Bay Area Events For The Week Of February 17
Good evening, 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 56 events lined up. Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Bay Area Events for the Week of February 17
Monday, February 17
📣 Step DUBAI - Silicon Valley Delegation: Application
Presented by: Step Conference
Hosted by: Step, Ray Dargham, Aiify.io Events, Steven Echtman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - February 23, 1:00 PM PST
Stanford Sensa + Alma: Going from Zero to One
Presented by: Alma
Hosted by: Alma, sravan kodali
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST
Tuesday, February 18
GCEA Pitch Day (Audience Registration)
Presented by: The Deep-Tech Community
Hosted by: CEO, Xinmeng, Arjun Subedi
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
AI Open Mic Night + Networking
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Jerome "J Dawg" Choo, Jason Koo, Chia Hwu, Diffbot, Weaviate, Neo4j, Wikimedia Enterprise
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Built on Bedrock Demo Nights
Presented by: AWS GenAI Loft Events
Hosted by: AWS GenAI Loft, Arte Merritt
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
AI Agents and Infrastructure - MLOps Community
Hosted by: Rahul Parundekar, MLOps Community, Shreeganesh Ramanan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
SF Game Development Featuring: A16Z Funded Founders
Presented by: SF Game Development
Hosted by: Jordan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Data for AI Presents: The Open Source Afterparty w/ Neo4J, Grafana, Kuzu, Datastrato & more!
Presented by: Data For AI Events
Hosted by: Lisa N. Cao, Lindsey Robertson, Jess Hamm, Quinton, Akriti
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Low-Key Data Happy Hour - San Francisco
Presented by: Low-Key Data Happy Hour - San Francisco
Hosted by: Paul Dudley, Tony Fancher
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Accelerate the Conversation - Hosted by Cerebras x Arc
Hosted by: Arc, Sarah Chieng, Daniel Kim
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Techstars Startup Weekend SF: Healthy Grind
Presented by: Techstars Startup Weekend SF
Hosted by: Juliana C, Nazar Gulyk, Yurii Filipchuk, Polina Poliakova
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Exclusive Fireside Chat with Carta's CFO
Presented by: 🧩 Puzzle Events
Hosted by: Dasha, Puzzle 🧩🚀, Ryan, Neil Shah
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Mutt Data MeatUp | Asado in San Jose
Hosted by: Florencia Granja | Mkt @MuttData.ai, Mateo de Monasterio | Co-Founder/CRO @ Muttdata.ai, Eduardo , Agustin Catini
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PST
🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 DeepSeek for Founders 🐳
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: The GenAI Collective, Mary daftarian, Chappy Asel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Wednesday, February 19
Agentic AI Hack Night
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, VESSL AI, Weaviate, CrewAI, Fireworks AI, Arize AI, Kelly Oh, Mikiko Bazeley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Capital Soiree: Growth Stage Dialogues
Presented by: Ignite Community
Hosted by: Jessica Kobilova
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Sui Blockchain & AI : A New Era Of Decentralized Intelligence
Presented by: Sui Community
Hosted by: Sui Community, Bijay, Alejandra Corbella
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
tldr 2 - tech happy hour sf
Hosted by: Max M
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Monthly Robotics & AI Meetup
Presented by: General Lithium HQ
Hosted by: Tony Loehr, Anna H, Justin Zelaya
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
ChatGPT Roulette SF
Presented by: Galileo Events
Hosted by: Erin Mikail Staples, Tilde Thurium, Dani Grant, Ivanha Paz
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
AI Innovators Forum: AI Agents in Action: Transforming Tomorrow's Solutions
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Mala Ramakrishnan, Sandra Cheung, Sandeep Kaipu, Jyothi Devakumar, Irina Pragin, Sahar Mor
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Silicon Valley Data & AI Tech Drinks - powered by tapestry®
Hosted by: Christopher Bartlett, Lauren
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST
AI For Designers #23
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
AI Growth Roundtable: 2025 Kickoff
Hosted by: Neha Mittal
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 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
Thursday, February 20
Google Cloud Lunch & Learn + Gemini Showcase
Presented by: StartX P25 Cohort Exclusive
Hosted by: StartX Team, Andrea Perdomo
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM PST
In-person - The Politics of Steel: Nippon Steel’s Fight to Acquire US Steel
Presented by: Japan Society of Northern California
Hosted by: Japan Society of Northern California, Bella Ahn
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PST
Thursday Crypto Run and Coffee
Presented by: WorkoutDAO
Hosted by: puncar, Trish, House of Web3
