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 #68.

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Events Coming Up 🎉

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Jan 9th, 2024 - Women in Tech w Brex & Puzzle Sushi & Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7:30-9:30pm

What: ​​This isn't your typical happy hour; our goal is to make space for meaningful connections amidst the craziness of starting a new cohort and welcoming the new year. This will be a highly curated group of female founders, operators, and VCs, and there will be flowing 🥂, 🍣, and conversation starters. You'll leave with new friends, business connections, and new thoughts on how to hit that next level of personal or company growth.

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Jan 8th, 2024 - AI in Healthcare @ JPM

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: You are invited to attend this information and networking event at the 2024 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. Along with a curated selection of innovative companies in the field, see around the corner for what comes next. You will have the chance to explore and interact with some of the most promising start-up companies who are developing cutting-edge AI technologies for healthcare applications. Join us and other MIT alumni on January 8th, 2024 as a wrap-up to day one of the JPM conference.

Jan 8th, 2024 - The Room Podcast x Healthcare Community Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Join The Room Podcast for an evening alongside top healthcare investors and founders spanning across key areas of digital health, fem tech, and bio tech innovation. With the backdrop of JP Morgan Healthcare Conference 2024 in San Francisco this week, come meet our community of healthcare professionals, founders, investors, and more, no conference registration needed!

Jan 8th, 2024 - AI Art & GenAI Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-9pm

What: Come chat with other people in the space about Generative AI and AI Art!

Jan 9th, 2024 - Bits&Bio JPM Reception

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​Come meet with old and new friends at the BitsinBio Reception happening during JPM/Healthcare Week in San Francisco.

Jan 9th, 2024 - Tau Ventures Annual Health AI Event

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7pm

What: ​JPM is by many measures the largest healthcare event in the world and we host an annual networking in San Francisco around it.

​Like in the past year we are capping at 150 attendees, and expecting a mix of entrepreneurs, partners, and investors. By attending, you agree to be recorded and to avoid coming if you are sick. The exact location will be visible to those pre-registering here.

Jan 9th, 2024 - The AI Hustle Founder & VC Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​Calling all AI founders in San Francisco! 🧠 Join us for an evening of networking, learning, and fun as we connect with fellow founders, explore fundraising strategies, and discover the latest advancements in AI. 📈

​Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting your AI journey, this event is for you. 💯 We'll have plenty of opportunities to mingle with like-minded individuals and get insights into the ever-evolving AI landscape. 🚀

Jan 9th, 2024 - All I Want is $100B to Fight Climate Change

Location: Menlo Park

Time: 6-8pm

What: Start the new year with a radical dose of climate optimism! We’re kicking off 2024 with a lively discussion among a panel of experts who will debate how they would spend $100 billion to fight climate change. What startups, innovative technology or policy initiatives would they invest in?

Jan 10th, 2024 - DeSci Meetup at JPM

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-7pm

What: What if we could crowdfund all biomedical research? How can we enable research funding for neglected diseases? How can we fill in the gaps left by federal grants with crypto and blockchains? These are some of the central questions for the growing field of decentralized science and intellectual property non-fungible tokens, being developed at Molecule.

​Let’s explore answers to these questions together in this open event. Join us at the Fifty Years HQ in San Francisco for an evening of food and conversation with a community of scientists, blockchain devs, and biotech VCs.

Jan 10th, 2024 - Zig Meetup @ Bun HQ

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: The Bun team is hosting a Zig meetup at our (new!) office in San Francisco. Bun is a fast, all-in-one JavaScript runtime, and is mostly written in Zig. https://bun.sh/ Join us to chat with fellow members of the Zig community. Jarred Sumner, the creator of Bun, will also give a talk on how we use Zig.

Jan 11th, 2024 - Building & Scaling Climatech Ventures

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​Join us on January 11th to expore the vital role of climate tech, how to scale your climate tech startup, sustainable investing, and the journey towards a greener future!

​The event will feature a dynamic panel discussion with founders and investors in the climate tech space, an audience Q&A sessions, and networking opportunities.

Jan 11th, 2024 - AI in Healthcare @ JPM

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Join us on January 11th to expore the vital role of climate tech, how to scale your climate tech startup, sustainable investing, and the journey towards a greener future!

​The event will feature a dynamic panel discussion with founders and investors in the climate tech space, an audience Q&A sessions, and networking opportunities.

Jan 11th, 2024 - Demo Day: Techstars Future of EComm & Techstars Oakland

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7pm

What: ​Join us for an evening of live pitches from our 12 Techstars Future of Ecommerce powered by eBay companies followed by refreshments & networking.

Jan 11th, 2024 - GenAI Collective x DataStax AI Enablers Summit

Location: Santa Clara

Time: 6-9pm

What: We are thrilled to partner with DataStax to invite you to a unique event centered around lively discussion and enabling AGI through massively scalable database systems! 🥞 Take this opportunity to expand your knowledge and connections in the AI field, and be part of a special evening centered around the world’s most transformative innovation.

Jan 11th, 2024 - GenAI in Cybersecurity Networking

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: Every 11 seconds, a business is hit with a cyber attack, while some enterprises are attacked 4,000 times per day.

​As a result, the cyber security space has seen rapid growth in the last decade, especially in the form of tools that provide precise visibility into all the activity inside a corporate network.

