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SF IRL - Apr 22nd, 2024

A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco

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Jonathan Chang
April 15, 2024

Hi SF IRL! There's a ton of vibrance and energy coming back into the city and at SF IRL, we are excited to be a part of it. Excited to come with you all with some great events for Issue #83. It’s a crazy busy week with SF Climate Week, Startup Grind, and Stripe Sessions all happening this week.

If you didn’t know, I’m excited to announce the launch of inreallife.tech. SF IRL is now part of the inreallife.tech family & we’re expanding with LA IRL & NYC IRL to showcase the top tech, startup and venture events in those cities as well and you can subscribe in the link above.

I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 3 years ago. My full-time job is at Brex as an XIR where I meet founders and VCs while trying to create a community in the city. My vision for SF IRL is simple. Showcase the best tech + startup events in SF and to connect all of our builders and investors together. We are a growing community having over 6000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 7,000 readers. As always, SF IRL is one of my many side projects. If you like to be involved in helping, please shoot me an email!

Events Coming Up 🎉

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: You are invited to a Founder & VC Mixer event hosted by Brex and Newmark.

​This isn't your typical networking Event; our goal is to make space for meaningful connections, learn from each other and move each other forward.

​This will be a highly curated group of founders and VCs, and there will be flowing 🥂, breathtaking views of the city and conversation starters. You'll leave with new friends, business connections, and new thoughts on how to hit that next level of personal or company growth.

I’ve also been hosting a variety of GP/LP dinners for emerging managers in the Bay Area, if you are an emerging GP or an LP that invests in emerging managers, please fill out this form if you’re interested in getting invited to future GP/LP Dinners that I throw in SF.

I’ve made a form to connect the best founders raising with my list of VCs. If you are a founder raising your next round and want to potentially be featured to investors in the SF IRL network, please fill out this form.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-8:30pm

What: Join us as at SF Climate Week to explore the transformative potential of carbon technology in addressing the urgent challenges of climate change.

You will be able to get a unique perspectives from both Denmark and California about the current landscape, future trends, and challenges facing carbon technology deployment and adoption. Connect with a diverse network of professionals, investors, policymakers, and advocates committed to driving sustainability forward.

Apr 23rd, 2024 - Menlo Park Tech Social

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​We're bringing together tech leaders, founders, and investors in Menlo Park and San Francisco area for conversations and connections.

​​​👋 What is this? Join us and a group of remarkable founders, operators, and investors for an evening of conversations and connections.

​​​🌇 Where is it? We're hosting this at the beautiful citizenM Hotels in Menlo Park.

​​​🤝 Who's coming? Many founders, operators, and investors - but folks from other industries (i.e. tech-curious) are welcome too.

Apr 23rd, 2024 - Developers & Founders Meetup w/Convex & Shipyard

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Join us for an evening where Bay Area developers and founders connect!

Developers and startup founders, the Convex and Shipyard teams are excited to host our April developers and founders meetup and happy hour. Enjoy an evening to connect with other developers and founders over food and drinks.

While attending, pick up Convex and Shipyard swag and chat with the teams to ask any questions.

Apr 23rd, 2024 - DevGuild AI Summit

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-7pm

What: Last year we hosted DevGuild AI Summit and people talked. Not in breathless transactional vendor pitches, but in terms of what changes lay ahead. After all, we shape our tools, and our tools shape us. As senior architects, devops leaders, systems and data engineers, and application developers, we’re the humans in the loop designing an entirely new work and life experience.

Apr 23rd, 2024 - GenAI in B2B Supply Chain

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: Calling all founders, aspiring entrepreneurs and VCs! Are You Ready for the B2B Revolution? Discover the Power of Generative AI in B2B Supply Chain.

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring industry leaders exploring the transformative potential of generative AI in B2B supply chain management.

Apr 23rd, 2024 - Berkeley LLM Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​​The Berkeley LLM Meetup aims to connect Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and alumni with people working in or interested in LLMs (in particular systems supporting LLMs) in industry.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-8:30pm

What: ​🎉Join us for an exclusive event where you'll learn from the builders of GenAI startups on how to find and achieve Product-Market Fit (PMF)!

​Hear from Series A GenAI startup founders including Kraftful, Gleen, Relevance, Gather, Descript, Future Gadgets and an exclusive speaker only for attendees - AI Leader of a $10Bn SaaS company 😉.

​They will share first-hand lessons learned on how to navigate the challenges of finding PMF in the ever-changing world of AI. 

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Engineering the Bottom Line is an event series hosted by Orb, where we champion and celebrate the tight collaboration of engineering and finance teams. This edition is co-produced with Cloudflare, OpenAI, Pinecone, and Lamini and moderated by Amplify Partners.

Join us for drinks, bites, discussion, and networking.

Location: Stanford

Time: 4:30-5:20pm

What: Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity.

Apr 24th, 2024 - YPOSF April Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: 🌟 April 2024 Happy Hour & Networking at Peacekeeper 🌟

We are thrilled to invite you to our April Networking event! Join us for an engaging evening at YPOSF's April Happy Hour and Networking Event, hosted at Peacekeeper. This is a great opportunity to mingle, unwind, and connect with a dynamic group of young professionals.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: Join us at All Things API—San Francisco for two talks on incorporating AI into API development, from improved API testing to how to provide developers with hallucination-free API integration code.

Whether you're new to API development or looking to enhance API design and developer experience through advancements in AI technology, these talks will provide valuable insights and practical knowledge. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and advance your technical expertise.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: This is the inaugural meeting of The Podcast Book Club™.

