The Party
The official kick-off party, hosted by Hugging Face. The week opens.
Insert Coin · Community Edition
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.
Brought to You By
GitHub
Nous Research
Prime Intellect
Laude Institute
Open Intelligence Foundation
A16Z
Ollama
Black Forest Labs
NEAR
Arcee
Hugging Face
Mistral AI
Unsloth
Reflection AI
Qualcomm
Meta
Hacker Squad
Founders Inc
The AI Collective
SkyPilot
SGLang
RadixArk
LMSYS
Microsoft Azure
Anyscale
Ray
LinkedIn
J.P. Morgan
OpenClaw Foundation
Inferact
vLLM
Nasiko
UC Berkeley
Fireworks AICountdown to Kickoff
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.
Last Year’s High Score
Open Source AI Week keeps leveling up. Here is what the community pulled off last year.
60+
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.
The Hackathon
Open models, local inference, on-device. Demo night closes Sunday.
The Debates
Frontier safety, open vs. closed models — argued on stage.
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
PyTorch Conference
PyTorch Foundation 2-day event (San Jose).
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
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
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
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
AGNTCon+MCPCon
A conference on agents and model context protocol (San Jose).
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
Close-Out Weekend
The final community events.
Official Event
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The Full Lineup Lives on Luma
Every approved event lands on our official Luma calendar. Browse it, RSVP, and plan your week.
Hosting something open-source-related during the week? Submitting takes two minutes — we review every entry before it goes live.
Contact & Inquiries
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