Drones San Francisco

Photograph the Navy Blue Angels

Fieldwork Brewery in San Leandro

Come join us and relax at Fieldwork Brewery. This location offers a wide variety of beers on tap, pizzas, and other food options. The best thing about this place is that there is a beautiful patio and fire pits. FYI, dogs are allowed in the patio area For parking, there is a small lot behind Fieldwork, or paid spots on Juana. See you there! Adam https://fieldworkbrewing.com/san-leandro/

✈️ UD Blue Angels Air Show & Picnic

East Bay Chronic Pain & Illness Peer Support Group Meetup

**About us:** The Bay Area Chronic Pain & Illness Peer Support Group is a friendly, unstructured, in-person peer support group for anybody 18+ who lives with chronic pain, illness(es), invisible disabilities, and any type of mental health experiences. The group is a casual safe space to hang out, talk about our lives, share coping strategies, form friendships, create community, and get support. **Location:** 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA 94703 Look for a corner gallery in a residential neighborhood! **Accessibility Info:** * The meeting space is in a wheelchair accessible gallery. * There are bathrooms accessible via ramp within the gallery. * The lighting is relatively gentle, though of course feel free to bring hats, sunglasses to adjust! * Seating provided by the gallery are wooden, foldout chairs. If a metal foldout chair would be preferable, let me know, and I'll try to procure some! * Feel free to bring heating pads, yoga mats, cooling pads, to make yourself as comfortable as possible! \*\*\*Please refrain from wearing anything scented, including lotion, dry-cleaned clothes, etc. This is to ensure that the group is safe for people with chemical sensitivities.\*\*\* **Scheduling Info: While this group runs every other week, there are a few dates when the space will not be available. Those dates are: 4/7, 5/5, 6/2, and 11/3! To play it safe, check on the meetup page to be sure that we are meeting!** **COVID Safety:** * We are asking folks to mask! If you have any questions about the event, feel free to email Anna at [anna.ch@betterbecausecollective.org ](mailto:anna.ch@betterbecausecollective.org)

(FRI) SF Fleet Week Air Show - Parade of Ships / Aircraft Photography Workshop

Costumed Figure Drawing @ Madrone Art Bar (SF)

🗓️ Every Tuesday 🕡 630 to 830pm 📍500 Divisadero Ave., SF **🎟️ ADMISSION $15 CASH ONLY** 🪑 LIMITED SEATING: 30 max ✏️ Bring your own art supplies, though some are available. **🎨 MUST BE 21+ with valid ID and all skill levels welcomed.**

AWS Community Day (Bay Area) - AI Edition

**AWS Community Day Bay Area: Building the Future of AI** Join us on **October 13, 2026**, at the **AWS Builder Loft** for a full day of technical learning, hands-on experiences, and community connections. AI is more than a trend—it is becoming the foundation of what we build in the cloud. Come learn how builders are using AWS to create the next generation of intelligent applications. **Why attend?** * **Generative AI in Practice:** Discover real-world solutions built with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and the Strands Agents SDK. * **Agentic AI:** Learn how autonomous agents are transforming workflows and how to build them responsibly. * **Hackathon Finals:** Watch the top eight teams demonstrate their agentic AI projects live on stage. * **Expert-Led Learning:** Attend technical sessions and discussions that go beyond the basics. * **Community Networking:** Connect with industry leaders, AWS experts, and fellow cloud builders across the Bay Area. Whether you are an experienced cloud architect or just beginning your AWS journey, join us for a day of learning, networking, and fun. **Registration** Space is limited, so register early. **Important:** RSVPing on Meetup does not complete your registration. You must also register through the AWS Builder Loft website: 👉 **AWS Builder Loft registration:** [https://bit.ly/4yILMav](https://bit.ly/4yILMav) 👉 **Event details, agenda, and speakers:** [https://bit.ly/4dk6dlS](https://bit.ly/4dk6dlS) **🛠️ Agentic AI Hackathon** Build an AI agent that performs real work on AWS. * Teams of **2–4 participants** * Solo builders are welcome * Build period: **September 29–October 11** * Top eight teams will present live at AWS Community Day * Winners can receive up to **$3,200 in AWS credits** * Registration deadline: **September 28** 👉 **Hackathon registration:** [https://luma.com/acba26102](https://luma.com/acba26102) **Sponsorship Opportunities** Connect with more than **500 registrants**, including a projected **30% senior leadership audience**. 👉 **Submit a sponsorship inquiry:** [https://bit.ly/4hbqAD3](https://bit.ly/4hbqAD3) We look forward to seeing you at AWS Community Day Bay Area!

FleetWeek, AirShow aboard the cutter Cetacea on Sat, Oct 10!