We will discuss Acquired.fm's latest episode on Renaissance Technologies, so make sure you listen to it before coming!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-7pm

What: Founders leveraging AI for our society’s hardest problems in infrastructure, energy, defense, and biotech have double the challenges and unique perspectives.

We aim to bring together those builders for off-the-record mutual support, sharing best practices, and relationships with complementary long-term partners.

We need an “AI for Climate” event that directly helps mission-driven founders make high-calorie relationships now.

Apr 25th, 2024 - Bits & Bio Tech Showcase

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​Come out to learn from members of the community on various projects and problems they are working on. We expect to have 10 min technical demonstrations from startups and established companies with Q&A. We look forward to the community learning from each other.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-7:30pm

What: Join startups from Southampton, UK in Silicon Valley for an evening of pitches and networking.

Future Worlds, the tech startup accelerator at the University of Southampton invites you to meet Southampton’s emerging tech startups in Silicon Valley.

We’re heading over from the South Coast of the UK to the West Coast of the US to showcase our startups in Silicon Valley ahead of their UK debut at London Tech Week.

Whether you are interested in any of the technology our startups are developing, would like to meet the founders and learn about their journeys from the lab to leading a startup, or would simply like to enjoy an evening of getting to know the Future Worlds network, we welcome new connections and familiar faces to join us for a social evening at Werqwise on their striking rooftop terrace in San Mateo.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​This is the inaugural meeting of The Podcast Book Club™.

​We will discuss Acquired.fm's latest episode on Renaissance Technologies, so make sure you listen to it before coming!

Apr 25th, 2024 - Inaugural Quarterly Climate Panel & Happy Hour Mixer

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-10pm

What: 🍺 What — Best event at the top Global Climate Summit
🕔 When — 4/25, 5-10pm (opened later too)
📍 Where — Barbarossa Lounge, 714 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111
👤  Who — All climate fixers, domains, orgs, friends

  • ​New Quarterly Climate Panel & HH Mixer format- is established 📣 !

  • ​Don't miss the Inaugural unforgettable splash at SF Climate Week!

  • ​- Check and STAY Tuned for updates -

Location: San Francisco

Time: 3-5pm

What: ​Back by popular demand, I’m organizing another Female Founders Walk, but this time Female Funders are welcome as well! The walk will take place at Salesforce Park on Friday, April 26th starting at 3:00 p.m. PDT.  We had such an incredible turnout with amazing connections at the first of these events that we can’t resist doing it again! No agenda other than to walk and talk, networking with other like-minded women and woman-identifying founders and funders in the startup ecosystem (outside of the usual, noisy bar atmosphere).  We look forward to engaging conversations while taking in some fresh air!

Apr 26th, 2024 - Gemini 1.5 Show & Tell

Location: Mountain View

Time: 5-7pm

What: Now that Gemini 1.5 is publicly available, let's have a hacking session together; best prompts win prizes!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1:30-5:30pm

What: ​Building AI bots is one of the best ways to learn AI! Join aligns.ai and Coze (www.coze.com) for an immersive workshop on April 27 (Saturday), where we‘ll navigate through use cases & steps for building an AI bot with Coze, the most powerful AI chatbot builder used by hundreds of thousands of developers around the world and allowing you to build on top of GPT-4 for free. 🛠️🔥

Apr 27th, 2024 - Give Your AI A Code Interpreter

Location: San Francisco

Time: 11am-2pm

What: ​🤖 Are you building AI agents?

​Do you want to make your agentic app better?

​Giving agentic apps a code interpreter type of engine makes the agent more powerful, gives it better reasoning, the ability to perform coding or data analysis tasks, or test its own output.

​Come and chat with us about what you're building. We will show how to build agents with code interpreters, regardless of your tech stack or LLM choice.

Apr 28th, 2024 - Tech Tea Time @ Bunny House

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1-4pm

What: Join us for a fun wholesome time at Bunny House to chat about some tea in tech and more. Come with your horror stories or things you'd like to vent about. Hosted by Grace Ling and Shuya Gong!

Apr 29th, 2024 - Fintech, AI & DLT Demos

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8pm

What: Join us for an enlightening evening, nestled in the heart of San Francisco, as we delve into the dynamic intersection of Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, and Distributed Ledger Technology. The //Merge Effect// event, is set to spark conversations and insights on how these cutting-edge technologies are reshaping the financial landscape. Scheduled for April 21, 2024, from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM PDT, this gathering promises to be a melting pot of ideas and innovation.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-8:30pm

What: An intimate founder dinner with Sasha Orloff of Puzzle.

We'll hear about his experience building LendUp and later Mission Lane and have an in-depth conversation about the challenges of building and scaling a fintech in this day and age.

This will be an exclusive dinner for fintech founders and investors where we can dive into the tactics of building a lasting fintech startup.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: 17:30-17:45: Walk in with drinks

17:45- 18:30: Talks

  • Deep Learning Past and Future: What Comes After GPT? by Lukasz Kaiser (“Attention is All you Need” co-author, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI)

  • Taming Unstructured Data: Which Indexing Strategy Wins? by Jan Chorowski (CTO, Pathway)

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​Imagine transforming a communal garden into a sustainable enterprise without building walls that keep enthusiasts out. Our panelists will unveil strategies that ensure your open-source projects flourish in a competitive landscape.

​This event is tailored for founders, developers, and open-source enthusiasts keen on understanding the nuanced art of open-source monetization.

​Join us to uncover the secrets of converting community-driven projects into thriving businesses. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and navigate the path from open collaboration to proprietary success with integrity and innovation at the forefront.

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