FuturePub — San Francisco

On Thursday, July 13th 2023, Digital Science headed to the picturesque Presidio in San Francisco to host our popular #FuturePub event. We’ve run over a dozen of these events to date – mainly in London – and this was our second in the US and first on the West Coast.

For those new to FuturePub, the evenings are designed to be fun and informal – like meeting up for drinks with friends after work and at the same time giving people the opportunity to showcase the new and exciting things they’ve been working on in science and publishing tech.

This one was a little more hectic than usual: a number of us from Digital Science were in San Francisco for Sci Foo, a pretty unique unconference being held that weekend at Google X. And because we like a challenge, we decided, at rather short notice, to host FuturePub the night before. Do or do not, as they say – so we did!

Of course, thanks to many late-night phone calls with Jocelyn from the excellent venue hire team at the Letterman Digital Arts Center, home of LucasFilm and Industrial Light & Magic, it all worked out beautifully. It was a fun, informal gathering at a great venue, with lots of conversation, smiles and some very exclusive Skywalker Ranch food and drink, because apparently we’re fancy on the West Coast!

We hope you enjoy the talks!