The Bay Area tech calendar, cleared of fog.
Somewhere in the city, the room that moves your pipeline is meeting today. Karl Events finds it — every gathering worth your calendar, tiered by who's actually in the room, never who's on the poster.
- High-signal rooms
- 72 High-signal rooms
- Season in view
- Aug '26 – Jun '27 Season in view
- Pipeline tiers
- 4 Pipeline tiers
Book it — dense buyer rooms, real pipeline
Strong candidates worth a serious look
Situational — go if the timing fits
Know about it, but not demand-gen spend
The Calendar
A season of Bay Area gatherings, Aug 2026 → Jun 2027. Narrow by tier, or hunt by name, sector, or venue.
August 2026
4 eventsHot Chips 38
Chip architects and silicon engineers at NVIDIA/AMD/Intel/hyperscalers
Ray Summit 2026 + vLLM Conference
ML and AI-infra engineers, platform teams, some founders
Step SF 2026 (AI & Tech Startup Festival)
Founders, VCs, corporate venture & innovation leads, MENA/Asia delegations
TailscaleUp 2026
Infra, network and security engineers, DevOps
September 2026
8 eventsAPI World + AI TechWorld + CloudX + DataWeek
Developers, API and platform engineers, some enterprise buyers and execs
Evanta SF CHRO Community Inner Circle
CHROs at $500M+ revenue firms
KCD SF Bay Area 2026
Platform and K8s engineers, SREs
Evanta SF CFO Community Inner Circle
CFOs at $500M+ revenue firms
RDC26 - Roblox Developers Conference
Roblox creators, studios, platform partners
Y Combinator Demo Day - Summer 2026 (S26)
Investors and media ONLY - buyers are contractually excluded
MCP Connect - San Francisco
AI engineers, agent and tooling developers
AI Infra Summit 2026
Hyperscalers, semiconductor vendors, enterprise infra buyers, model builders
12 rooms out of the fog — keep scrolling