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SF IRL - Nov 4th, 2024

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

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Jonathan Chang
November 04, 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 #112.

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 🎉

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.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6:30pm

What: Brex x Fiat Growth Supper Club for Fintech Founders

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-9am

What: Brex x Upfront Ventures Supper Club for Applied AI Founders

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.

Nov 5th, 2024 - Founders Run & Coffee!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 7-9am

What: ​Join Founders Common & Founders Run Club for an early morning run with other founders, operators & creatives! Come run and then hang out afterward to chat & network with new friends across the startup community over coffee.

Nov 6th, 2024 - d/acc Security Salon

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​If computer security was important pre AI, it has become critical now. At the same time, AI progress has also made its offense defense balance less predictable.

​AI allows for both, better, and easier attack generation and execution but also to harden our defenses. The stakes are high, especially because what is to be protected, ie AI systems themselves, become ever more valuable. While the magnitude of AI systems impact on human civilization is steeply increasing, the direction of that future impact remains highly uncertain and is critically dependent on development and governance choices in the coming years, including especially in the AI security space.

​Let's get together to explore what it might take to accelerate civilizations defense — a strategy introduced as “d/acc” by Vitalik Buterin in “My  Techno Optimism”. 

Nov 6th, 2024 - AI x Content Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8:30pm

What: ​Join us for an exciting event where innovation meets strategy! Dive into the transformative power of AI with industry leaders and discover how to revolutionize your marketing approach. This is your chance to gain actionable insights and connect with like-minded professionals.

Nov 6th, 2024 - AI Builders Night

Location: San Francisco

Time: 4-9pm

What: ​​Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at GitHub! This event is presented by Weaviate in collaboration with the GenAI Collective.

​The GenAI Collective is a non-profit, grassroots community of 20,000+ founders, researchers, operators, and investors representing the global forum for AI and technological progress. Through events, workshops, and online forums, members connect in authentic ways and collaborate to define the future of technology.

Nov 6th, 2024 - How to Recruit, Build & Scale World Class Engineering Teams

Location: Palo Alto

Time: 4:30-5:30pm

What: ​Calling all engineer founders and tech leaders!

​Are you navigating the challenges of hiring top-notch engineers and scaling your team effectively? Join us for an insightful meetup where seasoned founders and engineer leaders from Microsoft, Linkedin, Coursera, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, Databricks share proven strategies to build and grow exceptional engineering teams.

Nov 7th, 2024 - Filecoin Orbit: Building a Resilient Open Source Ecosystem

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-7pm

What: ​Join us for an insightful fireside chat with Brian Behlendorf, a luminary in the open source community. Brian is a senior advisor on AI and other technical areas to the Linux Foundation. He is also on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Filecoin Foundation. Brian has a long history with Open Source technology, having co-founded the Apache Software Foundation in the 90s, and lead the Open Source Initiative in its first few years.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: Are you an early-stage AI founder? Join us for an evening of networking and insights with Techstars. This is your chance to meet the Techstars team, connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, and learn what it takes to be part of our accelerator program.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-10pm

What: ​Let's build something unbreakable! At The Unhackable Hack, you’ll develop secure, compliant-ready APIs or microservices using AI-generated code (powered by Claude). We’ll give you plug-and-play templates, and you’ll add your creative touch to make it both powerful and secure.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: We are thrilled to invite you to Engineering Leaders Play Chess, where strategy meets intellect. Join us for a mix of strategic gameplay and insightful conversation!

​As experienced engineering leaders, we know the value of strategy and focus. This event can be a break from the routine to play chess, connect with peers, and share a passion for technology and innovation. It’s not a sales event. It's a space for engineering leaders from the SF Bay Area to meet, connect, and challenge their thinking through the timeless game of chess.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-9pm

What: ​​🚀 Join us for an unforgettable evening as Women Founders Bay presents an AI Women Founders Pitch Night!

​Hosted by Mariane Bekker, we are featuring 5 extraordinary startups, all women-led, who will take the stage to showcase their groundbreaking companies.

Nov 7th, 2024 - AGI Builders Meetup

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5:30-8pm

What: đź‘‹ We're thrilled to invite you to the AGI Builders meetup in SF on Nov 7th.

​❤️ It's a gathering where AI builders, researchers, and enthusiasts share ideas, inspire peers, and transform the future.

​💡 Participants can expect engaging tech talks covering the latest challenges and advancements in AI.

Location: San Jose

Time: 4:30-9pm

What: We are bringing the next AI/ML Infra Meetup to San Jose, CA, co-hosted by Alluxio and Zoom Developers. Hear from a great lineup of speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Zoom & Alluxio, who will share invaluable insights on building AI infrastructure at scale using technologies such as PyTorch/TorchTitan, Ray, distributed training, GPU optimization, LLMs, and more.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8pm

What: 🌟 Join us for an unforgettable evening at the AI + Creator Tech Networking! 🌟

​Get ready to connect, collaborate, and innovate with industry leaders and creative minds! Connect with industry leaders, explore new ideas, and discover collaboration opportunities in the heart of Silicon Valley! Don’t miss out on this chance to mingle with like-minded professionals and thought leaders.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 9am-4:30pm

What: Join one of the biggest tech summit at Berkeley Haas and hear from senior leaders at Figma, OpenAI, Microsoft, Cisco, and more!

Nov 9th, 2024 - ai x xr health hack

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6-9pm

What: ​join us for a day of exploring the future of ai + health interfaces.

​we're bringing together designers, engineers, and clinical researchers to create next-gen experiences using ai avatars, projection boxes, and spatial headsets.

​come meet likeminded people, and instead of just talking, let's build.

Location: San Francisco

Time: 5-8:30pm

What: ​Join us for another AI for Good meetup where we explore how technology can drive meaningful impact🚀

​We're stoked to host this one at AWS GenAI Loft in SF featuring Ben Sand founder & CEO of Strong Compute (YC W22). Ben's an incredible founder who has raised $70M+ built multiple successful startups (including Meta - #38 out of YC's 1900 companies by valuation) and coached 26+ tech companies.

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!

Location: San Francisco

Time: 6pm

What: An invitation-only networking dinner for senior finance leaders of high-growth technology companies

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.

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