We are the organizers and attendees of Program For The Future 2008 (http://programforthefuture.org). From that conference, we have a set of initiatives and a growing community - all whose shared objective is to help bring about teamwork and massive collaboration on a global scale in order to avert planetary disaster - the vision that inspired Doug Engelbart to invent the mouse, hypertext, windowed computer interaction, multimedia, outline processing, wikis, and even more innovations the world …

WE WILL BE SCHEDULING MEETUPS VERY SOON. PLEASE JOIN THE GROUP TO GET UPDATES! THANK YOU. Purpose : Training in Finances. Educational and Networking Events for Like Minded People who Have Wealth and Are Accumulating Wealth and Intend to Keep Their Wealth and Finances in good shape. We started this financial education training meetup to give a venue for the dissemination of information that will help one make money and keep it legally and with full integrity. Who should join: People who have and …

“ Live where you want, but Invest where it makes sense”. Join us each month to learn and share your experiences with new and experienced investors.  Join us on our Fieldtrips as well!  Contra Costa County has proven to provide many of the best investment opportunities in the Bay Area, as well as the entire State. Why go out of state when the best deals are right here in your own backyard? Home values have plummeted for 5 years now in much of the Bay Area. However, values have stabilized and are …

To explore and discuss Trading Systems. Open to all Strategies and Methodologies. No hard-selling, just friendly, intelligent discourse. - Technical Analysis - Artificial Intelligence systems, including but not limited to Neural networks Genetic algorithms - Datamining - Fundamental Value

Are you a real estate rehabber / flipper? Or are you looking for ways to become a rehabber & flipper of one to 4 unit residential properties in the Bay Area? Are you able to find solid, great deals but can't get them funded? We will be covering ways to structure deals using short term, 3 to 12 month private money and hard money to get your project funded. As an example, through debt and equity funding, there are ways to get your deal financed for both the purchase and rehab. We will be covering …

Have you ever felt that you were meant for more? Maybe it's a higher level of love, success, health, happiness, or abundance. Maybe it's just living on your OWN terms. Whatever your dream is, you probably faced some obstacles that seem insurmountable. You did everything you could--read self-help books, watched the videos, attended the seminars--and still, you can't move forward! What could be holding you back? It's NOT your fault. If it was only you, then your challenges will be resolved by y …

My passion is to educate people on real estate purchasing and investing with income property improvement strategies. I'd like to start a group for people who are interested in real estate investing and share ideas and information on real estate topics including first time home buying, investing in income properties opportunities and financing.

We are a community of B2B professionals that are seriously committed to growing our businesses. We are here to combine our skills and resources to learn from each other and build powerful partnerships within the group. We meet the first Friday of each month from 11:30 to 1PM in Campbell, CA.  If you are interested in joining us, please request joining our meetup and you will will receive more information from us. Only one business area can be filled by one of our members. Businesses categories c …

What’s your dream? Freedom of time? Unlimited resources to travel the world? Whatever it may be, CASHFLOW 101 teaches you how to get out of the Rat Race and onto the Fast Track, how to make your money work for you - not the other way around. CASHFLOW 101 is an educational board game that simulates real life financial strategies and situations. As a simulation, you learn valuable lessons and gain priceless insights into personal finance and investing without having to put your actual money at ris …

Bigdata applications platform on cloud like Datameer, Karmasphere, Hadapt, Kitenga and others are providing a bog opportunity for developers with Bigdata expereince to build applications on top of same using Hadoop distribution platform like Cloudera, MapR and Hortonworks among others. SAP HANA provides a In-memomry Computing and Analytics platform that can be used to provide ondemand, realtime predictive analytics applications on Finance, Healthcare, public sector and others. lets use the foru …

A forum to discuss ideas we've heard, concerns we have, and suggestions to get from here to there. This will be a limited term guided discussion group with the topics selected by the members.  I am dismayed to see that women are not ready for retirement and am interested in learning why. No sales pitches permitted. Who - Confused by too much information; 401k now a 201k; just looking for ideas Why - we need a format to discuss ideas and resources in an unbiased manner and where no one is trying …

This group aims to bring together software professionals who work with Renewable Energy projects. The group's name is: Software for Renewable Energy or SWRE. SWRE should be pronounced like the French word: soiree. As such, we are all very valuable party-goers in this industry and the more we talk and work together, the greater impact we'll all have. Potential topics for meetups include: * presentations/demos of RE related projects we're all working on * discussions of what tools and technologies …

Join us to discuss books and ideas regarding achieving financial independence through a conscious relationship with money. Sample books are Your Money or Your Life, Live More Work Less, and Early Retirement Extreme. Spend less and live more!

This is a forum and meetup for people interested to learn more about Payment Systems, Programming API, Processors, Gateways, Terminals, PCI Compliance, Consumer and Enterprise solutions and Payment Ecosystem overall. We will have technical discussions by industry leaders and speakers from Paypal, Google, CardSpring and many other companies.

We are a group of professionals dedicated in the exchange of business referrals. Only one member of each profession is represented in each group and we meet once a week for this purpose. we are always looking to grow our group! We meet once a week every thursday at 7:30 am - 8:30 am the Boulder Ridge Golf Club (1000 Old Quarry rd, san jose, ca 95123). We invite you to bring business cards to exchange with others and be ready to network with like-minded professionals aimed at growing each other' …

This group is for Silicon Valley professionals in the health, legal, education, or technology fields. It provides education on important financial topics such as college funding strategies, self-directed IRAs, retirement planning, tax strategies, trusts, portfolio optimization, and alternative investing approaches available to qualified investors. Presenters will be experts in their respective fields. All information will be educational - no sales pitches will be permitted.

What is this Meetup group about? This Meetup group features an ongoing series of workshops on core startup concepts that can help you to build a better, more viable business. Our goal is to have a Meetup workshop on a new topic about every month or so. Who is it for? If you have started a company, want to start a company, or are looking to become a better CEO, CTO, or other senior operator of a startup, then this Meetup is for you! What are the topics we will look at? These workshops focus on bu …

Bay area investors working on rehab projects, investors both active and passive who are interested in rehab projects, real estate networking.

ASL’s Emerging Business Group supports you through the start-up and growth stages by helping you: - Tackle and move past business problems with proven ideas and resources from ASL personnel and our large professional network. - Gain traction in the market by planning for and securing the financing necessary to fund key initiatives and projects. - Get the most out of your capital by identifying and eliminating operational inefficiencies. - Connect to a peer network of other founders, owners, and …

CMREI is a Commercial Real Estate training, Securities and Investment company supporting motivated, investment-seeking individuals across the world. The Real Estate education and business models that we provide are unmatched by any other professional organization in the industry. CMREI offers basic to advanced level learning and applicable strategies for individuals with a desire to build cash flow and financial independence. CMREI believes that every investor has his or her own blue print for …