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SF IRL - September 30th, 2024 - SF Tech Week Preview
A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in San Francisco
Jonathan Chang
September 30, 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 #107. Am looking forward to SF Tech Week which is next week. Over 200+ events happening in the city all of next week and I hope to see you there.
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
Time: 6:30pm
What: You are formally invited to Brex Supper Club SF with Position Ventures.
Oct 8th, 2024 - Off the Record: Beats & Business w/ Empire & Brex
Join us for Empire | Brex Event in SF and connect with fellow professionals and be part of a thriving community in San Francisco Bay area during #TechWeek.
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.
Please RSVP, space is limited.
Event Details:
📆 Date: October 8, 2024
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Who is coming? Join us at with the Bay Area’s best founders, operators, and investors for a fun night of conversations, and connections.
What to expect? 🥂 Networking/ Happy Hour + 🚀 Pop Up Performance +🎧 DJ set
Hope to see you there. #BuildYourEmpire
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Oct 1st, 2024 - OpenAI Dev Day Watch Party
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am-5pm
What: We're hosting an OpenAI DevDay Watch Party & Co-op Lounge that will bring together a vibrant community of developers, builders, and AI enthusiasts. Start the day with a live-streamed watch party of OpenAI's latest innovations, followed by a deep dive into thematic breakout rooms designed for developer discussions and hands-on collaboration. 🍓
Oct 1st, 2024 - Consumer AI Agents & Applications
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 5-8:30pm
What: Consumer AI Agents and Applications
Apply to join this exclusive event of select founders, VC, and marketers working on Consumer AI Agents and Applications.
Join us for an evening of networking!
Experience networking with wine, cheese & hors d'ouvers
Oct 1st, 2024 - Secure AI Models & Knowledge Graphs
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-9pm
What: We have two deep dives in key AI deployment topics: model safety and knowledge graphs.
Oct 2nd, 2024 - AI Hack Night with OpenAI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Join OpenAI engineers and product people at Cloudflare and learn more about the OpenAI API and what they announced the day prior👀
Oct 2nd, 2024 - Life Sciences x AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6-8:30pm
What: Join us at AMID Labs in downtown San Francisco for networking, food & drinks, and a panel discussion of builders and investors at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the Life Sciences.
Oct 2nd, 2024 - Welcoming TechWomen: Stories of Silicon Valley Leaders
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 6-9pm
What: TechWomen is a prestigious US State Department initiative, founded in 2011 by Hillary Clinton. It empowers, connects, and supports the next generation of women leaders in STEM from Africa, Central and South Asia, and the Middle East.
Oct 2nd, 2024 - Agents & The Future with Sierra Ventures
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: An intimate dinner with the top AI Agent leaders in the Bay Area and special guest: Vigesh Ravikumar, Partner @ Sierra Ventures
Oct 2nd, 2024 - SF Data + AI Happy Hour
Location: San Francisco
Time: 7:30-10pm
What: In partnership with AI Realized, Woodstock AI, and Tech Power Network, we're bringing together the brightest minds in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from across Silicon Valley for an evening of innovation, collaboration, and networking.
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
What: You are cordially invited to Brex Social - Hispanic Heritage Month edition in SF hosted by our Vida @Brex Community.
Vida @ Brex is a community built to showcase the importance of LatinX identity, highlight marginalized voices and celebrate the cultural diversity amongst us while feeling the power of our shared identity.🌺
Oct 3rd, 2024 - Google’s AI Based Weather & Climate Modeling with NeuralGCM
Location: Mountain View
Time: 5-8pm
What: Modeling weather and climate changes is among the hardest challenges in the machine learning space.
In this in-person event, Stephan Hoyer, a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Research, will present NeuralGCM — a hybrid machine learning/physics model of the Earth’s atmosphere featured in Nature magazine.
Oct 3rd, 2024 - AI4D: Bytedance Open Source Meetup
Location: San Jose
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: Welcome to the AI For Developer Meetup, hosted by ByteDance Open Source. This event is designed to bring together AI researchers, practitioners, developers, engineers, product managers, technology leaders, open-source community members, and industry experts to discuss the challenges and solutions in implementing AI across diverse environments.
Oct 3rd, 2024 - Rust in AI San Francisco
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9pm
What: We're excited to offer a new talk series entitled "Rust in AI" where we hear from speakers, builders, and champions of the Rust community that are building advanced intelligence.
