Are you interested in enhancing your leadership skills for your business and your career? Join us for engaging presentations by successful leaders and leadership experts, interactive networking events with like-minded professionals, and training programs. This networking group offers a distinct perspective on leadership development: Centered Leadership is built on the premise that personal development is crucial for professional growth. Learn how to become conscious about your personal impact …

Welcome to the meetup site for Divorce and Relationship Recovery at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (address and map). We offer this free program as a service to our community. In operation for over 30 years, it has an outstanding reputation as one of the best divorce support resources in the Bay Area. Divorce and Relationship Recovery (DR) is a safe place to heal your heart and to find support after experiencing a difficult divorce or the breakup of a significant relationship.  The trauma of a b …

Informal, informative, fun! We meet monthly to learn new wealth building and money-management strategies, play the Cash Flow game, and enjoy the company of fun, positive-minded people. Please note: this is *not* a place to recruit new people to your MLM or affiliate program, or sell products.

The Business Referral Network (BRN) represents a broad-based coalition of businesses throughout the San Mateo area. The BRN Mission is to enhance our businesses by building strong relationships through weekly communication and the exchange of leads, referrals, and contact information. Members of BRN assemble in a weekly forum comprised of a variety of business professionals representing various industries. Through exchange of information our collective efforts are focused on creating business op …

We believe in doing business networking on the basis of sound committed partnership. When we obtain a business networking lead or business referral, we treat it with honor and we return the priviledge with honor - Where the old fashioned business traits of integrity, loyalty, honoring promises, differences and similarities are upheld. This is a business group that upholds doing education and doing business smart and supporting others to be successful. NO CHARGE TO JOIN Some events will have …

This group is offered as an exploration of creativity, sound, voice, and music, as tools to deepen our experience of everyday life. We access the sounds in our environment as well as in our own bodies - our breath, voice, silence, and resonance as human beings. We may explore meditation, yoga, singing, art, food, nature, writing, or any other aspects of human expression. Circles are led by a rotating members from a cohort of sound healing practitioners trained at the California Institute of Inte …

The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The Cleantech Open has established itself as the leader in developing clean technology startup entrepreneurs addressing these challenges. Since its inception in 2006, 191 promising teams have availed themselves of the Cleantech Open’s one-of-a-kind hands-on workforce development, nurturing, and funding programs, with impressive results: * …

Hey Django enthusiasts, let's network, share our knowledge and learn some new things. We're planning meetups in Downtown San Mateo, Downtown San Jose, and anywhere else along Caltrain.  Once we've picked-up a few members, we'll schedule our first meeting.

A year round club for singles* over 21 based in the mid-Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose. Inskiers offers its members year-round athletic and social activities, friends with whom to ski or board, a ski racing program and access to a low cost winter cabin at Lake Tahoe’s north shore.   Through our relationship with the Bay Area Snowsports Council (BAC) and Far West Ski Association (FWSA), our members get discounts on lift tickets, ski & board services, lodging and trips to many exciti …

SF Peninsula SD meetup, monthly networking and talks on JVM-based Languages and Agile or Test-Driven Development

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

Greetings developers, we do meetups for game and app developers.

Real Life Super Heroes, Masked Crime Fighters, Costumed Vigilantes, & Uniformed Mystery Detectives meet to share case files, organize citizen patrols, review investigations, analyze crime statistics, discuss law enforcement support, teach new techniques, tell success stories, plan charitable and educational events, send inspiring messages, and learn about resources for solving cases. Whether fighting crime, solving cold cases, researching records, or otherwise, this group is a support team for t …

Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped millions of men and women become more confident in front of an audience. Our network of clubs and their learn-by-doing program are sure to help you become a better speaker and leader. Why pay thousands of dollars for a seminar when you can join a Toastmasters club for a fraction of the cost and have fun in the process?

