: MLOps Community, Rahul Parundekar, Yelaine Wang, Casius Lee
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/p8d635rz
Saturday, May 16
48. Scrappy (AI) Founders Go Hard Hiking
Presented by: 12 Scrappy Founders
Hosted by: Denis Belyavsky, Alena Beliauskaya
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/27fq3ner
49. Notion Developer Platform Hackathon
Presented by: Notion
Hosted by: Lexi Horwitz
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 9:00 AM - May 17, 3:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/fyuf7
50. Agent Forge AI Hackathon
Presented by: AI Builders
Hosted by: AI Builders, Meng Du, Beta Fund, Oktay Goktas, Nosana, Zeabur, Qoder
📍 Sunnyvale, CA
⏰ 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/agentforge
51. Hackathon: Building your own Agent LLM Wiki
Presented by: cognee
Hosted by: cognee, Nicole Levin, Pebblebed VC, Sahar Mor (Bond AI), Marie Owens
📍 San Francisco, CA
⏰ 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/uhda61yp
52. AI Native Developers Meetup | Google I/O Week
Presented by: SEAMATE
Hosted by: SEAMATE, Subotiz, Linkloud
📍 Sunnyvale, CA
⏰ 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
🔗 https://lu.ma/ai-native-developers-io-week
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