Upcoming Founder & VC Events Happening This Week

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Upcoming Events

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🗓️ Monday, Nov 11

👉 Founders Circle Breakfast Club: Scaling to Success (11:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 Join us for an exclusive gathering of founders who have taken bold steps to establish and grow their businesses in the U.S.
The Founders Circle Breakfast Club is a unique event designed for early-stage entrepreneurs and seasoned founders alike who seek to understand the U.S. business landscape and learn from the experiences of others who have successfully navigated this journey.

👉 AI Investors & Networking (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Featured VC: Jason Nyeh, Managing Director, Lamarka

👉 Muslim Tech Networking w/ Friday, MTC, BAEH & GEH 🏝️ @ Wefunder SF! (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Get ready to network and meet vetted Muslim founders, investors, and operators at this Muslim Tech Networking hosted by the Global Entrepreneurs Hub 🏝️, Friday Muslim Founders, and Muslim Tech Collaborative!
Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a fellow founder, or just curious about the future of the Muslim founder ecosystem, this is the place to be.

👉 AI for Good: Community Conversations #4 (5:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for another AI for Good meetup where we explore how technology can drive meaningful impact🚀
We're stoked to host this one at AWS GenAI Loft in SF featuring Ben Sand, founder & CEO of Strong Compute (YC W22). Ben's an incredible founder who has raised $70M+ built multiple successful startups (including Meta - #38 out of YC's 1900 companies by valuation) and coached 26+ tech companies.

👉 ByteDance Open Source Meetup (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join us for the AI For Developer Meetup, hosted by ByteDance Open Source. This event brings together AI researchers, practitioners, developers, engineers, product managers, technology leaders, open-source community members, and industry experts to discuss AI implementation challenges and solutions across diverse environments.

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov 12

👉 Fundraising for Your Startup? How to Build a HUGE Investor Target List (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
📍 Oakland
💬 How to build an investor target list that is BIG and accessible... without needing to spend a decade networking
If you've started prepping to fundraise, you know the common advice is be prepared for tons of rejection. The only way that math works is if your target list of investors is massive.
All of that is easier said than done...
Join us to learn the exact process we've used to train hundreds of founders...

👉 Agent Hack Night at GitHub (4:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for another incredibly fun Hack Night at GitHub! This event is presented by Weaviate.
Here’s what you can roughly expect:
🏆 Evening of Fun:
Lightning Talks (Weaviate, ArizeAI, FriendliAI, CrewAI)
Demo Challenge: Showcase your creativity by combining Quickstarts or technologies.
Quickstart Challenges
Social / Networking Challenges

👉 How to stay "Human" in the age of AI (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Come join us to network and have a fireside chat with the amazing Vikram Tiwari!

👉 $25K+ MRR Founders, Active Investors & Influencers Dinner Party w/ Persona, Stori AI & G.E.H🏝️ (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Exclusive (50 person cap) dinner event for founders over $25k Monthly Recurring Revenue, Active Investors, and Influencers in the Valley.
Curated events where we bring the best of our community. Evenings designed to build high-value connections, provide real-world business value and explore collaborations that shape the future.

👉 All Things Web @ Vercel HQ 👀 (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an engaging evening with a talk and AMA with Tom Occhino.
"An Evening with Tom Occhino"
Tom is the Chief Product Officer at Vercel leading Engineering, Product, and Design. Previously he spent over 12 years at Facebook where he led development of the company’s core JavaScript Infra, shaped its open source program, and was responsible for the creation and development of React and React Native. He enjoys traveling, dance music, fancy cocktails, and simple food.

👉 The Generative Browser Summit: Intelligence & Interfaces (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The Generative Browser Summit will be our inaugural collective of keynotes, discussions, and industry perspectives taking on the most ambitious end-state of the internet. We'll introduce the single canvas era, moving from static web pages to real-time outputs of agents displaying intelligent and intuitive interfaces.

👉 AI Agent Builders & Founders with Sambanova (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Connect with and learn from Sambanova and other AI agent users, experts, and VCs who are on the cutting edge of operationalizing and automating daily workflows using the latest and greatest in AI.
Our goal is to connect AI agent founders with experts and VCs interested in the AI agent space. Learn from how to use AI agents for your business from the best AI agent founders.

👉 AI + Accessibility/Inclusion Tech Networking (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 🌐 Join the Future of Accessible Technology w/ SignAvatar & Global Entrepreneurs Hub!
Are you passionate about AI, accessibility, and creating a more inclusive world? We believe in breaking down barriers and leveraging technology to make the world more accessible for everyone.

