The Product Innovators is comprised of people engaged in product innovation, product development and product market management in the greater Washington D.C. metro area.

Design Thinking DC brings together people from business, design, technology and beyond to learn and share.  We come together for radical collaboration on methodologies, practices and experiences to facilitate and deliver innovation in the world. For those that want to learn more about design thinking here are a few links: 1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking 2)http://www.fastcompany.com/resources/design/dziersk/design-thinking-083107.html?page=0%2C0 3)http://dschool.stanford.edu/our-po …

The DC Tech Meetup convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, 800+ innovators gather to see demos, launch products and meet their future co-founders, partners and funders.

What will the future look like? How will we work, shop, socialize, travel? What kinds of gadgets will we talk and text on? How will we outfit our homes? How will our schools and workplaces have changed—or will we no longer have schools and workplaces at all, just virtual teaching and talking over Web-based interfaces? Finding the answers to these questions is what this group—sponsored by the World Future Society—is all about. We host ongoing speaker forums, networking receptions, and other cool …

This is a group for people who are looking to explore their creativity by interacting through novel activities that ask us to think outside the box and unriddle our minds. We believe in the power of collective brainstorming to inspire innovation and self awareness. This group welcomes free thinkers, artists, techies, social reformers, entrepreneurs, and everyone in between and around. Your hosts are entrepreneurs, economists, artists, writers, and engineers who want to create a space where socia …

Be Social Change DC Meetup - We are a community of change makers, social entrepreneurs, start-ups, techies, non-profits, educators and overall do and want-to-do gooders. Collectively, we are cultivating a network that fosters social innovation, supports social entrepreneurship, and creates opportunities to make the world a better place. Our Meetups empower, connect and organize the social change community in New York through: “Be” - events and panels that highlight creative social innovators an …

Federal Innovative Technology (FIT) – Web, Cloud & Mobile is a venue for Senior Federal thought leaders in the greater DC metro area to meet, share with, and learn from colleagues dealing with similar challenges and issues. Our driving mission is to discuss innovative ways to use technology and strategy to better serve the Government and its constituents. FIT is focused on providing a collaborative forum for senior decision makers to learn from their peers.

This group is for people interested in a Baltimore Makerspace supporting collaboration across maker communities, providing educational opportunities, and supporting innovation and small businesses. We want to create a community space that will serve as a home and resource for all types of makers and provide an array of classes throughout the week. The space will be available for makers and small businesses to set up shop with access to tools and resources for their projects. Want to get involved …

This meetup aims to bring start-up founders of non tech specific businesses together with established business owners, business advisers and complimentary professionals to create a vibrant, dynamic and innovative business. Our goal is to create a forum where people can get great access to information, resources, contacts and referrals to grow their entrepreneurial ideas as well as identify potential partners, investors, mentors and service providers who can help them grow. The goal is to create …

This Washington DC Meetup mission is to help businesses understand and convert Data to be an Asset as compared to be a liability. Our community will cater to SAP HANA and its ecosystem (BI, BODS, MDM, ETL, EIM etc.), BIG Data and Hadoop community and predictive analytics with R and explore Cloud offerings. ABOUT HANA SAP HANA is a modern platform for real-time analytics and applications. It enables organization to analyze business operations based on large volume and variety of detailed data in …

Alexandria is an icon for professional design. The city is filled with tremendously talented designers that are passionate about design as a method of problem solving. Although our backgrounds are diverse, ranging from traditional print to mobile interaction design, we are unified in our mission. We aim for innovative. We aim for useful. We aim for beautiful. We aim for unobtrusive, long-lasting, honest, and very human design. Our purpose is to promote professional design in Alexandria. With our …

The NTEN DC 501c3 Tech Club is now (re-)revived! Come join other techies, programmers and strategists to talk about innovative ideas in the nonprofit world. Come support the nonprofit technology sector! DC 501c3 Tech Club has been hosted by NTEN (www.nten.org), NPower DC (http://www.npowergdcr.org/) and Community IT Innovators (http://www.citidc.com).

