We bring together entrepreneurs, developers, investors, corporations and media by organizing conferences, workshops and meetups. Current conferences include: the Data 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and TechWeek Chicago. Techweek conferences have featured speakers from Google, Microsoft, Groupon, ChaCha, and crowdSPRING.  We've help launch new features from over 10 startups and companies including Twilio, Hipmunk and Windows Phone. Our mission is to connect the Midwest startup and technology sce …

Talks on topics of all kinds from experts of all kinds. The only stipulation is that the talks must be really interesting to engineers in some way. We have covered programming languages, operations, UI design, mobile technology, build systems, automated testing, and lots more. The talks are all invited by Orbitz, a leading travel provider and proud member or the Chicago tech community. All talks are held here at the Orbitz Headquarters in Chicago IL.

The Chicago Mobile Security Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering Mobile Security innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for Mobile security enthusiasts to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this fundamental and evolving Mobile security niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn and network in the community. This group will …

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone.Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME, a smartphone allows the user to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smartphones run complete operating system software providin …

Augmented Reality - What is it? Who's working on it? How can you use it? I hope this group can be a meeting place and discussion ground for everyone interested in Augmented Reality (AR); designers, developers, entrepreneurs, writers, students, journalists, and anyone who's interested in AR.

We will meet up and discuss Corona SDK, Lua programming, our apps we have made with Corona SDK, how to go about learning to use Corona SDK, and whatever else the group wants to discuss. If you have a topic that you would like to talk about, please let us know and come as prepared as you can to talk about the topic or if you want to know more about something give us a heads up so we can try to be prepared.

My business partner & I have been very fortunate in finding success as "Entrepreneurs", in an unstable economy. We are very passionate in sharing our success and giving the ability to other individuals of being able to start their "own business" and finding success for themselves! If you have been looking for the right networking opportunity....it has arrived!

UniForum Chicago is a non-profit organization that holds monthly informative and technical discussions every fourth Tuesday from 7pm to 9pm. This provides a local forum in the Chicago area for open systems and UNIX discussion and allows us to meet with students and other professionals in the field. All meetings are free and open to members and non-members alike and are held at: IIT - Rice Campus Room 103 201 East Loop Road Wheaton, IL 60187-8489 For more information about UniForum Chicago or …

Come out and demo your tech related product, start-up, or idea.

Join us if you would like to hear about upcoming Tech Talks hosted by Morningstar, Inc. in Chicago, IL.

We are a community of passionate experience designers interested in getting together to share stories, tools, project experiences and events! We explore human-computer interaction, agile design, user experience, frontend development, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing among other topics that help us deliver engaging customer experiences.

The Chicago International Social Change Festival was created for filmmakers to showcase films that heighten public consciousness and provide a film forum for their productions to be screened on an international level. In addition, the festival is dedicated to the art of filmmaking and the filmmakers who make each and every work possible. This is a Chicago film festival with a specific focus on the issues facing society and how social change can make an incredible impact. Every day, society i …

Learn to earn! Our goal is to schedule expert speakers frequently on topics of interest about Web Designers and Web Development. We seek to help members improve their skills in web based Graphic Design, SEO, CMS, Web Apps, GUI, Adobe Creative Suite, Flash (especially Flash) as well as other suggestions from the group. Afterwards, we plan to meet at a local bar and network our asses off.

After-work drinks and bleary-eyed morning discussions served-up in the real Chicago since November 2007. We bring together professionals, journalists, academics and enthusiasts to discuss new media and its interaction with culture and society. Glad you're here and we look forward to meeting you!

The folks at Promet Source get together regularly to discuss new technologies, new developments in Drupal and mobile development. The purpose of this meetup is to publish our topics and invite anyone who is interested in participating into the office. Anyone who is a mobile or a Drupal developer should join the group.

… During our meetings we will discuss the following topics: Data strategies and roadmaps ERP and data rationalization Master Data Management Data Governance Operational assessments  Enterprise Data Management  Design Functional & Logical Models  Standard Architecture Frameworks  Center of Excellence B est Practices Software and Data Domain Facilitation Enterprise Intelligence Delivery Operational Data Stores  Data Warehousing ETL/ELT Custom Reporting Mobile BI Software solutions in visualization. …