Bay Area Events For The Week Of January 20
Bay Area Events for the Week of January 20
Monday, January 20
Transfer of Power & Pancakes at General Lithium
Presented by: General Lithium
Hosted by: Tony Loehr, Anna H, Justin Zelaya
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
Walrus and Chill -Tech Talk & Happy Hour
Presented by: The Crypto Community
Hosted by: Murray, Sui Community, Alejandra Corbella
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Tuesday, January 21
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
Unlocking Oral Health with Blockchain: BrushO at Stanford
Hosted by: BrushO
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PST
Tomorrow's Sky: Introducing the Pivotal Helix
Presented by: Pivotal
Hosted by: Pivotal Flights
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
SF Game Development Featuring: Tipalti, Tryhard Consulting & Fabulationary
Presented by: SF Game Development
Hosted by: Jordan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Founders & Influencers SF meetup
Presented by: Ed's Community
Hosted by: Ed Giansante, Persona Community, Gladys, Manoj Kumar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:45 PM - 8:00 PM PST
You Raised, Now What? Hacking Hypergrowth with Z Venture Capital (VC Arm of Yahoo! Japan and LINE)
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, Hyung Kim, OpenNetworkLab
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 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
Wednesday, January 22
-1 To D'Angelo
Presented by: South Park Commons
Hosted by: South Park Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM PST
TechWalk | Silicon Valley, 1/22
Presented by: TechWalk
Hosted by: Caroline Gomes, Rupa Bhagwat, Christine Farrier Rosemin
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
AI Tools Hack Night at GitHub
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Jason Koo, William Lyon, Jerome "J Dawg" Choo, Anushrut Gupta, Weaviate, Hypermode, Neo4j, Diffbot, Hasura
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
How To DAO Book Launch
Presented by: How To DAO
Hosted by: puncar, Kevin Owocki, Trish, Alejandra Corbella, Kent Fenwick, Charlie Feng, Yitong Zhang, Electric Capital
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
B.E.L.L.E Startup Showcase & Networking
Presented by: B.E.L.L.E Community
Hosted by: Lenka Huang, Anna Hong
Location: 3 Embarcadero Ctr (the Mosaic space on the first floor (near the lobby)
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
HealthTech + AI : The Investment Landscape
Presented by: The Healthcare Community
Hosted by: Murray, Ed Dua
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
1/22 Carbon Removal Tour @ Charm Industrial
Presented by: Charm Tours
Hosted by: Sebastian Smith
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM PST
AI Agent Founder Dinner w Brooke Hopkins, Founder @ Coval (YC S24)
Presented by: Agents and the Future
Hosted by: Mikhil Raja, Ted Nyman, Mouad Hadji, John Bohlmann
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
AI Product Security Dinner (Cupertino)
Hosted by: Pangea
Location: Cupertino, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
San Jose Meetup with Health Tech Nerds
Presented by: Health Tech Nerds Local Meetups
Hosted by: Health Tech Nerds, Jenny Jiang
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Compound AI Systems: January/MTV
Presented by: Compound AI Systems
Hosted by: Ester Shmulyian, Jasmine Wang (LanceDB), Kobie Crawford, Sahar Mor
Location: Mountain View, 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
Principles: or Why Being Pragmatic is Impractical
Hosted by: Clarion, Leon Smith, Louis Gachot, Kunal Shah
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Thursday, January 23
Qdrant AI Builders: Agentic RAG for Beginners @ AWS Loft
Hosted by: Qdrant, AWS GenAI Loft, David Myriel, Madelyn Duhon, Manuel Meyer, Todd Diddier
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM PST
AI Innovators Forum
Presented by: Founders Creative Organization
Hosted by: Meera Vaidyanathan, Sandra Cheung, Jyothi Devakumar, Mala Ramakrishnan, Founders Creative, Sandeep Kaipu, Sahar Mor
Location: Redwood City, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
AI/ML Infra Meetup with Anyscale & Alluxio (San Francisco)
Presented by: Alluxio
Hosted by: Hope Wang, Anyscale, Chenjia Guo
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Buzz & Brew Happy Hour: API Dev Tools
Presented by: Speakeasy
Hosted by: Samantha Wen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
13th Peninsula ClimateTech Coffee and Happy Hour
Presented by: Climate Network
Hosted by: Amir Gur, The Hub RWC, Divya Demato, Sara Stojkovic, Paul Breslow, Natalia Bielczyk, PhD
Location: Redwood City, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley
Presented by: Unicorn Events
Hosted by: Leo Soroka, Viktoriia Stepanenko
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Silicon Valley Founders & Investors-Networking Mixer
Presented by: borderless builders by owow
Hosted by: Gangesh, Eli Al-Shamari, Global Entrepreneurs Hub, Beta University, Edward Zhou, Gladys
Location: Fremont, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
San Francisco Startup Comedy Roast w/Puzzle & Brex
Presented by: 🧩 Puzzle Events
Hosted by: Dasha, Gaby Levey (Brex), Neal (NSDS Tech Comedy)
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
🌟 The Future of AI Interfaces (w/ OpenAI) 🌟
Hosted by: Dev Iyer, Brad G, San Francisco UXD
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
AI For Developers #22
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger , Cyril Attia
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 Marin 1st Birthday Social
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: The GenAI Collective, Chris Guest, Sahar Mor, ✨BRETT BERHOFF✨
Location: San Rafael, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Socratic Society Drink & Think
Presented by: Socratic Society
Hosted by: Leo Zaroff, Lucy Huang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Friday, January 24
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
Pitch & Pace - Run Palo Alto
Hosted by: Irsa Amerian, Murray, Yvonne Newlands
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 8:45 AM - 10:30 AM PST
Food Tour & Tech :: SF
Hosted by: Food Tour & Tech
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Legal AI: Transforming Justice, Compliance, and Innovation
Presented by: EchoHer Events
Hosted by: Qianwen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PST
The Match Experiment
Presented by: Sleepawake Events Calendar
Hosted by: Sleepawake
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM PST
Saturday, January 25
Women in AI RAG Hackathon @ Stanford
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: The GenAI Collective, W2D2, Chloe Williams, Yujian Tang
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM PST
GenAI & Emerging Tech GITPRO World Conference
Presented by: GITPRO World Gen AI & Emerging Tech Conference
Hosted by: Global Indian Technology Professionals Association (GITPRO), Gargi K Kand
Location: Milpitas, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 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
Women Rise to Lead | Brunch and Panel
Hosted by: Well Connected Women
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PST
Can VC's even code - Hackathon
Hosted by: C.C. Gong, Jake Epstein, Jo Zhu
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
Book club: Thinking with Type
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Taylor Lyon, Claire Rausser, San Francisco UXD
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
🤖 AI & B2B SMB/Enterprise Tech: Insights from Industry Titans (Hubspot, Informatica, Turing, Indeed)
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect, Ruby Zhang, Hongyu Song, sylvia, Sahar Mor, Murray, Anna Hong
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
ACCELR8 | Hacker Hotpot + Korean BBQ w/ Mission Dolores Manor
Presented by: ACCELR8 Hacker House
Hosted by: Pat Santiago, Mission Dolores Manor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM PST
Sunday, January 26
Supremacy by Parmy Olson
Presented by: Hardcover | Nonfiction Book Club
Hosted by: Simar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PST
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