Bay Area Events For The Week Of May 05
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 60 events lined up. Don't miss out on these fantastic opportunities to connect, learn, and grow.
Featured Event
AI Vibe Coding Workshop
Presented by: Bay Area Founders Club
Hosted by: Bay Area Founders Club, Modo Academy, HeyBoss AI
Location: Stanford University, California
Coupon: BFC15 (15% Off)
Time: Two Separate Sessions
SAT 24 MAY 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT (In-person Session)
SAT 24 MAY 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT (Zoom Session)
Bay Area Events for the Week of May 05
Monday, May 05
Stable
Presented by: Borderless.xyz Events
Hosted by: Kevin Lehtiniitty, Dynamic
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
IEEE AI Innovate and Lead Summit
Presented by: WeShine
Hosted by: WeShine, Xinmeng, CEO
Location: Santa Clara, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Don’t Prompt Harder. Architect Smarter!
Presented by: Neo4j
Hosted by: Neo4j
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Innovation at the Edge: Investing in Next-Gen Products Built in Space
Hosted by: Frances Luu, Ioana Cozmuta
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🇯🇵 Japan x Global Design & Tech Networking: A Pre-Config Event 🌐 グローバル×日本 デザイン＆テック交流会
Hosted by: Janice Lai
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:45 PM PDT
Conviction Communities: AI-Native Talent Builders
Presented by: Conviction
Hosted by: Niki Nguyen, Sarah Guo, Vivian Nguyen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Build SLM-Powered Agents with Arcee AI & AWS
Hosted by: James Noh, Nicole Kim, AWS GenAI Loft
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Tuesday, May 06
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
FC SF • Founders Run & Coffee! (Config 2025 Edition)
Presented by: Founders Common
Hosted by: Founders Common, Nikki Heyder, Chris Ashley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
Config Hike & Coffee
Hosted by: Molly Hellmuth Tsacudakis
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Elastic DevCon with LangChain, GitHub, Cisco
Presented by: You Know, for Search
Hosted by: Elastic, Costin Leau, Dinesh Shahane, Philipp Krenn, JD Armada
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM PDT
Lessons from a 3X Founder on Starting, Scaling, and Selling: A Conversation with Russ Heddleston
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
US-Asia Health Innovation Networking in Silicon Valley
Hosted by: Cynthia Yu, Jared Mazzanti
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 1:15 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
Architecting Modern AI Applications on AWS
Presented by: Omnistrate Events
Hosted by: Omnistrate Marketing
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:30 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Notion x Berkeley Takeover Popup
Presented by: Notion @ UC Berkeley
Hosted by: Johnny Lin, Maya Bakir, Miles Dobrenski, Andy Hu, Katherine Chang, Nick Soon, Harley Ao, Marilyn Ortez-Bonilla
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
AI Agent Meetup SF #2
Presented by: Bay Area AI
Hosted by: Dave Nielsen, Alexy Khrabrov, Max
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
FinTech x AI Founders Showcase @Stripe Sessions 2025 | Techstars Startup Weekend SF AI
Presented by: Techstars Startup Weekend SF
Hosted by: Techstars Startup Weekend SF, Catalyst Bay, Nazar Gulyk, Yurii Filipchuk, Juliana C, Kevin Leffew
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Data For AI Presents: The Open Source Afterparty W/ Intel, Amazon, Confluent, Datastrato, & More!
Presented by: Data For AI Events
Hosted by: Lisa N. Cao, Jess Hamm, Lindsey Robertson, Sahar Mor
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Sustainability in AI Infra, fireside chat with Mohammed Abunayyan, Moderated by Anjney Midha
Presented by: iCommunify
Hosted by: Saleh Alothaim, Murray
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SF Systems May Meetup: Intelligent Fuzzers and WASM
Presented by: SF Systems Club
Hosted by: Neil Ramaswamy, Ben Eggers, Shadaj Laddad, Conor Power, Irena Stetska, Jeff Huber
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:45 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
From Spark to Shift X Softgent & CLARA: Networking, Panel & Workshop for Founders
Presented by: Mission Dolores Manor
Hosted by: Mission Dolores Manor, Melinda Yormick, Melinda Yormick
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Petals & Pitches: Founder Game Night
Presented by: Startup Events @ Stanford Founders
Hosted by: Advit Deepak, Johnny Chang, Jenny Ji, Coco Xu, Kristi Sun
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, May 07
Building for Billions: A Conversation with Reddit CTO Chris Slowe
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
Engineering Hypergrowth at Zappos, AirBnB, DoorDash, OpenAI, Citadel Securities
Presented by: Commure Events
Hosted by: Ally
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Biggest Bottlenecks & Opportunities in Open-Source LLMs
Presented by: Dria.co
Hosted by: Dria
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
SustainX: AI, Energy, and the Future of Climate Innovation
Hosted by: Rohan Parekh
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
State of AI in Design Happy Hour
Hosted by: Designer Fund, Courtney Fiske, Robyn Park
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Discover HFX: A New Gateway to Japan’s Innovation Ecosystem
Presented by: Scrum Ventures
Hosted by: Mie Yaginuma, Michael Yan, Ashley Huang, SAORI UTSUNOMIYA, Hisano Shimizu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Design Tools in the age of AI | Écru Dot x Punchcut
Presented by: Ecru Dot Community Events
Hosted by: Nanxin "Peter" Zhao, Ecru Dot, Punchcut, ProtoPie
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Founders Forward: Asia’s Brightest in Silicon Valley 🚀🌏💡
Presented by: BLOCK71 Silicon Valley
Hosted by: Japan Innovation Campus, BLOCK71 Silicon Valley, Vincent Song, Angeline Tan, Daryl Png, Emily Fang, Naomi Ikeda, Kota Takeuchi, HIROYO AKASHI
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Design Engineering Meet-Up: San Francisco
Hosted by: JC Ehle
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Bots & Beer Is Back Baby!
