Tech Connect This group is for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, tech startups, investors, and small businesses. Tech Connect was designed for the technically minded that believe learning is a life long endeavor. In this day and age, technology and ideas are constantly evolving.  Tech Connect features active experts in their fields who lecture on relevant and useful topics.  Tech Connect's interactive events are tailor made to allow for group networking. Speakers Workshops Pitches Co-founder pairin …

The Entertainment Storage Alliance puts on events and distributes publications on digital storage technologies and their applications.  You should join if you are interested in digital storage technology and its use in consumer or professional media and entertainment applications.  You should also join us if you would like to network with or meet other folks with similar interests in digital storage technology and its applications.  We put on quarterly Storage Valley Supper Club meetings as well …

We are Tech in Motion: Silicon Valley. This group is designed for anyone and everyone interested in technology. If you are a tech lover, an expert in the field or simply want to know more about the industry this is the place for you. Tech in Motion is designed for you, so let’s make this group amazing and help bring the sprawling Silicon Valley Tech community closer and do something great! Have something cool you want to hear discussed? Tell us about it! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedica …

We offer mobile application development workshops (most are FREE) for the iOS and Android platforms. The workshops are designed to train new and experienced app developers on the latest technologies and programming techniques. Basic classes in Java and Objective-C programming are also offered. We take suggestions for new workshop topics as well. Attend a workshop, learn something new, make new friends and improve your overall app development skills. Newbies are encouraged to join since we offer …

This is a group for IT professionals who are interested in tailored IT solutions for accelerating the delivery, management, and protection of data. Cornerstone Technologies wanted to start a Meetup group where we can invite IT professionals to learn more about the technologies that drive our life and businesses through social events.

This is a group for Developers and enthusiasts of the Raspberry Pi. Welcoming engineering beginners and experts that want to make the best of this exciting technology.

Welcome to the Microsoft Store Valley Fair Meetup group! We're happy you're here. Our group is for everyone who is interested in attending free events at the store, including workshops on Windows or Office, business networking events, field trips, Xbox tournaments, and Kinect gaming events, to name a few. We offer these free classes in our state-of-the-art theater, equipped with a 103" touchscreen TV, podium, microphones, and amazing audio system. Our awesome trainers will reveal the simple secr …

Hi I'm the new organizer for the group and I am excited to take on the responsibility. Currently I work with the HandsOn Tech Silicon Valley program. We have worked with Google, Microsoft, and Baynetwork volunteers on a number of nonprofit IT projects and hope to recruit more skill-based volunteers. I want to use this meetup as a way where nonprofits, community volunteers, business leaders can come together and make a difference using technology. Just like my predecessor, I am hoping to bring to …

The Bay Area meetup group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association gets together about once a month to talk about Mormonism, Transhumanism, technology, spirituality, science, religion, and just about anything else you can imagine. Most of us are Mormons or have a Mormon background or interests, and similarly most of us identify to some extent or another as Transhumanists, but you don't have to be a Mormon or a Transhumanist to participate. The Mormon Transhumanist Association is an international …

TechXploration is PayPal's free, tech-focused speaker series that occurs monthly in San Jose. Hear from Valley-based tech luminaries while sampling the finest craft beer and local eats! All are welcome. Join us!

This is a group for anyone interested in real-time communications and collaboration technologies, particularly WebRTC. I have started this group for communications technology professionals to network and learn the latest in this burgeoning technology of WebRTC. Looking forward to having lively discussions about WebRTC and its impact on real-time communications and collaboration. All views, posts and opinions shared are my own. All skills levels are welcome.

