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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 #116. Happy Thanksgiving week, hope your week is filled with great friends & family.

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 8000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 10,000 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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Events Coming Up 🎉

Dec 12th, 2024 - Brex SF Holiday Party

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​🎁 Please join us at our Brex SF Tech Holiday Party.

​We will have a holiday-themed space with seasonal cocktails, tasty food, and great conversation with some of SF bay area's biggest movers & shakers in tech.

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Dec 3rd, 2024 - SF Ruby Presents: Ruby&AI December

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-9pm

What: ​Hey, Bay Area builders and tinkerers!

From GitHub and Stripe to Chime and Stackblitz, Ruby powers teams that go HUGE with less.

​Join us as we re-kindle the SF Ruby community's flame! It is a place to meet authors of your favorite open-source and Ruby/Rails core, experienced Rubyists and new converts, entrepreneurs, and, well, people who hire. We meet every month and gradually make new Ruby friends.

Dec 4th, 2024 - Fintech Happy Hour with Astra, Visa, & TWIF

Location: San Mateo

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​Join us for refreshments, lively conversation, and a panel discussion on payments with Ayo Omojola (founding member at Cash App), Justin Zhao (Visa), and Gil Akos (Astra).

Dec 4th, 2024 - SF Demo Night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us as we gather together the entire Bay Area tech community and its most brilliant creators for a night of mind-blowing demos that push the boundaries of what's possible! From cutting-edge tech to groundbreaking ideas, these 10 showcases will leave you speechless and eager for more!! 😮

Dec 4th, 2024 - The New Economics of Customer Service

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: The Intercom Team is thrilled to invite you to an in-person event in San Francisco on December 4th where we’ll unpack the findings of our latest guide: "The New Economics of Customer Service".  

​This isn’t just a data drop – you’ll hear firsthand from Intercom customers who’ve embedded AI into their support strategy and fundamentally shifted their cost structure, efficiency, and team impact. Through their stories, you’ll see how AI has changed the game for them and how it can do the same for you. We'll also have food, beverages, and plenty of time for networking with peers.

Dec 4th, 2024 - Fintech & Women AI Panel

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Jointly organized by ​Women in AI Club, Sardine, and Women in Fintech, this event is a networking platform and an opportunity to dive deep into current trends in fintech and AI, featuring expert insights, interactive discussions, and ample time for socializing!

Dec 4th, 2024 - Developer Bootcamp: Mastering Multi Agent Frameworks

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-9pm

What: ​Join us at the GitHub office for an evening of expert talks, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities with leading professionals in multi-agent system development.

Dec 4th, 2024 - AI For Marketers #21

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us for our AI for monthly Marketers event! Learn how to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence to transform your marketing strategies. Discover how AI-powered tools like ChatGPT, Hugging Face and Midjourney can improve content generation, data-driven marketing, marketing automation, digital marketing, and AI for social media.

Dec 4th, 2024 - AI Leaders Holiday Party

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​Join AI founders & builders at The Table in SF for an exclusive evening featuring a thought-provoking fireside chat over a fine dining experience. Exclusive to 30 AI builders.

Dec 5th, 2024 - Immigrant Founders Networking @ Microsoft Reactor

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​​Get ready to network and meet vetted immigrant founders, investors, and operators at Immigrant Founders Networking hosted by OpenSphere and OWOW

Dec 5th, 2024 - Investing in BioTech + Healthtech

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​Life Science Entrepreneurs presents - Investing In BioTech + HealthTech, an extraordinary event featuring an exclusive investor panel that brings together distinct perspectives:

• ​Sarvesh Karkhanis - Early Stage Investor, Venture Partner at Stealth Fund

• ​Eryka Lehr - Venture Partner at Kidron Capital & Augmented Reality at Google

• ​Juan Cruz - Venture Partner at SF500 & Senior VP of Marketing at Probius

Dec 5th, 2024 - Exclusive AI Founders & VC Dinner

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​We’re hosting an exclusive dinner for funded AI founders at a beautiful Cow-hollow mansion, co-hosted by Mariane Bekker from Founders Bay, Rabadi Real Estate, and TheAgentic. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet fellow AI founders and investors and learn about the cutting-edge technologies being developed in the AI space.

Dec 5th, 2024 - Fundraising Ready Workshop By Women in AI Club

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-9pm

What: Join the Women in AI Club for an engaging workshop designed to empower AI entrepreneurs and aspiring founders. This event combines insights on becoming “fundraising ready” with opportunities to meet founders and learn how to build strong, productive partnerships. Collaborate with industry experts, VCs, and fellow AI enthusiasts as we support those shaping the future of AI.

Dec 6th, 2024 - Deep Tech Connections Breakfast

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 8:30-10:30pm

What: ​You are invited!

​Deep Tech Connections is hosting their monthly breakfast networking event on Friday, December 6th from 8:30-10:30am.

