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SF IRL - Sept 8th, 2025
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
September 08, 2025
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 #162.
I'm Jonathan, the creator of SF IRL. I've been a Bay Area resident all my life and moved into San Francisco about 4 years ago. My full-time job is at Brex 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
Sept 8th, 2025 - Graph Exchange, Fall 2025 - Agentic AI Memory
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4-9pm
What: Graph Exchange is an innovative mini-conference+unconference on Graph-powered AI Agents, Knowledge Graphs, GraphRAG, and all ways where graphs underpin the modern GenAI stack. Brought to you by Neo4j, the category-defining graph database, we’ll review key use cases for graphs and bring together the leading graph experts.
Sept 9th, 2025 - Deploying agents and MCPs in production with TypeScript
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8pm
What: Deploying Agents and MCPs in Production with TypeScript
Hosted by 14.ai
Join us on the evening of September 9th in the Lower Haight for Sushis and thoughtful conversation on what it takes to move MCPs and LLM agents from demos to real-world deployments.
Sept 9th, 2025 - Datadog Summit
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am
What: Get a firsthand look at the latest in observability, security, performance monitoring, and AI—straight from the engineers building the tools and the practitioners using them at scale. Meet fellow developers, SREs, and DevOps engineers, get hands-on with new features, and walk away with practical insights to solve complex challenges.
Sept 9th, 2025 - From Garage to Autobahn: Mobility Innovation
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: Join us for an evening panel that explores how technology, and cross-sector partnerships are reshaping the way we move people and goods. From infrastructure intelligence to sustainable transport solutions, the next wave of mobility innovation is being built at the intersection of deep tech and global collaboration.
Sept 9th, 2025 - KCD SF Bay Area
Location: Mountain View
Time: 8am-8pm
What: Join us for the inaugural Kubernetes Community Day KCD SF Bay Area event, the ultimate gathering for cloud native enthusiasts!
Sept 10th, 2025 - SF Inaugural Spelling Bee
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9:30pm
What: You. 100 other people.
$1 buy in. One winner. Winner gets the pot.
Battle over who knows how to spell words like syzygy, onomatopoeia, Worcestershire.
Dont know how to spell but wanna make bank?
Kalshi will be hosting side betting.
Judges are former national spelling bee contestants.
Sept 10th. Be there or be quadrilateral.
Sept 10th, 2025 - SF Coffee Club | B2B Tech Founders & Funders
Location: San Francisco
Time: 10-11am
What: Calling all early-stage B2B SaaS founders and funders!
👋 Hi! We’re Sruthi Sivanandan and Deirdre Clute from the Forum Ventures team, and we’re teaming up with JustWorks as our event sponsor to help foster deeper connections in the early-stage ecosystem for B2B tech founders and investors.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am-11am
What: Women in Healthtech x The Council: Angel Investing in Healthtech
Join us for a morning of learning, connection, and coffee hosted by Women in Healthtech and The Council. This in-person session will explore the essentials of angel investing in the healthtech space. This event is perfect for operators interested in backing innovative healthcare companies and professionals already working in the industry.
Sept 11th, 2025 - Founders + Investors Social w/ Precursor Ventures
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join us for a lively evening at our Founders & Investors Social! This casual gathering is the perfect opportunity to mingle, connect, and unwind with fellow founders and investors in a relaxed atmosphere.
Sept 11th, 2025 - Design Fireside Chat with Jonathan Arena, Co-Founder @ New Generation
Location: San Francisco
Time: 12-1pm
What: Join SPC visiting partner, Soleio, for a series of design focused fireside chats. He will be joined by Jonathan Arena, Co-Founder of New Generation.
Event Details
11:30am: Doors Open
12:00pm-1:00pm: Fireside Chat
Sept 11th, 2025 - Building frontier AI products with Fin x Cognition x Harvey x Perplexity
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: It’s faster than ever to build a prototype - but delivering quality, reliably, is a lot of work.
Join AI experts to hear how leading AI products are built, from training specialized models to scaling real-world applications.
You’ll hear from experts from the Fin AI Group and guest speakers at the forefront of AI applications, who are investing at all levels of the AI stack: training models in-house, designing custom architecture, and integrating AI with existing systems.
There will be candid conversations about the technical choices they’ve made, what they’ve learned, and the systems they’ve built to achieve reliability and control.
Sept 17th, 2025 - Harry’s Healthtech Hang
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8pm
What: A happy hour but one where everyone has the intention of helping others, empowering them to achieve their professional and personal goals. You will mingle, enjoy beverages and light bites (read: open bar for beer & wine), pay it forward, and maybe get help in return.
Sept 18th, 2025 - Camp AI: Product Demos + Founder Insights
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Ready to build, scale, and secure your AI apps? Come for the innovation and stay for the summer camp vibes. We’ll kick off with product demos from CircleCI, Traversaal AI, CodeAnt AI, and Acuvity AI. Then, AWS, GitHub and Vercel will do a panel on securing, building, and scaling AI applications.
Sept 18th, 2025 - Overnight Success: Meter
Location: San Francisco
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
What: Remember when everyone thought software would eat the world? Anil and Sunil Varanasi decided to build the infrastructure that software would run on.
Now Meter powers the internet infrastructure for hundreds of companies like Brex, Cursor, Reddit, Bridgewater, Strava and others. But back then? They were just two brothers working on something everyone said nobody needed.
Come hear what actually happened during those years. The real story, not the TechCrunch version.
Sept 19th, 2025 - 鍛冶屋 // STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HØT.Location: San Francisco
Time: 7-11pm
What: This exists to kick off our exciting next chapter (TBA) with an epic party for everyone who loves tech, growth, and (actual) fun☻
37°48′28" N / 122°25′47″ W // VENUE
We’ve got a grand, industrial venue in the Marina with insane Golden Gate views.
Sept 19th, 2025 - Inside Summit 2025
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11am-5pm
What: A candid, high-signal summit for the next generation of tech builders, investors, and operators. The only summit to bring together an intimate group of movers & shakers with some of the world’s most influential technologists. Join us in the room.
Sept 19th, 2025 - $5000 De-Vibed Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
What: De-vibe Hackathon - How to vibe code without AI slop.
Attention hackers, builders and founders!
Do you like Hackathons where you generate lost of AI slop code that makes a cool demo but breaks every time you try to add a new feature?
If so, you're in the wrong place.
Come to the De-vibed Hackathon and prove that it's possible to build real software with AI coding.
There's a special twist: 2/3 of the way through the Hackathon, we'll be releasing a set of challenges — new kinds of features or special tweaks to your project that you'll have to incorporate. Only those with sufficiently de-vibed code will prevail!
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