The International Multilingual User Group has been a forum for GILT* professionals and language technology users since 1987. We meet regularly in Silicon Valley. Read on...

Bay Area has immense expertise and interest around Eclipse platform. With Helios launch just around the corner and e4 launch soon after, there is a lot to share and learn. This meetup will regularly meet to share experiences and experiments with Eclipse Platform from Eclipse community members in Bay Area. Any developer, manager, or enthusiast of Eclipse Platform should join this group.

Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is a web organization dedicated to providing web builders with useful and informative resources. We promote technological innovations and address technical challenges facing the web community. SVWB invites expert speakers to address important and critical aspects of launching, building and growing successful websites, web applications and web-based businesses. SVWB efforts cover every aspect of web building including user experience design, information architec …

Business measurement, modeling and metrics have become critical to businesses of all sizes and across all industries. In today's competitive environment, executives need to be at the top of their game when it comes to understanding their business performance. There is data everywhere about the market, competitors, customers and businesses, but getting to the core of the information, and turning that data into an advantage is challenging. This group brings together executives from multiple indust …

Samsung's bada is a new smartphone platform that allows developers to create feature-rich applications that elevate the user experience in mobile spaces. Long story short, Samsung is aiming to bring the smartphone experience to every mobile phone user in the world with a robust, feature-rich, yet affordable mobile platform. With over 1M Samsung bada powered units sold worldwide in just 4 weeks, Samsung's Bada mobile initiative is off to a great start!

Support, education and advocacy for people living with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), candidates for ICD surgery, and their friends and families. Our meetings are an opportunity for members to share experiences, express concerns and learn more about ICD therapy. From emotional adjustments and educational support to technology and medical advances, no topic is left untouched.

Let's get together in San Jose to share our experiences and advice as UX designers! The only way to get better, and take over the world, is to learn from each other!

Bay Area Web Performance is focused on making the Web faster and smarter! Our members are passionate about the user experience and the Performance community here in Silicon Valley. We'll meet regularly to discuss, delight, and inform ourselves on the hot topics and industry happenings in the Web Performance world! Join us!

This group is for Games User Researchers or those that are interested in Games User Research in the San Francisco Bay Area.  In addition to keeping in touch on the Games User Research group on LinkedIn, we sought a need to organize face-to-face meetups to further build our community and facilitate the exchanges information and ideas.

The motto of this meetup group is to have all kinds of adventurous activities, explore nature, enjoy its beauty, stay fit and have fun with friends and families. You can help us to make this group a great place to meet new people and make new friends while having fun activities and great discussions. We organize all kind of activities at various locations. Our events include scuba diving, surfing, kayaking during summer; while skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing in winter. We also arrange some ac …

Presentations, discussions, and implementations of In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) or other vehicle / automotive projects emphasizing those utilizing open source or built with open source tools.  Safety, fuel-efficiency, and innovative enabling applications beyond entertainment are especially of interest, as are fleet vehicles, farming equipment, heavy machinery, marine and aviation applications -- all sorts of intelligent transportation systems. Non-coders who are more involved in business, polic …

With technologies such as Google Prediction API and mahout, it should now be easier to add for your website users: recommendations, separate ham from spam, and predict what newsletter content they will not consider spam. Let's explore and discuss these new technologies together and how we can use and efficienly implement/deploy them in our websites/projects/communities. Other applications of prediction/classification/clustering/collaborative filtering that I haven't thought of are welcome!

