This group was founded to help connect all LGBT (and allied) members of Boston's innovation ecosystem. LGBT entrepreneurs, investors, media and marketing professionals, designers, service providers, and innovators are welcome.

This is a group for community banking professionals from banks or credit unions with an bent on innovation. All skill and experience levels welcome to meet, collaborate and commiserate on moving our industry forward.

A local node for a global network serving innovative technology from start up to Fortune 500 companies. Our goal is to help next generation creative and technical entrepreneurs plug into resources, while at the same time enable enterprises to gain access to the most current innovative thinkers.

Calling all edu-innovators who want to be change needed to transform the future of education. This group is for anyone interesting in transforming education: teachers, techies, school and community leaders, and start-up entrepreneurs. Come join the conversation. Looking forward to connecting like-minds that create solutions to #transformedu. Monthly meetings will occur the second Saturday of every month in Beacon, NY when the city streets come alive with New Yorkers enjoying the many art galleri …

Meet other Boston/Cambridge members interested in business model innovation. Whether you're an absolute beginner learning the ropes or a business tycoon with the next billion dollar startup, you are welcome to come out to exchange ideas, network with each other, learn, and have a good time.

The FairWest Tech Meetup is a monthly meeting of entrepreneurs and innovators from the Fairfield and Westchester county area. With an established and continually growing network of founders, innovators, investors and funds, it's only fitting that we have our own forum to help create, network and learn. While a majority of the meetings will revolve around companies using traditional technology, we welcome anyone looking to create something new and innovative in any industry.

Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, urban planners, and data geeks with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of creative technology. We feel that Boston was the driving force in the creation of Government 1.0; we should be leading the way for Gov 2.0. We seek to leverage the revolutionary spirit of New England to help open, improve, and engage our local governments acro …

Greater Boston has by far the highest concentration of both hospitals and Pioneer ACOs per capita in the country. It is a leading hub for innovation in many market sectors, and the healthcare space is no exception. This group has been formed to build more of a community for these various innovators to connect and interact. It will also hopefully provide them with resources about which they may not have otherwise known.

This is the core meetup for The Stamford Innovation Center the entrepreneurial hub of Stamford, CT located in Stamford's iconic Old Town Hall.  www.stamfordinnovationcenter.com Mission Our vision is to create a physical location to support the growing and diverse group of start-ups that are sprouting up all over Metro NYC and Southwestern CT. Our sole objective is to create an environment where entrepreneurs can tap into the deep Expertise, enthusiastic Talent, proven Service Providers and exper …

This group will act as a think tank on the practical issues in the development of the strategy, formation, and mission of an EcoCitizens “presentfuture” model of addressing the exponential increase and fair proliferation of technology. Please read the following Preliminary Mission Statement: EcoCitizens’ mission is to guide the global citizenry through the exponential advancement of technology across multiple sectors as it is employed to save, enhance, and re-define human life and the environmen …

Organized by the creative, entrepreneurial folks over at the abi Innovation Hub, "StartUp MHT" is where fellow entrepreneurs and "in the know" professionals gather once a week in the growing MHT to grab some lunch, free WiFi, and chat about what's new. So here is an open invitation extended to the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative communities around greater Manchester. Drop in to chat about what you’re working on!

The Bourse Coworking Loft - A beautiful downtown New Haven space for: Social innovation, startup cultivation, idea exploration, and creative collaboration. A uniquely inviting working environment. Come join us and try our space for free!

CT Web Innovators is a group of developers, designers, content developers, system administrators, project managers, application developers, entrepreneurs, business owners and users who come together to share their interests, insights, expertise, experience and ideas on building innovative and effective websites.

This is a group for ALL things startup business or organization related - business, technology, social, and more. The area of Rhode Island is teeming with energetic entrepreneurs, creators, discovers, inventors, innovators, and their muses, but we all seem to be so isolated and disconnected. How can there only be so few and unpopulated groups in the area, that we must often trek to Boston or elsewhere? This group will make no barriers, no limitations, and no obstacles. This is a group for the ca …

Empathize. Define. Ideate. Prototype. Test. Design Thinking is catching on as a way to accelerate innovation and product development. This meetup is for those of us who want to learn more about Design Thinking methods and tools and how to use them to help create innovators. Each meeting will include: - A member presenting on how they are using design thinking in their life - Learning a new method - Meeting others who are using design thinking

Intro: We meet to provide networking opportunities for developers, entrepreneurs, researchers, medical professionals, investors and others with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine, quantified self and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry. Health 2.0 Connecticut  is a hub for entrepreneurs, enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with the extended community. Who …

The Grove is a new kind of space that encourages and supports people in their work and the development of new ideas that are solving the social, environmental, economic, and urban problems we face today. The Grove is more than just a space, it is a dynamic community of social innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers that are the new face of New Haven.

