Are you attending Game Developers Conference? 

Stay at Pontiac Hotel, we are a short 2 block walk from Moscone Center. Check our our Rates & Reservations for hotel prices.

What’s the Game Developers Conference^®?
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world’s largest and longest-running professionals-only game industry event.

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to do business and discuss, in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment.

Looking for a reasonable place to stay while at SF MusicTech? Check out our Rates & Reservations page for great prices.

Attending Startup Summit in San Francisco?

Check out Pontiac Hotel’s Rates & Reservations page to set up your stay here in San Francisco.

Startup Summit promises straight talk from real people.

Let’s learn from each other. Our speakers are designers, developers, marketers and product people interested in sharing their stories and sparking conversation around the entire life of a product.

Design Thinking and Rapid Prototyping

   

 

Will you be attending appsworld at Moscone? We’re a short 2 block away, check out our Rates & Reservations page for great deals.

Developer conference & exhibition: Apps World will be returning to North America in 2013 for two days of engagement and high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries – mobile apps. Apps World North America will be taking place in the technical capital of the world San Francisco on February 7th-8th 2013 at the Moscone Center. Over 5500 delegates have already registered from developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals for 9 different targeted workshop tracks, speed meeting, 1-1 meetings, parties, tackling a spectrum of issues across the app ecosystem. The event will include 4 free to attend developer workshop tracks and a free exhibition with over 150 exhibitors.

The first annual DeveloperWeek 2013 Conference February 2nd – 7th combines a 4-day educational conference, technology-specific app development contests, developer tech exhibitors, startup lightning pitches, and keynote talks from the top engineers across app development, data science, and mobile deployment.

A short distance from the Hotel, check out Rates & Reservations to book a room.

Stay with us every Thursday night after Academy of Science: Nightlife events, which run from 6-10pm, and include music, creatures and cocktails. Each week California Academy of Sciences features a live band or DJ, and a unique theme – from salsa dancing to sustainable seafood and beyond.  21+

http://www.calacademy.org/events/nightlife/

Going to The Great SF Pillow Fight? With affordable rates you can stay in the city at The Pontiac Hotel after. Some details on the pillow fight… Feathers will fly at this fun, flash-mob type event. Leave it to a place like San Francisco to host the most visible incarnation of the Pillow Fight’s flash-mob-esque gathering, and subsequent public pillow fight. I would say that a safe thousand people were milling around Justin Herman Plaza at Embarcadero and Market Streets in Downtown San Francisco.

1) Tell everyone you know about Pillow Fight!
2) Tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW about Pillow Fight!!!
3) Nothing in your pillow but pillow.
4) Don’t hit anyone without a pillow.
5) Don’t hit anyone operating a camera.

https://www.facebook.com/pillowfightsf

Will you be in SF for new years? Make your hotel reservations now.
Check out our reasonable RATES!

Ring in 2013 with 200,000 fellow bundled-up San Franciscans for a waterfront fireworks tradition as the city is once again hosting a free waterfront midnight fireworks show on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2012.

Arrive by 11:30pm and head south of the Ferry Building along the Embarcadero for the best view. Fireworks kick of right at the stroke of midnight.

San Francisco New Years Eve Fireworks | 2013
Monday, December 31, 2012 – 11:59pm
- Embarcadero from Mission to Folsom
- FREE

Please note, the exact details of the 12/31/12 event have not been confirmed, but this is an annual event that we fully expect to take place again this year. We’ll update this post with specific details when they become available.

Best Viewing Location:
The fireworks will launch from barges located 1,000 feet out in the bay just south of the Ferry Building near Pier 14 (Mission Street and The Embarcadero),  so the best view spots will be south of Sinbad’s Restaurant -  along the Embarcadero between Mission and Folsom Street.

Please note that standing in front of the Ferry Building will not be a good place to view the fireworks.

About the Fireworks Show:
This will be approximately a 15 minute midnight fireworks show produced by the same people who do the amazing KFOG KaBoom and fireworks shows for both the SF Giants and Oakland A’s.  Each year they unveil a few new and interesting pyrotechnics – expect the same for 2013!

Please note that there will be no live entertainment or DJ associated with the fireworks display for 2013, but the fireworks will be synced to music if you’re close enough to Pier 14.

FOR RATES VISIT SITE: http://www.pontiachotel.com/rates-reservations/

Wanna see free “Disney on Ice” performance stay at Pontiac Hotel and walk over. Check out our reasonable RATES! It takes place  on the outdoor ice rink on Justin Herman Plaza as The Embarcadero Center hosts their 26th Annual free winter carnival and lighting ceremony when more than 17,000 lights illuminate the San Francisco Skyline.

2012 Embarcadero Lighting Ceremony
Friday, November  16, 2012
- Carnival, 4-6 pm
- Lighting Ceremony, 6-7 pm
Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco
FREE

2012 Schedule of Events

Winter Carnival (4-6p)
Family friendly fun in the Embarcadero Center with Santa plus a host of fun activities for the kids, such as cookie decorating, interactive arts and crafts booths, balloon twisters, caricature artists, musical performances and more.

Building Lighting Ceremony (6-7p)
Special pre-show performances, skating, dancing and songs from Disney On Ice , and finally a winter fireworks finale.

Free Parking: four hours of free parking if you receive the parking sticker from any of the information booths starting at 4 pm.

HOTEL RATES - http://www.pontiachotel.com/rates-reservations/

In 2012 the world’s largest leather event, the Folsom Street Fair^®, will take place on Sunday, September 23, 2012 from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM. We are sure to see the fairgrounds filled with people in their most outrageous leather/rubber/fetish attire enjoying the world’s largest and best loved Leather fair.

The Folsom Street Fair is a true San Francisco original. With over 400,000 people in attendance covering 13 city blocks, the Fair is the largest leather/fetish event in the world and the third largest, single-day outdoor event in California. Folsom Street Events is thrilled to celebrate the 28th Folsom Street Fair with style and a week’s worth of truly outstanding events and programs over the course of San Francisco Leather Week.