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SF IRL - Apr 29th, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
April 29, 2024
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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!
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Apr 30th, 2024 - AI Startups in South Korea
Location: Stanford
Time: 4:30pm
What: Please join us for our 2024 Spring seminar series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries." Each year, this series surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia and their relevance to Silicon Valley and the U.S. Guest speakers include entrepreneurs, investors and mentors, and other experts on the current entrepreneurial ecosystems of major Asia economies.
Apr 30th, 2024 - AGI Builders Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: 👋 We're thrilled to invite you to our monthly AGI Builders meetup on April 30th.
❤️ It's a gathering where AI builders, researchers, and enthusiasts share ideas, inspire peers, and transform the future.
💡 Participants can expect engaging tech talks covering the latest challenges and advancements in AI.
🍕 Light refreshments will be available.
Apr 30th, 2024 - Women Tech Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Dive into the world of tech with our next Women Tech Meetup on April 30th, powered by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands! 🇳🇱
Ever found yourself grappling with international communication hurdles? 😶 Struggling to secure funding abroad? Managing a diverse team with cultural differences?
May 1st, 2024 - The Open Source Monetization Blueprint
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.
May 1st, 2024 - Consumer Founder Breakfast & Headshots with Headline VC
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8:30-10:30am
What: Headline & Deel are partnering to bring you a breakfast & headshots morning meetup for consumer founders!
Join us at the Library at the Headline HQ in Presidio to start your day on a caffeinated note, refresh your headshot (we know it's been a while 😉), and meet fellow early-stage consumer founders in SF.
Photos are complimentary and light bites will be provided.
See you soon!
May 1st, 2024 - B2B Marketing with GenAI - Women in AI Panel
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Women in AI Club is dedicated to connecting, empowering, and elevating women founders, investors, and talents in artificial intelligence. We partner with AI leaders, VCs, and service providers to support women in founding, investing, and building in the AI space.
As the most significant paradigm shift of this decade, generative AI has shown an exciting potential to drive truly personalized customer experience and engagement at scale. 2024 is set to be a pivotal time for generative AI B2B marketing, however, the path to implementing a successful generative AI strategy and product still has challenges and unknowns.
May 1st, 2024 - DSPy End to End
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: DSPy is a framework that enables you to program and optimize large language model (LLM) systems. DSPy introduces two new concepts: the programming model and compilers. The programming model lets you define each component in an LLM call, such as the task description, examples, and input and output fields. The compilers can then improve the quality and cost of your DSPy program. DSPy has integrations with Cohere’s Command R LLM, Arize Phoenix observability, and the Weaviate vector database.
We will begin with lighting talks from each company and then hand it over to Omar Khattab for a deep dive tutorial. We will open-source the demo, so feel free to bring your laptops.
May 2nd, 2024 - Wine & Wisdom: KPIs for Venture Debt
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join us for a Wine & Wisdom fireside chat featuring David Sabow, Head of Innovation Banking at HSBC and Miguel Fernandez, CEO of Capchase, as we discuss the art of non-dilutive financing
Enjoy a wine tasting featuring select world famous Caymus wines, complemented by a selection of gourmet hors d'oeuvres while fostering meaningful connections with fellow founders, CFOs and finance professionals.
May 2nd, 2024 - AI AMA Afterhours with BCV
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: Everyone's seen futurist tweets that LLMs and agents are inevitable and will create trillions of dollars of value, but what's actually working in production? Join us for an AMA after hours for a very candid take on where AI is right now and where it's headed. This event is under strict Chatham House rules: no pictures, no notes, and no attribution! No question is too controversial :)
May 2nd, 2024 - Air Street SF AI Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join us for 3-4 AI research and applied AI talks, and the opportunity to hang with the SF AI community. Speakers include:
Akshay Krishnaswamy, Chief Architect @ Palantir
Michele Catasta, VP of AI @ Replit
Chris Lamb, VP Computing Platforms, Software @ NVIDIA
+1 mystery speaker :)
May 3rd, 2024 - Open Treasury 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.
May 4th, 2024 - National Security Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am
What: Join us for a weekend of hacking in support of national security, sponsored by Shield Capital, Vannevar Labs, In-Q-Tel, Founders Fund, Anduril, SkyFi and Radiant. This event is hosted by Stanford's Defense Tech Club, Stanford Gordian Knot Center, and Cerebral Valley, with a kick off event on May 3 on Stanford campus. Don't miss the opportunity to connect with problem statement stakeholders and special guest speakers. The official hackathon will begin on May 4 at Shack15 in San Francisco.
