MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization part of a network of 28 worldwide chapters of the MIT Enterprise Forum headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Enterprise Forum is managed by Technology Review, an independent media company owned by MIT with a global readership of 2.6 million. An active chapter since 1971, MITEF NW’s mission is to inspire, connect, and educate entrepreneurs in the Puget Sound technology and business community. We cater to the ne …

TAFEA is a non-profit professional organization whose objective is to promote and advance the concepts of enterprise architecture in the Pacific Northwest.TAFEA members and guests meet monthly to widen their knowledge on topics relevant to information and data resource management. Members benefit from association meetings and special programs, as well as from opportunities to network with others in the same profession.

This is a monthly meet-up created as a collaborative group for women thinking of starting or who've just started a business and want the inspiration, support, feedback and to leverage the expertise of other women starting-up. This is a comfortable, relaxed space for authentic sharing and natural networking. Members of this group will offer their feedback to other members who offer up a question or challenge in their business. We will discuss topics related to making an impact in the world throu …

This group is for people from social purpose corporations (SPCs) that are committed to social responsibility, environmental sustainability or improving other aspects of the local, national, or world communities and are interested in networking with other like-minded SPCs to share knowledge and inspiration.

A community of ambitious and persistent people who pursue our passion and believe we CAN make the world a better place. We create or work for organizations that are seeking solutions to society's most pressing social problems.

Who Is TCAD Seattle?  On May 23, Muhammad Yunus spoke at Seattle Town Hall and showed a trailer for a inspirational documentary he's in, called "To Catch A Dollar," due out in September. Several attendees talked with Yunus, Gayle Ferraro, the film maker, and Kathleen Wells, the project director from Grameen Research.  When we asked if we could help, they said yes.  This volunteer group was formed in the days that followed, with a short term objective of building support for promotion of the movi …

An action oriented group designed for passionate and courage filled change makers who are ready to START making the necessary changes in order to  achieve their personal and professional goals. Goals should specific, measurable, attainable, rewarding/realistic, and tangible. If you don't know what your goal is yet, no sweat! We will work with you to discover your goal. By becoming a member of Vancity Catalyst Crew, you will have the opportunity to participate in our innovative accountability sys …

At EWB Vancouver, our focus is to build local awareness and enrich the discussion on international issues by partnering with other development organizations to help coordinate and execute events! Despite the name, EWB is definitely NOT JUST FOR ENGINEERS! If you are interested and passionate about international development, we want you to join us! With our dedicated and talented network of volunteers, we have put on major annual events, such as the Bridging-the Gap Conference (March) and the Run …

Seattle Entrepreneurs is an educational resource and networking group for Northwest entrepreneurs. Our informative events help entrepreneurs launch new businesses, meet new potential business partners, gain funding, market their ideas, and grow to the point of hiring employees and beyond, and even prepare for an exit, such as an IPO. Seattle Entrepreneurs is a social enterprise so revenue generated goes toward Global Music Project.org, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to uni …

Meet everyone who shares an interest in African culture. Come one, come all! We'll share our experience, our love or challenges, and everything in between. This is an open group.

I find myself going to more and more technology + craft brewery events so might as well just get a Meetup together. TechBrew was created for Seattle-ites interested in networking and discussion around next gen technologies in the enterprise, and the best craft beers in Seattle. Homebrewers welcome as well. If your startup will focus on the enterprise, this is your place to develop your channels. If you are evaluating technologies that could help you in your enterprise role, this is an informal w …

ZeroMQ is a library that supports light-weight messaging and some common messaging patterns for integration. This integration is done on any level isolation: thread-to-thread, process-to-process and machine-to-machine. It is very light weight and takes to heart the unix philosophy of doing only one thing and doing it right. It is also well known for being supported across all platforms and most of the languages out there - making it the top choice for serious integration, scalability and interop …

SMALL BUSINESS COUNCIL (SBC) – Vancouver Board of Trade The Small Business Council is a working committee of the Vancouver Board of Trade with the mandate to ensure that the needs of members in small and medium-sized enterprises are both recognized and met. Our purpose in establishing our own Meetup Group is to encourage all small business owners and operators to attend upcoming events, not only as networking opportunities, but each reception will include guest speakers that will highlight topi …

The Rotary Club of Vancouver is a leading service organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people in our community and around the world. Our membership includes business professionals from young entrepreneurs to seasoned enterprise-level business owners who enjoy the fellowship of working together on shared goals. Our club was established in 1913 and we will celebrate our centennial in 2013 with numerous special events and opportunities for community members and organisations to get invo …

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A group for corporate entrepreneurs eager to innovate inside their company.