Monthly programs to introduce different health and wellness topics and practices that contribute to well being

The Bay Area Association for Psychological Type (BAAPT) was formed in 1984 to promote the understanding, constructive use, and valuing of human diversity through the study and application of Carl Jung’s theory of Psychological Type.  Our interests include the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, David Keirsey's work on Temperament, and a variety of typology applications. We welcome all people who are interested in using psychological type personally or professionally.  We invite you to join our lively …

Compassion Technology is Self-discovery, Self-development, and Service via logical and technological extensions of mindfulness! We welcome developers, designers, tech-evangelists, and all other Good People who are trying to become even better through repeated daily practice, deeply honest self-appraisal, and dedicated inspired study. In particular, folks who practice meditation, prayer, yoga, or other forms of mind+body awareness are especially likely to find a home here amongst like-minded soul …

Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro’s easy-to-understand API, you can quickly and easily secure any application – from the smallest mobile applications to the largest web and enterprise applications. We recommend you start with the 10 Minute Tutorial which gives you a feel for Shiro and its API. Then feel free to get started using Shiro in your own applications. If you hav …

Have you tried every diet and weight loss scheme you ever heard of? Lost weight on them all, eh? And then found that you gained it back, and then some?? This group is designed to share ideas and acquire accountability partners to help you not only lose weight, but KEEP IT OFF! Each meet-up will have a specific topic of discussion regarding weight loss concepts and principles. The core principles will center around the cornerstones of: 1) Meal Planning 2) Exercise that you can live with 3) Appro …

LeTip International is the world's largest, privately owned, professional business leads organization. Since 1978, LeTip programs have helped over 120,000 members, throughout the United States and Canada, build business success through personal referrals. LeTip International's structure set the standard in the word-of-mouth referral industry. Members are known for their professionalism, dedication, and loyalty to one another, and to the LeTip Program. LeTip Chapters meet weekly to exchange quali …

An informal meetup to talk about or develop with the Go Programming Language (golang).

Micro-lending is hitting its stride and now we have some major problems to solve: whether it be in risk assessment, scale, measuring social impact or in tapping into new signals about the people we serve. This groups focus will be to bring together like minds whom are serving the under or unbanked consumers through software and engineering amazing solutions.

This group is for Alumni and current students of Northwestern University's Master of Predictive Analytics program who live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to get together to discuss the MSPA program and issues related to predictive analytics.

Mid-Peninsula Running Club (MPRC) is a 25 year old running club on the SF Peninsula. This meetup is designed as a place to schedule runs and provide training schedules for new runners and  runners with different experience levels. Currently we are creating training schedules for the San Francisco 1/2 Marathon on June 16th, 2013 and/or other half marathons between April and September 2013. Saturday Runs are at the Seal Point Park in San Mateo. We also periodically have non-running social activiti …

Are you a confident speaker needing advanced feedback and program development? Want to promote your business by speaking as the expert at public events? Do you need to move beyond PowerPoint to really connect and move your audience? The advanced Toastmasters club "ProToasties" might be the perfect place to join like-minded professionals who will help you boost your skills in public speaking as a career tool. Guests are always welcome and there's never a charge for regular meetings. So come check …

This is a group for anyone involved or interested in learning and discussing new frameworks to achieve greater ROI when adopting Software Reuse. Our group will share real enterprise experience; achievements as well as challenges when implementing reuse methodologies. We will also discuss new technology that is changing the way software is developed and allowing Software Reuse to be fully realized with greater ROI then previously possible.

The New Triathlete understands that the race is a small part of a fun and satisfying Triathlon experience. The overwhelming indicator of a rewarding race is about what went on 'behind the scenes' months before. It's about Nutrition, Navigation, Transitions, Clothing, fixing Flats, Gear selection, Running shoes, Hydration, Biomechanics, program Design, understanding your Body; the list is endless! These group workshops explore all the tips, tricks, and must know information that is way more impor …

This is a group for people interested in the intersection of technology and digital photography. If you're interested in using technology to help people make lasting memories and sharing life's joy, this is the group for you!