👉 Founders & Funders (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Los Gatos
💬 Our Founders & Funders series of community-driven mixers hosted by Ignite! 🚀 Where early-stage tech founders and investors connect, collaborate on projects, and socialize. 🌟

👉 The Making of Notion Q&A w/ OpenAI and Braintrust (5:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 What does it really take to build enterprise-grade AI search? Join us for a candid conversation about the year-long journey of building Notion Q&A. In this candid session, Akshay, Ankur, and Sherwin will share their first-hand experiences of bringing RAG to millions of users — from early technical challenges to breakthrough moments that shaped the product.

👉 Founder-Led Biotech SF Tour (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Calling all founders, future founders and members of the biotech ecosystem in San Francisco. Join the Pillar VC team for a curated, in-person community event at our SF tour stop! Cocktails, mocktails, and appetizers will be served.
Thank you to Eli Lily, JPM, Wilson Sonsini, and Latch Bio for sponsoring this event.

👉 Finance Networking Dinner | Maximizing Finance Operational Impact for 2025 (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join SF’s top finance and accounting leaders for an evening focused on strategies to boost operational efficiency in 2025.
This exclusive dinner will delve into practical approaches for auditing your tech stack, streamlining key workflows like procurement, and maximizing your budget. Connect, learn, and get ahead with insights that will equip your team for the year ahead.

👉 Back To Nature — by Olo & Leave Normal Behind (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 In a world filled with constant noise and distractions, and an increasing rate of change and uncertainty, the path to clarity lies in reconnecting with the most authentic parts of ourselves—both within and around us. This event is your invitation to rediscover the deep connection between your inner nature and the natural world. Let go of the noise, find your grounding, and uncover the truths that have always been within you.

🗓️ Wednesday, Nov 13

👉 Roundtable Lunch on the Built Environment (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 This lunch meeting on the built environment brings together companies working on new construction technologies and companies eager to put them to use. Our Roundtables start with presentations from relevant startups, rolls into an unpanel which involves everyone, includes demo and meeting tables for companies looking to start conversations, and ends with a networking lunch.

👉 IP in the age of AI (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 A lunch and panel discussion of Intellectual Property in the context of the amazing advancements in AI. The rise of AI has introduced significant changes to the landscape of intellectual property (IP), creating both opportunities and challenges. Learn how AI is affecting various aspects of IP in a rapidly changing landscape.

👉 Product Engineering for AI Enabled Tech: Panel and Networking Event (5:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Tech teams of all sizes run into alignment problems when making great products. Business, UX, and engineering can run into risky disagreements, and not be aware that it's happening. In the age of AI, new possibilities and new problems have arisen.

👉 🟡 AI + Crypto Networking w/ Akshaj & G.E.H🏝️ (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an exclusive opportunity to network with industry leaders at the intersection of AI and Crypto! 🚀 this event brings together with G.E.H🏝️ and Akshaj to explore cutting-edge advancements and insights in AI, cryptocurrency, and more. Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and innovate with professionals shaping the future of technology.

👉 Asian Americans in CRE Mixer (5:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an Asian Americans in Commercial Real Estate Mixer, hosted by JLL at 1 Front Street. Our goal is create a safe space to network, share our experiences, and hear market insights from other CRE professionals.
All Asian Americans and Allies are welcome. Space is limited, and some refreshments will be provided, so please RSVP at your convenience.

👉 Gen Battle SF: Make A Short Film with AI Tools (5:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 IP Against the Machine! Let's make short films based on famous public domain IP like Winnie the Pooh, Steamboat Willie, Sherlock Holmes, Greek myths, Journey to the West, and more. Essentially, we're making fan fiction films!
Create AI-enabled short films in one night! Get together and meet new folks working, building, and creating in the AI scene with the latest AI tools. Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI tools, plus meet fellow innovators in the AI space.

👉 Fall Hardware Demo and Open Mic @ Port Labs (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Oakland
💬 Join us at Port Labs for our Hardware Showcase and Open Mic meetup!
Meet local product builders, and tell others what you're working on.
We'll have food and drink. All demos are welcome. Share what you're working on, your current interests, your needs from the community!

👉 Cup of Courage: Catalysts (Fireside Chat & Networking) (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Powered by InHerShoes and small local businesses, Cup of Courage is a curated, intimate community gathering series where women can come together and engage in thoughtful discussions, activities, and reflection on what it means to embody courage.

