Bay Area Events For The Week Of April 21
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 80 events lined up. Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Featured Event
AI x Investment
Presented by: Gossip Goblin
Hosted by: Gossip Goblin, Mariane Bekker, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Bay Area Events for the Week of April 21
Monday, April 21
OutRun CO2 Club @ SF Climate Week! 👟
Hosted by: Parker Hughes, Sophie Purdom, Maggie Mullooly, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:50 AM - 8:00 AM PDT
Hard Tech and Hard Pavement: SFCW25 Welcome Run with Ammobia and Banc of Cal
Presented by: Ammobia
Hosted by: Patrick Gibson, Karen Baert, SF Climate Week, Sophia Spurlock
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Walk & Talk - Climate-Ready Operating Systems with Systemiq Capital
Hosted by: Jasper Wigley, Louis Millon, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
SF Climate Week 2025 Energy Hackathon - Hosted by Bayou Energy, Palmetto, Shovels, Stepchange, Texture and Virta Ventures
Hosted by: James Gordey, Ben Shwab Eidelson, Anay Shah, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
Nature Data: Monitoring the Future of Biodiversity
Hosted by: Tom Quigley, 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Kate Wing, Alex Logan, SF Climate Week, Molly Webster, Bourhan Yassin
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Planet Positive Personal Finance: Making Every Dollar Count for the Planet
Hosted by: Chaun Lowe, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:45 PM PDT
AI for Energy & Energy for AI
Hosted by: Ajay Gupta, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Sustainable Sparks: Innovators’ Gathering on Future of Energy
Hosted by: Phoebe Zhang, SF Climate Week, Virginia Calkins
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Official SFCW Welcome Ceremony - Presented by Climatebase
Presented by: San Francisco Climate Week 2025
Hosted by: SF Climate Week, Climatebase
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Data Reboot: Lightning Talks & Mixer
Presented by: Recce
Hosted by: Karen Hsieh, Sahar Mor, CL Kao, Amrutha Gujjar, Shivam Singhal, Jared Scott
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Creating Change: The Power of Art in The Climate Movement + A Creative Workshop
Hosted by: Karan Rathod, Andy Rapista, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SF Climate Week Happy Hour with Mercury & Leap Forward Ventures 2025
Presented by: Mercury
Hosted by: Mercury, Leap Forward Ventures, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI x Investment
Presented by: Gossip Goblin
Hosted by: Gossip Goblin, Mariane Bekker, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AI Pioneers in San Francisco
Presented by: Hanwha Asset Management USA
Hosted by: Hanwha Asset Management USA, YJ Lee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
The Initial Commit: Day 0 Welcome Party with Bessemer, Zetta & Zero Prime
Presented by: Data Council '25
Hosted by: Yang Tran, Pete Soderling, Bessemer, Lauri Moore, Apoorva Pandhi, Janelle Teng
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Founders x Connection: Exploring the Co-Founder Journey
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Fauzan Maulana, Sway, Josh Broward
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Tuesday, April 22
SF Climate Week Run 2025
Presented by: Streamline
Hosted by: Streamline Climate, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PDT
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
Data Council 2025 | AI & Data Conference | Oakland
Presented by: Data Council '25
Hosted by: Data Council, Pete Soderling
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 8:00 AM - April 24, 6:00 PM PDT
Agentic AI Hike and Smoothies, Vol. II
Presented by: AO Labs
Hosted by: Sebastián Hernández, Renée Rosillo, Azul Garza, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Carbon Connections: A Climate Week Networking Walk with Offstream and M1C
Hosted by: Emma Hebert, SF Climate Week, Varsha Ramesh Walsh, Atlas Berry
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Into the Vectorverse at AWS GenAI Loft
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: AWS GenAI Loft, Comet, Weaviate, Antispace, Adam Chan, Chingun Khasar, Megan Radney
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM PDT
Building a Portfolio Career: Diversifying to Design the Career You Want
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
UC LAUNCH DEMO DAY Spring 2025
Hosted by: Adeeba Fazil
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM PDT
Designing and scaling desirable climate solutions
Hosted by: Mark Grozen-Smith, Veronique Lafargue, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Harvest home tour in the Mission 4 (Smart Thermal Battery Live!)
