Bay Area Events For The Week Of May 26
Hi, BFC Fam! This week, we’re excited to share 53 amazing events happening across the Bay Area. Come join us, meet inspiring founders, and make meaningful connections!
Featured Event
Customer Discovery Bootcamp
Hosted by: Bay Area Founders Club
Location: Online (Zoom)
Time: FRI 13 JUN 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Coupon: BFC15 (15% Off)
Bay Area Events for the Week of May 26
Monday, May 26
Latent.Space SF meetup
Presented by: Latent.Space (Paper Club, AI in Action, Meetups & Confs)
Hosted by: swyx
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Tuesday, May 27
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
Hack Night at GitHub
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Antispace, Weaviate, FriendliAI, Continue, Ty Dunn, Chingun Khasar, dltHub
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 9:00 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
Private VC / Startup Wine Tasting Mixer
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Paityn
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Hacking Agents AI Meetup - May
Presented by: DataStax
Hosted by: Melissa Herrera, Sahar Mor, Kyle Gray, James Le
Location: Santa Clara, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
What Matters In the Age of AI: Parenthood & Policy
Hosted by: HRC Fertility, Serena Moy, Livia Han, Christina Ren, Jasmine Sun, Saachi
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, May 28
AI Agent World Tour in SF
Presented by: San Francisco MLOps Community
Hosted by: MLOps Community, Demetrios, Adam Becker, Rahul Parundekar, Hari Masoor, Chandana Srinivasa, Shreeganesh Ramanan, Leo Walker, Arthur L Coleman, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
All Things Web at Vapi
Presented by: All Things Web
Hosted by: Andre Landgraf, Erik Thorelli, Elizabeth Trykin, Vapi
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Inside AI Startups: Builders & Developers Happy Hour
Presented by: Foothill Ventures
Hosted by: Phoebe Fan, Javen Xu, Foothill Ventures, Allison Cougan
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI Talks at Qlay with Co-Founder @ Encord (YC W21) and Sr. Director @ Anywhere
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, OpenNetworkLab
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Investing In 2025
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SF DEMO NIGHT 🚀 (w/ The GenAI Collective)
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: GenAI Collective, Chappy Asel, Stephen Campbell, Ash Kumra, Luke Furnell, Adelina Martiniuc, Dylan, AWS GenAI Loft
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Founders & Funders: AI with Mark Goldberg
Hosted by: Fina Tracy, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Dev Tools Night
Presented by: Sourcegraph | AI Community Events
Hosted by: Justin Dorfman, YK, Brandon Waselnuk, Mintlify, Rootly, Russel Estardo
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Marin Sunset Group Hike!
Hosted by: No Worries Amigo Hiking Club
Location: Fairfax, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Greylock Change Agents: Evaluating Agents with Braintrust
Hosted by: Corinne Riley
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI For Marketers #25
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Alison Granger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
ai + health demo night #005
Hosted by: michael, aidana
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
Saving the Planet, One Burp-Free Cow at a Time
Hosted by: Big Brain SF
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Founders' Olympics: Tech Chess Tournament @ The 1097
Presented by: SF Tech Games by Founden.xyz
Hosted by: Remy Messadene, Khalid Altalib, James Heaney, Lotts
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Thursday, May 29
Dawn Patrol – San Francisco Edition – Coffee | Companies | Capital | #DawnPatrol
Presented by: Adamant Events
Hosted by: Jason Yeh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Stanford Founders Demo Day | Spring 2025
Presented by: Startup Events @ Stanford Founders
Hosted by: Johnny Chang, Francesco Marchioni, Rohan Parekh, Chris Bradbury, Sophie R, Trishia El Chemaly
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM PDT
AI Grid Tech Coffee Meetup
Presented by: Integ Utility Intelligence
Hosted by: Adam Shaw, 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, Ventive Industrial AI Labs
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Session 4: Multi Agent Workflows & Data Privacy in the Digital World
Presented by: BRIDGEGOOD
Hosted by: Mubarak Haruna, Alexander Au, Sahar Mor, Elisa Feng, Elise, Shaun Tai
Location: Oakland, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Notion x TheCyberia Hackathon #001
Hosted by: TheScorton
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
Techstars San Francisco Spring 2025 Demo Day
Presented by: Techstars San Francisco
