Bay Area Events For The Week Of May 12
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Featured Event
AI Vibe Coding Workshop
Hosted by: Bay Area Founders Club
Sponsored by: HeyBoss AI
Location: Online + Stanford University
Time:
In Person: SAT 24 MAY 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Online (Zoom): SAT 24 MAY 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Coupon Code: BFC15 (15% Off)
The AI for Good Institute
Hosted by: AI for Good Institute
Location: Online + Stanford University
Time: 06/09/2025 - 06/29/2025
Apply: Scholarships are available for a limited time. Use code BFC if accepted.
Bay Area Events for the Week of May 12
Monday, May 12
[CalibrateAI] Hack Day Micro-Conference
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Weaviate, Comet, AWS GenAI Loft, Megan Radney
Location: AWS GenAI Loft, 525 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Time: 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM PDT
Brews & Big Ideas: SaaStr Pre-Party
Hosted by: Sprinto HQ
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
MCPs Meetup: unlocking the potential of AIs, APIs and agentic workflows
Presented by: All Things API
Hosted by: Sid Maestre
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Rethinking Go-To-Market in the Age of AI
Presented by: SaaSBoomi
Hosted by: Sandeep Todi, Avinash Raghava, Sawyer Levy, Vikram Sivaraman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
90/30 Club #2: ML Reading Group
Presented by: 90/30 Club
Hosted by: Lydia Nottingham
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Pre-SaaStr - Building the Intelligent Revenue Engine: AI agents Automating Recruiting, RevOps, Implementation & Growth
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, Akshay Panse, Aseem Asthana, Archit Anand
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Builders Social Night @ WhiteFiber
Presented by: AI Infra Social
Hosted by: Sihan Zhou
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SemiAnalysis at MLSys
Presented by: SemiAnalysis
Hosted by: Michelle Shen, Dylan Patel
Location: Santa Clara, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
LMSYS Happy Hour at MLSYS
Hosted by: Yusi Chen, Yineng Zhang, Chenyang Zhao, Lianmin Zheng, Ying Sheng
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Tuesday, May 13
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
AWS Startups | GenAI in FinTech: Unlocking Innovation in Disputes, Risk, and Payments Operations
Hosted by: Exequiel Barrirero, Emi, binbash LLC, Caetano, AWS GenAI Loft, Ignacio Gomez
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
GGW Pitch Bootcamp #8: Master Your Pitch
Hosted by: Go Global World
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
AI X GTM SaaStr 25' Happy House
Presented by: SignalFire Events
Hosted by: Tofu, Livia Han, Mitchell Yee, Elaine Zelby
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
From Apps to Agents: The Agentic AI Revolution hosted by Adopt AI, AWS & Elevation Capital
Presented by: Adopt AI
Hosted by: Deepak Anchala, Raman Agarwal, Krishna Mehra
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Private VC / Startup Wine Tasting Mixer
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
SaaStr - AI Talks at Qlay with Qdrant and SambaNova: AI in Search and Code
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, SambaNova Systems
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 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
🚀 SaaStr: AI Frontier–Scaling Agents & Driving Innovation with Unicorn Founders
Presented by: EntreConnect
Hosted by: EntreConnect, Mona Li
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
San Francisco AI Founder and VC Networking
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Stanford GSB Dinner with Informed Ventures
Hosted by: Wei Li Tan, Sunny Kumar
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Real Intelligence Book Club
Presented by: Real Intelligence Book Club
Hosted by: Mariia Kozak, Yuliia Lytvynova
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
MongoDB Gen AI Happy Hour
Presented by: MongoDB
Hosted by: Suraj Patel, Lindsay, Jade Furubayashi (MongoDB), Tavily
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Welcome to SaaStr AI Summit: GTM Leadership Mixer 🥂
Hosted by: Krystal Wu, Kevin White, Gabrielle Blackwell, Harry Sims, Nicole Tettke
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Wednesday, May 14
T Palmer Agency's SF Blueprint Bites: Breakfast Series
Presented by: T Palmer Agency Calendar
Hosted by: T Palmer Agency
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
AWS Startups | Workshop | GenAI Innovation Lab: Rapid Prototyping for Startups
Hosted by: Exequiel Barrirero, binbash LLC, Caetano, Emi, AWS GenAI Loft, Ignacio Gomez
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
UK AI Innovation and Investment Showcase - SF
Hosted by: Deidre Moore, Siobhan Nuseibeh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
CEO Secrets by Jason Tan & DianaHR: Growing From 10 to 100 people 🌿
Hosted by: Kaia Colban, Upeka Bee, Kaia Colban, Dilan Dane
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Build-an-Agent Hack Night 🧸
Presented by: Dagger
Hosted by: Sophia Sanders, Miranda Carter, AWS GenAI Loft, Solomon Hykes