The cutter Cetacea (latin, marine mammal-dolphins/whales), a beautiful, strong, and well-appointed 42' blue-water sailboat with extensive operational and safety systems, invites a few crew aboard with a highly experienced skipper and platonic-only water sports enthusiast and science/technology entrepreneur. Strong preference for adventurous crew, as can be seen in the various photo albums of crew on more than 140 no-cost personal sailing adventures the past 9 years! This event is for women that prefer to sail with other women; sorry guys but there is a big demand for female-only sailing that isn't being met. Sailing experience isn't necessary, but enthusiasm for a fun, safe and exhilarating daysail, is! Yayyy,,, the **USAF Blue Angels** are back!!!! We'll slow-sail around the North Bay while gawking at **[big ships](https://fleetweeksf.org/events/parade-of-ships/)** and then hover near the flight zone for 3 hours of exciting flybys! You can view the Official **2026 FleetWeek** ship and Airshow info **[here](https://fleetweeksf.org/air-show/)**. This is an adrenalized fighter-jock sightseeing show, not a substantial sailing experience, and so we'll have a larger crew (6-10) than normal with a lot of sitting, eating, drinking, photographing, and ogling the aerial displays! If calm waters then we'll rig the Spinnaker swing! Please join the waitlist and experienced Shetaceans have priority for this **[event](https://fleetweeksf.org/air-show/)**. Please note that parking is very limited at the marina and you'll probably have to park at Pier 34 and walk the short distance (1/4 mi?) to SouthBeach marina. I'll send an agenda with clothing/food/parking/other info to our crew by Mon, Oct 5. Please be sure to rapidly respond to my emails to you, via your meetup account, or you will be summarily scuttled in the "Not Going" zone of abandoned flotsam, jetsam, and tidal detritus :-0

Circuit Hacking Monday – Open Electronics Workshop

Need some motivation to finish that electronics project? Join us for an open workshop where everyone brings something they're working on. We'll have soldering stations, test equipment, and a room full of people interested in electronics, programming, robotics, and embedded systems. Whether you're debugging a circuit, writing code, or designing your next gadget, you're welcome here. No lectures. No pressure. Just making things together.

Bay Area AI War Room - Berkeley Edition - Saturday, 10:00 AM

Models, agent, systems, ethics, the law, business, art and impact we discuss it all. With the DeepSeek hoopla fading, what of Reasoning models? Inspired by the Berkeley AI War Room, we invite you to join us at the same venue, same time, and with the same dynamic community. Come share your interests, showcase your projects, and discuss the latest trends and news that's shaping the AI landscape at a rapid pace.

AI Developer Workshop - Build AI Voice Agents

Important Note: Register on the [event website](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2026093017) is REQUIRED for admission. Join SignalWire for a hands-on session to learn building AI Voice Agents Every voice AI demo works. Most production deployments don't. In one evening, build a working agent on infrastructure where state lives in the call, logic lives in your code, and you can see what happened on every turn. Build AI voice agents that don't break in production. By the end of the evening you'll have working code on patterns you can take straight to production. No boilerplate. No demoware. **What You’ll Learn:** * Voice agents in production, the architecture, the model * How to keep state in the call and logic in your code instead of in the prompt * Tool calling from a live call against a real backend * Handling interruptions, turn-taking, and handoffs without losing context * How to see what happened on every turn so you can debug a real conversation **Raffle Prize:** Every attendee is automatically entered for a chance to win an **iPad** 🎁 at the end of the workshop! **Who Should Attend:** Senior developers and engineers, AI engineers, and technical leaders building or evaluating voice AI. Hands-on session, attendees bring laptops and leave with working code. **Speakers/Topics:** If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: [Submit Topics](https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA) **Sponsors:** We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 50,000+ AI developers in San Francisco and 500K+ in global.

Agentic AI Hackathon: AWS Community Day Bay Area 2026

Build an agent that does real work on AWS. Two weeks. One track. Eight teams demo live on stage at AWS Community Day in front of 500+ builders. Up to $3,200 in AWS credits for the winners. **How it works** RSVP here, then complete your team registration by September 28 at the link below (every team member registers individually and enters the same team name). Build from September 29 to October 11. The top 8 submissions get a 5-minute live demo slot on October 13 at the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco, judged on the spot, with winners announced at the closing session. **Who should join** Anyone building with Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents SDK, SageMaker, or any other AWS AI service. Teams of 2 to 4. Solo builders welcome; register anyway and we'll match you with a team before September 29. **The rules in brief** * Work starts September 29, not before * At least two AWS services, one of them an AI service * Public GitHub repo, MIT or Apache 2.0 license * No production data, PHI, or PII * You keep your IP **Submit by October 11, 11:59 PM PT:** public repo, 3-minute demo video, one-page writeup. Submission link goes out in the September 29 start announcement. **Judging:** technical depth (30%), real-world usefulness (25%), responsible AI (20%), demo and communication (15%), completeness (10%). Judges score all submissions asynchronously on October 12, then re-score the 8 finalists live. **Prizes:** 1st place gets $500 in AWS credits per team member (up to 4). 2nd place gets $300 per team member (up to 4). All 8 finalists get their demo featured on the AWS Community Bay Area YouTube channel. **Complete your registration (required, team name goes here):** [https://luma.com/acba26102](https://luma.com/acba26102) **Full participant guide:** [https://www.aws-aicd.com/hackathon/](https://www.aws-aicd.com/hackathon/) Finalists must also be registered for AWS Community Day and present in person on October 13. Questions? Comment on this event or message the organizers. Reply target is 24 hours.