Bay Area Events For The Week Of July 21
Hi, BFC Fam! This week, we’re excited to share 69 amazing events happening across the Bay Area. Join us, meet inspiring founders, and make meaningful connections!
Featured Event
AI Vibe Coding Workshop @ Stanford
Location: Stanford, California
Time: July 26, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Coupon: BFC15, 15% Off
Registration Link (Whichever you prefer)
MentorMates (Mentor’s platform)
AI Vibe Coding Workshop @ Stanford (Official platform)
SF10x Hackathon
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: August 1, 17:00 PDT - August 3, 15:00 PDT.
2nd Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025
Location: Santa Clara,California
Time: Nov 15-16，2025
Coupon: BFC15 15% Off
Click the Link: 2nd Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025
Bay Area Events for the Week of July 21
Monday, July 21
Founder Speedrun Hackathon: Google Cloud | ElevenLabs | Ethereum Foundation
Presented by: Pond
Hosted by: Pond, Coeus Collective, EntreConnect, austin, Thor Schaeff
Time: 10:00 AM - August 04, 6:00 PM PDT
AI Capital Convergence: Robots, Workforce Automation & Financial Innovation
Hosted by: Megan Dahlgren, Arthur Mrozowski, Megan Dahlgren
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - July
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI for the Public Good: Solutions that Matter
Hosted by: Nico Maffey
Location: AWS GenAI loft, 525 Market Street, 2nd Floor Courtyard Entrance, San Francisco
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Tuesday, July 22
Why Every CTO Will Soon Be a CPTO | Featuring Mahesh Guruswamy, CPTO Kickstarter
Presented by: Enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
AI in Production Mini Conference, July 2025
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang, AWS Builder Loft (Formerly AWS GenAI Loft)
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Tech Pulse 2030-Building Next-Gen Innovations
Presented by: AI 2030 | Responsible AI
Hosted by: Xiaochen Zhang, Yashwanth Alapati, Jie Li, Alexander Fleischer, Vidur, The AI Collective, Kevin Wang, Sahar Mor
Location: 79 5th Ave, floor 2, Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AI Security Demo Night: The Future of Secure Innovation w/ Rootly AI, Okta, Panther, Tailscale, & More
Presented by: Rootly
Hosted by: Rootly
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI + Consumer Happy Hour
Hosted by: Adam Park, Janak Agrawal, Sahil, Noah Lin, Yoojeong Do, Claire Sullivan, Sahar Mor, Medha Agarwal
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
SZ 186: The Missing Quadrant Ft. De Kai
Presented by: Silicon Zombies
Hosted by: Nick Larson, Hooman Khalili
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
SF Ruby Meetup, July @ Figma
Presented by: SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup
Hosted by: Irina Nazarova
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Custom, Vertical & Private DeepResearch - Is it the next multi billion dollar market - Opportunities and Technical Challenges
Presented by: TheAgentic
Hosted by: Akash, Hans Sandhu
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Surreal: AI Wearables Gets Personal
Hosted by: Mercedes Bent, Vanessa Larco
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Talks at Qlay with Experts from TwelveLabs, Deloitte and Peppr AI (YC W25)
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, OpenNetworkLab
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Developer Happy Hour: Models & Mules
Hosted by: Elizabeth Hernandez, Cloudflare Developer Events, Melissa Herrera, Dominik Kundel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Lume x Equinox Present: The Future of Hormone Optimization
Hosted by: Vicki Powell, Jonathan Moustakis, MD, John Butler, Varsha Sathish
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs
Hosted by: Louisa Lu, Patrick Mebus
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, July 23
Hands On Workshop: Leveraging EKS Auto Mode + StormForge to achieve holistic cost efficiency on Kubernetes
Hosted by: William Norton, AWS Builder Loft (Formerly AWS GenAI Loft), Erwin Daria, Saptarshi Banerjee, AWS
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
Workshop: Electrify Your Home
Presented by: Optivide
Hosted by: Optivide, Amir Gur
Location: MercedAddress155 Winston DriveSan Francisco, CA 94132
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Founders Without Limits - How Technical Founders Can Navigate the O-1 Visa: A Practical Session
Presented by: Unshackled Ventures
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Stripe x Brex: Cracking B2B Sales for Founders
Hosted by: Rudy Geronimo, Joel Karacozoff, Reed Macdonald, Jimmy Stephens
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
Presentation: Waterfront Resilience with the Port of San Francisco
Presented by: Optivide
Hosted by: Optivide, Amir Gur
Location: Main LibraryAddress100 Larkin StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Autonomous Vehicles & Robotics on the Edge of Breakthrough
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect, Raven Josiah, Z Potentials
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Closing Giants: How Founders Break Into Enterprise & Win Big
Presented by: B.E.L.L.E Community
Hosted by: Anna Hong, Lenka Huang, Anna Yuan, Justin Chu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Design Night: The AI Edition
Presented by: Framer
Hosted by: Kimmie Glass, Allison Butula, David Tapp
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Voice agents, evals, oh my! A Night of AI Lightning Talks
Presented by: Cloudflare
Hosted by: Lizzie Siegle, Clemens Rawert, Patrick Coleman, Cloudflare Developer Events
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Context Engineering for Agents
Presented by: LangChain Events
Hosted by: Matt D
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI Fireside Chat w/ Riley Rodgers from Valia Ventures
Presented by: Pilot
Hosted by: Pilot SF, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI For Developers #27
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI + Health Demo Night #7 @ Openwater
Hosted by: michael, Shrey Singh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Thursday, July 24
AI Grid Tech Coffee Meetup
Presented by: Integ Utility Intelligence
Hosted by: Adam Shaw, Ventive Industrial AI Labs, 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Training a State-of-the-art Agent LLM with Oumi + Lambda
Presented by: Oumi
Hosted by: Stefan Webb, Amir Malekpour, Jaimie, Sahar Mor
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM PDT
Resume & Personal Story Workshop Using AI-Coaching
Presented by: Enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
AI CFO Showcase | San Francisco Edition
Presented by: Spendflo
Hosted by: Spendflo, Zenskar, Runway
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Indian Diaspora Founder Connect in SF with Accel
Hosted by: Accel in India, Anagh Prasad, Prayank Swaroop, Ishtaarth Dalmia
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🚀 AI + Growth: Building the Future of Intelligent Marketing
Presented by: FounderCoHo
Hosted by: FounderCoHo
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
Taiwan Demo Day
Presented by: Sparknify | Human vs. AI
Hosted by: Sparknify - Human vs. AI, Erica Lin
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Scientist to Founder by Fifty Years
Presented by: Fifty Years
Hosted by: Kayla Leung, Julio Rivera de Jesus
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! (Late Night Summer Series)
Presented by: Founders Common
Hosted by: Founders Common, Nikki Heyder, Chris Ashley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
San Francisco n8n Meetup - Voice RAG AI Agents and More
Hosted by: n8n, Dylan Watkins, Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🔬 Research Roundtable | The AI Collective 🧠
Presented by: The AI Collective
Hosted by: The AI Collective, Kevin Miao, Chappy Asel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Presentation: Climate Change is Fueling the Insurance Crisis. Who Should Pay?
