Technology shifts and transforms, but the law often remains stagnant. This group asks a few simple questions: How can we use technological developments to address legal deficiencies? And how can lawyers start to think more like hackers? This monthly meetup challenges Legal Hackers to flesh out problems and then develop solutions through legal and extra-legal mechanisms. Join us as we tackle these tough issues and create tangible solutions. There are two requirements to be Legal Hacker: attention …

Described by The New York Times as "the most important organization affecting America's relationship with Israel,” AIPAC is a 100,000-member grassroots movement of activists committed to ensuring Israel’s security and protecting American interests in the Middle East and around the world. AIPAC’s priority is to ensure that both America and Israel remain strong and that they collaborate closely together on a wide range of issues. From promoting peace between Israel and its neighbors to facilitatin …

The Creators Project is a global culture and technology initiative created by Intel and Vice in order to showcase artists, musicians, and filmmakers, and enable them to realize new artworks. The project includes an online community, a content creation studio, and global events. We bring together hundreds of artists using technology to push the bounds of creative expression. The Creators Project meetup series will showcase exemplary artists and ideas at the intersection of culture and technology, …

The masses should have access to the tools, people, and resources to learn technology and help us continue to grow the IT sector in New York City! The biggest players in NYC tech scene come together to help shine a light on the latest goings on for both experienced and novice/aspiring techies. The best way to learn is to be interactive. Learn from the professionals, have your questions answered real-time, discover new tech, and hear stories that inspire. NYC boasts the best and the brightest, th …

As of April 2011, this group will discuss "website marketing methods", (Google Adwords, Facebook Ads). Google Adwords is great, but I would like to expand the discussion Here's the original greeting from the previous organizer: Everything you ever wanted to know about Google Adwords, who invented it, how it will be regulated, how it works, why it works so well, the magic behind it, and why Google's implementation of this amazing technology is causing so much fraud - more than $3 billion a year i …

This group is for those interested in the emerging field of Cloud Technologies, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 3.0 and related fields. These include cloud-enabled databases like Couchbase Single Server CouchDB, virtualization clouds and many enterprise SaaS and PaaS services. Support for this group provided by GoChat: GroupChat, IM, VideoChat & FileSharing between visitors on your website http://www.GoChat.us FAQ: What is Enterprise 2.0? It officially means embracing Web 2.0 tools and technologies …

Black Tech is a meetup group to establish a community of technology professionals that help to advance startups born in the black community. No, you do not have to be black to join the group! But you do need to be committed to enhance the experience of a minority startup. The basic format of our meetups will be as follows: Intro and Thanks - 2 minutes or less Topic Speaker - 15 Minutes Speaker Q & A - 15 Minutes Break -  10 minutes Startup Showcase - 30 Minutes (2 early stage startup's @ 15 …

This group is catered for people who are looking to partner up or simply network with like minded individuals trying to make a difference. NYC Technology Startups and its people share a common vision, to be: First to see opportunities, first to define categories, and first to revolutionize the industry.

Social networking for greater NYC librarians and library students. All sectors and backgrounds accepted. Come discuss developments in the field, explore professional opportunities, examine emerging technologies, and engage in good old-fashioned librarianship! Social media: Please follow us on our meetup BLOG. We're also on  Twitter.  Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, LibraryThing, LinkedIn, Goodreads & YouTube. What social media sites are you on? NEW:  Meet our Mentors! Click HERE to learn more …

AlleyWatch is a news, culture and technology property dedicated to the creation and fostering of startups and related organizations. For more information, please follow AlleyWatch on Facebook and Twitter.

What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, …

High Tech meetup is for Entrepreneurs and inventors who are working on cutting edge technology. This is not a meetup for just web or another exercise app. It is geared at high tech startups involved in non standard and potentially revolutionary ideas and products. Granted, everyone thinks what they make falls into that category.As an example this meetup is for people involved in material modeling, robotics, machine learning, mobile apps that are deeper than a server+table/map UI. You got the pic …

Yes there are developers on Long Island. We're a group of Long Island developers who share an interest in code craftsmanship and new technology. Professionally we work in Node.js, Ruby, Clojure, Hadoop (EMR), Mongodb, and a long list of related technologies. We organize, and contribute to, open source projects on github. We work hard and love to have fun in the process.

MISSION: The purpose of this organization is to create a positive face to face networking community for HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/MANAGEMENT professionals. Who may apply? HIT/HIM professionals who hold any credentials from an accredited health information technology and management organization, such as: -AHIMA, American Health Information Management Association -APC, American Procedural Coder -PAHCS, Profesional Association og Health Coding Specialists -BMSC, Board of Medical Specialty Codin …

A place where you can share ideas, keep up to date with today’s technology and learn. If you believe that “IT Rocks” this is the group for You.

