Oct 16
The Party
The official kick-off party, hosted by Hugging Face. The week opens.
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Open Source AI Week 2026
▶ Open Source AI for Everyone
October 16-25, 2026 · The Bay Area
Ten days. One open commons. A community-run celebration of open-source AI — talks, workshops, hack nights and meetups hosted by you, all across the Bay Area.
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
Organizers and Supporters
GitHub
Nous Research
Prime Intellect
Laude Institute
Open Intelligence Foundation
A16Z
Ollama
Black Forest Labs
Hugging Face
Mistral AI
Unsloth
Reflection AI
Qualcomm
Meta
Hacker Squad
Founders Inc
The AI Collective
SkyPilot
SGLang
RadixArk
LMSYS
Anyscale
Ray
LinkedIn
J.P. Morgan
OpenClaw Foundation
Inferact
vLLM
Nasiko
UC Berkeley
Fireworks AI
GMI Cloud
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Open Source AI Week kicks off October 16, 2026.
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Press Start: What Is Open Source AI Week?
Open Source AI Week is a community-run, decentralized celebration of open-source artificial intelligence. It is not one conference — it is a whole week (and then some) of independently hosted events stitched together by a shared belief: that AI should be open, accessible, and built by everyone.
Anyone can host an event. Whether you are a startup, a research lab, a meetup, a nonprofit, or a few friends with a projector — if your event has an open-source relationship, you can put it on the calendar. Talks, workshops, hackathons, demo nights, panels, office hours: all welcome.
Submit your event for approval, get listed on the official Luma calendar, and join hundreds of organizations bringing open-source AI to everyone.
Also known as Open Intelligence Week, Open Source AI Week is the Bay Area's flagship open source AI conference week — anchoring the kickoff party, the Open Source AI Debates, a weekend hackathon and the Open Source AI Awards.
This Year’s High Score
Open Source AI Week keeps leveling up. Here is what the community is pulling off this year.
66
Events across the Bay Area
200+
Participating organizations
10
Days of open-source AI
Flagship Events
The anchor moments of the week — everything else happens around them.
Oct 16
Oct 17-18
The Hackathon
Open models, local inference, on-device. Demo night closes Sunday.
Oct 19
The Debates
Frontier safety, open vs. closed models — argued on stage.
Oct 23
The Awards
Awards for the people of open-source AI, then an evening of connecting with the community.
Official Open Source AI Week Calendar
Ten days · October 16-25, 2026 · San Francisco Bay Area. Filter by topic, type or date — scroll the box for the full lineup.
Topic
Type
Date
Friday, October 16, 2026
Kick Off Party – Open Together
We’re throwing the official kick-off party and we are calling all AI Builders to San Francisco. Let’s come together. Show strength in numbers. Celebrate open models. And dance for AI freedom.
Hosted by Hugging Face · Official Event
Crusoe Field Day: Build, Train, Deploy
Crusoe takes over the Civil War Parade Lawn in the Presidio for a model-themed field day — race your team’s “model” from raw data to production through themed games, with food and prizes.
Hosted by Crusoe · Community Event
Maritime Dual-Use Hackathon
The Fincantieri Maritime Dual-Use Hackathon crosses the Atlantic: 36 hours of teams building working solutions to real maritime and defense engineering challenges in the Bay Area’s deep-tech ecosystem.
Hosted by Mind the Bridge & Silicon Mountain · Community Event
NVIDIA RTX Spark Launch Celebration
NVIDIA launches RTX Spark at Best Buy San Francisco — live demos, special guest iJustine, exclusive swag, and five ASUS ProArt laptops signed by Jensen Huang to give away.
Hosted by NVIDIA · Community Event
Video as Code: Should AI Generate Pixels, or Write Programs?
Media is becoming generative — but should a video model generate the pixels, or should a language model write a program (Remotion, Manim, Blender) that renders them? An evening on video as code.
