Join this exciting Meetup for FREE and enjoy engaging First Friday socials, fun activities and adventurous events. Our members are hard-working gay and lesbian professionals from a variety of disciplines such as military, government, banking, law, medicine, new media, interior or fashion design and communications. They share the same desire to enjoy the company of like-minded professionals in a relaxed, fun atmosphere. Our group is welcoming and inclusive, respectful of everyone under the LGBT r …

Join for FREE expand your professional circle. You'll be invited to attend fabulous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) professional networking events at trendy gay-friendly lounges in Washington, DC. The purpose of the group is to build a stronger base of professional contacts. Share ideas and job possibilities, tap expertise, or meet potential clients or business partners. Benefit by making new connections and adding to your knowledge base. This is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and tr …

We host 5 - 10 events each month to help business owners get more leads, make more sales, develop crucial business skills, create strategic partnerships and more. The events fall into three categories: Business Education events (workshops, speakers & trainings), Business Social events (a monthly business networking happy hour & a business brunch), Business Games (Fun games designed to generate leads while teaching people important business skills). Our mission is to assist the business and perso …

Go Gay DC - Metro DC's LGBT Community Club - is the newest sensation focused on friendship, leadership, and service. Designed as a civic booster, it fosters gay community spirit. Join Go Gay DC for FREE and enjoy fabulous socials. This is for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (LGBT). It's "the Totally Hip and Happening Club" for Washington, DC-area gay folk and allies. Go Gay DC is the most popular LGBT Meetup in DC. Founded by TJ Flavell, Go Gay DC is a revolutionary use of new media, keeping …

This group is designed for young professionals who want to meet other successful young professionals at events all around DC. If your looking for business or social benefits in DC this is the meetup for you!

If you're a builder of web things or a creative designer, writer, or UXer who wants to get out of the house (or office) a bit, then come join us. We'll be the group of people nerding out over laptops in various coffee shops and art spaces around Arlington, Virg. This *is* a meetup catered to entrepreneurially minded folks who like to brainstorm actionable ideas with each other while developing, designing, writing, or making cools things. This *is not* a meetup group (a) to solicit web work (b) …

Hi! ProductCamp DC is a series of community organized gatherings focused on product related topics. Professionals interested in designing, building, launching and marketing great products gather to learn from one another and share their experiences. ProductCamp DC was conceived to fulfill the mission of advancing our capability to conceive, build, and market great products through an open and collaborative community. Whether you are in a large enterprise, small business, startup, non-profit or g …

Singles, singles, singles - if you are looking to meet the RIGHT person to date - this is the group for you!!! How would you like to go on 2 years worth of first dates in 1 night??? With this you can quickly see who you click with and want to see again for quality second dates! Our Meetup group is designed for you to meet one-on-one with other singles in a fun, organized setting so you can find dates with people you like!! You will meet new singles at every event - unlike other groups where y …

WELCOME TO UNITED LATINO PROFESSIONALS! Friends. Culture. Community. ANYONE WHO LOVES LATIN CULTURE CAN JOIN! EXPLORE THE CULTURE! MAKE NEW FRIENDS! GIVE BACK! “Si los ciudadanos practicasen entre sí la amistad, no tendrían necesidad de la justicia.” - Aristoteles ULP Vision: United Latino Professionals(ULP) will be the leading social networking group in the nation, with chapters in all major urban areas. Our activities will continue to unite people and celebrate Latino culture. ULP Mission: …

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals in …

Make yourself at home - welcome to the HOTCOE Meetup! HOTCOE stands for Hands-On Training & Career Opportunities for Everyone. We are the best at providing the general public with (a) hands-on experience, (b) access to just-in-time education, and/or (c) robust job marketing services. Our group is an outreach of, Career Network Ministry, the largest job seeker service provider in the Washington, DC metro area Virginia Institute of Technology's Office of Business Development, committed to bridgin …

The purpose of the group is to showcase local area talent and cover the graphic design, illustration, responsive web design, typography, advertising, self promotional, interactive and photography scene.   We want to also share ideas, discover opportunities, collaborate, meet potential clients, tap expertise, and establish partnerships. Meet the organizers, each one of them seasoned professionals in the creative and web design disciplines. How will we do this? Presentations on Photoshop, Illust …

This is a great group for I.T. Professionals to meet outside of the office to relax, socialize, talk about sports, politics, life, and the ever growing world of Information Technology. We emphasize finding new friends and associates with similar backgrounds to network with and do exciting things. Dinners, forums, happy hours, adventures, sporting events, and yes, parties are just a few of the types of activities we will partake. .

