The arguments for the future of gamification and the pending importance of game elements in business tools to motivate and inspire people in their jobs are quite convincing. Come discuss the future of serious games and simulations and how your organization can benefit from them, meet and hear from thought leaders in the field (there are quite a few in our area), and learn to develop games that you can play at work and get promoted for!

Welcome to the new world of health+care! By 2020 both the US and  global healthcare landscape will look dramatically different from the healthcare delivery models of today. We are in a time of exciting and rapid disruption, change and innovation! This community is for anyone interested in the future of health+care. Big data, the cloud, mobile devices and tracking systems present just the "tip" of the iceberg. (Lets not forget the ICD-10, blue button initiative, kiosks, III, HITECH, predictive an …

The Digital Media SIG (special interest group) meets 5 times per year to explore the emerging concepts and platforms that are constantly reshaping "digital media" as we know it. New platforms are mobile, new currencies are virtual, and the reality has been augmented. A generation has grown up digital, and the game is increasingly social. The Digital Media SIG is the place to find the talent and projects that will reshape the territory in ways we haven't yet thought of. Have your own ideas about …

A forum to learn about real-world industry applications of Python and related tech. Each month we will invite speakers from local businesses to talk about business critical applications they have implemented in Python and their experience along the way. Contact us directly if you would like to propose speakers or topics for future meetings.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

Come and check out the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley! Our website is http://www.humanists.org. Our main event each week is a Sunday Forum which features a different speaker each Sunday discussing some topic of interest. A wide variety of topics are covered from week to week. To see our upcoming scheduled Forums and our past Forums, go to the http://www.humanists.org website and click on the "Sunday Forums" link. You can also check out our upcoming and recent past Forums by looking at this …

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 …

Fascinated about all aspects of psychology? We'll read books regarding social and behavioral psychology, discuss the potential power of neuroplasticity, and talk to others who share the same passion. The first book will be Thinking, Fast and Slow. Subsequent books will cover key areas in psychology such as: - Behavioral psychology - Decision-making - Behavioral economics - Organizational psychology - Positive psychology Sample books: Nudge, Predictably Irrational, Mistakes Were Made, etc. Futu …

WebRTC is the future of all communications! Thats a big call but some of us believe this to be true. If you are one of those people you should come and share your thoughts and ideas regarding WebRTC with us and help us all build a thriving community around this emerging technology.

The Silicon Valley Speechwriters Roundtable is modeled on the long-standing Washington Speechwriters Roundtable. It is a casual alliance of speechwriters who work with organizations located in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in professional camaraderie, sharpening skills, sharing resources, and exchanging war stories. The group is open to anyone (no matter where you live) who currently works with Silicon Valley companies, or might like to do so. Our members might …

The NorCal BMA Marketing Strategy Roundtable is dedicated to meaningful discussions of current marketing strategy trends, challenges, and innovations. Our speakers are strategists that integrate business strategy into all facets of marketing to create greater success in the work they do. Our attendees bring interesting and pertinent questions to the table that will help them continue to excel in their current and future marketing positions. In short, we bring a level of strategic excellence to m …

Come join an informal group of Ruby programmers hacking on our own code and group projects. Bring your own laptop and share in the benefits of learning from others. Ruby is all about making programming more fun. This group is a great way to learn the latest tips and tricks, and meet fellow hackers. A lot of other groups are geared towards presentations and big meetings. They are great for the "see" and "hear" components of learning. This group is all about coding within a small community. Gettin …

This group is for anyone studying for the MCAT or interested in medical school in the future. We will be meeting at libraries, cafes, wherever to study MCAT topics, discuss medical school applications, compare medical schools, etc. pretty much anything premed, we can discuss and help out with. If you're in college, or out of college, or not yet in college and interested in medicine, give us a look.

Are you observing the game being changed in Health, Education, Journalism, Finance, Economic Development? Have you been pondering what's happening and what kind of future is unfolding? Have you wondered if and how the game might be changed? "I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the …

Blossom Birth is a non-profit education and resource center that provides parents and birth professionals with a holistic, non-judgmental view of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Through classes, workshops, support groups, and accessibility to community resources, Blossom strives to support and inform expectant and new parents to raise healthy, secure children- making our community strong now and into the future.

