Bay Area Events For The Week Of May 19
Hi, BFC Fam! This week, we’re excited to share 55 amazing events happening across the Bay Area. Come join us, meet inspiring founders, and make meaningful connections!
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
👆To make this workshop accessible globally, we’re offering a live Zoom session.
Bay Area Events for the Week of May 19
Monday, May 19
San Francisco Vibe Coding PROMPTathon
Hosted by: AndalaAI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - May 22, 8:00 PM PDT
Breakthrough Demo Day
Hosted by: Roman Scott, Itbaan Nafi
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
From Models to Molecules: AI's Expanding Roles in Therapeutics
Hosted by: Gavin Zhang
Location: South San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SF Awesome AI Dev Tools - May
Presented by: Open Source for AI
Hosted by: Yujian Tang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI Startup Pitch Night with Qlay, Context VC & Startup Intros
Presented by: Qlay
Hosted by: Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata, Tim Hsia, Dev Chandra, OpenNetworkLab
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Zod 4 Release Day Happy Hour
Hosted by: Colin McDonnell, Yoko Li, Colin Sidoti
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Driving Decisions: The Future of Autonomy
Hosted by: Ramsha Ali, AI Consensus
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Monthly Robotics & AI Meetup
Presented by: General Lithium
Hosted by: Tony Loehr, Anna Zzz, Colin Pollen, Xenia Bulatov
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Daydream Happy Hour @UpscaleConf
Presented by: ☁️Daydream
Hosted by: Minh Do, Sahar Mor, Daydream
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Family Offices & AI Investors Mixer @ Google I/O
Presented by: aiplus
Hosted by: AI+, Jason Nyeh, FounderCoHo, Lisheng Wang
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
SF AI Agent HackNight with MCP ft. Codename Goose & Anthropic, Cloudflare, Stytch, and Supabase
Presented by: codename goose: The AI Agent Meetup
Hosted by: Block Open Source, Cloudflare Developers
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI x Tax Roundtable SF
Hosted by: Nicole Alonso, Ahmad Ibrahim
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
90/30 Club #3: ML Reading Group
Presented by: 90/30 Club
Hosted by: Lydia Nottingham
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
Tuesday, May 20
Upscale Conf 2025
Hosted by: Upscale Conf
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
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
Rippling Run Club - SF
Presented by: Rippling Startup Events Calendar
Hosted by: Rippling Startups Events
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
The Art of Business Storytelling | A Masterclass with Mia Silverio - Research Lead at Prof G Media
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
AI founders & operators mixer
Presented by: Ed's Community
Hosted by: Ed Giansante, Erick Davidson, Harold Schultz, Rei Parreiras
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI & Cybersecurity in MedTech: Transforming the Future of Secure Medical Devices
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
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
Staying the Course: Building in a World of Uncertainty
Presented by: 🧩 Puzzle Events
Hosted by: Dasha, Devin Williams, Puzzle 🧩🚀, Bailey Sandler, Vanta
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
10th SJ Hardware Meetup in Mountain View @ AuSIM Garage
Presented by: San Jose Hardware Meetup
Hosted by: Nate, Brogan Miller, Paul Johnson
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
From The Middle East to the Valley: A Private Dialogue on AI & Global Venture
Hosted by: Jess
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Cafe Compute: Celebration!
