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- SF IRL - June 30th, 2025
SF IRL - June 30th, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
June 30, 2025
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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 #151.
I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 4 years ago. My full-time job is at Brex 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 9000+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 10,000 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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Events Coming Up
July 1st, 2025 - Prompt Engineers Society: Cafe Chill 🍵
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
What: Interested in vibe coding? Agentic AI? All the AI buzz words?
Prompt Engineers Society is hosting a cafe chill (sounds fancy) on July 1, 2025!
Grab a matcha (or not) and join our network of AI enthusiasts to share your experiences with vibe coding, your latest AI side project, and anything AI-related that's on your mind (AGI overlords anyone?).
July 1st, 2025 - AI Founders Squid Game Watch Party - Inception Studio x Hanwha
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Founders. Investors. AI. Hanwha. Squid Games Season 3. Watch. Together.
July 1st, 2025 - Serendipity - Leadership Dinner
Location: Los Altos
Time: 7-9pm
What: 🚀 An Exclusive Evening for Senior Product Leaders
Join us for an invite-only dinner designed for senior product leaders, bringing together visionary minds shaping the future of tech.
July 1st, 2025 - FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-9am
What: Join Founders Common for our weekly early morning run with other founders, operators & creatives! Come run and then hang out afterward to chat with new friends across the startup community over coffee.
This event is free & open to everyone – Founders Common members, guests & brand new friends!
July 1st, 2025 - AI Floor Bi-Monthly Meetup @ Frontier Tower!
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-7:30pm
What: Welcome one, welcome all!
Join us at Frontier Tower for our bi-monthly AI Floor gathering!
Come together with the community to share projects, meet new faces, and help shape what’s next for the AI Floor. We’ll open space for people to share their projects, align on goals, and start to co-create.
July 1st, 2025 - EdgeAI and On-Device ML Developer Networking at General Lithium
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7pm
What: Building local LLM solutions? Interested in meeting like-minded developers? Looking for inspiration for edge and forward-deployed AI solutions? Come join us at our networking event for developers building constrained AI solutions and learn how General Lithium can help enable your team to create world-changing solutions.
July 2nd, 2025 - AI For Designers #26
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Calling all designers! Join us for our monthly AI for Designers event.
Explore the world of AI-powered design tools and hear from industry leaders who are shaping the future of design. Our featured speakers will share their insights on the latest AI innovations in design and how they’re transforming the creative process.
We’re excited to bring you insightful talks and discussions about the latest advancements in AI for design.
July 2nd, 2025 - Founder-led-GTM 2: Expert sessions on scaling AI startups
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us for an evening in San Francisco, where we discuss go-to-market strategies and efficient growth for SaaS & AI builders with Mailmodo.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8:30pm
What: Open-source coding agents are ready for production - if you give them the runtime they deserve.
If you’ve already tried Codex, you know it’s powerful - but turning it into a reliable developer sidekick requires significant effort. You’ll need to manage sessions, handle long-running tasks, secure sandbox and terminal access, integrate with third-party services like GitHub and deal with A2A to allow multi-agents deployments so you can build a team of coding agents.
This workshop is for developers and AI agent builders who want to run open-source coding agents in the cloud, as part of a team, with the right infrastructure behind them.
July 3rd, 2025 - 🧠 The AI Collective | Beer Garden Bonanza 🇺🇸
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: We’re back — and we’re making it count! This isn’t your typical AI Collective meetup. It’s our first social event in over a year (the last one was way back in November 2023!) and we’re celebrating in true Fourth of July style. No slides, no pitches — just good vibes, great conversations, and holiday cheer under the summer sky.
July 3rd, 2025 - 12 (scrappy) AI Founders Talking First Customers
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: You're trying to crack the code on where the hell you get customers to buy the stuff you cooked. And you need to do it fast. OK, you’re at the right place.
12 early-stage founders and investors will meet at a private lounge in the Union Square to talk fails and wins on finding and acquiring first customers/beta users.
July 3rd, 2025 - AI Meetup — Santa Cruz
Location: Santa Cruz
Time: 6-8pm
What: All Things AI Meetup at Lupulo in downtown Santa Cruz!
This is a monthly meetup to discuss AI—new developments, effects, and things we’ve built. No experience necessary, only curiosity.
Topics range from generative AI, latest LLM breakthroughs, or sharing ideas on how to use AI in our daily lives.
July 5rd, 2025 - Ocean Beach Jam Sesh & Bonfire
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-10:30pm
What: We'll be meeting at ocean beach for a fun bonfire, and everyone is welcome! There will be live instruments for a jam session, pickup sports, and plenty of snacks to keep you fueled around the fire. This is your chance to unwind and enjoy the sunset, great company, and meet others in a fun/casual setting.
July 10th, 2025 - Dinner & Debate: Build or Buy in the AI Age
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: 🍽️ Dinner & Debate: Build or Buy in the AI Age
An invite-only evening of good food, sharper hot takes, and actionable AI strategy from AI founders themselves.
When & where
July 10, 2025 | 6 – 9 PM • Location is revealed to guests once confirmed.
6-7:30PM - Cocktails + sushi flowing 🍣 🍸
7:30-8:30PM - Main panel talk + Hot takes
8:30-9PM - Breakout huddles
July 10th, 2025 - Leopard.FYI San Francisco Low Key Happy Hour @ Shepherd HQ
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: Join the Leopard.FYI community for a Low Key Happy Hour in North Beach (San Francisco) at Shepherd HQ (900 Kearny St. Floor 7).
Networking events can often be stressful, male-dominated, and not conducive to forming genuine connections. Leopard events provide a relaxed alternative, bringing together community members in a supportive and safe space <3
July 10th, 2025 - The AI Collective & Windsurf ~ Open Build
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Builders, welcome. We’re teaming up with Windsurf – the AI-native IDE that’s rethinking what it means to code in flow – for a special evening designed to inspire, connect, and unlock your next creative wave.
This is the first-ever collab between The AI Collective and Windsurf, and we’re keeping it fresh, simple, and high-vibe. Expect deep conversations, spontaneous demos, peer energy, and a space where great ideas catch wind!
July 11th, 2025 - SF Voice AI Builders Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Join us for the launch of the Bay Area's first dedicated Voice AI Builders Meetup in San Francisco! This is your stage to show off what you're building, learn from fellow builders, and connect with the most innovative voice AI experts in the area.
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