We offer mobile application development workshops (most are FREE) for the iOS and Android platforms. The workshops are designed to train new and experienced app developers on the latest technologies and programming techniques. Basic classes in Java and Objective-C programming are also offered. We take suggestions for new workshop topics as well. Attend a workshop, learn something new, make new friends and improve your overall app development skills. Newbies are encouraged to join since we offer …

We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone. We’re building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to experiment with friends. Welcome to BioCurious Visit the BioCurious homepage http://www.BioCurious.org BioCurious Community Lab Opened in Sunnyvale, CA; Fall 2011! Join the discussion at Google Groups http://groups.google.com/group/biocurious Our successful Kickstarter campaign (http://biocu …

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 …

This group is for Silicon Valley professionals in the health, legal, education, or technology fields. It provides education on important financial topics such as college funding strategies, self-directed IRAs, retirement planning, tax strategies, trusts, portfolio optimization, and alternative investing approaches available to qualified investors. Presenters will be experts in their respective fields. All information will be educational - no sales pitches will be permitted.

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Point of sale systems and the POS industry is going through rapid evolution. A reason for this acceleration is mobile commerce (mPOS). However, innovations in almost all POS capabilities is picking pace. Exciting times! This group is for the POS professionals to socialize, network and share ideas!

If you can code in C/C++, you can code in any language. Moreover, you can tackle any programming problem you want. No other language can make as powerful a claim. My thinking is that there are other people who would like to learn how to program in C++, and we'd love to be the one to help them, while brushing up on our skills at the same time. Convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more dif …

CLICK ON CALENDAR (at left) TO SEE A CURRENT LISTING OF CLASSES- Details about this group: Learn photographic skills from professional photographers; Mastering Your Digital Camera, Photographing Children, Formal Portraiture, Shooting Editorial Shots for Magazines, Travel, Studio Lighting, Product Photography for Websites, etc. Classes and events focus on learning to be a better photographer. Classes and workshops are offered in cooperation with local parks and recreation departments, university …

This networking resource is available to all current SCU engineering students and alumni. School of Engineering administrators, faculty and staff are also welcome.

The objectives are professional networking and exploring new business opportunities in the smart-grid, solar/wind power generation industry (power generation, conversion, remote monitoring). Please feel free to join if you wish to contribute as an enthusiast or experienced professional.

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

We are Silicon Valley Inventors, we invent the the future. Whether its a simple novelty or the next billion dollar idea, we all share the same excitement and passion for our inventions. We are the ones that get up in the middle of the night and reach for a pen, we enjoy listening to others visions of the future and sharing our creations with the world. Our group will focus on sharing knowledge, to get every member from the first step to the last. We will have a collective list of resources avail …

This group will meet regularly to discuss cross-device HTML5 developer tools for creating native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows along with HTML5 web apps.  We'll invite guest speakers to discuss new advances in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 that empower web and mobile developers to accelerate their time to market and reduce the costs associated with deploying across a variety of devices. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will try to meet on a qua …

The Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network (SV-ALN) is the Silicon Valley’s largest Agile/Lean community. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown from 17 members to nearly 600 members.  Our purpose is to evangelize and educate Agile and Lean skills to our members as well as building our community to serve as a networking platform. Our members include agile coaches, scrum masters, executives, project managers, product managers, engineers, QA, designers, and many others from Apple, Adobe, Cisco, Comcast In …

There are meet-ups and there are meet-ups! So, why add another meet-up? Well, we felt that it’s time that there should be a meet-up wholly dedicated to all things around “ Big Data” & “ Cloud Computing”. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. These two buzzwords need to lose their “buzz” status and become …

PATCA is a nonprofit professional association of independent consultants and principals who work in small consulting practices. Since its founding in 1975, PATCA members have been highly respected for their professionalism, integrity, objectivity and competence. They include experts in all aspects of business and technology, and serve clients in many industries, throughout the U.S. and the world. PATCA offers a free "Post a Project" referral service at www.patca.org for clients searching for an …

Silicon Valley's Blend of Brown A feminine union of polished leaders This group brings together ALL women of color who seek collaboration and support in their professional careers and businesses. In the Bay Area many women of color have careers that lack mentorship and management from someone that remotely resembles them. Are you one of these women? For example, when it comes to women in technology the numbers fall short. For women of color in the technology industry those numbers are even sm …

The Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section promotes the aims and objectives of the IEEE as stated in the IEEE Constitution and Bylaws. The Section concerns itself with all IEEE affairs taking place within the area prescribed by the IEEE as the territory of the SCV Section that geographically takes in all the peninsula cities south of Highway 92, plus the counties of Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz. The SCV, more popularly known as Silicon Valley, is the largest IEEE Section in the wo …