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SF IRL - July 29th, 2024

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

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Jonathan Chang
July 29, 2024

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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 #97.

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 7000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 8,000 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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Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30pm

What: ​You are formally invited to Brex Supper Club SF - Fintech Founder/Investor in San Francisco.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​​Join us for a fireside chat with Guillermo Rauch, founder and CEO of Vercel.

​​This event is intended for immigrant founders and builders in San Francisco.

​​About Vercel: Vercel enables the world to ship the best products. Vercel's Frontend Cloud provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-9pm

What: ​Ava Protocol/Celo Bay Area EigenLayer Ecosystem Meetup

​​Join Ava Protocol and Celo at the Bay Area EigenLayer Ecosystem Meetup. We’re bringing together innovative members of the EigenLayer community to foster connections and collaboration. This event is a unique opportunity to meet with other teams building on EigenLayer, share ideas, and scale partnerships.

July 31st, 2024 - Berkeley LLM Meetup

Location: Berkeley

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: The Berkeley LLM Meetup aims to connect PhD students, faculty, and alumni with people working in or interested in LLMs (in particular systems supporting LLMs) in industry.​​

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: ​In this presentation, we will delve into an innovative application of computer vision for power utility infrastructure inspection. We’ll begin with an overview of Buzz Solutions’ technology, emphasizing the use of computer vision for addressing critical challenges faced by power utility clients. We’ll highlight key challenges we’ve faced in using computer vision in this sector, including a lack of publicly available data and a lack of standards for data capture across utility clients. We’ll then explain how we overcome these challenges using innovative techniques such as generative AI. We will show the result of these techniques by showcasing Buzz Solutions’ PowerAI solution, a vision AI system for powerline inspections and PowerGUARD solution, a vision edge AI system for substation monitoring. Finally, we will share some of the key learnings and insights we’ve gained from applying computer vision in the power industry.

July 31st, 2024 - YPOSF July Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: We’re excited to invite you to our staple July Happy Hour! Join us on Wednesday, July 31st, at Avotoasty in FiDi from 6-8pm for an evening of networking, fun, and relaxation.

Bring your friends and coworkers to meet and mingle with our diverse group of young professionals. This is a great opportunity to expand your network, share experiences, and enjoy a delightful evening together.

July 31st, 2024 - TechWalk Silicon Valley

Location: Mountain View

Time: 6-7pm

What: EVENT UPDATE: Learn more about our Co-Hosts Charlene Wang, CEO & Co-Founder, Ember AI, and Rupa Bhagwat, Product Manager, Parker Hannifin; Silicon Valley Chapter Director, TechWalk.

​We're building a different sort of networking event for members of the Tech and SaaS communities to get outside, meet new people, and enjoy some fresh air, while practicing mindful movement.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: Join us for an inspiration, connection, and storytelling evening as we reunite the Startup Weekend SF AI community. This isn't just another networking event - it's a celebration of your journeys and a chance to reignite the spark that brought us together.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: Poker is intimidating: complicated rules, quick mental math, potentially losing money, and an intense atmosphere.

​So how do you learn?

​We’re curating a group of kick-ass people who want to learn how to play poker in a judgment-free zone.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 6-9pm

What: Businesses everywhere are experimenting with foundational models to find the right balance of value and cost. But how do they find that perfect balance: the right combination of different LLMs, multimodal usage, cost optimization, and more? 

Aug 2nd, 2024 - Wordware Hack Night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-10pm

What: This event is capped so please RSVP to secure your spot. Please only RSVP if you can attend the full event.

Join us for the official launch of Wordware! 🚀A web-hosted IDE where non-technical domain experts work with AI Engineers to build task-specific AI agents.

We're hosting a Hack Night at Workshop, complete with exciting prizes like a Ninebot KickScooter, PS5, and Sonos speakers. Plus, enjoy free pizza and beers! 🍕🍺

Location: San Francisco

Time: 10am-1pm

What: Join us for a wholesome Saturday at the Embarcadero! Thanks to Arden Cove, we’re hosting a get together for solopreneurs and friends to start the day right. We’ll do some pilates followed by meditation, and then hanging out over good company and small bites. 

Aug 3rd, 2024 - ACCELR8 Kick Off Party

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-10pm

What: Get ready to rev your engines and kick off ACCELR8 in style!

​Join us on August 3 at the ACCELR8 House for a night of non-stop fun (in bed by 10pm sharp), excitement, and high-energy vibes (chillhop lofi will be playing).

