Hi Friends,

Just landed back from NYC and spending the weekend with my 2 boys, Leo & Liam (behind the scenes on my Stories 👆)!

The highlights of my trip: a podcast with Tim Kotzman on Bitcoin Treasuries (episode here and below), visiting the historical Library and eating Knafeh with Mo Al-Samrrai (one of Founders Bay LPs and renowned Anesthesiologist), moderating Women in Capital panel at Opal's Family Office conference, and hosting my first event with Veris AI alongside McKinsey's Tech CTO James Kaplan and You.com's Head of AI, Saahil Jain.

Now I'm back — and jumping straight into one of the busiest weeks yet.

This week, Founders Bay and You.com are co-hosting a string of events, and I'll be there on Monday, Wednesday (pitch competition), and Thursday. If you've been wanting to meet IRL, this is your moment — come find me.

👉 Full lineup here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marianebekker_gtc-share-7438652121954189313-Zz8U?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAaZ6_kBd_MgwNXbHunny0zK6hM7OUsCMZo

Drop a comment on the LinkedIn post with the event you want to attend, and I'll send you a free ticket even though most are sold out.

-Mariane Bekker

Check out my podcast on Agentic AI and Web3 below!

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👉 U.S.–Japan Innovation in Agri-Tech and AI: California’s Environmental Challenges, from Drought to Data (2:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Morrison Foerster
💬 Join us for a special program during the World Agri-Tech Summit in San Francisco, highlighting collaborative solutions to agricultural challenges.

👉 Suzuki Startup Showcase: Shippeo (8:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Sunnyvale
💬 Join us for the 2nd edition of the Suzuki Startup Showcase, featuring Shippeo, a leading real-time, multimodal transportation visibility platform.

👉 Future Food Systems: Building in Food Robotics and AI (7:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Emma Forman and Emily Spector and Verve for an evening focused on the Food x Robotics frontier.

👉 Deep Tech Nexus - Physical AI (3:00 PM - 4:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join us for an engaging afternoon with leading voices in deep tech and AI Infrastructure, convening top founders, VCs, and LPs.

👉 Explore UK Agri-Tech: Innovations and Opportunities (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join the UK Department for Business and Trade to explore the UK’s world-leading Agri-Tech ecosystem and its investment opportunities.

👉 Backstage with Cerebras (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join Cerebras during GTC for a high-impact, invitation-only gathering of leaders building what’s next in AI.

👉 NVIDIA GTC Side Event Mixer (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Register to See Address
💬 Join us for a curated, invitation-only mixer during NVIDIA GTC, bringing together AI architects, DevRel, enterprise leaders, and investors.

👉 Secure AI Factory: GTC Happy Hours for AI Executives with Massed Compute, Gruve AI, EOS, Rapt AI, & MaxLinear (4:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join us for an afternoon cocktail hour where AI leaders meet teams solving the hardest problems in secure, production-grade AI infrastructure.

👉 Aixia x evroc x Opper.AI x Swenode.AI Release Party (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Aixia, evroc, OpperAI, and Swenode.AI are launching what the Nordics have been waiting for, right in Silicon Valley.

👉 AgTech Innovators Reception (5:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Silicon Valley Bank
💬 Join Fall Line Capital, SVB, and Morrison Foerster for an invite-only reception with beverages and light bites.

👉 Cafe Compute: San Jose (6:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Cerebras is excited to present Cafe Compute at GTC, showcasing the world’s fastest AI inference, up to 15x faster than leading GPUs.

👉 NVIDIA GTC 2026 Happy Hour: AI Builders Party (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join us to unwind after a full day at NVIDIA GTC 2026 at our AI Builders Party, blending old-school gaming with cutting-edge AI and robotics.

👉 Half Ripe - Open Registration (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Half Ripe is an open mic for developed performers and the comedy curious, featuring stand-ups, clowns, and cries for help, where everyone gets five minutes.

👉 The Builder's Table (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 The Progress
💬 The Builder’s Table is a private dinner for owners and senior executives from leading contractors and subcontractors across the Bay Area.

👉 AWS Startups @ GTC Monday Munch (6:00 PM - 7:45 PM)
📍 Home Eat汉家宴 - San Jose
💬 Refuel between GTC sessions with a relaxed, sub–two-hour dinner at Eat Home San Jose, featuring bold Chinese comfort food.