The DC Health 2.0 STAT meetup is a venue for Health 2.0 practitioners in the greater DC metro area to meet, share with and learn from colleagues dealing with similar challenges and issues. Our ultimate and driving mission is to contribute to the healthcare system innovative ways to use technology - with a focus on the patient or constituent. Technologies and topics we will cover include, but are not limited to: * Web 2.0 and 3.0 * Social media platform technology (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et …

The DC Area R Users group has become Statistical Programming DC (SPDC), a part of Data Community DC. This change is a reflection of the reality that people working with data use multiple tools to get the job done. This group has a very strong R user base and following, and our content will be primarily R focused. However, we will also have events on other programming languages that are used for statistical, numerical and data programming including Python, MATLAB, and julia, among others. Our mee …

We're a group of local entrepreneurs looking to bring together other entrepreneurs around the area. Whether you're currently in a startup or just interested in entrepreneurship, this group is for you. There's no sense in going down the startup path alone, come meet some friends you can network and share your thoughts. We plan to meet monthly and will switch up the format each time. Some meetups will be simple networking one's, while others will feature guest speakers talking on topics relevant a …

Facilitated by professional career coaches, JSSA's weekly groups provide advice, networking opportunities, motivation and support for professionals who are in career transition, underemployed or unemployed. Groups meet every Monday from 12-1:30 at JSSA, 200 Wood Hill Rd, Rockville, the second Tuesday at Adas Israel Congregation from 1-2:30.  These are drop in groups and prior registration is not required. For more information go to http://www.jssa.org/services/employmentcareer.

Meet and learn from other mobile developers, designers, and enthusiasts in the Baltimore area! Come to a meetup to exchange ideas, talk about code, architecture, innovation! Anyone interested in mobile is welcome! Are you interested in the business or marketing of the mobile space? You don't have to be a developer or designer.  This group is for everyone! Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Going where no Lean has gone before! **Running the simplest experiments to quickly validate business assumptions** Software developers, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs: Are you building the right product? We help you be more innovative, stop wasting time, and be more successful! LEAN STARTUP is a collection of principles and techniques aimed at creating a product/service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. The group provides learning, support, and discussion focused on Lean methods (v …

An OpenStack DC Group for the Washington, DC metro area. Technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, government, or corporate employees are encouraged to join in this exciting and very promising world of open source cloud computing called OpenStack (http://openstack.org/).  Let's OpenStack & learn together.  We will be known as the OpenStackers. Are you interested in deploying a Private, Community, Public and/or a Hybrid cloud in the Washington, DC metro area or do you just want to learn or teach? …

We are a community of software industry professionals in the Washington DC area meeting regularly to discuss the business of software. This group is the place for software developers, vendors, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, directors, and engineers to learn and share the most recent business and technical innovations, trends, experiences, challenges, and opportunities in the software industry.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more 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. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

Meet and learn from other PHP Developers in the Baltimore area! Come to a PHP Meetup to exchange ideas, talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source technologies and projects in general. Anyone interested in PHP or it's surrounding technologies is welcome! We meet on the Third Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm! Find us online: Website: http://www.baltimorephp.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153308396924&ref=ts Twitter: http://twitter.com/baltimorephp Go …

Support • Connect • Empower • Make a Difference As moms ourselves, we understand that life is about finding balance while nurturing our minds, bodies and spirits. Plum Mom's Club (PMC) was created with this aspiration in mind. PMC is sponsored by Plum Organics, and powered by Stroller Strides and is for moms who want to be healthy, happy role models for their children. You do not have to be a member of Stroller Strides to participate in the PMC. By becoming a member you will build a tight commun …

Open Source Fashion started in New York City in April 2011.  We have cultivated a community of helpful innovators, and we are going to do the same in DC! The idea of the OSF Meetup group is to bring like minded people together to openly share ideas, contacts, and expertise with each other for the benefit of the entire meetup community, and our individual projects. The continuous emergence of new technologies and products are constantly changing how businesses are being conducted.  Whether you re …

The Federal Big Data Meetup group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for Federal Government agencies to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, the Federal Government is at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from Government employees, contractors and technologists, Federal Big Data aims to …

This group is for mothers of toddlers (ages 1.5-4) who are interested in getting more out of a meetup than simply play dates! I am looking for other women to build a better community together.  Any moms from Potomac Falls, Sterling, Reston, Herndon, and Ashburn, ect are welcome! We will be planning fun, engaging activities for our kiddos; while building a supportive, fun community in which we can reach our goals; be they volunteering, working with non-profits, developing your hobbies (pinterest/ …

We are DC-area technology entrepreneurs and innovators who want to build viable and vibrant business based on hardware, whether electronic, mechanical, or other. Atoms are the new bits: We believe that the time is ripe for a new wave of entrepreneurship in hardware in the United States and worldwide. Lean startup / pretotype methodologies: Thanks to inexpensive contract manufacturing, domestic and overseas, 3D printing, programmable hardware, and an Internet to propagate ideas, the principles of …

Action for Happiness (USA) is a movement for positive social change. We're bringing together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. For fifty years we've aimed relentlessly at higher incomes. But despite being much wealthier, we're no happier than we were five decades ago. At the same time we've seen an increase in wider social issues, including a worrying rise in anxiety and depression in young people. It's time for a positive change in …