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
Virtual Workshop: From Zero to 8.5M Visitors: Learn the AI Growth Secrets
Presented by: FounderCoHo
Hosted by: FounderCoHo
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PST
Ai Salon: Personal Impact & Career Evolution
Presented by: the ai salon
Hosted by: Ai Salon, Ian Eisenberg
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Startup Pitch Night
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, OWOW, Gangesh, Connor McClean
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Hirable Agents, Bees, and Structured Output
Presented by: Bay Area AI
Hosted by: Alexy Khrabrov, yolande , Taka Shinagawa
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Beyond the Buzz: Find Your Perfect Sales Role in AI
Presented by: Windsurf Events Calendar
Hosted by: Windsurf
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
🌟 Founder Spotlight | Startup Showcase & Investor Hangout
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect, Murray, Anna Hong, UpScaleX.AI
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Hard Crypto - Bridging Physical & Digital Worlds + Co-Creator Spotlight
Presented by: House of Web3
Hosted by: House of Web3
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Building a Purposeful Career & Life with the President of DocuSign, Robert Chatwani
Hosted by: AIF Bay Area Young Professionals, Arthi Krishna, Harshul, Rachna
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Beta x Foundation Capital｜Founder & Investor Social
Presented by: Beta University Events
Hosted by: Gladys
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Y Combinator Meetup with Solidroad & Intercom
Presented by: Intercom
Hosted by: John Roche, Alan Mc Glinchey, Mark Hughes
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
AI Salon: Progress vs Flourishing [public]
Presented by: SuperHuman Society
Hosted by: Banu Kellner, Austin Fischer, Ai Salon, Virgile Blais, Ansh Juneja, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PST
AI in Your Product: What Works, What Fails, What Sells
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: enrich, Jordana Stein
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Friday, February 21
Pitch & Pace - Run Palo Alto
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Irsa Amerian, Yvonne Newlands
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM PST
GGW Sharks #52. Startup Pitch & Networking
Hosted by: Go Global World
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
Investing in Generative AI Startups: Live Networking
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Mala Ramakrishnan
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST
RiskHorizon AI: What its like being a pioneer on the era of AI
Hosted by: Douglas McCluer
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
Google, Llama, & DeepSeek - Everything You Need to Know
Presented by: AI Webinars
Hosted by: Murray
Location: zoom
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
Groundfloor Social: Happy Hour
Hosted by: Groundfloor Club
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Google, Llama, & DeepSeek - Everything You Need to Know
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Engineering trivia night! by OpenAI, SignalFire and LaunchDarkly.
Presented by: SignalFire Events
Hosted by: Jarod, Andrew Baker, Lizzie Siegle
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Food Tour & Tech :: SF
Hosted by: Food Tour & Tech
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
🔧 Cracking the B2C Code: AI, Growth Secrets from Instacart, Plant Story (Series A+), and $40M+ Serial Founder
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect, Murray, Anna Hong, UpScaleX.AI
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Engineers Only: GPU Hackathon – Fine-Tune DeepSeek + Master Chess 🇺🇸
Presented by: Strong Compute
Hosted by: Bec Pham, Ben Sand
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - February 22, 8:30 PM PST
Saturday, February 22
VC / Founder Sailing on the San Francisco Bay
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands, Irsa Amerian
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM PST
Founders Running Club :: SF
Presented by: FRC :: North America
Hosted by: Founders Running Club, Anton Bulyonov, Anna, andrei katukhin, Sergey Komardenkov, Alan Mc Glinchey
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Stop AI Justice For Suchir Protest at OpenAI
Presented by: Stop AI Events
Hosted by: Stop AI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST
Lo-fi Hack #1 - Demo Hour
Hosted by: Abhi C
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM PST
Sunday, February 23
the intersection of art & technology #10
Presented by: tiat (the intersection of art & technology)
Hosted by: ash
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
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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 30,000 members, including more than 1000 startups and over 350 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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