Toastmasters International (TI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listening, and thinking. We meet at the Hult International Business School every Thursday. Come join us to practice you …

Looking to develop speaking and leadership skills? Win that job interview? Ignite your career? Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our membership is 270,000 strong. These members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 13,000 clubs that make up our global network of meeting locations. Membership in Toastmasters is one of the greatest investments you can make in yourself. At $36 every six months, it is also one of …

This Toastmaster's group meets at the end of Sansome Street near Fisherman's Wharf. Toastmasters is a peer-to-peer group organized to help people increase their public speaking and presentation skills.

SFAdPub is a monthly event that brings together the different parts and pieces of the San Francisco online advertising community. Whether you're on the buy side, sell side or the tech that's making the magic happen in the middle, SFAdPub is a place where you can network, build relationships and keep up with the always changing landscape of the online ad world. Each month we select a relevant topic that we focus on as a group and usually bring in a local expert (or experts) to present about it. T …

Meet other Apple iOS iPhone iPad Developers, Entrepreneurs, Startups, investors from San Francisco Bay / Silicon Valley Area to discuss how to build and promote iPhone based business. This is an open meetup. You are welcome to participate, or present your iPhone app, ideas, or solutions. We meet every month. Usually we have the follow agenda: 1 Networking 2 Speakers Presentations. 3 App Demos 4 Announcements We welcome to app demos, speakers, sponsors, blogs, news: 1 Please submit your  demo …

If you've ever had one of those "I've got a great idea for..." moments, this meetup is for you... Ideakick is a venue for entrepreneurs to present ideas they have for new products and companies. Our Website:  http://ideakick.org/ Idea Presentations:  http://www.youtube.com/ideakickSF Sign Up:   http://ideakick.org/join Want to Present?:   http://ideakick.org/present Like this idea? Tell us:   http://startedby.com/idea/ideakick Want some feedback on your idea? Looking for a cofounder?   …

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

OBJECTIVE: The goal of Tinkering Toms is to get creative juices flowing around photography, imaging and other art forms. Every other week we meet to share our work and open a dialogue with a variety of people from a variety of perspectives. CREATIVE ASSIGNMENTS: After each meet-up a new creative assignment will be posted. You’ll have two weeks to explore, consider, play and create a piece of art or Photography that fulfills the basic premise of the assignment. We’ll then gather to share and expl …

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with over 1,000 accredited investor members throughout 26 chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400m in over 360 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Forum members collaborate in the due diligence, but make individual investment decisions, with rounds in the range of $250K - $2 million. The p …

Welcome to San Francisco I Liq Chuan practice group. The training is intended for students of all levels interested in learning the art. I Liq Chuan, martial art of awareness, is an art of cultivating consciousness based on Tai Chi and Zen principles, in other words the practice of moving meditation. The philosophy underlying I Liq Chuan involves the very simple concept of making an active choice to be fully aware of the present moment, by being aware of the sounds around you, your breathing, yo …

Real Estate Investors Source Deals and Deal-Makers Source Funds! For the first MeetUp, the format will be 10-minute slots for "Deal-Makers" to present their deal to the group. Items to cover include details of the property as well as the funding request. There will be a 5 minute Q&A after each investor has a chance to present. Please email me as soon as possible if you'd like to present as spots are limited. We will be hosting the inaugural meeting at the end of November. Looking forward to grea …

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with over 1,000 accredited investor members throughout 26 chapters on three continents. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400m in over 360 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential. Forum members collaborate in the due diligence, but make individual investment decisions, with rounds in the range of $250K - $2 million. The p …

Jetpac is hosting a series of travel events in San Francisco. The three main events are: 1) Jetpac Travel Trivia Night Come and spend an evening challenging yourself and having fun with other travel enthusiasts! When: Every 2nd Tuesday in the month 7pm @ Bissap in the Mission. 2) EXPLORE Presentations Guest speakers are presenting their travel photos and experiences from a range of bucket list destinations to give advice on best time to go, what to do, what to bring etc. When: Every now an …

DJ's, Producers, Live EDM Performers, welcome to SFDG Presents! We are building a community that has something for every level of DJ, from the bedroom turntablist to the club-loving pro. If you're new to the game, come on down and meet a great group of people. Feel free to ask any question you want to help get started. We'll show you around the booth and maybe be able to help you decide what platform you might be interested in persuing, be it Vinyl, CDJ or Midi - We have DJ's who play them all! …