Presented by: Harvest Events
Hosted by: Harvest Events, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
World Wild Web & AI Hack Night @Cloudflare in SF
Presented by: Fiberplane
Hosted by: Fiberplane, Andre Landgraf, Neon, Cloudflare Developer Events
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Carbon Markets Happy Hour: Meet Innovators Across the Space
Presented by: Forliance
Hosted by: Patrick Rahill, SF Climate Week, Aliya Gorelick
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
YPE 5th Annual Earth Day Trivia
Presented by: YPE SF Bay Area Events
Hosted by: YPE SF Bay Area, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
The Collabyrinth: Connecting To Your Oasis Moment
Presented by: The Collabyrinth
Hosted by: Tida Beattie, Build IRL, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Search, Retrieval, Training, and Analytics with Modern AI Data Lake
Presented by: Data and AI Engineering
Hosted by: Salar Rahmanian, Jasmine Wang (LanceDB)
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
OPENING FLAGSHIP EVENT –– Stanford to Action: Tackling the Climate Crisis Across all 7 schools
Presented by: Stanford Climate Week 2025
Hosted by: Stanford Energy Club
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Rooted in Rainbows: Cultivating Queer Climate Connections
Hosted by: Jessica Carver, SF Climate Week, Madison Reichhold
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Data Renegades: Break the Rules, Build the Future
Presented by: Recce
Hosted by: Karen Hsieh, CL Kao, Noel Gomez, Tyson Mao, Florence P, Bauplan, Yoni Michael, Kostas Pardalis, Jared Scott
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, April 23
Navigating the New Industrial Era
Hosted by: Stefano Ezelino, Milo Werner, Nathaniel Ezolino
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
The AI x Marketing Summit
Presented by: <ai/> x Marketing
Hosted by: Arjun Saksena, Anuj Sharma , Aquibur Rahman, Zeeshan Akhtar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - April 24, 7:00 PM PDT
Building AGI for Climate and Weather: Advanced Model Training on AWS HyperPod
Hosted by: Stephen Blalock, Lisbeth Kaufman, AWS GenAI Loft, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Statsig Community Lunch
Presented by: Statsig Event Calendar
Hosted by: Morgan Scalzo, Sami Springman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
The Tenderloin People’s Garden: a Decentralized Model for Urban Agriculture and Land Stewardship
Presented by: Eristem
Hosted by: Linh Hoang, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Official SF Climate Week Energy Summit - Presented by Climatebase
Presented by: San Francisco Climate Week 2025
Hosted by: SF Climate Week, Climatebase
Time: 11:30 AM - 6:30 PM PDT
Carbon Newbie Summit at SF Climate Week 2025
Presented by: Carbon Newbie Summit
Hosted by: Michelle Li, SF Climate Week, Carbon Newbie
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:15 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley
Presented by: Unicorn Events
Hosted by: Leo Soroka, Viktoriia Stepanenko
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Workshop: Build & Launch 🚀 AI Agents on Agentverse by Fetch.ai
Presented by: Fetch.ai Innovation Lab
Hosted by: Fetch.ai Innovation Lab, Aiify.io Events, Steven Echtman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SF Ruby Meetup, April @ Sentry
Presented by: SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup
Hosted by: Irina Nazarova, Cameron Dutro
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
GGW Sharks. Startup Pitch & Networking for Founders and Investors
Hosted by: Go Global World, Danil Kislinskiy, Werqwise, Kevin Mei
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Indie Dev Bytes with Heavybit @Data Council
Presented by: Heavybit Events
Hosted by: Mina Benothman, Ted Carstensen, Dana Oshiro, Jesse Robbins, Data Council, Chad Metcalf
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SF Climate Week: SWE GGS AI and Sustainability Panel
Presented by: SWE Golden Gate Social Calendar
Hosted by: SWE Golden Gate, Good Machine Studio, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Dawn of the agentic economy: Meetup by Apify @ Intercom
Presented by: Apify Events
Hosted by: Apify, Jan Curn, Ondra Urban, Alan Mc Glinchey
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Arize AI Builders Meetup @ GitHub
Presented by: Arize AI
Hosted by: Arize AI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Official SF Climate Week Founder and Investor Happy Hour - Hosted by SE Ventures & Climatebase
Presented by: San Francisco Climate Week 2025
Hosted by: SF Climate Week, Climatebase, SE Ventures, 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Data On Tap with GreatPoint Ventures & Espresso AI
Hosted by: Anita Khamvongsa, GreatPoint Ventures, Gautam Krishnamurthi, Krish Kohli, Ray Lane, Ashok, Marthe Naudts
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Computer Use Agent Dinner w Nikunj Handa, Product @ OpenAI
Presented by: Agents and the Future
Hosted by: Mikhil Raja, Mouad Hadji, Ted Nyman, John Bohlmann
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
📚 Short Story Symposium [public]
Hosted by: Mendel Liu, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
San Francisco Climate Changemakers Hour of Action
Presented by: San Francisco Climate Changemakers
Hosted by: Emma Tucher, TJ Brown, Climate Changemakers, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Thursday, April 24
The AI Rabbit Hole 2025
Presented by: MadHats
Hosted by: MadHats.ai, DVC, Josh Constine, Founders Bay, Henry Yin, Aiify.io Events, GenAI Collective, Anto Patrex, Quantum Society, Sahar Mor, Geleta, Vently
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
Making a break into AI Venture Capital: Live Networking in San Francisco
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Mala Ramakrishnan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Session 3: AI Agents & Combating Digital Misinformation
Presented by: BRIDGEGOOD
Hosted by: Mubarak Haruna, Alexander Au, Sahar Mor, Shaun Tai, Elisa Feng, Elise, David Landa
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
AI Experience Salon: Designing Agentic Experiences
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Mala Ramakrishnan, Ranjeet Tayi, Anand Madhavan
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
AI Agent Masterclass Hands-on workshop for building smarter agents (Waitlist is Open - 135 event capacity)
Presented by: San Francisco MLOps Community
Hosted by: MLOps Community, Rahul Parundekar, Lambda.ai
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
The Future of AI-Driven Reliability w/ Rootly, Y-Combinator, a16z, Google Cloud, Anthropic, Postman, Sentry, & Browserbase
Presented by: Rootly
Hosted by: Rootly
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
SkyPilot AI Infra Meetup
Presented by: SkyPilot Events
Hosted by: Romil Bhardwaj, Anyscale
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Futureproof: Climate Edition with Nirman Ventures
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, SF Climate Week, Nikhil Choudhary, Gregg Wallace, Kevin T, Vera Maslova, ScienceMe
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Living Sustainably with Wildfire: Science for Solutions
Presented by: Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative Events
Hosted by: Western Fire & Forest Resilience Collaborative, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Climate Tech's Next Winners
Presented by: Heatmap News
Hosted by: Heatmap News, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
2nd Coffee + Happy Hour ClimateTech Bay Area Mixer - SFCW25
Presented by: Climate Value Network
Hosted by: Amir Gur, SF Climate Week, Paul Breslow
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI on the Edge Series: Sustainable Tech and on-device AI for Climate Innovators
Hosted by: Mind the Bridge, Lauren Lunde, Nick Debeurre, SF Climate Week, Keyi Kang Yao , YPE SF Bay Area
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Ocean Film Screening - Sequoias of the Sea
Hosted by: Ana Blanco, SF Climate Week, Blue Frontier, Newday Impact Investing, Sequoias of the Sea, Inernational Ocean film Festival
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Next-Gen GPU Programming: Hands-On with Mojo & MAX @ Modular HQ
Presented by: Modular
Hosted by: Modular
Location: Los Altos, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Down the AI Rabbit Hole Tech GigaParty @ Temple [Investor Panels, Pitches, Demos, DJs w/ SignalFire, Blackrock, Plug & Play]
Presented by: Founders Bay Event