Presented by: Optivide
Hosted by: Optivide, Amir Gur
Location: Main LibraryAddress100 Larkin StreetSan Francisco, CA 94102
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Rippling x Startups Comedy Show
Presented by: Rippling Startup Events Calendar
Hosted by: Steph Guo
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Transgender (In)Visibility in California's Parole Process
Hosted by: Big Brain SF
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Agentic Hero - Way to AGI
Presented by: FounderGro Events
Hosted by: EpicConnector, Nexus 3, TrustAI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 PM - July 25, 2:00 AM PDT
Friday, July 25
MCP - AWS - Enterprise Agents Challenge
Presented by: Creators Corner
Hosted by: CreatorsCorner, AWS Builder Loft (Formerly AWS GenAI Loft), Saptarshi Banerjee, AWS, Saroop Bharwani, Varun Jasti
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 8:30 PM PDT
Co-work and lunch with SVB
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Viet Nguyen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
AI Engineering Salon
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Mala Ramakrishnan, Sandra Cheung, Sandeep Kaipu
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Building with Rootly and Gemini
Presented by: Gemini Meetup
Hosted by: Peter Danenberg, Justin Woo, Jay Yao
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Frontiers of AI: Building with Rootly AI, Zscaler, CircleCI, Fireworks AI, Okta, Arize AI, Google Gemini & DeepMind
Presented by: Rootly
Hosted by: Rootly
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
MOSA's July Supper Club (7/25)
Presented by: MOSA Events Calendar
Hosted by: MOSA
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
SHAPES - AFTERGLOW (004)
Hosted by: Moh Maya, Prab, D!SHA, YUKA YU
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 PM - July 26, 2:00 AM PDT
Known x Vently: Soft Launch Party
Presented by: Vently Calendar
Hosted by: Known, Asher, Vently, Gargi K Kand - Nova / Vently
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 PM - July 26, 2:00 AM PDT
Saturday, July 26
A2A - Agents Hackathon
Presented by: Creators Corner
Hosted by: CreatorsCorner, Saroop Bharwani, Simon Tiu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 8:30 PM PDT
84000 Presents: AI and Buddhism
Hosted by: Max Song, Khandro AI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
☕🎶 Beats and Brew in the Park: Coffee, Community, and a Cause
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Manny Duenas, Intern Ship
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
Anne & Valentin Trunk Show
Hosted by: Invision optometry
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Designers in the park: Picnic, games, and chats
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Taylor Lyon, William Louie, San Francisco UXD
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
AI Vibe Coding Workshop @ Stanford
Presented by: Bay Area Founders Club
Hosted by: Dr. Paul Fang, Alec Walker
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
afc_0//agi fight club szn 0
Presented by: // agi fight club (afc)
Hosted by: afc ringmaster, Annie Liao 🦘, AI+, Socrates Labs, Joshua Sum, Nishkarsh Srivastava, Alex Aridgides
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Brazilian Neon Party (Body Paint + Afro House)
Presented by: SFVibe
Hosted by: Mariane Bekker, Kristopher Floyd, David Carvalho, Alisia Blair
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 PM - July 27, 2:00 AM PDT
Sunday, July 27
AI Founders Play Pickleball
Presented by: 12 (scrappy) founders
Hosted by: Denis Belyavsky
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
🎤 Creator Open Mic + ☕ Coffee Pop-Up | 此間开放麦 + 咖啡快闪小站
Presented by: Now place 此间 events
Hosted by: Now place
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Ember: AI Agents + Authentication
Hosted by: Mercedes Bent, Vanessa Larco, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
MRC x Tracksmith SF Marathon Afterparty @ Campus
Presented by: Marina Run Club Events
Hosted by: Sarah Tobin, Matt Zaso, Frank Stranzl, Anna Cooper
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
PMs & Founders | Exploring Manus in Research & Productivity
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Kevin Fang, Manus AI, Tilly Zuo, P@CMU, olivia Meng, EntreConnect, Toku Yamashita
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Startup Pitch Salon | Investor Feedback + Audience Vote
Presented by: WeShine
Hosted by: WeShine, EntreConnect
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Drop-In A Cappella July 2025
Presented by: Bay Area A Cappella
Hosted by: Robert Lee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
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