👉 Sales workshop w/ Thierry Coulibaly (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 411 Vermont St
💬 You built something people want? Let's turn your solution into revenue with a FREE 2-hour masterclass by Thierry Coulibaly at Fontaine Founders hacker house.

👉 YC W26 Founders Table - Hosted by Night Capital, Ritual, & Scribble (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Tacolicious
💬 Join Night Capital, Ritual Ventures, and Scribble Ventures for an intimate dinner bringing together a small group of YC founders from the current batch.

👉 Dopamine and the Real Neuroscience of Motivation (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Cafe Du Nord
💬 Dopamine is everywhere, but what does neuroscience actually say? Join Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera, PhD candidate in Neuroscience at Stanford, as he cuts through the hype.

👉 AI Builders Welcome Party (7:30 PM - 10:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Kick off GTC San Jose with the AI-native community at a high-energy welcome party hosted by Together AI and 5C.

👉 Mintlify x Junbi: Free St.Patrick's Day Matcha (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM)
📍 Junbi Matcha & Tea - San Francisco
💬 Mintlify invites friends and family to enjoy a free matcha this St. Patrick's Day at Junbi on Market St., as a thank you for being part of their ecosystem and journey.

👉 WEKA x Solidigm Recharge Lounge @ GTC (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Aura Kitchen + Bar
💬 GTC26 moves fast, so when you need to decompress, join WEKA and Solidigm at their exclusive oasis near the show floor.

👉 Brave1 Invest Demo Day San Francisco (Menlo Park) (10:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 🚀 Brave1, Ukraine’s government-backed defense technology cluster, brings its Invest Demo Day to San Francisco, connecting US investors with combat-proven Ukrainian startups.

👉 Coffee + Connection: Bay Area Meetup for Mom Founders & Female Founders. SF (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
📍 Andytown Coffee Roasters
💬 Join our Coffee + Connection series for mom founders and female founders in the Bay Area.

👉 Finding Gold in Spinouts Lunch (12:00 PM - 2:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Citizens Private Bank, Carta, and the Sarah Smith Fund invite you to an intimate GP/LP lunch in San Francisco.

👉 Navigating the U.S. AgeTech Market (8:00 AM - 10:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The U.S. Senior Care market offers immense opportunity, but successfully scaling requires a localized strategy, the right funding partners, and a clear understanding of the regulatory landscape.

👉 Kyoto Startup Pitch & Networking Summit SF (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)
📍 Japan Innovation Campus
💬 Join us for an evening of innovation and networking, showcasing four high-potential startups from Japan-Kyoto in Healthcare, Med Tech (SaMD), Food Tech, and Travel Tech.

👉 Slovak Tech Conference (4:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The Slovak Tech Conference returns to San Francisco, connecting builders, investors, and operators between Slovakia and Silicon Valley.

👉 Scaling from SEA to Silicon Valley with Aspire Co-Founder (8:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Supermomos and the Singapore Global Network for an exclusive, invitation-only breakfast gathering for Directors, VPs, and C-suite executives from tech scale-ups.

👉 Founding CTOs (SF): From 20% to 10x (4:30 PM - 5:45 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Founding CTOs' CTO Studio, an invite-only event for venture-funded CTOs with < 10 engineers, to share challenges and wins.

👉 Graph Exchange: Context Graph, Annotated Knowledge, and Vector+GraphRAG (4:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 555 California St
💬 Graph Exchange is a quarterly meetup dedicated to the Graph AI space, featuring talks on Semiont and Pale Fire.

👉 The FDE Conference II - Nixo x Rippling x ElevenLabs (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 The FDE Conference II is back, bigger than ever, bringing together 300+ FDEs, founders, and operators in San Francisco.

👉 🌐 The Politics of Building Clean Energy (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 The biggest decisions on climate aren’t made in Washington—they’re made in statehouses, city halls, and utility commissions.

👉 Tropical IT GTC'26 BBQ (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Bay Padel - Sunnyvale
💬 Join Tropical IT for a relaxed post-GTC BBQ at Bay Padel in Sunnyvale, unwinding with great food, drinks, and good company.

