Bay Area Events For The Week Of June 23
Hi, BFC Fam! This week, we’re excited to share 68 amazing events happening across the Bay Area. Join us, meet inspiring founders, and make meaningful connections!
Featured Event
AI for Good Summit + Demo Day @ Stanford
BFC is thrilled to be an official partner of the AI for Good Summit + Demo Day, June 27–28, held at Stanford University!
Join 800+ AI startup founders, investors, engineers, and innovation leaders for two days of keynotes, panels, startup pitches, and networking on campus.
🎯 60+ startups showcasing world-changing AI solutions over 2 days
🎯 300+ investment firms invited from top VC firms and emerging funds🚀 Industry leaders from NVIDIA, Stanford, Visa, Google, and more are sharing insights.
🤝 Exclusive networking opportunities with innovators, founders, and visionaries.
📍 2-day immersive experience on Stanford campus
Early Bird 2-Day Pass: $99 (until June 16, 11:59 PM PT)
💥 Use code BFC at checkout for an extra 25% off
🔗 Register here: https://lu.ma/mfhjupbv?coupon=BFC
Bay Area Events for the Week of June 23
Monday, June 23
Deep Tech Morning Boost ⏻: Pickleball & Breakfast
Hosted by: Emily Yu, Adam Draper, Gus Domel, Hyperstition Incorporated, Maddie Callander
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
YC: How to Start a Deep Tech Startup
Presented by: Deep Tech Week
Hosted by: Hyperstition Incorporated, Jared
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Voyager: Advanced Materials + Manufacturing
Presented by: Deep Tech Week
Hosted by: Hyperstition Incorporated, Nare Janvelyan, PhD, Voyager, Sarah Sclarsic
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Fifty Years: Bio Night
Presented by: Deep Tech Week
Hosted by: Hyperstition Incorporated, Drew Moxon
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Hacking Agents AI Meetup - June Edition
Presented by: Langflow
Hosted by: Melissa Herrera, Sahar Mor, Gabriela de Queiroz, Rahim Khan
Location: Santa Clara, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Taiwan Night at DraperU — Startup × Investor Mixer
Hosted by: Caroline Lin, Daniel Huang, Chien Hsun Chu, Optivide, Vera L
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs
Hosted by: Louisa Lu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Unlock the Future of AI & Graph Technology at AWS Gen AI Loft
Presented by: Daxe Calendar
Hosted by: Erika Bahr, Chappy Asel, YI, FounderCoHo, AWS Builder Loft (Formerly AWS GenAI Loft)
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
90/30 Club #8: ML Reading Group
Presented by: 90/30 Club
Hosted by: Ryo Sakai, Max Phelps
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Pitch Nite + Speed Friending
Hosted by: Perforated AI, Hyperstition Incorporated, Rorry Brenner, Sahar Mor
Location: San Carlos, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Tuesday, June 24
FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee!
Presented by: Founders Common
Hosted by: Founders Common, Nikki Heyder, Chris Ashley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Stripe Startups Build Day
Hosted by: Stripe Startups, Laura Buhler, Laura Buhler
Location: South San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
Mastering Executive Presence with AI: Utilizing AI tools to Gain Confidence and Captivate a Room
Presented by: Enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: zoom
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM PDT
Physics of Consciousness
Presented by: Deep Tech Week
Hosted by: Hyperstition Incorporated, Will Reid
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Night of Neurotech
Presented by: Deep Tech Week
Hosted by: Hyperstition Incorporated, Jun Axup, Matias Serebrinsky, Caitlin Ner @ PsyMed Ventures
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Built on Bedrock Demo Night
Hosted by: Arte Merritt, AWS Builder Loft (Formerly AWS GenAI Loft)
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AI Engineering Workshop: Build Your Everyday AI Agent!
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Raymond Lee, Hypermode
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Super AI Agents on the Rise with Genspark & Dell Capital
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: EntreConnect, sylvia, Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AgentCon 2025 in San Francisco @GitHub Office
Hosted by: Bobur Umurzokov, Monica Steinke, Neon, AI Inclusive, Gabriela de Queiroz, JAMEL ABED
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
13th Annual CANADA DAY Celebration at The Irish Bank!
