San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (sf.citi) is a 501(c)6 organization created to leverage the power of the technology community around civic action in San Francisco. sf.citi supports innovative policies and works collaboratively with government to find new solutions to historic problems facing San Francisco, and consolidate a voice in promotion of tech sector interests and growth. We actively engage our membership’s employees to focus on substantive issues, and to d …

HealthTech Women is a leading women’s group that brings together professionals across all health verticals who share a passion for discovering innovative technology that impacts health around the world. We offer a place for women to come together to learn, offer guidance,attend speaking events, and build a network around Health Technology. Some of our topics include: * Analyzing and leveraging large-scale health data * Engaging patients through mobile health platforms * Building platforms that e …

When you work all day in advertising, branding, and design, like we do, you meet a lot of cool people with innovative ideas that you'd love other people to experience. The ChromiumForum is where those colorful people are engaged in in-depth conversation, so that their ideas can truly shine. We're aiming for inspiration, innovation, and engagement. If you're interested in the way communications, innovations, design and culture intersect, this is your group.

This is a group for anyone interested in applying lean startup thinking inside large organizations. We are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and corporate innovators who want to test ideas for new products, services, and business models within established companies. Learn how to: - Apply lean startup thinking to the enterprise - Design experiments that align product, business and customer - Conduct internal customer development Whenever possible, we will present actual case studies from large comp …

Come Together For Health™ Improving access to affordable healthcare by promoting innovative technologies that transform healthcare. Health Technology Forum (HTF) is a platform for people worldwide who have a common interest in making healthcare better, more accessible and affordable. Our international network of technology and healthcare entrepreneurs, developers, regulators, and providers are advancing the pace of healthcare innovation by engaging in exciting and productive dialogue between e …

This group is for innovators in education.  We strive to keep the balance between educators and technologists in our group. By bringing together educators, entrepreneurs, technologists, and all-around education enthusiasts, the Edu Tech Innovators group creates a collaborative space where people across sectors can work together to tackle challenges and find meaningful solutions to the systemic problems in the global edu landscape. We're people and professionals who want to democratize and unleas …

This group is for anyone who is interested in exploring the new digital industrial revolution and demand expectation economy. The old industrial age of mass manufacturing is giving way to a new demand based economy seen with the rise of crowd-funding, crowd-sourcing, hardware makers, adaptive manufacturing, and digital technology. This democratization of manufacturing is empowering consumers and producers alike with new creativity, innovations, choice, personalization, and customization. Join a …

This is a meetup group is for the most innovative developers and entrepreneurs to get together and discuss + create amazing things with Google Glass, the Mirror API, and AR technology. Be sure to suggest a meetup! Google and Glass are trademarks of Google Inc. Google is not affiliated with this Meetup.

SmartUps are a series of panel discussions on the latest innovations in HR and recruiting. Discuss and discover the newest tools and trends for growing your startup the smart way. HR and tech professionals and enthusiasts are welcome. Listen, participate, drink, network. Brought to you by SmartRecruiters, the free social recruiting platform and ATS.

Entrepreneurs without Borders (EWB) is a forum for business people, entrepreneurs, and investors who are passionate about solving challenging and intractable socio-economic and environmental problems through the application of technology, best practices, and creative business models. We believe in experimentation, innovation, and the power of market-driven solutions to solve difficult problems. EWB pulls together those developing businesses that serve people at the bottom half of the world’s eco …

This is a group for anyone who has ever had an idea or a EUREKA moment but didn’t know what to do next. Here you will get information about how to move forward with your idea, the steps that are involved, costs, ect. This is a place where you can ask questions and get reliable information.

