Bay Area Events For The Week Of March 17
Hello, 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 77 events lined up. Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Bay Area Events for the Week of March 17
Monday, March 17
AI Conference for Developers | NVIDIA GTC 2025
Hosted by: NVIDIA
Location: San Jose, California
Time: March 17–21, 2025
Beyond CUDA Summit
Hosted by: Alex Medick, Jeff Tatarchuk, Brad Bokal, Piotr Tomasik, TensorWave
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
SustainX: Power Deals: Unlocking Long-Duration Storage with Form Energy
Presented by: Startup Events @ Stanford Founders
Hosted by: Rohan Parekh
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
Sports Tech Demo Night
Presented by: House of Web3
Hosted by: Machina Sports, André Antonelli, House of Web3
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Game Developer Conference GDC Side Event
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Careers in AI: Higher Education and Industry
Hosted by: Marcus Wong, BCAIA
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Perplexity Developer Meetup - POSTPONED!
Presented by: Perplexity
Hosted by: Greg Feingold
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
The Future of AI & XR w/ Unity (GDC)
Presented by: Founders, Inc. Events
Hosted by: Joher Khan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Sync SF
Hosted by: James Arthur, Yonatan Feleke
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
GDC Dinner "AI in Gaming: Shaping the Future of Player Experience"
Presented by: Unusual Ventures
Hosted by: Niamh O'Donnell, Penny Mares, John Vrionis
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Tuesday, March 18
Run Time: GDC - 5km Social Run 🎮🌁🦭
Hosted by: Henry Craven, Adam Bamforth, Stephen Hey
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM PDT
Protect Muni Now Keep Muni Forever Rally
Presented by: Muni Now, Muni Forever!
Hosted by: Audrey Liu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
GTC Hack Night [San Jose]
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Chia Hwu, Puneet Anand
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI For Future - Pitching, Funding and Speech
Presented by: WMF - We Make Future
Hosted by: Andrea Dragotta, Francesca Lavezzi, Lisa Battaglia
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🚀 NVIDIA GTC: Scaling LLMs, AI Applications & Infra, Deep Tech & Robotics with C-Suites from Top AI Public Companies & Unicorns
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
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 PDT
Go-to-Market Strategies for Agentic AI Founders
Presented by: AO Labs
Hosted by: Andrea Guendelman, Renée Rosillo
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
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 PDT
Press Start: Indie Happy Hour by Bezi
Presented by: Bezi
Hosted by: Bezi
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
VIP Salon Dinner: The Future of Secure AI Infrastructure
Presented by: Protopia AI
Hosted by: Eiman Ebrahimi, Mark Piening, Jeff Brown, Cole Mora
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI + Hardware After Party for GTC by DataCrunch & Shadeform
Presented by: San Jose Hardware Meetup
Hosted by: Ruben Bryon, Nate, Alexander, Paul Johnson
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
MCP Lightning Talks SF
Presented by: Jamsocket Events
Hosted by: Paul
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
The Crossfire Lounge by GamesBeat / GDC
Hosted by: VentureBeat
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Game Dev Connect - Indies Online: Challenges & Solutions
Hosted by: AccelByte
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
🧠 GenAI Collective x Novita AI 🌩️ GTC After Hours: Next-Gen AI Inference with NVIDIA, SGLang & vLLM
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: GenAI Collective, Novita AI, Junyu Huang, Pierce Kelaita, FounderCoHo, Beta University Co-host
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
AI Salon: Psychedelics
Presented by: SuperHuman Society
Hosted by: Banu Kellner, SuperHuman Society, Ai Salon
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
The Rooftop Penthouse Party: Pizza, Gaming & AI 🕹️🍕
Hosted by: Elixir Games, PHAN | ChronosWorlds, Michael Kuvshynov
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Alpha Night: Presented by Arbitrum + KGeN
Presented by: WolvesDEN: GDC 2025
Hosted by: Gamified Events, WolvesDEN, Payton Kaleiwahea, Samuel j Steffanina
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, March 19
Web3 Collective Networking Breakfast
Hosted by: Thirdwave, InfiniGods, NRN Agents
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
GDC Talk: Insights on Implementing Game Agents to Deliver Value in Commercial Games (Presented by Parametrix.ai)
Hosted by: Echopeng, Hymn Huang
Location: Room 3022, West Hall, Moscone Center
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
GDC Pop Up! UGC AMA on Legal & AI
Hosted by: Signum Growth Dot Play - Angela Dalton, Karen, Matthew Hooper
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT
Roblox and Fortnite Developer Happy Hour
Hosted by: David Taylor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
The Generative AI Gathering - Presented by Turing & Fireworks AI
Presented by: Turing Events
Hosted by: Max Rollinger, Turing, Sid Rabindran, Alan Hsia
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Convai Summit: AI Characters in Virtual Worlds
Hosted by: Convai, Noyonika Saha, Purnendu Mukherjee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM PDT
Amplified Devs Social w/ Heavybit & Continue
Presented by: Heavybit Events
Hosted by: Ty Dunn, Chad Metcalf, Jesse Robbins
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
HealthTech Hang’s Strategies to Scale
Hosted by: AWS, Wilson Sonsini, DuploCloud
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI x CRM - Evolution of CRMs in the Agentic Era
Presented by: Ressl AI
Hosted by: Abhishek, Arushi Gandhi
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Daytona AI Builders SF March '25 @GitHub
Hosted by: Daytona
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Monthly Robotics & AI Meetup
Presented by: General Lithium HQ
Hosted by: Tony Loehr, Anna Hollingsworth, Justin Zelaya
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AI For Designers #24
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
The Immutable Saloon @ GDC 25
Presented by: Immutable
Hosted by: Immutable, Polygon Labs
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
