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SF Social Club - Oct 12th, 2025
Your backstage pass to SF's top tech & startup events this week

Hello SF Social Club! We hope that you had a fantastic Tech Week and met some amazing people. Lucky for you, the end of Tech Week doesn’t mean the end of awesome events in SF. We’ve curated a list of over a dozen fantastic events going on in the city this week!
SF Social Club is brought to you by Matthew (CEO at Caladan) and Jessie (Angel Investor). Since late 2022, we’ve hosted over 100 tech events in San Francisco and built a community of 10,000+ people along the way. Why? Because we’ve seen firsthand that the city feels most alive when founders, engineers, and dreamers come together in person. SF Social Club is our way of curating the city’s best events and hosting our own community mixers, so everyone can find their tribe. If you’re interested in being a sponsor, please fill out this form!
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Event Lineup 🍾
Oct 13th, 2025 - Overnight Success: Notion
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Hosted by FPV Ventures in San Francisco
Notion’s founders, Ivan Zhao and Simon Last, spent a year in Kyoto coding nonstop after borrowing $150,000 from Ivan’s mom, rebuilding from scratch when their first product failed. In this talk, they’ll share how they went from two broke developers in Japan to creating a $10 billion company used by 100 million people, and what it really took to get there.
Oct 14th, 2025 - localhost SFO: AI gateway meetup w/ ngrok
Time: 5pm - 7:30pm
Hosted by ngrok in San Francisco
In this session, we're doing the first private preview of ngrok's upcoming AI gateway!
Why attend? Our AI gateway is still in its pre-v0 stage, and there's so much more to build. But, we'll still run quick demos followed by a chat about what we're building with LLMs and how AI gateways could provide some clarity in this non-deterministic future we share.
Oct 14th, 2025 - Built on Bedrock Demo Night
Time: 5pm - 7:30pm
Hosted by AWS in San Francisco
Join us for an exciting evening of Agentic AI demos from local startups leveraging Amazon Bedrock.
This is a great opportunity to see the latest applications of Agentic AI in action and to network with and learn from fellow Gen AI enthusiasts.
Oct 14th, 2025 - Daytona AI Builders @ Datadog
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Hosted by Daytona in San Francisco
An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering!
Oct 14th, 2025 - San Francisco n8n Meetup
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Hosted by n8n in San Francisco
Connect with automation enthusiasts, developers, and builders as we explore powerful use cases, share knowledge, and collaborate on building with n8n. Whether you're just getting started or already deep in your workflow game, this meetup is your chance to get inspired, troubleshoot, and network with other n8n users.
Oct 15th, 2025 - Agents & Meetballs - A Public Dreamforce Week Event
Time: 1pm - 6pm
Hosted by Relevance AI in San Francisco
The future of work has never been this saucy.
Join us just 10 minutes from the Dreamforce main venue — no conference badge needed — to demystify AI agents while enjoying great food and even better company.
Oct 15th, 2025 - Dreamforce Recovery Hour: Brats, Brews & No BS
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Hosted by Everest Systems in San Francisco
Too many panels, pitches, and people trying to sell you the “future of AI”? Come grab a brat, a beer, and take a breather with Everest and Orb. No decks. No demos. No pressure.
Just a low-key Oktoberfest-style hang with good food, cold drinks, and chill finance folks who get it.
Oct 15th, 2025 - AI Founders Mixer @ StartupHQ
Time: 6pm - 7:30pm
Hosted by Novita AI in San Francisco
🚀 Unlock the Future of Inference at Scale
We’re bringing together founders, engineers, builders, and investors for an evening of networking, candid conversations, and community building in the heart of the Bay Area.
This isn’t another panel or pitch night — it’s a mixer designed for authentic connections. Whether you’re experimenting with AI agents, scaling workloads on GPUs, or looking to back the next wave of AI startups, this is where you’ll find your people.
Oct 16th, 2025 - Claude Code and Sonnet 4.5 in action on Amazon Bedrock
Time: 9:30am - 2pm
Hosted by AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco
Join AWS and Anthropic for an exclusive hands-on technical workshop at the AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco. This isn't a demo—it's a practical build session for architects and engineers ready to transform their development workflow.
Oct 16th, 2025 - Sigma x Capital49 Founders Dinner
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Hosted by Capital49 in San Francisco
A private dinner for the boldest builders of tomorrow.
Join 15 of the most ambitious Sigma Squared fellows for an exclusive evening with Capital49 - the founder-led VC fund born from the creators of Airwallex. Backed by operators who’ve scaled one of the world’s fastest-growing fintechs, Capital49 partners with founders reimagining the future of fintech, e-commerce, AI, and B2B software.
Oct 17th, 2025 - Veo 3 vs Sora 2
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Hosted by Gemini Meetup in Mountain View
5:50 to 6:00 pm Magic Moments
6:00 to 6:20 pm Veo 3 vs Sora 2
6:20 to 7:00 pm Networking
Light refreshments will be provided and RSVP to save your seat
Oct 18th, 2025 - The Reset Retreat
Time: 4:15pm - 8:30pm
Hosted by Fifth Window in San Francisco
The Reset Retreat (SF, Sat 10/18 · 4:15–8:30 PM · Alchemy Springs) — a private, candlelit wellness evening for high performers who run “always on.” Expect gentle qigong, a mini mental-health talk (practical nervous-system tools), a guided sauna + cold plunge circuit (optional), and a closing sound bath. Complimentary açaí bowls + tea lounge; only 40 seats. SFSOCIAL gets $30 off (limited).
Oct 18th, 2025 - Pickleball & Padel Tournament
Time: 12pm - 4pm
Hosted by Metaview in San Francisco
We’re hosting our first Pickleball and Padel Tournament, with both competitions taking place at the same time.
There will be free food and drinks available throughout the day, and prizes for the winners of each tournament.
That’s it for this week!
Thanks for reading this week’s edition of SF Social Club. Have an event you’d like featured next week? Please shoot me an email at [email protected] to get it featured.
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