What is "The Art of Active Networking" and why do we do it? There was a recent article suggesting this staggering statistic: “Given the opportunity, over 70 percent of ALL people are not happy with their job, career or with what they are doing…and given the opportunity would change it!” Seems like a whole lot of people who do not love what they do when they wake up in the morning. With so many people unhappy, searching for jobs, shifting jobs, building their business, practice or consultancy a …

YREPNY is the Young Real Estate Professionals of New York (Our affiliated group is YREP of NJ— the Young Real Estate Professionals of NJ).  Membership is free. YREPNY is a not-for-profit organization that was formed in 2001 to serve New York Metro Area real estate professionals. The group includes commercial and residential real estate professionals of all ages and industry experience in the tri-state area! The main point: Membership to YREPNY is free and non-exclusive. If you're looking to meet …

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

FASHION + TECHNY is FASHION+TECHSF's east coast chapter. Fashion+TechNY’s mission is to provide an open dialogue that serves as a forum on how to develop innovative solutions to become better business entrepreneurs. This workshop was developed as a platform to discuss the business of fashion and arts through the utilization of current business models and technologies. As a thriving epicenter of independent talents, ‘FASHION+TECHNY” features local entrepreneurs, fashion designers, students, blogg …

Make your next trip MEANINGFUL! Attend Meetups and happy hours, learn how to travel responsibly and make a difference. Meet fun, involved, interesting people. Share with us YOUR story about the meaningful things YOU already do! With 20 years of experience spanning 75 countries, we offer enriching responsible, meaningful trips and adventure & volunteer travel to the world's most exciting international destinations. In addition to offering the best in sights, culture, nature and activity - each tr …

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire New York metropolitan …

JFE (Jews For Entrepreneurship) Network is the leading and largest organization and platform for connecting entrepreneurs and investors, and accelerating innovation in the Jewish community. We launched in San Francisco and Silicon Valley in November 2009. Right now we are bringing the Silicon Valley spirit of entrepreneurship to New York City and other U.S. locations. Over the past 3 years we have hosted numerous pitch events, seminars, speaker panels, and networking mixers. We have witnessed nu …

This group is for people who value and enjoy deeper discussions with amazing people and who are also willing to rise to the occasion by joining us to help make these discussion opportunities an ongoing reality. The purpose of this Meetup group is to build community through philosophy video chat sessions using Google Hangout. This Meetup group is also designed to bring together members in the Philosophy Dinners network of Meetup groups of which there are approximately 1300 members. Click here fo …

NYCAdPub brings together the different parts and pieces of the NYC display/mobile advertising community. Whether you're on the buy side, sell side or the tech that's making the magic happen in the middle, NYCAdPub is a place where you can network, build relationships and keep up with the always changing landscape of the digital ad world. MeetUp formats will vary. We’ll either have pure networking gatherings, mini-sessions on group sourced topics, or we’ll select a topic and bring in a local exp …