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SF IRL - Feb 26th, 2024

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

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Jonathan Chang
February 26, 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 #75.

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 5500+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 6,000 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!

Events Coming Up 🎉

Applications are now open for Topline - an accelerator program designed to help enterprise startups refine their GTM, get in front of enterprise customers, and boost early revenue traction.

Participants get $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE note, $500,000 + in cloud credits & SaaS software, and unparalleled access to Race Capital’s network of accomplished sales leaders, revenue operators, marketing and growth experts. In addition participants will get mentorship and to pitch customers from JP Morgan, Caterpillar, Morrison Forrester, the NBA, and many other enterprise buyers. 

The deadline to apply is March 31st.

I’ve also been hosting a variety of GP/LP dinners for emerging managers in the Bay Area, if you are an emerging GP or an LP that invests in emerging managers, please fill out this form if you’re interested in getting invited to future GP/LP Dinners that I throw in SF.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30pm

What: ​You are formally invited to a Brex Supper Club - SF Founders.

​Brex Supper Club is an event series we launched, it's private dinners with the goal of building meaningful relationships.  We have hosted these dinners in 15 cities last year and expanded internationally as well this year.

Feb 27th, 2024 - Reconfiy GenAI Demo Night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Join us for an exciting evening of Generative AI demos in San Francisco at Wilson Sonsini!

Generative AI is truly changing our lives and the way we work, and opening up new use cases and opportunities.

See how startups are leveraging LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Mistral, Meta, and more like Bard, ChatGPT, Claude, Command, Llama 2, Gemini - to create compelling new applications and solutions.

This is a great opportunity to see the latest applications of Generative AI from bay area startups.

Join fellow Gen AI enthusiasts as we learn from and share with each other.

Location: Berkeley

Time: 4-6pm

What: Joining us for a fireside chat is the author of 'The Fast Founder: Startup to exit in 36 month', Eric Lam of Recast Ventures. He shares insights from 20 years of entrepreneurship and successful exits.

As always, come out to connect with like-minded founders and funders in a relaxed setting.

Feb 27th, 2024 - NewForm Consumer Dinner

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7pm

What: NewForm.AI dinner for consumer founders and investors with conversations around growth and marketing.

Feb 28th, 2024 - YPOSF February Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: We are thrilled to invite you to our second Networking event of 2024 with San Francisco's famous Square Pie Guys Pizza! Join us for an engaging evening at YPOSF's February Happy Hour and Networking Event, hosted at Square Pie Guys (Ghirardelli Square). This is a great opportunity to mingle, unwind, and connect with like minded young professionals.

📍 Location & Time Details:

  • Venue: Square Pie Guys, 845 Beach St, San Francisco

  • Date: Wednesday, February 28

  • Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Feb 28th, 2024 - AI + Hardware Job Fair

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-9pm

What: ​We've noticed a gap between the Hardware and AI communities, so we wanted to bring them together at the studio.

​Join top companies from across the Bay Area that are hiring full time for different roles. Hear from different teams on what they are looking for to hire across AI and Hardware.

  1. ​If you can make this in person, and are looking for a role, please RSVP to this event.

  2. ​If you are a company hiring and can be here in person, send us an email.

​If you cannot be in person, please check this out out. We'll have a virtual option on 03/02.

Feb 28th, 2024 - AI Night By Vercel

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30pm

What: AI is rapidly changing how businesses operate and interact with their customers.

Enterprises that can quickly adopt emerging technologies and adapt to evolving AI ecosystems will gain a distinct competitive advantage. How can leaders ensure their teams are equipped to harness the power of AI safely and at the pace of innovation?

Join Vercel for an invitation-only thought leadership event:

  • Network with today's preeminent AI developers and practitioners.

  • Learn how leading brands currently leverage AI.

  • Get a glimpse at the future of AI technology built for the enterprise.

Feb 29th, 2024 - Thursday Nights in AI - sxyx

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: Join us for a fireside chat with swyx the Host of Latent Space Podcast & Founder of AI Engineer. About swyx: Swyx has helped Developer Tools cross the chasm at AWS, Two Sigma, and three devtool unicorns - Netlify, Temporal, and most recently as Airbyte.He has started and run communities for hundreds of thousands of developers, like Svelte Society, /r/reactjs, and the React TypeScript Cheatsheet. His blog (https://www.swyx.io/ideas) covers Tech, Careers, and Indie Hacking, and his nontechnical writing was published in the Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior developers.

Feb 29th, 2024 - AGI Builders Meetup SF

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: 👋 We're thrilled to invite you to the first AGI Builders meetup on the leap day of 2024, February 29th.

​❤️ 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.

Feb 29th, 2024 - 112th Hardware Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: Join us at Lumafield for our next speaker style meetup! This event is a unique opportunity to delve into the intersection of AI and mental wellness from different founder perspectives.

​We'll have food and drink and there will be a chance for an open mic. All demos are welcome.

Feb 29th, 2024 - SF Women in Recruiting Fireside Event

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join Talent Collective & 8VC for our women+ in recruiting quarterly fireside chat discussion exploring the dynamic world of recruiting transitions. Learn about the unique aspects of moving from agency to corporate to VC recruiting:

  • ​Agency Recruiting: Dive into the world of variety, commission-based earnings, and rapid networking. Develop sales skills and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

  • ​Corporate Recruiting: Explore the stability of in-house roles, company alignment, and the art of building long-term relationships.

  • ​VC Recruiting: Delve into the strategic impact of recruiting for venture capital. Experience innovation exposure, high stakes, and the challenges of startups.

