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SF IRL - June 24th, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
June 24, 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 #92 and happy SF Deep Tech Week.
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 27th, 2024 - Brex Founder x VC Mixer @ Newmark 42nd Floor Skybar
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
This isn't your typical networking Event; our goal is to make space for meaningful connections, learn from each other and move each other forward.
This will be a highly curated group of founders and VCs, and there will be flowing 🥂, breathtaking views of the city 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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June 25th, 2024 - AI Engineer’s World Fair
Location: San Francisco
What: Where the leading AI companies, AI founders, VPs of AI & AI Engineers meet. Featuring an Expo floor showcasing 30+ companies pioneering the AI Engineering landscape, and over 100+ speakers delivering talks and workshops across 9 tracks.
June 25th, 2024 - The Future of Work: How AI Can Help You Work in 2024
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8:30pm
What: San Francisco is on fire – we keep on building AI-driven solutions for the world at the speed of light! But hey, while each one of us is laser focused on solving a particular problem for our clients and stakeholders, we create an economic shift on a global scale. Let’s take a helicopter view at our global impact as a community – and let’s talk about the elephant in the room!
In this event, we will explore the transformative impact of AI on the workforce. This event will examine AI-driven advancements in various industries, highlighting how these technologies enhance productivity, professional growth, but also mental health. We will discuss the evolving economic landscape, addressing AI's role in job creation, displacement, and skill requirements.
June 25th, 2024 - <code> Growth Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Learn How to Use Gen-AI for Growth Use Cases 🤖
Join us for an in-person event all about Gen-AI and its impact on growth. Get ready for an exciting learning fest where you'll gain actionable insights and practical workflows from industry experts who have nailed it with Gen-AI! 💡
June 25th, 2024 - Pixel Punch: Design Lightning Talks & Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Designers, start your Config week in SF at Pixel Punch, a curated event of design lightning talks and drinks with senior design leads from Replit, Hex, Faire, Glean, and ex-DoorDash.
June 25th, 2024 - Future of Compute: Scaling Inference with AMD
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Hello friends,
With the latest reports highlighting the incredible power of the AMD MI300X, it’s time to explore this untapped resource. We’ve assembled a panel of AI experts to discuss the emerging ecosystem, early potential, cross-platform benefits, and how you can implement the latest updates in your inference workloads.
June 26th, 2024 - Fusion Energy Landscape
Location: San Francisco
Time: 12:30-5pm
What: Join Fusion Industry founders, engineers, scientists and energy policymakers for a overview of the Fusion Energy Landscape - the different technical approaches to unlocking nearly limitless clean grid-scale base power by harnessing the power of the Sun right here on Earth.
The goal of this event is to give you a crash course in the different approaches to fusion, the trade-offs between them, the current state of technical progress made by private commercial fusion companies, and the regulatory, commercial, and capital landscape they jointly face.
June 26th, 2024 - Foundations & Frontiers Vol.2 Launch Party
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Foundations & Frontiers Vol. 2 Zine!
Join us in SF on June 26 as we bring together the sharpest minds working across science, tech and business to celebrate over 2 years of Foundations & Frontiers sparking discussions on the history and future of our most important technologies.
June 26th, 2024 - NUMI @ F.inc
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Mix and mingle with the world's best designers and design-minded founders with NUMI at F.inc’s beautiful space!
June 26th, 2024 - Figma Config AfterParty
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9:30pm
What: Figma After-Party with Olvy x The Founder Folks
Join us for an epic after-party following the Figma Config, hosted by Olvy! The Figma Config After-Party is your chance to chill, connect, and have fun with some of the coolest minds in design and product development, plus amazing founders.
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 27th, 2024 - SF Game Development ft Eric Monacelli From Marvel Games
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9pm
What: SF Game Development is excited to announce that Eric Monacelli will be flying to San Francisco to speak about his experience as an Executive Producer at Marvel Games. This is a very special event and we can't wait to welcome Eric to our community.
June 27th, 2024 - Figma After Party Hosted by Awesomic
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Hey Figma fans!
You must be feeling drained after two days at Figma Config 2024.
Come unwind with us!
Awesomic is hosting the can’t-miss afterparty where you can relax and network.
Chill out, grab a drink, and mingle with some of the world’s top startup founders and designers.
June 27th, 2024 - Build IRL Showcase @ Mindsdb
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us for the capstone showcase for Build IRL Accelerator's founding cohort, where we will celebrate 25 IRL communities and social clubs that are rewriting the social fabric of this city we love. You will get an opportunity to get to know these incredible builders, join and support their communities.
June 27th, 2024 - AI & Grant Networking Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us for an evening of connection and collaboration at the AI & Grant Writing Networking Mixer, hosted by the New Community Leadership Foundation (NCLF). This event brings together a diverse group of professionals from the tech, AI, grant writing, government, and community sectors, creating a unique opportunity for networking and knowledge sharing.
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!
June 29th, 2024 - GPU Chess Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am
What: Spend a weekend training AI Chess bots on GPUs.
TLDR:
This event is for people wanting to get their hands dirty in rapid iteration cluster training, using Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer.
The main difference about how you will have trained before and this environment: The Instant Super Computer is a control system, storage and networking infra product that makes it much easier and faster to run jobs on shared GPU clusters.
Most of the time you should be able to start training within seconds, even for large datasets and large cluster sizes.
The same cluster can be shared by multiple people, with a lot of the headache for sharing resources taken care of.
Large datasets are available quickly and easily.
The goal is to experiment with different models, datasets and hyperparameters and train the best chess AI you can in a weekend.
The winner will receive a $10k-$100K compute grant for open source AI research purposes.
July 1st, 2024 - Just Go Grind : SF Startup Community Coffee Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9-11am
What: 👋 Hey, Justin here!
This meetup will be casual, just an opportunity to meet some interesting founders, operators, and investors in the SF startup ecosystem.
The meetup will be located in Neon. We'll be in the secret garden at the back (Just enter Neon and go all the way to the back).
July 2nd, 2024 - Figma Config AfterParty LottieFiles x Olvy
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for an exclusive after-party following the Figma config, hosted by Olvy.
This event, Figma Config After-Party: LottieFiles x Olvy, will feature an AMA-style session with the LottieFiles team, offering a unique opportunity to delve into the journey of designer-turned-founders and the intricacies of building a community-led product.
July 2nd, 2024 - GenAI Observatory
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-9pm
What: Join us for an exciting event dedicated to exploring the latest advancements in Generative AI presented by AWS.
This exclusive gathering will feature lightning talks from industry leaders, providing a unique opportunity to gain insights into state-of-the-art tools and technologies shaping the future of AI.
Attendees will have the chance to learn from the best in the industry, with presentations from Observea, Cartesia, and NVIDIA - with more on the way!
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