Bay Area Events For The Week Of April 28
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 49 events lined up. Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Bay Area Events for the Week of April 28
Monday, April 28
AI in Security Awareness & People Security Management: 1:1 CISOs and Security Leaders Coffee Chat at RSA 2025
Presented by: Threatcop Inc.
Hosted by: Pavan Kushwaha
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - May 01, 8:00 PM PDT
Generative AI Summit | Pre-Kickoff Networking & Happy Hour!
Presented by: Generative AI
Hosted by: Deric Drazich, Alex Rankin
Location: Santa Clara, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - April
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Betting in AI: Conversation with Translink Capital and Qlay
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, OpenNetworkLab
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM PDT
Elastic, Red Hat & AWS — Data to Defense: Generative AI and RAG Powering Real-Time Threat Response
Presented by: You Know, for Search
Hosted by: Elastic, AWS GenAI Loft, James Spiteri, Sanjay Aiyagari, JD Armada, Philipp Krenn, dilip rajan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Founder Friends SF
Presented by: Hustle Fund Events
Hosted by: Hustle Fund
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Attentio AI Party
Hosted by: Attentio_AI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Learn to Build Anything using only AI - with Rene Turcios & $IAMAI
Presented by: SFOxZo
Hosted by: Zo House SF
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Talk AI over AI (Authentic Indian) with Straiker | RSAC
Presented by: Straiker
Hosted by: Straiker, Sreenath Kurupati
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Tuesday, April 29
FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Presented by: Founders Common
Hosted by: Founders Common, Nikki Heyder, Chris Ashley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Cyber Resilience: Agentic Infrastructure and GenAI for Complete Protection and Compliance
Hosted by: Tricia Lee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
The Art of Networking: A Masterclass with Whitnie Narcisse
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon
Location: zoom
Time: 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM PDT
Threat Modeling Connect RSA 2025 Meetup: Tacos, AI Security & Threat Modeling
Presented by: Threat Modeling Connect
Hosted by: Shuning Hsu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Security Uncorked
Presented by: Security Happy Hour
Hosted by: Alexandra Charikova, Charrah Hardamon, Ilijana
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
The Generative Browser Summit: Intelligence & Interfaces
Hosted by: Dillon Kay, Varun Mathur
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Data For AI Presents: The Open Source Afterparty W/ StarTree, Daft, Nvidia, Datastrato, & More!
Presented by: Data For AI Events
Hosted by: Lisa N. Cao, Jess Hamm, Lindsey Robertson, ChanChan Mao
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AGI Builders Meetup SF
Presented by: AGI Builders Meetup
Hosted by: Eric LIU, Chelsea Jan, Vrinda Damani, Nikhil Pareek
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Vibe Coding Demo Night ~ w/ Chroma & Jam.dev
Presented by: Jam.dev
Hosted by: Ian McClanan, Philip Thomas, Dani Grant, Ivanha Paz
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Foresight Neuro Salon Series: Lightning Round @ Frontier Tower
Presented by: Foresight Institute's In-person Events
Hosted by: Lydia La Roux, Frontier Tower | Berlinhouse
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
RSAC After-Hours at The Cipher Lounge
Presented by: Protopia AI
Hosted by: Mark Piening, Amy Tran, Eiman Ebrahimi
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Stripe x IVP Supper Club | AI x RSA Edition
Presented by: Funded: Founders & VCs
Hosted by: Asya @Stripe, Yuri Lee, Asya Bradley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
THREE YEARS OUR MAYOR: George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco
Hosted by: Jeremy Mack
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
After-Hours Security Sync with Modus Create, StackHawk, and GitHub
Hosted by: Linda Prime, Andy Dennis, Morgan Hennessy, Jesse Mendez, William Reyor, Krista Moseley, Alex Archuleta, Amy Gorden
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Wednesday, April 30