👉 EntrepreneuHER (Celebration of Women in Entrepreneurship) (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hosted by Gargi Kand & Gabriella Waak, we are curating a night of women empowerment, networking, panels, booths, dinner, & drinks!
Women Founders Bay is a nonprofit supporting female founders through events, network, workshops, and resources. Our mission to decrease the gender funding gap. Support us by donating to Women Founders Bay here.

👉 Bay Angels & Founders Mixer (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 This event is your chance to get answers straight from someone who’s lived it. In a dynamic 45-minute fireside chat, serial entrepreneur Melvin Yuan will reveal the lessons he’s learned throughout his career building and scaling companies overseas. His latest venture, Stellar (histellar.com), is revolutionizing how businesses navigate the challenges of operating across two continents, and he’ll be sharing firsthand insights that can shape your next investment decision.

👉 The 2024 Golden Gate Smackdown Presented by VSC & Mayfield (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Over a decade ago, we hosted an event that became the stuff of legends — a night where startup founders and VCs connected over fast-paced ping pong matches, forging partnerships that would shape the future.
This year, we’re bringing it back. Join us as we revive the iconic SMACKDOWN Tournament, a throwback to a time when business was as much about the game as it was about the grind.
This exclusive event is hosted by VSC and Mayfield, along with Silicon Valley Bank, and Fiduciary Trust International.

👉 AI For Designers #20 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Calling all designers! Join us for our monthly AI for Designers event.
Explore the world of AI-powered design tools like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Midjourney, and learn how they can enhance your creative process in UX/UI design, graphic design, web design, conversation design, product design, and generative design.

👉 Philosophy: Who Needs It? (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for our first Clarion event, where we will debate the value of philosophy. We are basing the discussion on Ayn Rand’s insightful essay “Philosophy: Who Needs It?”.
In this essay, Rand argues that disinterest in philosophy is often justified. Yet, she illustrates the need for a science that helps people answer fundamental questions in order to live practical, rational, and happy lives. She thinks every human inevitably grapples with these questions, but mostly subconsciously.

🗓️ Thursday, Nov 14

👉 Build an AI conversational bot with Zoom + Cerebras (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to build next-generation AI applications on the Zoom Developer Platform. This event, hosted in partnership with AWS and Cerebras, offers hands-on experience in building intelligent chatbots that integrate seamlessly with Zoom, leveraging advanced AI models.

👉 The Path Ahead | Investor Summit (2:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join us for an exclusive evening designed specifically for investors navigating the venture capital landscape. Hosted by Ignite Investments, this private event will kick off with insightful programming focused on venture investing in the AI-driven era.

👉 2024 Dream Challenge K-Startup Demo Day (3:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Welcome to Dream Challenge K-Startup Demo Day 2024! This is your opportunity to witness the future of innovation as Korea’s most promising startups present their groundbreaking ideas and transformative technologies. The event will be held on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at the Crowne Plaza Palo Alto, an IHG Hotel.

👉 ElevateHER Pitch Workshop: Mastering Investor Conversations (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Oakland
💬 In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to: ✨ Build a winning pitch deck that investors can’t ignore. 🎤 Master the art of storytelling to captivate your audience. 🎯 Practice your pitch with real-time feedback from experienced mentors.
Whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your pitch, this workshop is for every founder ready to make an impact. 🙌

👉 reRoboCode 2024 (4:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for the inaugural RoboCode summit, an immersive half-day event dedicated to the latest advancements and opportunities in robotics. Designed for roboticists and engineers, this summit will feature in-depth discussions on crucial topics such as the pros and cons of ROS, validated commercialization strategies, and the current state of developer tools.

👉 AI + HealthTech & Longevity @ Stanford (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Stanford
💬 As advancements in AI and HealthTech rapidly transform how we approach longevity and healthcare, this event will explore groundbreaking innovations, foster new collaborations, and create a space to share ideas that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the life sciences.

👉 AI Go-to-Market Night (5:00 PM - 8:30 PM) [HOSTED BY ME]
📍 San Francisco
💬 What to expect:
Insights from top GTM speakers like Marianne Bekker (Investor), Christina Byza (Founder, Ex-LinkedIn/Adobe), Fabian Baier (Serial Entrepreneur), and Gokhan Egri (Founder)
AI startup demos showcasing the latest advancements
Great food from Paesia Cafe
Plenty of networking opportunities

👉 Women Founders, Spanish Startups & Sangria Night! (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 This vibrant event, powered by Mind the Bridge, celebrates the dynamic contributions of women entrepreneurs with HQs in the Spanish startup ecosystem. It’s a gathering designed to highlight the achievements, challenges, and innovations led by women entrepreneurs in a thriving startup scene.

