A meetup group for people who want network and showcase their products and services with others. We meet on Tuesdays, at Pizza Party. 3581 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara, Ca 95051 408-248-5680 - we'd love to have you join us! Bring your appetite for a delicious pizza, salad & soft drinks for only $10 per person. If you'd like to do and expo and have vendors at our location, email me, Lidia Blair at lblair@sbcglobal.net. Vendor tables are $10 and your lunch is FREE! If you would like to be a guest sp …

Join the San Francisco's Bay Area most successful network of young professionals and create your own business opportunities. Read the below for details and a list of participating companies. Mail membership@ypn-online.org to join our mailing list. YPN (SJC) is a non-profit community of young professionals in Silicon Valley with sister chapters in Austin, Atlanta, Bangalore, Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Raleigh and Vancouver. The group started off as an organ …

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 …

Welcome! Looking to meet new friends? Love Asian food? Then the South Bay Asian Food Network is the perfect Meetup group for you! The purpose of this group is to bring together everyone in the Southbay area who enjoys eating great Asian cuisine and are looking to meet new people with similar interests and tastes and business networking!  We plan on scheduling meetups to try some of the Southbay's newest and cutting edge Asian restaurants, along with the popular favorite hot spots.

The purpose of our group is to support one another's business through referrals. Each meeting, two of the members give a 10-minute presentation to the group about their particular business. This allows us to be more knowledgeable about what each member is promoting in our group. We also give a brief (30 seconds) commercial to announce our business to the group at the beginning of the meeting and again at the end of the meeting. We are a one category networking group and the following categories …

We are a social group of people who want to make more friends, Face to Face away from the computer, and do fun activities We have members in their 20's, 30's, 40's, that meet regularly Face to Face. Most of us are single, but some are in relationships. But we're not a dating group so it doesn't matter either way. We usually meet at a restaurant or lounge. Most events are in the evening for a few hours, say 7:00 till 10:00, and are focused on making friends and socializing, Face to Face. Someti …

Come meet other Recent College Grads in the San Francisco Bay Area! Have you recently graduated college? This past spring or in the last few years? It can be tough leaving behind your college buds for the real world. Whether you're a local looking to expand your circle of friends, or a new transplant to the Bay Area, it can be tough meeting good people. Even more so for us younger folks under 30. Internet sites are often reserved for the older crowd, but now there's an easy way to meet young pro …

Mobile and Cloud are skyrocketing! This meetup helps you learn and meet with folks interested in both mobile and cloud. MobileCloud is the first Silicon Valley based meetup community around the two fastest growing sectors of cloud and mobile. This is aimed at how phone and tablet apps can use cloud services. It will prepare you for the explosive growth that is expected around the mobile and cloud. The group will focus on: How to develop mobile apps in the cloud How cloud services can help …

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 …

Do you like to meet new people and make new friends while doing what you like to do? I know I do!!! Most of us in the Bay Area are very busy and it can be struggle to expand our social network of friends. This group is about having a lot of fun with other people who share the same passion as you. There will be wine tasting events in Napa, to concerts, to horseback riding, to Giants or Sharks games to happy hour events. White water rafting or skydiving is on the list. I love to exercise, so some …

Networking is hard. Many of us depend on networking as a large part of our customer acquisition strategy. This is for the networker that would rather go to the networking event with another person. Going with a Buddy can ease the tension, make the event more fun and tandem networkers tend to stay longer and meet more people.

Internet, web, inbound and content marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how …

Baby Boomer Entrepreneurs is a professional networking group for (you guessed it) entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area who run or are inspired to start their own businesses.  We all have a goal of building our businesses through referrals and building a solid marketing system. As the organizer, fellow-business owner, and career coach, I am excited to hear stories of your success and give you tips of what worked for me and what did not, especially using social media. I understand personal …

Yes, we are career movers and shakers, and layoff busters. In any economy, we know how to adapt. We will be PRO-Active and not RE-active. We will put ourselves in the driver seat. --this is our pledge. Hop on board. Have you been recently laid-off? Are you fearing a layoff? Do you want a new career or to open a business? Does your resume and cover letter need revamping? Do you need a new direction or way to make a living? Have you ever wanted to start a business but did not now how to go about i …

BNI offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. Being a member of BNI is like having sales people working for you every day who market your product or service.  BNI's sole purpose is to provide a structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals.  If referrals are an important part of your business, then BNI is the organization for you.

Bay Area Operations Management is professional network organization dedicated to sharing knowledge, ideas, best practices in area of Supply Chain management, Operations Management, Demand Forecasting, and IT applications. Its membership is open to people with experience in the subject matter and those interested to gain insights. Bay area operations management provides face to face forum for meeting contacts in the industry, learning and sharing. As operating model, Bay Area Operations manageme …

EAT lunch, MEET people, TALK business Would you like to... • get better at marketing yourself? • develop business friends for the long-term? • have a productive and meaningful networking experience? "Personable Business® Introductions" are our structured approach to networking. You have 3 minutes to introduce yourself both personally and professionally. It's all about sharing yourself with us so we get to know you and you get to know a bit about us. Deeper connections leader to more business! Th …

Calling all Business Networkers:- Our Goal is to create a group for sharing and learning around business and technology topics including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, New Gen Technology amongst other interesting topics. ATTENTION: Please note that this group is not affiliated with the Silicon Valley Business Group (SVBG).

The mission of Women MBA Connect (WMC) is to promote, educate, and connect professional women who have earned graduate level degrees and are pursuing careers in business. This San Francisco Bay Area organization is dedicated to advance the leadership and professional success of women by developing and cultivating a network that stimulates professional opportunities, encourages personal development, and provides continuing business education for its members.

The "mission" of this group is to inspire creative ways to refresh each other’s businesses and to focus on a partnership with members to collaborate and produce superior marketing techniques and drive sales through referrals and meeting regularly. The group performs creative exercises at meetings to enhance and stimulate communication to enhance opportunities for working together to create success for all. The main focus of the group is to strategically structure solutions for a high level of qu …

A fresh Start. The IWAA purpose is to positively stimulate the mature person experiencing any of the many life transitions by following the IWAA Achievement Principles. These principles have been carefully crafted and researched for effectiveness and creativity. This involves identifying and using your strengths and other related untapped resources such as your natural environment, connections, personal skills, and identifying untapped opportunities. We will empower you by linking you to resourc …

Bay Area high-tech Business Owners and Entrepreneurs network and connect each month, live and in person to share ideas, successes and questions.

As a product enthusiast, I watch several spaces in the technology market. Unfortunately I didnt find too many product management based meetup groups in the South Bay. Hence the motivation to setup one so that we can 1. Meet once a month to discuss current market trends and interesting topics 2. Create a forum to network, disseminate and educate product managers ( and wannabe product managers ) 3. Converse with anyone who has a product management angle to their daily lives. NOTE : We are not ass …

This meetup is for Entrepreneurs and like minded people to come together, network, attend TiE Silicon Valley's Events,  Fostering Entrepreneurship and create long lasting relationships.

This group is for bringing together virtual switching, software defined networking, OpenFlow, openvswitch, VXLAN professionals & entrepreneurs together. Follow us on twitter @nvirters

Successful Thinkers Network is a group of like minded and committed individuals who believe people will buy or use product / service from people they know,like, and trust. The Successful Thinkers Network's mission is to build a community of Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs that exchange leads, and help each other find solutions to business challenges.   During our meetings, we have speakers from all walks of life, share their expertise, books and critical thinking, WITHOUT pushing their b …

Interested in SDN (Software Defined Networking) ? This is group to get together individuals and entrepreneurs interested in any of the aspects around SDN. All welcome, whether you are new to SDN or been in this space for the relative short time that this has been in existence. We plan to have a range of meetup events from social, business to technical.

Welcome to the Microsoft Store Valley Fair Meetup group! We're happy you're here. Our group is for everyone who is interested in attending free events at the store, including workshops on Windows or Office, business networking events, field trips, Xbox tournaments, and Kinect gaming events, to name a few. We offer these free classes in our state-of-the-art theater, equipped with a 103" touchscreen TV, podium, microphones, and amazing audio system. Our awesome trainers will reveal the simple secr …