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SF IRL - Aug 12th, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
August 12, 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 #100.
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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 7000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 8,000 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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Aug 13th, 2024 - RAG Hack Night @ Github
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4-9pm
What: Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at GitHub!
This description is partially a placeholder as I continue plan this event, but if you wanna secure a spot for yourself in the upcoming Hack Night for August 13, please come and register! As always, we're gonna have awesome technologies, awesome vibes, excellent prizes and great fun!
Aug 13th, 2024 - AI Builders Night @ Zoom HQ
Location: San Jose
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join us on Tuesday, August 13th for an exciting evening of learning and networking at AI Builders Night, hosted at Zoom HQ in San Jose. Hear from some of the brightest minds building products like Sourcegraph, Jam.dev , Zoom , Strong Compute and Trojan Vectors. Connect with fellow engineers, developers, product managers, and enthusiasts passionate about artificial intelligence.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: 🎉 Get ready to mix, mingle, and make some magic happen at the AI Builders Social! 🍻 Join us on August 14, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at one of the best breweries in SF! This is our regular monthly event, bringing together founders, innovators, builders, and just great people. I promise—you’re going to meet some amazing individuals.
Aug 14th, 2024 - Solutions Engineering x AI Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for a solutions engineers happy hour with Quilt, a Sequoia-backed startup building for solutions teams, and Zach Lawryk, Head of Solutions Engineering at OpenAI. It will be a casual event for you to mingle and meet each other, and discuss how SE roles may evolve in the age of AI.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Build 0.1
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3-6pm
What: Join us for a small Hardware+Software Meetup. It's a casual event for anyone interested in tech.
We’ll have a few short talks and some basic demos. It's a good chance to meet others and chat about hardware and software.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Greenfield
Location: San Francisco
Time: 1-6pm
What: Succinct is kicking off a weekend of open-source crypto engineering with Greenfield, our inaugural summit centered around cutting-edge ZK infra, held the day before Frontiers by Paradigm on August 15.
We're excited to host the open-source crypto community in San Francisco, where our team has been building SP1, the most performant, developer-friendly, 100% open-source zkVM, for the past year.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Ascend AI Summit for Revenue Leaders
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 12-5:30pm
What: According to Gartner, 92% of organizations are evaluating how and when to invest in AI-powered software. Equally, consulting firms, in general, have been big winners in driving early AI adoption.
Is your team ready for the impact of AI on your organization and customers?
Aug 15th, 2024 - AI Salon: Let’s Get Canceled
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: When you arrive, you will be given a slip of paper with a random hot take regarding AI x Humanity. You will rip up the paper, and for the remainder of the night you will represent that hot take, in addition to your own beliefs. The purpose of paper is to provide plausible deniability to make it safer to share your cancellable beliefs, because not every belief you represent will be yours.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Real Time Voice & Conversational AI with React Native
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Come join us for an evening of talks and socializing with your fellow React Native enthusiasts and AI engineers!
The theme for this event is real-time voice and conversational AI, and we'll be demoing some of the best open-source solutions in this space and how to integrate with your React Native/Expo app.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Healthcare x GenAI Lightning Talks
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: An evening of presentations and mingling all about Generative AI in healthcare with the industry's top leaders, plus beverages and light bites.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Delphi Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Come to the Delphi office to meet the team and learn more about the future of digital cloning.
Aug 15th, 2024 - Pioneer Bio/Health Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us for a happy hour with scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors!
Aug 15th, 2024 - GenAI Salon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us for our first ever GenAI Salon, with Shreya Shankar, at our offices on August 15th from 5pm – 8pm. Shreya is going to talk about scaling up your “vibe checks” and evaluating your GenAI models. We’ll follow this up with a discussion of the challenges we’re facing as we deploy our GenAI models in production, and share best practices we’re learning.