Hosted by: Mariane Bekker, Kristopher Floyd, MadHats.ai, Founders Bay, Vently, Josh Constine, Brian Sparkes, Elizabeth Swaney, OLY (Olympian), Steven Echtman, Global Entrepreneurs Hub, Tim Hsia, Chris DN, Melanie Uno, Janet Gehrmann, Claire Xie, Zahava Stroud, Gargi K Kand - Nova / Vently, Adam Swig, FounderCoHo, Women in AI Club, Jordan Wahbeh, Henry Yin, Anto Patrex, Quantum Society, Jessica Kobilova, Jeni Chang, Dr Pavel Vinitsky, Gangesh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - April 25, 2:00 AM PDT
Atmo AI + Typhoons Party
Presented by: Atmo
Hosted by: Alex Levy, Johan Mathe, Samantha Hipple, Tania Abbaszadeh, SF Climate Week, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Art and Change - Opening Mixer
Hosted by: Audrey H, SF Climate Week, Climate Reality Project Bay Area Chapter, Renee DeCarlo
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
121st SF Hardware Meetup @ Sofar Ocean | Climate Tech
Presented by: SF Hardware Meetup
Hosted by: michael, Nate
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Rands in Repose: Mastering the Art of Managing with Michael Lopp - Engineering Leader at Apple
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
CalAcademy Party After Dark
Hosted by: CalAcademy, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 PM - April 25, 12:00 AM PDT
Friday, April 25
SF Climate Week Gravel Ride – feat. the reveal of a new custom bike startup!
Presented by: Streamline
Hosted by: Helena Merk, Streamline Climate, SF Climate Week, Anna Lindström
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Community Run @ SF Climate Week
Hosted by: Kelly McCarthy, SF Climate Week, Aly Hudson
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:15 AM - 9:15 AM PDT
Rising Tide (LIVE)
Hosted by: Fluid Studios, SF Climate Week, Blue Frontier
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
SF Climate Week: Climate Careers Picnic
Hosted by: SHARMILA SINGH, SF Climate Week
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
🌿✨ Rooted and Rising: Women Founders Gathering in Golden Gate Park ✨🌿
Hosted by: Greenhouse Women, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Meet & Make: An interactive gender x climate workshop by IDEO.org
Hosted by: IDEO.org, Project Drawdown, Vibrant Data Labs, Claudia Sosa Lazo, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI Engineering Salon: Agent Workshop
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Mala Ramakrishnan, Ram, Founders Creative, Sandeep Kaipu, Sandra Cheung
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Climate Policy Jeopardy + Mixer
Presented by: Citizens' Climate Lobby SF
Hosted by: Citizens' Climate Lobby SF, Lindsey Alami, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
DEV TOOL Founders x Investors Night
Hosted by: Aditya Rohit, Isaline Goudeau, Sahar Mor, Yujian Tang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Democratizing AI: AI is Nothing Without Non-tech People
Presented by: GenAI Assembling
Hosted by: GenAI Assembling, Zy Wang, Jessica Zhang, Sahar Mor, Eric LIU
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
The Future of AI for Good: Transforming Industries for a Sustainable Future
Hosted by: Katie Marchini, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Saturday, April 26
California Native Homeland Festival
Hosted by: Association of Ramaytush Ohlone, SF Climate Week
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Death Cafe - Downtown Berkeley Central Library
Hosted by: Jason Popko
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Future of Web Hackathon
Presented by: All Things Web
Hosted by: Andre Landgraf, Erik Thorelli, Sentry
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:30 AM - 8:30 PM PDT
The Matchbox Games
Presented by: 611 Events
Hosted by: Alisia Blair
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Sunday, April 27
BARRE, BRUNCH & BAUBLES 🥂✨
Presented by: Del Sol Wellness
Hosted by: Del Sol Wellness
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
AI Build Jam
Presented by: Mission Dolores Manor
Hosted by: Leandra T, Mission Dolores Manor, Joël
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Rooftop BSidesSF Afterparty (RSAC opening)
Presented by: c/side
Hosted by: Carlo D'Agnolo, Simon Wijckmans, Ian Garrata, Amjed Aboukhadijeh, Jay Keswani, Feross Aboukhadijeh, David Mytton, Adrienne Lichten
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
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