Last year’s inaugural Innovation Month was a celebration of the people, companies, and institutions that make San Francisco one of the best cities to live and work.

This year, we’re continuing the tradition with a month-long celebration that highlights not just the technology companies that make our city hum, but the individuals, civic and private institutions that build opportunities for innovation in the City of San Francisco.

Throughout October, The San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation will highlight innovation that delivers economic and social benefits and show innovation that is happening in all corners of San Francisco.

Here’s how we’ll be celebrating Innovation Month. Come join us!

LGBT Economic Empowerment Week
October 1-5

SF Music and Tech Conference
October 1, 2013
http://www.sfmusictech.com/
The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce.

Brit + Co Re: Make
October 4, 2013 – October 5, 2013
http://remake2013.com/
How is technology changing creative industries within lifestyle categories like home, food, fashion and health? Join us at Re:Make, a new experience designed to connect makers of all types — artisans, chefs, designers, developers and inventors — with one another. Come to connect, learn, and discuss how digital innovations are revolutionizing the way we make.

OpenCo
October 9, 2013 – October 11, 2013
http://sf.openco.us/
The best way to experience and learn about the innovation economy isn’t in a stuffy board room – it is up close and personal and in its native habitat. This festival of innovation will celebrate companies that embrace a set of values surrounding the concept of openness: open collaboration, open communication, open community, open company and open doors to you. Attendees will meet innovators in their native habitat and hear from the founders and executives about how they are trying to change the world and why. They will inspire you and help you make new connections, whether you are a job seeker, investor or simply a curious neighbor.

VERGE San Francisco

October 14-17 | Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105
http://www.greenbiz.com/events/verge/2013/10/san-francisco?src=sfgov

VERGE San Francisco will connect the brightest business innovators, entrepreneurs and leading public officials to illuminate the business opportunities created by radical efficiencies in energy, building, water and transportation technologies. VERGE tracks include: New Energy Systems, Next-Gen Buildings, Resilient Cities, Smarter Logistics, Sustainable Mobility and the Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Discover the future of disruptive sustainability and network with a diverse audience of leaders from corporations, startups, cities, nonprofits, academia and public policy. Learn more here.

Code for America Summit
October 15, 2013 – October 17, 2013
http://cfasummit.org/
The CfA Summit is an annual gathering of civic technology leaders, ranging from Mayors to entrepreneurs, from community organizers to CTOs; the common thread for the mix of attendees is a shared belief that a government of the people, by the people can work for the 21st century.

America’s Innovation Showcase
October 16, 2013
http://www.americasinnovationshowcase.com/
America’s Innovation Showcase is designed to showcase the most interesting innovations happening in America today. This unique event serves as a curated experience, bringing together great concepts using social networking in a unique setting.

Uncubed
October 17, 2013
http://getuncubed.com/
The wildly popular event series Uncubed is back in SF on October 17. Described as just about the greatest job fair for startups imaginable, SF Uncubed invites tech, product & business talent to meet with a curated group of growing startups. Enjoy music, drinks and interesting speakers from participating companies. Spotify, tumblr, Rdio, Evernote and more will be there, and you should be too.

FailCon
October 21
http://thefailcon.com/
FailCon is a conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and designers to learn from their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.

Cities Alive
October 23-26
http://www.citiesalive.org/
Hurricanes. Fires. Floods. Food shortages. How do we address the challenges of the future through living architecture planning and implementation today? Green Roofs for Healthy Cities presents the 11th Cities Alive Green Roof and Wall Conference in San Francisco this October 23 – 26. Join sustainable building professionals and speakers from across the design, development, planning and utility sectors to train, tour, network, do business and elevate the dialogue around ‘securing urban resiliency with living architecture: food – energy – water’.

Fast Company: Innovation Uncensored
November 6, 2013
http://www.innovationuncensored.com/
At Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored, attendees get live access to top business visionaries and companies to watch with the goal to learn from and to be inspired by their practices and insight. The event itself is a great conversation/debate starter, but the greater value is in taking attendees inside these stellar companies and teaching them something they don’t know: surprising stats, smart techniques, best practices.

And more…

Join us the entire month of October to celebrate San Francisco – Innovation Capital of the World!