This MeetUp is for Santa Cruz high tech professionals who want to learn about stimulating new technologies from both startups and mature companies. Learn, network, and keep high tech businesses growing in Santa Cruz. Join us for one hour on the first Wednesday of every month. To join our LinkedIn Group, go to: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1192257

The Silicon Valley Startup Incubation and Acceleration Networking is a meetup group created for startup entrepreneurs to attend networking sessions, seminars, workshops, coaching and mentoring programs organized by incubators and accelerators. Entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, executives, startup founders and business owners, please join us if you want to get help with business basics, participate in networking activities and cofounder mixers, find marketing resources and strategic partner …

We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. What does that really mean?  We provide a professional yet comfortable workspace for freelancers, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, consultants, coaches, lawyers - anyone who might otherwise be working from home or trying to work from a coffee shop. The (R)evolution of Work We are a coworking space, but we ain't you …

This for anyone and everyone interested in the Lecture Series at The Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose to band together and attend as a group. The lectures focus on the many different intersections science and technology make with culture, arts, politics, math, and our entire world. If you're an expert or enthusiast in any of these fields or subjects, and have been to one or more of these lectures or wish to attend in the future, this is the place to discuss the presented subjects a …

Santa Cruz Web Developers is an informal group of web designers, developers, appreciators and visionaries. Started in July 2008, the group is dedicated to the notion that we each have a unique angle and therefore something valuable to offer in this vast, ever-changing digital field. We take turns presenting topics of interest and value to the group, and occasionally bring in guest speakers to share their expertise. Topics range from color and design theory to xampp installation, debugging pages …

Learn and Share how to build kick ass HTML5 Mobile Web Apps A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community G …

To promote the interests, understanding and discussion of freeing machine to machine communications from the limitations of the Cellular and PSTN Networks. Using outer space to connect that last node to the Net.

Engineers talking ROR lingo and stuff

The Creative Suite User Group of San Jose was established to provide professionals in San Jose and surrounding areas a venue for networking and learning about the latest in Adobe Software. Our monthly meetings will feature a prominent guest speaker who will focus on tips/tricks, integration between Adobe apps, and streamlining your workflow for more efficient business practices. We welcome your feedback and suggestions to make our user group the best possible of its kind. We look forward to see …

Silicon Valley Perl (SVPerl) is for people interested in the Perl programming language in the Silicon Valley area - engineers and coders, or other users. A previous Perl Mongers group existed in the area until 2005. SVPerl re-established the Perl group in 2010. See SVPerl's web site at http://svperl.org/

The SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG offers a forum for members to discuss and learn about new and emerging technologies in software architecture, development tools, and platforms. At the monthly meeting, there is a technical presentation involving software tools, techniques, platforms, or architecture used to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity or solve an enterprise computing problem. Software tools include emerging functional languages such as Scala or F#, HTML5 or new …

Point of sale systems and the POS industry is going through rapid evolution. A reason for this acceleration is mobile commerce (mPOS). However, innovations in almost all POS capabilities is picking pace. Exciting times! This group is for the POS professionals to socialize, network and share ideas!

This meet up is for all QA and mobile QA managers, directors and beyond who are interested to learn about the new technology and methodologies in mobile testing. This is an opportunity for you to learn first-hand from your counterparts on how they are working around the challenges in mobile testing. And of course, network and socialize with like-minded people in the valley.

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

Events that focus on Technology, Art, Green and Sustainability (TAGS). Demo's, speakers, tours and other fun events will be put together by this group. Open discussions on these topics, connections to other events related to these topics and film/video of related topics will be part of this groups core.

Water is critical to life. We are faced with a looming crisis with respect to the availability of water to sustain life. There are many smart people developing amazing technologies to address the numerous challenges relating to the use and re-use of water. PURPOSE: We are a catalyst for entrepreneurs focussed on water. We provide a forum for inventors, innovators and investors to showcase their solutions and look for consumers. We aim to help connect the dots.

Do you create great software? If so, you should have great and effective help and training and support. Our meetups will include discussions about new and cool help, training and support technologies from embedded video to screencasting to help desk services. We'll be inviting select vendors to discuss their products, look at best practices and just generally share what works (and what doesn't) related to how help, training and support can make or break great software.