SF News Lesbians Who Tech Summit Dumps SF for New York City, After Street Closures Rankled Locals The Castro just lost a big conference in the ten-year-old Lesbians Who Tech summit, but there may be no love lost, as Castro Street merchants had been bitter over how the summit shut down and gated off the neighborhood’s main corridor for five days.
SF News Take That, Florida! SF Swipes Major Conference From Sunshine State Over Florida’s Anti-Diversity Agenda The National Black Nurses Association has just yanked their annual conference out of Florida and moved it to San Francisco, calling Florida a “a hostile dangerous environment” for Black medical professionals.
Business & Tech SF Loses Google Conference to Las Vegas, But Scores Big AI Conference From ChatGPT Company Google has reneged on its deal to hold the 2024 Google Cloud Next conference at Moscone Center, instead moving the event to Las Vegas, but SF did just score a big AI conference from ChatGPT producer OpenAI.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Taco Conf 2012: A Conference Based On Tacos & Bicycles At long last a conference will be held in honor of tacos, the superior taqueria treat. Taco Conf 2012 brings together tacos and cycling where one can pedal around both sides of the
SF News Follow SXSW at Austinist Want to follow what's going on at South by Southwest? Then, please, head over to Austinist, our sister site smack-dab in the center all the action at the annual music and technology conference.
Arts & Entertainment Carnaval and Other Weekend Events There's lots to do on this foggy three-day weekend coming up! ALL WEEKEND We have the annual Carnaval shaking up the Mission District on Saturday and Sunday. The Festival runs both days on
SF News How Has Oracle OpenWorld Affected You? It's back. At this time every year, thee Moscone Center and St. Regis area gets stained with the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Last year we tried getting in, but were met with unhappy PR
misc Gavin Newsom to Attend to Muni's Greatest Challenge: Banging Two Pieces of Metal Together Here at SFist, we are not impressed with percussive instruments. Calling a drum circle "music" is like calling crosswalk stripes "a painting." But there's something sort of impressive about an experienced cable car
misc Muni's 2008 APTA Rail Scandal: Not Actually All That Scandalous On one hand: saying "welcome" is good manners, and the APTA thing -- a big transit conference -- is kind of prestigious. The main highlight, according to a Muni press release, is a
Arts & Entertainment Web 2.0 Expo Is Here; Also, WTF Is Web 2.0? The west coast leg of the Web 2.0 Expo is here! Yay! Wait, just what is this Internet-y web 2.0 exposition, exactly? Aside from the open-bar fetes presumably laced with cocaine