​Meet the house, bring your favorite AI and Web3 conversations starters, and maybe even get some coding in.

Aug 5th, 2024 - AI Research Reading Paper Group x BCV: AI Avatars, Agents & Social Networks

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​​We (Jacky, Jenny and Chrissy) are hosting an AI Research Paper Reading Group for researchers in academia and folks in industry across various roles like engineering, design, and product working in or interested in AI.

Research Paper Theme: This session will focus on how AI transforms various entertainment industries, including media, gaming, avatars, social media and more.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​This is an in-person event! Registration is required to get in. Github will email you a form the day before the event, which you will need to complete for your access pass. Registration will close 2 days before the event.

​Topic: Connecting your unstructured data with Generative LLMs

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7:30pm

What: The biggest 'AI in HR' event yet from Indeed's Investment Team. 4 startups will be doing live demos to the audience and a special Q&A Panel. Networking and socializing before and after the live demos.

Aug 6th, 2024 - AI Dev Tools Night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Welcome to AI Dev Tools Night!

​This is going to be an energetic evening filled with great talks and great people.

Aug 6th, 2024 - -1 to Mark Zuckerberg

Location: San Francisco

Time: 1-3pm

What: South Park Commons is excited to host Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, for an exceptional edition of our -1 to Now series! Join Ruchi Sanghvi and Aditya Agarwal, SPC Partners and early Facebook employees, for a fireside chat with Mark to discuss Meta’s journey from Facebook to Llama 3.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7:30pm

What: Join us for an inspiring evening exploring AI's potential to drive positive social change. This monthly series, organized by PolyAgent & Radical Philanthropies (a 501(c)(3) non-profit), brings together innovators, thinkers, and change-makers to discuss AI's role in building a better future.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: ​We're excited to invite startups to come join us for our launch party!

​If you're a fintech, marketplace, social app, web3 or e-commerce startup, odds are that you require to verify your users' identities.

​Come join us for a live AMA session with Persona's CEO Rick Song.

Aug 7th, 2024 - SF Engineers Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Shepherd's Engineering team is rapidly growing and we are excited to welcome fellow nerds to our new, beautiful office in Jackson Square! Join us to meet like-minded builders over pizza and brews. Please RSVP as attendance is limited.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: In order to access the building, please sign up with your legal name and bring a gov-issued ID

​Attention interns, college-aged builders, and recent grads!​

​Are you a student founder building something cool and based out of SF? Come join the GC team and GC fellows to meet other awesome founders looking to change the world from their college campuses and internships.

​​General Catalyst Fellows is hosting a mixer meet-and-greet with student builders around SF and the Bay! We will be meeting in the GC office on the 20th floor and mingling with GC fellows, aspiring builders, and investors from GC and other places.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: ​​A meetup for machine learning engineers to meet and learn from each other. We limit invites to people already working in ML professionally. We love students, but there are already meetups for them.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 5-8pm

What: Application of Large Language Models in medicine is probably among the most impactful developments that could change the lives of billions.

At the same time, it's the most challenging application because it requires advanced reasoning, access to up-to-date medical knowledge, and understanding of complex multimodal data.

Google DeepMind's Gemini models, which have advanced general capabilities, showed strong possibilities in the medical domain.

In this in-person BuzzRobot community meetup, researchers from Google DeepMind will talk about Med-Gemini, a family of capable multimodal models that specialize in medicine.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Join us for an exclusive AI + Marketing Tech event! This event will feature a dynamic panel discussion with prominent figures from the Marketing tech industry including strategic partners, investors & founders. Hosted by the Young Entrepreneurs Hub 🏝️, Aiify.io, and Silverside AI!

Aug 9th, 2024 - EntreConnect x ChaiAI Consumer AI Founders & Engineers BBQ Meetup

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 5-7:30pm

What: ​Chai AI has taken the AI Consumer world by storm, especially among the Gen Z crowd.

​How did 12 brilliant engineers create this AI companion app that's got 1 million daily active users? 🚀💥 We're spilling all the tea! ☕

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-6:30pm

What: South Park Commons is excited to welcome back Scott Wu, co-founder and CEO of Cognition as well as esteemed SPC alum, for our -1 to Now series!

Event Details

  • 4:30pm Doors Open

  • 5-6pm Discussion with Scott Wu

  • 6-6:30pm Networking

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