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 …

Are you in looking for more movement in your job search? You have come to the right place! Led by kick-butt, nationally-renowned career expert and nurturing "job sage" Laura Labovich, this high-energy group is designed around a structured curriculum that promises to move job seekers forward in their campaign. As a former recruiter and HR leader at Walt Disney World and (the former) AOL Time Warner, Laura knows what it takes to get a job faster and how to leap ahead of the competition--and will s …

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) …

LADIES!!!! Just because we live in the suburbs doesn't mean we don't know how to have fun, right?!?!?! This meetup is designed to target ladies that want to meet and network with people with similar interest. I would like to keep this group within the age range of 20s - 30s years old. So let's go out to socialize and flirt with life! We will be hosting happy hours, dinners, lunches, brunches, sporting events (watching and playing), movie nights, shopping, dancing, pot lucks, festivals, concer …

Hello there WELCOME!!! If you're a Graphic designer, photographer, artist, advertising professional, creative writer or someone who is just starting up in design world we want you and glad you chose this group to join. We'll network, discuss current trends, learn to do things old ways, teach each other what we know while we are up to date with current trends. Follow us on twitter @ http://twitter.com/#!/novacreatives Welcome again! Anita Eradla

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: …

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 …

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING SINGLE...I LOVED IT, BUT WHEN I WAS SICK OF BEING SINGLE, I TOOK ACTION AND CHANGED "MY" BEHAVIOR. AS YOU CANNOT CONTROL THE PEOPLE YOUR DATING BUT YOU CAN CONTROL HOW "YOU" ENGAGE THE DATING PROCESS. HAVING STUDIED SOCIOLOGY AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN COLLEGE, I COMPLETED A SOCIOLOGICAL PROJECT ON DATING AT THE HEIGHT OF ON-LINE DATING CRAZE AND USED MYSELF AS THE SUBJECT. I APPROACHED ABOUT 45 MEN (ON LINE AND ORGANICALLY) AND WENT OUT WITH ABOUT 40 OF THEM IN ABOU …

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 …

Graphic & Responsive Web Design is very much its own form of art ... Some would even say that it's a lifestyle. If you live, breathe, love all that is web and graphic design, you've come to the right place. The goal of this group is to grow and work with an awesome niche of talent in which ideas, work, projects can be freely shared and collaborated upon. Let our group be another way to inspire you and take your talents to another level!   Look forward to seeing you at our upcoming open house! p …

Alexandria is an icon for professional design. The city is filled with tremendously talented designers that are passionate about design as a method of problem solving. Although our backgrounds are diverse, ranging from traditional print to mobile interaction design, we are unified in our mission. We aim for innovative. We aim for useful. We aim for beautiful. We aim for unobtrusive, long-lasting, honest, and very human design. Our purpose is to promote professional design in Alexandria. With our …

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.

This is a group designed for Young Professionals living/working in the Reston, Herndon and Fairfax regions, open to expanding to the other Northern Virginia areas as we grow.

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 …

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.

This is a group for anyone interested in web design and development living in Reston and Herndon area.  If you are a web designer, web developer, full-time or part-time freelancer, or someone very interested in learning how to make great websites and web applications, then this is the right group for you. Regardless of level of expertise and experience in web development, we all can learn from each other by sharing new tips, news on latest technologies, best practices, new tools, and much more! …

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 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!

This group is for people interested in learning about interior design, current interior design trends, or searching for eco-friendly home furnishing solutions. Events are hosted by a professional interior designer, owner/president of her franchise design business, certified by the Sustainable Furnishings Council and located in Rockville, Maryland and surrounding areas. Meetup members will be notified of design seminars and/or home show events where you can greet, meet, and trade knowledgeable in …