Bay Area Events For The Week Of January 27
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Bay Area Events for the Week of January 27
Monday, January 27
Women's Health Founders: Intimate Funding & Connection Session
Hosted by: Livia Han, Dr Valerie Cai, Maria Lence
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - January
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Designer x Founder meet and greet + demos!
Presented by: Design Buddies
Hosted by: Design Buddies, Grace Ling, Leon Zhang, Dovetail
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
A To B Round Fundraising For AI Startups In 2025
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands, Irsa Amerian
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Crypto for Change: Redefining Civic Engagement in SF
Hosted by: Alejandra Corbella
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
SF Founders Brew Mixer
Presented by: Founders Brew
Hosted by: Peter Rallojay, Atharva Shrivastava, Daivik Goel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Bull Run? Let's Demo It.
Hosted by: Suffiyan Malik, Draper University, Aaliyah Barker, Arisa Chelsea Ueno
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Tuesday, January 28
Women's Health Morning Walk & Coffee
Hosted by: Livia Han, Dr Valerie Cai
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST
MLOps Community x Google Cloud Meetup: Data Security
Presented by: San Francisco MLOps Community
Hosted by: Chandana Srinivasa, Hari Masoor, Rahul Parundekar, MLOps Community
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Building Reliable AI Agents: From POC to Production
Hosted by: Gaurav Agarwal, Sahar Mor, Lochan Alagh, James
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST
Data in AI - Agents and More
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang, Quinton Wall
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Women in AI: San Francisco Happy Hour hosted by Create.xyz
Presented by: Create
Hosted by: Zaria Zinn
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
AI After Hours - Robotics & Physical AI Founder Special @ GitHub
Presented by: Artificially Intelligent
Hosted by: Maya Nayyar, Dillon Carrico
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
THE GATHERING
Presented by: THE GATHERING
Hosted by: Dasha
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Build AI Projects at Amazon
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, AWS GenAI Loft, Weaviate, restack, Martin Bach
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 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
Deep Tech & AI Innovations in ClimateTech with Tom Chi - Light Dao Salon (SF)
Presented by: Light Dao
Hosted by: Ruby Yeh, Payam Safa, Derek Smith
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM PST
Cafe Compute: Lunar New Year Edition 🐲
Presented by: Cerebras
Hosted by: Sarah Chieng, BCV Events (LC), Daniel Kim, Amanda Huang, Slater Stich
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST
🌟 SF Designers Hangout
Hosted by: Johnny Huang, Design Buddies, Grace Ling
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PST
Wednesday, January 29
AI For Marketers
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands, Irsa Amerian
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
SF Demo Night 🚀
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: The GenAI Collective, Product Hunt, AWS GenAI Loft, Chappy Asel, Rajiv Ayyangar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
🧠 The Thought Experiment Lab [public]
Hosted by: Mendel Liu, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST
fireside chat with philip rosedale
Presented by: The Residency - Bay Area
Hosted by: Mackay
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Thursday, January 30
AI+Photonics Founder & Funder Summit: Future Data Center Networks
Hosted by: Phoebe Fan, Charles Ling, Foothill Ventures
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Founders & Investors Social 🦄
Presented by: Marvelous: Exclusive Events Curated by Top Hosts
Hosted by: Gladys, Merve Isler, Beta University, Umar
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
AI for Good Pitch Night + Networking
Hosted by: Nabila Elassar, Eli Al-Shamari, Gangesh, Dinki @ Wefunder
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
ComfyUI Official SF Meet-up at Github
Hosted by: Charlene - Comfy, Yoland - Comfy, Robin Huang, Jo Zhang, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Women Tech Meetup - Let's Kick Off The Year 🚀
Presented by: Women Tech Meetup
Hosted by: Dasha
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
New Year design social
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Taylor Lyon, Mila Kogan, San Francisco UXD
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Navigating a sustainable future with Auden Schendler
Presented by: Climate Action Club
Hosted by: Climate Action Club, Danielle Lee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST
Friday, January 31
Deep Tech Connections Breakfast
Hosted by: Deep Tech Connections, Serdar Turac
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM PST
Quarter of the Century Tech Gigaparty @ Temple w/ a16z, Khosla Ventures, Softbank
Presented by: Founders Bay
Hosted by: Mariane Bekker, Kristopher Floyd, Founders Bay, Vently, TheAgentic, Gargi K Kand, Josh Constine, yasmeen drummond, The GenAI Collective, Anto Patrex, ScaleGrowth AI, Claire Xie, Dr Pavel Vinitsky, Aiify.io Events, Ruby Yeh, Henry Yin, Erika Bahr, Bay Area Founders Club, Merve Isler, MadHats.ai
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - February 01, 2:00 AM PST
beAutiful Dist0rted Art Music Festival Opening Night Gala
Hosted by: DorianCreation
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM PST
Dinner with Bespoke Labs ($7.25M Seed) Founder & Turing ($50M Raised) Sr. Director: From Google DeepMind to Building LLM Data Foundation
Presented by: FounderCoHo
Hosted by: FounderCoHo, Erika Bahr
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Saturday, February 01
Coinbase Onchain AI Hackathon
Hosted by: Kevin Leffew
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - February 02, 4:00 PM PST
Founders Running Club :: SF
Presented by: FRC :: North America
Hosted by: Anton Bulyonov, Oleg Godovykh, Anna, Kristina Ryss, Founders Running Club
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Resilience: Bouncing Back Without Burning Out
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Mila Kogan, San Francisco UXD
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST
✈️ You Are Where You Go: Purpose-Driven Traveler Meetup [Public]
Hosted by: Nicole Ng, Caitlyn Lubas, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PST
Wearable Web : After Dark Mode
Presented by: Launch Club SF
Hosted by: Nick Pastenieks
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Cupid's Game
Presented by: 611 Events
Hosted by: Alisia Blair
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
