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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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156

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

156 of 156 events

Monday, Oct 5

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01Bria × fal × LTX: What's New in Open-Weights Pipelinessf02Frontier Science AI Hackathonsf03Trader Buildathon & Happy Hoursf04/build-with-AI Buildathonsf05Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon Kickoffsf06Model Training Night by Overmind, Daytona & Doublewordsf07Agents in Production: Shared Memorysf08Hack Alcatraz with Cloudflare and Kling AIsf09Telemetry In, Fixes Out: Closing the Agent Reliability Loop (Talk, Demo, Drinks)sf10Agents & APIs Meetup by Baseten, Postman, Rootly AI & Supabasesf11Demo Night at WorkOSsf12Can your agents actually ship?sf13Infrastructure for the Agentic futuresf14Be honest. You're not really doing evals, are you?sf

Tuesday, Oct 6

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15Meet the Lab: Mistralsf16Advancing Collaborative AI Drug Discoverysf17The Datology Dripsf18Google for Startups: Engineering 10x with Dr. Astro Teller and Google DeepMindsf19Quantum for San Francisco's Hardest Problemssf20Voice AI in the Wild -- Demos & Lunch with Vonage + Deepgramsf21Fine Tuning Your (Software) Factory Settingssf22DevTools Drink Up 💻🍕🍩🍸🥃 // Depot x Inferencesf23Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWSsf24Google for Startups: From Frontier to Production with DeepMind & Wiz: Building Secure, Scalable AIsf25Hacking AI For Fun and Profitsf26Marathon Mode Hackathon (No Compaction Allowed)sf27Build an AI-Native Company in a Daysf28Apollo Summitsf29Build your Agentic Investment Bank - Hackathonsf30Houston, We Have No Cloud: Build Your AI for the Moonsf31Lessons from Building Retrieval at AWS, Linkedin, & Googlesf32Physical AI Innovation Showcase with SAP and Plug and Playsf33AI Agents Builder Night with PostHog, Convex, Elastic, & Rootly AIsf34Ship an AI Voice Agent Workshopsf35Robotics Happy Hour with LiveKit & Dimensionalsf36Camp AI: Production-Ready Agentssf37Vibe Coding Needs a Merge Gate: AI Agents That Test - #SF TechWeeksf38State of Modelssf39Data Center Toursf40Intelligence in the Open: Recursive Self-Improvementsf41AI Heist Challenge with Cogent x Modal x LangChainsf42Zero to Agent: Hands-on Agentic Workshopsf

Wednesday, Oct 7

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43Build Better 2026sf44Build Agentic AI with AWS - #Startups @AWSsf45AWS Expert Booth - #Startups@AWSsf46Embodied Intelligence Challengesf47Agentic AI on AWS: From Concepts to Hands-On Lab - #Startups@AWSsf48CTRL Escape Room Hackathonsf49The Musa Labs Hackathonsf50Agent Hackathon: Voice Mode Onsf51Decentralized Neurosymbolic AI Braindumpsf52Day One Securitysf53Pax Silica Hackathon: The Nordic x Silicon Valley Innovation​sf54Build a Company Brain: AI Agents with Memory, Context and Secure Accesssf55Build Mode: HubSpot's Hands-On AI Agent Lab for Real Worksf56The Hardware Layer of AI: Builders, Bits, and Physical Techsf57Solving 'voice' as an interfacesf58Open Source AI Stack: Models, Inference, and Agent Harnesssf59Bay Area Frontier Research Club #26 | Agents in Production: The Data Layer (dinner + paper discussion)sf60Playwright + AI Agents: Workshop - #SF TechWeeksf61SF Hardware & Robotics Showcasesf62Wire a Voice Agent Into a Real Workflowsf63Learning From Human Video & Scaling VLA Trainingsf64can you hear me now - a voice ai "speech" easy eventsf65Worlds in Progresssf66EliseAI x Baseten: Open Source in Production + Arcade Nightsf

Thursday, Oct 8

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67Inception Studio AI Buildathonsf68Multiplayer AI Hackathonsf69AMD x RedHat AI-Infra Workshop: High performance inference, at scalesf70More Worlds to Build: Spatial Intelligence & 3D Demo Daysf71Eat agents, build tapas: a tasty hack with HappyRobot and Calasf72[Workshop] Build AI Agents with Auth0sf732036: A Day at the Office - A Design-Fiction Hackathonsf74AI & Platform Engineering Developer Meetupsf75MCP4GTM with Mastra, Elastic, & Arcadesf76YC Bench Hackathon - Agentic Venture Capitalsf77Tech Meetup @CodeRabbit HQsf78Physical AI: Built for Changesf79Everesteer Hedge Fund Hackathonsf80🧠 Agent Memory Night: Technical Deep Dives + RAFFLE!sf81SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup with H Companysf82Unlock the Full Power of Coding Agents: Software Engineering in the Agent Erasf83Developers After Darksf84Boba & Build Night: Infra, ML, and App Dev in the Observability Agesf85Open Lakehouse & AI Meetup - #SF TechWeeksf86Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angularsf87Inside the AI factory: one tenant, three layerssf88Night Shift at Mytrasf

Friday, Oct 9

10

89World Models & GPUs Coffeesf90Stanford AI Labsf91Building Self-Improving AI Agents: From Loop to Deploymentsf92Builders & Brews SFsf93Personalizing Long-running Agentssf94Future of Work Hackathon: Building from the Farm @Stanford Universitysf95AI x Medicine: Hackathon + Speaker Nightsf96The AI Said It Was Done - AI Agent Divergence Hackathonsf97Production cloud on autopilot + food/drinkssf98SF Founders X Product Showcasesf

Saturday, Oct 10

15

99Build For Hersf100AI x Pre-Construction Hackathonsf101Talk to Users Hackathonsf102Oasis Multi-Agent Hackathonsf103AI Hackathonsf104Creative Data Hackathonsf105Decision-Grade AI @ Stanford ⚡️ A Buildathon on LLM Trustsf106INTERFACE: Hack the Space Betweensf107Build a BankGPTsf108Meshy × Chrona: Build Multiplayer 3D Worlds With AIsf109Watch AI Turn a Sketch into a Factory Order — Live Demossf110Forward Deployed Engineer: Hear From Experts, Then Try Itsf111The SF Tech Week Robot Contest (Robotics & Physical AI)sf112Backlog to PR- An Evening with Vorfluxsf113Harness in Frontier AI systemssf

Sunday, Oct 11

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114The AI-Native Talent Hunt with Codexsf115SpeedHacks: The Official speedrun Hackathonsf116The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling SF Hackathonsf117Multi Model Hackathonsf118Shopping 3.0: the AI Commerce Hackathon with Arcadesf119touch ./GRASS x Building the Future of AI Agentssf120Recursive Self Improvement Hack: Evalssf121B@BHacks 2.0 ($10k in prizes)sf122UC Berkeley Innovation Intelligence Hackathonsf

Monday, Oct 12

5

123Build AI agents that own their inferencesf124Reliable Agents Need Evals: A Scale AI Workshopla125Swift Angels: iOS & Swift developer meetup - @USCla126T4BH HACKATHONla127General Purpose Robot Demos at Yondu Labla

Tuesday, Oct 13

5

128Builders & Brews LAla129Self-Improving Agents Hackathonla130Launch Your Observability Mission with Dynatrace & AWSla131HubSpot & Blackbird Collective's Hands-on AI Agent Lab for Real Workla132LA Agentic AI Meetup hosted by Pinecone: LA Tech Week Editionla

Wednesday, Oct 14

3

133Google Codelabs atla134Quantum: From Research to Real-World Impact ⚛️la135USC ISI Lab Toursla

Thursday, Oct 15

3

136Build AI Agents on AWSla137The City Hacks the State... Beach Edition!!la138Meta-Harness and AI App Day Buildla

Friday, Oct 16

11

139ACM@USC TrojanHacksla140AWS Expert Booth - Startups@AWSla141MOLTEN - build the space around youla142Civic Tech Dayla143Self-Host Frontier AI: Running Open-Weight Models on AWSla144The Dual Use Hackathonla145SEP Hacksla146LA Founders X Product Showcasela147Rocket Launch: A USC Builders Night by TroyLabsla148Hardware Hackathonla149CLAUDE CREATOR SUMMITla

Saturday, Oct 17

7

150touch ./SAND - The Voice Agent OUTDOOR Hackathonla151Community Build: Tech 4 Good Hackathonla152Behind The Product: How Great Products Get Builtla153LA Traffic Crisis Hackathon: Build the Futurela154Build a voice agent in 3 minutesla155Build an AI workflow editor, natively in Angularla156Hackathonla

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Hackathons

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Technical talks

Deep dives from the people designing and shipping new systems.

Demos

See what teams are building across the week.

Fireside chats

Conversations with founders, researchers, and engineering leaders.

Build sessions

Hands-on sessions around new tools, models, platforms, and hardware.

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