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SF IRL - May 13th, 2024

A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco

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Jonathan Chang
May 13, 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 #85.

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 6500+ subscribers. As we keep growing, if you enjoy reading these, please share this with your friends so we can hit 7,000 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!

Events Coming Up 🎉

I’ve also been hosting a variety of GP/LP dinners for emerging managers in the Bay Area, if you are an emerging GP or an LP that invests in emerging managers, please fill out this form if you’re interested in getting invited to future GP/LP Dinners that I throw in SF.

I’ve made a form to connect the best founders raising with my list of VCs. If you are a founder raising your next round and want to potentially be featured to investors in the SF IRL network, please fill out this form.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-9:30pm

What: ​​You are invited to apply to the Brex Supper Club in partnership with Intercom.

​​This isn't your typical networking Event; our goal is to make space for meaningful connections, learn from each other and move each other forward.

​​You'll leave with new friends, business connections, and new thoughts on how to hit that next level of personal or company growth.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: ​You are invited to an event co-hosted by Athletes & Assets, Brex, and Headline.

​Featuring four professional athletes turned founders, this panel will share stories and insights that draw out the parallels between the athlete and founder experience. While very different groups on the surface, both must ultimately have a commitment to continuous improvement in order to be successful. Regardless of if you are an avid sports fan or not, you will leave this event with a clear sense of the actionable habits and strategies that these founders developed from their time as athletes that have helped them grow thriving businesses. Celebrating small wins? Bouncing back from adversity? Goal-setting? Time management? Yep, we will cover it all.  

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: ​​You are cordially invited to AAPI Heritage Month Mixer in SF hosted by Asians@Brex, our AAPI Community (ERG).

​Happy Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

​We invite you to join us in recognizing and celebrating the incredible contributions and perseverance of the AAPI community in SF!

​This will be a highly curated group of founders, operators, and VCs, and there will be flowing 🍶 🍣, and conversation starters.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join Monday Girl and MindsDB for an exclusive power panel to learn from AI leaders and network with 150+ ambitious professional women on May 15th in San Francisco. ​The Agenda:

  • ​5:00pm - 6:00pm : Opening Reception + Taco Bar

  • ​6:00pm -7:30pm : Women in AI Power Panel

    • ​A discussion on AI and culture, implementing AI into everyday life, working in AI, how women's voices are represented in tech and more.

  • ​7:30pm - 8:30pm : Networking

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7:30pm

What: ​We’re excited to invite you to the third edition of our monthly FinTech Happy Hour, hosted by Vouch at Sam's Tavern in San Francisco! This gathering has quickly become a go-to event for industry professionals to mingle, share insights, and relax in a casual setting. Whether you’re breaking into the scene or are an established player in the fintech field, this is the perfect place to network!

May 15th, 2024 - AI For Product

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​How can AI turbocharge your product strategy?
How can you boost product revenue & retention with AI?
How are the best product teams moving the needle with AI?

​Don’t get left behind.

​In-person fireside chat with world-leading speakers:

  • ​Joff Redfern (former CPO Atlassian, LinkedIn, Menlo Ventures).

  • ​Claire Vo (CPO LaunchDarkly, ex-Optimizely, founder ChatPRD).

May 15th, 2024 - Beloved Tech Brands Conference

Location: San Francisco

What: The BTB Conf is a one-day, in-person event in San Francisco that’s equal parts marketing masterclass, community celebration, and gleeful gathering.

‍You’ll walk away with tips and tricks way beyond what you could pick up browsing mountains of content on the internet that’s mostly outdated and unusable anyway.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Join ​GomaLabs and Women in Crypto Club for an exciting evening at the Web3 Revolution panel and social, where founders, investors, and enthusiasts come together to explore the latest trends and innovations in the Web3 space.

​The evening will feature a panel discussion with leading experts from the Web3 industry, covering a range of topics including AI, Real-World Assets (RWA), and the growing influence of meme culture in the decentralized space.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7:30pm

What: ​South Park Commons is excited to host an exclusive fireside chat on the future of the Indian technology ecosystem with Flipkart founder Binny Bansal.​​

​Binny and SPC Partner Aditya Agarwal will discuss the past, present and future of both the local Indian tech ecosystem and the rise of the Indian technology companies and leaders globally.

​They will also discuss why Binny recently partnered with South Park Commons to help launch SPC India.

May 15th, 2024 - Funnel Vision - Mixer for Marketers

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: Welcome to Funnel Vision - the third place for marketers.

​An evening of cocktails and food with other marketers.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7:30pm

What:

May 16th, 2024 - 114th SF Hardware Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

What: Join us at Shack 15 for our next speaker style meetup! With the rise of generative ai there are new demands on compute and energy. We're excited to bring together the community to discuss next generation hardware.

​There will be a chance for an open mic. All demos are welcome.

May 16th, 2024 - Beyond RAG

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​Join us on May 16th as we deep dive going beyond RAG to build powerful and performant Q&A products.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

What: ⚙️ We're building! 🛠

​📌 Join Germ Network, Women and AI, and Convex for an evening of product demos from women and nonbinary founders across the tech ecosystem--including consumer apps, AI products, and hardware.

​🙋🏽‍♀️ Founders, if you'd like to present a 3-min demo of your product and receive feedback from our community, fill out the interest form here. Your product should be in-market--no prototypes or mockups please.

