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SF IRL - Nov 18th, 2024

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

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Jonathan Chang
November 18, 2024

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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 #114.

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 🎉

Dec 12th, 2024 - Brex SF Holiday Party

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8:30pm

What: ​🎁 Please join us at our Brex SF Tech Holiday Party.

​We will have a holiday-themed space with seasonal cocktails, tasty food, and great conversation with some of SF bay area's biggest movers & shakers in tech.

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: 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!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: ​SF Game Development is thrilled to announce another meetup, presenting the official launch of brand-new platform coming to market called Granola.gg, with a goal to improve and streamline getting games to market.

Location: Mountain View

Time: 2-5pm

What: ​​The Founders Creative Kaleidoscope Series brings together the brightest minds in artificial intelligence across various disciplines to explore the power of collaboration.

​Top experts from academia, industry, and startups converge to share insights, spark fresh ideas, and tackle the challenges of tomorrow’s AI landscape.

Nov 19th, 2024 - AI Eng Talks

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-8pm

What: Come hang out at Cloudflare HQ in SF w/ 100+ engineers to hear talks about scaled engineering with AI.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4:30-7pm

What: Join us for an engaging fireside chat with Philip Greenwald, a seasoned entrepreneur and ex-Associate Director at Harvard Innovation Labs.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-7:30pm

What: ​Join us for an exclusive evening focused on AI-powered innovations in Content and EdTech. This event will highlight the transformative role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of content creation, delivery, and learning experiences.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Join a powerful gathering of women founders as we come together to share insights, challenges, and successes in building our businesses. This event is an opportunity to connect with like-minded female entrepreneurs, exchange ideas, and learn from each other’s journeys.

Nov 20th, 2024 - The Dev Dinner

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-9pm

What: Get ready for an intimate engineers' dinner in the heart of San Francisco – where the city’s best and brightest engineers, technical founders and AI researchers come together for a night of good conversations, new connections, and shared experiences.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9:30-11am

What: Kick off your morning on November 20th with delicious bites, fresh coffee, mimosas (Yes! why not?), and inspiring conversations alongside fellow founders and the teams at Puzzle and Carta. We'll dive into meaningful connections, reflect on the past year, and share our vision for what’s next.

Location: Berkeley

Time: 3:30-6pm

What: Join us for the Downtown Berkeley Tech + Startups Social!🍸🎉

Nov 20th, 2024 - Founders Coffee Hour

Location: Redwood City

Time: 5-6:30pm

What: Running your startup from home and need a change of scene?

Join other fellow founders in Redwood City to chat about early-stage challenges.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​"AI x Bio: Perspectives from Those Building on the Front Lines" is an event focused on the transformative role of AI within tech bio.

Location: San Mateo

Time: 5-8pm

What: ​Private Event Invitation - Join us at DraperU for insider insights from one of the Valley's most disruptive innovators.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: ​🎉 Language models now can Reason?! Join us to discuss how might this impact our learning and education. 🎉

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: Learn the critical elements of building local-first applications and how real-time databases and sync engines push the limits of offline app development.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30-8:30pm

What: An intimate dinner with the top AI Agent founders in the Bay Area.

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.

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.

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 4-6pm

What: ​​Join us for an exclusive gathering designed for highly curated early-stage founders, investors, and industry leaders who are dedicated to advancing AI innovation!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-9pm

What: ​Join Aiify.io, Founders Bay, Blitzscaling Ventures, Fetch.ai, theAgentic.ai at Digital Garage / DG717 for our Agentic AI Startup (Seed Round) Pitch Night!

​We are featuring extraordinary Agentic AI startups raising seed rounds ($2-10M) taking the stage to showcase their groundbreaking companies, discuss their traction, and share their vision for the future.

Location: San Mateo

Time: 11am-12:30pm

What: Join us for a fireside chat and Q&A with Matt Angle, Cofounder and CEO of Paradromics, a BCI company based in Austin TX that has raised over $100m.

Location: Alameda

What: ​Come and build defense tech in a 2-day sprint on a WW2-era Aircraft Carrier, with problems sponsored by active military units looking for functional an in-demand solutions to battlefield problems.

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