AI Innovators Forum: NVIDIA GTC by Progressive Ventures & The Agentic
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Akash, Sandeep Kaipu, Irina Pragin, Mala Ramakrishnan, Sandra Cheung
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Unleash Japan’s Gaming Power: Insights, Pitches & Panels @ GDC
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Kengo Naito, Toru Ashizaki, Yuichi Okuhama, Ryo Nagasu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Making an Impact in Healthcare with AI: A Dinner Conversation
Hosted by: Xmartlabs, Sam McAfee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Her Movie Screening
Presented by: AO Labs
Hosted by: Renée Rosillo, Ali @ aolabs.ai
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
AI Pioneers Happy Hour
Hosted by: Together AI
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
GDC Mega Party 🎉 Stash, Fateless, AppsFlyer Ft. Justin Kan
Presented by: Stash
Hosted by: Stash, Fateless Games, AppsFlyer, Justin Kan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:30 PM - March 20, 1:30 AM PDT
Thursday, March 20
Making a break into AI Venture Capital: Live Networking in San Francisco
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Mala Ramakrishnan, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Practical AI Solutions - Bay Area
Presented by: Legal Operators Events
Hosted by: Robin Zavacky Ponce, Deisha Vazquez, Sahar Mor
Location: Woodside, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI-Powered Job Search – Unlocking Opportunities with Clay: Virtual Workshop
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: enrich
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
INNOVIT Demo Day - AI in Game Development / Immersive Technologies (AR/VR/MR) / Metaverse Cohort
Presented by: INNOVIT Calendar
Hosted by: INNOVIT
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Hailuo (MiniMax) x fal: GenAI Meetup @ SF; Founders, Execs & Creators
Hosted by: Leanna Ren, Linda Sheng, Paula Vivas, Batuhan Taskaya, Jia Li
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AI Founders Connect Hosted by UC Berkeley - Round 13
Hosted by: AI Founders Connect - 501(c)(3)
Location: University of California, Berkeley
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AGI is Just Another Open Source Away — AI Builders Meetup
Presented by: GenAI Assembling
Hosted by: GenAI Assembling, Jessica Zhang, Zy Wang, Thomas Luo, Sahar Mor
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 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
Advanced AI and Tool Use Meetup #3 @ GitHub
Presented by: Toolhouse Events
Hosted by: Aaishika, Daniele, Orlando Kalossakas, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI
Hosted by: Natasha, Swagata Ashwani, Rachel Mak-McCully
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Metaverse Mixer @ GDC 25 (Roblox, UEFN, Rec Room, Minecraft, etc.)
Presented by: RP1 Metaverse Browser
Hosted by: RP1, Nic Hill, David Nassau, Álvaro Monzón, Grace Lind, Notef,NEIGHBOR, Andrew Douthwaite, Matthew
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
SF Ruby in March @ New Relic
Presented by: SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup
Hosted by: Irina Nazarova, Cameron Dutro
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
LPs & Family Offices Summit - How to Deploy in the Age of AI
Presented by: aiplus
Hosted by: AI+, Jason Nyeh, PaleBlueDot AI
Location: Hillsborough, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI Circle: The Frontier of Human Data: Leaders from Google, Amazon AGI, Perle and Oxen
Hosted by: Albert - Founder of AI Circle, Reuben Bailon, Kate Rechenmacher
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Accelerating AI Applications Development
Hosted by: Ray Paik, Sahar Mor
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Evaluating and Scaling AI Agents - Fireside Chat hosted by LangChain, Writer, & Susa
Presented by: LangChain Events
Hosted by: Jess Ou, Ling Ling Yee, Benjamin Wallo
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
ByteByteGo Book Signing/Giveaway Event: Coding Interview Patterns & Generative AI System Design
Presented by: Nova: Gargi's Events
Hosted by: Gargi K Kand - Nova / Vently, Alex Xu, Dinki @ Wefunder
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Friday, March 21
AI Keynotes at Microsoft - Sales and Marketing at Microsoft
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
Making a break into Venture Capital: Live Networking
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Mala Ramakrishnan, Sahar Mor
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
AI Go-to-Market Salon
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Mala Ramakrishnan, Founders Creative, Sahar Mor, Julia Ochinero, Mayura Garg
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
AI Keynotes at Microsoft - AI Infra at Microsoft
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands, Irsa Amerian
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Z Event｜AI Nexus World Tour
Hosted by: Z Potentials
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
GDC 2025-Startup Pitch Night
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Quantum Society, Megan Kain, Kiara Diaz, Gangesh, OWOW, Dr Pavel Vinitsky
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
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 - March 22, 8:30 PM PDT
Saturday, March 22
AI Dev Tools Hackathon @ SF
Presented by: Alchemist Accelerator
Hosted by: Jun Liang, Sahar Mor, Gangesh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - March 23, 6:00 PM PDT
Scaling Diffusion Transformer (DiT) Models for Image Generation | Post GTC brunch with DataCrunch & NEX
Presented by: SF Hardware Meetup
Hosted by: Ruben Bryon, michael, Nate
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
🌸 Celebrate the Festival of Colors: Holi at Mission Dolores Manor Garden 🌸
Presented by: Mission Dolores Manor
Hosted by: Mission Dolores Manor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
Creative AI: How Multimodal Models are Transforming Art, Video, and Entertainment
Hosted by: Z Potentials, Gloria Zhang, Brian Zhan, Bahram Tavakoli (DCM)
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
Sunday, March 23
Game Market West: Spring 2025
Hosted by: Game Market West
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM PDT
BARRE, BRUNCH & BAUBLES 🥂✨
Presented by: Del Sol Wellness
Hosted by: Del Sol Wellness
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
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