👉 DWeb Weaving & Tooling (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for discussions, presentations, and workshops about decentralized web technology and philosophy at DWeb Weaving & Tooling.

👉 Irish Tech Summit (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Computer History Museum
💬 Join us for the Irish Tech Summit, hosted by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, bringing together the Irish & Silicon Valley tech ecosystem.

👉 Pitch Playoffs #002 - GTC 2026 (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Circuit Launch
💬 We're bringing together early-stage startups across physical AI for Pitch Playoffs #002 - GTC 2026.

👉 USC AI Dinner Series (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Redwood City
💬 You're invited to a private dinner with Scott Cook and Mark Stevens, gathering primary movers of AI within the USC community.

👉 Cyber Threat Intelligence: What Actually Works (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 NetApp
💬 Join Silicon Valley ISSA for a candid fireside conversation with Cyber Threat Intelligence Expert Joe Slowik and Chapter President Mike Skurko.

👉 Solving Post-Pilot Manufacturing Bottleneck & Role of Scale-Up Innovation (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 OAK - Informal Spaces (formerly Port Labs)
💬 The Roundtable Session Series returns to the Bay Area, featuring two prominent experts in alternative protein scale-up challenges.

👉 Open Source Data Streaming Meetup Bay Area (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 135 Constitution Dr
💬 Join us for an Open Source Data Streaming Meetup on March 17th at the Snowflake Menlo Park Office.

👉 From Silicon Valley to Sinigang Valley (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a casual mixer bringing together Filipino founders and investors building across Silicon Valley, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.

👉 How to Get Paul Graham to Invest: YC Founder Workshop (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 AngelList
💬 Learn how a YC founder, backed by Paul Graham, raised $4.7M in one week after moving to SF with no network.

👉 Lucille Tenazas _ Founder and Principal (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
💬 Join us for a lecture with Lucille Tenazas, renowned graphic designer, educator, and former national president of AIGA.

👉 The Future of At-Home Diagnostics (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join JHTC at Visby Medical headquarters for an exclusive tour and behind-the-scenes look at this groundbreaking healthcare company.

👉 SOLIDWORKS STARTUPS CONNECT (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Ballast Point Brewing
💬 Join SOLIDWORKS for Startups for an evening of networking, refreshments, and bites in SF, connecting with global and local startup founders, innovators, and industry leaders.

👉 Frontier Room: GTC After Dark Cocktail Experience for AI Founders (6:30 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join us for a curated, invite-only evening for AI founders and builders at the frontier of AI: training, fine-tuning, and pushing boundaries

👉 TechWadi Iftar with Incorta (6:45 PM - 9:15 PM)
📍 Foster City
💬 TechWadi is hosting an annual Iftar in the South Bay, teaming up with Incorta to offer a warm experience for new connections and community building.

👉 A Night Cap in the Jungle — GTC After Hours (7:00 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 44 S Almaden Ave
💬 DigitalOcean x Twingate present "A Night Cap in the Jungle," a refined evening reception for top-tier AI architects, infrastructure engineers, IT, and security leaders during NVIDIA GTC 2026.

👉 The Assembly - Biohacker and Cybernetics in Frontier (7:30 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Join us at The Assembly, a dedicated space for those interested in biological optimization and human-machine integration.

👉 The Venture Revolution (8:00 AM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Menlo Park
💬 The 2026 program focuses on how AI reshapes investment strategies and the future of VC, alongside broader discussions on innovation and market dynamics.

👉 Infrastructure Security Lounge (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM)
📍 The Continental Bar Lounge & Patio
💬 Drop by the Infrastructure Security Lounge at NVIDIA GTC to connect with engineers, technical leaders, and founders working on distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and security.

👉 -1 to World Labs with Dr. Fei-Fei Li (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 South Park Commons hosts Dr. Fei-Fei Li as part of their -1 to Now Series, featuring a fireside chat with the co-founder and CEO of World Labs. Dr. Li

👉 🌐 Food & Ag Cluster with Aaron Veale - Rebuilding Local Food Infrastructure (9:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 Join the Food & Ag Cluster monthly meetup to discuss regenerative agriculture, food systems investing, alternative proteins, and more with founders, investors, and scientists.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Bay Virtual Workshop: How to Build an ICP that Helps Your Team Win (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 Online Event
💬 Join Sherry Prescott-Willis for a virtual workshop on building an ICP that drives results, sharing real-world frameworks and examples.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Weekly Check-In For Pre & MVP Stage (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)
📍 Online
💬 Join us for a weekly check-in for pre- and MVP-stage founders to share struggles and celebrate successes. Our goal is to create a space for sharing challenges and celebratory moments during this early phase, dedicating a portion to self-care for high-performance. 

