Interested in using business as a force for good in the world? Come join fellow social entrepreneurs to network and discuss how we can employ business to positively impact the communities and environment we live in. This event is open to business owners, entrepreneurs, and all those who are committed to doing business differently. This event will be lightly facilitated to help bring about deeper conversation and connection with like minded individuals. Each paid ticket includes one drink coupon. The event is hosted by me, Morgan Bailey, CEO of Intrepid Coaching. Feel free to reach out and say hello or ask any questions! morgan@intrepidcoaching.com

Unwind with fine art and be inspired as you explore your creative nature. Share an evening with friends and new acquaintances where you will be guided step by step to express yourself through beautiful lines, shapes and colors. Enjoy a glass of wine and finish with your own masterpiece. Painting materials are provided ... just add your heart-felt imagination and creativity!

Special event offered Thursday evening before Valentines Day - February 13th.

About the artist:

I paint as I live, with an intention to show that life is about realizing possibilities. My work is a dynamic encounter with nature, perception, and challenges that lead us towards a place of insight and learning.

Born and educated in China, my paintings and poetry reflect the unique cross-cultural journey I have taken from China to California. I currently live in San Francisco and enjoy painting in my Potrero Hill studio. I teach expressive art at Juvenile Hall and private classes. In other times, I travel to immerse myself in inspiring cultures and landscapes, explore contact dance and understanding different expressions of the humanities.

Jun-Jun's paintings are on display at a range of public and private collections in the Bay Area. Her recent commissions include commission paintings for the UCSF cancer center Mission Bay and 49ers Levi’s Stadium art collection, and a large sculptural heart installation for “Hearts for Heroes” at San Francisco General Hospital. She is currently available for commissioned projects, art classes and exhibitions.

Learn more at Instagram @juneliart or www.juneliart.com

Meet the future STEM innovators...

What were you doing when you were 15 years old?

Find out how the next generation is responding to the rapid changes in tech and business and join us at this fun and inspiring evening hosted at Covo, San Francisco.

Over drinks and refreshments, you'll hear from Australian high school and college-aged students who created IoT innovations during a highly competitive 'Women in STEM & Entrepreneurship' Program (WISE).

The WISE program was led by Monash University's Faculty of IT and supported by The Hacker Exchange, a global talent incubator for next generation startups and leaders.

Ticket proceeds from this event will be donated to WIRES - Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service.

As well as hearing from our students, you'll also meet:

• Chris Gonsalvez – Chief Investigator, WISE Program, Faculty of IT, Monash University

• Jeanette Cheah – Co-founder & CEO of The Hacker Exchange & Course Advisory Team: Entrepreneurship at Monash University

Chris and Jeanette will present a global perspective of education for women in STEM and entrepreneurship based on their experience driving initiatives in innovation ecosystems such as Tel Aviv, Singapore, Silicon Valley and beyond.

Your ticket includes drinks, light refreshments, and an opportunity to network with supporters of women in STEM, Monash Alumni in the Bay Area, and fellow education and business innovators.

Agenda:

• 6.00pm - Arrival: Drinks & canapés served

• 6.30pm - Welcome from MC

• 6.40pm - Discussion: A Global View on STEM & Entrepreneurship Education

• 7.00pm - Student STEM project presentations & audience questions

• 7.30pm - Close formalities & Networking

• 8.30pm - Event concludes.

Your hosts

About The Hacker Exchange

The Hacker Exchange (HEX) is a global talent incubator shaking up entrepreneurship education by supercharging the next generation of leaders and startups. Through global, immersive and academically accredited programs, HEX builds student mindsets, skillsets and networks to prepare them for the future of work. Currently, HEX is proud to connect global talent to innovation ecosystems like Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Singapore and Melbourne.

About the Faculty of Information Technology (IT) at Monash University

With the only dedicated Faculty of IT in the prestigious Group of Eight universities - and one of only a handful in the world - Monash embeds IT in every strategic research initiative across the university. The Faculty of IT has a strong reputation for excellence in research and we contribute positively to society through interdisciplinary research and education, using innovative information technology as a vehicle for social good.

To view the Monash Privacy Statement click here.

Calling all entrepreneurs, leaders, and hustlers! Come have a drink and meet some of Australia's next generation of budding entrepreneurs...

About this Event

Ever wanted to take your start-up idea abroad? Or get to know Australia's entrepreneurial landscape?

The Hacker Exchange would like to extend our invitation to the San Francisco entrepreneurship community to come and meet Australia's next generation of budding entrepreneurs!

These young founders are representing:

• Australian National University, Canberra

• La Trobe University, Melbourne

• Macquarie University, Sydney

• RMIT University, Melbourne

• University of Adelaide

• University of Sydney

• University of Technology Sydney

• University of Wollongong

• Western Sydney University

Come mingle with others in the Australian and SF startup community and find the right people to take your idea further.