Hosted by Park Jong Hyun & Sina Atalay · Community Event
Saturday, October 17, 2026
The Recursive Agents Hackathon
Build a team of agents you can walk away from. During the PyTorch Conference in San Francisco, build agents that can take a goal and run with it. Let them make the plan, spin up sub-agents, delegate work, communicate with each other, check their o
Hosted by NVIDIA x Crusoe x Cerebral Valley · Community Event
Arm + Meta ExecuTorch: Edge AI Challenge
Join Arm and Meta for the ExecuTorch: Edge AI Challenge, a two-day, hands-on hackathon focused on building and deploying AI applications on Arm-powered devices. Developers, students, and AI enthusiasts will explore Meta's open-source ExecuTorch fr
Hosted by Arm · Community Event
The Hackathon
The ExecuTorch Hackathon — open models, local inference, on-device. Demo night closes Sunday.
Official Event
MITAI Conference 2026: Age of Agency
The 10th annual MIT AI conference: 500 executives, founders, researchers and investors for a day of workshops, demos, talks and networking, with 50+ speakers.
Hosted by MIT Alumni Startups · Community Event
The Recursive Agents Hackathon
Build a team of agents you can walk away from — persistent agent teams that plan, delegate, recover and keep going, on Crusoe Managed Inference with NVIDIA’s Nemotron models. $25,000 in prizes; teams of up to four, apply to attend.
Hosted by Cerebral Valley & Crusoe · Community Event
Mem-Off! The Open Source AI Memory Showdown
Everyone claims their AI has memory — does it actually work? ClaudeMem, Helix, Cognee and the AI memory community in an open, hands-on comparison of memory systems. Bring your own setup and test it side by side.
Hosted by Cognee & Claude-Mem · Community Event
Sunday, October 18, 2026
InclusionAI Tech Night: Your AI Reality Check
Meet the developers and researchers building open models and agent systems. Can we trust what the benchmark says? Can an agent system be smarter than its best model?
Hosted by Ant Open Source (InclusionAI) · Community Event
Builder Odyssey: Founder Demos & AI Film Showcase
500+ AI founders, builders, creators and investors for one afternoon at The Midway — founder demos across AI infrastructure, multimodal and forward-deployed engineering, plus an AI film showcase.
Hosted by SEAMATE & Linkloud · Community Event
Monday, October 19, 2026
Cline & Composio Hackathon
Join Cline and Composio for a hands-on hackathon during Open Source AI Week. Attendees will build and open-source AI agents with access to Composio tools, Cline credits, and AI inference from other partners.
Hosted by Cline & Composio · Community Event
Fine-Tune LLMs on Amazon SageMaker and Run Them On-Device with GenieX
Join AWS and Qualcomm for a hands-on workshop covering the complete cloud-to-edge generative AI pipeline, from fine-tuning LLMs on Amazon SageMaker to running them on Snapdragon-powered devices with GenieX, Qualcomm's open-source on-device Gen AI run
Hosted by Qualcomm & AWS · Community Event
The Debates
Frontier safety, open vs. closed models. Named debaters, spicy topics, videos posted later.
Official Event
PyTorch, Powering the Enterprise
Red Hat, NVIDIA and IBM on how PyTorch and its ecosystem — vLLM, Ray, Helion — moved from research labs to power the enterprise. Keynotes, fireside chats and lightning talks.
Hosted by Red Hat, NVIDIA, and IBM · Community Event
Arm Create: Hands-on AI with Google, Renesas & Nota AI
Deploy and optimize AI workloads on Arm from cloud to edge — Gemma, Google AI Edge and LiteRT, PyTorch and ExecuTorch, agentic and physical AI — with experts from Arm, Google DeepMind, Renesas and Nota AI.
Hosted by Arm · Community Event
Agents hunting Agents: Open Source + AI Approaches
An agent swarm is making moves — attack, or just doing its job? Work in teams with mentors from AI and cybersecurity to spot malicious agent behavior with Vigil, a 100% open source approach.
Hosted by Silicon Valley AI Hub · Community Event
Fine-Tune LLMs on Amazon SageMaker, Run On-Device with GenieX
AWS and Qualcomm hands-on workshop: LoRA fine-tune LLMs on Amazon SageMaker, export to GGUF, and run them on Snapdragon devices with GenieX — the complete cloud-to-edge generative AI pipeline.
