Groupon's Geekfest Series is a collection of talks and forums for sharing information on anything and everything related to tech, start-ups, and new, innovative ideas!

March 21 · 5:30 ContextLogic Wish along with John Wu would like to welcome everyone to our 3rd Tech Talk. Tentative Agenda: ° 5:30 - 6 Welcoming & socializing with refreshments ° 6 - 7 First Presentation - guest speaker John Wu, Distinguished Scientist of ACM & a Senior Member of IEEE, for a discussion on Fastbit indexing & its use cases involving large-scale scientific applications. ° 7 - 8 Second Presentation - Wish.com engineering on indexing techniques in mongodb ° 8 - whenever - Q&A & socia …

Flurry TechHub is a free-to-attend event that brings together high-caliber developers, founders, entrepreneurs and investors in the technology community. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will likely meet on a monthly basis. Our primary objective is to educate the market and help expand and inspire the developer base in creating and monetizing mobile applications. Flurry TechHub Meetups are held across the world’s top tech centers including San Francisco, …

Startup Product Summit SF2 October 11, 2013 Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is en …

This for anyone and everyone interested in the Lecture Series at The Tech Museum of Innovation in downtown San Jose to band together and attend as a group. The lectures focus on the many different intersections science and technology make with culture, arts, politics, math, and our entire world. If you're an expert or enthusiast in any of these fields or subjects, and have been to one or more of these lectures or wish to attend in the future, this is the place to discuss the presented subjects a …

Calling all noodles lovers that work in the SF Tech scene passionate in exploring Bay Area's perfect bowl of noodles. Tech+Noodles+New Friends=Happiness Please feel free to recommend your favorite noodle restaurant.

Hi! My name is Zita and recently moved from Chicago to San Francisco. I love electronic music but crave more then regular mash ups, electro house and radio tunes.  Sound and Machine is a group for those who want to support some of the lesser known music genres and /or interested about the technical side of DJing and producing. The "Sound" part of our group focuses on tech house, progressive house, deep house, techno, dub tech, progressive techno music.  Nick Warren, Hernan Cattaneo, Adam Beyer …

A meetup group for people who are interested in autonomous vehicles here in Northern California

We meet in Downtown San Francisco and discuss iOS and Objective-C related topics, meet other developers and other interesting folks. Tech talks, workshops, hack-athons and more. Meet other iOS developers, find out about interesting projects and opportunities for work and potential employment. Join the group and you'll get a weekly NSMeetup newsletter. Please No Recruiters,Co-founder searches, non-developers or Job Postings. If you are interested in posting a job please contact the organizer - St …

We're seeing a resurgence of interest in VR, and this group is for sharing knowledge and growing this important technology. All skill levels are welcome. Tech talks and demos are the preferred format. Each meetup will conclude with a half hour of socializing. The bay area is home to many of the original pioneers of this tech, and will be largely driving the future developments. Let's get together and change the world.

Hello and Welcome to CodeChix-BayArea!! Please join us here and on any of our social media (FB, G+, LinkedIn, Twitter) if you are a: Female developer (please join us also on http://groupspaces.com/codechix) Female or Male Project/Program/Product Manager Supportive and open-minded MALE developer Young person (>8 years old) aspiring to learn coding NO RECRUITERS OR RECRUITING ALLOWED. NO SOLICITATIONS For Personal or Business needs. And now a little bit about us (also check out our Skill-Levels …

Apparently there are several dozen internet and software startups in downtown San Mateo. This is a group for techy startupers who see each other in line at Pancho Villa and think "I wonder what that guy does?" http://www.quora.com/What-startups-are-located-in-San-Mateo We'll do tech talks, lightning talks and most importantly, have a beer! Men, women, devs, sys admins, and even you business people are welcome. Enjoy the fact that for once, we don't have to get on 101 to go to a meetup. Huzzah!

We are women who code: in any framework any level of experience any size of company or just code for fun! We meet weekly for technical study groups and monthly for larger format events including tech talks, career trainings and hack nights. Current and aspiring coders are welcome. Bring your laptop and a friend!

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

The Hackbright Meetup Group is dedicated to women studying software development. We host a variety of events including study groups, tech talks, and hackathons.  Let's continue to build a strong community of learning, teaching, and collaboration!

Database Meets Solid State, a Silicon Valley based community group, provides a meeting point for people interested in the intersection of flash memory and database acceleration. Use cases include: Cloud computing, Big Data, Virtualization, and Analytics. Our mission: Bring together people interested in learning, presenting, and networking with others about improving their database performance and how solid state storage makes that happen. Host for our first meeting is Skyera.  We plan to have re …

Interested in getting more involved in the entrepreneurial scene in SF but not sure where to start? This group provides an authoritative but friendly firsthand look at the current Bay Area landscape. From impromptu drinks with mentors and hiring managers to both speaker-centric and straight-up social events at cool offices around SOMA, we'll give you an insider's introduction to startup culture in the area code where it all started.

This is a group for anyone interested in Tech Talks, Workshops, and Axcient happenings. All skill levels are welcome, and we look forward to meeting you.

GITPRO is a networking platform for India Technology Professionals for their professional and self development and them contributing back to the community and India with their leadership, innovation, skills and resources. http://www.gitpro.org

Cloud Mafia is a San Francisco based community group.  Our mission is to bring together everyone that is interested in and working in the cloud technologies. Learn, network, present and meet others in the cloud space.  We have lots of events and tech talks.  Cloud Mafia has 2300+ members, has been featured on Venture Beat and sponsored by companies like Loggly, Salesforce, dotCloud, Boundary, Mulesoft, DataWeek2.0, Swrve, Stormpath, Totango, 10Gen, AppDirect, Pager Duty, Cloudability, Gigaspaces …

This is a group for anyone interested in networking with fellow Oracle ERP Users/Consultants/Architects/Management Professionals. This group will also provide networking opportunities for consulting companies and the oracle applications professionals in the bay area. Also tech talks, user experiences, latest trends in ERP will be a part of this group.

This group is for anyone in the bay area who is interested in sports as well as technology, business, media, or startups. You're perfect for this group if you: think the MIT Sloan Sports Conference sounds cool read espn.com and tech crunch regularly follow Darren Rovell on Twitter are a part of a sports tech startup are interested in the way that technology and sports intersect sometimes use acronyms like FIP and WAR to talk about sports just want to grab a beer or have a fun conversation with …

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on financial service or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups. To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services. Although we welcome everyone there is not …

We bring one woman leader a month to share the story of her journey... how she made key career decisions and overcame failure and uncertainty to reach where she is today. Stories by women, which we bring monthly. Come get inspired by their stories! We encourage attendance by both men and women. Topics will extend beyond the field of tech. This is the story of how it came about.

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 …

We’re bringing everyone on the team together to talk about what makes products great. Each month, we will pick a key product development topic and feature a speaker who’s kicked ass at that topic to share their story. Join us if you love disruptive products - there is plenty of room for group discussion and learning!

The SVForum Emerging Technology SIG is a bi-monthly meeting focused on the future. The goal is to talk about technologies that aren’t quite here yet, to discuss trends in software technologies, and, in general, to examine what’s coming down the pipeline. We meet on the second Wednesday of every other month.

While San Francisco and the South Bay are known for their tech scene, Marin County and areas north have all kinds of cool innovation happening. I want to meet tech entrepreneurs who are doing really awesome stuff and I don't want to travel an hour to do it! Let's meet up and talk about what we're working on, trade ideas and support, and jumpstart the scene up here. Whether you're an engineer, a UI/UX, a business type or just an entrepreneur groupie - come hang out!