Bay Area Council

07/02/2025

Great housing news from our member Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO – June 26, 2025 – The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (FHLBank San Francisco) today announced a $52.6 million investment in a Fannie Mae bond issuance that will support the continuing affordability of 230 housing units for very low-income residents living near Fisherman’s...

05/15/2025

10/30/2024

Join us for a night of celebration and inspiration at the 79th Annual Dinner and Business Hall of Fame Awards, proudly presented by Kaiser Permanente!

We’re excited to honor the incredible contributions of Ann Winblad, Sandy Robertson, and John Chen as they are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

📅 Date: Tuesday, December 3rd
🕠 Time: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
📍 Location: Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco

But that’s not all! We’ll also be commemorating a century of history with the Historic Klamath ferry boat and celebrating its legacy at the Bay Area Council.

Don’t miss out on this unforgettable evening of recognition. We can’t wait to see you there! 🎊

https://www.bayareacouncil.org/event/79th-annual-dinner-bay-area-business-hall-of-fame/

10/24/2024

CEO, Jim Wunderman, shows off the most beautiful region in the world as he addresses global executives from the World Economic Forum about the expansion and decarbonization of SF Bay Ferry

10/23/2024

We’d like to welcome Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco onto the Board of Directors at the Bay Area Council! We look forward to collaborating on initiatives that strengthen our community and drive economic growth. Together, we can create innovative solutions and foster partnerships that benefit the entire Bay Area. Excited for what’s to come!

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10/10/2024

Congratulations to Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who have been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work with AlphaFold 2. The AlphaFold 2 AI model predicted the structures for nearly all known proteins, a fundamental building block of life, transforming a process that would have taken researchers years for each protein into something that takes minutes. Google Deepmind made AlphaFold publicly available and it’s been used by more than 2 million researchers globally, accelerating scientific discovery in areas like vaccines and cancer treatments.

This underscores how critical it is to ensure that leading AI researchers and developers feel comfortable innovating and sharing their models in order for their work to be implemented in ways that benefit humanity. Thank you for preserving AI innovation in CA. This is exactly the kind of groundbreaking research and collaboration that SB 1047 would have discouraged.

02/26/2024

2/29 webinar: How Industry and Government Are Working to Secure U.S. AI Leadership. Hear from top leaders from Department of Commerce, Intel and AWS. Register: https://bit.ly/3wp5Gwq

06/29/2023

Our statement on today's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.

06/27/2023

The Bay Area Council is happy to report that the 2023 Pacific Summit was in ship-shape last Tuesday, June 20th! This year marked the very first Pacific Summit aboard our new floating HQ, the Klamath. There, attendees heard from a breadth of incredible leaders about everything from the future of our region’s biggest cities to how healthcare will evolve in the coming decades.

This year’s Pacific Summit hosted an incredible selection of speakers, including SF Mayor London Breed, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, and SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins. We are so grateful to them and all our other speakers for sharing their time and expertise on a wide range of topics. Through our panels and salons, we were able to facilitate amazing discussions on California politics, health care, the future of AI, the next step forward in DEI, and how to reach net zero emissions.

The Bay Area Council would like to extend our sincerest thanks to all our sponsors of this year’s event, especially our presenting sponsor, Kaiser Permanente. Your support enables all the work we do year-round to advocate for the entire Bay Area and for policies that improve its economy and the lives of its residents.

06/09/2023

05/25/2023

WETA’s newly converted Gemini class ferries reduce emissions by the boatload! The Bay Area Council joined the Water Emergency Transportation Authority, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, and other transportation leaders from across the on Tuesday (May 23) to celebrate the conversion of these diesel vessels to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 percent.

“We have a responsibility to give the Bay Area a transportation option that improves air quality and public health in the communities we serve and all of this work is connected to that goal,” said Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman, who also serves as Chair of the WETA Board of Directors.
The Bay Area Council has long been a vocal advocate for expanding and decarbonizing ferry operations around the bay. The Council is excited to see WETA continue to innovate and provide ship-shape green to those crossing the bay.