Bay Area Events For The Week Of December 09
Featured Event
🚀 Silicon Valley’s Largest Pitch Event with a16z, SoftBank, BlackRock and More! 🚀
Hosted by: Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, Stanford GSB VC Alumni Chapter, Stanford Alumni WIN, and the Bay Area Founders Club
Location: Plug and Play Tech Center
Time: January 12–13, 2025
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Bay Area Events for the Week of December 09
Monday, December 09
Awesome AI Dev Tools - December
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
San Francisco AI Founder and VC Networking
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
The Match Experiment
Presented by: The Commons
Hosted by: Sleepawake, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Tuesday, December 10
Founders Run & Coffee!
Presented by: Founders Common
Hosted by: Founders Common, Nikki Heyder
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
GGW Pitch Bootcamp #4: Master Your Pitch
Hosted by: Go Global World
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
CoS SF Coffee Meetup (12/10)
Presented by: Chief of Staff Network Event Calendar
Hosted by: Chief of Staff Network, David Nebinski, Melinda Munroe
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST
Open Source AI With SambaNova & Hugging Face
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, SambaNova Systems, ahsen khaliq
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
AI Showcase: Revolutionizing the Service Industry
Presented by: Mission Dolores Manor
Hosted by: Mission Dolores Manor, Nisha Yan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Light DAO Holiday Social: Celebrating Community, Social Impact & Conscious Leadership (SF)
Presented by: Light Dao
Hosted by: Ruby Yeh, Payam Safa
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
X-mas Celebration & Learnings: Growth Playbook, Data Insights w/Puzzle and Carta
Presented by: 🧩 Puzzle Events
Hosted by: Dasha, Ryan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Founders & Funders | Dec10
Presented by: Ignite Community
Hosted by: Jessica Kobilova, Sydney Levin, Max Pivovarov
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
AI in Production + AI Agents Panels and Demos
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang, Teo Gonzalez, Quinton Wall
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
LangChain & Pear Present: Lessons from Scaling Consumer AI to 30K QPS - Fireside Chat with James Groeneveld (Engineering @ Character.ai)
Presented by: LangChain Events
Hosted by: Jess Ou, Vivien Ho, Linda Ye
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs
Hosted by: Louisa Lu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Wednesday, December 11
▶️ HeyGen x GenAI Collective 🧠 AI Video Gen Hackathon 🎥
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: The GenAI Collective, Chappy Asel, Claire Xue, Kevin Raheja
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM PST
-1 To Scale with Alexandr Wang
Presented by: South Park Commons
Hosted by: South Park Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST
MLOps Community Bay Area Holiday Party!!!
Hosted by: Rahul Parundekar, Hari Masoor, Shreeganesh Ramanan, Chandana Srinivasa, Audrey Liu, Demetrios, MLOps Community
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST
Anime+Manga x Tech: The Future of Japanese Entertainment
Hosted by: Kengo Naito, Yoshihisa Fujii, Greg Kufera, Evee Bui, coco nitta
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Women Founders Pitch & Showcase
Presented by: EchoHer Events
Hosted by: Qianwen, Jason Nyeh
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Document ETL for RAG and Semantic Search with Elastic and Aryn DocParse
Presented by: You Know, for Search
Hosted by: Olivia Petrie, AWS GenAI Loft, Philipp Krenn
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
People In Food! Holiday Party
Hosted by: Alan Bohannon, Kate Sullivan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Silicon Valley AI Think Tank: Women In AI
Presented by: AI Quick Bytes
Hosted by: Robert Franklin
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Humane Tech Meetup: Technology for Fairness & Justice
Presented by: FounderCulture
Hosted by: Angela Baylon, Christine Zhang, Erika Anderson, Louise Maniego
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Hack localhost w/ Flox & LocalStack
Presented by: Flox Meetups
Hosted by: Leigh Capili, Flox, LocalStack, Anca Ghenade, Adam Chan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
AI Builders Social | December series
Hosted by: Ihor Bauman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Breathwork & Meditation for Freediving - Dec. 11th
Presented by: The Commons
Hosted by: Olya Lapina, Ryan Trafton, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
SF Builders Happy Hour
Presented by: Grove AI
Hosted by: Tran L, Sohit Gatiganti, Vivien Ho
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
ai + health demo night
Hosted by: michael
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PST
📚 Short Story Symposium [public]
Hosted by: Mendel Liu, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Agents and the Future w Warren Packard & Andy Ku, Partners at Andrew Ng's AI Fund
Presented by: AI Agent Founders
Hosted by: Mikhil Raja
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Thursday, December 12
AI in Supply Chain and Manufacturing
Presented by: The Deep-Tech Community
Hosted by: Arjun Subedi, VC Nest
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Book Celebration! Digital Wellbeing with Caitlin Krause hosted by Treasury
Presented by: Treasury
Hosted by: treasury.space, Caitlin Krause
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Gentrace Holiday Party!
