The 10 best women-in-tech events in San Francisco, 2026

SF's women-in-tech scene is denser than anywhere else on earth right now. The AI build-out of the last two years has dragged a wave of new community organizing with it, and the older orgs (Lesbians Who Tech, Girls in Tech) are still going strong. Ten worth your time in 2026, ranked roughly by relevance plus reliability.

Lesbians Who Tech Pride Summit

The flagship. Three days every June, Castro neighborhood takeover, thousands of attendees. Started as an LGBTQ+ women-in-tech conference and is now functionally the biggest women-in-tech event in the country. Allies are welcome. The summit talks are sharp, the after-parties are the actual thing.

Tickets are tiered — early-career discounts available, scholarship program runs each year.

Women in AI Bay Area

The most active community in SF right now. Talks happen at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, Mercor and elsewhere through the year — the labs all have women-led research teams who present, and the dinners afterward are where the real connecting happens. Free, RSVP-gated.

If you're working in or near AI, this is the one to prioritize.

Girls in Tech SF

The longest-running general women-in-tech org in the Bay. Annual conference (September), monthly meetups, paid mentorship program. Broadest demographic on this list — career switchers through senior staff engineers. Good first stop if you're new to SF.

Tech Ladies SF

Tech Ladies is primarily a Slack community (national), but the SF chapter ports the digital community into IRL well. Job-hunting energy, lots of switchers, smaller and friendlier than the conferences. Biweekly happy hours and quarterly larger events.

Women Founders Network

Application-based founders' network. Dinners at members' homes and offices, occasional larger summits. The crowd is funded-founder — pre-seed through Series B. Useful if you're building. Less useful if you're still at a job.

Women Who Code SF

The SF chapter of the global org. The language tracks (Python, JS, data, ML) are the strongest part. The data and ML tracks have benefitted from the AI wave — both meet at major labs and the talks have been getting properly substantive.

PyLadies San Francisco

Python community. Workshops at Stripe, Coinbase, and others. Very beginner-welcoming — half the audience at any event is people learning rather than working in Python. The Saturday workshops are the standout.

AnitaB.org satellite events

Grace Hopper Celebration is the big national women-in-tech conference (not held in SF but SF-adjacent in vibes). The SF chapter runs satellite watch parties, scholarship-fundraisers, and pre-conference networking — all free, all worth checking the calendar for.

WomenHack SF

Recruiting-focused speed-networking. Free for women devs, paid for hiring companies. Quarterly. Useful if you're actively job hunting — the format is fast (5-minute rotations with companies), and the offers come through quickly afterwards.

Female Founders Meetup

Smaller, less curated than Women Founders Network. Open meetup, pre-seed and pre-funded founders welcome. Monthly. The energy is rougher and more accessible — if you're still figuring out what you're building, this is the one.

What I'd skip

A few orgs I'm not listing because activity has thinned out: Geek Girl Meetup SF (gone quiet), Hackbright Academy events (the bootcamp wound down), and the broader Women in Product chapter has been less active in 2026 than it was in 2024.

How to actually find these

Most of these post events across Luma, Eventbrite, and individual Slack channels. The SF this-week page on Rifio aggregates them. Search "women in tech" or filter by women-in-tech tag.

Two practical notes: SF women-in-tech events skew evening/weekend, and the labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind) all host monthly. Check the Women in AI calendar first — it's the most reliable signal of where the scene actually is on any given week.