SF News Climate Conference Returns to SF This Month With Al Gore as Keynote A record number of attendees are expected at this year's SF Climate Week conference, which kicks off in just over a week, and Al Gore is booked to speak at one of the opening events.
Business & Tech Jill Biden Arriving In San Francisco, Speaking Tuesday During JP Morgan Conference The infamously high-priced JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is underway at the Hyatt Regency, and expect motorcades and heavy security on Tuesday, as First Lady Jill Biden will be popping in to give a speech.
SF News Dreamforce Kicks Off Tuesday With Celebrity Speakers, Largest Crowd Since 2019 Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference, which these days is all about AI, is set to bring in about 45,000 attendees when it kicks off Tuesday in SoMa, which is the biggest crowd it's had since the pandemic.
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.
SF News APEC Summit Will Close Freeway Ramps, All Streets Around Moscone Center, and Central Subway for Six Days Well, it looks like this major trade conference that is bringing a bunch of world leaders from the Asia-Pacific sphere to San Francisco in a few weeks is going to snarl traffic and cause transit headaches way bigger than Dreamforce ever does.
SF News San Francisco Leaders Get Ready to Roll Out the Red Carpet For Politicians and Journalists From Across Asia In November With Dreamforce last week, some San Francisco residents got a taste of what's to come in mid-November, when world leaders and representatives from 20 nations in the Asia-Pacific region — along with a bevy of journalists — descend on the city for a major summit.
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 News Big Conferences are Back, as Game Developers Conference Returns to Moscone Center An estimated 10,000 or more video game nerds — including the Wordle guy — have converged upon Moscone Center for the return of the annual Game Developers Conference, though the event is projected to have only about half of its normal attendance.
SF News Virtual COVID-19 Conference, Attached To SF-Hosted AIDS Conference, To Feature 140 Studies On Friday On Friday, July 10, a day-long virtual conference on COVID-19 and research underway into how to treat the disease kicks off at 7:30 a.m., tacked on to the end of the annual International AIDS Conference which was supposed to be taking place — physically — in San Francisco.
SF News People Lined Up Overnight To Get Good Seats At Apple Conference Keynote Today Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference descends on SF this week, just two weeks after Google's developer conference, and ticket-holders still line up overnight for these things even when there isn't a big product announcement
SF News [Updated] Highlights From The Google I/O Developer Conference Keynote If you're wondering who all those nerds are in the vicinity of the Moscone Center today, it's a legion of developers who are currently getting a peek at the next version of the
SF News Was It Useful To Protest Evictions At The TechCrunch Disrupt Conference? A group of protesters gathered Wednesday to disrupt, as it were, the final day of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Pier 48 and bring attention to the issues of eviction and gentrification that
Arts & Entertainment If Christopher Guest Made A Musical About Facebook, It Would Contain This Song Sweet mother of all that is holy, we are in trouble. At the recent 2014 Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, this guy wrote this song. It's about social media. Audience
SF News Watch Mark Zuckerberg, Ed Lee, Grindr Founder (And Others!) at TechCrunch Disrupt Hey guys, noted CEO and Sorkin subject Mark Zuckerberg spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt today, the SFChefs for Bay Area tech types. He answered questions about whether Facebook will come out with a phone,
SF News The Great Recession Means Lots of Volunteers KQED offers up this report, embedded below, about the National Conference on Volunteering and Service currently happening at the Moscone Center. The conference almost got canceled, due to the slashing of non-profit budgets
Arts & Entertainment Video Game Developers Descend on Moscone The 2009 Video Game Developers Conference kicked off today, and so the city is more filled than usual with the designers and programmers who bring you everything from Grand Theft Auto to iPhone