​Security analysts, incident responders and hunters sift through terabytes of data on a daily basis trying to keep the threat actors at bay.

​With all this data, the space is ripe for disruption via generative AI solutions to still manual workflows in the space.

​Come join us in a casual networking event of likeminded professionals who either work in cyber security, or are interested in the space, to chat about generative AI in the world of cyber security.

Jan 14th, 2024 - AI x Humane Technology

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1-4pm

What: ​This AI Salon event invites you to an intimate conversation between participants as we delve into questions like:

​What are the essential characteristics that make an AI product 'humane'? What are potential harms of 'inhumane' products? How can we increase public awareness and understanding of these issues?

​What are some existing examples of AI being used in particularly humane or inhumane ways? What can we learn from these cases?

Jan 15th, 2024 - AI for Sales & Marketing Founders

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-6pm

What: We are Open Future Forum. We are leaders, investors, founders and engineers based in the Bay Area CA.

Details: Networking, Drinks, and AI and ChatGPT conversations.

Jan 15th, 2024 - hardware happy hour at studio45

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: Join us post ces to kick off 2024 in the bay area with different hardware communities!

​we'll have food + drink for happy hour style mix and mingle.

​also, all hardware demos welcome. bring any products or prototypes to the studio.

Jan 16th, 2024 - Unstructured Data Meetup SF

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What:

​5:30 - 6:30 - Welcome/Networking/Registration
6:35 - 7:00 - Jack Retterer, DevRel, Unstructured.io
7:05 - 7:30 - Christy Bergman, Developer Advocate, Zilliz
7:35 - 8:00 - George Williams, Organizer, Big-ANN NeurIPS 2023
8:00 - 8:30 - Networking

Jan 16th, 2024 - SF Game Development ft Indie Game Developers

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: SF Game Development is excited to host talks from three indie game developers that are members of our community at DNA Lounge on Tuesday, January 16th from 5:30pm-9:00pm.

Jan 17th, 2024 - VC + Tech Mega 2024 Mixer

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: We're bringing together some of the most thoughtful and kind people we know in SF!

​No sponsors, and no sales pitch...

​just real people, sharing a drink and some great conversation!

​Take a break from the blue light of your screen, and spend an hour or two meeting some of the most creative, and kind people in we know!

Jan 18th, 2024 - modal on the west coast

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: your favorite nyc startup is visiting SF!! come hang out with the team, including our founders Erik and Akshat (they are friendlier than they look in the photo ✨)

​activities:

• ​5:30-6:15pm: live office hours with the founders — bring your laptops for some in-person Modal support :)

• ​6:15-6:30pm: a couple demos of our latest features

• ​6:30-8:30pm: hang out 🍹🌮

Jan 18th, 2024 - Thursday Nights in AI

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Join us for a special edition of Thursday Nights in AI where we chat with three open-source leaders building in AI: Harrison Chase of LangChain, Brian S. Raymond of Unstructured.io, and Anton Troynikov of Chroma.

Jan 18th, 2024 - -1 to Instacart with Apoorva Mehta

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7pm

What: ​South Park Commons is delighted to host Apoorva Mehta, founder of Instacart, as part of our -1 to Now series! Please join us to hear how the San Francisco-based grocery delivery company has grown to be worth billions. 

​Event Details

• ​5:00pm Doors Open

• ​5:30-6:30pm Discussion with Apoorva Mehta

• ​6:30-7:00pm Networking

• ​​Open to members, alums, and guests of SPC.

Jan 18th, 2024 - Transamerica Pyramid Welcomes AI Founders

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-9pm

What: ​Join us to experience the newly redesigned lobby of the Transamerica Pyramid in the heart of San Francisco. 



Learn about the role of AI in shaping the future of technology and the rise of San Francisco's Pyramid District.

​Agenda:

• ​5:00 PM: Doors Open (invite-only, ID required).

• ​6:00 PM: Keynote: Blitzscaling co-author, Chris Yeh.

• ​6:15 PM: Welcome remarks: Michael SHVO, owner.

• ​6:30 PM: Book signing, networking mixer, and cocktails.

Jan 18th, 2024 - Kamp Founder Fest

Location: San Francisco

What: Founder Fest is held at a private bar/club buyout with startup/vc panels, music, food and drinks. It's like a startup event meets nighttime party - cool, casual, informative and fun.

Jan 18th, 2024 - The Product Folks SF Jan Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: 🎉 The Product Folks are back with our first event of 2024! This time we will be hosting a panel discussion on Product Management & Content Creation.

​We will be interviewing some bloggers, writers and podcasters in the Product space and address some interesting topics such as:

• ​Industry & Market

• ​Opportunity

• ​Challenges, &

• ​How to get started

Jan 19th, 2024 - Silicon Valley Bootstrappers Breakfast

Location: Mountain View

Time: 9-10:30am

What: Come join entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast®. At a Bootstrappers Breakfast® we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit: this is for founders who are actively bootstrapping a startup.

The other attendees will all be in startups. It will be a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. Now in our 14th year in Silicon Valley.

Jan 19th, 2024 - GenAI East Bay Happy Hour

Location: Pleasanton

Time: 5-6pm

What: GenAI Happy Hour in Pleasanton.

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