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sfOctober 5-11, 2026
laOctober 12-18, 2026

Builders from top companies, universities, and communities,
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Hack Week is a decentralized program of the best technical events at SF and LA Tech Week, hosted by top companies, labs, universities, and developer communities.

Curated for engineers, researchers, students, and technical founders.

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128

Technical events

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$120K

In prizes

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140+

Companies hosting

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Headline events

SFOct 11

SpeedHacks: Official speedrun Hackathon

SFOct 6

Engineering 10x: Astro Teller & Google DeepMind

SFOct 5

Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AI

SFOct 8

Boba & Build Night with Datadog

SFOct 11

Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon

SFOct 6

Camp AI: Production-Ready Agents

SFOct 6

Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settings

SFOct 8

AI & Platform Engineering Meetup with Intuit

SFOct 8

AMD × Red Hat: High-Performance Inference at Scale

LAOct 16

Self-Host Frontier AI: Open-Weight Models on AWS

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Hack Week lineup

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Monday, Oct 5

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01Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelinessf02Physical AI Hackathon: From Idea to Factorysf03Trader Buildathon & Happy Hoursf04/build-with-AI Buildathonsf05Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon Kickoffsf06Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Prima Labssf07Agents in Production: Shared Memorysf08Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIsf09Telemetry In, Fixes Out: Closing the Agent Reliability Loop (Talk, Demo, Pizza)sf10Agents & APIs Meetup by Baseten, Postman, Rootly AI, Supabase, & The Prompting Co.sf11Can your agents actually ship?sf12Infrastructure for the Agentic futuresf13[POSTPONED SEE DESCRIPTION] - Be honest. You're not really doing evals, are you?sf

Tuesday, Oct 6

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14Meet the Lab: Mistralsf15Advancing Collaborative AI Drug Discoverysf16Google for Startups: Engineering 10x with Dr. Astro Teller and Google DeepMindsf17Quantum for San Francisco's Hardest Problemssf18Dumplings & Datasf19Voice AI in the Wild -- Demos & Lunch with Vonage + Deepgramsf20Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settingssf21Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWSsf22Google for Startups: From Frontier to Production with DeepMind & Wiz: Building Secure, Scalable AIsf23Hacking AI For Fun and Profitsf24Marathon Mode Decentralized Hackathon (No Compaction Allowed)sf25Build an AI-Native Company in a Daysf26Apollo Summitsf27Zero to Agent: Hands-on Agentic Workshop with RocketRidesf28Houston, We Have No Cloud: Build Your AI for the Moonsf29Lessons from Building Retrieval at AWS, Linkedin, & Googlesf30Physical AI Innovation Showcase with SAP and Plug and Playsf31AI Agents Builder Night with PostHog, Convex, Elastic, & Rootly AIsf32Ship an AI Voice Agent Workshopsf33Robotics Happy Hour with LiveKit & Dimensionalsf34Camp AI: Production-Ready Agentssf35State of Models by OpenRoutersf36Data Center Toursf37AI Heist Challenge with Cogent x Modal x LangChainsf

Wednesday, Oct 7

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38Build Better 2026sf39Google for Startups & NVIDIA: From Compute to Competitive Moats: Building Defensibly.sf40Build Agentic AI with AWS - #Startups @AWSsf41AWS Expert Booth - #Startups@AWSsf42Agentic AI on AWS: From Concepts to Hands-On Lab - #Startups@AWSsf43CTRL Escape Room Hackathonsf44The Musa Labs Hackathonsf45Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode On - Sponsored by Anthropicsf46Google for Startups & NVIDIA: Scaling Velocity, Open Infrastructure, and Frontier AIsf47Decentralized Neurosymbolic AI Braindumpsf48Day One Securitysf49Build a Company Brain: AI Agents with Memory, Context and Secure Accesssf50Build Mode Exchange: HubSpot's Builder-Led AI Discussions for Real Worksf51Factory Reset: Hot Takes on the Agentic SDLCsf52The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Techsf53SF Hardware & Robotics Showcasesf54Solving 'voice' as an interfacesf55Wire a Voice Agent Into a Real Workflowsf56Learning From Human Video & Scaling VLA Trainingsf57can you hear me now - a voice ai "speech" easy eventsf58Worlds in Progresssf59EliseAI x Baseten: Open Source in Production + Arcade Nightsf60Killing Meetings with Zoom [IRL]sf

