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SF IRL - Feb 24th, 2025

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

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Jonathan Chang
February 24, 2025

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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 #132.

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 🎉

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: 🚀 AI is Everywhere—But Is It Efficient?

​What if you could supercharge AI on edge and endpoint devices, unlocking next-level performance, efficiency, and reasoning?

​Join us for a deep dive into the next generation of ultra-efficient AI designed for on-device intelligence. This is your chance to gain unfiltered insights from top experts pioneering lightning-fast, scalable AI across millions of devices.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Welcome to the Cline | AI Agent CodeGen Meetup
We're bringing together the innovators in AI code generation for an evening of networking, demos, and good pizza.

Feb 26th, 2025 - YPOSF Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Please join us for our February Happy Hour! We will be hosting our premier networking event at Harper & Rye at 1695 Polk St. from 6 - 8pm. Gather your friends and coworkers and come and meet other young professionals in a relaxed and fun environment!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​Join us to gain unfiltered insights into cutting-edge techniques that power real-time one-step tex-to-video generation, general world models, and autoregressive simulation for real-world robotics applications.

Feb 26th, 2025 - Unstructured Data Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Connecting your unstructured data with Generative LLMs

​​What we’ll do:
Have some food and refreshments. Hear three exciting talks about unstructured data and generative AI.

Feb 26th, 2025 - The Dev Dinner

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: Join us for an intimate dinner in the heart of SF. We’re bringing together some of the city’s best and brightest engineers, technical founders and AI researchers for good food and even better conversation. 

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.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Gusto Co-Founder and CEO Josh Reeves sits down with Jeff Seibert, Co-Founder and CEO of Digits, to share behind-the-scenes challenges, pivotal moments, and valuable lessons learned towards building a category defining company.

Feb 26th, 2025 - Expert Perspectives on LLMs & MultiModal Evaluation

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Dive deep into the cutting edge of AI evaluation at GitHub HQ in San Francisco! This meetup brings together AI developers and practitioners for two in-depth talks from industry experts, covering the latest techniques for evaluating AI applications, including multi-modal systems. Whether you’re working on classifying audio sentiment, evaluating agentic systems, or still figuring out what evaluations are right for your use case, this event offers actionable insights to elevate your work. Enjoy light food, drinks, and the chance to connect with fellow AI professionals.

Feb 26th, 2025 - AI Leaders Chat and Network at Cloudflare

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join Us for an Unparalleled AI Leadership Panel

​Want to learn about what AI Leaders in the industry are thinking about when it comes to their AI Strategy? Join us for an evening discussion panel with prominent leaders in AI and get a sneak peek into how the industry is thinking about these problems while you enjoy some food and beverages!

Feb 27th, 2025 - Apache Iceberg SF Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8:30pm

What: ​We’re partnering with AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Dremio, Greybeam, CelerData and the Apache Iceberg Community to co-host the next Apache Iceberg Community Meetup in San Francisco!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: ​We’re back for the first AI Code Gen + Full-Stack Demo Night at Convex.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​Founderhood is a journey of invisible battles—sleepless nights, isolated decisions, and pressures that rarely fit into pitch decks. Yet in pursuit of growth, these struggles are often dismissed as "the cost of success." Founders’ Inner Circle creates space for what’s overlooked. 

Location: Sunnyvale

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Join us for an inspiring and insightful event where thought leaders and industry experts will discuss cutting-edge strategies to leverage AI for driving growth. Whether you're exploring sales-led growth, product-led growth, or scaling product usage or customer success, this event will provide actionable insights and innovative approaches to help you achieve unparalleled growth.

Feb 28th, 2025 - Hacking Agents Hackathon

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5pm

What: Join DataStax, Cloudflare, Unstructured, Twilio and OpenAI for an epic 24 hour hackathon where we'll be diving into what developers can build with the latest and greatest in AI tooling!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join us for a developer demo night in SF! It's the biggest event we're hosting this year. We (Modal and Mistral) will demo some of our latest product capabilities, and we're also inviting builders in the community to showcase how and why they make use of open-source LLMs.

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