This mastermind group is open to B2B marketers and salespeople of all experience levels. Our goal is to have an open forum to: Get advice about marketing / sales challenges Share best practices Network Topics include: Salesforce CRM Microsoft Dynamics Sales strategy Cold calling & leaving voicemails Marketing strategy Business to business email Social media Mobile marketing Copywriting Infusionsoft CRM We will meet most first Thursday's of the month.  There will always be food and dri …

A San Francisco and Silicon Valley based group focused Oracle EPM, BI and Big Data Technologies including Endeca Information Discovery, Hyperion Essbase, Oracle BI and Analytics Applications, Big Data  including NoSQL, Hadoop, Cloudera, R, Oracle Data Integrator, Big Data Appliance, Exalytics, Master Data Management, DRM, Hyperion Planning, and Hyperion Financial Management, and an ever expanding suite of Oracle related technologies. Please join us as we share user experiences, problems and solu …

Tired of WordPress Meetups where the host is trying to sell you their wares? I know I am. I've organized this meetup exclusively for WordPress users, designers, webmasters and developers. I want to share experiences, tricks and tips on the web's greatest platform. Beginners through hardcore DevTeam members are all welcome!

Mobility in Enterprises is a meetup for people to exchange ideas on how today's enterprises should embrace Mobility on the consumer and enterprise front to increase revenues, achieve higher productivity and create newer business models to transform business. The meetups would be speaker sessions, panel discussions and happy hours to mingle with like minded individuals.

We are looking for people with startup skills.  It can be front-end, backend, marketing, bizdev, testing, etc. The biggest problem with joining a startup without funding is that it can be a time-sink.  The entrepreneur can have unrealistic expectations of unpaid work. SB is different. We don't hold hackathons.  We hold launchathons.  No ideas thought up on Friday and launching on Sunday.  The startups and entrepreneurs are vetted for weeks prior to development.  The tools are setup and provided. …

We're excited to bring the Foundation community together every month. Whether you're a Foundation expert or just getting started with the responsive framework, we'd love for you to join us.

Let's feel, enjoy and discuss about what is visual communication here! We are crazy to find better way of communication which is visual based for fun. Welcome everybody who has interested in visual communication!

This is a group for all usability professionals in the Bay Area to socialize, network and share ideas. Long Term Plans are planning to establish a local chapter of the UXPA Intl Association.

Hi! This group is for intermediate to advanced users of the Adobe Suite who want to brush up on their skills in the various programs. I realize this is a broad topic, but each week I will suggest a specific advanced feature or menu of a software program. Hopefully this will become a meetup for us to learn about and experiment with the new features of Adobe CS6. Why am I starting this meetup? NOTE: I do not work for Adobe, nor does this group administer the adobe certification exams. I am a des …

No more ugly apps. Our aim is to create mobile designs that are beautiful, easy to use and profitable. This meetup is designed for those interested in user experience, UI, workflow and design on Android or iOs. It is geared towards engineers, designers, usability researchers and app enthusiasts who want explore what makes for great mobile design. We crave uncovering the secrets of great design. Why? The world needs more beauty.

TC Camp is an Unconference focused on Technical Communications issues, skills, challenges, and the various applications used by technical communicators. The purpose of TC Camp is to provide a local bay area conference for technical communicators that is driven by the members of that community–writers, editors, designers, and the people who support them.

Have you been unfriended recently because you subject your facebook friends to unwanted A and B surveys? Are you constantly in search of valuable, measurable user feedback from your targeted demographic? Let's face it. User feedback is one of the most valuable aspects of new ventures that leads to creating a compelling and memorable product. If you are creating a new site/product/app and are in need of user feedback. This MeetUp is right for you. The world of User Experience/Interaction design …

Santa Clara based Hadoop Users/Enthusiasts group, focused on sharing experiences/challenges.

This is a group for Citrix enthusiasts, Citrix fans and Citrix haters. Let's meet and share your thoughts, knowledge and experience.

As a voice for the local design community, the IDSA Silicon Valley Chapter aims to: Celebrate Silicon Valley design, and the people who practice it; extol the value of good design to business leaders and the public alike. Fan the flames of inspiration by providing opportunities to learn from and share knowledge with others. Bring people together, face-to-face, to form meaningful relationships with other designers and those in related fields.

Let's get together and share our user and development experience with the Pebble smart watch. Everyone is welcome! We will have presentations from the community along with food and beverages at an awesome venue.