Feb 29th, 2024 - NoCode Show & Tell

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Do you have a NoCode project that you'd love to show off? Or would you just like to learn a bit more about what you can build with NoCode? Then come along to this small and friendly meetup where we'll learn a bit more together!

​"No-code is a term used to describe a method of creating software, such as websites and apps, using visual drag-and-drop interfaces instead of code. In other words, no-code allows anyone, regardless of their technical ability, to build on the internet." - Makerpad's introduction to NoCode

Feb 29th, 2024 - Llama Lounge Hosted at GenLab - AI Agents

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-9pm

What: Join us for the 8th Llama Lounge, where we'll showcase the AI Startup Ecosystem with a focus on AI Agents. AI Agents operate autonomously to solve user and business problems with minimal human direction. This event will be hosted at GenLab (within Digital Garage) in downtown SF.

Feb 29th, 2024 - Women in Tech Meetup - Fundraising & Startup Growth

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: San Francisco!! Are you planning something special for Feb. 29? It only happens once every four years!

​Join our Women Tech Meetup co-hosted by Puzzle, Gusto, Trellis and OutWeGo to celebrate Leap Year, as it will be another four years before you'll have another chance.

​Enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks, engaging conversations, networking, and a beautiful venue.

​Additionally, we will host a panel discussion on fundraising, venture capital, and the challenges that founders face on their journey to building successful companies, along with strategies to overcome them.

Mar 1st, 2024 - Treasury Demo

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Treasury Demos are informal explorations in spatial computation and technology. Join creators, app builders, infrastructure tech developers, investors and hackers and explorers in spatial computation - including AR/VR/XR/metaverse/VisionPro and more - to see their work demonstrated first hand, and meet peers, collaborators and partners in the emerging spatial computing space.

Mar 1st, 2024 - Play With Gemini 1.5

Location: Mountain View

Time: 5-7pm

What: Gemini 1.5 Pro is Google's latest multimodal model with the ability to run up to 1 million tokens.

​There is much hype but we have yet to understand what it can do.

​With the large context window you could possibly:

  • ​Send in a 1 hour long video and perform highly sophisticated reasoning and tasks on the video

  • ​Query an entire code repository

  • ​Upload multiple files and ask questions

  • ​much more?

Location: San Francisco

Time: 10-11am

What: The Superlinear SF Sunday Run is a place to meet other people working on solving problems that are several orders of magnitude more difficult than the problems typical startups try to tackle.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1-4pm

What: ​As humanity reaches towards the stars, the role of artificial intelligence in space exploration is becoming increasingly crucial. AI has the potential to revolutionize how we explore and understand the cosmos, from autonomous spacecraft navigation to analyzing vast amounts of astronomical data to discover exoplanets.

Mar 4th, 2024 - Prototyping on Replit

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Transform your ideas into tangible software solutions. Join us for an exclusive workshop designed to empower innovators of all disciplines.

​Whether you're an engineer, product manager, or designer, you'll walk away with fresh ideas about how you can take your prototyping to the next level, collaborate better with your team, and turn your concepts into reality. Some topics you can expect to see covered are:

  • ​Concept experimentation with infinite computers

  • ​Rapid iteration

  • ​Integrating tools like TLDraw and Figma

  • ​Effortless deployments

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:45-9:45pm

What: Founders, Funders & Friends! On behalf of the Patron team, we're excited to invite you to join us for a private screening of Dune: Part Two. The hotly anticipated movie event of the year, is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

​Patron leads seed rounds across consumer & gaming startups. A space we call the Spectrum of Play. Learn more about us at https://patron.xyz/

​​​5:45pm Doors Open. Join us in the theatre for drinks, popcorn and friendly catch ups.

​​​6:15pm Movie Begins

Mar 5th, 2024 - AI Papers & Wine

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-9pm

What: This is your chance to be one of the first to try GoatStack's new AI agent that reads 4000+ research papers daily and sends you personalized insights. We'll be giving demos of how it works and how customized AI research summaries can be delivered to your inbox daily.

​Whether you're an AI academic, engineer, entrepreneur, or just curious, meet others passionate about AI. Everyone who attends will get one month of GoatStack Premium for FREE to start receiving daily AI research summaries personalized to your interests. Stay on top of the latest innovations without reading every new paper yourself.

Mar 6th, 2024 - Vision Pro Residency Demo Day

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: For the past 4 weeks, Founders, Inc. has opened up the Lab in Fort Mason to 30 of SF's top developers as part of the Vision Pro Residency. Together, they've learned the ins and outs of building for this powerful new hardware. Now, we're coming together to see what they've created and celebrate their hard work.

​Join us for an evening of incredible demos, and meet the best builders in the XR space.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-5om

What: What we’ll do:
Have some food and refreshments. Livestream the WiDS Stanford Conference. Hear outstanding women discuss their work in Data Science, AI, and related fields. Stay as long, or little, as you like! Network with local tech women! Get inspired!

​8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome/Networking/Registration
9:00 - 12:15 - Live stream the conference
12:15 - 1:35 - Lunch break with guest speaker Gabriela de Queiroz, Director of AI, Microsoft
1:35 - 4:40 - Live stream the conference
4:40 - 6:00 - Networking

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-6:30pm

What: Join Furqan Rydhan and Greg Isenberg for a fireside chat on using community to build profitable internet empires. Topics will include studios as the future of startups, community-driven growth, reddit, how to think about 2024, and plenty of other hot takes.

​​There will be time for Q&A, as well as socializing before the conversation.

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