With the rapid growth of AWS (infrastructure as a service and platform in the cloud) among individual developers, start-ups, and enterprises across Canada, U.S. and abroad. Users, developers & system engineers, PLEASE JOIN a growing, dynamic community, and interact with others to answer questions, share ideas, and learn about new services and best practices.

Interested in launching your own cybersecurity or infosec startup or business? This group is for you! Meet others with similar interests who are passionate about security and the world of cryptography, penetration testing, analysis, hacking, public and private clouds, forensics and business! As attacks and threats get more complex against enterprises and nation states, the world is looking for businesses and entrepreneurs who understand information security and the threat landscape to assist and …

Join Vancouver Records Management Meetup group. The intend of this group is to meet monthly or bi-monthly to discuss specific topics on Records and Information Management. All those interested in RM are welcome. We particularly welcome those currently studying Records Management or working in in the RIM field. This way we can bridge the gap between up-to-date RM theories and real-life issues occurring in the RM field. Our first kick-off event will be held late June, 2012.  Please stay tuned.  Y …

This meetup group is created to provide a meeting place for people working as consultants, salespeople, users, developers, etc., for SAP or related companies.

Reaching out to all Cloud Computing Enthusiasts ! This is a group for users, enthusiasts and those curious about Cloud Foundry Open PaaS and BOSH Deployment. - Learn to deploy and scale applications in seconds, without locking yourself into a single cloud. - Network with other industry professionals and with the Product Management Team at cloud Foundry. - Learn about Cloud Foundry for the Enterprise - Provide feedback on features you'd like to see Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service, …

eCommerce works on many of the same principles as business in general. If you have a product or service that others need and can afford, you are basically in business. The rest is marketing and management.Whether you are in the business of selling online or offering to help other businesses sell online, you may consider using Magento as part of that solution. But Why Magento? How does it compare to other eCommerce platforms? What does it cost? Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

This is a group for people to get together and nerd out a bit. Most of us will likely be enterprise network engineers focusing on wireless 802.11 technology. We'll meet up and talk about technology, wireless, and have a drink or two.

Infobeasties meet on Tuesdays (bi-weekly - Advanced) and Wednesdays (weekly - Elementary) in a presentation/workshop setting to advance our skills in consumer/user level, self-service access and analytics of data in its many forms: localized, Enterprise, Cloud, Big Data, Semantic, XML, RDF, MD, OLAP, Data Warehouse, etc. Our base platform will be Excel, but we will be working with several client-based tools and tactics in our pursuit of Infogeasties (data sources), and how can we use them to ex …

This group is for anyone who loves to work wood, trade woodworking knowledge and cool designs, or just hang out with like minded people. As a new group we are still finding out just exactly what we ought to do; it is up to us as a group. As we meet and grow, this description will morph. What we have in mind for starters is to open the shop to our members to gather, work on small projects or machining that you cannot do at home, mentor one another, trade resources, and finish with a social hour. …

William Alan Shatner is 79 years old as of March 22, 2010, and has had a long wonderful career as an actor. But how many of his movies can you name outside of Star Trek and the cameo appearances? If you knew the full list of his major works, you'd be very surprised indeed. This group will bring together fans of the Shatner and we will watch his old forgotten movies (some of which are only in black and white) from back in the days before Star Trek, when he was not the square-jawed Captain of the …

OVERVIEWDo you work in the IT (Information Technology) field in British Columbia? Or are you an IT professional who is planning to move to British Columbia? Network with other people who are working in the same field as you.Some, but not all, areas you might be working in include:- Enterprise Systems- IT Infrastructure- Databases- Project Management- Security- Applications and Development- Mobile Technologies- Sales and Marketing- Human ResourcesBENEFITS OF JOINING THIS GROUP- sometimes it's …