2026 Tech Summer Bash

Tech Summer Bash is the second annual daytime mixer that pulls multiple Orange County tech communities into one food-hall floor. Tech Link Up hosts with participating groups that include OCUX, Friends of Figma Irvine, OCXD, Orange County Artificial Intelligence, ADPList Irvine, Tech Night!, OC Startup Council, The Ticket 500, and IGDA. Combined membership across those communities is marketed above 14,000. Tustin’s FLIGHT campus is the OC geography: design, AI, engineering, and startup chapters sharing a Saturday instead of nine separate Meetups.

Saturday, August 8, 2026, 11:00 AM-2:00 PM at Mess Hall at FLIGHT, 1705 Flight Way, Tustin. Free admission via Eventbrite; food and drinks are self-pay. Free parking is listed on the Eventbrite page. Meetup.com also carries the OC Tech Link Up listing.

Broad OC tech peer density is the point - UX, Figma, AI, engineering, startups - in one afternoon. It is a mixer, not a pitch competition. Self-pay food at a food hall means you control spend; the ticket is only the RSVP. People who only want a single-chapter deep dive may prefer a weekday chapter night; people who want to cross those graphs in one trip should be here. Irvine Chamber’s Founder's Journey workshops the following week are the chamber programming track if you need a workshop, not a bash. Self-pay food at a food hall means you control spend; the Eventbrite ticket is only the RSVP. People who only want a single-chapter deep dive may prefer a weekday chapter night. Show up with a chapter or craft you can name.

RSVP on Eventbrite so organizers can size Mess Hall, even though admission is free. Show up with a chapter or craft you can name; Flight Way parking is listed as free, which is the OC logistics win.