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SF IRL - Jan 22nd, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
January 22, 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 #70.
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 2 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 5000+ 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!
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Jan 31st, 2024 - Brex Supper Club SF For Seed Founders
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30pm
What: For founders who recently raised their seed round, 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.
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Jan 23rd, 2024 - From Silver Screens to Startups
Location: Menlo Park
Time: 6:30-8pm
What: Pear VC is thrilled to continue our Speaker Series with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Former CEO, Disney Founder, Dreamworks Studio. The Pear VC Speaker Series is inclusive of prominent tech leaders and their insights on effective leadership, entrepreneurship, and lessons learned throughout their careers.
Jan 23rd, 2024 - Finding Balance in 2024
Location: Mountain View
Time: 4-5pm
What: They say too much of a good thing can be wonderful. But even wonder has its limits before it tips into overwhelm. As we embark on a new year, please join us for a lively discussion on achieving greater work-life balance in 2024.
In this session, we’ll cover topics such as:
Defining what balance means to you
Tips for those married to their jobs
Ideas for those betrothed to their hobbies
Mapping your wheel of life goals for the year ahead
Jan 23rd, 2024 - Wing AI Learn + Network
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Join your fellow founders, builders, and AI-first enthusiasts for a chance to hear from Pinecone founder Edo Liberty and Notion COO Akshay Kothari in an exclusive conversation moderated by Wing founder Peter Wagner.
This event is hosted by Wing, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in AI-first businesses at every layer of the technology stack.
Jan 23rd, 2024 - Tech Talks SF
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Cloudflare, Jam & Twilio are hosting Tech Talks!
Spots filled up so fast for our first Tech Talks last month (300+ signups 🤯) - we're really excited to hang out with more of you!
Kick off 2024 with 80+ engineers to learn from each other, and discover new ways of doing things.
Expect lightning talks about engineering at scale - no demos or sales pitches, just technical talks.
Jan 23rd, 2024 - Bay Data Club Happy Hour
Location: Campbell
Time: 7-9pm
What: The Bay Data Club is South Bay's first data meetup group. We host fun, community oriented events designed to encourage learning, connection, and, most importantly, good times.
Jan 23rd, 2024 - Local Open-source AI Developer Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-10pm
What: Kicking off the new year with another gathering of developers working on open-source LLMs and local tooling.
Come hangout with the creators and developers behind many of the popular open-source tooling, including
Jan 24th, 2024 - AI VC Pitch Night
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Pitch to AI Investors in Palo Alto
Jan 24th, 2024 - Don’t Be Artificially Intelligent About AI
Location: San Francisco
What: Clarity is hosting an in-person, salon-style event in San Francisco with leading AI and communications experts to discuss AI's impact on brand perception.
Jan 25th, 2024 - Convex Developers & Founders Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: Join the Convex team, developers, and founders from SF for an afternoon happy hour with drinks, snacks, and limited-edition swag.
Jan 25th, 2024 - Mastercard x Women in Fintech: Empowering Tomorrow, A Conversation on Breaking Barriers in Fintech
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Come join us for a conversation on breaking barriers in FinTech!
Jan 25th, 2024 - Data Infra Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3:30-8pm
What: Join leading data infrastructure experts on January 25th, 2024 for the Data Infra Meetup hosted by Alluxio & Uber! This is a premier opportunity to connect with developers and researchers pushing the boundaries of data infrastructure.
This hybrid meetup will be held in Uber Sunnyvale office and *live-streamed. You will hear talks by technical leaders from Uber, ByteDance, CMU, and Alluxio. Speakers will share insights and real-world examples about optimizing data pipelines, accelerating queries, designing scalable architectures, and more.
Jan 25th, 2024 - Attention Alternative & Scaling Context Windows
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Recently, there has been substantial interest in ways to further scale LLM context windows by getting around the quadratic scaling of attention, such as Mamba, Striped Hyena, State Space Models, and Monarch Mixer.
