This group is for anyone in the bay area who is interested in sports as well as technology, business, media, or startups. You're perfect for this group if you: think the MIT Sloan Sports Conference sounds cool read espn.com and tech crunch regularly follow Darren Rovell on Twitter are a part of a sports tech startup are interested in the way that technology and sports intersect sometimes use acronyms like FIP and WAR to talk about sports just want to grab a beer or have a fun conversation with …

Fashion Technology (FT) Accelerator is a program in Silicon Valley exclusively dedicated to start-ups at the intersection of fashion and technology. FT Accelerator works with a selected group of companies that are already generating revenue and are typically ready to achieve sustained growth. For pre-revenue start-up there is FT Start-up Showcase, a monthly discussion / demo centered around different topics and challenges facing the Fashion & Retail industries at the intersection with Technology …

The SF Edtech Meetup is the hub for the amazing keynotes, panel discussions, edtech mixers, member spotlights, and hands-on learning experiences that inspire teachers, entrepreneurs, technologists, education reformers, and edtech enthusiasts to connect, collaborate, and innovate. We meet monthly to explore various topics at the intersection of education and technology, to learn about the latest technologies that are supporting teachers, and to hear from teachers about the problems in education t …

SF FASHION+TECH is dedicated to the intersection of fashion and technology in the SF Bay Area. Our events gather thought leaders in the fashion and technology spaces, including designers, bloggers, retailers, entrepreneurs, software developers, marketers, investors, and enthusiastic individuals. Our goal is to promote and drive advancements in new media, ecommerce, marketing, mobile, wearable technology, and other applications. As a member, you can expect all kinds of events, from speaker series …

Think of Converge-SF events as a venue to explore the intersection between design and technology. We hope to bring you inspiring speakers, letting them narrate their creative efforts by way of the presentation of a project. We will cover the many technologies which are used across the design and development workflow and delve into one or two of these technologies along the way. Find out more about us and view past presentations at Converge-SF.org Live Webcasts at: http://experts.adobeconnect/con …

The SVForum Emerging Technology SIG is a bi-monthly meeting focused on the future. The goal is to talk about technologies that aren’t quite here yet, to discuss trends in software technologies, and, in general, to examine what’s coming down the pipeline. We meet on the second Wednesday of every other month.

CTN cultivates a network of Community Technology Providers (CTPs), and builds the capacity of these CTPs to provide under-served communities with access to technology by providing training, resources, and strong leadership. CTN coordinates monthly networking events that provide an opportunity for participants to exchange ideas and discuss topics such as digital storytelling, fundraising and program sustainability, adult literacy, workforce development and assisting constituents with job searches …

This is a group for people that either are technology, (hardware, software, silicon), entrepreneurs, or who aspire to be. This is a group not just for people who are on their way to success, but for people with great ideas and talents that have not been unleashed yet. It's a group for coders, engineers, marketers and business developers. It's a chance to exchange ideas, make introductions, share experiences and chat about the excitement of forging your own path.

This is a group for anyone who wants to prove they know what's next! We'll meet once a month to hear technologists present and defend their ideas about how new science and new behavior will emerge as new technologies. Afterwards, a panel will support or criticize the hypothesis. We will be concentrating on a one to three year horizon and voting on accuracy as the trend unfolds, so bring your best ideas.

Tech in Motion San Francisco offers an exciting opportunity for tech pros and enthusiasts of all ages to network around our beautiful city by the bay. The Bay Area is the epicenter of technological innovation with some of the most talented engineers, programmers, designers, and bloggers in the game. This meetup group is for the SF tech lovers out there to network and stay current. Let’s ‘meetup’ San Francisco! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offering career counseling services to …

Data Driven Women is a networking series and speaker event that brings together women (& men) passionate about building a stronger female tech community. Our name doesn't come from a desire to discuss only data, but rather from a data driven approach that allows us to bring metrics and measurement to different topics like: innovation, entrepreneurship and technology.