Aug 15th, 2024 - GenAI Collective Demo Showcase
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Get ready for the GenAI Collective’s third demo night where we’re turning the dial up to 11! Check out our recap of the last event! 🌟
Join us as we gather the Bay Area’s most brilliant creators for a night of mind-blowing demos that push the boundaries of innovation. From cutting-edge tech to groundbreaking ideas, these 10 showcases will leave you speechless and eager for more! 😮
Aug 17th, 2024 - Founder Face Off: Trivia Night & Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-9pm
What: Calling all startup warriors! Join us for Founder Trivia Night & Happy Hour in SF—where your knowledge of the tech world will either make you a hero or have you Googling answers under the table.
Think you know the year Facebook hit 1 million users or the first company to achieve a $1 billion valuation? Put your startup smarts to the test in a trivia showdown that’ll separate the unicorns from the rest. Bring your co-founders, form a team, and see who can earn the title of the Bay Area’s top trivia whiz.
And hey, if trivia isn’t your thing, there’s always the happy hour—because nothing fuels friendly competition like a little liquid courage. Don’t miss out on a night of laughs, drinks, and the chance to out-nerd your fellow founders!
Aug 20th, 2024 - AI Night @ Github
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Come hang out at GitHub HQ in SF with ~100 builders to see demos of some of the coolest AI applications people are working on.
Spots filled up so fast for our last AI Night (700+ signups 🤯) - we're excited to meet more of you!
Aug 20th, 2024 - BCV Labs AI Roundtable Discussion
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Join Pranav, AI Engineer at BCV, for a technical round-table on the latest in AI research and engineering. We're thrilled to host this event in Palo Alto at our BCV Labs Incubator office in downtown Palo Alto.
Choose an AI topic or research paper that's captured your interest and teach it to the group in 6 minutes or less! Some ideas include the future of non-transformer architectures, agents for enterprise workflows, AI evaluation in high-risk scenarios, or innovative UI designs for LLM apps. The floor is open to any AI-related subject that sparks your interest.
Aug 20th, 2024 - SF Game Development ft Andy Billings
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9pm
What: SF Game Development is thrilled to announce an event featuring industry expert Andy Billings, who will be sharing his insights on mastering your game development framework. Join us for an evening of networking at the iconic DNA Lounge on Tuesday, August 20th, from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear from Andy Billings, who will take the stage at 7:00 pm.
Aug 21st, 2024 - SaaS Unicorn to VC
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 4-6pm
What: How I Raised $288M, Scaled to $200M ARR, and became a VC.
Location: Marin
Time: 6:30-10pm
What: Join Light Dao and our community of conscious entrepreneurs and investors for a salon evening filled with connection, deep conversations, and a fireside chat with Tim Chang and Ruby Yeh, Co-Founder of Light Dao.
Aug 21st, 2024 - AI Live Lab - Optimizing Data Quality for AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Get ready for an exciting panel discussion on the future of AI and data quality! Join us for an insightful session led by Ryan Wexler, Principal at SignalFire, as he moderates a discussion with industry experts on Language Models (LLMs). Following the panel, network with AI Founders/Builders from San Francisco over refreshments. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and connect with leaders in the field.
Aug 22nd, 2024 - Muslim Founders Networking
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5-8pm
What: Get ready to network and meet vetted Muslim founders, investors, and operators at the Muslim Founders Networking Conference hosted by the Young Entrepreneurs Hub 🏝️ and Friday!
Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a fellow founder, or just curious about the future of the Muslim founder ecosystem, this is the place to be.
Aug 22nd, 2024 - Llama Lounge 12 @ Canopy
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: -Organizer: Jeremiah Owyang, Blitzscaling Ventures (X, Linkedin).
-Ten AI Startups on demo floor, networking, food & bev.
Aug 22nd, 2024 - CoS Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Come connect with other CoS in San Francisco for a special night of connection and learning!
When: Thursday August 22 starting at 6:00
What to expect: mingling, 2 lightening talks, and a small group discussion
Location: Financial District. When you RSVP, you will get the location details.
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