If you are one of those techies that haunt the corridors of Silicon Valley companies across Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and around, this group is for you. The whole idea of the group is to help people network and at the same time get a break from work. Decompress after a busy weekday over drinks/dinner, get a breath of fresh air outdoors on the weekends, relax at a stage event or be stimulated by a lecture or museum visit. This group is not focused on te …

We meet monthly at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. Meetings are free and include pizza and drinks - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Get questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn from the experts and meet your peers * Enjoy pizza, drinks, and valuable giveaways

NetSquared - Silicon Valley: NetSquared-SV is part of Netsquared International Technology group. You can find a local N2 group in most major cities around the world from this page: http://www.netsquared.org Here at Silicon Valley chapter, We focus on  Mobile, Social Media technologies, Innovation and Start-ups. For mobile developers and start-ups, mobile innovations should not be limited to any one technology or to one shop when there is a great potential to reach out all other customers al …

Plug and Play Tech Center's official Meetup.com page. We run Meetup style events once or twice per month. Expect great speakers, great demos, great refreshments, and great networking in a startup friendly environment. Open to the Plug and Play community and registered Meetup group members. Plug and Play Tech Center's Meetups happen at our Sunnyvale headquarters, home to over 250 startups trying to change the world. Or at least their industry. Video from past event feat. Rich Wong of Accel: ht …

Are you an experienced Facebook app developer or itching to learn? Well then, this meetup is for you! This meetup is all about learning new things, sharing tips, and networking with others developing on the always evolving Facebook Developer Platform. Guest speakers will include Facebook Platform evangelists, successful entrepreneurs leveraging Facebook and application demos from up and coming rockstars of the Facebook Platform.

BayLISA is the premiere system adminstration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 20 years. We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, inc …

Here you can track MeeGo related activities in San Francisco Bay Area. Propose genuine MeeGo meetups or casual meetings after interesting events. MeeGo is a platform for mobile devices developed under the auspices of The Linux Foundation - see http://meego.com

Bay Area Mobile (BAM) was founded in 2010 with an emphasis on cross platform mobile development.  We are expanding our vision of the group to include all connected devices and the services that surround them. Topics will range from native to HTML5, cross platform tools and APIs to power your apps.  These apps are currently on phones and tablets. In the future, I expect you'll see them on TVs, glasses, your wrist and beyond. The meeting format will be a mix of presentations from leading experts, …

Cloud Computing and Virtualization are transforming the technology industry. The SVForum Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG meets monthly to discuss the impact these new technology platforms is having on infrastructure, operations, and applications from a user and vendor perspective. For more information visit: http://www.svforum.org/cloudsig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note: it is free to attend if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership).

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

Core group has worked with new technology startups for over 18 years. How to take a social media or technology start-up company from idea concept through funding and global market. Whether family shoestring budget, angel investment or VC venture capital the principles for success remain the same. With the warp-speed changes in digital, mobile and hyper-localized marketing as well as consumer savvy rewards-based technologies emerging every view days we would love to meet and chat about some basic …

This group is a networking group for technical evangelists, developer evangelists, developer advocates, community managers, partner engineers, and any other way you can slice the evangelist position. The purpose of this group is to network, discuss best practices, and build partnerships amongst us in the community. We also have to create awareness inside our own tech community about the importance of our position so that we can have a thriving ecosystem of jobs and prosperity.

OPEN is a voluntary, not-for-profit, inclusive organization, focused primarily on the promotion of entrepreneurship and business leadership in the Pakistani-American community. OPEN Silicon Valley community is several thousand-strong, and includes corporate professionals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and banking professionals, social leaders, academics and students. OPEN Silicon Valley promotes entrepreneurship through regular mentorship and networking initiatives. Given the valley’s l …

The Healthcare IT SIG offers technologists, healthcare providers, and investors in Silicon Valley a forum to promote knowledge sharing, network with one another, facilitate timely debates, and collaborate on critical topics including Software, Medical Devices, Mobile Health, Electronic Health Records, Instruments, Networking & Interoperability, Telemedicine, Imaging, Clinical Decision Support, Standards & Regulations, Privacy & Security, and Economics. The cost to attend is $20.00. SVForum membe …

GITPRO is a networking platform for India Technology Professionals for their professional and self development and them contributing back to the community and India with their leadership, innovation, skills and resources. http://www.gitpro.org

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

My name is Japjot Sethi and I created Startup Cookout. I love to cook and eat great food, which inspired me to create Startup Cookout. Startup Cookout is a group for Entrepreneurs that enjoy talking to other Entrepreneurs, help in any way they can and share their Ideas with others, but also love food. Our goal is to get Entrepreneurs together once a month to Network, hear about great Ideas and enjoy some great food. At Startup Cookout, We would request every Entrepreneur to submit their idea and …

Disability doesn't come with a How-To Manual...even if it did, most of us wouldn't even know what questions to ask. This is a group for people with disabilities of all types to network and learn from one another. I'm not looking to create a support group, more like a social group full of fun people that happen to have something fairly specific in common. My experience: My doctors don't have my disability, so they can be pretty useless. My friends don't use wheelchairs, so they usually suggest I …

Are you a developer, designer, CEO, investor, or corporation aspiring to have the next mobile phenomenon? Come to Plug and Play Tech Center's Mobile Innovators meetup! Plug and Play’s Mobile Innovators meetup is dedicated to supporting the mobile community by creating a network of experienced entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and corporate partners to share ideas and best practices. The Mobile Innovators event will be a platform to showcase new technologies and network as the premiere mobile …

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We're a community for anyone interested in developing and deploying web applications with HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, OOP, MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Cloud Server, and Agile. We meet once or twice a month for discussion, collaboration, and networking with other like-minded people.  We have a terrific group of people from varying technical backgrounds.  All are welcome! For more information about us, and what we do, visit us at CodingDojo.co

Hello! This is a group for IT and Network security professionals in the US SouthWest (CA, AZ, NV, NM, TX, UT) to network and keep apprised of current security issues, threats, solutions etc. Feel free to post educational webinars, local events or other shindigs. Please keep all discussions and meetings to IT and network security related topics.

Startups working on cool stuff and not-so-cool stuff for families, kids, moms, dads, parents, grandparents..... co-hosted by ActivityHero and 500 Startups Monthly meetups with panel discussions and networking.

Are you a hacker, coder, or engineer who actually wants to SELL the cool stuff you build? Then Marketing Nerds is for you! We're a growing network of technology startup entrepreneurs who have actually sold many millions of dollars worth of our technology and software products in the real world. Here are some of the topics we love to talk about: What Should I Build, and Who Will Buy It? - A specific technique you can use so you know exactly what to build, before you build it, that guarantees the …

This meetup is for startuppers and entrepreneurs and other professionals who like to mentor and nurture creative minds. This meetup will provide a platform for those seeking funding, ideas, co-founders etc by bringing them together through networking. WE WELCOME PITCH HIKERS.

Are you trying to found your startup and trying to meet likeminded people to collaborate ? Would you like to learn newest and hottest technologies from top class experts in the field ? Are you ready to take the first step towards turning your ideas into reality ? Then Innowest meetup group is the just right place for you. We organize startup centric meetups and technology classes in iOS & Android development, JavaScript, HTML5, Algorithms and many more subjects.

The Programmatic Advertising & Data group is for Savvy Marketers and Technologists to discuss the latest trends in advertising technologies, advertising tools and more. Though there is a focus on programmatic advertising there are other areas covered like mediation, aggregators, programmatic mobile, search analytics