Welcome to the Ultracode Meetup! This meet-up series invites you - the developer - to demo your projects and interact with an audience of like-minded folks, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving and best practices. Anyone is welcome to present at the next Ultracode, for either cross platform HTML5 or native Windows* 8 development, keeping it within 5-7 minutes and avoiding slide-ware. The presentations will be developer-driven, with a sprinkling of industry professionals and HTML5 expert spe …

Entrepreneurs and consultants in Information Technology and related services who want to meet and collaborate and reach out to new markets and customers. If you provide information-technology related services to other businesses or consumers, this is a great group to meet others with similar interests and needs. We also have industry experts coming to the TE meeting each month to discuss topics of interest to you as well as courses on professional development. If you'd like to teach a technolo …

This is an informal monthly gathering of new and emerging technology enthusiasts. It's a great way to learn about the latest tools, as well as meet other like-minded entrepreneurs, mobile developers and technologists in the SF East Bay. Many in the tech industry have predicted (and we agree) that 2012 is a big year for mobile. We welcome all mobile developers as well as demos/discussions on various mobile technologies. Everyone is welcome to share their ideas and present their next big idea at t …

The San Francisco chapter of GTUG aims to provide technical training on emerging google technologies, as well as to provide a environment that facilitates networking. GTUG SF will be hosted once a month in San Francisco #GTUGSF - Google Technology User Group  - San Francisco

Welcome! Are you a social entrepreneur, technologist or maybe just interested in meeting awesome people? Then this group is for you! In this meetup group, we host regular group discussions focused on exploring what it means to run a nonprofit business today and in the future, as well as the challenges this community faces. Our goal is to explore what technology can and should mean for the nonprofit industry, while actively collaborating on new solutions for age-old problems. Understanding the tr …

A community to share and collaborate off of the ideas and innovations in music technology.

The San Francisco TCSG is bringing unity and power to the channel sales reps of San Francisco who sell enterprise technology to companies everywhere. The group is focused on those who sell solutions from EMC, NetApp, Oracle, Cisco, Juniper, Citrix, VMware, HP, F5, IBM, MSFT, Symantec and 100s of other smaller vendors. If you're a channel sales veteran or aspire to be one, we welcome you. This group will address the industry issues with recruiting new reps to join to the industry, ramping rapidly …

San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (sf.citi) is a 501(c)6 organization created to leverage the power of the technology community around civic action in San Francisco. sf.citi supports innovative policies and works collaboratively with government to find new solutions to historic problems facing San Francisco, and consolidate a voice in promotion of tech sector interests and growth. We actively engage our membership’s employees to focus on substantive issues, and to d …

Tech Hub/Bay Area MAKE YOUR PRODUCT MORE POWERFUL! At Getty Images and iStockphoto we thrive on providing the world’s best content, fueling amazing products and powering industry-leading ideas. Our new technology hub and meet up group provides powerful content integration solutions for tech companies in the Bay Area. It’s a community for sharing new ideas, industry insight and content trends to help elevate tech products and brands.

This is the monthly San Francisco Drupal users group. Come on down and discuss Drupal and Drupal technology with other people who use Drupal. We showcase sites which are using Drupal to help us all see real world applications of Drupal. Our Tech Sessions cover all areas of Drupal technology and are very informative. Come on down and join our vibrant community of Drupal enthusiasts.

Semantic Garage is at the cutting edge of semantic and natural language processing. It's where new web companies in the semantic space can showcase live demos and where open discussion and debate about the future and philosophy of semantic technologies emerge.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

This Meetup is for those who have a strong interest in new technology and its application either for profit or the sake of interest in the innovations coming our way. Innovators, Discoverers, Tinkerers, Experimenters and those who want to do more than just consume technology are the backbone of progress in our world. From Android to Zip Cars, 3D Printing to the newest Web Services, Analytics to the X Prize, there is a lot happening around us that is significant, interesting and often profitable …

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …

The corporate event technology group is a bay area based meetup for event and meeting managers, corporate planners, marketers, and event producers. The group focuses on efficiencies and savings gained from using technology solutions to manage events across the ecosystem.

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …