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SF IRL - June 3rd, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
June 03, 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 #89.
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 5th, 2024 - The Venture Mindset Fireside Chat with Ilya Strebulaev
Location: Stanford
Time: 5-7pm
What: Race Capital is proud to present The Venture Mindset with Ilya Strebulaev, The David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Venture capitalists are known for their extraordinary ability to spot opportunities. They know how to identify emerging trends, how to bring new industries into being, and when to hold them and when to fold. Their unique mindset has made them the force behind world-changing companies such as Amazon, Google, Moderna, SpaceX, and Zoom.
Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev has devoted two decades to studying VCs’ counterintuitive approaches to decision-making and the reasons behind the successes and failures of corporate innovations.
June 5th, 2024 - Founder Dinner: An Intimate Conversation with Roger Lee
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-8:30pm
What: An intimate founder dinner with Roger Lee of Human Interest.
We'll hear about his experience building Human Interest, Layoffs.fyi and now Comprehensive.
June 5th, 2024 - SF Design Week: Design Swag Swap
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Welcome to SF Design Week: Designer Swag Swap!
Come meet and greet other designers—product designers, UX/UI designers, creative directors, and art directors. Anyone in the creative industry is welcome to join!
June 6th, 2024 - Friends of SF Blockchain: SF Summer Party
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: Hosted by Stanford Blockchain Club and Nexus
Get ready to kick off the summer with the Friends of Stanford Blockchain at our SF Summer Party!
Join us on June 6, 2024, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Edge & Node House of Web3 in San Francisco.
June 6th, 2024 - Immigrant Founders Network
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Young Entrepreneurs Hub & Open Sphere & OWOW are collaborating on this high-participation networking event for the immigrant founders community featuring guest speakers, open mic pitching and high participation networking and resource-partners to succeed in Silicon Valley.
June 6th, 2024 - Morning Tech Brew
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8-10:30am
What: Join us for this Morning Tech Brew where we invite builders to come together, share their journeys, and learn from one another's experiences.
Here is what we'll have brewing for you at the Morning Tech Brew:
Peer Learning Experiences: Gain valuable insights from fellow builders as they recount their trials, tribulations, and triumphs in creating products, projects, startups, and more.
Candid Conversations over Artisanal Coffee: Enjoy your morning coffee while engaging in honest discussions about overcoming challenges and adversities as builders.
Idea Exchange: This is your platform to share your visions, experiences, and strategies for succeeding against all odds.
Intentional Networking: Connect with like-minded individuals, share personal goals and professional milestones, and forge meaningful connections.
June 6th, 2024 - Impact of Data Processing Tools on Analytics & Reporting
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What:
June 6th, 2024 - Impact of Data Processing Tools on Analytics & Reporting
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: THIS EVENT IS FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE IN-PERSON. OUR OFFICE'S CAPACITY WILL STOP AT 100.
Join us for an enlightening evening dedicated to ETL and data processing tools and their impact on data reporting.
This meetup is for data analysts, engineers, data enthusiasts, and professionals interested in exploring the latest trends and best practices in ETL and data processing. Whether you're a developer, a product manager, or simply passionate about data, come to network and gain insights from industry leaders.
June 6th, 2024 - re:Supply - Supply Chain Startup Showcase
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Schematic Ventures is looking forward to hosting a supply chain startup showcase! Leading supply chain startups will present their companies and share more about their journey building in the space, followed by a happy hour and networking opportunities.
June 10th, 2024 - Olo Immersive Sound Journey for Founder, Investors & Operators
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: Olo immersive sound journey is a chance to completely let go of the external world and dive into your inner self.
Event Overview:
Olo: Feeling and Being
Within us, there's an innate wisdom often overshadowed by external pressures. Not knowing our inner truth can lead to poor decisions, deteriorating health, and a sense of emptiness. The core of Olo provides a gateway to amplify our truth, health, relationships, cognitive prowess, and decisive clarity.
June 10th, 2024 - AI In Finance Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join us for the next MLOps.community meetup in San Francisco where we'll talk about the role and the future of AI in Finance and FinTech.