Presented by: Robots and Startups
Hosted by: Andra Keay
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Speed Portfolio Review - After Config
Hosted by: Pablo Stanley, Patrick Venegas, Gaby Araujo, Lummi, Steph Meade
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
CONFIGure: An evening of connection to configure
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Lakshh Gontla, Taylor Lyon, Mila Kogan, Claire Rausser, San Francisco UXD, GenAI Collective, Dovetail
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Config AFTERPARTY 2025 | By ADPList and Freepik
Presented by: ADPList
Hosted by: ADPList, Paula Vivas, Felix Lee, Kaori Rei
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI For Developers #25
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI for IP Professionals Meet-Up
Hosted by: Tommy Beringer
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Thursday, May 08
Founders Series: Feedback Forum | Hear from Your Peers
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
Sip & Science with BALA, Tecan & Artel by Advanced Instruments
Presented by: Bay Area Lab Automators
Hosted by: Luis Villa, Brad Meyer, Sarah Jones, David Pritting
Location: South San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Friday, May 09
Virtual Workshop🚀🔥 Zero to Viral: Unveiling The Virality Playbook Behind Explosive App Growth
Presented by: FounderCoHo
Hosted by: FounderCoHo
Time: 5:30 AM - 7:00 AM PDT
Thursday, May 08
AI Founders & Investors Social w/ Alumni Ventures
Presented by: Beta University Events
Hosted by: Gladys, Bryan Liu, Alumni Ventures
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Designer Founder Night
Hosted by: Designer Fund, Chris Andrews, Robyn Park, Ben Blumenrose
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Voice AI Builders Forum - Presented by Pipecat and AWS
Hosted by: Sydney Levin, Aaron Melgar, Elizabeth Blumer, AWS GenAI Loft, Jackie Wibowo, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Nina Kuruvilla, Karan Singh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Women of SaaS San Francisco – AI Literacy, Trends & Use Cases
Presented by: Women of SaaS Calendar
Hosted by: Women of SaaS, Caroline Nguyen, Loana Junge, Sneha Neranki Ramesh
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
The Future of Design: AIxUX Techstars Startup Weekend SF AI and StratMinds
Presented by: Techstars Startup Weekend SF
Hosted by: Techstars Startup Weekend SF, Juliana C, Nazar Gulyk, Yurii Filipchuk, Anton Borzov, Summer Kim, Enrique Lopez, Paula Vivas, Catalyst Bay
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Online Safety for Women in the Age of AI
Presented by: SF Tech Unleashed
Hosted by: Christina Hsu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 living room chats with AI founders
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: GenAI Collective, Mary daftarian, Chappy Asel, Christopher O'Dore
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Design Unfiltered: The Evolving Landscape of Industrial Design
Hosted by: level
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Generalist AI Agents - Demo & Tech talk (Genspark.ai)
Hosted by: Shashank Bharadwaj, Aman Singh, Sahar Mor
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI Builders Meetup - ElevenLabs, Sourcegraph, PlanetScale
Hosted by: Justin Dorfman, Ado Kukic, Thor Schaeff, Holly Guevara
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Chess Knight of May
Hosted by: Viktor Grigorev
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Friday, May 09
Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit
Presented by: Stanford Blockchain Club
Hosted by: Jay Yu, Yann Aouidef, Billy Gao, Jeff Strnad, Kun Peng
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 8:30 AM - May 10, 7:00 PM PDT
Bay Area Real Estate Investing Happy Hour Mixer
Hosted by: Aria Yang
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
After Config - Designers & Creators SF mixer
Presented by: Ed's Community
Hosted by: Ed Giansante, Grace Ling, Design Buddies, Manoj Kumar, Jeremie Gluckman, Dovetail, Kevin Mei
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM PDT
The Future of AI: Multimodal Interfaces & Intelligent Agents
Presented by: FounderCoHo
Hosted by: FounderCoHo, Ning Gao
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Venn's Golden Hour at Gatsby's Party – Unlimited Cocktails & Champagne
Hosted by: Zed - Venn Team, anisha
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM PDT
Saturday, May 10
Founders Running Club :: SF
Presented by: FRC :: North America
Hosted by: Founders Running Club, Anton Bulyonov, Anna, andrei katukhin, Sergey Komardenkov, Alan Mc Glinchey, Kristina Ryss
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Modular GPU Kernel Hackathon
Presented by: Modular
Hosted by: Modular
Location: Hillsborough, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM PDT
💬 She Speaks
Presented by: ISOUL Calendar
Hosted by: Jane Milovanova
Location: Menlo Park, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
SPC AI Gaming Hackathon Demo Night
Presented by: South Park Commons
Hosted by: South Park Commons, Dylan Itzikowitz
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
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About Bay Area Founders Club
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