The Next Level Up: Bobby Fishkin and David Hodgson have been chatting, and have discovered that there are only 24 hours in the day. We have therefore come to a fresh hypothesis as how to meet two objectives. The first objective is that an abundance of humanizing dialogue with diverse fascinating social entrepreneurs, visionaries, futurists, revolutionaries, empathetic humanizers, socially responsible business incubators, social intrapreneurs, culture hackers, social innovation diffusion speciali …

Where change goes to work. We are a co-working space and community of social innovators. Locally, in Berkeley & SF. Globally, part of a network of 20 Hubs & 5,000+ members. Hub events investigate how ideas for change are built into viable enterprises that create a better world and new models for how change gets done. Events are curated by both Hub and SOCAP staff, along with members who use the Hub platform to convey ideas, opportunities, and operational lessons learned. Please visit us and l …

HR and Tech SF is a new recurring event bringing together actors in the HR industry from startups offering new ways to connect talent and employers to recruiters and HR managers looking for innovative ways to attract professionals. It's for people that want to explore evolutions in the HR field brought about by the Web, social media and social recruiting. HR and Tech SF is an emerging community of experts, innovators, techies and HR professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are intere …

FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHSF.org has become the leading network for all things fashion and technology in Silicon …

Vision: To promote and cultivate a tech entrepreneurial spirit within the U.S. Latino community; to increase the amount of Latino led technology innovation not only in Silicon Valley but globally as well. Mission: To encourage the inspiration and cultivation of Latino led technology startup ventures by providing a strong support network of fellow entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, & mentors.

OpenOakland, a Code for America Brigade, is a civic innovation organization that brings together coders, designers, data geeks, journalists, and city staff to collaborate on solutions to improve how our local government serves all citizens of Oakland. We draw on our wide range of expertise and perspectives to build open-source applications and working relationships that promote civic innovation and open government in Oakland. Our projects range from events like CityCamp and the Open Government P …

NextSpace is the workplace for the new economy. We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. In an increasingly disconnected world, NextSpace creates a collaborative community that is revolutionizing the nature of work. Our business model is simple: NextSpace sells membership in that collaborative community. Our members come from a wide variety of industries: sof …

This group is interested in engaging the next generation of philanthropists who are curious to “be the change they wish to see in the world.” Join this meetup group to take part in fun, social, and innovative brainstorming sessions on what are the best strategies and messages for ensuring that more funds get to Latino communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Latinos are the second largest population group in the U.S., representing 16% of the total population. Yet less than 1.5% of foundation g …

Welcome to the SSV Network! The "Startups & Societal Ventures" Network http://www.ssvnetwork.com Discuss: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=48286 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SSVNetwork Follow us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ycd24uk Check the SSV Network Innovation Hubs' Worldwide Map: http://www.communitywalk.com/SSVNetwork Entrepreneurs, investors and all other resources providers need better relationships matchmaking. SSVN is an internet-based entrepreneurship support system e …

DEDICATED SITE: http://hack.tvot.tv DATE & PLACE: JUNE 22-23, 202 Green Street, San Francisco, California PLATFORMS BEING USED: Connected TV, Tablets, Smartphones, OTT Boxes (e.g. Google TV, Roku, Apple TV), PCs, Others of Your Choosing! SDKs: Android, iOS, Synchronizing Mobile with TV and Metadata (Gracenote), Mobile Video Editing (Ignite Video), Commerce (PayPal), 3D Motion (LeapMotion), Voice Control (Nuance), Connected TV (Samsung Developers AllShare Framework) [itvt] is pleased to announce …

The Location Based Marketing Association of SF is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media. Our goal is simple; To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. Members of the LBMA include retailers, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless co …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and, in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, …

At the San Francisco JUG you get to meet other local Java professionals and talk about code, architecture, innovation, opportunities, and share ideas about real-world problems. Our meetings are technically focused and often include expert speakers on Java-related topics. We welcome both beginners and gurus, both developers and managers, both geeks and professionals. We typically meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month and our meetings are FREE and OPEN to the public. If you are an employer, a …

The SF Edtech Meetup is the hub for the amazing keynotes, panel discussions, edtech mixers, member spotlights, and hands-on learning experiences that inspire teachers, entrepreneurs, technologists, education reformers, and edtech enthusiasts to connect, collaborate, and innovate. We meet monthly to explore various topics at the intersection of education and technology, to learn about the latest technologies that are supporting teachers, and to hear from teachers about the problems in education t …

This meetup is focused on hands-on coding for Cloud platforms. The goal is ultimately for members to share best practices and innovate. This meetup is about sharing code and building applications that run in the cloud. Although I work for Microsoft as a developer evangelist, I welcome all developers from all cloud platforms. Initially, the meetings will be focused on the Windows Azure Platform (Azure). Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and workin …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …