droppa
Curated tech events from 50+ platforms — verified, quality-scored, updated hourly.
picks
all events →AI Is Building the Next AI. Who’s Watching?
n8n Buildathon at Santa Clara University with AIC Club
closing soon
GTM Hackathon by Granola x Gemini
AI in Science Collaboration Hackathon at Stanford
How to Win a Hackathon
upcoming
all →AI Is Building the Next AI. Who’s Watching?
n8n Buildathon at Santa Clara University with AIC Club
Breaking Models 🚨 AI Security
Small Batch Meetup: Data + AI in Pleasanton
AI Filmmaking Innovators - Film, Music-Video, Micro-Dramas
Discoverability in LLMs x Axis live demo
Above the Fog Salon No. 01 · AI Builders
Sean’s AI Stories LA Hangout ☕️🌴
Stanford vs Berkeley · The Big Hack Game · Up to $10,000 in Cash Prizes · Kickoffs on Both Campuses
Hallie McConlogue: How to Save Humanity From AI Extinction
Hands On Workshop - AI Agent Assistant for Financial Industry
Top AI Researchers Roundtable & BBQ Party in Los Altos Hills
The Human Side of AI Filmmaking
SF AI Code and Coffee Sunday November 15th 2026 @Salesforce Park!
AI International Micro-Drama, Film & Music Video Festivals
Founder Pickleball
Founder Picnic
Founder and Funder Mixer @ Vision Weekend USA 2026
new interfaces 008 [sf edition]
Build Nights @ Stanford
Flatkey Monthly Gathering
media theory reading circle
Women In Tech: Private Pottery Class!
TDSF 19
recommended
from the blog
all articles →Free Tech Events That Are Secretly Better Than the $3,000 Ones
Why the best developer events cost nothing. A skeptic's guide to free tech events that beat expensive conferences on learning, access, and real connections.
4 min readCareerWhy Junior Developers Get More Out of Hackathons Than Senior Ones
Hackathons reward the people with the most to learn. Here's why juniors walk away transformed while seniors phone it in — and how to fix that.
4 min readCareerThe Unwritten Rules of Tech Networking (That No One Tells You About)
The tech networking advice you actually need: skip the pitch, follow up like a human, and pick events for the room, not the speaker lineup.
4 min readHow we curate events
Droppa isn't just a list of links. Every event goes through a multi-step pipeline before it reaches you — so you only see events worth your time.
Automated Crawling
Our bots pull events from Eventbrite, Meetup, Devpost, Luma, and 10+ other platforms multiple times per day.
AI Enrichment
Each event is processed by AI to generate a concise summary, detect category, format, audience, and location.
Editorial Review
Duplicates, low-confidence entries, and spam are filtered out — and a human editor supervises quality thresholds and reviews submissions before they go live.