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SF IRL - June 17th, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
June 17, 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 #91.
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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June 20th, 2024 - Inkle x Brex: Founder Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7:30pm
What: Join us for a Founder Mixer in downtown San Francisco!
Hosted by Inkle & Brex, this event is your chance to network and connect with some of the most innovative founders in the Bay area.
Whether you're looking to share insights or simply enjoy networking over some great food & drink, this is the perfect setting for you.
June 20th, 2024 - LGBTQ+ Awareness Month Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7:30pm
What: You are cordially invited to LGBTQ+ Awareness Month Mixer in SF hosted by our LGBTQ+ Community #kaleidoscope.
The driving force behind founding Kaleidoscope is to create an inclusive environment where people can be authentic and proud of their accomplishments!
Brex invites you to join us in recognizing and celebrating the incredible contributions and perseverance of the LGBTQ+ community in SF!
For Founders Get $2.5k in OpenAI Credits & other rewards by signing up with Brex(Use jchang as referral)
June 18th, 2024 - YogAI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4-6:30pm
What: Take a Break from AI Meetups: Join Us for Yoga on the Cloudflare rooftop!
Hey fellow AI and tech enthusiasts!
We're excited to invite you to a unique gathering that's not about AI, blockchain, or the latest startup trends. Instead, we want to bring the San Francisco Bay Area tech community together around something that brings us all closer - our health and wellness.
So let's take a break from code or building our businesses and connect through movement and intention. Join us for a yoga session designed specifically for the tech community!
June 18th, 2024 - Tech Meets Health: Innovating for a Better Tomorrow
Location: San Mateo
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Calling all HealthTech Gamechangers: Launchpad Your Success in Singapore!
Are you a HealthTech Startup Founder or a HealthTech VC on a mission to revolutionize healthcare or a Professional looking for opportunities in Healthcare?
This is your exclusive invitation to unlock the potential of the Singapore public healthcare ecosystem!
June 18th, 2024 - SF Platform Meetup: June 2024
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: We're bringing the SF Platform community together once again! RSVP today to secure your spot — you won't want to miss this one.
Following April's inaugural meetup, SF Platform will meet again Tuesday, June 18th for an evening of platform engineering conversations, drinks, and networking. We'll kick off the night with talks from two notable voices in the platform scene: Samantha Steele, tech lead for Figma's database team, and James Cowling, co-founder and CTO of Convex. After, we'll keep the conversations going over a happy hour with light refreshments.
June 19th, 2024 - GrabChai: South Bay’s Craziest Product Meetup
Location: San Jose
Time: 7-10pm
What: 📣 Exclusive Invitation 📣
🗓️ When? Wednesday, 19th June
🕓 Time? 7-10 PM
📍 Venue: San Jose [Exclusive Location]
Hey all you game-changers, innovation drivers, and product maestros! You're invited to GrabChai, powered by The Product Folks! Take a break from your roadmaps and backlogs to relax, connect, and have a great time.
June 20th, 2024 - Sound & Somatics for People Professionals
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us for an immersive and insightful workshop exploring the powerful intersection of sound and somatics through the lens of Olo.
June 20th, 2024 - Extending Your Data Platform
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us for a vibrant evening dedicated to best practices related to data extensibility.
This meetup is for engineers passionate about the various ways they can extend their Data Platform, including Enterprise and AI use cases. Whether you're a developer, a product manager, or simply a data enthusiast, come to network and hear insights from the teams behind Airbyte, Teradata, and Vectara.
June 20th, 2024 - Women in Tech Meetup w/Fidelity Private Shares
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: San Francisco!! Calling all female founders—pre-seed, seed, and Series A—to join our next Women in Tech Meetup w/Fidelity Private Shares on June 20th 💥
June 20th, 2024 - CoS SF Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Come connect with other CoS in San Francisco for a special night of connection and learning!
When: Thursday June 20 starting at 6:00
What to expect: mingling, 2 lightening talks, and a small group discussion
Location: Financial District. When you RSVP, you will get the location details.
June 21st, 2024 - PreConfig Designer Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7:30pm
What: Join Studio Design and Design Buddies in San Francisco before Config to mingle with other creatives and learn new web design skills ✨
June 21st, 2024 - Backend, Beer & AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for the official Metatable.ai community kick-off and product launch party on June 21st at 6:00pm!
Be among the first to try the new Metatable.ai platform for backend development with Rust and Dart frameworks.
