An intimate social gathering to escape daily life, where you celebrate with friends, neighbors, artists, and discoverers, tasting premium wines, the smooth freshness of a micro brew, local and imported delicacies stir your appetite, and the visual explosion of seeing for the first time one of a kind works of art that are both beautiful and functional. The discoveries are just beginning here, as you talk with the artist, gain insight into the motivation for the work of art, and feel the craftsman …

Plug and Play Tech Center's official Meetup.com page. We run Meetup style events once or twice per month. Expect great speakers, great demos, great refreshments, and great networking in a startup friendly environment. Open to the Plug and Play community and registered Meetup group members. Plug and Play Tech Center's Meetups happen at our Sunnyvale headquarters, home to over 250 startups trying to change the world. Or at least their industry. Video from past event feat. Rich Wong of Accel: ht …

Silicon Valley Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics The group will start as a mashup or compendium of other events and groups in the area that relate to the above broad topic area. The meetups will spotlight groups and series which you can subscribe to individually. Suggestions for getting together before or after events to discuss the topic of the day are encouraged. Meetups might also include discussion of books or on-line lectures. SVSTEM is centered around Silicon Valley in the S …

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/

Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is a web organization dedicated to providing web builders with useful and informative resources. We promote technological innovations and address technical challenges facing the web community. SVWB invites expert speakers to address important and critical aspects of launching, building and growing successful websites, web applications and web-based businesses. SVWB efforts cover every aspect of web building including user experience design, information architec …

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

The Mobile Guild fosters information exchange, Professional development, and networking amongst its members. Discussions & trends on Mobile Apps (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone 7), New opportunities, Monetization and business models created by the convergence of cameras & Sensors in smartphones and more.. Mobile Guild is a platform - a table to talk. What is being discussed here? - Tips and tricks for successful Monetization of Mobile Apps - New Business models and opportunities …

The SVForum Marketing SIG meets monthly on the 2nd Monday to explore the latest marketing innovations and best practices to help executives and entrepreneurs plan and achieve success. Each meeting will offer practical tips and techniques to profitably anticipate, identify, and satisfy customers needs for emerging technologies. "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only these two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and inn …

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 …

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

Bay Area Web Performance is focused on making the Web faster and smarter! Our members are passionate about the user experience and the Performance community here in Silicon Valley. We'll meet regularly to discuss, delight, and inform ourselves on the hot topics and industry happenings in the Web Performance world! Join us!

This is the place for Android Developer group organizers to improve collaboration between Android Developer Groups. What we are looking for (Draft): 1 Virtual collaborative events between different groups: Live broad cast,  Virtual events, hangout, 2 Collaboration for real event Global Android Hackathon Global Android Developer Day 3 Help each other in finding speakers, getting organizers Other ways to connect: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4172861 You must be an Android community lea …

If you can code in C/C++, you can code in any language. Moreover, you can tackle any programming problem you want. No other language can make as powerful a claim. My thinking is that there are other people who would like to learn how to program in C++, and we'd love to be the one to help them, while brushing up on our skills at the same time. Convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more dif …

Welcome to the Bay Area meetup Pinterest group! We welcome all those 'power users' of Pinterest, and if you are a Pinterest addict, you are at the right place! We'll meet, we'll chat about Pinterest, compare boards and even check out cool tools for Pinterest users!

This is for IoT (Internet of things)/M2M enthusiasts, startups, and entrepreneurs to meet and socialize. We will meet in South SF/Bay Area (near Santa Clara, Mountain View, or Palo Alto).-

Come join like minded people to learn about upcoming new changes, tools from startups and how companies are using Pinterest and share your learning too. Developers may be interested in the unofficial api group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/pinterestapi and the 'old api docs' http://tijn.bo.lt/pinterest-api

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 …

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!

Meetup for Silicon Valley IT (Computer and Telecom) Resellers, Distributors, Brokers.

API Management meet-up group will help create a community of API practitioners and implementors who can come together to share their experience and learnings on defining, designing, building, launching and managing Web APIs based on SOAP/REST/JSON/XML technologies. The group welcomes audience from various industries with diverse skills with below roles - API Architect - API Developer - Engineering Manager - Engineering Director - Product Managers - Mobile Architect & Developers

Compelling content is key to many entrepreneurial ventures in Silicon Valley. Whether you are a content creator, agregator, or broker, you realize that content is king. Our calendar will have an array of activities and programs to help content entrepreneurs create, package, and market content online.

Meet with students, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are interested in machine learning algorithms. We get together to both study the algorithms and discuss the real-world applications of ML. This is an exciting time for coders that deal with data, so join us!

Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?

The Cisco Users Group of Silicon Valley meets once a month to discuss products, services, and technologies to simplify network management with Cisco Prime products for enterprise and service providers. Cisco is truly dedicated to customer success. Our mission is to shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, partners, shareholders, and employees. Built for the human network. Disclaimer: The Cisco Users Group of Silicon Valley is an independ …

Free Software = free society!  Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is sweeping earth bringing freedom to people everywhere.  Our little corner of the Libre Planet is the San Jose / Bay Area.  Come join the FLOSS evolution! GNU/Lindepence Hours Have an hour or so now and again to spend advocating for FLOSS? Want to get things fired up in your area? Want to raise awareness for both FLOSS and the Free Software Foundation's Libre Planet in Silicon Valley? Start an GNU/Lindepence Hour! They are …

Mobile devices are transforming how we work – constantly connected and accessing company data… everywhere. This brings a new level of productivity along with some new management and security challenges. This group is a collection of IT and Security professionals concerned with managing BYOD programs or corporate mobile devices within the enterprise. The purpose is for members to network and discuss similar issues and challenges, including policies for end users, unique mobile data security conce …

The Autotech Council gathers auto manufacturers, vendors, distributors, startups, and investors every other month for a 1/2 day, deep dive on one segment inside the auto industry where lots of innovation is taking place. These meetings are open to the public and introduce dozens of companies to new ideas, new companies, and new opportunities. They include insight into to what the major vendors and manufacturers are doing as well as exposing them to a handful of new products and services. Startup …