Hosted by: Jennifer Wong, Mikayla Johnson, Heather Podruchny
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Founder Sunset Sail - Rippling x Notion
Presented by: Rippling Startup Events Calendar
Hosted by: Rippling Startups Events, Notion for Startups
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI For Marketers #26
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Engineering at the Frontier
Presented by: dystr
Hosted by: Fin / Dystr, Julie Ruiz / Dystr, Hyperstition Incorporated, Sai Nelaturi, Sabrina Paseman / Omni Ventures
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Game Night at Homebrew Club - Card Games Edition!
Presented by: Homebrew Club
Hosted by: Erick Davidson
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
ai + health demo night #006
Hosted by: michael, Shrey Singh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
SF Consumer Club Mixer 🍸 @ The 1097
Presented by: Consumer Club
Hosted by: Consumer Club, Joseph Choi, Lotts, Jake Mor, James Heaney
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Wednesday, June 25
Founding Engineer Circle
Presented by: Scout
Hosted by: Randy Brown
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
DeployCon: A GenAI Mini-Summit in SF
Presented by: Predibase
Hosted by: Michael Ortega, AWS Builder Loft (Formerly AWS GenAI Loft), Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
AI Engineering Workshop (Online Edition): Build Your Everyday AI Agent!
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Raymond Lee, Hypermode
Location: zoom
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
AI Agent Study Session
Presented by: Thrive Up In Tech
Hosted by: Qingyue(Annie) Wang, Hongtao
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Reliable AI Forum #5: Not All Answers Are Equal
Presented by: PromptQL Events
Hosted by: Rajoshi Ghosh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Cookies, Consent, and Data Flows: Examining the Role of AI in Modern Privacy Programs
Presented by: Ketch Calendar
Hosted by: Colleen Barry, Ketch, Taylor Kelly, Dave Cohen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Pre-ICML Mixer with Sierra Ventures, E14, Fusion Fund, & 1943
Presented by: 1943
Hosted by: Shin, Charlotte Xia, Daniel Paredes, Erin Lashbrook, Jed Kaufman, E14 Fund
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
VCs Betting on AI with Hat-Trick Capital, Samsung Catalyst, and Micron Ventures
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Tom Nakata, Toku Yamashita
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Agentic Transformation: Lessons, Landmines & Breakthroughs
Hosted by: Waqas Makhdum
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Kanso x Cushy: Here & Now (San Francisco)
Presented by: Kanso: Phone-Free Events NYC
Hosted by: Randy Ginsburg, Adam Saks
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
📚 Short Story Symposium [public]
Hosted by: Mendel Liu, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Red Skies Rising: A Vision for Terraforming Mars
Hosted by: Strange Ventures, Megan Shabram, Hyperstition Incorporated, Laurel Mills
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Thursday, June 26
Deep Tech x Data Breakfast
Presented by: Schematic Ventures
Hosted by: Ananya Vasagiri, Julian Counihan, Alex Freed
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Virtual Fireside Live Chat with HSBC Innovation Banking: What Venture Trends in 2024 Mean for Founders in Life Sciences
Presented by: Pilot
Hosted by: Pilot SF
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
Consumer AI Takes Center Stage
Hosted by: Forerunner Ventures
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
ComfyUI Mini-Hackathon @ Github HQ
Hosted by: Charlene - Comfy, Yoland - Comfy, robin, Jo Zhang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 8:15 PM PDT
Just Build X Dimes Gallery Opening. The works of Yuri Mo
Presented by: Just Build X Dimes Gallery
Hosted by: Kevin Best
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Unicorn Battle in Silicon Valley
Presented by: Unicorn Events
Hosted by: Leo Soroka, Viktoriia Stepanenko
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Google & Unsloth Gemma developer meetup
Presented by: Unsloth Events & Meetups
Hosted by: Daniel Han, Unsloth AI
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
19th Peninsula Climate, AI Coffee and Happy Hour
Presented by: Climate Value Network
Hosted by: Amir Gur, The Hub RWC, Paul Breslow
Location: Redwood City, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Slice & Sip at Solaire: A Fireside Pizza Party 🍕
Hosted by: Block Party SF
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Monthly Robotics & AI Meetup - Public
Presented by: Frontier Tower SF
Hosted by: Frontier Tower | Berlinhouse, Tony Loehr, Anna H, Xenia Bulatov
Location: Frontier Tower @ Lounge / Floor 16 995 Market Street, San Francisco
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Climate Picnic
Presented by: Climate Action Club
Hosted by: Climate Action Club SF Bay Area, Varsha Madapoosi, Anush Mattapalli
Location: San Francisco, 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
Monthly Robotics & AI Meetup
Presented by: Frontier Makerspace
Hosted by: Tony Loehr, Anna H
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AI Agents in Action: Insights from a 4x-Exit Unicorn Founder & Investor
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Founders & Funders Truffle Making
Presented by: Funded: Founders & VCs
Hosted by: Asya @Stripe, Victoria Vanina, Notion for Startups, Julie Wagne, Asya Bradley, Anastasia Crew
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
123rd SF Hardware Meetup @ Humanmade | Humanoid Robotics
Presented by: SF Hardware Meetup
Hosted by: michael, Nate
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Friday, June 27
AI for Good Summit + Demo Day @ Stanford
Presented by: Impact Genius Silicon Valley
Hosted by: Nabila Elassar, Program Office AI for Good Institute, IG Team, Global Entrepreneurs Hub, Mariane Bekker, Summit AI for Good, Dr. Paul Fang
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 1:30 PM - June 28, 8:00 PM PDT
AI Experience Salon: Designing Agentic Experiences
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Ranjeet Tayi, Anand Madhavan, Founders Creative, Mala Ramakrishnan
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Modular Hack Weekend: GPU Programming Workshop
Presented by: Modular
Hosted by: Modular
Location: Los Altos, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Robotics & AI at the Core with Nirman Ventures
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Nikhil Choudhary, Vera Maslova, ScienceMe, Anto Patrex, Vitaly Bulatov, Xenia Bulatov, Hyperstition Incorporated
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
GGW Sharks. AI Founders & Investors
Hosted by: Go Global World, Sahar Mor, Ana Pavlova, Danil Kislinskiy, Brian Sparkes
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
7th Monthly Wetware Meetup
Presented by: The Biopunk Community
Hosted by: Elliot Roth, Hyperstition Incorporated
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Saturday, June 28
Fidget Camp Showcase - Opening Day
Presented by: tiat (the intersection of art & technology)
Hosted by: ash, Charlie Stigler, Danielle Baskin, Taylor Tabb, Zain Shah, Leia Chang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
DREAMS OF STEEL: Deep Tech Week Closing Party
Presented by: Deep Tech Week
Hosted by: Hyperstition Incorporated, Andrew Cote
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 5:00 PM - June 29, 2:00 AM PDT
Coastal Trails & Sunset Tales
Presented by: BASIC - Buddies And Socials In California - SF Bay Area
Hosted by: Aiswarya
Location: Mill Valley, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Lyrical Legacy: A Celebration of Lyrical Arts in the Bay Area
Presented by: Lyrical Opposition
Hosted by: LYRICAL
Location: Brisbane, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Sunday, June 29
Robotics Club SF: Deep Tech Week Debrief
Presented by: Robotics Club SF
Hosted by: Frontier Tower | Berlinhouse, Tony Loehr, Vaishak Kumar, Jan Schmitt, Anna H
Location: Frontier Tower @ Spaceship / Floor 2 995 Market Street, San Francisco
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Intern Ship Orientation Social + Startup Career Fair
Presented by: Intern Ship
Hosted by: Intern Ship, Colton Kaplan, Parinita Gupta
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Physics: The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll
Presented by: Hardcover | Nonfiction Book Club
Hosted by: Julia Gonski, Simar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
Startup Career Fair
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, OWOW, Gangesh, Manny Duenas, Intern Ship
Location: Location will be updated the week of the event
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
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