Agenda
5:30-6:15 Networking
6:15-6:20: Community Intro
6:20-6:40: Jerry Liu from Llama Index talks about how to build advanced RAG over complex financial reports
6:40-7:00: Thomas Joshi, co-author of Stanford DSPy, dives into automating workflows of the largest financial institutions in the world using the most popular Stanford NLP library
7:00-7:20: Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder of Tecton will discuss "Full RAG: A Modern Architecture for Hyper-Personalization"
7:20-7:35: Han Lee MLE from Moody's will give a short talk about their experience for using LLMs at the rating agency.
June 11th, 2024 - AI Hack Night At Github
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4-9pm
What: Join us for a fun evening with Neo4j and Weaviate!
We'll be demonstrating the power of vector search and graph search through networking and social networks. We'll start off with a talk by Adam from Weaviate and Jason from Neo4j. Later in the evening, you can expect a combination of networking and trying out Weaviate and Neo4j!
June 11th, 2024 - The Fourth vLLM Meetup x AGI Builders Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: 👋 We're thrilled to invite you to the 4th vLLM meetup, as part of the monthly AGI Builders meetup on June 11th.
❤️ It's a gathering where AI builders, researchers, and enthusiasts share ideas, inspire peers, and transform the future. In particular, this event will connect vLLM users and developers to share and learn together.
💡 In this event, engineers from BentoML and vLLM teams will share recent update.
June 12th, 2024 - San Francisco - Filipino Founders Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: Enjoy a drink, snacks and meet fellow Filipinos in your area who are building and supporting startups!
Optional Opportunity:
As part of building community, we want to create space for guests to share ideas with one another -- specifically product or project ideas that can uplift Filipino lives. You'll have 60 seconds to share an idea, and your name will be entered in a raffle for a chance to win a free e-gift card. Check the box when you register to participate . You must be present at the Meetup to win.
June 12th, 2024 - Biotech Founder & Funder Connect: AI in Life Science
Location: Sunnyvale
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us at BioTech Funder & Founder Connect for a unique gathering bringing together investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry experts to explore the latest trends and opportunities in the life sciences sector. This event will feature insightful VC panel discussions, a BioTech fireside chat, networking session to make valuable connections for those interested in shaping the future of BioTech through innovation.
June 12th, 2024 - GenAI Collective x Light DAO Neuro AI - Accelerating Radical Shifts for Leaders & Investors
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9:30pm
What: Join the GenAI Collective and Light Dao communities of conscious entrepreneurs and investors for an evening filled with connection, deep conversations, and a fireside chat with Vivienne Ming!
Dr. Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author who is featured frequently for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, and the New York Times. Vivienne was also named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s "100 Women."
June 13th, 2024 - Future Proof Marketing Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Get ready to party with purpose at Future-Proof Marketing: Growth Hacks Revelead
Join us if you'd like to:
Get inspired by proven strategies to boost your growth
Explore new ideas for scaling in a challenging economy
Hear from startup leaders who are successfully navigating growth at the moment
June 13th, 2024 - Building & Scaling Developer Community for Startups with Google Cloud and Race Capital
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7pm
What: Race Capital is proud to present How to Build and Scale Your Developer Communities for Startups with Priyanka Vergadia, the Developer Relations Lead at Google Cloud.
This event is for technical founders with developer communities around their products, open source contributors, and/or founders with product-led-sales GTM motions. Below are some of the topics we'll cover:
Topics we'll cover:
How to best reach out to developers in an authentic way
How to build Developer credibility
How do we best create demos that show value
Best practices for building, growing, and maintain developer communities
June 13th, 2024 - 115th SF Hardware Meetup at Studio 55
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Join us at Studio 55 for our next speaker style meetup! With the rise of generative ai there are new opportunities for designing hardware and software differently. We're excited to bring together the community to discuss new aplpications in the space.
June 13th, 2024 - INNOVIT Demo Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3:30-8pm
What: Join us on Thursday, June 13th for our VIP Panel and Demo Day. Meet 30 Italian startups pioneering the Life Sciences & Digital Health industry.
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