AI-ssential Breakfast: RSA
Presented by: Jit
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Open Future Forum Co working - Wait List
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
UK House: AI & Cyber Security - Balancing Risks and Rewards
Presented by: UK House - Department for Business & Trade
Hosted by: Plexal
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
OWASP Gen AI Security Project - Agentic Security Open Workshop
Hosted by: OWASP Gen AI Security Project
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI, Security + SciFi Bites & Cocktails during RSAC25
Presented by: Marvelous: Exclusive Events Curated by Top Hosts
Hosted by: Julie Tsai, Bhavya Gupta, Marvelous
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Realtime AI Meetup
Presented by: LiveKit
Hosted by: Russ Dsa, Michael Solati, LiveKit, Sarah Chieng
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Build IRL Showcase + 30 Club Bazaar 🎉
Hosted by: Build IRL, SHACK15
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Surreal: Interfaces
Hosted by: Mercedes Bent
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
OWASP Gen AI Security Community Networking Event
Presented by: OWASP
Hosted by: OWASP Gen AI Security Project
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI Agents in Sales
Presented by: Personize Events
Hosted by: Hamed Taheri, AWS GenAI Loft
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Thursday, May 01
MCP AI Hackathon – San Francisco Edition
Presented by: Fondo
Hosted by: Cassie Carter, One Chowdhury, David (CEO @ Fondo), Aba Micah , Elsa Mayer
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Mastering Product-Led Growth: A Conversation with Adam Gross, former CEO at Vimeo and Heroku
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
Meet AI Spokesperson and Attend AI Video Workshop at Sparknify Press Conference
Hosted by: Sparknify - Human vs. AI
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
UK HOUSE: Briefing on AI cyber security standard
Presented by: UK House - Department for Business & Trade
Hosted by: Plexal
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Invisible or Amplified? How AI Could Shape the Future of Marginalized Groups
Hosted by: Mallek Aminullah, Ryan MacCarrigan, Feng Gao, StartOut, Jessica Meksavan, Robert Radusinovic
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Startup Pitch Night
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Will Cassriel, Gangesh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Sip & Serve RSAC Afterparty
Presented by: Heavybit Events
Hosted by: Jesse Robbins, Joseph Ruscio, Tailscale, Wesley Beary, Chad Metcalf
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Prompt to Product: Vibe Coding with Canva Devs
Hosted by: Meredith Hassett
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
B2B AI Summit: Founders, Funders, and the Future of Enterprise Tech - Presented by Runa Capital, Z Potentials & J.P. Morgan
Hosted by: Denny Gabriel, Daniel Paredes, Shaheer, Z Potentials, Jess He
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
The AI Foundry Kickoff
Hosted by: Vasudha Badri-Paul
Location: San Ramon, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
The VINE : The Video Industry Networking Event
Presented by: The Vine
Hosted by: Eric Wise & Roy Wanguhu
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Agentic Commerce After Hours
Presented by: Of a New Generation
Hosted by: Adam Behrens, Mark Moriarty, Paul Klein, Lindsay Gilson, Lydia Hryshchyshyn, Jonathan Arena, Dylan Itzikowitz, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Friday, May 02
AI INFRA SUMMIT 3
Presented by: Ignite Community
Hosted by: Bill Barry, Jessica Kobilova, Nikki Barry
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
MCP and A2A Hackathon - AWS Edition
Presented by: Creators Corner
Hosted by: Giovanni Amenta, CreatorsCorner, Saroop Bharwani, Murtaza Meerza, AWS GenAI Loft, Simon Tiu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 7:30 PM PDT
Saturday, May 03
lazy hack @ Entrepreneurs First
Hosted by: Mat Allen, Sofia Mendez, Raf I, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
Sunday, May 04
CoCreate Conference (San Francisco)
Presented by: Design Buddies
Hosted by: Design Buddies, Grace Ling, Leon Zhang, Tim Hsia, Pat Santiago, Global Entrepreneurs Hub
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
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