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SF IRL - Apr 1st, 2024

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

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Jonathan Chang
April 01, 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 #80.

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 5800+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 6,000 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 🎉

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.

Location: Mountain View

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: Marking the GenAI Collective's thrilling return to the South Bay, join the community for an evening where the future of AI unfolds in real time! 🤩

​This is a rare opportunity to dive deep into the intricacies of AI research, directly engaging with the researchers leading the charge. This isn't just an event; it's a breeding ground for inspiration, a space where the next big ideas are born. Whether you're an industry veteran or a curious observer, your presence will contribute to a richer, more diverse exploration of what AI can become. Get ready to explore, learn, and grow!!

Apr 2nd, 2024 - AI Alliance Meetup 2

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: Join us at the Databricks office in San Francisco for a series of lightning talks and to meet the community. Food and beverages provided. This is a bay.area.ai meetup, the most established and continuously running technical AI meetup in the Bay Area. All talks are on functional.tv!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-6:30pm

What: ​Hey there! Join us for a special chat with Anton Borzov, ex. Head of Design of WhatsApp (before selling to Meta)!

​Here's what's waiting for you at our event:

​✔️ Explore Anton's amazing journey in the tech industry, from his beginnings to his influential role today.

​✔️ Gain valuable tips on building your career in big companies, straight from Anton's time at WhatsApp.

​✔️ Learn insider secrets about navigating competition, including the intriguing battle between WhatsApp and Telegram.

​Plus, you'll have the chance to connect with TOP designers from big-name companies like Figma, Adobe, Facebook, and other similar companies.

​This exclusive event is invite-only, creating a cozy space for tech enthusiasts to mingle, learn, and collaborate.

Apr 2nd, 2024 - Chat8VC

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30pm

What: 8VC is thrilled to invite you to our April edition of Chat8VC on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024, in collaboration with Cerebral Valley! Doors open at 6:00 pm and the event will begin promptly at 6:30PM.

We’ll kick off with a conversation focused on the future of code generation & AI-driven software engineering led by Eiso Kant of Poolside

Apr 3rd, 2024 - AI Papers & Wine

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-9pm

What: Join us for the second official https://goatstack.ai/ community gathering and product celebration at <bar name> on April 3rd at 7pm!

​Once again, we'll explore the world of AI research, discuss fascinating papers, share our experiences using GoatStack Premium, and enjoy some delightful wine together.

Location: Walnut Creek

Time: 6-8pm

What: The Data Phoenix team is thrilled to announce the launch of our new monthly event, "Data and AI Evening: Demos & Networking". Our first event will take place on April 3rd in Walnut Creek.

​This event is designed to foster relationships and networking among participants – engineers, executives, founders, and investors in the Data and AI realm.

​Moreover, startups will have the opportunity to pitch and showcase their AI projects to our audience. It's an excellent chance for startups to garner feedback and expand valuable connections within the Data and AI industry.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 11am-4pm

What: Join us for a day of coding, collaboration, and connection at the Code/Collab/Connect Coworking Day hosted by MindsDB.

We're excited to reopen our doors for our first coworking event of the year at the MindsDB HQ. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just diving into the world of AI, this is the perfect opportunity to work alongside like-minded individuals and expand your network.

Apr 4th, 2024 - AI x Humane Technology

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: This AI Salon event invites you to an intimate conversation between participants as we delve into questions like:

​What are the essential characteristics that make an AI product 'humane'? What are potential harms of 'inhumane' products? How can we increase public awareness and understanding of these issues?

​This is an in-person event. To facilitate smooth and cohesive conversations, we kindly ask attendees to arrive within the first 15 minutes of the event. The doors will be closed at 30mins mark.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us for an exciting evening as we embark on a journey into the future of technology - adding blockchain technology with intentionality. Whether you're a newcomer or just starting to explore the world of blockchain, join us as we discuss making the shift onchain over food, drinks, and networking.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Hey Nerd, join the Herd!... for a little book/paper review.... LIVE in SF. We'll stream too for our digital friends around the globe!

Apr 4th, 2024 - Archimedes Labs Launch

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: Archimedes Labs Inaugural Event Featuring Kevin Weil Q&A

​We are excited to announce the official launch of Archimedes Labs, and we are honored to have Kevin Weil, President at Planet Labs, as our featured guest.

​In this inaugural Q&A session, we will explore Kevin's remarkable career and his deep interest in national security. We will hear how he successfully navigates the challenges of building technology that serves the national interest while also optimizing for metrics that rule in the private sector.

​We are excited to hear Kevin's insights and advice, which will be particularly beneficial for technologists who aspire to follow a similar path and make a meaningful impact at the intersection of tech and government.

​Join us for this enlightening discussion.

Apr 4th, 2024 - LLM Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-8:30pm

What: ​LLMOps: From Prototype To Production | Developer Meetup

​Join Predibase, LlamaIndex, Guardrails AI, and Tryolabs for an evening of food, drinks, and discussions on all things LLMOps while taking in the view of the SF Bay from the 17th floor of our office.

​​LLMs have huge potential, but when it’s time to move from a simple prototype to production application, the challenges stack up: What technique should I use to customize my LLM? What are the best open-source tools and models? How do I cost-efficiently serve at scale? And most importantly, how do I make sure my model outputs are responsible and reliable?