As a creative laboratory, Palo Alto Int'l Film Festival's mission is to foster innovation and educate the community about those ideas that most inspire its members. John Lasseter of Pixar expressed that "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires art." PAIFF strives to be a conduit for increased innovation in art, technology and film. As movies migrate to digital, the future of cinema will depend on the cutting edge tools that continue to be conceived and developed in the Bay Area. These too …

EdTech Silicon Valley is a group that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and other innovators to create a better education future. We meet up to learn about the latest news, meet the coolest new companies, hear from industry leading speakers and be inspired to contribute to the education revolution.

Conversations on Cleantech 2.0 We have seen this picture before. Only a decade ago, Web 1.0 had crashed amid high profile failures and bankruptcies. Billions had been lost. LPs and VCs mourned that successful business models were virtually nonexistant in all of the four "C"s on the internet: Communication, Content, Commerce and Community. It's hard to remember now, but it was very challenging to raise money for internet businesses. But bandwith, storage, and software platforms had gotten cheap. …

If you are obsessed with the power of technology to influence learning, then this group is for you! This group is for any parent, educator or child that is interested in teaching other kids to code. Makers, hackers and techies are encouraged to join. Have you ever used MIT's Scratch, Alice, Kodu or GameStar Mechanic to learn programming or teach others, then we'd love to hear your experiences and wisdom to help prepare our kids for the future.

TinyMCE is one of the most popular open source JavaScript online text editors. It is used by Wordpress, Facebook, Jive Software and many others. In fact, even Meetup.com uses it :) We are organizing a TinyMCE developer meetup in downtown Palo Alto to discuss integration tips, prioritize bug fixes and gather ideas for the future roadmap.

We are a group of developers that want people to discover our apps AND generate thousands of downloads.  So we get together to learn and share mobile app marketing strategy for Apple iPhone, iPad, iOS and Google Android.  Developers can share what methods worked and what didn't.  There will also be speakers from companies that provide solutions to increase your user base.  Feel free to contact me with ideas or suggestions for speakers, topics, venues and sponsorships.  If you would like to prese …

Do you contribute to https://github.com/cloudfoundry Or push apps to http://www.cloudfoundry.com/? Or just want to know about the future of PaaS? This is the right community for you.

Come meet other Dobie lovers. More importantly allow our dogs to socialize with similar size dogs. Group Guidelines -Owners must keep Dogs under close supervision. -Leash your dog in the park at the first sign of aggressive behavior. -Owners accept full responsibility for themselves, their pets & children. -Dogs in heat should be left at home. -Puppies & dogs are to be vaccinated & healthy. - Pick up after your dog & yourself. NO SOLICITING FOR BREEDING MALES/FEMALES IF YOU DON'T RESCUE, DON'T B …

We hold evening events for singles in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our group offers a unique way to meet quality singles during managed, structured evenings. Through Connection Circles and other exercises, our events maximize the number of short introductory conversations you have with a wide variety of well-educated, well-mannered, classy singles. We create a supportive, friendly, facilitated environment placing you in many short conversations and making it easy to offer contact information for …

This is a group for all Apache Hadoop users interested in solving big data challenges. We'll look at topics from data architecture, to technical deep dives, to the future of Hadoop and everything in between using the knowledge we have at Hortonworks. Want us to come to your area? Suggest a meetup and location.

Ubiquitous Media is the messy collision of ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, physical computing, personal sensing, transmedia and urban systems. It's like that old parable of the blind monks trying to describe an elephant; the parts all feel very weird and different, and we're trying to catch a glimpse of the future in its entirety. We are an open network of geeks, artists, experience designers, social scientists and other fellow travelers interested in answering the question "If the worl …

This is a group for Spanish and non-Spanish speakers alike who are interested in exchanging ideas and gaining a greater depth of understanding about what is/has been happening in such Latin American countries as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Honduras, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Haiti, Mexico, Chile and more. Though the group is fairly free-form, we will also seek to introduce a variety of relevant, mutually agreed-upon books, articles, information on political/military/civic …

Formerly the Silicon Valley Strategic Foresight Meetup Group... This group is for those who enjoy understanding how rapid technological changes are affecting social, economic, cultural and political systems. We're a diverse group... engineers, product managers, trainers, venture capitalists, and a bunch of other folks I haven't met yet. Many of us are action-oriented, so it's likely you'll meet someone who's interested in creating something new or improving something that exists today. Alt …