The Visionary Thinkers Meet-Up was created for all those who view learning as a life-long mission. It was formed with the vision of bringing diverse groups of people together to explore cutting edge ideas that advance our community and culture. By embracing new and creative approaches to living in the 21st century, this group serves as a forum for innovation and self-transformation. Visionary Thinkers in Connecticut is open to anyone who would like to discover, exchange, and develop new ideas t …

This is a group to connect Big Data enthusiasts in Boston for networking, presentations, workshops, demonstations and much more. This group is ideal for: * Big Data Startup Companies * Entrepreneurs * Developers and Programmers * Investors * Big Data Recruiters * Big Data Service Providers

This group was created because I feel that we need more open-ended discussion groups that allow us to develop community and meet other freethinkers whose thinking is focused on science, philosophy, art, politics, innovative social thinking, agnosticism, atheism, humanism, current events, culture, intellectualism and community development. This group does not espouse anti-religion or anti-cultural movements, nor support a particular political or social platform. All thinkers of all social, politi …

Welcome to the New England Magento E-Commerce Meetup. The goal of this group is to provide merchants, freelancers/job seekers and industry people in general, best practices in e-commerce, as well as a direct line of connection into the Magento ecosystem. This year, we will be discussing a wide array of topics in e-commerce to help arm our attendees with innovations in e-commerce, as well as optimization strategies that drive success for merchants and implementers alike. If anything, you should c …

Do you have an invention and want to learn how to license or launch it? Are you an entrepreneur or small business with intellectual property worth protecting? Want to better understand patent and patent rights? Learn business strategies from other innovators.. Do you provide professional services that can help inventors and entrepreneurs? We are on a mission to build success stories from our group and to create new businesses and jobs in Suffolk County! The Inventors & Entrepreneurs Club of Suff …

We are an eclectic group of entrepreneurs, writers, publicists, agents, technologists, literary coaches, and publishing professionals. We are striving to create a community of people who will be driving changes in the publishing industry.

JFE (Jews For Entrepreneurship) Network is the leading and largest organization and platform for connecting entrepreneurs and investors, and accelerating innovation in the Jewish community nationwide. We launched in San Francisco and Silicon Valley in November 2009. We opened a chapter in New York City in 2012 and are now bringing the Silicon Valley spirit of entrepreneurship to Boston and other U.S. locations. Over the past 3 years we have hosted numerous pitch events, seminars, speaker panels, …

This is a group for people in positions of responsibility in Software Quality Assurance to expand their knowledge and to network with peers on a wide variety of issues unique to managers such as: - Innovations in Software Testing - Best Practices in Software Quality Assurance - Pros and Cons of Testing Frameworks, Methodologies and Tools - Key Performance Indicators - Tactics to reduce testing cycle times and budgets. We will hold events monthly to discuss topics that related to QA leaders' dail …

A Future Salon is a monthly discussion group where people get together for educational, fun, and challenging presentations, discussions, and dialogue on important trends and innovations in science, technology, business, and social change. The meta-theme for our Salon is a multidisciplinary inquiry into accelerating change, and the implications, issues, and challenges that rapid ongoing change creates. The importance of being an open-minded, broadly-interested and informed lifelong learner is one …

This is a new meetup group focused on new technologies, apps, services and products for the connected home. We'll explore OTT TV, TV Apps, home automation, tele-health, new areas of gaming and other developing categories for the connected home. Meetups will provide startups with demo opportunities as well as networking that connects entrepreneurs, startup executives, major technology companies, investors and service providers.

If you are involved with Product Management, Product Development or Product Marketing, this is the group for you! Our goal will be to establish a group where Boston's best and brightest can interact and learn form one-another. Whether you are in a large enterprise, a non-profit, a government agency or a start-up, this is the place to share and learn. We'll establish a quarterly meeting and have some speakers from local universities and businesses across a variety of industries and sizes share th …