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
DataDrivenPharma Evening Forum at Bakar Labs
Hosted by: Ilya Captain
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
SaaS & AI Founders Unplugged
Presented by: GTM Unbound Events - USA
Hosted by: Aditi Aggarwal, Denada Ramnishta, Alexus Diaz, Ian Garrett
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
LLM Researchers Happy Hour | Hosted by Turing
Presented by: Turing Events
Hosted by: Turing, Vijay Krishnan, Kai Du, Iliya Shadfar, Paul Thompson
Location: Santa Clara, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Daytona AI Builders SF May '25 @GitHub
Hosted by: Daytona, Ivan Burazin, SambaNova Systems
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
MCP Night by WorkOS
Hosted by: WorkOS
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Patronus AI Presents: The Next Phase of AI Oversight
Presented by: Patronus AI Calendar
Hosted by: Hwanghah, Anand Kannappan, Guillaume Noziere, Alex Chou, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Stripe x Inkle SaaStr Mixer
Presented by: Inkle
Hosted by: Anand Krishna, Lauren Teo
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Humane Tech: Builders Welcome
Presented by: FounderCulture
Hosted by: Louise Maniego, Angela Baylon, Christine Zhang, Erika Anderson
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI For Commerce - Founders & Investors Social w/ UpScaleX
Presented by: Beta University Events
Hosted by: Gladys, UpScaleX.AI
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Thursday, May 15
Creator Career Conference: The Creator Economy
Presented by: VetraFi, The Military Veteran, & Context Ventures Events
Hosted by: Tim Hsia, Carina Cho
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
SaaStr - AI as Inventors? Current State of Patent Law
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Cerebras SUPERNOVA
Hosted by: Sarah Chieng, Daniel Kim, Cerebras Systems, Sneha Khanvilkar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI Builders Happy Hour @ Riza
Presented by: Riza
Hosted by: Jess L, Andrew Benton, David Lee, Kyle Gray
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Reliable AI Forum: Data Agents #4
Presented by: PromptQL Events
Hosted by: Hasura | PromptQL, Rajoshi Ghosh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Pitch Night with Investors
Presented by: owow's events
Hosted by: Founder Institute
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Founders & Investors Mixer (SaaStr & Silicon Valley)
Hosted by: James Gee, Murray, DJ Deep, Preethy Padmanabhan, Brian Sparkes, Mabel Chan
Location: San Carlos, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Voice AI Dev Party@SF
Hosted by: Bob Fu
Location: Hillsborough, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Spring Houseplant Swap @ Kinfolx
Hosted by: Jasmine Neal, Kinfolx Oakland, Evan Groover
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Meets Education & Wellness: Building Tools for Learning and Healing
Presented by: B.E.L.L.E Community
Hosted by: Anna Hong, Lenka Huang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 Enterprise AI: The Agentic Shift | Featuring SAP + Moveworks
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: GenAI Collective, Hash Pakbaz, ⚡️BRETT BERHOFF⚡️, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Creators Meetup | by @bravetech.ai & Freepik
Presented by: Freepik
Hosted by: Sofía López, Paula Vivas, Enrique Lopez
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Friday, May 16
AI Product Summit
Presented by: Founders Creative
Hosted by: Founders Creative, Anand Madhavan, Mala Ramakrishnan, Sahar Mor, Neville
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI Solutions for Enterprise – Demo Day
Presented by: Mission Dolores Manor
Hosted by: Mission Dolores Manor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AGENTIC STARTUP RAGATHON (In-Person, Palo Alto)
Presented by: Proving Ground
Hosted by: Mark Evans, Sahar Mor, Shashank Bharadwaj
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - May 18, 7:00 PM PDT
🇺🇸 Hack on ARC Prize or Fine-tune Deep Seek: Strong Compute + GPUs included
Presented by: Strong Compute
Hosted by: Bec Pham, Ben Sand
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - May 17, 8:30 PM PDT
Saturday, May 17
The Future of Health Tech with OURA CEO Tom Hale
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: GenAI Collective, Luna Maroun, Mihir Somaiya
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Sparknify Human vs. AI Tech Fair & Film Festival
Hosted by: Sparknify - Human vs. AI
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM PDT
Drop-In A Cappella May 2025
Presented by: Bay Area A Cappella
Hosted by: Robert Lee
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Sunday, May 18
Bay to Breakers powered by Windsurf
Presented by: Windsurf Events Calendar
Hosted by: Windsurf
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
TEDxCSTU 2025 – A Rare Live TEDx Experience in Silicon Valley
Hosted by: leni jin
Location: Milpitas, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
Out-Of-Pocket's Healthcare AI Hackathon 2025 - Demo Day & Happy Hour
Hosted by: Out-Of-Pocket Events, Nikhil Krishnan, Danielle Poreh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
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