Chicagoland's Sharpest Entrepreneurs Will Help You Discover Smart, Effective Marketing Strategies For Surviving These Trying Times! Chicagoland's Sharpest Entrepreneurs is a group of business owners, sales and marketing professionals, entrepreneurs, and professional practice owners interested in learning more about the direct marketing strategies and techniques taught by marketing guru Steve Sipress, Chicagoland's highest-paid and most-respected small business coach and consultant. Our first mee …

Technori Meetup is a group of impassioned entrepreneurs, developers, designers, tech companies, investors and general tech enthusiasts who have a deep love for Chicago and who want to see our emerging tech community flourish. By way of editorial content and an assortment of events throughout the year, Technori is dedicated to fostering relationships and celebrating those who make the Chicago tech scene what it is.  One of the group’s primary events is Technori Pitch; held on the last Tuesday of …

Leaders who are passionate ambassadors for Chicagoland’s innovative people, products, places, services and experiences. We network using innovative methods and techniques that facilitate thought-provoking conversations and meaningful relationships. Members are invited by Chicagoland innovation leaders that include Gerald "Soloutionman" Haman of SolutionPeople.com, InnovatorsDigest.com and the Chicago Thinkubator.

The Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering cloud computing innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for fellow cloud computers and newcomers alike to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this exciting and rapidly evolving technology niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn and network in the commu …

Social Enterprise Alliance (SEA) is a nonprofit association of individuals and organizations building effective, more sustainable nonprofits through earned income strategies. SEA has emerged as the common ground for practitioners, lenders, investors, grant makers, consultants, researchers, and educators who recognize the increasing impact of social enterprise. SEA provides its members with current information, tools, and other resources that address the unique needs of social enterprises. Socia …

Startup Evanston is a venue for building connections between individuals interested in building, developing, and funding high-growth companies in the Evanston area.   We seek to foster and further the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit in this city which Business Week named "one of the top-50 best small cities in the U.S. for start-up businesses." Meetings of the group will provide an opportunity for entrepreneurs, technologists, developers, and investors to develop relationships and explore …

Our weekly meetings include open networking, sixty second commercials, and an informational speaker. Join us for lunch and meet other business professionals looking to pass referrals weekly!

This group is tied to the Milwaukee Data Initiative, and effort to help our city by working with technology and data to innovate in business, community and government. This group will have all formal initiative events, and any that organizers want to do which relate to furthering technical standards, data collaboration or tool building. This group is for technology entrepreneurs, software developers, business professionals, government officials or community activists/workers that live, play or w …

Gener8tor invests its capital, expertise and network in capable, first-stage entrepreneurs with innovative business models. Gener8tor works with the startups in its portfolio to create successful, scalable companies. Gener8tor is backed in this effort by a successful team of entrepreneurs and business people with over 150 years of combined experience in creating wealth, companies and jobs. Gener8tor’s goal is to be recognized by entrepreneurs and investors as the best choice for creating, incuba …

Join us if: - You want to learn more about how to create or manage a conscious business - You are an entrepreneur or business leader who cares about making a difference - You believe that purpose, process and people come before profit - but create more profitable businesses in the end - You want to grow, learn and meet other like-minded leaders Welcome! This group is for you. We have created this meetup group to forward the ideas and actions of conscious capitalism in the Chicagoland area. Whi …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

BMA Chicago is the Business Marketing Association’s single largest chapter, serving over 520 business-marketing professionals through professional development, networking events and programs. BMA Chicago enhances critical thinking, communication and managerial skills by bringing our members face to face with the nation’s top b-to-b marketing thinkers and practitioners. Our board is proud to offer a powerful lineup of world-class marketers to you through our Marketing Innovators Luncheon series a …

This group is open to anyone who is interested in using technology to fuel social good. During these meetups we'll talk about how to use technology to bring an idea to life, and bring in Chicago nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs to help guide the discussion. We'll focus on how to build web and mobile solutions to solve real-world problems such as data management, registrations, transactions, and community building, among others.