Presented by: Gentrace
Hosted by: Georgia Limcaoco, Daniel Liem, Vivek Nair, Doug Safreno, Steven Tsao, Jeff Cestra, Nick Enthoven, Melissa Martin, Raissa Largman, Josh Lebedinsky
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
The Generative Browser Summit: Intelligence & Interfaces
Hosted by: Dillon Kay, Varun Mathur
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
🎄 Pre-Christmas Asado 🥩
Hosted by: Fernando Franco, Sergio Zafra, Ismael Larrosa
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Private Xmas VC / Startup Champagne Party
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands, Hans Sandhu, Keshia Theobald-van Gent
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Women Tech Meetup X-Mas Party w/Fidelity Private Shares 🎄🥂
Presented by: Women Tech Meetup
Hosted by: Dasha, David @ Fidelity Private Shares
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
The Future of Work with AI: Innovation & Transformation
Presented by: Intercom
Hosted by: Applied AI Association, Robert Radusinovic, Alan Mc Glinchey
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Optimizing RAG: Leveraging Re-ranking and LLMs for Superior Results
Hosted by: Michael Ryaboy
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Ai Salon & BlueDot Impact
Presented by: the ai salon
Hosted by: Cecilia Callas, Ai Salon, Ian Eisenberg, Joshua Landes, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Brex SF Tech Holiday Party Après-ski
Presented by: Brex Startups Events
Hosted by: Jonathan Chang, Emily Manashi, Jason Mok, Anshul Shah, Shai Goldman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Founders & VCs: AI Go-To-Market & Product Market Fit Panels
Presented by: Founders Bay
Hosted by: Mariane Bekker, Cailin LaVallee, Tiffany Hicks, Jessica North
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Design holiday party
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Taylor Lyon, Mila Kogan, Claire Rausser
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
2024 Hardware Holiday Party @ Studio 55
Presented by: SF Hardware Meetup
Hosted by: michael, Nate
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PST
Friday, December 13
Friday AM Writing Club, by Writing the Wave
Presented by: Writing the Wave
Hosted by: Adam Saks
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST
📣 Aiify.io & Ontology of Value: AI x Future of Work (v.3); with Fetch.ai Innovation Lab
Presented by: Aiify.io (+partner) Events
Hosted by: Aiify.io Events, Fetch.ai Innovation Lab, Natalia Bielczyk, PhD, Steven Echtman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Climate AI Forum
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Mala Ramakrishnan, Amir Gur, Raymond Lee, Founders Creative, Johanna Behm
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST
Get Fit with WorkoutDAO
Presented by: WorkoutDAO
Hosted by: puncar, Trish
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM PST
From Scaling Startups to Successful Exits and Shaping Ventures: Insights from a Serial Entrepreneur Turned VC
Hosted by: Elev X! by NEC X
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PST
Saturday, December 14
ai + global health 24hr hack @ studio 45 (mission) with gxza health
Hosted by: michael, ahmad
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - December 15, 2:30 PM PST
Founders Running Club :: San Francisco
Presented by: FRC :: North America
Hosted by: Founders Running Club, Anna, Kristina Ryss, Anton Bulyonov, Oleg Godovykh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Pawsomic Saturday: Paws, People, and Big Ideas
Hosted by: Awesomic Founders Social Club, Pawrents, Roman Sevast, Stacy Pavlyshyna
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST
Sunday, December 15
Sunday Hike #4: Lands End Trail
Presented by: SF DESI
Hosted by: Simar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Sunday RUN with WorkoutDAO
Presented by: WorkoutDAO
Hosted by: puncar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
🌟 AI for Sales Roundtable
Presented by: 🌟 Sync & Spark
Hosted by: Ashley Du, Isabelle Feng
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST
About The Bay Area Founders Club
The Bay Area Founders Club (BFC), founded by Dr. Paul Fang in Silicon Valley in 2022 and managed by a dedicated group of Stanford alumni and students, is a thriving community of over 10,000 members, including more than 120 startups and over 200 venture capital firms. With most startups in our network raising $1-10 million, and some exceeding $20 million, our mission is to empower creators who aspire to make a global impact. We provide the essential resources, support, and connections needed to transform visionary ideas into reality.
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