​Good news: we brought together founders and engineers from leading LLM startups and open-source projects for one night to share their insights and best practices for building LLM applications at scale. You’ll have a chance to hear from them and network with your peers working on LLM projects.

Apr 4th, 2024 - Primemas Deep Tech Forum

Location: Redwood City

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: Agenda: With the explosive rise of AI and the slowing of Moore's Law, once again, there is a bright spotlight shining on the semiconductor industry. The current and future needs for cost-effective computing and power efficiency have grown tremendously. Enter Chiplet technology as an elegant solution to meet the demands of a diverse marketplace, from edge to desktop to data centers. While some of the big industry players are already engineering novel chiplet design, packaging, and interconnect technologies to reduce costs and time to market, these solutions are not widely available to new entrants. To level the playing field and unleash the potential innovation of the entire semiconductor marketplace, a new type of SoC Chiplet or Platform technology is needed.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: Join us for a fireside chat with Prodvana’s Andrew Fong and Shipyard’s Benjie De Groot as they discuss how platform engineering contributes to developer experience and productivity by unblocking engineering teams. There will be a Q&A session followed by a happy hour with light refreshments.

Apr 5th, 2024 - Treasury Open Demo

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Treasury Demos are your way to experience the world of spatial computing, to become a Treasury Builder or Activator, to apply to the Treasury Builder Program, and to meet others exploring and developing in the space.

​​Join spatial creators, spatial app builders, infrastructure tech developers, investors, hackers and explorers in spatial computation including AR, VR, XR, metaverse, Vision Pro and more.

Apr 6th, 2024 - Founders Running Club SF

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9:30-11am

What: We'll run 5 or 10km at your conversational pace. We'll have 2 or 3 pacers. You can run at your own pace as well, especially if there's someone who runs with you at the same pace and with approximately the same effort. After the run, we will head for coffee or brunch somewhere nearby.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 10:30am-12pm

What: April 6th is your chance to meet three extraordinary leaders - Mariane Bekker, Hafsa Tahir, and Jonathan Chan - in the Bay Area. Learn from their experiences, gain valuable insights, and explore the cutting edge of innovation and entrepreneurship together!

Apr 6th, 2024 - Memory Hackathon

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9:30am-6pm

What: ​Creating a way for our machines to remember us is the first and most critical step to a fully personalized future.

​Memory allows you to create apps that remember what you did last week. That keep track of your progress towards a goal over time. That discern traits about you.

​There has been some academic work in this space (Generative Agents, MemGPT), but not a lot of progress in industry. We want to change that!

​Join us in tackling this challenge at the first-ever Memory Hackathon. We’ll have some of the greatest LLM & agent hackers in the same room, and we can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Location: Stanford

Time: 9am-9pm

What: As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries across the globe, the legal sector is no exception. LLMs, a foundation model capable of understanding and generating natural language text, have the potential to transform legal research, contract analysis, dispute resolution, and much more. This hackathon hopes to build solutions that consider the safe and trustworthy integration of LLMs for legal work. Join us for the third edition of the LLM x Law Hackathon! We encourage you to think boldly, creatively, and across multiple dimensions!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9:30am-8:30pm

What: ​If you have fun, crazy, out-of-this-world ideas on what you can create with AI, come join us in SF on 4/7 with your friends to turn these ideas into reality!

​Jacky Huang and Ryan Kim are co-hosting a small AI Hackathon for ~50 builders, early-stage founders, creatives, explorers & anyone in between to 'build the world they want to see' with AI, supported by Kleiner Perkins + Bain Capital Ventures.

​Whether that's AI wearables, AI Games filled with agents, AI Avatar Idol Groups, or more, we want to see them!!! 💜🪐✨

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join Cleantech Open (CTO) as we share the information about this year's upcoming 2024 Accelerator Program! At CTO we are the world's oldest and largest Clean Technology Startup Accelerator. We've had ~2,000 early stage startups successfully graduate our program since 2006. This time of year, we're looking for ambitious and innovative entrepreneurs that are trying to solve some of the world's greatest problems who are looking to grow their business to the next level using our proven curriculum.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Join us (Ali, Kanjun, and Josh) for a fireside chat with Michelle Lee, PhD. Doors open at 6PM and the event will start at 7PM. Michelle is the CEO and founder of Medra. Medra is at the forefront of laboratory automation, leveraging state-of-the-art robotics and computer vision technologies to streamline wet lab tasks. The company is backed by top investors including Nat Friedman, Lux, Neo, and Outset Capital.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 11:30am-1:30pm

What: South Park Commons is delighted to host Naveen Rao, VP of Generative AI at Databricks and former CEO and co-founder of MosaicML, as part of our -1 to Now series! Please join us to hear Naveen's founding journey and perspective on AI/ML.

​Event Details

  • ​11:30am Doors Open

  • ​12:00-1:00pm Discussion with Naveen Rao

  • ​1:00-1:30pm Networking

  • ​Open to members, alums and guests of SPC

Apr 11th, 2024 - AI & Robotics Panel

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7pm

What: Discover the realities of the AI & Robotics market at our panel on April 11th, 5:30 pm PST, at MindsDB HQ.

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