This group has a business and peer-to-peer networking focus. Created for a diverse group of women business owners, entrepreneurs and women aspiring to start their own business. We will focus on all aspects of business, life, finance and marketing, but have fun doing it. This group will share resoource information such as books, innovative marketing strategies, ways to help create balance in our lives and all around healthy lifestyle concepts. Our Motto "Good Health Equals Financial Wealth", we w …

Enterprise technology is changing the face of large organizations by bringing efficiency, increased profitably, and employee happiness. The Chicago #EntTech Meetup works to foster innovation in enterprise tech, build a community of learning, and promote the best and brightest within the space. Organized by Manifest Digital and Acceleprise

This is a group for anyone interested in arts, business, lectures, music, science, technology, outdoors, family events, education, book clubs and any event that can be organized with a secular approach. If you are an Agnostic, Atheist, Non-Religious, Freethinker, Rationalist, Secular, Skeptic, Cynic, Secular Humanist, Naturalist, Deist, 'Nothing,' or any number of non-religious descriptives, you belong here. Visit us at our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NOgodsLAND/3844180982 …

Join this group to stay informed of all of the awesome entrepreneurship and tech events, classes, arts and innovation and workshops that are happening at Cíbola incubator in Pilsen!

Chicago Food Tech offers a variety of meetup events to bring together restauranteurs, food and technology changemakers and innovators with diverse backgrounds in order to create dialogues surrounding new business models, showcase opportunities, challenges, synergies, and forecast food technology's future.

This group is designed to enlist inspired, experienced, highly motivated, entrepreneurial and concerned individuals in a community to identify their hidden talents, passion and desire to put to work and start a business addressing community needs. This is a startup initiative for launching businesses by residents for community and supported by a community network for success of its residents. It is a program to launch a group of startups with initial education using special methods and mentors f …

Are you interested in improving your product toolbox? This group will explore what Steve Jobs referred to as the "tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product." Each session will focus on a particular tool or method, and apply it hands-on to a real project. There are no experts here, just makers who want to dig in and learn from each other. Welcome software product managers, experience designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, and lone rangers -- let's have fun pract …

Chicago Film Institute is dedicated to educating, inspiring and championing the Chicago film and new media community. Through a variety of programs and an intensive, hybrid conservatory, CFI is committed to fostering the city’s culturally vital and economically valuable film industry. CFI’s programs will fill needs that traditional institutions are missing such as cost-effective instruction, real-world applications and accessible education to individuals from underrepresented communities. ​ Thro …

A key ingredient to a vibrant, healthy community that creates and sustains career opportunities is an environment that promotes innovation. Come join your Chicago area colleagues in a collaborative effort to maximize technology capabilities to boosting innovation and provide sustained career opportunities in the Chicago area.  Date: Wednesday, March 20th at 5:30 p.m. Where: IC Stars 415 N. Dearborn St. , Chicago IL

This is a group for startups, freelancers, developers, entrepreneurs, remote worker, work-from-home professionals (and everyone in between) living on the north side of Chicago, who want to work and network in a coworking environment that will stimulate, inspire and support. If you don't want to schlep downtown to a coworking space and are looking for a community of like-mined, supportive folks in the Wicker Park, Bucktown, Ukranian Village, Lakeview, Logan Square (and elsewhere!), then please jo …

The Design Research Institute meetups are for anyone interested in design, entrepreneurship, innovative business, information design, data visualization, marketing and more. We offer food, short programs, and networking for faculty and students at UWM and other institutions of higher ed, the business community and creative industries. Mission: The Design Research Institute applies design thinking to creative research. We use the expertise and experience of artists and designers to collaborate, r …

A startup community formed by entrepreneurs to provide essential nutrients to the high-tech, high-growth startup community in Northeast Wisconsin.

The Word of Mouth Marketing Association is the official trade association dedicated to word of mouth and social media marketing. Founded in 2004, WOMMA is the leader in ethical word of mouth marketing practices through its education such as WOMMA Summit, professional development opportunities, and knowledge sharing with top industry marketers. WOMMA’s membership is made up of the most innovative companies committed to progressing the word of mouth marketing industry through advocacy, education, …

Our group is looking to discuss new innovative ideas in healthcare. Everyone is welcome and everyone gets heard. We discuss new business concepts - what we like about them, concerns about them and how to improve them. Each meeting has a focused topic to build on and since we partner with a local healthcare startup company, we get to use the latest and greatest innovation techniques. Be a part of the solution to making healthcare more affordable! We meet a few times a month. Looking forward to me …

Get INSPIRED!!! Join the BABC Chicago (a non-profit, business-forward, international organization) at our monthly event, The Speaker's Series. Each event features a fascinating speaker from all corners of the business world. You are bound to be inspired and motivated by their stories. A personal Q & A session allows you to pick the minds of some of today’s great business leaders! We have been graced by the presence of great minds such as, Laurence Geller of Strategic Hotels, Martin Radvan, Presi …