Who knows? You may meet your next co-founder, employee, mentee, ambassador, or just a new mate!

1 x drink ticket on arrival & snacks provided.

Our hosts at Covo have 16 rotating wine and beer taps and an extensive bottle list available for purchase over the bar.

See you there!

Learn about STARK and the Cambrian explosion of ZKPs from Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa, StrakWare's chief scientists

Eli Ben-Sasson, StarkWare's chief scientist in the east, and Alessandro Chiesa, StarkWare's chief scientist in the west, will be giving 2 talks about proof systems and STARK:

• On the Cambrian Explosion of ZKPs, Eli Ben-Sasson

• A Framework for efficient STARKs, Alessandro Chiesa

February 7th will be the first fundraising event for the 1.5 year old Invictus Academy of Richmond. It will be an evening for our community to learn about Invictus (mission, vision, student profile), meet the Invictus leadership team, review the success to date, realities of the funding environment, goals for the next year and how our community can help us achieve our goals.

Need a digital marketer for your next killer startup, or a hired gun to do some quick SEO? Three digital marketing meetups are having an informal get-together for drinks and networking at our space and you’re invited. Not only that, but one of the meetup’s sponsors, AcademyX, is extending a 30% off voucher in its classes in digital marketing -- as well as MS Office, and Adobe apps -- to all Covo members. The discount lasts up until the day of the meetup; just code “COVO1030” on checkout at https://www.academyx.com to get 30% off.

In 2012, California banned so-called “conversion therapy” for minors in the state - a practice that amounts to psychological - and sometimes physical or sexual - abuse. But “conversion therapy” is still prevalent not only around the U.S. and around the world. Come hear about OutRight’s recent research and efforts to ban “conversion therapy” in the U.S. and around the world and to increase acceptance of LGBTIQ people.

Join us for a conversation with:
Katie Hultquist, OutRight West Coast Director
Mathew Shurka, Born Perfect Founder & Chief Strategist

Many thanks to NCLR and Born Perfect for their partnership on this event and important work to end conversion therapy. Details and RSVP: www.outrightinternational.org/CTSF

We are hosting a Honeymoon Israel info session for applicants interested in applying for our 2020 SF Bay Area trips. The purpose of the event is to ask questions and get information regarding the nature of the trip (and to meet and mingle). For more information, please visit honeymoonisrael.org. A little bit about us: 

Honeymoon Israel is a Jewish organization that provides trips to Israel for couples with at least one Jewish partner. Each trip includes 20 diverse couples from the same city - couples with one Jewish partner, couples where both partners were born Jewish and couples where one partner is converted/Jew-by-choice. 

Come together with an amazing group of women for a wine tasting party! Spend the night brainstorming with ambitious ladies on the keys to success in business!

Agenda!

6:00 pm- Arrival and introductions

6:20 pm - Wine Tasting Begins!

7:00 pm - Mastermind & Brainstorming!

8:00 pm - Leave Feeling amazing, Empowered and with a slight buzz

Where: COVO Co-working (www.hellocovo.com)

When: July 31st from 6 pm to 8 pm

Who: All Badass are welcome! This group is designed for women who want to come together with like-minded women to tackle the challenges of being an entrepreneur!

Ticket includes Wine Tasting, Appetizers and most importantly great conversation!

10% of the proceeds are going to Oasis for Girls, Oasis For Girls offers after-school programs for young women, ages 14-18, from a variety of communities in San Francisco. The girls are paid a stipend (like an after-school job!) to learn the skills they need to excel in their passions and gain access to resources across the Bay Area.

If you have ever felt lost looking over a wine list with unknown grape varietals, or meandered the wine aisle for what seems like hours, only to pick the same tried and true wine favorite you always do, then this event is for you! You have been to wine tasting rooms in wine country with your friends, but it always seems like a sales pitch with a few wine facts sprinkled in, and by the end of the day, it was just a day-drinking excursion. WineUp brings an autonomous tasting approach to learning about wine, that manages to be educational and fun, while supported by sips and tips.

This session we welcome a special guest: Elysia Myers of Elysia Myers Wine Art, to lead attendees in at least one of their very own wine paintings. Walk away with an art form made out of the very best art form created: wine. 

"I get to take the art of wine and transform it into wine art [and you will too!]" ~ Elysia Myers

Deliverables:

- Instruction and guidance for painting with wine

- Walk away with at least one wine painting to display in your home or give to a friend

- A full-circle experience of tasting the same wines you're painting with

- All painting supplies are provided

Get out of your wine rut, shake off the Mer-lows, and let WineUp dispel some common wine myths for you while you make art with wines!

