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SF IRL - August 5th, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
August 05, 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 #99.
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 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 8th, 2024 - Brex Fintech SF Founder/Investor Dinner
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30pm
What: You are formally invited to Brex Supper Club SF - Fintech Founder/Investor in San Francisco.
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Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7:30pm
What: The biggest 'AI in HR' event yet from Indeed's Investment Team. 4 startups will be doing live demos to the audience and a special Q&A Panel. Networking and socializing before and after the live demos.
Aug 6th, 2024 - AI Dev Tools Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Welcome to AI Dev Tools Night!
This is going to be an energetic evening filled with great talks and great people.
Aug 6th, 2024 - -1 to Mark Zuckerberg
Location: San Francisco
Time: 1-3pm
What: South Park Commons is excited to host Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, for an exceptional edition of our -1 to Now series! Join Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal, SPC Partners and early Facebook employees, for a fireside chat with Mark to discuss Meta’s journey from Facebook to Llama 3.
Aug 6th, 2024 - Building AI Autopilots that Scale
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Calling all tech folks & startup founders!
We are thrilled to partner with Pylon, Keywordsai & Octolane for an exclusive in-person event in San Francisco.
Seats are limited to keep discussions highly interactive, so book yours now!
What's in it for you?
Learn how to build UX nudges that make your autopilot from good to great
Get actionable insights on how to re-think prompt engineering, from AI generation to User validation
Discover failed and successful tech experiments – learn what works and what doesn't!
Chat with tech people building products their customers can’t stop talking about
Food and drinks on us 🍻
Aug 7th, 2024 - Vector DB & Inference RAG Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Yo! Come on out for an evening of fun and learning with Cloudflare and Weaviate!
🏆 Evening of Fun:
Lightning Talks: Quick educational showcases of Weaviate Vector Database and Cloudflare AI Workers
Hands On: Try out our hands on challenges to win something!
Demo Challenge: Showcase your creativity by combining technologies.
Other fun ways to win prizes!
Aug 7th, 2024 - Founder BBQ @ DraperU
Location: San Mateo
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us at Draper University for an Evening of Sizzling BBQ and Prime Networking!
Come and be part of an exciting evening with the Draper University team and over 50 resident entrepreneurs. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded innovators, investors and enthusiasts, share ideas, and enjoy some delicious BBQ!
Aug 7th, 2024 - RiskCon SF with Oscilar
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9pm
What: You're invited! Join us in San Francisco on August 7
Calling all lending, credit, and risk operators and leaders. We are delighted to invite you to an exclusive happy hour and dinner in San Francisco with facilitated group discussions centered around credit, fraud, and risk management.
We will delve into some key topics shaping our industry, including:
Innovations in fraud/AML detection
How companies are leveraging biometrics
How companies are utilizing alternative data
Aug 7th, 2024 - AI For Good: Community Conversations #2
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7:30pm
What: Join us for an inspiring evening exploring AI's potential to drive positive social change. This monthly series, organized by PolyAgent & Radical Philanthropies (a 501(c)(3) non-profit), brings together innovators, thinkers, and change-makers to discuss AI's role in building a better future.
Aug 7th, 2024 - Startup Program Launch Party by Persona
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: We're excited to invite startups to come join us for our launch party!
If you're a fintech, marketplace, social app, web3 or e-commerce startup, odds are that you require to verify your users' identities.
Come join us for a live AMA session with Persona's CEO Rick Song.
Aug 7th, 2024 - SF Engineers Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Shepherd's Engineering team is rapidly growing and we are excited to welcome fellow nerds to our new, beautiful office in Jackson Square! Join us to meet like-minded builders over pizza and brews. Please RSVP as attendance is limited.
Aug 8th, 2024 - GC Fellows <> SF Founders Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: In order to access the building, please sign up with your legal name and bring a gov-issued ID
Attention interns, college-aged builders, and recent grads!
Are you a student founder building something cool and based out of SF? Come join the GC team and GC fellows to meet other awesome founders looking to change the world from their college campuses and internships.
General Catalyst Fellows is hosting a mixer meet-and-greet with student builders around SF and the Bay! We will be meeting in the GC office on the 20th floor and mingling with GC fellows, aspiring builders, and investors from GC and other places.
Aug 8th, 2024 - ML IRL - Meetup for Machine Learning Engineers
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: A meetup for machine learning engineers to meet and learn from each other. We limit invites to people already working in ML professionally. We love students, but there are already meetups for them.
Aug 8th, 2024 - Google Deepmind’s Gemini Models in Medicine
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5-8pm
What: Application of Large Language Models in medicine is probably among the most impactful developments that could change the lives of billions.
At the same time, it's the most challenging application because it requires advanced reasoning, access to up-to-date medical knowledge, and understanding of complex multimodal data.
Google DeepMind's Gemini models, which have advanced general capabilities, showed strong possibilities in the medical domain.
In this in-person BuzzRobot community meetup, researchers from Google DeepMind will talk about Med-Gemini, a family of capable multimodal models that specialize in medicine.
Aug 8th, 2024 - AI + Marketing Tech Networking Conference
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us for an exclusive AI + Marketing Tech event! This event will feature a dynamic panel discussion with prominent figures from the Marketing tech industry including strategic partners, investors & founders. Hosted by the Young Entrepreneurs Hub 🏝️, Aiify.io, and Silverside AI!
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5-7:30pm
What: Chai AI has taken the AI Consumer world by storm, especially among the Gen Z crowd.
How did 12 brilliant engineers create this AI companion app that's got 1 million daily active users? 🚀💥 We're spilling all the tea! ☕
Aug 11th, 2024 - DeepTech Founders + Investors @ SF Hacker House
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4-8pm
What: Meet founders and builders who you can bounce off ideas, find mentors, and make non-transactional friends to accelerate projects in climate, frontier, bio/health, defense, robotics, energy, hardware, and space verticals. (Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A+ founders, builders, active VCs, family offices, and angel investors)
Aug 12th, 2024 - -1 to Cognition with Scott Wu
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
What: South Park Commons is excited to welcome back Scott Wu, co-founder and CEO of Cognition as well as esteemed SPC alum, for our -1 to Now series!
Event Details
4:30pm Doors Open
5-6pm Discussion with Scott Wu
6-6:30pm Networking
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 - GenAI Collective Research Roundtable
Location: Mountain View
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
What: Building on the incredible momentum of our first two research roundtable events, the GenAI Collective is returning to the South Bay to run it back! 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!! 🚀
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.
Aug 14th, 2024 - How to Ship Products 64% Faster as an AI PM
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Turing has reinvented the product development process by having PMs create prototypes instead of writing lengthy PRDs. This innovative approach has slashed product development time by approximately 64% for midsize enterprise applications (1 month instead of an entire quarter). Learn more about their process in this presentation.
Our Speaker: Char Kwon is the founding PM/Head of Product at Turing and has over a decade of experience in product management.
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! 😮
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