Hosted by AWS & Qualcomm · Community Event
Triton Developer Conference
The fourth annual Triton Developer Conference: GPU kernel engineers, AI compiler researchers and hardware partners shape Triton’s roadmap. Keynotes from OpenAI and Meta — co-located with PyTorch Conference.
Hosted by Meta · Community Event
MCP in the Wild: Agents That Know You
Personal agents, MCP and the next wave of AI: Snowflake, ODSC AI and SpaceXAI on agents that remember preferences, learn from behavior, work across tools and act on your behalf.
Hosted by ODSC AI & Silicon Valley AI Hub · Community Event
Universal Hackathon: Create Your Own AI Workforce
A full-day hackathon at the AWS Builder Loft: build your own AI workforce of agents. Registering at events.builder.aws.com is required to enter the building (18+, physical photo ID).
Hosted by GenAI Assembling & AWS Builder Loft · Community Event
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Powering an AI Workforce
Teams building sophisticated AI systems and agents today have to consider several factors: how to build them, what to integrate with, how to run version control, how to run evals, how to manage credentials and access, and much more.
Hosted by Sim · Community Event
OpenClaw and Friends Meetup
Your AI. Your rules. Better together. Join the OpenClaw Foundation and Friends during Open Source for AI Week for a meetup about AI you can own, understand, and control. We’re bringing together the people building open-source AI agents, the p
Hosted by OpenClaw Foundation · Community Event
SGLang x LinkedIn Meetup
SGLang and LinkedIn are co-hosting an AI Infra Meetup at LinkedIn's Sunnyvale campus during Open Source AI Week. SGLang is a high-performance open-source serving framework for large language and multimodal models, running in production at NVIDIA,
Hosted by SGLang · Community Event
The Coffee Club at PyTorch
Heading to PyTorch NA 2026? ☕ Come hang at the Coffee Club with the teams behind Ray and vLLM, two key projects under the PyTorch Foundation. Hosted by Anyscale, Inferact and Nscale. It’s just a short walk from the conference venue. Step outside
Hosted by Anyscale · Community Event
Thinking Fast or Slow: Open Source AI Edition
Most agents send every decision to the slowest, most expensive brain in the stack. Is this ticket about billing? Is this prompt trying to hijack the agent? Each of those has a handful of possible answers, and a frontier LLM answers it by writing pros
Hosted by Superlinked · Community Event
PyTorch Conference
PyTorch Foundation 2-day event (San Jose).
Overmind Arcade
Open source has always been a multiplayer game — for one night it’s literal. An arcade taken over by the people building in the open: pick a machine, find a Player 2, ask what they’re shipping.
Hosted by Tyler Edwards · Community Event
Responsibly Pacing the Frontier
Software is dead. Your GPUs are late. So yeah — it’s a party: an evening of food, kernels and connecting with the people pacing the frontier.
Community Event
Flow State Lounge: After Hours
Boundless opens a late-night home base for founders and technical teams building with AI — quiet workspaces, a smoothie and juice bar, and food to stay fueled and heads-down into the early morning.
Hosted by Boundless · Community Event
AI Infra Night @PyTorchCon
After a full day at PyTorch Conference, unwind in San Jose with GPU experts, ML engineers and AI infra enthusiasts from dstack, Crusoe and SGLang — food and plenty of time to talk training, inference and open-source AI systems.
Hosted by dstack, Crusoe & SGLang · Community Event
AI Safety Night SF: From Multimodal to Physical AI
AI is moving from seeing and hearing to acting on screens and in the physical world — each step changes what “safe” means. The second AI Safety Night, back after a 150+ person debut.
Hosted by Skye Kim, Evelisa Genova & Dasol Choi · Community Event
Lightning AI Fireside Chat & Happy Hour
Step away from PyTorch Conference with Lightning AI: a fireside chat on scaling RL on PyTorch (Monarch, TorchTitan), retro arcade games, food, and easygoing connection in San Jose.
