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- SF IRL - Mar 31st, 2025
SF IRL - Mar 31st, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
March 31, 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 #138.
First, if you checked sfirl.com recently, you might have noticed we have a new website. New design, same great newsletter sending you the top events in the Bay Area.
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 🎉
Apr 1st, 2025 - Shack15 Conversations // AI Valley Author Gary Rivlin
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7pm
What: Join us for the launch of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Gary Rivlin's new book: AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence, examining the development of AI ecosystems over the last 18 months. Gary will be in conversation with Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Brad Stone.
Apr 2nd, 2025 - CTRL + ALT + CREATE | Silicon Valley
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Imagination, AI & the Future of Innovation
Silicon Valley is where ideas scale, but what happens when we reimagine the systems behind innovation itself?
At CTRL + ALT + CREATE, we’re bringing together entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, and artists to explore:
The Imagination Economy – What if creativity was the next frontier of venture capital?
AI as a Co-Creator – Can technology push beyond optimization into radical new ideas?
Beyond Startups – What systems need to be redesigned for the future to actually work?
Apr 2nd, 2025 - AI Dev Tools Night @ Salesforce Tower
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Join us for an exciting evening of AI, dev tools, and food at Salesforce Tower! 🤖 🍕 ☁️
We're bringing together developers to dive into the world of AI agents.
Apr 3rd, 2025 - Bay Area AI Langflow Meetup
Location: Santa Clara
Time: 6-9pm
What: Hey Bay Area AI enthusiasts! Ready to connect, learn, and have some fun? Join us for The Bay Area AI Langflow Meetup hosted by Langflow at the awesome DataStax office in Santa Clara. Whether you're an AI developer, engineer, or just someone excited about Langflow, this meetup is the perfect spot to mingle, share ideas, and geek out about all things AI.
We'll have engaging talks from speakers, plenty of time to network with fellow AI enthusiasts, and of course, some tasty light refreshments to keep the conversations flowing.
Apr 3rd, 2025 - Women & Nonbinary Founders’ Demo Day
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: 📌 Join us for an inspiring evening at the Women & Nonbinary Founders' Demo Day, co-hosted by Women x AI and Germ! This exciting event, sponsored by Convex, will showcase innovations from 10 visionary founders, offering a unique opportunity to engage with cutting-edge technology and connect with fellow enthusiasts, investors, and industry leaders from AI and beyond.
Apr 5th, 2025 - Food Tour & Tech: Bagels & Padel
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-1pm
What: Hey Founders, Investors & Tech Professionals! 🚀🏆
We’re teaming up with Park Padel and Bageletto to bring you a Padel Social for the San Francisco tech community. Whether you're a seasoned player or a first-timer, come experience the world’s fastest-growing sport while networking over fresh bagels and great company!
Apr 6th, 2025 - LLM x Law Hackathon at Stanford
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 8:30am
What: As generative AI continues to push the frontier of industries across the globe, the legal sector is no exception. LLMs, a foundation model capable of understanding and generating natural language text, have the potential to transform legal research, contract analysis, dispute resolution, and much more.
Apr 6th, 2025 - Founder Flow Running Club
Location: San Francisco
Time: 10am-12pm
What: There is no better way of starting Sunday Morning like a great jog
Founder Flow is bringing together builders for a refreshing 2.6-mile morning jog through Golden Gate Park, followed by coffee and conversations.
Don't worry about pace, just bring good vibes and be ready for some great chats!
Apr 10th, 2025 - QonfX: Future of Testing
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9:30pm
What: Join us at QonfX San Francisco, a mini-conference designed to explore and discuss the 'Future of Testing' with invite-only leaders from the QA and Engg space.
Top QA and Engg leaders from the city would gather to learn from:
- Leadership Sessions
- Expert Panel
- Fireside Chat
- Exclusive peer networking
Apr 11th, 2025 - Finvest Launch Party
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: We have officially launched and have a new home in San Francisco. We'd love for our community to come and celebrate with us.
Join us on April 11th at 6pm for drinks & pizza. Connect with fellow AI and fintech enthusiasts and come say hi to the Finvest team. Can't wait to hang out!
Apr 11th, 2025 - Vibe Coding Meeting @ Convex Dev
Location: San Francisco
Time: 2-8pm
What: Celebrate Vibe Week with us at Convex HQ for a special edition of a Vibe Coding Meetup — with fellow vibe coders, developers, and the Convex team building.
We just dropped a week’s worth of new AI features for developers to ship on Convex, and now it’s your turn to build with them. Whether you're building solo or teaming up with other devs, the goal is simple: build something cool by the end of the night and share it during the demo session.
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