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SF IRL - Nov 11th, 2024
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
November 11, 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 #113. Happy Veteran’s Day! Hope you are enjoying this 3 day weekend with some events in SF!
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 8000+ 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 🎉
Nov 13th, 2024 - Fidelity San Francisco Launch Party
Location: San Francisco
What: We are excited to be a part of the Bay Area Startup Ecosystem and want to celebrate the founders, investors, and members of the startup community who have helped us get here.
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Nov 12th, 2024 - How to Stay Human in the Age of AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-7:30pm
What: How to stay "Human" in the age of AI
Come join us to network and have a fireside chat with the amazing Vikram Tiwari!
Nov 12th, 2024 - Spendflo Finance Networking Dinner
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6pm
What: An invitation-only networking dinner for senior finance leaders of high-growth technology companies
Nov 12th, 2024 - Founder Led Biotech Tour SF
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Calling all founders, future founders and members of the biotech ecosystem in San Francisco. Join the Pillar VC team for a curated, in-person community event at our SF tour stop! Cocktails, mocktails, and appetizers will be served.
Nov 12th, 2024 - SF Infrastructure Meetup at Solaris
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: Come out for a casual pizza and drinks with developer infrastructure builders :)
If you're a kubernetes king, or just like seeing pods go vroom, come on out.
We'll have some time for some cool demos, food, and some good laughs.
Nov 13rd, 2024 - Asian Americans in CRE Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7pm
What: Join us for an Asian Americans in Commercial Real Estate Mixer, hosted by JLL at 1 Front Street. Our goal is create a safe space to network, share our experiences, and hear market insights from other CRE professionals.
Nov 13rd, 2024 - The Future of Clinical AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8-9:15am
What: Join leaders from OpenAI and Ambience Healthcare at AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium as they discuss the frontiers of LLM development and how they are applying these models to some of the biggest issues in healthcare.
Nov 14th, 2024 - Bridging Innovation: Singapore Robotics Meets the Bay Area
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: Are you passionate about robotics and innovation?
Eager to connect with trailblazers shaping the future of robotics in Singapore and the Bay Area?
Don’t miss out on the SG Robotics Gathering, an exclusive event organized by National Robotics Programme Singapore in partnership with BLOCK71 Silicon Valley and Singapore Global Network. Bringing together industry leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts from Singapore and the wider robotics community in the Bay Area and across the US!
Nov 14th, 2024 - AI x Humanity Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
What: Join us for an engaging and lively happy hour with the Superhuman Society! Discuss the latest developments in AIxHumanity while socializing with fellow superhumanists. This is the perfect opportunity to connect, learn, and be part of a community passionate about shaping a dignified future for humanity.
Nov 14th, 2024 - AI Salon: Government & Tech
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join us for an evening of discussion as we explore a critical dynamic shaping our society and democracy: the evolving relationship between Big Tech and government, particularly in the wake of the 2024 US election.
Nov 14th, 2024 - AI Agents + Knowledge Graphs
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-9pm
What: We have three amazing talks adding up to the modern agentic GenAI stack!
Loading the world's biggest knowledge graph into neo4j (in progress)
Leann Chen, Diffbot
Diffbot’s knowledge graph turns the web into billions of nodes and facts. By loading this structured data into Neo4j, businesses can query their own custom knowledge. We’ll cover how Diffbot’s graph can enhance applications like Graph RAG with reliable, context-rich grounding information.
Nov 14th, 2024 - AI + Longevity + Healthcare @ Stanford
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5-8pm
What: AI + HealthTech + Longevity @ Stanford
Life Science Entrepreneurs is excited to announce our third gathering, diving into the intersections of AI, HealthTech, and Longevity. Join us on November 14th for an evening of insightful discussions and dynamic networking, bringing together top minds in biotech, medtech, and beyond.
Nov 14th, 2024 - AI Go to Market Night
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8:30pm
What: With the AI market exploding, founders, product managers, and executives face tough questions around go-to-market strategies. In a space where innovation and competition move at lightning speed, how do you make your product stand out?