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] AI Startup Pitch Showcase @ Pilot.com (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Visionary founders will present their ideas, receive live feedback from top VCs, and connect with a curated network of innovators. This event is for early-stage AI founders seeking exposure, investors seeking breakthroughs, and tech enthusiasts exploring emerging AI trends.

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] Founders Bay Expert Office Hours: Startup Advice with Mariane Bekker (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Online
💬 Mariane Bekker, with extensive experience as an investor, engineer, and community leader, offers personalized advice to help your startup succeed.

👉 Science Communication in the Modern Age: Using TEDx, Social Media, Book Writing and more (12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
📍 Online
💬 If you've ever considered becoming a speaker, giving a TEDx talk, writing a book, or creating social media content about your research, this webinar is for you.

👉 Nordic Breakfast (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join us for an early breakfast in Palo Alto to meet the Nordic Innovation House team and learn how they support startups & scaleups in Silicon Valley.

👉 Bay Area CSA Spring Mixer (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 790 Mission Ave
💬 Join us for the Spring 2026 CSA Bay Area Networking Mixer at Aegis Living of San Rafael.

👉 GTC 2026 | Plug and Play Happy Hour (3:30 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Join us on March 18th for a relaxed and thoughtfully curated happy hour during NVIDIA GTC at our San Jose AI Center of Excellence office.

👉 Spring Serve: SaaS on the Court (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 DinkSF
💬 Kick off the spring season with "Spring Serve: SaaS on the Court," a fun, high-energy pickleball meetup for B2B SaaS founders and GTM leaders

👉 Tabs x CBIZ Happy Hour (4:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Waterbar Restaurant
💬 Join Tabs and CBIZ for an evening of networking with fellow finance leaders and operators scaling high-growth businesses in the Bay Area.

👉 Harvesting Connections: An Agri-Tech & Food-Tech Leaders Mixer (4:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Norton Rose Fulbright
💬 Join Intralink and Norton Rose Fulbright for an exclusive post–World Agri-Tech Summit networking mixer, where agri-tech and food-tech innovators, startups, and industry leaders will connect.

👉 DataHub Community Meetup: Netflix Campus (4:30 PM - 6:30 PM)
📍 Los Gatos
💬 Join us for an evening of networking and knowledge sharing at the DataHub Community Meetup, exploring use cases with DataHub at Netflix Campus.

👉 Climatebase Bay Area Mixer (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 Welcome Climatebase Cohort 9 and all Bay Area Fellows to our 5th Bay Area Mixer.

👉 Contrary SF Tech Talk (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Contrary is excited to host its next SF-based Tech Talk, an evening built by and for the most talented engineers in the Bay Area.

👉 Lightning AI Happy Hour @ GTC (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Step away from GTC and join Lightning AI for a happy hour marrying retro arcade games, free food, drinks, and networking in an easygoing space.

👉 Flox, Nix and Friends at NVIDIA GTC (5:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Jose
💬 Flox is hosting a casual happy hour Nix meetup during NVIDIA GTC, offering good drinks, good people, and easygoing chats about Nix.

👉 Open Compute Evening by Fluence (5:30 PM - 10:30 PM)
📍 55 South
💬 Cap off Day 3 at NVIDIA GTC with Fluence and discover smarter, more cost-efficient ways to source GPU compute and next-gen AI infra.

👉 Silicon Valley × Taiwan - AI & Impact Angel Gathering (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Startup Island TAIWAN - Silicon Valley Hub
💬 Meet our Silicon Valley partners who provide full-spectrum support for cross-border success, from investment and GTM to legal protection.

👉 VC Village SF March (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 VC Village is back in the Bay Area with an investor happy hour, featuring drinks, food, dealflow, and Q1 insights.

👉 Founders & Operators Dinner | Hosted by Women in AI x TriNet (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Women in AI and TriNet for an intimate dinner for founders and operators building companies with real teams.

👉 14th Floor New Member Happy Hour - Open Registration (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 If you're new to the Human Flourishing Floor or interested in joining, we'd love to have you for a New Member Happy Hour!

👉 BUILD Meetup (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Astranis
💬 Participate in Bazel/Build Systems talks and/or take a site tour of the Astranis satellite manufacturing factory.

👉 Grace Gong x CIBC x HubSpot dinner [Venture with Grace CEO Club] (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join an intimate dinner in SF for venture-backed Seed-Series B companies' founders and selected VCs, hosted by Grace Gong in partnership with CIBC and HubSpot.

👉 NeuroTechSF Fireside Chat - Open Registration (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco
💬 Join us for a fireside chat with a neurotech founder at the Frontier Tower.

👉 NVIDIA GTC: AI Builders Party (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 We're blending old school video games with cutting-edge AI and robotics, featuring a Super Smash Bros challenge, robot demos, yummy bites, and drinks.

👉 AI Tech & Startup Night — San Francisco (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Karl's Beacon
💬 Join us for an AI Tech & Startup Night in San Francisco, featuring live tech startup pitches, investor-focused networking, and an action-driven atmosphere.

👉 Artificially Un-intelligent Tech Comedy Show (6:00 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 The Faight Collective
💬 Artificially Un-Intelligent Tech Comedy is back in SF with a FREE night of comedy and open bar networking brought to you by Fondo!

👉 Groundfloor Startup Demo Night (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Groundfloor
💬 Join us for an intimate Demo Night at Groundfloor, bringing together a select group of early-stage founders and active angels/operators.

👉 TechWalk | Silicon Valley (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Shoreline Lake
💬 TechWalk offers a different kind of networking event for the Tech and SaaS communities, encouraging outdoor movement and fresh air.

👉 Pitch & Run San Francisco (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Willie Mays Gate
💬 Founders, operators, investors, angels, and runners: join Pitch and Run for a workout and networking!

👉 AI Executive Salon: A Cocktail Party (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Loft Bar & Bistro
💬 Join us for an invite-only, GTC-week evening for leaders building and scaling real-world AI infrastructure, featuring a curated guest list of execs, platform leads, and AI/infra decision-makers.

👉 NVIDIA GTC Private Robotics Dinner (7:15 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 An invite-only tasting menu dinner for robotics founders, builders, and innovators in San Francisco, following NVIDIA GTC 2026.

👉 GTC 2026 After Hours: From Models to Agents to Infra (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 Sunnyvale
💬 The AI stack is shifting fast, with frontier models, agentic architectures, and infrastructure evolving in real time.

👉 🌉 Support Engineering Lunch - Bay Area (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 How do support and engineering teams collaborate to solve customer-reported issues without getting buried in process?

👉 [HOSTED BY FOUNDERS BAY] The Edge of AI: Builder Night @ Tesla with You.com × Founders Bay (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an evening of AI insights, hands-on workshops, and networking with top AI experts. Speakers include Arun Saigal, Mariane Bekker, Saurabh Sharma, and Nancy Wang, discussing shipping AI agents and AI-powered apps. 

👉 SF Fintech Coffee 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM)
📍 SVB Experience Center
💬 Rise and shine, early birds! Join This Week in Fintech and Silicon Valley Bank for our March Fintech Coffee.

👉 The SF Grind: Coffee Meetup (8:00 AM - 10:00 AM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join this casual coffee meetup to connect with interesting founders, operators, and investors in the SF startup ecosystem.

👉 SVSRT Networking Event (4:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
📍 Sunrise of Cupertino
💬 Our next SVSRT Event will be a speed networking event, so please make sure to bring business cards and promotional materials about your organization.

👉 Fundraising in 2026: How the Bar Has Quietly Moved (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join us for a discussion on how AI is fundamentally reshaping SaaS markets and what that means for founders and investors in 2026.

👉 Quick Signature Gathering Training (4:30 PM - 5:30 PM)
📍 Van Ness Avenue & Market Street
💬 Start gathering signatures for Connect Bay Area and Stronger Muni for All, funding public transit in San Francisco and the inner Bay Area. 

