Bay Area AI Events For The Week Of 9/9 - Editor's Pick
This week features tons of SaaStr events. If you are around, check them out!
Before we get started…
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This week👇 Let’s get going…
Monday, September 09
Pre AI Conference Hack Day in San Francisco
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Weaviate, Philip Vollet, FriendliAI, Era Qian, The AI Conference, Shon Burton, Cerebras, Edge, Arize AI
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM PDT
RAG Workshop with AWS, LangChain & Elastic
Presented by: You Know, for Search
Hosted by: Philipp Krenn, Erick Friis, Ayan Ray, Hemant Malik
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI B2B Investors & Networking
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Gen-AI Startups Cash Cow - US Government's Civilian Priority Innovation List
Presented by: Future of the World Post Gen-AI
Hosted by: Sara Zare, Peter Danenberg
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
VESSL AI x Pinecone Meetup SF : LLMs in Production
Hosted by: VESSL AI, Kelly Oh
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
The 4th AI Alliance Meetup @ The Unstructured Data Meetup
Presented by: Unstructured Data Meetup
Hosted by: Chris, Dave Nielsen
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
🍾 SF Founders & Investors Fall Social #36
Presented by: San Francisco Bay Area Founder & Investors Parties - 100% Curated & Invite-Only
Hosted by: Connor Wilson, Simon Chou - Happy Hour, Louisa Lu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
SF Tech: CEO Mixer
Presented by: Tech Power Network
Hosted by: David Yakobovitch, Christina Ellwood, Gina von Esmarch
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Product Hunt + Daily Demo Night @ Solaris AI - Sep 9
Presented by: Product Hunt
Hosted by: Rajiv Ayyangar, Jacob Shamberger, Elizabeth, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Thomas Schulz, Nina Kuruvilla
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Tuesday, September 10
THE AI CONFERENCE 2024 SHAPING THE FUTURE OF AI
Location: The location details can be found by checking the link.
Time: 7:30AM- 6:00PM (Sep 11)
US Market Entry Panel & Breakfast w/ Deel, SVB and a16z
Hosted by: Jordynn Johnson-Knoops, Kenan Kitchen, Sara, Sawyer Levy, Dawn
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
AI Founder Startup Growth Mastermind Salon - B2B
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Succeeding as a designer at a startup + Design meetup in San Francisco
Presented by: Design Buddies
Hosted by: Design Buddies, Grace Ling, Jennifer, Akhil Patel, Leon Zhang
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
AI Tools Hack Night at GitHub
Presented by: [SF] Bay Area Builders
Hosted by: Adam Chan, Weaviate, Philip Vollet
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Silicon Valley Founders-Networking Mixer
Presented by: Young Entrepreneurs Hub 🏝️
Hosted by: Gangesh, Young Entrepreneurs Hub 🏝️, Arjun Subedi, SVC Ventures
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Private VC / AI Startup Mixer - Saastr Side Event
Presented by: Murray - Open Future Forum and Friends
Hosted by: Murray, Sydney Levin, Danny Trainor, Derek Smith
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Founders & Funders | Sep10
Presented by: Ignite Community
Hosted by: Bill Barry, Jessica Kobilova
Location: Los Gatos, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI SaaS Unwrapped
Presented by: Unusual Ventures
Hosted by: Hannah Steinhardt, Tyler Crown, Lauren Salinas
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
SaaStr After Party Hosted by Awesomic
Hosted by: Awesomic Founders Social Club, Roman Sevast, Stacy Pavlyshyna
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
🍾 Palo Alto Founders & Investors Fall Social #37
Presented by: San Francisco Bay Area Founder & Investors Parties - 100% Curated & Invite-Only
Hosted by: Connor Wilson, Simon Chou - Happy Hour
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
The AI Hustle: Happy Hour for Startup Founders & VCs
Hosted by: Louisa Lu
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Wednesday, September 11
AI For Developer Hackathon
Hosted by: Gary, Tina Tsou
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
SaaStr AI Party
Presented by: SuperAGI
Hosted by: SuperAGI
Location: Palo Alto, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
AGI Builders Meetup SF
Presented by: AGI Builders Meetup
Hosted by: Eric LIU
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
Secure AI Hack Night with Pangea and Cloudflare
Presented by: Cloudflare
Hosted by: Lizzie, Pranav Shikarpur, Pangea, Cloudflare
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
AI Social Mixer w/Open Bar | Founders, Funders & Friends in AI
Presented by: AI Social Mixers
Hosted by: Tim Delcourt
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
AI For Designers #18
Presented by: AI User Group
Hosted by: Cyril Attia
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Founder Dinner @SaaStr Annual
Presented by: Aikido Security
Hosted by: Madeline Lawrence, Florian Hendrickx, Glenn Bravy, Frejin Arooja
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
SaaS Founder Happy Hour w/ Deel & SVB #saastr
Hosted by: Jordynn Johnson-Knoops, Sawyer Levy, Sara
Location: San Mateo, California
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Thursday, September 12
Morning Tech Brew ☕
Presented by: Atlas
Hosted by: Atlas, Nuné Zadoyan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Breakfast with Inferless - For Developers!
Hosted by: Inferless, Aishwarya Goel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
Founder Financial Modeling Workshop
Hosted by: Karina
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
Out at SaaStr Panel and Mixer
Hosted by: Renée Rosillo, Serena Poon, David @ Fidelity Private Shares
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
AI & Tech Talks @ Zoom HQ
Presented by: Zoom Developers
Hosted by: Ojus, Arun
Location: San Jose, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM PDT
San Francisco Meetup with Health Tech Nerds
Presented by: Health Tech Nerds Local Meetups
Hosted by: Health Tech Nerds, Sunaina
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
SF Data + AI Happy Hour
Presented by: Tech Power Network
Hosted by: David Yakobovitch, Christina Ellwood, Gina von Esmarch
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
Making Open Source and Local LLMs Work in Practice x MLOps Community
Hosted by: Rahul Parundekar, MLOps Community, Tamao Nakahara, Luke Marsden, Shreeganesh Ramanan
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
Friday, September 13
GGW Sharks #47. Startup Pitch & Networking
Hosted by: Go Global World, Danil Kislinskiy, Ana Pavlova
Location: zoom
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
AI Agents Hackathon with LabLab and MindsDB
Presented by: MindsDB
Hosted by: Tarlon Khoubyari, Xairia Opperman, Vibhu Sapra, Basem Awad, Emmanuel , Damian, Justyna Amelia
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 11:00 AM - September 15, 12:00 PM PDT
SaaStr AI Founders After Party
Presented by: HashMatrix
Hosted by: Shawn Pang, Krypton M., AI+, Adam Silverman
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
Saturday, September 14
Squire.ai Hackathon I - Null to Agent
Presented by: Squire.AI
Hosted by: Brandon Waselnuk, YK, Saumil Patel
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:00 AM - September 15, 4:00 PM PDT
AI My Life - Hackathon
Hosted by: Carlo D'Agnolo, Simon Wijckmans, Zain Rizavi, Sarah
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 9:30 AM - September 15, 6:00 PM PDT
VC Insights
Presented by: Mission Dolores Manor
Hosted by: Mission Dolores Manor, Akshat Garg
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Sunday, September 15
Mid Autumn Festival 🌕🥮 —- in case you crave for some mooncakes! 🤠
Presented by: SF Lunar Calendar
Hosted by: Michael Lai, William Brega, Sharon Liu-Bettencourt
Location: San Francisco, California
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
🛠️✨ Happy practicing and happy building! 🚀🌟
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