If these challenges sound familiar, you won’t want to miss insights from four AI GTM experts who have successfully navigated this complex landscape.
Nov 14th, 2024 - AccelerateHER Female Founders Pitch Workshop
Location: Oakland
Time: 4-7pm
What: 🚀 AccelerateHER Pitch Workshop: Mastering Investor Conversations 🚀
Ready to take your pitch to the next level and confidently win over investors? 💼💡 Join us for the AccelerateHER Workshop, an exclusive opportunity designed to empower female founders like YOU! 💪👩💼
Nov 14th, 2024 - re:Supply RoboCode
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-8:30pm
What: Join us for the inaugural RoboCode summit, an immersive half-day event dedicated to the latest advancements and opportunities in robotics. Designed for roboticists and engineers, this summit will feature in-depth discussions on crucial topics such as the pros and cons of ROS, validated commercialization strategies, and the current state of developer tools.
Location: San Mateo
Time: 9am
What: You are in year 2035, what does life look like?
What did it take to colonize earth? What advances will we need to colonize another planet?
Nov 15th, 2024 - Taming the Wild West of IP
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-7pm
What: Spatial technology is one of the frontier technologies of the age - and some aspects of it truly are a wild west. Intellectual property (IP) in particular is a huge domain of potential challenge - and opportunity.
In previous generations of technology, IP content - music, books, images, brands - have been users by users and platforms without protecting creators rights and revenues, only for IP protections gradually to kick in, after much friction and suspicion.
As the spatial technology age kicks off, this is an opportunity to ensure that IP is better handled - for the benefit of creators, platforms and end users, both in terms of protecting rights and revenues, but also elevating both the role of professional creators and enabling the capacities of amateur and new creators, and facilitating creativity and innovation, rather than stifling progress.
Nov 16th, 2024 - Business Olympics
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-2pm
What: 1 problem statement vs 30 business nerds
If you have a knack for problem-solving this is the event for you, especially if you also struggle turning your business brain off outside of work hours.
Founders, owners, operators, VCs, business nerds, and other degens unite!
🫂 Spend an evening with ~30 other business nerds
📋 Get presented with a single problem/business case
💡 Ideate a solution/strategy with your team, and present it to your peers
👀 Get perspective on how other business nerds approach the same problem
Nov 18th, 2024 - Pattern Breakers: Living in the Future Gathering
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: As part of the Pattern Breakers book launch, Mike Maples Jr. and Floodgate are hosting an event for the next generation of pattern breaking technologists.
Specifically for this event, Mike is gathering those who are “living in the future” and looking to change the world, rather than just living in it. Whether they’re working at a cutting edge startup, tinkering on something new in their freetime, or building what was formerly seen as impossible; it’s these peoples’ job to return to the present and build transformative companies for the rest of the world.
Nov 18th, 2024 - AI Hack Night @ Google
Location: Sunnyvale
Time: 4-9pm
What: Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at Google!
Here's what you can roughly expect:
🏆 Evening of Fun:
Lightning Talks (Weaviate, Neo4j, Denodo, Google, Flox)
Demo Challenge: Showcase your creativity by combining Quickstarts or technologies.
Quickstart Challenges
Social / Networking Challenges
Nov 19th, 2024 - Women in Tech Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: San Francisco! Calling all women in tech, allies, friends and partners!
Join our Women Tech Meetup w/HelloFam on November 19th — an incredible gathering of women in technology, female founders, entrepreneurs, community builders, and other professionals!
Nov 21st, 2024 - Founder Padel League
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: We are thrilled to invite you to the Founder Padel League, an exclusive event hosted by Vouch, Lazo, Puzzle & Startup Grind. Designed specifically for founders, this event offers a unique opportunity to network, compete, and build relationships with peers who share your drive and vision.
Nov 22nd, 2024 - Tech New Grad Barcade Mixer
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Welcome to the largest gathering of new grads in tech.
This is where the brightest young minds in tech gather to balance work and life while exploring their local communities.
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