What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

RE.WORK combines entrepreneurship, technology and science to solve some of the world's greatest challenges using emerging technology. We showcase the opportunities of exponentially accelerating technologies and their impact on business and society. Emerging technology is providing an unprecedented era of opportunity for entrepreneurs and scientists to progress business and solve global challenges. Do you know how to leverage new technologies such as the internet of things, sensors, 3D printing, …

This is the official Amazon Web Services user group for Manchester, England. Anyone and everyone with an interest in the cloud is welcome. Ryan Shuttleworth - Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web Services - is a regular speaker. In his role Ryan educates customers on the technical and business aspects of cloud computing, mentors start-ups and coaches developers in enterprises on their move to the cloud. Having held senior roles in successful SaaS companies, Ryan has lived and breathed the transit …

What is Net2Camb? Net2Camb is a free monthly event for people in and around the Cambridge area interested in using web or mobile technology for social good. Whether you are a nonprofit organization in the traditional sense, a venture capitalist, a programmer, an individual with a great idea, or a social changemaker, Net2Camb is here to help you make connections and create a community around innovating for good in Cambridge. These events are great opportunities to learn what others are trying, …

The purpose of this group is to bring together people who have a passion for technology in education. Are you interested in programming, computer science, IT, or just integrating great technology into the classroom? Come and join us for monthly activities to learn from each other and develop new ideas! Feel free to suggest ideas for great events happening in London or around the UK.

A place where web developers can meet, chat and share experience with fellow professionals.  We hold regular hack nights to introduce members to new technologies and methodologies. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs and the curious all welcome.

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 fil …

Bristol Web Folk is an informal gathering of web developers, designers, and anyone else interested in what makes the web tick. Front-end and back-end, professional and amateur, coders and designers - anyone with an interest in talking about the latest developments in web technology. The group is open to anyone - the more the merrier. (Meetup is free for group members, so don't let that put you off.) This group is not for networking and recruitment - if that's all you're interested in then please …

There's a massive pool of search technology expertise and experience in London (and nearby), but it's currently locked away in mailing lists and cubicles. We want to bring some of that out into the open to share war stories, advice, and business cards over a quiet beer.

This Meet Up is calling all meeting planners in Reading & London looking to meet technology suppliers that can help to increase attendee experience, ROI and improve efficiencies in your event team. The quarterly networking event offers technology suppliers the chance to showcase their technology and services to meeting planners. It works on a speed-dating format, giving suppliers the chance to pitch to selected buyers and suppliers are carefully assessed to ensure meetings are mutually benefic …

Are you a technology startup based in and around South and South West London, Or, a great developer looking to work for one? We're hoping to arrange monthly meetups to get the startup community going in SW London, discuss issues, meet like-minded individuals and talk tech - all over a few beverages. We're aiming squarely at those who have existing startups and those who want to work for them so if you fit the bill please join up and come along.

This a user group for programmers/developers. We meet monthly in Chester to listen to a talk from an industry expert, share experiences and eat pizza. This is not language specific, but does lean towards .Net. Most of the talks are methodology or technology based.

Bringing together passionate people across Wales who are interested in how social media and technology can help engage arts with audiences.

We hold regular meetups and micro-conferences, inviting a host of prominent professionals in the world of web to share their experiences and offer guidance to those new to the arena. With a philosophy of simplicity and conciseness, nearly all talks are shorter than 20 minutes and refreshingly “data-light”. What do we talk about? Subjects vary depending on the speaker, but each talk is focused towards learners and encourages interactivity. We attempt to cover all areas of importance to those new …

This is a great opportunity to meet other locals who earn their living from the Internet. A safe environment for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field! We're a friendly bunch who love to welcome new faces into the group, we'd love you to come along and meet us, if you're new then let us know and we'll introduce you around! We now meet in Copa, a lively bar on George Street in the centre of Oxford. We get together once month and its purely soci …

Tribe of designers and geeks who create future-proof information platforms. Connected World, Connected Things, Internet of Things, Hackability, Quantum Computing, REST, Netkernel, Resource-oriented computing, Robots, Android, Micro-satellites, ROC, Unix, Linux, QEG, Futurism, Sensors, Cloud, Micro-controllers, Semantic Web, Metadata, Mash-ups, Mobility, Distributed Computing, Scalable computing

Meet other locals who earn their living from the Internet. A place for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field.

Tech Wednesday is a monthly tech meetup for the Birmingham area. Do you want to meet with like-minded individuals in the digital tech industry? Looking to collaborate with the cream of Birmingham's burgeoning tech community? Like coffee? Like talking tech? Then Tech Wednesday should be right up your street. Each month we also have 'Show 'n Tells': a couple of tech startups/people with side projects from the region will be demoing their stuff to the group for feedback and discussion. If you want …

A space for girlgeeks in Birmingham and the West Midlands to come together, share experiences and encourage each other to become visible in their area of work be it IT, Media or Science. Men are welcome to our meetups are guest of a girlgeek.

The aim of this group is to build a network of people interested in recommender systems and give them a forum for presenting and discussing ideas. We are a mixed group of people from research, industry, education, design and startups. If you have an interest in recommender systems, come and join us.

Open to anyone who is interested in Bitcoin. Whether your wanting to learn more, the economic impacts benefits of using them, potential business opportunities, political/financial implications, software development ideas ... Open, Friendly, Informal discussion meetups, just throwing this out there to see what happens!!

What's Second Wednesday? Second Wednesday is a gathering of people from (or wanting to get into) the web and related creative industries. Originally founded nearly fourteen years ago for business directors to blow off steam, it's grown into an event open to anyone in the industry and provided the networking platform for several up and comers in the Nottingham scene. The event is free for everyone and anyone is welcome to come along. We encourage you to come with an open mind, and talk to as many …

Meet with other web site administrators, developers, designers and business people who are interested in making their sites faster to get a better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more revenue. We aim to provide a place for people to share, discuss and present ideas on how they approach performance from technical, organisational and business perspectives. Drinks are snacks are provided, plus regular freebies from our sponsors. Want to speak at the group? Do you have a web performanc …

BathSPARK brings together people of Bath who work in tech. It aims to create opportunity, encourage diversity and spark new ventures. Coder meet Creative. Creative meet entrepeneur. Entrepreneur meet talented graduate. This is social networking (for real) with local digital people enjoying a drink, and talking about what they love.

Group focusing on progressive enhancement, adaptive design, performance and other topics relavent to developing web sites for multiple devices.

This group is a place for developers in the Thames Valley to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

It's the Malvern web/tech pub meetup group reborn! It's a meetup for web, mobile, tech people in or around Malvern, UK. We'll be mixing meetups in a pub with more formal presentation-based evenings at http://wyche.in/

Thank you to everyone who attended SHD we hope you have made some great contacts and had some fun at the same time. Unfortunately (or fortunate for us) our office now has lots of new desks so it has become unusable to hold events. We hope to resume next year and we will you know.  Wishing you all the best in your Start-up ventures! From the IOVOX Team.