This is a group for aspiring young professionals under 35 who are looking to build their network and start to develop long-term business relationships. This group is for Bankers, Business Managers, Lawyers, CPA's, Engineers, Entrepreneurs and other professionals with a common goal to achieve success in our respective fields and meet other like-minded individuals with whom you can connect.

We meet regularly to explore, discuss, and share Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and general issues related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). 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 will also explore topics related to SEO: social media marketing, blogging, affiliat …

#LSPE Meet-up has been an invaluable platform for engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems! LSPE-W is a much awaited extension of #LSPE providing a collaborative network and learning platform for women in technology. Our Vision: Build a vision for women in technology, and spotlighting thought leaders within the industry Provide problem solving for issues and challenges in Highly Scalable Environments Create a platform that would allow …

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation.  See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE  Follow us on Twit …

The mission of Metabolic Engineering and Evolution in the Bay is to help scientists collaborate and grow by providing a network for sharing ideas and technical knowledge about metabolic engineering and evolution. At our quarterly meetings, you will find scientists, professionals and students sharing ideas and discussions with their peers. We meet at several locations across the Bay Area with the site rotating each quarter to Stanford, San Francisco, Berkeley, etc. If you are interested in engine …

Hello and welcome! I decided to step up as organizer of this group, as the original organizer stepped down and there are so many active members that I just couldn't let the group become inactive simply because there was no leader. I am renaming the group somewhat, but I hope it will retain the same flavor and will provide a venue for active, fun, wild, type A Silicon Valley-Palo Alto Area Professionals (lawyers, doctors, accountants, consultants, engineers, execs, C-levels, etc.) to get tog …

The WebGuild holds monthly events for web professionals in Silicon Valley. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. User Experience - web designers, localization specialist, qa, web analytics 2. Web Applications & SaaS - developers, architects or technologists and other on the web operations side. 3. Internet Marketing - Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization, web analytics and social media Our events provide you with a forum to learn abo …

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

… We aim to provide a forum for entrepreneurs, business owners, and industry professionals to come together, share ideas and resources, and expand our knowledge. Our events are open to anyone interested in building or promoting a business on the internet.

We discuss high tech inovation. We network and learn from each other regarding business strategy. Our group is comprised of innovators in business, engineering, scientists, and technologists in the areas of software, hardware, and systems,

Meet with other local medical device professionals in Engineering, Clinical/Regulatory, Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing, HR and more! Discuss and exchange exciting news and ideas, and share your experiences, and build your network, all while having a good time!

… I would request only people with good DB/Programming knowledge should join me in having hands on training sessions People with atleast 3-15 years of exp as DB developer/DB Engineer/DB Architect/Java/Perl/Python programmers are most welcome. In short I want to form this group who doesn't want to pay hefty money just for 5 day Hadoop course taught by various companies. I would like to cover all those topics included in Hadoop Administration/Developer courses. With less than $50 a month we can have …

This group is for software engineers interested in discussing Linux related technology. Features and issues with the kernel. Techniques for development. Embedded Linux concepts. Sessions will normally involve a free technical presentation. Thanks to lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP for the Tux picture.

We meet on the second Tuesday evening of each month on topics of interest to software quality engineers, testers, and developers.

… Our organizer, Bill Belew, is a professional blogger = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. We also have author book readings, hold informal writing sessions and discussions, and support each others' writing aspirations. We strive to become better writers and bloggers. We will often feature expert speakers on writing, blogging, and web-related issues. There will be special emphasis on optimizing web traffic and b …

svDevOps (Silicon Valley DevOps) is a group of both Dev & Ops professionals (managers, engineers & hackers) and entrepreneurs that meets the first Tuesday of every month to discuss topics related to DevOps (whatever that means). Topics that seem to interest us are: - improving the working relationship between dev & ops - constraints within operations and dev within regulated environments - helping developers get visibility into monitoring - systems life-cycle automation (the line between syst …