This group is designed for internationals new to the United States. International diplomats, professionals and their spouses who are interested in “hitting the ground running”. Our meetup is a resource for discovering the easiest way to manage the details of daily living in the D.C. Metro area. Learn practical ways to make your transition into American culture smooth and satisfying. Join us for warm lively conversation filled with tips and tricks to solve just about any problem that may arise; w …

Targeting, but not limited to, those who are new in town and mainly in their 20's or 30's, here is a group designed for getting together to enjoy bars/food/hikes/events/shows in the area. Events include sporting, concerts, happy hours, and whatever else that attracts interest. Meet at bars, parks, professional sports games, rec-leagues, or anywhere that sounds fun. Be social. Come hang out. Also looking for people to help organize events so let me know if you are interested... 20 and 30 Somethin …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Being dyslexic can mean both challenges and opportunities when establishing and maintaining a successful career. It is an exciting cross road in history for dyslexic people.  As more dyslexic entrepreneurs and professionals are recognized for their strengths, and as MRI evidence of the neural signature can now be seen, our abilities are recognized -not in-spite of dyslexia but because of it. Join us if you would like to meet other people who are dyslexic entrepreneurs or professionals and come a …

This is a group for anyone who has attended the "Business of Software" Conference, watched the live stream or even just wanted to go. Let's create the same atmosphere here in DC to talk about the software industry, meet with peers and learn how to make our software companies better. We meet once every 2 months on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.  This is designed to give us roughly 6 meetups per year to fill the gap between BoS conferences.

AscendNAAMBA is an organization with global reach aimed to propel Pan–Asian leaders to new heights through mentoring, professional development, and career advancement opportunities. AscendNAAMBA is the MBA component of Ascend, and will offer robust development programs designed to cultivate Pan–Asian talent and professional advancement. We are: An organization with global reach An organization that is truly Pan-Asian An organization that strives to create a critical mass of Pan-Asian professio …

We're a group of user experience professionals ranging from information architects and interaction designers to visual designers and usability specialists. Every month (more or less) we read a book related to designing for user experiences and get together to chat about it.

We are a group for anyone interested in or working in a field of design or home remodeling. Our goal is to bring the design community together to help and inspire each other through networking and educational talks. Professionals and students are welcome. Our members mostly include furniture, lighting, tile, paint, home, fabric, graphic, website designers, and architects, contractors and many more. We welcome everyone and look forward to meeting you and learning about your business.

Data Visualization DC is a non-profit professional group that meets monthly to discuss data visualization, data communication, infographics, exploratory data analysis, charts and graphs, perceptual psychology, and more! Our members are data journalists, data scientists, business intelligence professionals, and others who tell stories and persuade with data. Meeting topics are varied and range from tutorials on basic concepts and their applications, to success stories from local practitioners, to …

With two decades of solid agency experience among us, our team members have delivered projects for an array of clients, encompassing local businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies. Ministers of Design represents the culmination of this rich continuum: we are driven by a fundamental love for quality design, a commitment to excellence at each step of the process, and a belief in the power of measurable results. Learn more at www.ministersofdesign.com or attend our Meetup on April 4th!

This is a group for women who love hair extensions, weaves and wigs and have no problem wearing them. With the whole Natural Hair movement some women choose to go natural but wear protective styles while transitioning. Some people really don't realize just how easy it is to maintain a weave for women that have busy lives and schedules. This is also a safe haven for women who have severe hair loss due to sickness, alopecia or even hereditary balding. This group will be fun, meeting women from all …

Local get together for developers, designer, editors, and anyone interested in the concrete5 content management system.

This group is for anyone who wants to explore ways to do more meaningful work. Whether you have great ideas, you want to make an idea happen or you are looking to get inspired to participate making a great idea happen, this group is the place to start. Let's bring our talents together and explore new and interesting ways we can do amazing things, together Coordel is an ideas platform for funding and executing just-in-time joint ventures. We'll investigate how mass transparency facilitates social …

This Group is for "Professional" Gay/Bi African American men in the DC area. This group is designed to help black men network with each other on either a professional or personal level. Members of this group should be "professionals" who conduct themselves as such. If you are interested in Wine tastings, Hiking, Outings, Concerts, Museums, Art shows, and Cultural events this group is for you!

Meeting singles can be a daunting task--add the added expense of paid memberships and events and the entire process can be frustrating. Let's design a space where singles can get together--for free! That's what we're all about. Speed dating and singles events that you won't have to pay for.