👉 Invite only: AI/ML Researchers, Founders and VCs in Drone Technology (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 5-minute lightning talks from 2-3 invited researchers, founders, and VCs in drone (UAS) technologies followed by open networking. Looking forward to a great evening with lively discussions!

👉 AI + Growth Marketers Meetup (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Following the fantastic success of our September Marketers in AI event, where we connected with 30+ senior-level experts, we're thrilled to announce the next installment in our series.
This exclusive event is designed for marketers eager to connect with senior-level peers in a relaxed, collaborative environment. Our aim is to bring together professionals navigating the evolving landscape of AI, to share real-world experiences, and support one another in overcoming today's challenges.

👉 AI Agents + Knowledge Graphs => Intelligent Systems (5:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 In this talk, we will explore how AI agents can effectively interact with knowledge graphs to enable more intelligent decision-making and information retrieval. We'll cover key principles for building AI systems that can navigate, query, and extract meaningful insights from structured knowledge. Through best practices and real-world examples, you'll learn how to design AI agents that integrate seamlessly with knowledge graphs, enhancing their ability to understand and respond to complex queries.

👉 Groq Developer Meetup (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Are you interested in the field of GenAI? Do you want to see how Groq can help you build faster and better LLM applications? Join us at our meetup for pizza and drinks with fellow developers and Groqsters.

👉 Bridging Innovation: Singapore Robotics Meets the Bay Area (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 Don’t miss out on the SG Robotics Gathering, an exclusive event organized by the National Robotics Programme Singapore in partnership with BLK71 and Singapore Global Network. Bringing together industry leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts from Singapore and the wider robotics community in the Bay Area and across the US!

👉 Beers & Sandboxes: E2B Meets Developers (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for food and drinks at Southern Pacific Brewing in San Francisco. No working, demos, or talks - just a chill chat with the E2B team.

👉 118th SF Hardware Meetup @ Future House | AI in Biotech (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Come check out Future House's new space and explore the latest in AI, Hardware, and Biotech.
There will be a chance for an open mic. All demos and standup pitches welcome.

👉 Brex Supper Club SF w/ Fiat Growth 11/14 (6:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The Brex and Fiat Growth Team
Brex is the financial stack that scales with startups from MVP to IPO - and beyond. The stack includes business accounts, bill pay, corporate credit cards, expense management software, and business travel.
Fiat Growth is a fintech consultancy of premium marketing talent that helps early-stage startups develop customer acquisition, conceptualize creative campaigns, solve attribution challenges and accelerate growth. Additionally, Fiat offers an advisory network of 250+ senior executives from the biggest brands to support all aspects of early-stage growth.

🗓️ Friday, Nov 15

👉 Mountain View Bootstrappers Breakfast (9:00 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Come join entrepreneurs who eat problems for breakfast®. At a Bootstrappers Breakfast®, we have serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit: this is for founders who are actively bootstrapping a startup.

👉 Building The Next Base: An Idea Marathon For Engineers, Scientists And Storytellers (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 We have friends coming in to talk about building robots, biotech companies, neurotech, and about the application and current states of different technologies you can apply today.

👉 Coffee Club | AI Founders & Funders (9:30 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Calling all AI founders and funders!
☕ Casual coffee meetup. Your no-stress way to meet founders, VCs, and maybe your next customer or co-founder.
Here to talk all things AI. Computer use, agentic reasoning, killer apps, whatever gets your neural networks firing.

👉 Ignite Friday: Where Great Minds Get to Work (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 Amid Silicon Valley’s buzzing ecosystem, this breakfast meetup is a breath of fresh air—an intimate space where founders don’t just network; they get to work.
Join fellow trailblazers for an energizing morning of ideas, innovation, and collaboration fueled by strong coffee, fresh tea, delectable pastries, and big ambitions.

👉 Founder Friday (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 San Mateo
💬 Join us at the MXP Founder Roundtable, where you’ll engage with fellow founders in an exclusive, interactive session focused on the entrepreneurial journey, global expansion, and overcoming challenges.
This isn’t just another discussion—it’s a chance to learn from those who’ve been in the trenches. Hear directly from select founders as they share firsthand experiences, insights, and strategies that have propelled their startups forward.

