ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in San Francisco and the Valley to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, as well as Lean, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include short talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, design and development as well as plenty of time for networking and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to com …

Techniques, tips and tools for heterogenous computing, from mobile to HPC applications. Learn from practicing engineers, get hints on how to optimize your applications directly from key architects. Multi-language, on multiple ISA's. So why another group? Hetergenous Computing is really broad - discrete and integrated GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs and CPUs - and the resulting applications, and ecosystems. We are looking at what is takes to move these technologies into mainstream computing - from smartphones …

Data Driven Women is a networking series and speaker event that brings together women (& men) passionate about building a stronger female tech community. Our name doesn't come from a desire to discuss only data, but rather from a data driven approach that allows us to bring metrics and measurement to different topics like: innovation, entrepreneurship and technology.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

Dear All, The Lean Enterprise and Continuous Improvement meetup is a social learning initiative designed to bring together SMEs, Quality practitioners, Business owners, Technologists, Business Analysts, Managers, Decision Makers, Product Owners, Product Managers; to plan, learn, discuss and share experiences, implementations, best practices, body of knowledge, metrics, methodologies, tools and techniques as applicable; to take an enterprise through a journey of Continuous Improvement with an end …

Meet other local fans of indie pop, indie rock, indie folk, shoegaze/nugaze, electro, twee, and the like... A place to discuss music and hear about shows in town (gamh, ind, popscene, both, fillmore, bimbos, mezzanine, c du nord etc...). If you enjoy anything from the sampling of bands below, join us! animalcollective asobiseksu atlassound autolux bandofhorses batforlashes beachhouse beirut blacklips blonderedhead boniver brighteyes britishseapower brokensocialscene clapyourhands cloudcult cry …

This Meetup Group is about the Lean Startup Methodology developed by Eric Ries. It is centered on the implementation of this methodology to the Internet startups where participants work. Participants will be able to share their successes and difficulties of implementation with the group so as to create a learning process. We will focus more on tools than concepts, and on practice than on theory, as our interest is in the immediate implementation of these tools in our startups and the lessons lea …

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

This group is for motorcycle cruisers who like to ride the scenic Northern California back-roads. Although most of the existing members ride Harleys, but other (i.e. metric) cruiser or touring bikes are also welcome. The goal of the group is to organize smaller group rides for better safety and more manageable & enjoyable day rides. Spouses or pillions are always welcome. So please join us and let's ride.

This meetup group is interested in all the moving pieces that encompass site reliability. Our goal is to have talks that address the issues encountered by technical operations teams running stable and high performing sites at scale.

This group is created to facilitate Growth Hacking practices to allow businesses to accelerate growth in a defined metric. Growth hacking is the art and science of creatively fostering awareness, traction, adoption, engagemant, new customers and advocacy using unorthodox and surprising means (many digital). It’s quite literally a hack for traditional processes to accelerate business. The vision of this group is to hold events and meet ups where entrepreneurs with established businesses get toget …

Software quality… Testing, Automation, Metrics, Load and Performance. Repeatable, predictable processes and approaches for everything from start up through large scale high availability organizations. Fun and Passionate about Quality.