Come join us for an evening where we will discuss this emerging line of research.
We will kick things off with presentations by some of the leading researchers exploring attention alternatives and sub-quadratic scaling of attention windows, and then we'll have an open happy hour.
Jan 25th 2024 - Mid Peninsula Climate Happy Hour
Location: San Carlos
Time: 6-9pm
What: 2nd Mid Peninsula Climate Happy Hour
🕕 When Thur 1/25, 6-9pm (+monthly)
📍 Where Molly Os, San Carlos (teen/train friendly)
All climate fixers, domains are welcomed!
Socialize, Eat, Drink, Partner.
😉 Bring friends!
🌎 Engage an interest group / domain / company
📬 Repost on LinkedIn/Social in SF Bay, relevant channels
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Jan 25th, 2024 - MLOps Community x GenAI Collective Tech Talk
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: 🤩🚀 Zoom into 2024 with the MLOps Community and GenAI Collective as we host our FIRST EVER meetup collab! 🚀🤩
Join us for an inspiring evening where you, the community, of AI practitioners, tech enthusiasts, and innovators share their 2023 tech adventures and vision for 2024 in brief, impactful talks. These will be followed by break-out sessions and plenty of opportunities to talk about the challenges and share hard-earned insights. See you there! 😄
Jan 26th, 2024 - Fintech AI Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5pm
What: Hack, build, ship the future of finance at MindsDB's first hackathon of the year. Harness the power of AI to tackle pressing challenges in the finance industry. Whether it's enhancing customer experiences, optimizing trading strategies, or revolutionizing fraud detection, your solutions can shape the future of finance.
Jan 27th, 2024 - Founders 0-1: How to Build a Unicorn Startup
Location: Mountain View
Time: 3-5pm
What: Join us to delve into startup entrepreneurship and learn how to navigate the challenging journey from zero to one. We have an exciting lineup of topics spearheaded by experienced startup founders and industry leaders:
Topics:
Finding and Evaluating Startup Ideas: Uncover the secrets to discovering and scrutinizing ideas that have the potential to grow into successful startups.
Building an MVP and Achieving Product-Market Fit: Gain insights into developing a Minimum Viable Product and strategies to ensure your product meets market needs.
Mastering Sales Techniques: Learn from the experts about effective sales strategies that are key to the growth and success of a startup.
Jan 27th, 2024 - LLM & Vector Search Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-10pm
What: Theme: Creative use of LLM with MongoDB Vector Search (Semantic Search, RAG, Developer Tools, Agents) * Description: With semantic search, RAG, code and image generation, there are many ways to build your next app. And soon there will be an agent marketplace so you can monetize your ideas, big and small. Join MongoDB and partners for a day of learning, coding and prizes. Who knows, maybe your app will be the next big thing!
Jan 27th, 2024 - Founders Running Club
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9:30-11:30am
What: We'll run 5 or 10km at your conversational pace. We'll have 2 or 3 pacers. You can run at your own pace as well, especially if there's someone who runs with you at the same pace and with approximately the same effort. After the run, we will head for coffee or brunch somewhere nearby.
Jan 28th, 2024 - UX Hangout & AI Product Testing
Location: Cupertino
Time: 12-1:30pm
What: Meet other UX folks in the Bay Area, this time in South Bay! We're also working on an exciting new AI-powered product to help you improve your interview skills that we'll be sharing here.
Jan 28th, 2024 - Superlinear SF Sunday Run
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.
Jan 28th, 2024 - Accelerate SF Hack Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-10pm
What: Come hack with us on projects to improve SF! We will be focusing on solving problems with transportation and crime in the city. Bring a project to pitch or come ready to hack on new solutions! 5:00 PM - Event starts 5:30 PM - Pitch project ideas 6:00 PM - Build 8:30 PM - Pizza 10:00 PM - Demos
Jan 28th, 2024 - Cybersecurity Mixer Sponsored by YC
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
What: Join fellow cybersecurity founders and practitioners on January 28th for a Cybersecurity Mixer, sponsored by Y Combinator.