Presented by: BCV Events
Hosted by: BCV Events (LC), Amanda Huang, Sarah Chieng, Cerebras, Slater Stich
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, May 21
Graph Exchange May 2025: AI Agents and Knowledge Graphs
Presented by: Neo4j
Hosted by: Neo4j, Alexy Khrabrov, Jason Koo, Nyah Macklin, Era Qian, Yolande
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Closing the Loop
Presented by: Sauron
Hosted by: Ryan Peer, Vasu Raman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Community-Driven GTM in the Age of AI
Presented by: Ensemblex
Hosted by: Chloe Zhu, Stephanie Goodrich, Shawn Budde
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
First Block: From Zero to a Hundred (Million): The Cursor Story with Michael Truell, hosted by Notion
Presented by: Notion
Hosted by: Notion for Startups
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Women in AI: How Hex is building the future of data work
Hosted by: Hex
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Scaling AI Companies with Creator Partnerships
Hosted by: Amanda Branson, Jennifer Phan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
DSS SF Meetup: From GenAI to Autonomous Data: Building Scalable AI Systems
Presented by: Data Science Salon
Hosted by: Data Science Salon, AWS GenAI Loft
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Silicon Valley AI Startups Night. Speaker: Elana Lian, Partner, Dell Technologies Capital
Presented by: Tech + Startups Community
Hosted by: Denis Hiller
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
🧠 The Thought Experiment Lab [public]
Hosted by: Mendel Liu, The SF Commons
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI in Action: Lessons from the Frontlines | Feat. Insight Partners
Presented by: enrich Events
Hosted by: Monica Sheldon, enrich
Location: Burlingame, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Thursday, May 22
MBZUAI Institute of Foundation Models Silicon Valley Lab - Launch Event
Presented by: MBZUAI IFM Silicon Valley Lab
Location: Mountain View, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM PDT
SSG Accelerator Founders Pitch & Investor Social
Hosted by: SSG Accelerator, Richard Chen, AGI House, Sylvia Wang, Alex Fu
Location: Hillsborough, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
18th Peninsula ClimateAI Coffee and Happy Hour
Presented by: Climate Value Network
Hosted by: Amir Gur, Paul Breslow, The Hub RWC
Location: Redwood City, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Global Pizza Party - Pizza Tower San Francisco
Presented by: PizzaDAO San Francisco
Hosted by: PizzaDAO SF
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM PDT
AI Startup Pitch Night
Presented by: Founder Social Club
Hosted by: Colton Kaplan, Toku Yamashita, Tom Nakata
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Agentic AI in Healthcare
Hosted by: Gaurav Agarwal
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
SF ~ Women in Recruiting Fireside: Using AI Agents to Supercharge Your Recruiting Workflow
Presented by: Talent Collective
Hosted by: Talent Collective, Larissa Gerlach
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
SaaS Lander 2025: A Tech Night in the City
Hosted by: Louis Munos, Clovis Singer Business France, Lilia Mechta
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
[SF] AI After Hours @ GitHub w/ Encord
Presented by: Artificially Intelligent
Hosted by: Maya Nayyar, winnie zhu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Design social hour: Post-Config edition
Presented by: San Francisco UXD
Hosted by: Mila Kogan, Taylor Lyon, San Francisco UXD
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AI trivia night! by OpenAI, SignalFire & Langflow
Presented by: SignalFire Events
Hosted by: Jarod, Tarlon Khoubyari
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Fireside Chat: AI Agent + Growth - Scaling from $0 to $15M ARR with Team 9
Presented by: FounderCoHo
Hosted by: FounderCoHo
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🧠 GenAI Collective 🧠 AI Startup Growth
Presented by: The GenAI Collective
Hosted by: GenAI Collective, Pierce Kelaita, Mary daftarian, Gladys
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Immortality or Death: Art Exhibition Opening Gala
Presented by: Vitalist Bay - Longevity Zone, Berkeley
Hosted by: Nastya Egorova, Mikhail Batin, Laurence Ion
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:30 PM PDT
Friday, May 23
MCP Developers Summit
Hosted by: MCP Summit
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
Learn & Earn - Build Omi AI glasses - Now hiring!
Presented by: Omi
Hosted by: Omi AI, Nik Shevchenko, Pat Santiago
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:00 PM PDT
Cofounder Matching: Finding the Right Partner
Presented by: EchoHer Events
Hosted by: Qianwen, Dar Patel, Bing Li, EchoHer, Vivian Lei
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Saturday, May 24
AI Founders Go Hiking
Hosted by: Denis Belyavsky
Location: Mill Valley, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM PDT
AI Vibe Coding Workshop
Presented by: Bay Area Founders Club
Hosted by: Paul Fang, Alec Walker, Komal Vij, Eddie Fu
Location: Stanford, California
Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI Vibe Coding Workshop
Presented by: Bay Area Founders Club
Hosted by: Paul Fang, Alec Walker, Komal Vij, Eddie Fu
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Sunday, May 25
SF Carnaval: Mission Parade - TEA w/ ANANSI, the spider
Hosted by: Fennel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM PDT
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About Bay Area Founders Club’s President