Hosted by: Chloe Lannert, Andrea Perdomo, Umar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
12 (scrappy) AI Founders Talking First Customers
Presented by: 12 (scrappy) founders
Hosted by: Denis Belyavsky, Alena Beliauskaya
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
AI/ML DevTools Demo Night w/ Rootly AI, LangChain, Cloudflare, Mintlify, and Factory
Presented by: Rootly
Hosted by: Rootly
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Neurodiversity Employer Gala - Future of Work Summit
Presented by: Neurodiversity at Work Innovation Summit
Hosted by: Jhillika Kumar
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:30 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
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
LBAN Bay Area Networking Reception
Presented by: LBAN Events
Hosted by: Latino Business Action Network (LBAN)
Location: San Carlos, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
AMA with Emmett Shear, co-founder and former CEO of Twitch
Presented by: BuzzRobot
Hosted by: BuzzRobot, Sophie (YQ) Liu, Hardik Nagrecha
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Agents + Full Stack Demo Night @Convex
Presented by: Convex.dev
Hosted by: Wayne Sutton, Sahar Mor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI AGENT VC Panel Palo Alto
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Yvonne Newlands
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AGI Builders Meetup SF w/ HumanLayer, Freestyle Cloud
Presented by: AGI Builders Meetup
Hosted by: Eric LIU, Chelsea Jan, Bobbie Chen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Founders' Olympics: Tech Catan Tournament
Presented by: SF Tech Games by Founden.xyz
Hosted by: Remy Messadene, Tom Charman, Ilia Zintchenko
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
Friday, May 30
Deep Tech Connections Networking Breakfast
Hosted by: Deep Tech Connections, Serdar Turac
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
AWS MCP Agents Hackathon
Presented by: Creators Corner
Hosted by: AWS GenAI Loft, CreatorsCorner, Jon Turdiev, Saroop Bharwani, Jessica Martinez
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - 7:30 PM PDT
Co-work and lunch with SVB
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Fauzan Maulana, Viet Nguyen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
Learn & Earn - Build Omi AI glasses - Now hiring!
Presented by: Omi
Hosted by: Omi AI, Nik Shevchenko, Pat Santiago, Ro Kirchev, Dabl Club
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Vibe Coding Meetup #3 @Convex
Presented by: Vibe Coding
Hosted by: Wayne Sutton
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
AI Fundraising Trends 2025 - ft. Peter Walker
Presented by: Inception Studio Events
Hosted by: Michael Liu, Mike Morris, John Whaley, Tiffine Wang, Ryan O’Conor, Patricia Liu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
VIBE25-2: After Hours Vibe Hackathon
Presented by: Transpose Platform
Hosted by: James Tan, Alexandru Turcanu, Cindi Cheaney, Yus Hilmi, Sam Bhagwat, Abhilash, Kadir, Madhav Jha, Gaurav Singh Bisen, Franz Heller, Rohit
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM PDT
A Feast of Frequencies - Beatoven.ai x Rho
Presented by: Rho Community Calendar
Hosted by: Tarlon Khoubyari, Mansoor Rahimat Khan, Mission Dolores Manor
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
MOSA's Spring Supper Club Series
Presented by: MOSA Events Calendar
Hosted by: MOSA
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Founders' Olympics: Tech Poker Tournament
Presented by: SF tech poker
Hosted by: Remy Messadene, Tony Pierotti
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 PM - 11:30 PM PDT
Saturday, May 31
Navy SEAL - Day in a Life Bootcamp
Presented by: Nova: Gargi's Events
Hosted by: Gargi K Kand - Nova / Vently, Natalie Pan, Julian Rodriguez
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Multi-Agent Hackathon: Build Multi-Modal Workflows with Tenstorrent
Presented by: Koyeb Global Events
Hosted by: Koyeb, Tenstorrent, Yann Leger
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM PDT
n8n AI Workflow Hackathon
Hosted by: n8n, Sydney Collins, Tino Zwirs, Makenna Berry
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - June 01, 6:00 PM PDT
ai + health 24hr hack @ studio 45 with clutch
Hosted by: michael, Nzisa Kiilu, Dylan Holland
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - June 01, 2:30 PM PDT
Food Tour & Tech :: Volleyball and BBQ
Hosted by: Spon Social
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:30 AM - 4:00 PM PDT
🌟 Welcome This Week’s BFC Premium Stars
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About the Bay Area Founders Club’s President
Thank you Paul. I appreciate your newsletter and I am very glad you could meet our Sojo partner Harald Nuhn, PhD in Palo Alto. I will be at 567 University Ave June 3-7th. Do you have time for a coffee then? Tom Brady co-founder Sojo Consulting www.sojo.consulting