​This is an exclusive opportunity to network with key players in the deep tech community, including entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, corporate innovators, and government representatives.

Dec 9th, 2024 - Women in AI Brunch & Coworking Day

Location: San Francisco

Time: 10:30am-5:30pm

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.Brunch & Opening Remarks

Dec 9th, 2024 - AGI at Microsoft

Location: Mountain View

Time: 1-4:30pm

What: ​​Kick off the evening by connecting with leading industry figures, founders, and investors. We’re looking forward to a fantastic night of learning and networking!

Dec 10th, 2024 - Growth Playbook & Data Insights with Puzzle & Carta

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: Join Us on December 10th to learn, connect, and celebrate with Carta & Puzzle ✨

​Let’s wrap up the year in style before the holiday season begins! Join us for an evening packed with learning, meaningful connections, engaging conversations, delicious treats 🍬, and handcrafted cocktails 🍸

Dec 11th, 2024 - -1 to Scale with Alexandr Wang

Location: San Francisco

Time: 2:30-4:30pm

What: ​South Park Commons is delighted to host Alexandr Wang of Scale as part of our -1 to Now series!

Dec 11th, 2024 - HeyGen x GenAI Collective AI Video Gen Hackathon

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-9pm

What: ​​Join us as we gather 60+ of the most prolific hackers in the Bay Area for an exclusive AI video generation hackathon hosted by the one any only GenAI Collective community in partnership with HeyGen! 🚀

​Imagine this: the Bay Area’s sharpest minds gathered under one roof, racing against time to build what the rest of the world hasn’t even dreamed of yet. No limits. No boundaries. Just you, a blank slate, and the tools to create something unforgettable!

Dec 11th, 2024 - MLOps Bay Area Holiday Party

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-10pm

What: ​🎉 Deck the Halls with Shipped Models, Recall curves, Observability, AI Agents, and whatever the heck is part of AI now a days! 🤖✨

​As the year winds down and your shipped models gain traction (🤞 ), we invite you to the ultimate MLOps Community Bay Area Holiday Party! This December, join us for a festive evening that brings together the brightest minds in MLOps, LLMOps, and Generative AI. We're teaming up with some amazing community Partners (TBA) to celebrate the innovations and achievements that have propelled us through the year.

Dec 11th, 2024 - Silicon Valley AI Think Tank: Women in AI

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​We have a very exciting event planned with Four World Class AI presenters lined up for you.

​Theme: Women In AI

​Discover the Future: Gain exclusive insights from AI pioneers on Responsible AI, Personalized AI-powered Workforce Transformation, and creating an Agentic Architecture for AI Executives - Building Custom AI Solutions Without a Massive budget.

Dec 11th, 2024 - ai + health demo night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: ​curious about how new machine learning models are finding their way into clinical workflows, biosensors, and healthtech?

​join us for a series of demos that remove the hype of ai and focus on active solutions being implemented today.

demo spots will be prioritized for those with current traction, and everyone is invited to share during the open mic.

Dec 11th, 2024 - Women Founders Pitch & Showcase

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Join us for an evening of inspiring pitches from up to 10 women founders, each showcasing innovative ideas and solutions. This event brings together women entrepreneurs ready to demo their startups in front of a panel of investors and industry experts, gaining valuable feedback and potential support.

Dec 12th, 2024 - AI Salon & Blue Dot Impact

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​Join us for a special event where the Ai Salon joins with BlueDot Impact for an evening of connection and facilitated discussion around AI's impact on society, AI alignment and AI governance.

​Whether you're a member of BlueDot's AI Safety Fundamentals community, a part of the Ai Salon or simply interested in what AI means for our future — we'd love to have you at this meet up where we'll connect with other Responsible AI enthusiasts.

Dec 12th, 2024 - Women in Tech Meetup X-Mas Party

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​Join Us for the Final Women Tech Meetup of the Year with Fidelity Private Shares! 🎉

​📍 Hosted at the Consulate General of the Netherlands, this year-end celebration promises to be something truly special!

​✨ This time, we’re shining the spotlight on immigrant female founders—their unique journeys, the challenges they face, and the tips every founder needs to know. Being a female founder is tough, but being a female immigrant founder? It’s a whole different level of resilience and determination. Let’s come together to celebrate the incredible hard work immigrants put in to succeed in this country!

Dec 13th, 2024 - Chess Hackathon: Train AI Chess Bots on GPUs

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-11pm

What: Spend 2 days training AI Chess bots on GPUs in SF.

​Mega Chess Hackathon Overview:

​Get hands-on with rapid neural network training using Strong Compute’s Instant SuperComputer (ISC) in our Mega Chess Hackathon!

​Compete over two days to build the best chess-playing AI with access to 48 GPU clusters and explore models, datasets, and hyperparameters.

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