"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not" - Steve Jobs Are you frustrated with the current technology or technological tools?  Do you want to use the newest devices and gadgets? Do you become disheartened trying to keep up with new technology?  Do you feel like the digital gap has left you behind? Then TECH|LIVING is for you!  We are a specialty Toastmasters club dedicated to the following purposes: Le …

Entrepreneurs, innovators, value creators. You know who you are. We're about to activate the West LA startup scene - and you're invited! If you're defining the future of technology, media, entertainment, gaming, mobile, social, Internet, or any new media - then you ARE Silicon Beach. Techies, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Marketers, Deal Makers, Pixel Wizards, Video Artists, Producers.... are coming together to put West LA on the map. Join us to show off your goods, launch your tech company, learn n …

Welcome to Hackpit, a workspace for Developers, Technologists, & Makers to meet & collaborate on projects.  People arrive at Hackpit to work for a certain period of time on the projects they wish to, in the same room as the people who they need to talk to about their ideas. Hackpit has partnered with StartEngine to provide the space to hack.  StartEngine is a startup accelerator based in Westwood, CA - across the street from UCLA.  Their cutting edge technology combined with comfortable and tech …

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 PHP engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with his 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.  

There is no doubt that tablets will become pervasive throughout leisure, commerce, and education.  What remains to be seen is who will forge the path.  This group will unify developers, designers, and users of tablet devices.  We'll have industry speakers, panel discussions, and technology showcases.  Join if you have any interest in forging the mobile future.

The L.A. High Scalability Group aims to be a Birds-Of-A-Feather style gathering of people working with big data, large scale and giant challenges in technology.

Attention! Our official web site will be http://www.laphp.org/ We are currently building the official web site for our group, but until it is done the URL above will redirect to this meetup page. Los Angeles PHP Developers Group (LAPHP)  is a vibrant community of like-minded web developers who are working with or interested in PHP and related technologies.  We are meeting regularly at least once a month for high level talks on the technology topics and to mingle and network together with fell …

There is a lot of fun waiting to be had at the Microsoft Store at Westfield Century City Mall. We host free events for the Los Angeles community. Among some of the events are Xbox Game Nights, Class Trips, Free Technology Seminars, Girl Scout and Boy Scout Troops, Group Productivity Workshops, Face to Face Social Networking, and Specialized Technology Classes. Whether you're looking to enhance your organization's technology skills, build awareness in the local community for the services your org …

For people focused on improving their wellbeing and performance.   Who should join... 1. people who use technology for increasing performance, goal tracking, health tracking, quantifying elements of life (how much food you eat, how long you exercise, etc) 2. people with insights for healthy living and living a high performance life 3. Life and wellness coaches. People who have clients they meet with regularly for goal assessment, life orientation and general counsel. 4. People who develop wellbe …

Pac IT Pros is an independent, non-profit user group for IT professionals. We hold our meetings the fourth Tuesday of every month with technical speakers presenting engaging and relevant information. At each meeting we share our experiences and ideas as well as discussing new products and software, troubleshooting techniques, and business strategies. Our meetings are open to all business professionals with an interest in technology and we strive to provide a community for business networking and …

The LA NewTech Meetup is an open forum for the discussion of new ideas and ongoing challenges in technology. It's informal yet substantive meeting focus on digital media, gaming, mobile and related platforms that support the development of new applications, as well as the revenue models that support them. Our mission is to provide LA area technology and media professionals with engaging, topical forums in which to meet their peers, share ideas, demo new applications and more. Simply put: to conn …

The mobile applications market is exploding as more phones, pads, & devices emerge.  Keeping up with developer options, new platforms, and best practices can be a challenge.  This group explores the work of developing software applications for mobile devices & how to help developers & entrepreneurs get there faster. Some of the platforms we cover are iPhone, Droid, and iPad, also operating systems like Symbian & Microsoft Mobile.  There are many software IDEs (interactive development environment …

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space:  - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea …

A group for lovers and users of the Python web framework Django. Whether you consider yourself Professional or amateur, expert or just curious to see if Django is for you, please join us for our monthly meeting.

We build awesome tech companies in LA. We are looking for cofounders & others to scale our companies. We go to events to learn actionable information to help us scale our startup. We come to Tech Cofounder Dating LA events to connect and scale our tech companies. Twitter: @AaronAbram613 06/07/2012 NOW AVAILABLE! Your User Experience (UX) 5 Guests: Asher Hunt.............Product. UX. Design, Look.io/ Chill Sarah MacKinnon.....Senior UX Designer, eHarmony Ruth Kaufman..........Senior Interact …