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SF IRL - Mar 17th, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
March 17, 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 #135.
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 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 🎉
Mar 18th, 2025 - GenAI Collective GTC After Hours : Next Gen AI Inference with Nvidia
Location: Sunnyvale
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Novita AI and the GenAI Collective are teaming up to host a high-energy, after-hours event during NVIDIA GTC, dedicated to uncovering the latest breakthroughs in GenAI inference. Connect with industry leaders, top researchers, engineers and founders driving the next generation of AI technologies.
Mar 18th, 2025 - Nvidia GTC: Scaling LLMs, AI Applications & Infra
Location: Sunnyvale
Time: 5-8pm
What: As NVIDIA GTC 2025 brings the global AI community to the Bay Area, join us for an exclusive side event where top AI pioneers, founders, and industry leaders will discuss the scalability of LLMs, AI Applications and infrastructure advancements, and the future of deep tech and robotics!
Mar 18th, 2025 - GameDev Connect
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: AccelByte Game Dev Connect GDC 2025 is your chance to connect with game devs, industry leaders and technology innovators to explore the future of connected experiences in the indie space. Hosted alongside our partners at AWS, Hydrolix, IGDA and Blueberry AI this event will focus on sharing ideas, exploring solutions to real world challenges of building online with smaller teams and networking.
Mar 19th, 2025 - GDC Mega Party
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8:30pm
What: Justin Kan is teaming up with Stash, Fateless Games, and AppsFlyer for round two as THE party at GDC.
If you were here last year, you know this is an event that will have people lining up to get in:
Justin Kan is taking the stage for a live DJ set
Food carts serving up the late-night fuel you need
The best people in gaming all in one place
Mar 19th, 2025 - Daytona AI Builders SF March ‘25
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9pm
What: An agent is only as good as its tools. If you’re building an agent that requires web browsing capabilities, you may be facing issues with reliability. In this talk, Paul Klein (founder of Browserbase), will share the common practices his customers use to build reliable web agents in production.
Mar 19th, 2025 - The Immutable Salon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-10pm
What: Join Immutable, Polygon Labs, Sequence, and MetaGravity on Wednesday, March 19th from 6 PM – 10 PM for an unforgettable night where the Wild West meets Web3 gaming.
Expect exclusive gaming activations, craft beers & cocktails, tasty bites, and limited edition merch—plus, exciting giveaways and surprise experiences throughout the night.
Mar 19th, 2025 - Amplified Devs Social
Location: San Jose
Time: 5-7pm
What: Programming as we know it is over. We're rewriting how software is built.
Heavybit and Continue are hosting a happy hour to bring together product builders who are actively charting a path for the open, AI-enhanced developer tools of today to become the open architecture for tomorrow.
Mar 19th, 2025 - The Generative Gathering
Location: San Jose
Time: 5-7pm
What: After a full day of GTC sessions, join Turing and Fireworks AI as we invite you to network with fellow industry leaders in the AI and LLM communities for an evening of fantastic food and creative cocktails at one of San Jose's most beloved bars.
Mar 19th, 2025 - Healthtech Hang
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: JOIN US for our Strategies to Scale series and mingle with HealthTech founders, operators, clinicians, and investors who are building businesses! 🥳
Mar 20th, 2025 - LP & Family Offices Summit - How to Deploy in the Age of AI
Location: Hillsborough
Time: 5:30-9pm
What: As AI innovation continues to accelerate—investors worldwide are rethinking their strategies to capture the next wave of growth. Timed to coincide with NVIDIA’s GTC, this event brings together Family Offices, Founders and Venture Capital leaders to explore the changing landscape of AI-driven opportunities. Here’s what to expect:
Founders: Forge meaningful relationships with investors and LPs, and discover practical M&A strategies for successful exits.
Investors: Connect with top-tier LPs to gauge deployment trends, and uncover promising founders poised to reshape tomorrow’s market.
LPs: Network with fellow family offices, identify emerging GPs to invest in, and stay ahead of the next wave of tech-driven opportunities.
Mar 20th, 2025 - Unstructured Data Workshop
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Listen to talks from Milvus and OpenAI and follow along in our hands-on workshop! Enjoy food and beverages.
Mar 20th, 2025 - AI Demo Day #6 SF
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: Welcome to the first stop on our US Tour, kindly hosted at the Cloudflare office in San Francisco.
Connecting builders with enablers. Meet engineers, investors and mentors. Find your next unicorn team!
Mar 20th, 2025 - The Future of Drug Discovery
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: New drugs have revolutionized healthcare, with over 200 novel therapeutics gaining FDA approval over the past five years. One key aspect to product success has been – and will continue to be – finding the right drug to bring into development, as up to 85% of new synthetic chemical compounds fail to reach the market.
Featuring pharmaceutical executives, biotech entrepreneurs, and AI innovators, our event panel will explore whether AI is truly a breakthrough in drug discovery, and how it can address long-standing challenges in the industry.
Mar 20th, 2025 - tldr 3 - tech happy hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: tldr tech happy hour sf is back for round three.
it’s a happy hour for the tech folks and friends in SF interested in supporting new bars and meeting good people.
share goals, tell us what you’re working on, tell us how ai is working for you, and so on.
Mar 22nd, 2025 - Soft Launch Brunch
Location: San Francisco
Time: 1-2:30pm
What: For founders who’ve launched / plan to launch soon, a curated discussion about launching your startup.
Mar 22nd, 2025 - AI Agents Hackathon - GTC 2025
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am
What: As NVIDIA GTC 2025 unites the global AI community, Vertex Ventures US and CreatorsCorner, invite you to turns bold ideas into action with an exclusive AI hackathon.
Mar 25th, 2025 - LifeCycle of a YC Founder - Welcoming x25 with Brex
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join us in-person to hear from a full range of YC alumni — from recent grads to household names.
This event is a chance to meet your new fellow batch-mates, network with experienced alumni, and get a glimpse of what the future might hold.
Mar 25th, 2025 - Women Tech Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: San Francisco! Calling all female founders, women in tech, allies, friends, and partners!
Join us on March 25th for the Women Tech Meetup w/Puzzle & Micro1 to talk about Women in AI: Building The Future.
Enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks, engaging conversations, networking, and a beautiful venue 🌟
Mar 26th, 2025 - SF Demo Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: San Francisco’s most daring innovators are stepping into the spotlight – are you ready to witness the future? This is the event where founders, builders, and dreamers bring their biggest ideas to life! 👷♂️
Mar 26th, 2025 - Arize AI Builders Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us for an evening of deep dives into AI agents in production. As AI-powered agents transition from MVPs and research to real-world applications, challenges emerge around deployment, evaluation, and monitoring at scale. In this meetup, we’ll hear from experts at Crew AI, Union AI, and Arize AI as they share insights on:
Deploying agents: How to orchestrate and scale AI agents in production environments
Evaluating performance: Metrics and best practices for assessing agent effectiveness
Monitoring and observability: Keeping track of agent behavior, drift, and failures in real time
Mar 28th, 2025 - DeepTech Connections Networking Breakfast
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8:30-10:30am
What: Deep Tech Connections is hosting the monthly breakfast networking event on Friday, March 28th, from 8:30-10:30 am.
This is an exclusive opportunity to network with key players in the deep tech community, including entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, corporate innovators, and government professionals.
Mar 29th, 2025 - GenAI Collective Marin AI Investors Roundtable
Location: San Rafael
Time: 2-6pm
What: Calling all active investors in AI for a private gathering at a beautiful private residence in Marin.
This event is exclusively for investors only – no startups or vendors at this one – creating a private space for you to connect with other investors in the North Bay, share deal flow, discuss investment theses, emerging opportunities, and more.
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