VanHANA is a group for anyone interested in SAP HANA. As a group we will work together to build innovative startups, successful products, in-demand solutions and industry expertise. This is the group for you: If you have a startup or thinking about one that can benefit from in-memory computing. If you are working for SAP HANA project and want to know more. You are expert in building successful products, teams, solutions and looking for next big area of growth. What is SAP HANA? SAP HANA is SAP …

Meeting the right people is crucial. We look to match ideas with talent, hustlers with hackers and provide a great opportunity to meet other people in Vancouver working in the Tech Industry. We are the official meetup for Launch Academy and Grow Lab, as well as community run events like Demo Camp. Want to have an event without having to create an entire new Meetup group? Want to host or promote an event to 100s of web, software, and design craftspeople in Vancouver? Interested in cool cross-dis …

EIO is an international, collaborative organization developed by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.  Our aim is to flip the 96% failure rate of startup businesses upside-down on its head by providing emerging and established entrepreneurs with the know-how, training and development in a community of like-minded, high-performing peers. Free For Guests - Our Meetups are every Thursday! At ING Direct 466 Howe Street Vancouver from 7-9 PM.  Learn practical business take-aways while networking with ot …

A meetup in Vancouver for readers of Hacker News and fans of Y Combinator. We welcome anyone interesting in startups, hacking, tech and entrepreneurship.

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 …

A group for tech entrepreneur's interested in growing their companies and meeting other like-minded entrepreneurs. Have a beer and chat with seasoned tech CEO's, and learn how you can build the next Billion dollar company.

WE ARE HERE TO OFFER ZERO COST NETWORKING EVENTS TO HELP START UPS MEET NEW PEOPLE AND FIND SOME SOLUTIONS TO HELP THEM GET THERE BUSINESS OFF THE GROUND. WE WILL OFFER MEMBERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THEIR BUSINESS IN FRONT OF OTHERS AND HOPEFULLY MAKE SOME GREAT CONECTIONS. NO REFERAL FEES, NO ENTRY FEE JUST STRAIGHT UP COST EFFECTIVE NETWORKING. IT WILL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET NOT ONLY OUR MEET UP MEMBERS BUT ALSO EXISTING CLIENTS THAT WORK FROM OUR 7  VANCOUVER LOCATIONS.

Hello Fellow Geek Entrepreneurs! This meetup is for tech entrepreneurs who want to elevate their game.  As a professional entrepreneur coach, I will provide 15 minutes or so of coaching to each person in turn. It will be great learning for both the group watching and of course for each of you who get's to be coached. So, each of you should bring something specific that you want to work on. Remember that coaching is not first and foremost about technology or business although both those realms …

Turning your great idea into a viable food product is a complicated task at the best of times. If you are like me you have encountered a lot of hurdles that you need to overcome in order to bring your product to market. Let's meet and help each other navigate through this complicated process. Meetups will address product development, marketing, branding, food labelling regulations, financing, distribution and any other topics that members want to talk about. Meet other people that have faced the …

You're always busy, yet your mandate is to get out and meet more people! Mornings suck, and evenings are already crammed with family, friends, and other stuff. Sure, there are events scheduled throughout the month, but they always seem to happen at the same time. Some networking groups look okay until they hit you with an application and a fee. So, what's a Young Urban Professional to do? How's about meeting at LUNCH? Grab a bite. Exchange cards. Give everyone a ten second pitch, and get …

“The world we have designed and made is a result of our level of thinking, thus far what we have created has in itself created problems that we cannot solve at the same level of thinking and consciousness which has created the problems and issues.  We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein It's now 2012 the end of an Age and the Leap into a New Era. These are not times for the faint of heart. Our world and culture are undergoing the mo …

The HiVE Vancouver hosts ongoing events for organizations and individuals interested in social and environmental sustainability. We also help small businesses get organization and provided an excellent community for entrepreneurs with a passion for the environment and their community.

Hello, We are starting this group to educate and to help business owners and like minded people network together. What you will get out of this is new friends, business partners, investors, and also valuable tools you will learn from our invites and key note speakers. You should join if your a business owner, looking to become a business owner, looking to connect with like minded people, looking to invest, or your just looking to meet new people.  This group is not for sales pitching.

This group is for frustrated business people who want to make sense of the web... We will be touching on topics such as social media, blogging, building on online storefront.

This group is for any Aussie or kiwi entrepreneurs living in Vancouver, who wants to meetup to drink a few beers and talk about our north America takeover.

Science is all around us. Many find a love for it at an early age, but few continue to learn after leaving educational institutions. For those who continue to seek to know, there is DIYbio. DIYbio is is a community in which burgeoning biological engineers can come together to learn and share ideas, bringing back that enthusiasm for science we experienced as kids. DIYbio promotes the responsible and safe practice of scientific techniques. We meet in the Vancouver area to discuss topics such as …

//collaborate here Canada's largest tech meetups RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and …

Our meetup events are organized to help you start, build and grow your business. Each event provides you with high quality business training and education as well as an opportunity to network with fellow entrepreneurs. Events are designed to give you practical information, business strategies, tips, tricks, useful tools and innovative ideas on how to manage and grow your business better. We invite business experts and entrepreneurs to share with you their experiences, strategies and tips that w …

Welcome to the Vancouver Angel Investors Club! We are a different kind of investment club that focuses not just on return on investment in dollars, but also companies that can make a difference to people and the planet.  In other words, sustainable business. No actual money is exchanged within the club, invest if and when you want. Our mandate is to identify opportunities that offer a return on investment that not only provides a profit criteria, but also generate a lasting human and environment …

Join us for friendly, structured, facilitated networking. If you are self-employed or own a small business, and are looking for: like-minded, supportive and helpful people, ideas, encouragement and support  introductions, joint ventures, referrals, cross-promotion opportunities, etc. You've found the right place! Welcome to The Tribal Edge, a new chapter of HOBN. "A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human …

Hosted by Mammoth Market Advisory, this is an investment club for active investors interested in sharing and discussing investment and trading ideas related to small-cap TSX and TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies. There is an emphasis on mining, energy and technology stocks that have market caps of less than $300M. No amateurs please. This club is for sophisticated investors only. Unbiased. Transparent. No Hidden Fees. Actionable Ideas. Format of the Club: The Mammoth Investment Club is se …

We are a lonely hybrid of hackers, software developers, entrepreneurs without the alpha male social skills to successfully manipulate corporate subordinates because only we exist and our product exists because of us. We must do everything because you are the business, the corporation, the secretary, the annoying HR, accountant, marketer, salesman, software dev, the CEO. Sorry not interested in startupdom or any of it's witchery, raising cash, venture capitalists, ben bernanke, are banned words. …

Become a part of the largest not-for-profit Internet Marketing Meetup In Canada The Internet Masterminds Group Meetup The purpose of this group is to develop our businesses, marketing, share ideas, discuss strategies, and talk to people who get exited when we talk about internet marketing. We get together every Monday at 7pm to discuss various issues that we rarely get to talk about in the "real world". We are an internet marketing mastermind group that discusses: * Internet Marketing * Social …

This group is set up for people living in the Yaletown area and others who enjoy coming to Yaletown for events. We will be running Business events in Yaletown and want members to join who are interested in entrepreneurship and business networking. We are looking for quality and focussed members who want to grow their businesses. We will have smaller events where everyone can network and help each other. There will be certain rules everyone will abide by and failure to do so will have membership …