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SF IRL - July 8th, 2024

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

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Jonathan Chang
July 08, 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 #94,

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: 11am-1:30pm

What: Jonathan and David text each other every other week to say "You should absolutely meet this person". When you work as a community builder, you meet incredible people through your work, and you end up making friends along the way. This is why we've decided to join forces and create a space for both of our networks (and friends) to meet each other!

 Join us for delicious food, great company, and summer vibes, while also meeting other humans that happen to be founders, investors, and key startup players in the community. We'll be firing up the grill at a location to be announced soon, so stay tuned for more details. Bring your appetite and your best party spirit – we can't wait to see you there!

 About the hosts:

Jonathan is the founder of SF IRL, a newsletter that collects the best events happening in the city and keeps you up to date with everything you need to know about the SF tech scene.

David has been in startup ecosystem roles in San Francisco for over a decade, including building community for underrepresented founders and curating experiences for YC founders. 

Both of us really care about meeting people genuinely and building professional relationships that matter, and we can't wait for all of you to meet each other!

July 9th, 2024 - AI Hack Night at Github

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-9pm

What: Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at GitHub! We've got four excellent companies joining us for this Hack Night, and it's going to be super fun!

  • ​Weaviate

  • ​MotherDuck

  • ​Unstructured

  • ​Warp.dev

​If this sounds like a fun night to you, don't miss the chance to secure your spot 😎

July 9th, 2024 - Consumer & Culture SF

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What:​Impact millions, change culture.

​There's something special about consumer founders. 
There's something special about building for millions of people. 
There's something special about changing culture.

​And that special something needs to be preserved and celebrated, IRL!

​Patron & Intuition are delighted to gather founders in SF and spend an evening with folks who share the same delusional love for consumer 💖

July 10th, 2024 - Jumping into Python

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Join us at Airbyte as we host the local Python Meetup.

AGENDA
6:30p Reconnect with friends!
7:00p Opening remarks, sponsors acknowledgement
7:10p Scheduled talks and Q&A + networking break
8:30p Wrap up last talk, more networking

July 10th, 2024 - Rooftop Hack Night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Come hang out on the rooftop for an evening of food, fun, and networking with likeminded developers!

​Check out our Lightning talks.

​Try a prompt engineering challenge with Tabnine.

​Participate in our raffle for a chance to take home something awesome.

July 10th, 2024 - Intercom AI Conference

Location: San Francisco

Time: 8:15am

What: At Intercom, we believe that the new way to deliver best-in-class customer support is through an AI-first approach. 

Following the launch of our new release, Fin AI Copilot, your agents' personal assistant, we’re hosting local CS leaders at our San Francisco office featuring product experts and customers to discuss the future of customer support.

 What can you expect?

  • Learn how being AI-first can maximize team productivity, improve agent efficiency by 31% and resolve tickets 50% faster.

  • Insights from our Senior Director of Product Marketing, Kyle Rocco, and a product demo introducing our newest launch, Fin AI Copilot.

  • Learnings and successes from our customer AppFolio by incorporating AI into their support strategy.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join the GenAI Collective and a host of AI professionals from diverse communities, including the Black, Latinx, Asian, and LGBTQ+ communities! 🙌

​Listen to guest speakers and panelists discuss how they are using AI in the job market, developing AI tools and programs that promote inclusion, and how AI and inclusion benefits everyone. 🤝

​Come ready to eat, drink, converse, and network with professionals who have a passion for diversity, inclusion, and AI! 🤩

July 12th, 2024 - Proof Of Concept

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: Friends, Californians, countrymen, countrywomen, (lightly) lend us your livers 🤪

​Elliot and Allister are embarking on a fun, new project - the future of finely crafted, science-based beverages (alcoholic and eventually, nonalcoholic, alike).

To commemorate the occasion, we'd be honored with your fine company and conversation over an early *batch tasting.

July 12th, 2024 - Qualcomm Developer Trial

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-6pm

What: Are you looking to explore one of Qualcomm Technologies' newest products? Are you looking to network with their team? Or are you a developer that loves to build?

​​Join the Qualcomm Developer Trial hosted in collaboration with the San Francisco AI Meetup Group. You will get the opportunity to experiment with Qualcomm Technologies' latest IoT platform and Qualcomm Linux. You will then come back two weeks later to discuss your experience and share insights.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Interested how to go beyond simple RAG, with fine tuning of embeddings, hybrid search, rerankers, RAG Evaluation with LLM-as-a-judge and how to develop more advanced agentic RAG systems and move from prototypes to production systems? Join us for this meetup with talks by Zeta Alpha engineers and bring your own demo to show off. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Location: Mountain View

Time: 5-7pm

What: 5:00 to 5:30 pm Welcome

​​5:30 to 5:40 pm Magic Moments

​​5:40 to 6:30 pm Let's compare Gemini 1.5 to Claude 3.5 to GPT 4o!

​​6:30 to 7:00 pm Networking

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-6pm

What: ​Are you looking to learn more about Qualcomm Technologies? Are you looking to learn more about what the team is building in the AI space? Or are you looking to connect with members within the SF AI space?

​The San Francisco AI Meetup Group is hosting an upcoming Developer Networking Event sponsored by Qualcomm. This event is limited to 200 people. RSVP now before it's too late. 

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-5pm

What: ​In the ever-evolving landscape of founder professional development, success has become synonymous with emotional intelligence, stress management, and the ability to foster a positive mindset. This retreat focuses on unlocking the secrets of relaxed and effective entrepreneurship through the integration of sound and somatic practices.

​Entrepreneurship can be incredibly rewarding, but it often comes with significant stress and pressure. As founders, we need tools that help us manage our well-being while effectively supporting and inspiring our teams and communities.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: ​Join Indeed and Codi for a fireside chat with the Chris Bakke, repeat entrepreneur, founder, investor, and Internet Personality. Chris co-founded Laskie (acquired by X/Twitter), Interviewed.com (acquired by Indeed), and was COO of 42Floors.

Chris has excellent insights on raising money in the HR Tech Space, the globalization of work, working with Strategics (like Indeed.com), and lessons learned.

Come hear him share his thoughts and see some Future-of-Work demos from founders.

July 16th, 2024 - Unstructured Data Meetup

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

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

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Join us on July 17th for our Founders and Funders AI event live in San Francisco with C.C. Gong. Hear from both the founder and investor perspective and gaininsights on the current AI market from both sides of the table.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​We’re extremely excited to bring our living room discussions 🏡 series back to SF with a twist! In addition to an unparalleled opportunity for rich discussion about Generative AI and forming deep connections, attendees will be interacting with the latest AI video generation technology. 🎞️

​At the event, we will showcase Runway 3 in a game of “Guess the Prompt”. Attendees will be shown a 20 second video, then be given four prompts to guess which prompt produced the video. The winner gets a prize! 🏆

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-8pm

What: An Invite-only Meetup for AI Founders & Practitioners.

Welcome to Accel's first Indian Diaspora Meetup in the San Francisco Bay Area!

We’re excited about the global opportunity that AI represents and are looking to build the US-India corridor for innovation with Indian Diaspora founders and practitioners in the SF Bay Area.

Limited seating available. Please RSVP to get approved to join us at our Accel, SF City office for the event.

July 20th, 2024 - AI Agents 2.0 Hackathon

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am

What: ​Attention Gen AI developers and hackers! We're thrilled to invite you to the era of Agents 2.0 - reliable, observable & safe agents 🔥

​Join us for a two-day long AI hackathon hosted by MultiOn & AgentOps to discover what is now possible using Agents and build the future of AI!

​This event is co-hosted with Founders Bay.

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