Light snacks provided!

Here are the deets:

Seriously, this isn't an ordinary networking event, this is a WineUp event; chock-full of industry-backed hacks from the founder, Lauren Volper. Lauren's fun, engaging, and approachable style to learning about wine has landed her a Forbes feature and guest spots retail, coworking spaces, and corporate spots all throughout San Francisco.

Even though Lauren is a trained sommelier, she often drinks wines around $15 a bottle and loves sharing her tips and tricks targeting the millennial wine drinker! It's totally ok to drink wine you like and discover new styles you may not have thought of. Lauren will share her secrets, blind taste you on wines, and have you taste different snacks to discover the best pairings. After all, the best way to learn about wine is to taste it yourself and pick up the deductive tasting tool kit that will have you sounding like a wine PRO after just one session!

Join the WineUp community by attending this event. WineUp promotes collaboration, not competition, learning, not lecturing, and engagement not exclusivity. Pinkies down, wine snobs, and glasses up!

Can't wait to meet you! Cheers!

"Building high performing teams" presented by Plato
Join us for an evening of lively conversation on how to build and manage high performing teams of engineers and product managers. After the panel discussion, you can chat with other eng & product managers in breakout groups to discuss various management topics!

PANELISTS:

• Square's Director of Engineerng, Willem Avé
• Apollo's VP of Engineering, Claire Hough (and former SVP of Eng at Udemy)
• Gusto's Head of Product, Tomer London

SCHEDULE:

• 6 to 6:45 pm — Attendees arrive, have food & drinks, mingle
• 6:45 to 8 pm — Panel discussion + breakout groups
• 8 to 8:30 pm — Attendees mingle and events wraps up

HOST:

Plato (www.platohq.com) connects engineering & product managers with mentorship from tech leaders at companies like Google, Lyft, Netflix, Slack, and more. And thanks to our friends at Lohika for helping us put together this event!

Covo Members can attend this event for free! Please write events@hellocovo.com for your discount code.

Feeling frustrated and stuck despite having so many ideas? In this workshop, Make Shit Happen coach Courtney Loechl will show you how to breakthrough your overwhelm, find ease through action, and progress your goals forward so you can fully achieve your potential.

You'll be guided to:

• Identify limiting beliefs still holding you back despite success

• Gain clarity on your goals & how to break them down step by step

• Create a plan to move forward and gain real momentum

• And more!

This workshop is perfect for business owners, entrepreneurs, and creatives who find themselves on a plateau with their success and ready for tangible growth and expansion.

For our first Innovator Series talk, transportation leads the conversation—where will it take us tomorrow and beyond.

Join us as our speakers bring their passion, expertise and wisdom on mobility to the stage.

First up, Rafael Marañón, CEO at Wavyn, who will be discussing the evolution of smart machines and transportation.

Enjoy small bites, glasses of wine, bar access, and conversations that lead to more innovation.

Join us on April 9th for an expert-led interactive panel to help craft the design industry’s perspective on the merits and challenges of AI.

About this Event

Critical Mass is hosting and evening with some of the brightest lights in the Bay Area design world for a workshop, panel discussion and opportunity to connect. Together we’re going to discuss the good, bad and the ugly of AI-powered design. You’ll learn what’s working for your peers and what to avoid, and we’ll reach some conclusions together as a group about the way forward for AI and design.

Moderator:

• Dr. Mark Szabo, Associate Director Market Research, Critical Mass

Panelists:

• Tony Glorioso - Executive Vice President, Creative, Critical Mass

• Ricky Bacon - Group Technology Director, Critical Mass

• Micah Rivera - Designer, Spot / Brand Designer, All Turtles

We know its dinner time so we're happy to provide you with food and beverages.

On the 25th of March, join the 3rd cohort of founders from the University of New South Wales’ Founder 10x accelerator program for drinks and pizza at Covo in San Francisco. The teams are here in San Francisco to meet with customers, partners, and investors, and represent the most exciting companies out of the University’s startup ecosystem. Meet some great companies and share with them your own experiences of building a company in the US. Register here: 

 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/founders-10x-networking-drinks-tickets-58536671761

Calling all Super Heroes & Villains to unite for one MARVELous night in celebration of Purim!

Bar • Megilla • DJ • Hundreds of young & fun YJPs 

Optional Attire: Super Hero / Villain / Black Tie
21+
LOCATION: COVO
WHEN: MAR 20
TIME: 7pm-11pm.

Megillah reading every hour on the hour!
EARLY BIRD TICKET: $25
Ticket price rises as event nears.

Wear your favorite SuperHero costume, you know the deal. 