Hosted by Lightning AI · Community Event
Founders Panel: The Agentic Stack
Founders and leaders from Laravel, PlanetScale and WorkOS on building and scaling their agent stacks — where agents help, the risks they’ve hit, what’s working, and why now may be the best time to build.
Hosted by Laravel, PlanetScale & WorkOS · Community Event
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Intercept Night
Join us after the Cloud Security Alliance Agentic AI Security Summit for an evening focused on how we secure AI agents once they start taking action in real systems. We’ll open with an introduction to AARM (Autonomous Action Runtime Management),
Hosted by Keycard · Community Event
Lessons from Open Source DevTools Founders
PostHog and 1984 Ventures host round-table discussions with founders who build in the open — open source as a GTM strategy, open source AI, and lessons from PostHog, Cline and more.
Hosted by PostHog & 1984 Ventures · Community Event
AI Infrastructure Night
Founders and engineers building the systems behind production AI — four technical talks on building, deploying and operating production AI systems, plus food and networking.
Hosted by Sahar Mor & Sharone Ofer · Community Event
ANDxOR End User Group Meetup
ANDxOR, the end-user community of the Agentic AI Foundation, brings leaders and developers together face-to-face — live case studies of deploying agentic AI systems in production across enterprises.
Hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation · Community Event
Open Source AI + Policy Happy Hour
Open source AI is in the policy spotlight. GitHub brings together policymakers, researchers, industry and civil society for two conversations on advancing an AI ecosystem that is open, secure, competitive and innovative.
Hosted by GitHub · Community Event
Bring Your Own Agent to a Shared Room
Bring your own AI — Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or your own open-source agent — into one shared multiplayer Room: connect agents over MCP and A2A, coordinate a live task across owners, and demo agent-to-agent paid jobs. Online.
Hosted by Rooms by Aurmada · Community Event
Investing Capital in Open Source & Applied AI
Where capital meets innovation: investors, founders, researchers and technology leaders on the next frontier of capital investment in open source and applied AI — hosted by the Applied AI Society.
Hosted by the Applied AI Society · Community Event
Milvus Meetup San Francisco
Milvus has grown beyond vector search into a retrieval engine combining vector, full-text and structured search over open lake formats — an evening on running Milvus 3.0 in production.
Hosted by Zilliz · Community Event
Durable AI (October Edition)
What happens to an agent between the first request and the last? Temporal and Kernel on long-running agents that survive crashes, keep working, and finish the job — the Durable AI meetup series.
Hosted by Temporal & Kernel · Community Event
Long Horizon After Party
Close out the Long Horizon summit at the St. Francis Yacht Club — an evening with a view, unwinding with the robotics and AI crowd. Hosted by Encord, sponsored by CoreWeave & LanceDB. Waitlist admission.
Hosted by Encord · Community Event
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Training Agents IRL
An open-source AI community event on reinforcement learning for agentic systems, hosted by GitHub and Hugging Face. Join the open-source community at GitHub in San Francisco for an evening with researchers and builders exploring how AI agents are
Hosted by Huggingface · Community Event
The Inversion – Agent shift from assist to operate
The Inversion is the moment the subject flips. The agent is no longer the tool you reach for — it's the operator that reaches for you. It decides what needs to happen, runs the workflow, and only calls you when it hits something that requires a pulse
Hosted by onepiece labs · Community Event
Open Infra Night for Agent Builders
Open Infra Night for Agent Builders is a community meetup hosted by Strukto AI and Infron AI during Open Source AI Week. The evening explores open-source infrastructure for production AI agents and models, including virtual filesystems, sandboxed run
Hosted by Strukto AI · Community Event
Open Source AI Summit
It's that time for another Open Source AI Summit with Buildplanet! This time we are hosting during Open Source AI Week on Oct 16-25, and co-hosting with Open Intelligence Foundation and NEAR AI. Open Source AI Summit is a half day seminar focuse
Hosted by Buildplanet · Community Event
Elevate Your LLM Performance: LMCache Meetup + Hands-on Workshop
Join us for an exclusive, interactive four-hour workshop where we move beyond theory to beginning our mastery of LMCache. This session is designed for engineers and researchers looking to push the boundaries of KV cache management and LLM efficiency.
