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SF IRL - June 29th, 2026
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
June 29, 2026
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 #199.
I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 5 years ago. 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 10000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 11,000 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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Excited to say SF IRL has partnered with ElevenLabs to give founders 33 million in ElevenLabs credits or equivalent to $4k to build voice AI agents.
Check Out the ElevenLabs Startup Grant & use code 11SFIRL723 for expedited review. We believe voice is the most natural way to communicate, and the future of human-AI interaction depends on making those conversations feel real. The ElevenLabs Grants Program exists to give early-stage startups and small teams the tools they need to build the future of AI audio with the best tools available, without cost being a blocker. ElevenLabs is the complete conversational agents platform, so whether a startup is creating an AI tutor, support assistant, or the next generation of voice-powered game characters, the grant will provide them with 12 months and 33 million characters of free access to ElevenLabs' cutting-edge AI audio, equivalent to over 600 hours of audio.
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June 30th, 2026 - Runpod Flash Hack Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am - 8pm
What: Join Runpod on June 30 at the SF Builder’s Collective for an in-person hackathon. Remote-friendly. Learn how to use Runpod Flash to turn Python functions into auto-scaling, serverless GPU endpoints without Docker. Demos, prizes, and mentorship. Register here!
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Events Coming Up
June 30th, 2026 - Runpod Flash Hack Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am - 8pm
What: Join Runpod on June 30 at the SF Builder’s Collective for an in-person hackathon. Remote-friendly. Learn how to use Runpod Flash to turn Python functions into auto-scaling, serverless GPU endpoints without Docker. Demos, prizes, and mentorship. Register here!
June 30th, 2026 - Coffeeflare
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-10am
What: Pre-game Day 2 of AI Engineer World's Fair with the Cloudflare crew! ☕️
We're taking over Sightglass Coffee to talk all things AI, agents, and architecture. Come grab a brew, tell us what you're building, and peer into our product pipeline.
June 30th, 2026 - The Agent Open: AI's pickleball tournament
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3-10pm
What: The inaugural Agent Open SF 2026 is happening. An afternoon of AI conversations and a pickleball tournament full of engineers that take both their agents and backhand seriously.
Play pickleball? Come show us your skills. First come, first serve to play.
We open at 3PM for co-working, hanging, and skills warmups before the tournament begins across two pickleball courts. We’ll also host a State of AI panel and closing party.
July 1st, 2026 - What open agents can actually do: a meetup with Together AI & NVIDIA
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8:30pm
What: What happens when AI agents stop working in isolation and start working together?
James Zou (Head of Frontier Agents, Together AI) and Venkat Srinivasan (Research Scientist, NVIDIA) are approaching that question from two directions, one from the research frontier, one from the model side, and finding they're working on the same problem.
James will share what his team (authors of EinsteinArena and DSGym) is learning about collective agent intelligence: how agents that collaborate, compete, and build on each other's work are driving scientific discovery at a pace no single model could match, and what open infrastructure makes that possible.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-10pm
What: Join Warp and Sequoia for an exclusive evening of exciting conversation, handcrafted cocktails, and exceptional company. Hear from Sequoia’s Andrew Reed followed by a fireside chat with Zach Lloyd, Peter Steinberger from OpenAI, and Paige Bailey from Google DeepMind on Crafting Software Factories. Then enjoy an evening of networking, food, and handcrafted cocktails.
July 1st, 2026 - What Happens After the Startup Starts Working?
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: What Happens After the Startup Starts Working? A conversation for founders and investors navigating success, responsibility, and what’s next.
Most founder conversations are about how to get the startup to work.
This one is about what happens after it does.
The company grows. Customers come in. The team expands. Investors pay attention. More people depend on you. And then a different set of questions begins.
What should you be building for yourself alongside the company? How do you think about investing, ownership, and opportunity? How do you manage the responsibility and cognitive load that come with growth? What does success look like after the thing you were chasing starts to happen?
July 2nd, 2026 - Physical AI Open House – The Residency × Mission Robotics
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: The Mission's new home for physical AI is half-built. Come see it before the furniture arrives.
Mission Robotics and The Residency are opening the doors for a night of robots, builders, and the people putting minds in metal. Expect pure meeting of minds and mingling with founders, researchers, and the mad scientists building embodied AI.
July 2nd, 2026 - Founder x Investor Run: San Francisco
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7:30-9:30am
What: Coming to SF. A 4-week running series bringing together founders, investors, and builders for an active morning through the city.
July 4th, 2026 - YC S26 Welcoming ft. Userlens x The Prompting Company
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-10:30pm
What: Join the newest Y Combinator batch for an unforgettable evening aboard a luxury yacht on the San Francisco Bay.
Celebrate Independence Day with fellow founders, mentors, and the YC community as we cruise past the iconic Golden Gate Bridge — watching a rare and historic fireworks display launched directly from the bridge towers for the first time in 14 years (only the third time in the bridge’s history).
July 7th, 2026 - Chaat Maxxing: Launch Night by PromptQL
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: PromptQL is launching for all teams on July 8.
The night before, we’re throwing Chaat Maxxing: a launch night party for friends, customers, builders, investors, and anyone curious about the future of work with AI, shared with delicious plates of chaat!
Imagine live pani puri station, chai, music, and a first look at the newest PromptQL experience.
July 1st, 2026 - Runpod Flash Hack Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am - 8pm
What:
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