There is life to banking and asset management outside of London and New York! Yes, here in San Francisco are we few and proud quants, traders, spreadsheet hackers and banking software developers looking to meet for an infrequent coffee or casual lecture.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

SF Creative Coders is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of hackers, designers & creative technologists together to share experiences and build new friendships here in the Bay Area. The goal is to get outside and meet fellow coders while enjoying the amazing beauty that is San Francisco. Our conversations tend to center around the intersection of human / computer interaction, emerging technologies, and interface design. If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/U …

Join other fellow Python hackers in San Francisco for drinks.

Hackers meet Democracy. Join us and find out more about how hackers can change the way our democracies work. It belongs to us to redefine our democracies using what we've learnt in technology.

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 encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library, whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open forum. The audience will ask questions and provide feedback. We w …

We are a Silicon Valley (San Francisco) meet-up group, interested in connecting folks who are passionate about the education space and interested in applying technology to hack current problems in the education sector. If you are a developer / hacker / entrepreneur / investor — who is passionate about education  — please join us.  You can follow us on this meet-up, or "like our Facebook page" or follow us on Twitter at @EduTechGroup. We plan to bring together interesting speakers from the tec …

Food Startups is a community of food lovers, entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, bloggers, writers, and thought leaders who are passionate about food and technology. We started Food Startups because of the growing demand for improving how we produce, distribute, discover, consume, and share food through the use of technology. We bring together industry experts, entrepreneurs, investors, journalists and thought leaders, fostering collaborative dialogues to better understand these issues and devi …

We've been super enthralled with what the NYC Hack and Tell group has done, and we think it's high time to bring the same format to SF. If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access th …

Some may think you're a unicorn, but you just want to create. This group is dedicated to bringing out both the hacker and designer in all of us. The old dichotomy of developer vs. designer is a relic of 20th century corporate America. In this experimental group, we study interaction and visual design while simultaneously translating our new-found sensibilities into actual code. This group is about balancing our logical and linear left brains with our imaginative and creative right brains.

Anything social sales: from new business models like free trial, freemium, in-app purchases to use of social media for lead generation and sales to social products of the future. Meetup for sales stars, other customer facing personnel and growth hackers to compare notes on what works and what doesn't.

This group is to discuss sensor technology and applications, and we welcome hackers, entrepreneurs, health-care professionals, scientists, quantified-selfers, the DIY community, and anyone else who is excited about sensors and sensor data. We also have a FB discussion group: http://bit.ly/sensorites

Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing.

Growth Hacker community.

A community of Developers passionate about building and hacking epic APIs. Based out of our Hacker House in SOMA, we believe in the power of REST, Animated GIFs, and authentic Italian food.

We're building a great community of Hackers and friends that want to come out and meet other awesome people. Find out more at http://www.SFHackerNews.com/

Welcome To SF Growth Hackers! Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales funnels. Learn how to leverage user analytics, split testing and modern marketing techniques to improve every step of a sales funnel. As a startup or even a fortune 500 company you can't make informed decision about your product without the right data backing you up. We will discuss how to capture your data, setup experiments and make confident decisions about your business. Come and j …

This is a group for anyone interested in exploring the interface between the brain and modern computing. Interested in making apps that interface with consumer EEG devices like Emotiv's EPOC, Neurosky's Mindwave and InteraXon's Muse? What about neurostimulation via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)? Or are you just curious as to what this stuff is all about? It's time to have a group to bring all of us together who are interested in such th …

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

Millions of users listen to Spotify's streaming music service world wide. Behind the scenes is a world class technology organization that innovates hard to make the music easy. This Meetup is devoted to exploring how Spotify's technology stack works and to the hackers who use Spotify's APIs. We'll get together to meet both Spotify engineers and business leaders and anyone who takes the time to do something cool with Spotify's APIs.

A hacker space for JavaScript enthusiasts, coding educators and students, and those who want to make the web a cool and beautiful place. http://hackreactor.com Twitter: @HackReactor

Come work together with other folks passionate about open government and civic tech! This is a weekly event hosted by Code for America, so come by and work on a civic project you have already started, start a new project, or collaborate with others on their projects. http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/brigades/81 https://www.github.com/sfbrigade irc.freenode.net #sfbrigade #codeforamerica

We're a group of developers originally from Seattle doing a startup based in San Francisco. San Francisco brings a lot of diversity , culture and new ideas. We'd love to meet up with folks interested in startups, business, technology who are new to the area and may be missing home as well.

Non-profit Festivals & Events covering tech challenges with emphasis on artistic expression and creativity. Bringing together independent artists, coders, game developers, creators, performers and musicians celebrating Art and Technology. CODAME exists to incubate and support artists, technologists and designers that push the boundaries of hardware, software, and physical/digital mediums. At the intersection of ART+TECH, CODAME is accelerating the way we interpret and express our rapidly changin …

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.

For hackers and laymen alike. SF Cyber Security is a great excuse to get together and geek out about drive-by downloads, spearfishing, and your favorite Metasploit exploit. Also, because I'm a layman myself, we'll be sure to break down all those 1's and 0's to everyday English and talk about why cyber security matters for business and personal life. We'll aim for a regular slate of interesting speakers and the occasional startup showcase.

This group is for anyone who is interested in exploring the new digital industrial revolution and demand expectation economy. The old industrial age of mass manufacturing is giving way to a new demand based economy seen with the rise of crowd-funding, crowd-sourcing, hardware makers, adaptive manufacturing, and digital technology. This democratization of manufacturing is empowering consumers and producers alike with new creativity, innovations, choice, personalization, and customization. Join a …