Meet other local executives to discuss topics of the day in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovations, Enterprise 2.0 , Social Enterprise , Social CRM , Social Media , Social Networking and Technology spaces. You can become a fan of our Social CRM facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/SocialCRMWorl ...  and join our group on LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=25 ...  where we also post job openings, have discussions and read news. Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/glfceo . …

Welcome to Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startup Group, world's largest mobile entrepreneurs community! From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including Android, iOS, WP, HTML5 , Cloud, Facebook, Chrome! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur commu …

Open to the few, the proud, the pale, the clued folks that keep the sites running. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. Operations - you spend too much time in the Colo 2. Network - you keep the bits flowing to the cage 3. Systems - you keep all the 1U heaters running in the cage 4. Architect - you give the above 3 heartburn ;) 5. Other - you contribute to the success of the application in some way (DEVs are welcome) Our events provide you with a forum to le …

Meet other local Ajaxians and JavaScripters to share knowledge, to review the state of the art, or to dream up new applications Please don't spam the list with job listings, if you have any recruiting announcements please come to one of our meet ups, we always allocate some time for members to announce hiring opportunities. Thanks!

This group was started in April of 2003. We switched from java.net to meetup.com at the beginning of 2009. This Java User Group (JUG) is for anyone interested in learning more about JEE web application development. We meet at Google in Mountain View, California, on the third Wednesday of the month. All levels of JEE web application development experience are welcome. Our meetings are always free to attend.

The place for Google Chrome, HTML5 & cloud computing developers, cloud computing entrepreneurs, users, involved in planning and implementing applications for Chrome as well as those wishing to learn more about the business opportunities related Chrome. We get together monthly to share solutions, opportunities, and how-tos related to Chrome browser, and Chrome OS. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from developers, entrepreneurs, …

Join us for great conversation over a casual lunch.  Meet other entrepreneurs in the same space and network in-between delicious bites of food.

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.

SILICON VALLEY FORUM (SVForum) Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group (SIG) WeCommerce Blog - http://wecommercesig.wordpress.com Web Apps & E-Commerce - Special Interest Group provides a forum for web app & e-commerce developers, product, finance, and marketing professionals to interact and discover ways of growing their ventures. The SIG welcomes experienced professionals and new entrants. The agenda features speakers from companies, VCs, financiers, product managers, and marketers. I …

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).

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

Join us for the Founders Space Roundtables, where founders gather to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. Roundtables are geared to founders and C-level executives of growth-oriented companies for exploring critical issues and business opportunities with peers and subject matter experts. Each Roundtable tackles a specific subject, such as negotiating a term sheet, creating a marketing plan, filing patents, raising venture capital, etc. The session begins with industry experts, wh …

Join the OpenERP Meetup Group to discuss the application, the business model, the community organization, the company, the latest news, coding practices, sales techniques, implementation methodology,... Come and meet the team in our offices. This group is open to casual and expert users, existing and prospective integrators, business applications enthusiasts, and open source fans. We also webcast live if you can't make it in person! In the meantime, find more info on www.openerp.com.

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about utilizing the new avalanche of online data and new data-centric business models. The Data 2.0 organizers are also the producers of DataWeek.co Sept 22-27 in San Francisco as well as the Data 2.0 Summit (data2summit.com) We view "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it accessible by other organizations. That includes big …

As the global IT industry is rapidly shifting from traditional computer world to emerging Mobile World, the Silicon Valley, the world's base of IT innovations, evolves quickly to become the Global Mobile Valley (Mobile World Center), pioneered by leading Mobile Technology Players such as Apple, Google, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson, Broadcom, Huawei, Nokia, etc. Based on Delson Group research, over trillion dollar business will be in the sec …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technology - such as search developers, web application developers, architects, IT and search applica …

Meet ups organized to talk about Node.js and related technologies, learn about new projects using Node.js and connect with cutting edge geeks.

Join other Tizen developers, users and fans wanting to learn more about the platform, app development, mobile web tools and business opportunities on this emerging mobile platform.

This is a meetup group for Ruby on Rails Developers who want to build interesting scalable web applications which directly or indirectly affects everyone's life in a positive way. We have many ideas which can help make this world a better place to live. Some of these ideas may not be profitable ideas but which need to be implemented in order to help bring about the social changes that we want to see. We would not build applications with profits in mind, but we would build them for the social imp …

Gartner predicts that by end of 2013, number of people who access the web through a mobile device will exceed the ones using a PC. In this environment, it makes sense to design your applications and plan your new web based business first for mobile devices and then adapt that to the web, rather than the other way round. This group is for Entrepreneurs, Developers, Product managers/ Product Designers and others involved in planning, designing, implementing, selling or marketing Mobile Applicatio …

This is a group for users of the Stoic platform and its applications. All skills levels are welcome, from hardcore node.js developers to enthusiastic business users. We meet for Friends of Stoic Open Tab events in Palo Alto, CA and around the world.

A group dedicated to learning and mastering the Play! web application framework. The group was started by engineers in the Silicon Valley to help foster and learn from the local Play! and Scala communities. As we dived deeper into this amazing web framework, we wanted to be able to connect with other engineers in the area to share our experiences, evangelize, and learn. No matter if you're a Play! expert, a Scala beginner, or just interested in what makes this web framework different, the Play! …

We are a group of developers that want people to discover our apps AND generate thousands of downloads.  So we get together to learn and share mobile app marketing strategy for Apple iPhone, iPad, iOS and Google Android.  Developers can share what methods worked and what didn't.  There will also be speakers from companies that provide solutions to increase your user base.  Feel free to contact me with ideas or suggestions for speakers, topics, venues and sponsorships.  If you would like to prese …

Join us to learn about TIBCO and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other TIBCO professionals.

The SF Bay Area Big Data Think Tank brings together experts and visionaries from academia and the industry in : - Visualization, data infrastructure, and data science - Applications that leverage Big Data in areas such as advertising, marketing, eCommerce, CRM, security, etc. - Art and design, specially as it relates to data We host periodic talks, panel discussions and hackathons. Join us! Come Learn, Network & Share. Brought to you by The Hive that incubates, funds and launches businesses that …

You learned to hack in JavaScript almost by accident, and now it's a serious language with an amazing diversity of applications. This group welcomes all to learn about the reach of JavaScript weather it be client or server side web development, the best testing frameworks, how to run node on a raspberry pie, how 'let' changes what you can do, what W3C specifications might be right for the server side, how to correctly implement polyfills, or a myriad of other topics all around JavaScript.

This group is a meetup for people interested in the intersection between information security and the law. The group supports the work of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law. The ISC is a diverse group of lawyers, security experts, technologists, auditors and other professionals, whose focus includes the examination and analysis of legal, business, and technical aspects of securing the confidentiality, integrity and availability …