This User Group meets to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences around the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. You will learn from the experts, meet your peers, and enjoy pizza and drinks at each meeting.  Meetings are free, and are held monthly in either San Francisco or Mountain View. We are a volunteer organization sponsored by the Professional Association for SQL Server and software companies.

This meetup is focused on hands-on coding for Cloud platforms. The goal is ultimately for members to share best practices and innovate. This meetup is about sharing code and building applications that run in the cloud. Although I work for Microsoft as a developer evangelist, I welcome all developers from all cloud platforms. Initially, the meetings will be focused on the Windows Azure Platform (Azure). Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and workin …

We love our community! We invite our friends and neighbors from local schools, community groups and organizations to take part in the San Francisco Microsoft Store. Our team members are ecstatic to help you shine by hosting complimentary events at our in-store theater, with a 103" touchscreen. Come check out cutting-edge technology alongside our experts. Our store becomes an interactive-hands-on technology classroom, where you will learn by doing. From popular products, like Windows 8, to propri …

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 startups building on the Microsoft platform.  You may be part of the Microsoft BizSpark startup program but this is not necessary to join. This group will share in our experience with being a startup based on the Microsoft platform and related technologies (.Net, Azure, Silverlight, etc. - you name it). Note: this group is not affiliated with Microsoft, though it was started by a BizSpark member startup and we are big fans! BizSparkSF is now a BizSpark Network Partner and can r …

Our Community Theatre is available 7 days a week during our operating hours and can scale between 10 -30 people and is free of charge. We offer this in our state-of-the-art theater, equipped with a 103" touchscreen TV, podium, microphones, and amazing audio system. To coordinate a booking, please reach out to msolari@microsoft.com Here are a few examples of our events: •Business meeting •Class Field Trips •Meeting space for technology and non-technology groups •Group workshops on our product off …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. 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 ico …

From corporate giants Rackspace, AWS, Google, Microsoft, VMware to startups such as Parse and Scalr... Cloud computing is changing the way we work and reshaping the way we manage and run companies. From startups to enterprises, it is disrupting the IT landscape. Come discuss how these Web services flatten the competitive landscape, and allow you and I to compete against the behemoths of Yester years.

San Francisco SQL Server User Group We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Microsoft office in San Francisco. Meetings are free - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Have your SQL Server questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn valuable information for career development * Enjoy dinner, drinks, and valuable software giveaways 6:30 to 7:00 pm – Introductions, fo …

We meet monthly at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. Meetings are free and include pizza and drinks - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Get questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn from the experts and meet your peers * Enjoy pizza, drinks, and valuable giveaways

This group is focused on educating developers on how to use the Microsoft .NET platform for web and windows development. Topics include all aspects of development for desktop, browser and web services, as well as architectural choices and application development frameworks. We provide a face to face forum and encourage peer learning and networking. We maintain a focus on development practices, demonstrations and show & tell in developer-centric interactive sessions. Meetings are free - please …

As the global IT industry is rapidly shifting from traditional computer world to emerging Mobile World, the Silicon Valley, the world's base of IT innovations, evolves quickly to become the Global Mobile Valley (Mobile World Center), pioneered by leading Mobile Technology Players such as Apple, Google, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson, Broadcom, Huawei, Nokia, etc. Based on Delson Group research, over trillion dollar business will be in the sec …

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 …

SVForum fosters innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership within the San Francisco/Silicon Valley ecosystem of individuals and businesses participating in emerging technologies. We do this by: - creating connections and community - providing education and access to reources - linking the global business community to Silicon Valley, and - facilitating the exchange of unbiased knowledge, insights and best practices. With the support of an outstanding team of knowledgeable, passionate volunt …

This group is for people of ALL skill levels and users of ALL versions of Microsoft Access. We also include SQL server topics in our discussions. This group typically meets monthly at various locations in the San Francisco East Bay. We were previously named the Berkeley Access Database Users Group but have expanded our area of geographical coverage and our area of technical coverage.

Founders helping Founders About Let's get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them. This group focuses on issues that technology startup entrepreneurs run into when building the startup. We will meet at HackerDojo or Microsoft Bizspark labs in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. Events include brown bag lunch sessions, pitching events and other startup related events. Brown Bag Lunch sessions These are group discussion sessions with a small numb …

Learn and Share how to build kick ass HTML5 Mobile Web Apps A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community G …

Hi I'm the new organizer for the group and I am excited to take on the responsibility. Currently I work with the HandsOn Tech Silicon Valley program. We have worked with Google, Microsoft, and Baynetwork volunteers on a number of nonprofit IT projects and hope to recruit more skill-based volunteers. I want to use this meetup as a way where nonprofits, community volunteers, business leaders can come together and make a difference using technology. Just like my predecessor, I am hoping to bring to …

Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud, Google, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace... Cloud computing is changing the way we work and reshaping the way we manage and run companies. From startups to enterprises, it is disrupting the IT landscape. Come join us at the Cloud Club to discuss this coming revolution, and network among experts in the field! Want to tweet about us? Use: #SFCloudClub

The Silicon Valley .NET User Group exists to bring together people interested in developing software using the Microsoft Stack. The topics are aimed at developers and other technical people, and we schedule experts in the field of .NET Development. In this group, you will see much more Visual Studio than you will Powerpoint. Our meetings are free, and are hosted on the Microsoft campus in Mt. View. Please come and join us.

This group is for companies and for individuals who are interested in internationalizing their business towards Europe. Either, because they want to expand their business activities to Europe... Or because they have been living and working there and they want to share experience and network... Or simply because they are looking to find partner companies in Europe. Initially the group focuses on Germany, mainly on the cities of Munich and Berlin. Munich, as it is an international high-tech hub, b …

This is a monthly series -- maybe more than once a month -- hosted by Microsoft BizSpark and dead set on bringing four people to the stage every time who are working on a cool thing. They will talk about that cool thing, make intelligent comments that you can use at home to impress other members of your startup, and then mingle with you and hob knob after the talk. Each meet up is no more than 45 minutes of talking and questions. The rest is excitement rolled into society.

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 …

Join our meetup group for events centered around building with Twilio cloud communications, design and development, APIs, and more.

SF-Startup-Now is a meetup focused on bringing together the forward thinking business mentors to speed-up/accelerate the go-to-market of any start-up product or service! We have launched in SV-SF, also looking to launch in LA then NY etc... We have sponsors like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Box. The sponsors will provide cash and product prizes including wireless internet, cloud storage, back office, and a host of many other business needs to go-to-market and create reven …

This group is for developers interested in Windows app development for Windows 8.

Are you an IT Manager, Director, VP, or C-Level Executive in the Bay Area that's looking to network?  Then then this is the group for you! ***Please note, this is a Meetup group designed for ONLY IT Executives in Silicon Valley (ex: IT Directors, CIOs, Systems Directors, etc.).  Your position MUST be within the IT department or at least have some IT function (NOT sales or marketing).  Thank you.***

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