At this event, we will be joined by keynote speaker Dzmitry Malyshau, one of the main contributors to wgpu, a cornerstone of the WebGPU ecosystem that powers Firefox's official implementation. Very soon, many AI models will be able to run natively in the browser thanks to Dzmitry's and many, many others' relentless hard work.
Oct 4th, 2024 - Startup World Cup (Use Code: SWC_GF_SFIRL_50)
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am-6pm
What: Startup World Cup is a global series of conferences and competitions that bring together the top startups, investors, entrepreneurs and tech CEOs around the world. Starting with regional competitions in nearly 50+ countries across six continents, hundreds of selected top technology startups compete for the chance to move onto the Grand Finale event in San Francisco to win a $1 million investment grand prize.
Oct 5th, 2024 - Bits & Bills - 2 Day AI Agents in Financial Services
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9am
What: Hackathon Problem Statement: Solve a problem related to the financial services industry/consumer finances.
AI Agents are going to revolutionize many industries. This is especially true in financial services, where legacy systems/processes still dominate much of the status quo.
Oct 5th, 2024 - Open Source Hackathon
Location: San Francisco
Time: 11:30am
What: Join us for a day of hacking and celebrating open source! Collaborate, create, and compete for two awards while bringing your ideas to life!
Oct 5th, 2024 - Hackathon Code Interpreting 2.0
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9:30am
What: Join the hackathon hosted by E2B, Fireworks AI, and Shawn "Swyx" Wang.
Build codegen AI apps and agents running AI-generated code. Explore the use-cases of LLM-powered code interpreters, use E2B Code Interpreter SDK and Fireworks AI as the LLM provider.
Get feedback and recognition on your project, and win product credits & more.
Oct 8th, 2024 - CoFounder Matching with Inception Studio
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: This SF Tech Week, it's time to find your startup soulmate! Are you an innovator looking for your business better-half? Or a creative genius seeking your operational yin to your yang? Then this is the rendezvous for you!
Our event is designed to connect ambitious entrepreneurs, just like you, with potential cofounders who have the skills, vision, and most importantly, the chemistry to turn startup dreams into reality. Join us at Inception Studio's own curated cofounder matching event.
Oct 8th, 2024 - Founders x Funders TechWeek Takeover
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8pm
What: Join us for a night of food, drinks, and fun as we bring together SF's future unicorn founders and funders. 🥂
Oct 8th, 2024 - Multimodal Data with Modern Tools
Location: San Francisco
Time: 5-8:30pm
What: Modern AI/ML workloads require data infrastructure that is capable of handling the complexity of multimodal data. AI/ML is no longer about simple tabular features or clickstream data — modern AI/ML demands data infrastructure that can handle messy unstructured text, documents, images and even video.
Oct 9th, 2024 - StoryHQ Grand Opening
Location: Palo Alto
Time: 6pm
What: Story HQ is in Palo Alto! Though San Mateo served us well, we're happy to be just a few minutes from Stanford with the best weather on Earth. We'd love to host the Bay Area community as we open up Story HQ. Our space is yours, and always open for coworking. We'll be hosting many more events to come!
Oct 9th, 2024 - Brex Pickup Basketball Club with Alpha Partners
Location: San Francisco
Time: 8-10am
What: You are formally invited to apply to the Brex Flex Club - Founder + GP Basketball edition in San Francisco co-hosted with Alpha Partners.
Oct 10th, 2024 - 117th SF Hardware Meetup
Location: San Francisco
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Come celebrate SF Tech Week with humanoid robots, speakers, food, and demos!
There will be a chance for an open mic. All demos are welcome.
Oct 10th, 2024 - Tea Time - Emerging Trends in AI
Location: San Francisco
Time: 9-11am
What: Join Google Cloud and Turing for an insightful morning tea as we gather leading AI innovators and technical VCs to discuss the latest technologies and trends shaping the AI landscape. Engage in a stimulating roundtable discussion, exchange ideas, and inform your theses in this rapidly evolving field.
Oct 10th, 2024 - Fighter Jets & Finance with Brex & Puzzl
Location: San Francisco
Time: 3-6:30pm
What: You are invited to a Founder & VC Mixer event hosted by Brex, Puzzle and Newmark to connect with fellow finance professionals and founders and be part of a thriving community in San Francisco during #TechWeek.
This will be a highly curated group of founders and finance professionals, and there will be flowing 🥂 and delicious 🍣, breathtaking views of the city and conversation starters. You'll leave with new friends, business connections, and new thoughts on how to hit that next level of personal or company growth.
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