Along the same lines as IGDA, I'm starting an professional association, the International Mobile Developers Association effective today, Feb 17, 2012, to address the technology, business and creative concerns of mobile developers, regardless of platform. We'll have our first meeting within 60 days. If you'd like to be on the board and are at least a Manager level (as well as a developer) at a large media or financial services company, we'd love to hear from you.

Afigma is a vision of the future, where humanity strives to achieve two things; space development and transcendence of a human into a "mage". To make this vision a reality, five things are required. First, people willing to believe and support Afigma. Second, the way of Tau, which is the core philosophy of Afigma. Third, the advanced Technology(IX-POINT Texnologies Inc) and (Orga Industries Inc.) industries that can research and develop the tools for accomplishing the vision. Forth, The Ban …

A network of NYC CTOs, CIOs, VPs of Engineering & EAs. This is a chance to expand your network by participating in regular roundtable discussions and compare notes on a broad range of topics including new trends & technology, best practices, tools, software, hardware, vendors, virtualization, integration, disaster recovery, mobile, cloud computing, etc.

Learn about and discuss the accelerating change in technology, science, society, business.

Producers, writers, journalists, publishers, distributors, and any others in media, content creation/distribution, or technology businesses are welcome. We have begun to build a vibrant community of creative and business people to brainstorm, exchange ideas, socialize, share professional interests, make friends, and just have fun. Interested? If so, please join us at our next MeetUp!

We are dedicated to promoting hearing health and improved communication especially in loud environments. Do you avoid social get togethers or some restaurants because they are too noisy? Are you always making the TV louder and louder because you can't hear what's being said?  Do you have a hard time making conversation when you are in a car? There are products out there that can help, and we want to help you find the right ones. Are you interested in trying these? Come meet with us at hands on s …

Value is absolute. Economic, environmental and social components exist. Blending of all three will create a better world. -MG The Social Good For Profit meetup is a forum for passionate people working to make the world a better place through business. Our mission is to foster discussion, surface big ideas and provide a network of support for social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, investors, professionals and students involved in the "for profit for purpose" space. Our members believe that blendi …

Girls in Tech is a global organization focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of powerful, influential women in technology and entrepreneurship. Girls in Tech chapters such as this one engage the local community of women in the technology and entrepreneurship spaces, as well as highlight the specific industry concerns in each geographic region. Thank you for joining us! See you soon. Visit use at: http://girlsintechnyc.com Follow us on Twitter: @gitweet and @gitnyc and Facebook! L …

We are a group of science and mathematics students interested in developing high efficiency methods of living. We are interested in redoing everything and redefining all the norms. We believe there is a scientific way to approach old ways and maximize the quality of everyday life. The technologies we are currently looking at include but not limited to wind turbines that produce water by condensing air and high lipid algae for biofuel. We continually research new technologies and welcome every an …

Technology and the web have changed how fiction, poetry, essays, and memoirs are being distributed, and have begun to alter the process of writing, reading, sharing, and consuming texts.  Words are finding new modalities, and innovators across disciplines have begun to experiment with how technology might improve their creation, curation, and consumption. Code Meet Print is the community at the intersection of texts + technology that will contemplate, define, and help build better interfaces for …

Welcome techies, business people and Verizon team members... Come join us at our offices in NYC for a monthly discussion of interesting topics including subject areas like M2M, banking finance, healthcare and the Internet. Verizon has numerous ongoing projects that contribute expertise and services to the technology ecosystem. We will be partnering with our colleagues running related Meetups and are interested to act as much as a host as a presenter ! NOTE: PLEASE MAKE SURE TO PROVIDE YOUR FULL …

DaniWeb, one of the world's top I.T. discussion forum communities invites all techies to join us at our HQ on Long Island on the second Wednesday of every month for pizza, refreshments, networking, movies, fun and friends. We'd like to give our fellow ITs (developers, programmers, ITs and all around geeks) a chance to see the office, meet each other and have discussions, exchange ideas, work, notes or just have fun, on us. You don't have to be a registered DaniWeb forum member to attend but we c …

What has happened to the north Brooklyn tech scene?!?!?! You Cant tell me that everybody went to Etsy?!?!? Seriously though, I am a systems engineer trying to find some new local talent, and I am picking up the bar tab to get people to hang out, and discuss the things that they like/dislike about technology, and to see if there is a good place for them to join my team.