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IT Conferences & Tech Events

20+ events, Jan–Nov · Moscone to Pier 48 · Cybersecurity through AI engineering

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March — RSA Conference (50k+) anchors a full week of security events across SoMa  ·  June–July — Snowflake Summit, Microsoft Build, and AI Engineer World's Fair back-to-back at Moscone  ·  Sep–Oct — Dreamforce (140k+), The AI Conference, SF Tech Week, and TechCrunch Disrupt in six weeks

Cybersecurity AI / ML Developer / Platform Data / Cloud Startups / VC Fintech / DevOps Blockchain Health
Jan 2 events · Healthcare + Database
Jan 10–17
HealthTech Week & Summit
The Foundry, SoMa varies [15]
Jan 15
MongoDB.local SF
The Midway, Dogpatch $100 [15]
Feb 1 event · Blockchain
Feb 23–24
NEARCON
Fort Mason Center, Marina invite-only [15]
Mar DENSITY PEAK · Security week: BSidesSF feeds into RSAC
Mar 21–22
BSidesSF 2026
City View at Metreon, SoMa ~$110 Volunteer-run, community security [2]
Mar 23–26
RSAC 2026 50,000+
Moscone Center, SoMa free expo – $2,000+ World's largest cybersecurity event [1]
Apr 3 events · SRE + AI dev + Fintech (Apr 28–30: three in three days)
Apr 17
SREday SF
Harness HQ free – low Community SRE / DevOps, single day [5]
Apr 28–29
AI Dev 26 × SF 3,000+
Pier 48, Mission Bay $534 – $854 DeepLearning.AI / Andrew Ng · 5 tracks [3]
Apr 29–30
Stripe Sessions 5,000–10,000
Moscone West, SoMa $599 – $999 Payments, AI-native commerce [4]
May 1 event · Engineering management
May 27–28
DeveloperWeek Management
South SF Conference Center <$1,000 Engineering mgmt, AI tooling [19]
Jun DENSITY PEAK · Snowflake + Microsoft Build overlap Jun 1–3; AI Engineer World's Fair closes the month
Jun 1–4
Snowflake Summit 20,000+
Moscone Center, SoMa $1,295 – $2,495 500+ sessions, 12 tracks, 190+ partners [6]
Jun 2–3
Microsoft Build ~2,500
Fort Mason Center, Marina $1,099 in-person · free livestream First SF edition in ~10 years · Azure AI, GitHub Copilot [7]
Jun 29–Jul 2
AI Engineer World's Fair 6,000+
Moscone West, SoMa varies · group rate 5+ 10 parallel miniconferences · 400+ sessions · Coding Agents, Robotics, LLM RecSys, Inference… [8]
Aug 2 events · Database + AI startups
Aug 13
MongoDB.local SF
TBD ~$100 [16]
Aug 26–27
Step SF
The Midway, Dogpatch $75 – $525 AI startup festival · 50+ speakers · 4 stages [9]
Sep DENSITY PEAK · Dreamforce dominates mid-month; The AI Conference closes it
Sep 2
KCD SF Bay Area
TBD free – low Kubernetes, cloud-native [16]
Sep 15–17
Dreamforce 140,000+
Moscone Center, SoMa $999 – $2,299 CRM, agentic enterprise AI · 1,600+ sessions · 140+ countries [10] [20]
Sep 29–Oct 1
The AI Conference 5,500+
Pier 48, Mission Bay ~$1,000+ Vendor-neutral · 5 tracks: AGI, LLMs, Agentic AI, Infrastructure, Applied AI [11]
Oct DENSITY PEAK · SF Tech Week wraps into TechCrunch Disrupt · non-stop for two weeks
Oct 5–11
SF Tech Week 100s of events
Citywide (a16z-presented) free – varies per event Hackathons, fireside chats, demo days, meetups · apply per event on Luma [12]
Oct 13–15
TechCrunch Disrupt 10,000+
Moscone West, SoMa $75 Expo+ – $330+ Founder/Investor Startup Battlefield $100k prize · VC + founder heavy [13]
Nov 1 event · Application security
Nov 2–6
OWASP Global AppSec USA
Hyatt Regency SF Embarcadero varies Training Nov 2–4 · Conference Nov 5–6 [14]

Bay Area (not SF proper · 45 min by BART / Caltrain)

Feb 18–20
DeveloperWeek
San Jose McEnery · Open-source devs · <$1,000 [19]
Mar 16–19
NVIDIA GTC
San Jose McEnery · GPU / AI hardware · $350 – $1,595 [17]
Jun 8–12
Apple WWDC 2026
Apple Park, Cupertino · Apple dev + AI · free lottery (in-person) · keynote free stream [18]

Key SF Venues

Moscone Center (N/S/W)

SoMa

Mega-conferences — RSA, Dreamforce, Snowflake, AI Engineer, Stripe, TechCrunch

Fort Mason Center

Marina

Mid-size developer events — Microsoft Build, NEARCON

Pier 48 / Mission Rock

Mission Bay

Boutique AI conferences — AI Dev 26, The AI Conference

The Midway (900 Marin St)

Dogpatch

Startup & VC events — Step SF, MongoDB.local

City View at Metreon

SoMa

Community security — BSidesSF

Hyatt Regency SF Embarcadero

Embarcadero

Professional association events — OWASP

[1] RSAC [2] BSidesSF [3] AI Dev 26 [4] Stripe Sessions [5] SREday SF [6] Snowflake Summit [7] Microsoft Build [8] AI Engineer WF [9] Step SF [10] Dreamforce [11] The AI Conf [12] SF Tech Week [13] TC Disrupt [14] OWASP AppSec [15] WithJoy SF 2026 [16] dev.events SF [17] NVIDIA GTC [18] WWDC 2026 [19] DeveloperWeek [20] Moscone/Dreamforce