‘’If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. From my own experience and from working with patients, I have come to believe that proper breathing is the master key to good health.’’ - Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Natural Health, Natural Medicine This  group is created to support breathing ( and eating) practice that helps us to breathe (and Eat) properly and deepen the nurturing and healing aspect of breath. Breath is l …

Meet other computer music technology enthusiasts for presentations of computer music techniques and technologies (all music genre outputs are welcome). If you are a user of max/msp, csound, ChucK, CLM, Live, Reaktor, Kyma, JMSL, SuperCollider, or other computer music synthesis, composition, and live performance software this group is for you. Come to learn new techniques, better the code base, find collaborators, and find out what what's happening in studios, labs, and live work spaces around th …

Network security has made some major advances in the past couple decades, so much so, that is has become incredibly difficult to attack a well secured network perimeter as a means of accessing the data and systems contained therein. So it’s no wonder that malicious users have begun pursuing other avenues and skirting the perimeter defenses all together. From the attacker’s standpoint, breaching a network is all about economics and ROI. It just doesn’t make sense to mount an attack that will c …

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 …

Did you know that meetup.com was named after the Pulp lyric, "Let's all meet up in the year 2000"? We're lying. Join us in our tune-filled deceit. For lovers of British pop, indie pop, mod, soul, new wave, shoegazing, twee-pop, C86, and bands from the '60s to the present, including Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Elastica, Oasis, New Order, Joy Division, Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, The Verve, Lush, Radiohead, Libertines, Babyshambles, Garbage, Jesus & Mary Chain, …

The purpose of this Meetup group is to encourage and foster participatory singing in the San Francisco Bay Area-- to be a forum where people who love to sing can connect with like-minded individuals and find fun opportunities to raise their voices in supportive environments. If you have a group or event consistent with the ethos of "San Francisco Sings" that you'd like to list here, please contact the organizers at: http://www.meetup.com/sfsings/suggestion/ Organizations that list events with th …

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

Red Hot means that our minds are heated with excitement and commitment to ourselves and others on this path to knowing the present and understanding what a gift it is to be here. The "Mindfulness' is about being present to "what is", instead of "what is not"...accepting and not judging. I have studied and led groups in somatic and mindfulness for over 15 years in the Bay Area and would love to reconnect with others on this journey. Looking for red hot minds....please email me.. Alison Leigh, MFT …

"Code Social", presented by AnythingSocial, FoodCalc and sponsored by HP/Vertica is a series of very in-depth technical and user engagement presentations by some of the top developers in the industry. Topics will range from Ruby on Rails and developing mobile apps to Facebook applications and CoffeeScript.  We will always be providing food and drinks so please come and join us.

The purpose of this group is to have focussed discussions, presentations, tool reviews, and case study presentations around Social Media Analytics. Meet people in our industry and keep up with what we are all trying to keep up with in this quickly changing world. Learn new strategies around affecting positive change and meet others.

BAASICS (Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions) is a series of San Francisco-based evening programs that bring together working artists, scientists, and other creative individuals to present engaging, multi-media programs that explore a given theme. In the United States, the contemporary fine arts and sciences are generally set apart from popular discourse, and despite much talk of commonality between artists and scientists, there is little substantive dialogue between …

SF Scala is a group for Scala programmers who may also be interested in frameworks such as Play and Lift. We meet to discuss best practices and how the technology is being used successfully by organizations. SF Scala covers San Francisco, and events are coordinated with BASE, which covers the peninsula and south bay. We ask speakers to present their talks at both user groups, if they can. If you would like to present a technical talk about Scala, or how Scala is used in your organization, please …

Welcome to the Ultracode Meetup! This meet-up series invites you - the developer - to demo your projects and interact with an audience of like-minded folks, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving and best practices. Anyone is welcome to present at the next Ultracode, for either cross platform HTML5 or native Windows* 8 development, keeping it within 5-7 minutes and avoiding slide-ware. The presentations will be developer-driven, with a sprinkling of industry professionals and HTML5 expert spe …

*Join our Google Group to participate in discussions in between events!* Artup is a Bay Area community-powered incubator for forward-looking work stationed at the intersection of contemporary art and digital technology. Welcoming artists of all disciplines, Artup provides a foundation for a consistent and engaging stream of high quality work for and by curious aesthetes throughout the Bay Area. The Bay Area is technological ground zero. Bay Area residents are the first to experience the impact …