This is going to be one rad party—check ya later homeslice!

Co Sponsored by: Covo & SF RSJ Moishe House

Developers from around the world are coming to San Francisco for GDC and The MIX will present a showcase of amazing, hand-picked selections!

Exclusive Press Preview Hour: 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Industry Guests: 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Come and play unreleased demos from talented game creators, chop it up with developers, and grab a drink and munchies.

Food, Drink, Games and Fun!

Highlights from last year’s GDC week event here.

The team at NextGenChef is excited to share some scrumptious Kokolato Vegan Cupcakes, coffee & cocktails at  Covo 

Pop on by and get to know Jonathan Kiem, the mastermind behind Kokolato's handcrafted, small batch gelato made with the highest quality, organic, locally sourced, vegan, low-glycemic, and gluten-free ingredients available on the market.

See you this coming Friday between 5-6:30!

The Evolution of Your Kubernetes Cluster

Save the date! We have another awesome meetup with Kublr on Thursday, February 21st at COVO in San Francisco! 

The Evolution of Your Kubernetes Cluster – from a skunk-works project to running the entire enterprise

While developers see and realize the benefits of Kubernetes, how it improves efficiencies, saves time, and enables focus on the unique business requirements of each project; InfoSec, infrastructure, and software operations teams still face challenges when managing a new set of tools and technologies, and integrating them into an existing enterprise infrastructure.

In this meetup, Chris, CTO at Tigera, and Oleg, CTO at Kublr, will discuss the evolution of your Kubernetes cluster – from a skunk-works project to running the entire enterprise.

Tentative Agenda:

Arrival & Networking: 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Talks & Demos: 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Food & Drink Break 7:30 PM – 7:35 PM
Fireside Chat: 7:35 PM – 8:05 PM
Networking & Closing 8:05 PM – 8:30 PM

About the Speakers:

Christopher Liljenstolpe Co-founder and CTO, Solutions at Tigera.

Christopher is the original architect of Project Calico and has helped define the future of networking for containers and services. Using his extensive practical experience designing and operating global-scale networks and enterprise cloud architectures, Christopher works closely with Tigera’s customers and the open community to drive the delivery of secure, simple and scalable application connectivity for the cloud native era.
Prior to Tigera, Christopher held solutions engineering and architecture leadership positions at Metaswitch, Big Switch, Telstra, Alcatel and others, and has chaired multiple IETF working groups. He holds a BA in Chemistry and Computer Science from St. Olaf College.

Oleg Chunikhin CEO at kublr (https://kublr.com/).

With 20 years of software architecture and development experience, Kublr CTO Oleg Chunikhin is responsible for defining Kublr’s technology strategy and standards. He has championed the standardization of DevOps in all Kublr does and is committed to driving adoption of container technologies and automation.

Oleg holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and a Master of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, and is an AWS Certified Software Architect.  A popular speaker on all things Kubernetes, Oleg’s credentials include Interop ITX (Las Vegas), LISA, DevOpsCon and DevOpsDays.

Location: Covo
Main Hall
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Food & Drinks (open bar) will be provided

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/SF-Cloud-Native-Security/events/258503123/?isFirstPublish=true
See you there!

Around the world, powerful changemakers use dance and movement to push for social change. Unfortunately, this inspiring work is often overlooked. Not anymore. 

FREE BODY PROJECT is a San Francisco-based nonprofit building a field and network for dance and social justice. We bring support and visibility to global initaitives that use dance to empower youth, make mental health accessible, help survivors release trauma, and build peace after conflict. 

Join us for a special in-progress film screening and fundraiser supporting FREE BODY PROJECT's flagship program, The Dance + Social Justice Conference, coming up this March. 

About the Film

From There to Here is a short, dance + documentary film created by FREE BODY PROJECT in close collaboraiton with the survivors and dance therapy practitioners of Kolkata Sanved, an organization in India using movement as psychosocial rehabiltiation for survivors of human trafficking and violence. We have had generous support from the Fulbright Foundation and Dance Films Association.

About the Fundraiser 

We will be screening this special, participatory piece in the final phase of post-production for the very first time. Stay for a short discussion with FREE BODY PROJECT's Founder and the film's Co-Director, and for networking and celebrating. 

All funds raised will support the creation of 3 scholarship tickets (each is $150) for The Dance + Social Justice Conference, keeping the event accessible for those who can't afford to attend. Donations will also help us fly in 2 dance therapy practitioners from India to speak at the Conference. You will meet these incredible changemakers in the film!  

Suggested donation is $30 (which also covers a drink at Covo's fabulous bar). No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If it's too much, just show up! Please come celebrate and make a donation of any amount (if possible) at the door. Every dollar donated goes a long way.