👉 Expo Everywhere in San Francisco (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 SF devs, let’s build better React Native apps together! Join us for an evening of practical patterns, real-world demos, and RN community building. 

👉 Immigrant Founders: Pitch Night + Networking (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 This night is for immigrant founders to share what they’re building, speak honestly about the struggle, exchange real knowledge, and connect with others who understand it firsthand.

👉 Biomixer @World Agritech/Foodtech 26 (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for a dynamic networking event for biotech, techbio, and life sciences minds.

👉 Developing a Funding Strategy (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 5 Palo Alto Square
💬 Unlock your startup’s potential with Access Silicon Valley’s essential workshop on developing a funding strategy.

👉 Multiomics Mixer: Biotech & Brackets (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 LatchBio
💬 Join us for the Multiomics Mixer: Biotech & Brackets, where sixteen platforms gather in one room.

👉 Defining Creative Vision in the AI Era — Workshop & Pitch Night (5:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 btrax Inc.
💬 Join btrax for a workshop and pitch night exploring how to define creative vision in the AI era, where AI handles execution but human intention remains central.

👉 March Madness Happy Hour: Founders & Investors (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Splash Sports Bar at Thrive City
💬 Join Pilot, Cooley, and AllCode for a March Madness happy hour bringing together founders and investors for an evening of basketball, good drinks, and great conversations.

👉 30 Global Founders to Watch | Honors Reception (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 30 Global Founders to Watch honors founders born abroad who are leading some of the fastest-growing companies in the US, backed by top-tier VCs.

👉 Accessible Transit Happy Hour (5:00 PM - 6:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco Disability Cultural Center
💬 Join San Francisco Transit Riders and Senior Disability Action for a joint social in the outdoor courtyard.

👉 Lowering Costs with Nicholas Perkins from Form Energy (5:30 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub
💬 This month, Nick Perkins from Form Energy will present on various approaches energy storage and industrial decarbonization companies are taking to lower capital costs.

👉 BioPioneers Women’s History Month Panel (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 2600 Tenth St
💬 Join BioPioneers, Berkeley Startup Cluster & Wareham Development for a Women’s History Month evening celebrating women shaping biotech.

👉 Robotics & Physical AI — GTC After Hours (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Mountain View
💬 Join robotics researchers, founders, and industry leaders for an evening exploring how Physical AI and robotics are evolving into real-world applications.

👉 Sanity Pioneers (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 351 California St suite 650
💬 The Sanity Pioneers Program brings together operators and builders shaping the future of content operations

👉 SF Bits in Bio Showcase (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 52 Zoe St
💬 Join us for the SF Bits in Bio Showcase, where community members will present 10-minute technical demonstrations from startups and established companies.

👉 San Francisco ~ Build Your Dream Business: A Strategic Night with Talent Collective (5:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join fellow Talent Collective members and friends for an evening of real talk and authentic connection, exploring building businesses that support the life you want.

👉 HKS Alumni Mixer with the Urban & Rural Leadership Trek (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join the Urban and Rural Leadership Trek and HKS SF Alumni Network for a mixer at SPARK Social SF.

👉 Builders, Makers, and Dreamers Social Hour (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 Southern Pacific Brewing
💬 Building something on your own is exciting, but also a lot.

👉 Heliux's Under the Hood Feat. Ben Schleuniger (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for Under the Hood by Heliux, a live speaker series spotlighting people building real hardware and solving complex problems.

👉 SF Bay Area Data Engineering Happy Hour (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 870 Market St #528
💬 Join us for an evening filled with insightful discussions on the latest in Data Engineering at the SF Bay Area Data Engineering Happy Hour.

👉 Listen Labs Research Leaders Dinner (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 PABU Izakaya
💬 We're bringing together a small group of researchers and insights leaders in tech for an intimate dinner in San Francisco.

👉 The Reserve Club: A Wine Tasting for Finance Leaders (6:30 PM - 9:30 PM)
📍 Press Club
💬 Join Kintsugi, Zenskar & Numero for an intimate evening where finance meets technology, over exceptional wine at The Reserve Club.

👉 5MoF (7:30 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Noisebridge
💬 Five Minutes of Fame (5MoF) features ten five-minute talks in an hour, with a short intermission for beer.

