Coqtail Hour is a new pop-up creative community founded by Sama Srinivas and Jacqueline Vu, two East Bay creatives who spent five years in NYC before coming home to build the community we wished existed when we landed. Our public launch was April 2026 and our debut event is upcoming on May 16th. SFDW 2026 is our first festival partnership, and we’ve been deliberate about who we work with. The Bay is full of people whose creative lives live outside their day job titles. Our community skews toward designers, creative technologists, product people, founders, artists, writers, and makers across disciplines.