Hosted by LMCache · Community Event
Step 5 Preview Launch Night 🚀 @SF
We just launched Step 5 Preview, and we'd love for you to be among the first to see it up close. Co-hosted by StepFun and Together AI, this launch night brings together founders, developers, and AI builders for a first look at the model, a panel
Hosted by StepFun · Community Event
Your AI Agents Are Burning Tokens. Let’s Fix That: Hands-on Workshop
Love coding with Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex? Ever wondered how many tokens your agents are burning, where the waste is coming from, and how much you could save? Bring your laptop. Bring your favorite coding agent. We'll show you what's happening
Hosted by Nasiko Labs · Community Event
Founders’ Coffee · Open Source AI Week
Founders’ Coffee for people building open-source AI, Thu Oct 22 location tbd. Come solo: RSVP and we’ll match you with 1–3 others before you arrive. Matching continues all week for hackathons, meetups and happy hours. Free.
Hosted by Y·US Ventures × Bridgit · Community Event
AGNTCon+MCPCon
A conference on agents and model context protocol (San Jose).
Enterprise AI Showcase – Silicon Valley
Enterprise AI practitioners on the hard problems — integration, governance, monitoring, security and the messy middle between pilot and production. Tech talks, food and networking with JPMorgan Chase and Docker.
Hosted by AICamp with JPMorgan Chase & Docker · Community Event
ALL DAY AI 🐔
122 speakers, zero vendor pitches — a full virtual day of practical 25-minute sessions from people putting AI to work. RSVP on Luma, then register at alldayai.com for event platform access.
Hosted by Kilo Code · Community Event
Production Agent Lab: Workshop & Pitch Night
Three hands-on workshops on building production agents with the people who make the tools — then a live demo showdown where builders take the stage, the crowd votes, and winners take prizes, cash and credits.
Hosted by tokens& · Community Event
Multimodal Engineering Night
Engineering talks, live demos and networking for engineers working on AI beyond text — images, 3D scenes and game state — with Roblox, Qdrant, Superoptimal, The AI Collective and Code & Coffee.
Hosted by The AI Collective · Community Event
Friday, October 23, 2026
Open Source AI Awards
Awards for the people of open-source AI, then an evening of connecting with the community.
Official Event
Saturday, October 24, 2026
The Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon
The Google Gemma Hardware Hackathon @ AGI House Saturday, October 24, 2026 · 10:00 AM–5:00 PM PT (doors 9:30 AM) Hillsborough, CA · Hosted by Google DeepMind and AGI House Build the Future of Edge & Physical AI. Join us for the builder finale
Hosted by AGI House · Community Event
Agent Builders Hackathon
A one-day hackathon for people building AI agents. Bring an idea (or start from scratch), build something real, and get it production-ready by demo time. Hosted by Omnara, cosponsored by Unikraft, Primitive.dev, Freestyle and Andera.
Hosted by Omnara · Community Event
Close-Out Weekend
The final community events.
Official Event
Sunday, October 25, 2026
SF AI→SI Code and Coffee
A relaxed Sunday afternoon with the Bay Area tech community on the week’s closing day — hundreds of AI developers, engineers, founders and enthusiasts at Salesforce Park. Share what you’re building, find collaborators, or meet someone new.
Hosted by John Komarnicki · Community Event
Beyond the Week
AWS Partner Showcase Extended: Temporal, Arize & Databricks
Build production-ready agentic AI from code to deployment with experts from AWS, Temporal, Arize and Databricks — live demos, technical deep dives and partner booths at the AWS Loft.
Hosted by AWS & AICamp · Community Event
AIAS+ 2026 — AI for Scientific Discovery
The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute brings researchers, founders and students together to explore AI for Science — frontier talks, workshops and conversations across disciplines. Tickets at aiasplus.org.
Hosted by the Chen Institute · Community Event
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