👉 UC Berkeley Global Startup Fair (12:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Berkeley
💬 Welcome to the UC Berkeley Global Startup Fair Fall 2024! Join us at the Pauley Ballroom for an exciting in-person event showcasing innovative startups from around the world. The UCB Global Startup Fair is a unique recruitment event where the spotlight is on the startups. It is a chance for small companies to speak directly to students without getting overshadowed by the big names. Connect with entrepreneurs, investors, and industry professionals to network, collaborate, and learn from the best in the business.

👉 Female Founders and Funders Walk with Venturous Counsel (2:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 No agenda other than to walk and talk, networking with other like-minded women and woman-identifying founders and funders in the startup ecosystem (outside of the usual, noisy bar atmosphere).

👉 Taming the Wild West of IP (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Spatial technology is one of the frontier technologies of the age - and some aspects of it truly are a wild west. Intellectual property (IP) in particular is a huge domain of potential challenge - and opportunity.
In previous generations of technology, IP content - music, books, images, brands - have been used by users and platforms without protecting creators' rights and revenues, only for IP protections to gradually kick in, after much friction and suspicion.

👉 ♟️🇺🇸 Mega Chess SF Hackathon: Train AI Chess Bots on GPUs (6:00 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join our Mega Chess Hackathon to get hands-on experience with rapid iteration cluster training using Strong Compute’s Instant SuperComputer (ISC). This event will focus on training deep neural networks to play chess.
Unlike traditional training environments, the ISC simplifies and accelerates job execution on shared GPU clusters, allowing training to start within seconds. Shared resources are efficiently managed, and large datasets are readily accessible. Experiment with different models, datasets, and hyperparameters to develop the best chess AI over two days.

👉 Founders Meetup - Over 200 Attendees Happylocal (8:00 PM - 11:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Happy Local is hosting a founders meetup! It's going to be 150+ attendees, divided into multiple small groups. RSVP here to get invited.

👉 WE❤️SF Nonprofit Launch Party (8:00 PM - 11:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 In partnership with Shack15, the newly formed WE❤️SF nonprofit will support and champion local artists through the 2025 Artist-in-Residence Program, which will fund the SF creative community to create art of all kinds in, around, and across our beautiful city.

👉 LILLY PALMER (9:00 PM - 11:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 LILLY PALMER brings her high-energy techno sound to the STACKED EDM Series Friday night performing a (3) hour set on November 15th.

👉 Insomniac presents Trivecta: Find My Way Tour (9:00 PM - 11:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Insomniac presents: Trivecta: Find My Way Tour with special guest RAVENSCOON & VLCN. My second love after tech is music. So I’m going to start including concerts happening the city every week

🗓️ Saturday, Nov 16

👉 Founders Running Club :: San Francisco (9:30 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people, and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer—pets, friends, and family are welcome.

👉 Business Olympics (Entrepreneur's idea of a fun weekend) (11:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 If you have a knack for problem-solving this is the event for you, especially if you also struggle turning your business brain off outside of work hours.
Founders, owners, operators, VCs, business nerds, and other degens unite!

👉 Bloom & Harvest Market (11:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 AHN Foundation is thrilled to partner with SHOPLINE for our Bloom & Harvest Market event, to spotlight and celebrate local businesses in the community. Join us at this stunning florist shop location as we bring together local AAPI vendors, entrepreneurs, creatives, and influencers. This event will provide lots of opportunities to network, shop from local businesses, and snap some aesthetic photos for the gram!

👉 Zeds Dead Concert (9:00 PM - 11:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 My second love after tech is music. So I’m going to start including concerts happening the city every week

🗓️ Sunday, Nov 17

👉 Harvard Hacker House - Hack + Demos (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 When: We'll start coworking/networking at 6pm and run demos at 7pm. Ignore the 10/13, on the image, it's 11/17.

AI Trends in 2024: Top Industries Being Disrupted

As we move through 2024, it’s clear that AI is becoming a major force in the world. From improving healthcare to transforming transportation, AI is being used in powerful new ways. One key sign of its growing influence is the dramatic rise in global funding for AI and cloud technologies—from $40 billion in 2023 to $79 billion in 2024. This doubling of investment shows just how important AI is becoming across industries.

Are you building an AI product and need expert advice for top AI/ML Engineers? You can book time with TheAgentic team to learn more: https://scheduler.zoom.us/theagentic-ai/demo

Hi! I'm Mariane Bekker, an investor and a tech executive with over a decade of experience building high-performing engineering teams at leading startups such as New Relic and Mindbody. I've led engineering through 5 acquisitions and 1 IPO. 

I’m the founder of Founders bay and Women Founders bay, connecting founders with expert guidance, events and funding opportunities in the Bay Area.