Thursday, Oct 8

14

61AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scalesf62More Worlds to Build: Spatial Intelligence & 3D Demo Daysf63[Workshop] Build AI Agents with Auth0sf64AI & Platform Engineering Developer Meetupsf65Physical AI: Built for Changesf66Everesteer x Ramp Hedge Fund Hackathonsf67🧠 Agent Memory Night: Technical Deep Dives + Mac Mini GIVEAWAY!sf68MiniMax Intelligence in the Opensf69SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with H Companysf70Unlock the Full Power of Coding Agents: Software Engineering in the Agent Erasf71Boba & Build Night: Infra, ML, and App Dev in the Observability Agesf72Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angularsf73Night Shift at Mytrasf74Inside the AI factory: one tenant, three layerssf

Friday, Oct 9

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75World Models & GPUs Coffee w/ Onyx & Briasf76The AI Said It Was Done - AI Agent Divergence Hackathonsf77Building Self-Improving AI Agents: From Loop to Deploymentsf78Personalizing Long-running Agentssf79Future of Work Hackathon: Building from the Farm @Stanford Universitysf80Production cloud on autopilot + food/drinkssf81AI x Medicine: Hackathon + Speaker Nightsf

Saturday, Oct 10

11

82Build For Hersf83Talk to Users Hackathonsf84Oasis Multi-Agent Hackathonsf85AI x Pre-Construction Hackathonsf86Creative Data Hackathon with Krea and Calasf87Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trustsf88INTERFACE: Hack the Space Betweensf89Build a BankGPTsf90Meshy × Chrona: Build Multiplayer 3D Worlds With AIsf91Forward Deployed Engineer: Hear From Experts, Then Try Itsf92[SOLD OUT] The Robot Contest + Afterpartysf

Sunday, Oct 11

7

93SpeedHacks: The Official speedrun Hackathonsf94The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathonsf95Shopping 3.0: the AI Commerce Hackathon with Arcadesf96`touch ./GRASS` the Outdoor Voice Coding Hackathon 🌿sf97Recursive Self Improvement Hack: Evalssf98B@BHacks 2.0 ($10k+ in prizes)sf99UC Berkeley Innovation Intelligence Hackathonsf

Monday, Oct 12

3

100Reliable Agents Need Evals: A Scale AI Workshopla101Swift Angels: iOS & Swift developer meetupla102General Purpose Robot Demos at Yondu Labla

Tuesday, Oct 13

5

103Builders & Brews LAla104Self-Improving Agents Hackathonla105Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWSla106HubSpot & Blackbird Collective's Build Mode Exchange: Builder-Led AI Discussions for Real Workla107LA Agentic AI Meetup hosted by Pinecone: LA Tech Week Editionla

Wednesday, Oct 14

2

108Google Codelabs atla109Quantum: From Research to Real-World Impact ⚛️la

Thursday, Oct 15

4

110Build AI Agents on AWSla111LA CLAUDE COMMUNITY CREATOR SUMMIT by TechSpacela112USC ISI Lab Toursla113Meta-Harness and AI App Build Dayla

Friday, Oct 16

6

114AWS Expert Booth - Startups@AWSla115Civic Tech Dayla116Rocket Launch: A USC Builders Night by TroyLabsla117Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWSla118The Dual Use Hackathon at USC Viterbila119Founders Product Showcasela

Saturday, Oct 17

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120MOLTEN - Spatial hackathon (Roboflow, Auki, Niantic Spatial,...)la121ACM@USC TrojanHacksla122Community Build: Tech 4 Goodla123touch ./SAND - The Voice Agent OUTDOOR Hackathonla124Behind the Product: How Startups Actually Buildla125LA Traffic Crisis Hackathon: Build the Futurela126Build a voice Ai agentla127SEP Hacksla128Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angularla

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Conversations with founders, researchers, and engineering leaders.

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