Hello, BFC Fam! Get ready for an exciting week ahead with the most comprehensive summary of Bay Area events! This week, we have a total of 41 events lined up. Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Bay Area Events for the Week of April 07
Monday, April 07
Navigating the AI Tide: Empowering Global AI Ventures
Hosted by: Google Cloud Events, Eric LIU
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Qdrant AI Builders : Deep Dive into MCP @ AWS Loft with CrewAI & Arize
Hosted by: Thierry Damiba, AWS GenAI Loft, Madelyn Duhon
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Berkeley VC and Startup Summit
Hosted by: Marcus Wong, Bosco Yeung, Daryl Png, Emily Fang, Hari Parthasarathy
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Beyond the Model! with TQ Ventures, OpenAI, and LangChain
Presented by: Cloudflare
Hosted by: Lizzie Siegle, Jana Iris, Prashant Mital, Brace Sproul, Sahar Mor, Ricky Robinett
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
BioML Seminar 2.2 - A Unifying Model of Gene Regulation with David Kelley
Presented by: BioML @ Berkeley
Hosted by: Aakarsh Vermani
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Tuesday, April 08
Station Pop-Up #3
Presented by: SF Railyards
Hosted by: SF Railyards Outreach
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Sales Tactics: What Works, What Doesn't | A Peer-Led Discussion for Founders & Entrepreneurs
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon
Location: zoom
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
AI Lab SF Lunch & Learn - 🚀 Weekly AI Training Series: Vibe Coding with Azure OpenAI Service
Presented by: PAI Palooza Presents - Microsoft Build with AI - 2025
Hosted by: Rely Capital, Allen Smith, awmit 👾
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Turning AI into Action: why LLMs + Iceberg + AWS = ❤️ and how to build AI products at scale
Hosted by: AWS GenAI Loft, Yusuf Ozuysal, James Cha-Earley, Apache Polaris (Incubating) Community
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI in HR 2025 Kickoff Presented by Indeed.com's Venture Team!
Hosted by: EJ Lawless, Justin Ziebell, Maya Marrero English, Kyle Getsiv, Tim
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Open Source AI Meetup
Hosted by: Juan Cai, Jesus Villalobos, David Hefter, Ben Mangum, Jess Ou, Linda Ye
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI Papers | Roundtable (Deception) [members only]
Hosted by: Darth Vader, The SF Commons, Saba Imran
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Wednesday, April 09
Open House Proposed Concept Workshop #3
Presented by: SF Railyards
Hosted by: SF Railyards Outreach
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
AI Agents in HealthCare
Presented by: The Deep-Tech Community
Hosted by: Arjun Subedi
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Daytona AI Builders SF April '25
Hosted by: Daytona
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Cloudflare Dev Week: San Francisco
Hosted by: Cloudflare Developer Events, Cloudflare Startup Events, Lizzie Siegle
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Drop-In A Cappella Workshop
Presented by: Bay Area A Cappella
Hosted by: Robert Lee, Acahub
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
LLM Fine-tuning Techniques: Day 1
Presented by: SupportVectors AI Events & Meetings
Hosted by: Asif Qamar
Location: Fremont, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Thursday, April 10
KODIF Partner Alliance: AI in Customer Experience for Digitally Native Brands
Hosted by: Austin Chen, Mike Zayonc, Karen Darling, Kelsey Moburg, Tomek Nowinski, Tim Smith, Eric Markarin
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
OneSixOne Ventures Fitness For Founders Hike
Hosted by: CHRISTOPHER KENNAMER
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
AI & Web Community Night at Cloudflare
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Nele Uhlemann, Fiberplane, Weaviate
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Builders Happy Hour @ Riza
Presented by: Riza
Hosted by: Jess L, Andrew Benton, Kyle Gray
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
AI in Action | Deployment & Discussion
Presented by: Life Science Tech Collective
Hosted by: Life Science Tech Collective, Reza Khosravi
Location: Redwood City, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Ai Salon: The future of software engineering [SF]
Presented by: the ai salon
Location: San Francisco, California
Time:17:30 - 19:30 PM PDT
Immigrant Founders Networking @ Microsoft Reactor
Presented by: OpenSphere.ai
Hosted by: Atal Agarwal, Natalie Pan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI After Hours @ GitHub w/ Encord
Presented by: Artificially Intelligent
Hosted by: Maya Nayyar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Celebrating Women in AI and ML
Hosted by: Assembled
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
HealthTech & AI Startup Pitch Night – Silicon Valley
Presented by: BLOCK71 Silicon Valley
Hosted by: BLOCK71 Silicon Valley, Vincent Song, Angeline Tan, Daryl Png, Emily Fang
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Agents for the Real World: A Founder & Engineer Meetup
Hosted by: Pallet, Christopher Maddock, Nilkanth Patel, Jayadev Bhaskaran, Emma Fanning, Mintlify, Anahita Sahu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Happy hour with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco
Presented by: LWVSF Events
Hosted by: League of Women Voters of San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
QonfX: Future of Testing | San Francisco
Presented by: QonfX | Future of Testing Week | Age of AI
Hosted by: The Test Tribe
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
AI & Robotics
Presented by: IASV Seed Ventures Events
Hosted by: Ed Dua
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Trends In Medtech & NeuroTech with AI @ UC Berkeley
Presented by: Life Science Entreprenuers
Hosted by: Life Science Entrepreneurs, Cythika Bopearachchi, Dom Gorecki, Varun Turlapati, Kruti
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
CompScience & AI Insurance Insider Table for Risk Professionals
Presented by: CompScience Events
Hosted by: T Palmer Agency, Cameron MacArthur, Josh Butler
Location: Walnut Creek, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Graph Neural Networks: Day 1
Presented by: SupportVectors AI Events & Meetings
Hosted by: Asif Qamar
Location: Fremont, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Friday, April 11
Decode Your AMH for a Healthier Future
Hosted by: HRC Fertility, Serena Moy
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PDT
Finvest Launch Party
Hosted by: Anmol Verma, Shivam Bharuka, Arnav Agarwal
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Saturday, April 12
Re-Weird the Web
Hosted by: Isaline Goudeau, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM PDT
Visions of the Future Hackathon
Presented by: SuperHuman Society
Hosted by: Banu Kellner, SuperHuman Society, Federico Bucchi, 𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 🏛️🧠🔮👾, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
"The Great Yawn of History" Film Screening + Reception (Proceeds support the artist’s future projects.)
Hosted by: Mohsen Hejrati, Hanieh Khaleghian
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Sunday, April 13
SPC x Anthropic Hackathon Demo Night
Presented by: South Park Commons
Hosted by: South Park Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
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Looks like an incredible event. I am not able to get there living Down Under. However, I would love to hear all about it. For all who live in the Bay Area and are involved in the start up community you are very lucky.