Welcome engineers and technologists in the New York area. Whether you are a hands on software engineer, quality engineer, or a person just interested in advanced technologies, you will enjoy these meetups. Hosted monthly at Google's NYC offices, these talks will cover a variety of topics of strong interest to the NYC technology community. Speakers will be enlisted from the local community (including, but not limited to, Google engineers). Topics will range across the spectrum of computer science …

Born out a group of tech and startup people in NYC who gathered to socialize, play ping pong, and talk about various developments within the community. If you pong hard, come out and enjoy. If you don't, you're still welcomed to come have a drink and enjoy the battles! Welcome to NY Tech Ping Pong.

… Was originally trying to just "suggest" this idea of a Meetup to the Google Tech Talks Group, and with such overwhelming response thought it might be best to start it up as it's own Meetup. So if you signed up there before, signup here now, even if you can't make this first Meetup. Feel free to post you profile (or don't if you want to be more private) on the discussion boards along with any questions you might have. We can work to find the answers (or the answerers) together. Or if you have an …

Braindump is a participatory tech talk for engineers. It's like a normal tech talk, but everyone who comes can be a presenter and as many people as possible present. Each Braindump has a theme to give you some direction, but it's meant to be loosely interpreted.

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Have you ever thought your pastor could do a better job with social media? Or wondered why it's so hard to find a new church online? Are you interested in technology ideas that have the potential to transform how we learn about God, share the good news, and build community? NYC Tech+Faith is a group focused on the intersection of faith and technology. As Chris Dixon said, "predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn't yet dramatically transformed, it will." Faith is technolo …

It's time for NYC to have a vibrant, interesting, and regularly meeting group of homos who are into tech, IT, and computer programming. Overall purpose is to talk, share, and network, socially and professionally. Don't hesitate to suggest a meetup...and feel free to suggest another group photo if the pic of Alan Turing is too WWII ;-)

This is a group for B2B/in-house media & ad technology marketers in the NYC area to bond over this crazy business. Chances are you know the LUMA slide (your company's probably on it), regularly attend IAB and 212 events, say "algorithm" way too much, and prolifically write, research, tweet & speak to the media in praise of your company. Regular meetings are held to share marketing case studies, talk about the latest industry changes, and openly discuss challenges, resource needs and more. Hav …

This group was started to create a meeting hub for education entrepreneurs and people who love them. This group is for those of us who are using their backgrounds as educators, lifelong learners, and as tech enthusiasts to create companies that are reformulating what it means to educate and learn. It's also for educators and the curious to come and talk about education reform and how we can all work together to shape a new kind of education system. You should join the group if: You are a teacher …

About Us: NY Cultural Tech is a cross-disciplinary group for practicing technologists (coders, info architects, developers or people who work with them and want to learn) who are focused on the advancement of emerging technologies from within the domains of public knowledge (government, museums, libraries, educational institutions, non-profits and other outwardly focused for-profits). What we do: We meet semi-monthly to share what we've been working on, coding, or more importantly playing wit …

First off, we have an official website! -> http://squidwrench.org/ Squidwrench's mission is to promote the interaction of creative and technical people in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Squidwrench is a home-grown community of creative people. Our modes of creation encompass painting, composing and performing music, building high-tech toys, building low-tech toys, and probably a lot of other stuff, too. There is no limit to the problems people can solve, given the resources, the inclination, the assista …

It's common knowledge that the startup world is one of the rare bastions of work-dog balance, a place where you can crank out all nighters while your pooch gets enough sleep for the two of you. Because many tech enthusiasts are firm believers that work and dog-owning doesn't need to be mutually exclusive, we should meet, talk about our awesome projects and equally awesome dogs. If you don't have a dog -- don't worry, you're still more than welcome!

… Thousands of CEO's, CFO's, Tech Folks, Entrepreneur's, Chefs, Wine Makers, Retail and Gallery Owners, Models, Photographers, Art Director's, Designers, Actors, Musicians, Real Estate Executives, Corporate Trainers, Coaches, Therapists, Publicists, Financial Folks including Investors and Venture Capitalists, and Singles, have attended, in fact nearly every type of person has attended. People are finding jobs, leaving jobs to follow their dreams, getting dates, creating new ideas, investing in ea …

Travel 2.0 meetup discusses web and mobile travel innovations and technology. The best Travel Meetup in New York talks about travel in the web 2.0 context: online travel, social travel, travel innovations, travel technology, travel planning, travel mobile tech. More broadly, anyone interested in web technology, mobile app for travel, social commerce, social media, startup, innovation, entrepreneurship, and online marketing could benefit from connecting with other members of the group. We invite …

Are you a hacker, designer, or startup founder? Do you like playing ping pong? Then this is the group for you. We get together to talk about tech startups, discuss our latest software hacks, or get UI design advice; all over friendly games of table tennis. FAQ: Q: Why only founders, hackers, and designers? A: So we all have something in common Q: What if I suck at ping pong? A: That's ok. Noone's going to make fun of you. Everyone sucked at some point, right? Q: Do I need to bring my own ping …

NY Data Stories - Digital Insights & Analytics Meetup provides a forum for intellectual exchange and stirring up discussion on the true story behind "the data". This meetup welcomes members to: 1. open up their data and 2. to offer insights and recommendations to optimize results Format of meetups in 2012 will be: 1. Introduction 2. Open discussion about Data Trends - what new tool have you discovered or want to vent? 3. New Tech Startup talking about how their startup will revolutionize d …