👉 SDR Leaders of USA Meet up (8:30 PM - 11:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for the next SDR Leaders of USA Meetup in San Francisco, focusing on how SDR leaders can coach at scale to improve SDR performance.

👉 Branch Ergonomics App Launch (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us at Branch in Jackson Square on March 19 for the launch of our new Branch Ergonomics App.

👉 Hard Things (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Hard Things is a new invite-only event series co-organized by Mavka and Foley & Lardner LLP, dedicated to innovators shaping Physical AI.

👉 Speak Easy: Pitch Lab SF (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Speak Easy: Pitch Lab SF is a hands-on evening designed for founders and ambitious professionals to sharpen their pitching skills.

👉 [Coral x Nexad] OpenClaw for Ads & Marketing Night (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Coral and Nexad for an exclusive social and networking evening focused on the future of OpenClaw AI agents in advertising and marketing.

👉 Building the AI-Native Company (4:30 PM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Register to See Address
💬 Hold the Spot: Building the AI-Native Company brings together founders building AI-native companies across software, hardware, and services.

👉 GTC Afterparty: Builders, Infra & the Next Wave of AI (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 NVIDIA GTC brings the global AI ecosystem together, but the most meaningful conversations happen off the expo floor.

👉 Light Alliance Summit: Cuba 2026 (5:00 PM - 11:00 AM)
📍 Havana
💬 Join us in vibrant Havana for the second annual Light Alliance Summit, an immersive journey into conscious community & collective impact.

👉 Hornet Hacks 4.0 (9:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
💬 Hornet Hacks 4.0 is a 48-hour hackathon fostering innovation in Productivity, Healthcare, Sustainability, and Open Innovation.

👉 QonfX: Conference for QA, Tech & AI Leaders (8:30 AM - 4:15 PM)
📍 Palo Alto
💬 Join us in Palo Alto for QonfX, an invite-only conference for engineering and QA leaders discussing the future of technology, AI-driven systems, and modern software quality

👉 Tech Weekend (9:00 AM - 7:30 PM)
📍 Allied Arts Guild
💬 Tech Weekend is a 48-hour fundraising sprint by Founders Village, where pre-seed to Series A founders meet dozens of investors.

👉 Product Leaders Roundtable (3:45 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 San Carlos Library
💬 Our Product Leaders Roundtable returns for a hands-on exercise designed to sharpen product thinking in real time.

👉 tl;dr sec Community Kickoff (5:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Semgrep
💬 Kick off BSides SF and RSA 2026 with tl;dr sec for a laid-back community evening.

👉 BsidesSF 2026 Happy Hour (5:30 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Cotool, Formal, and Scanner for their annual BsidesSF Security Happy Hour, connecting security professionals to discuss all things security.

👉 Securing the Claw: A pre-RSA security dinner (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Absinthe Brasserie & Bar
💬 Join 20 security leaders for an intimate dinner the week before RSA, comparing notes on what agentic security actually looks like.

👉 A Big Brain Birthday 🧠 (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 The Sycamore
💬 Join us for a purely social night of connecting, celebrating, and toasting to Big Brain's first birthday!

👉 Founder Fridays: Demo Day (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 Hacker Dojo
💬 Founder Fridays: Demo Day is a showcase for founders to share what they’re building and get real feedback from the community.

👉 BSides Career Village (8:30 AM - 4:00 PM)
📍 Metreon
💬 Join us as a volunteer at this year's BSides SF, immersed in an extraordinary security community.

👉 It's a Walk in the Park (10:30 AM - 12:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join Platform to meet, walk, network, and discuss early-stage startup building in Golden Gate Park.

👉 A Night on the ROCK (2:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 Argonaut Hotel
💬 Join us for "A Night on the ROCK," featuring a CISO Panel Discussion on AI Risk vs. Reward, with networking, open bar, and curated appetizers.

👉 Unstuck & Unplugged: An Interactive Career Event (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
📍 Northeastern University in Silicon Valley
💬 Join us for Unstuck & Unplugged, an interactive career event spotlighting women in tech. 

👉 Irish BsidesSF Brunch (11:30 AM - 1:30 PM)
📍 The Chieftain Irish Pub & Restaurant
💬 Join us for a relaxed Irish brunch during BsidesSF at The Chieftain, a post-St. Patrick's Day gathering to connect and round out the week.

👉 Rho Founder Padel (11:00 AM - 2:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Rho is bringing founders and VCs to the court for a padel bracket tournament in San Francisco.

👉 Tech & Beyond (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Sunnyvale
💬 Join us for an evening of genuine conversations, shared experiences, and meaningful networking.

👉 (un)official BSidesSF Rooftop Afterparty (3:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 Chotto Matte San Francisco
💬 Unwind at the (un)official BSidesSF afterparty, a rooftop party with an open bar, just a 7-minute walk from BSidesSF.

👉 Detection & Response Happy Hour (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Detection Engineering Weekly & Cotool are hosting a Detection & Response happy hour during BSidesSF. Come discuss detection engineering, incident response, threat intelligence, or the conference itself at this intimate event. Food & Drink are provided, but space is capped, so register your interest now!

👉 Lake Chabot paved walk (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)
📍 Lake Chabot Marina & Café
💬 Meet at the Marina & Cafe for a calm lake views walk along mostly flat pavement to build our networks.

👉 Game Market West (10:00 AM - 3:00 PM)
📍 Guildhouse
💬 Game Market West is a tabletop game market where 35+ independent designers show off and sell their newest games.

👉 Bio-Health Athletic Club (10:00 AM - 11:30 AM)
📍 Equator Coffees
💬 Join the Bio-Health Athletic Club for a run at a conversational pace, meeting new people in your industry while discussing biotech and health tech.

👉 Women Leading Tech Mixer (1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco Proper Hotel
💬 Join us for the Women Leading Tech Mixer, featuring hors d'oeuvres & cocktails, a panel discussion on GRC & AI Governance, and a "Hiring Game."

👉 Engineering Serendipity: with Dr. David Cleevely CBE (2:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join us for an exclusive evening with Dr. David Cleevely CBE, exploring how to "engineer" serendipity to bridge ideas and world-changing impact.

👉 CSI: Cyber @ RSAC SF 2026 (3:00 PM - 6:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Hear how a nation’s influential prosecutor and his team think about cyber crime, then listen to leading CISOs and CEOs share front-line perspectives on threats.

👉 RSAC 2026 Party for Marketers (5:30 PM - 8:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Get excited for the Cybersecurity Marketing Society's RSAC 2026 party at the enchanting Novela San Fran, a literature-themed bar.

👉 Pre-RSAC CISO Mastermind Dinner (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Join leading CISOs for an evening of networking, thought leadership discussion, and personal connections.

👉 Calm Before The Storm 2026 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Calm Before The Storm returns for RSAC 2026, setting the tone for the week with a launch party for cybersecurity leaders, founders, and investors

👉 SecOps leaders community event at RSAC 2026 (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 532 Market St
💬 The best conversations at RSA don't happen on the conference floor; they happen the night before, in the right room, with the right people.

👉 Executive STK Dinner (6:00 PM - 10:00 PM)
📍 STK Steakhouse
💬 The conference doesn't officially start until Monday, but smart leaders know: Sunday is when the real networking happens.

👉 ❄️ W26 Post ADD Pioneer Happy Hour (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
📍 The Sea Star
💬 Join us for the W26 Post ADD Pioneer Happy Hour, our usual hang and the first one of the year.

👉 Tongacon 2026 (7:00 PM - 11:00 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Expect the usual: no pitches, no badges, no bullshit—just catching up and jamming with good folks over a rum bevvie (or your bevvie of choice).

👉 RSAC Eve CISO Brewery Party hosted by Hitch Partners (6:00 PM - 8:30 PM)
📍 San Francisco
💬 Connect with fellow CISOs and security leaders for an evening of great food, drinks, and genuine conversation in a relaxed setting.

👉 Global CISO Summit (6:00 PM - 8:30 P)
📍 SPUR
💬 Tejas Cyber Network is organizing three full-day master class-style security summits during RSAC 2026 at the SPUR Center.

👉 Cyber Startup Expo 2026 (8:00 AM - 7:00 PM)
📍 Convene 100 Stockton
💬 Heading to San Francisco for #RSA2026? The Cyber Startup Expo offers a full day at the forefront of early-stage cyber innovation.

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