SF Creative Coders is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of hackers, designers & creative technologists together to share experiences and build new friendships here in the Bay Area. The goal is to get outside and meet fellow coders while enjoying the amazing beauty that is San Francisco. Our conversations tend to center around the intersection of human / computer interaction, emerging technologies, and interface design. If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/U …

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group—the largest HTML5 Meetup in the World! We have free monthly events in San Francisco with presentations by the industry's leading experts in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge web technologies. Past speakers have included HTML5 superstars like Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, Divya Manian, Brian Leroux, PPK, Faruk Ates, Rob Hawkes, Peter Lubbers, and many more. We enjoy free food and drinks from our generous sponsors and encourage …

If you are interested in establishing an active Humanist organization in San Francisco and the East Bay, please join this Meetup.  As meetings and events are organized, you will be invited.  We envision discussions, speakers, social activities and events to work for a better world.  For those who may not be familiar with humanism, below is the Humanist Manifesto III, which describes what many Humanists believe. HUMANISM AND ITS ASPIRATIONS Humanist Manifesto II Humanism is a progressive philosop …

HR and Tech SF is a new recurring event bringing together actors in the HR industry from startups offering new ways to connect talent and employers to recruiters and HR managers looking for innovative ways to attract professionals. It's for people that want to explore evolutions in the HR field brought about by the Web, social media and social recruiting. HR and Tech SF is an emerging community of experts, innovators, techies and HR professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are intere …

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

The SVForum Emerging Technology SIG is a bi-monthly meeting focused on the future. The goal is to talk about technologies that aren’t quite here yet, to discuss trends in software technologies, and, in general, to examine what’s coming down the pipeline. We meet on the second Wednesday of every other month.

If you are an accountant, bookkeeper, or entrepreneur, this is the group for you. We are the Future of Accounting, and we want to help you network, meet other awesome finance professionals, and stay on top of emerging technologies and trends in accounting.

The San Francisco chapter of GTUG aims to provide technical training on emerging google technologies, as well as to provide a environment that facilitates networking. GTUG SF will be hosted once a month in San Francisco #GTUGSF - Google Technology User Group  - San Francisco

There are many people in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in the quickly emerging field of robotics. Whether you work on robots full time, part time, as a hobby, or are interested in getting involved with robots, this group is for you! We are trying to develop a strong community dedicated to moving the robotics industry forward by bringing the best robotics minds in the area together to network, brainstorm, collaborate, and take real action to execute our ideas and visions.

This meetup is dedicated to the design practices, technologies, insights and opportunities around the next frontier information access - the Internet of Things (IoT). We want to cross-pollinate ideas from engineers, designers, researchers, data scientists and entrepreneurs to create meaningful and tangible solutions that will make information access more human, ubiquitous and commercially viable.

The Gray Area: Creative Code Meetup is an ongoing platform for the Bay Area Creative industry and technology industry to present their work. We will gather together every month to update one another on our progress. We hope that the meetup will encourage and nurture unforeseen collaborations between like-minded individuals. We encourage you to join us and meet others in the community who are using code, microcontrollers, and emerging media to stylize their artwork.

Think of Converge-SF events as a venue to explore the intersection between design and technology. We hope to bring you inspiring speakers, letting them narrate their creative efforts by way of the presentation of a project. We will cover the many technologies which are used across the design and development workflow and delve into one or two of these technologies along the way. Find out more about us and view past presentations at Converge-SF.org Live Webcasts at: http://experts.adobeconnect/con …

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

Our goal is to disrupt the mobile game industry by delivering a complete infrastructure and ecosystem for HTML5 2D and 3D game development, allowing developers to deliver equal performance for both Native and Web-based games from a single code base. We provide a cloud compilation system that allows developers to deliver their games to all of the native apps stores, including iTunes, Google Play, Facebook and Chrome today with Kindle, Nook, Windows Phone, Tizen and Intel AppUp coming soon. We'll …

This is a group for anyone who wants to prove they know what's next! We'll meet once a month to hear technologists present and defend their ideas about how new science and new behavior will emerge as new technologies. Afterwards, a panel will support or criticize the hypothesis. We will be concentrating on a one to three year horizon and voting on accuracy as the trend unfolds, so bring your best ideas.

We want to explore and connect with the emerging African tech communities, get to know their creatives, learn about their projects, challenges, and potentials. We'll document our experiences to "fill the blank canvas", replace stereotypes with human stories and spark interest to connect and collaborate with new members of our global tech communities. The AfricaHackTrip will take place in September 2013 and span the whole month with 5-7 destination in East, Southern, and Western Africa. The trip …

Since the dawn of mankind, insects have been a key part of the human diet - although in recent Western culture, the culinary spotlight has shifted elsewhere. As the global food supply chain reaches its limits, a multitude of individuals and organizations across the world are helping bring about a revolution in food production. Entomophagy - the human consumption of insects - is starting to make a splash. This group is for anyone interested in the emerging entomophagy industry. We aim to provide …

Commercial Drones will revolutionize technology as we know it. How is small business positioning itself for the revolution?