We'll demo how to quickly develop and deploy backends using these frameworks. Whether you're a Flutter/Dart mobile app developer, a hardcore Rust backend developer, a software engineer, or just curious about Gen AI dev tools, this event is for you.
June 24th, 2024 - Building Long Term Memory Capabilities in LLM Agents
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Join MindsDB, MemGPT, Gorilla LLM, and Arize AI to learn about cutting-edge research and practical approaches to overcoming the limitations of short-term context in conversational AI.
Through our series of lightning talks, you'll gain valuable insights into the current state of research, the challenges in implementing long-term memory, and the potential solutions that are being developed.
June 24th, 2024 - DevOops #1 SF
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-8pm
What: Welcome to the U.S. launch of DevOops in San Francisco 🔥!
DevOops is a thriving community of engineers and developers, started in Europe, that embrace incidents and failures as opportunities for learning and growth.
Join us to hear leading Bay Area engineers speak candidly about their "Oops" moment when building, deploying and running IT Systems.
June 24th, 2024 - Get Configgy at Bunny House
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join Design Buddies & Product Disrupt at a pre-Config social mixer at Bunny House! Make new friends and share what you're working on. Hosted by Grace Ling and Darshan Gajara.
June 24th, 2024 - GenLab x AI Engineer World’s Fair Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am-8pm
What: GenLab x AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon: Amplifying Humans - Engineering & Agency
GenLab Studio, in partnership with AI Engineer World's Fair, is proud to invite individuals and teams to participate in the pre-conference hackathon! This is your chance to develop innovative solutions to amplify human potential through AI-powered software development. Win $10,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to present at AI Engineer World's Fair.
June 24th, 2024 - RAG++: AI Hack NIght
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-9:30pm
What: Presented by DataStax, LangChain, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Unstructured.
Exclusive Media Partner: TechCrunch
⚒️ Calling all builders!
Join our high-energy hack party featuring top RAG technology experts in the industry. Enjoy food, drinks, networking, and hacking, and discover how to boost your development speed by 100x.
June 26th, 2024 - Healthtech Hang
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join US for a "Helpful Hour" and empower fellow HealthTech founders, builders, operators, and enablers! Don't worry, it will be happy too 🥳
June 26th, 2024 - Lowercarbon Capital: Energy & Climate
Location: Emeryville
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for a closed-door, off-the-record night dedicated to entrepreneurs, scientists, and engineers building in climate & energy.
At the top of the evening, a few founders in the community will showcase their technology in a series of lightning talks - you’ll learn about the latest progress in fusion, geoengineering, bioengineering, manufacturing, and more.
Apply now! We’ll be accepting a limited number of registrants on a rolling basis.
June 27th, 2024 - AI Founder Dinner w/ Camilo Acosto
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-8:30pm
What: An intimate founder dinner with Camilo Acosta, exited founder, Gen AI product lead at Meta, and now GP of Perceptive Ventures.
We'll hear about his experience building his first company, leading Gen AI product lines at Meta, and how he approaches building and investing in generational AI businesses.
June 27th, 2024 - GenAI Collective SF Demo Spectacular
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: After making SF tech history with our inaugural community Demo Extravaganza, we're running it back with an EVEN MORE outrageously ambitious Demo Spectacular!! 🚀
Join the GenAI Collective as we unite communities and builders across the entire Bay Area to showcase the 10 most spectacular demos our early-stage ecosystem has to offer! 🥳
We’ll be spotlighting products that make you say “wow - did NOT think that was possible,” or “dang, I can see this being a household name.” You'll be wondering if you’re at a tech event, or a magic show 🤹
June 27th, 2024 - San Francisco AI Founders Demo Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9:30pm
What: We're bringing together some of the hottest AI start-ups to showcase what they’ve built at Silicon Valley AI Founders & Investors Mixer.
This is an exclusive event connecting 30 AI founders with selected investors and industry leaders. We carefully screen all attendees to ensure that the best projects meet the right capital, resources, and talents.
June 28th, 2024 - Techstars Startup Weekend
Location: San Francisco
What: Techstars Startup Weekend is back in SF for another mind-blowing AI event! 🤖 Last year, 150+ brilliant minds shipped 17 incredible products. This year, we're raising the bar even higher!
June 29th, 2024 - Vechain x BCG x EasyA Bay Area Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
What: Calling all Bay Area developers! If you're fascinated by AI or Blockchain, this is the hackathon you've been waiting for.
We've teamed up with vechain and BCG (Boston Consulting Group) to host this landmark AI and Blockchain hackathon at the amazing Fort Mason in the heart of San Francisco!
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