The SVForum Marketing SIG meets monthly on the 2nd Monday to explore the latest marketing innovations and best practices to help executives and entrepreneurs plan and achieve success. Each meeting will offer practical tips and techniques to profitably anticipate, identify, and satisfy customers needs for emerging technologies. "Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only these two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and inn …

The SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG offers a forum for members to discuss and learn about new and emerging technologies in software architecture, development tools, and platforms. At the monthly meeting, there is a technical presentation involving software tools, techniques, platforms, or architecture used to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity or solve an enterprise computing problem. Software tools include emerging functional languages such as Scala or F#, HTML5 or new …

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

This group is focused on developers and architects who have a deep desire to collectively solve challenges related to CQ5. This group was created specifically for Bay area (SF and San Jose) professionals. This group’s only intention is to provide a forum where technical practitioners can exchange ideas and seek support.

Thanks for dropping by! Our group focuses on enterprise datacenter strategies including but not limited to: Cloud Computing, (Reinforcing the Open, Capable, and Affordable IT Infrastrcuture), Virtualization, Datacenter Management, Best Practices (Hardware and Software), and Innovative IT Ideas for the future!

We believe the time is right for enterprises to be prepared for continued proliferation of mobility in the workplace. The group is an attempt to provide a forum for CIO's, managers and developers to discuss current issues in enterprise mobility including security, BYOD, enterprise app stores and mobile device management.

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.

This is a group for all Big Data professionals to include programmers, architects, platform specialists like Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc. We welcome Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Data Scientists, Analytics Experts, Sales and Marketing Professionals, Entereneurs. We will be holding lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all professionals. We will feayure local, regional and international conferences with world famous …

This is a forum and meetup for people interested to learn more about Payment Systems, Programming API, Processors, Gateways, Terminals, PCI Compliance, Consumer and Enterprise solutions and Payment Ecosystem overall. We will have technical discussions by industry leaders and speakers from Paypal, Google, CardSpring and many other companies.

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

API Management meet-up group will help create a community of API practitioners and implementors who can come together to share their experience and learnings on defining, designing, building, launching and managing Web APIs based on SOAP/REST/JSON/XML technologies. The group welcomes audience from various industries with diverse skills with below roles - API Architect - API Developer - Engineering Manager - Engineering Director - Product Managers - Mobile Architect & Developers

Dear All, The Lean Enterprise and Continuous Improvement meetup is a social learning initiative designed to bring together SMEs, Quality practitioners, Business owners, Technologists, Business Analysts, Managers, Decision Makers, Product Owners, Product Managers; to plan, learn, discuss and share experiences, implementations, best practices, body of knowledge, metrics, methodologies, tools and techniques as applicable; to take an enterprise through a journey of Continuous Improvement with an end …

The purpose of this group is to give everyone the opportunity to understand the capabilities and power of the Microsoft cloud computing products including Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint. Microsoft Dynamics is a line of familiar, adaptable enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions designed to meet almost any business need and help your people make important business decisions confidently. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft so …

Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?

We are Aerospike.  Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. We will have guest speakers talk about their real world experiences and learned techniques around building and managing mission critical businesses that realize 100% up-time. Collaborate with peers trying to solve the same complex problems that arise when you bet your business on your infrastructure.

The Cisco Users Group of Silicon Valley meets once a month to discuss products, services, and technologies to simplify network management with Cisco Prime products for enterprise and service providers. Cisco is truly dedicated to customer success. Our mission is to shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, partners, shareholders, and employees. Built for the human network. Disclaimer: The Cisco Users Group of Silicon Valley is an independ …

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

Light up the Enterprise Inside - Mission 1. Continue building a supportive networking and personal growth community by allowing conversation time and encouraging friendly conversation 2. Introduce new ideas that leverage the best new knowledge and skills to promote your success quest. 3. Help generate and practice new and strengthened communication and thinking skills such as rapport building, clarifying goals, and promoting action. For January we'll explore internal aspects that might be slowin …

Riak is a enterprise grade NoSQL database, distinct from MongoDB, Cassandra and Couchbase.

Mobile devices are transforming how we work – constantly connected and accessing company data… everywhere. This brings a new level of productivity along with some new management and security challenges. This group is a collection of IT and Security professionals concerned with managing BYOD programs or corporate mobile devices within the enterprise. The purpose is for members to network and discuss similar issues and challenges, including policies for end users, unique mobile data security conce …

Special interest group for users of Adobe CQ and WEM products with an emphasis on global digital content strategy including globalization, localization, and multilingual website development.

This group will bring together all who work with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) or are interested in knowing more about RHEV. We will meet to discuss the roadmap, best practices, etc and overall learn and hear from each other. Raissa

We have Hadoop meetups that brings awareness about Hadoop Ecosystem to an extent or that discusses about the future enhancements in Hadoop and products and things that can be done. But there is no proper meetup that can provide perspective of a real Hadoop Developer to the current market that can address any level of knowledge seeker. Also there is no meetup group where one actually working on Hadoop Ecosystem can discuss common issues they face and ask for help. This meetup group overcomes thes …

Big Brains is a speakers series with some of the top minds in Silicon Valley. All are welcome. Just bring your Big Brain along! We'll be hosting at least every other month, if not monthly. Look forward to seeing you at our office for one of our upcoming events in Mountain View.