May 4th, 2024 - Agent Hackathon @ AGI House
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-10pm
What: Ever feeling envy of Ironman's Jarvis? Imagine building your own personal assistant that: - L1 Basic Automation: Provide detailed travel itineraries with just a destination. - L2 Interactive Assistance: Manage complex schedules across multiple calendars. - L3 Analytical Processing: Analyze complex data sets to provide actionable business insights. - L4 Advanced Programming: Send PRs to open-source GitHub issues, and surpass Devin on the SWE-bench. - L5 Self-Improvement: Learn from human feedback and self-improve by rewriting its own code.
May 5th, 2024 - AI Salon: Augmentation
Location: San Francisco
Time: 2-5pm
What: Technology has always allowed us to push past the limitations of our biological bodies and minds. A possible future future is one where the seamless integration of artificial intelligence make technology not just a tool but an embedded component of how we think and interact with the world.
This is the tantalizing promise of augmentation – a future in which we are not replaced by AI, but rather elevated and empowered by it. What will these "bicycles of the mind" really do for us? How will the availability of cheap, scalable agents empower individuals to imagine and create?
Join us for a fascinating exploration of augmentation, as we envision a future in which the power of AI is not something we simply wield, but something we become.
May 6th, 2024 - SF Tech CEO Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
Where Tech CEOs gather.
This event is graciously hosted by K&L Gates at this beautiful Embarcadero Office with complimentary beverages and lite bites.
🤝 Who's coming? The typical attendee profile is a mix of tech CEOs and Founders.
May 6th, 2024 - Agentic Markets: LLM Routing
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7:30-10pm
What: This is a small meetup for researchers and engineers building market places for agents. This session is specifically focused on LLM Routing.
Setting up to pre-game the Agentic Markets Workshop at ICML 2024 this year.
May 7th, 2024 - Modern Data Infrastructure
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us for a vibrant evening dedicated to best practices related to data quality and reliability .
This meetup is for engineers passionate about building scalable and reliable infrastructure. Whether you're a developer, a product manager, or simply a data enthusiast, come to network and hear insights from the teams behind Airbyte and Dagster Labs.
May 7th, 2024 - SF VC & PE Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Welcome to the SF VC & PE Happy Hour.
We're uniting tech investors in Silicon Valley for collaborations and deal-making.
🙋 What is this? Join us and a group of investors across both private and public markets for an evening of conversations and connections.
🌇 Where is it? We're at a beautiful venue with rich heritage in SF.
🤝 Who's coming? Our typical attendee profile is a mix of private and public investors across PE, IB, & VC, including General Partners, Managing Directors, Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Venture Scouts, and Limited Partners, but all investors are welcome too.
May 8th, 2024 - SF Tech Community Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Welcome to the SF Tech Community Happy Hour.
Where SF's Tech community gathers.
We're (David & Christina) uniting tech enthusiasts in Silicon Valley for the startup ecosystem growth.
🤝 Who's coming? Our typical attendee profile is a mix of Tech enthusiasts from startups and BigTech, including founders, investors, developers, operators, and tech leaders, but all are welcome too.
Whether you're looking to learn something new, network, build something new, or fundraise, you'll be in a collaborative community.
May 8th, 2024 - Fortress the Future: A Cybersecurity Summit
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: Cybersecurity threats are evolving faster than ever, impacting critical industries such as Healthcare, Maritime, Smart Cities and Advanced Manufacturing. This exclusive event brings together VCs, industry leaders, and cybersecurity innovators to explore the cutting-edge solutions safeguarding our future.
May 8th, 2024 - Rooftop Tech Talks
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Cloudflare and Jam are hosting a Tech Talks + happy hour in SF!
Spots filled up so fast for our last Tech Talks (300+ signups 🤯) - we can't wait to meet more of you.
Get together with 100+ engineers and builders at the Cloudflare rooftop for lightning talks about engineering at scale - no demos or sales pitches, just technical talks.
+ food, drinks and a good time! 🍕🍻
See you there,
Your friends at Cloudflare & Jam 💜
May 10th, 2024 - Mission Bit Spring Demo Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:15-7:30pm
What: Welcome to Mission Bit's Spring 2024 Demo Day, where the brilliance of tomorrow's tech leaders comes to life! We invite you to join us for an unforgettable showcase of innovation, creativity, and passion as our students unveil their groundbreaking projects and accomplishments.
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