​💅 All guests are welcome, women to the front! By rsvp’ing to our event, you (and we!) promise:

  • ​​to be kind, be a good listener, and not to harass anyone

  • ​​not to take photos of people or touch people without their permission

  • ​​that you won't come if in the 3 days before you have cold or flu symptoms or spend time with someone who does

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Join fellow Founders and Leaders on May 16th for networking and a panel discussion on workplace culture. Take away actionable insights to foster a thriving work environment for your team.

​Agenda:

​5:30-6pm: Network over drinks and bites

​6-6:45pm: Panel discussion

​6:45-7:30pm: More networking

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Join fellow Founders and Leaders on May 16th for networking and a panel discussion on workplace culture. Take away actionable insights to foster a thriving work environment for your team.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-7:30pm

What: Jason Liu is the creator of Instructor & AI consultant.

Instructor makes it easy to reliably get structured data like JSON from LLMs.

​We'll do a short Fireside Chat followed by Q+A.

May 17th, 2024 - Treasury Open Demo

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Treasury Demos are your way to experience the world of spatial computing, to become a Treasury Builder or Activator, to apply to the Treasury Builder Program, and to meet others exploring and developing in the space.

​​Join spatial creators, spatial app builders, infrastructure tech developers, investors, hackers and explorers in spatial computation including AR, VR, XR, metaverse, Vision Pro and more.

​​Get hands on with Vision Pro, Oculus, NReal, mobile 3D applications and much more.

​​Come see spatial work demonstrated first hand, demo your own work, and meet peers, collaborators, and partners in the emerging spatial computing space on the Treasury terrace and in the studio - and become a Treasury Builder.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​The Ollamas are back to host another Local & Open-Source Developer Meetup with Cerebral Valley and Shack 15 @ the San Francisco Ferry Building!

​​Event schedule:

  • ​​5pm: Doors open

  • ​​6pm: Lightning demos (5 minutes each)

  • ​​7:15pm-8pm: Free time

May 20th, 2024 - Berkeley LLM Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: The Berkeley LLM Meetup aims to connect Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and alumni with people working in or interested in LLMs (in particular systems supporting LLMs) in industry.

​This month's meetup is hosted by Felicis.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9:30am-5pm

What: Design Buddies began online in April 2020 when Founder Grace Ling wanted to make design friends. Today with a combined audience of 200,000+, we are ready to bring you our first conference as we design our future together!

We are hosting a one day hybrid conference in-person in San Francisco and online. Make new connections, gain new skills, and come back inspired to take your career to the next level!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: ​Join us for a dynamic evening that brings together innovative founders, funders, and passionate allies of women's health and technological innovation.

​Our Happy Hour is an opportunity to connect with thought leaders in the industry through meaningful conversations and collaborative opportunities.

Location: Milpitas

Time: 4:30-7pm

What: Join us at FalconX on May 21st, 2024, for an engaging session focused on the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing and supply chain management. 

May 22nd, 2024 - SF Marketers Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7pm

What: Join us for an evening of making marketing friends at the SF Marketers Happy Hour!

​Set in the vibrant atmosphere of Spaces - San Francisco at Levi's Plaza, this is the perfect spot to unwind and connect with fellow marketing professionals. (fingers crossed for a beautiful sunny evening!)

​Mark your calendars for May 22, 2024, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM and get ready to mix, mingle, and maybe even collaborate on your next big idea. See you there!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​​Women in AI Club is dedicated to connecting, empowering, and elevating women founders, investors, and talents in artificial intelligence. We partner with AI leaders, VCs, and service providers to support women in founding, investing, and building in the AI space.

​Please join Women in AI Club female founders and funders dinner and share your AI journey with us!

Location: Marin

Time: 10:30-5pm

What: If you're based in Marin or Sonoma and working on (or planning) an AI product, come and co-work with us!

​Yep, we're trying another new format for the North Bay AI community, with this opportunity to join us at a stunning, recently renovated co-working space in San Rafael - all for free!

​Bring your laptops, demos, problems, questions and ideas and work and collab together with other Marin & Sonoma folks working in AI.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: Come share in the coolest AI products being built and used in Marin.

​By community request, the highlight of this event will be an "open mic" style demo, where you are invited to either share what you are building, or just the coolest AI products you've found and enjoy using.

​We'll start and end with open networking and mingling, with some light refreshments provided by our generous hiosts - a stunning, recently renovated co-working space in San Rafael.

​Bring your laptops, demos, problems, questions and ideas and work and collab together with other Marin & Sonoma folks working in AI.

May 22nd, 2024 - TWIF SF Happy Hour

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: Who: This Week in Fintech, Spinwheel, Streetbeat, Plaid, Finley, and CoreVC and Fintech's best operators, investors, and founders

​​​What: SF Happy Hour with an open bar & light bites

​​​Where: 620 Jones, San Francisco, CA 94102

​​​When: Wednesday, May 22 at 6:00pm

Location: San Francisco

Time: 10am

What: #ConnectionsThatInspire

​Global Mentorship Camp by Hanwha Life

​Calling for all Emerging VC Fund Managers and VC Professionals that wish to build new connections with senior industry leaders, fellow EFMs and aspiring students.

​Join us to find lifelong connections - we are bringing together senior industry leaders, emerging fund managers, VC professionals, and students, all with a common goal of becoming future industry leaders and who are willing to pay it forward.

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