Note: Spaces are limited and subject to approval. Please apply early. Priority will be given to YC cybersecurity founders and practitioners.
👋 Networking with fellow cybersecurity founders and practitioners.
🍻 Food and drinks
Jan 28th, 2024 - Bay Area Founders & VC Golf Event
Location: Cupertino
Time: 1:30-3:30pm
What: Bay Area Founders Club Presents:
Learn Golf for FREE with Keith Shiver
Join us for our FREE Golf Event on Sunday, Jan 28, to network with like-minded founders and VCs from the Bay Area Founders Club community!
Jan 28th, 2024 - Inception Cohort 8 Demo Day
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 4-7pm
What: Demo Day for Inception’s 8th cohort.
Jan 29th, 2024 - AI User Conference
Time: 7am-5pm
What: Unlock your potential at the AI User Conference 2024, a three-day conference in San Francisco from January 29th to 31st. Whether you're a Marketer, Designer, Developer, or simply passionate about advancing your career in Generative AI, this conference is designed for you. Attend one day or all three—it's your choice! We're offering practical workshops, interactive sessions, and the latest updates on cutting-edge AI tools. Network with top executive speakers from industry leaders like Adobe, Notion, Canva, Github, Hugging Face, IBM, and more. Whether you aim to streamline processes, amplify your creative potential, or explore uncharted horizons, this event has something for you. Don't get left behind in Generative AI – supercharge your AI journey and shape your future at the biggest AI conference in San Francisco – Sign up today!
Jan 30th, 2024 - GenAI Collective Inaugural Marin Meetup
Location: San Rafael
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: We are thrilled to invite you to the first ever AI-focused Meetup in Marin - a unique "Unconference" designed to spark discussion and innovation as we foster a vibrant AI community in our wonderful county.
Jan 30th, 2024 - Contrary SF Tech Talk
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: Contrary is excited to host our first SF-based Tech Talk on Tuesday, January 30th — an evening built by and for the most talented engineers in the Bay.
Join our VP of Product Jen Yang-Wong alongside founders and senior leaders from Figma, Stytch, Linear, Replit, and Hex as they demo the latest from their startups in front of an audience of top engineers.
Jan 30th, 2024 - AI Demo Night with Jam.Dev
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Come hang out at GitHub HQ with ~100 builders to see some of the coolest AI applications people are working on in SF.
+ food, drinks, and a good time 🍕🍻
Spots filled up so fast for our last event (300+ signups 🤯) - we're excited to meet more of you! And, to get your perspective on what will be possible with AI in 2024.
Feb 1st, 2024 - Pear Studio SF Grand Opening
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join the Pear Team as we officially open the doors to Pear Studio SF! With 30,000 square feet of space, we're excited to begin to fill the space with founders and entrepreneurs. Come by for a drink, food, and a first look at our bright new Pear Studio space. We hope to see you there!
Please note, our office is in the second brick building, past the parking structure on Owens Street, on the 8th floor. We will have greeters who can assist upon your arrival.
Feb 2nd, 2024 - Women in AI Lunar New Year Gala
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9:30pm
What: Women in AI Club fosters a vibrant community dedicated to empowering, connecting, and elevating women in artificial intelligence. We envision an industry where women are at the forefront of AI innovation, leading groundbreaking discovery and implementation. #WIA
Join Women in AI Club for our biggest event of the year for Lunar New Year, celebrating diversity and women empowerment in the AI space. Enjoy dimsum, open bar, female founder demos, trivia game, gift giveaways, and more!
The evening includes:
Reception (5:30-6:30 pm)
Start-up Demo & Trivia (6:30-7:30 pm)
Social and Dancing (7:30-8:30 pm)
Demo&Trivia Winner Announcement (8:30 pm-9 pm)
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