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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Loudoun County is a great place to start up your business! We are fortunate to have some of the brightest, hardest-working, most innovative, technological, affluent and motivated professionals in the country. Let's get together and develop the latest innovative and disruptive companies.

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 …

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.

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 …

We're a group of executives, managers and "intrapreneurs" who want to learn, share or teach how to apply Lean Startup* methodologies in the Enterprise. Our focus is on adopting Lean Startup techniques within a larger organization. Let's connect to collectively drive Lean Startup adoption through the application of Lean Startup, Lean Thinking, Customer Development, and Agile managerial disciplines. *The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries.

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Regardless if you are a beginner, serial , or veteran entrepreneur we want to help you leverage the Lean Startup Methodology to be more effective. The whole point of applying Lean Startup principles is to accomplish your objectives without wasting resources, especially time. This group was created not only to have guests speakers come in to talk about how they used Lean practices to establish successful startups, we plan to take you through the entire process with the help of mentors, judges, …

EXERCISE + STARTUP NETWORKING = RunningStart.org ! We are start-up entrepreneurs, CXOs, innovators, and tech gurus who combine their running with conversation about their latest entrepreneurial endeavors. So join us, and get inspired for your next start-up while you burn a few calories.

Hi there! Loudoun Entrepreneurs is an enthusiastic band of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, "wantrepreneurs" and innovators based in Loudoun County. We want to create a series of community organized gatherings focused on topics of interest to entrepreneurs and startups. This group has been 100% grassroots organized to foster and fuel the entrepreneurial passion in Loudoun County through an open and collaborative community. Whether you've done a startup, are currently doing one, or are considering d …

This group is for professionals in the Washington DC area who work in Corporate Social Responsibility (aka Corporate Responsibility, Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Sustainability) and its various forms. Through monthly networking gatherings in a casual setting, we get together to listen to a speaker and then share ideas about CSR and network among an informed group. Formerly known as the DC PPP group, we changed its name to emphasise that CSR includes PPP as well as other issues of interest to …