SF Social Club - Sept 21st, 2025

Your backstage pass to SF's top tech & startup events this week

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Matthew Taksa
September 21, 2025

Happy Sunday, SF Social Club! With SF Tech Week coming up, the city is buzzing with anticipation. Luckily, you don’t need to wait for the big week to get out there. Here are the best events happening in SF 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!

Above the Bay: Founder’s Rooftop Night

Monday, Oct 6 (5pm - 8:30pm)

We’re gathering some of San Francisco’s most ambitious founders for an evening of connection, conversation, and rooftop views — hosted in partnership with Accel & Remote.

Event Lineup 🍾

Sept 22nd, 2025 - SF Awesome AI Dev Tools

Time: 5pm - 8pm

Hosted by GitHub in San Francisco

​You probably already know that AI is changing the world. Come learn about some of the awesome AI dev tools being worked on.

Time: 5pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Rootly AI in San Francisco

​Modern reliability engineering is entering a new era. Site Reliability Engineers and observability professionals are under increasing pressure to scale operations, reduce MTTR, and deliver clarity across complex systems.

At the Rootly AI Meetup, we’ll explore how AI-driven automation and observability-first practices are reshaping reliability engineering.

Hot Spot of the Week

Roaming Goat

Nestled in Cow Hollow, Roaming Goat brings a beautifully casual wine-bar vibe to the neighborhood with its Mediterranean, Armenian, and Georgian inspired menu. Whether you're winding down with their distinctly curated wine list or enjoying bold flavors in a vibrant space, it’s a perfect spot to gather. Their back-patio Wine Garden is ideal for celebrations, birthdays, or casual company parties — making Roaming Goat a local favorite for both everyday nights out and special occasions.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by House of Web3 in San Francisco

AI is powerful, but can we trust it? The Trust Layer of AI will explore how Web3, decentralized compute, and cryptographic proofs can transform black-box models into transparent, verifiable systems.

Expect lightning talks, panel discussions, and plenty of networking with the Bay Area’s most forward-thinking community.

Sept 22nd, 2025 - AI Demo Night with Lava, Finix, Finch, OCHO, and Harlem Capital

Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by The AI Collective in San Francisco

Building an AI product is hard. Pricing it, launching it, and getting real feedback is even harder. We’re creating a space for founders and early builders to experiment, share, and learn together.

We'll also be joined by investors the likes of Harlem Capital, Westbound, and more to offer a VC's perspective.

Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Hugging Face in San Francisco

​Welcome + Networking + Food: 5:30-6:30; Talks: 6:30-8pm.

Time: 6pm - 8pm

Hosted by AI Hustle in San Francisco

8th meet up in 2025! Calling all AI founders in San Francisco! 🧠 Join us for an evening of networking, learning, and fun as we connect with fellow founders, explore fundraising strategies, and discover the latest advancements in AI. 📈

Time: 6pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Unicorner in San Francisco

​We're bringing together 20 seed to Series A founders from our community—founders that we believe have a unicorn trajectory.

Sept 24th, 2025 - Unicorner Presents: Superpower Founder Fireside

Time: 5pm - 7:30pm

Hosted by Unicorner in San Francisco

​Join us for a fireside chat and deep dive with Max Marchione, founder of Superpower, the all-in-one health tracking platform.

Time: 9am - 5pm

Hosted by Statsig in San Francisco

​Statsig’s Significance Summit - Sigsum - returns this fall, unveiling the blueprints for smarter growth in San Francisco.

​This year’s line up offers invaluable insights into experimentation, AI, product growth and more. Along with our main stage sessions, guests will have the opportunity to dive deeper into these topics through breakout sessions, roundtables and workshops.

Sept 25th, 2025 - Accelerate Enterprise AI: Exclusive insights featuring Supermicro and NVIDIA

Time: 4:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by VentureBeat in San Francisco

​​​Join leading minds from Supermicro and NVIDIA and exchange hard-won lessons with fellow AI infrastructure leaders.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by Manus in San Francisco

An intimate night above the city - closed rooftop, curated wines, and conversations with the leaders in AI.

​At the center: a fireside chat with Manus founder Tao, as he shares how he scaled a $90M ARR company - and the GTM + operations strategies that powered it.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by Anyscale in San Francisco

​Multimodal AI is evolving fast – and scaling these systems across text, image, audio, and video data brings unique infrastructure challenges. At this meetup, you'll hear how Ray and Anyscale power multimodal pipelines from development to production.

Sept 25th, 2025 - Retro AI Arcade Night: Build the Game, Train the Player

Time: 6pm - 8:30pm

Hosted by Lightning AI in San Francisco

​​Join Lightning AI and Voltage Park for a hands-on evening where you will:

​🎮 Code a retro-style game (think Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Breakout, or Snake) in the Lightning platform, solo or with a team

​🤖 Train an AI agent on Voltage Park GPUs to play (and hopefully master) the game you just built

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Hosted by Cloudflare in San Francisco

​We made an AI show and the first episode is out!! Grab some popcorn and join us at the Cloudflare office to watch episodes 1 and 2 on AI Voice and Vision, as well as meet and engage with the stars of the show.

Time: 9:30am - 8pm

Hosted by Flower Labs in Stanford

This one-day event at Stanford brings together builders, researchers, students, developers and the open-source Flower community to explore what's possible with decentralized AI.

Through hands-on building, lightning talks, and demo/poster sessions, you'll connect with others advancing decentralized intelligence.

Time: 4pm - 10pm

Hosted by Founders, Inc in San Francisco

​The screens are coming out. The controllers are getting charged. Founders, Inc. is hosting its first LAN party.

We’ll have multiple setups running Smash, FIFA, Mario Kart, Valorant, and League.

Time: 5:30pm - 8pm

Hosted by Descope in San Francisco

​​​👋 Welcome to our monthly SF meetup!

​​​❤️ Whether you're a developer, founder, or simply curious about the future of AI, you won't want to miss these insightful talks and community demos from leading experts in the field.

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Hosted by Fin in San Francisco

Join leaders from Fin and Figma for an evening of big ideas and practical insights on building products for an AI-driven world.

​We’ll discuss how established SaaS teams are adopting AI in their own processes, and shipping AI products that cut through the hype and deliver real customer value.

That’s it for this week!

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