Welcome to the enterprise search meetup group! We're excited to meet you and discuss enterprise search strategy in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. This group's mission is to educate the Chicago IT community on enterprise search through roundtable discussions, lunch-and-learns and after-work networking events.

This is the meeting site for the Chicago area R user group. R is an open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

This is a group for aspiring and current small business owners and entrepreneurs who need a grounding in the practical side of intellectual property. What is a patent? What is a copyright, trademark or trade secret? How are they different and how are they similar? And most importantly, how are they useful to me? This group will help you answer those questions. The group meetings are a blend of open discussions, question and answer, and presentations of practical information on fundamental topics …

Meet others in your local area interested in various forms of Business Intelligence. Topics of discussion can range from traditional Business Intelligence topics to anything data-related to emerging technologies in the cloud. Our past presentations have included demonstrations of emerging technologies such as In-Memory analysis and social media analytics.  Future discussions plan to stay one step ahead of the mainstream by introducing new players in the arena as well as demonstrations of the lat …

This group will consist of BI professionals, data consumers, data evangelists, Sharepoint developers, data & enterprise architects, and business stakeholders  looking to leverage corporate assets through the information lifecycle and capitalize on advancing technologies. During our meetings we will discuss the following topics: Data strategies and roadmaps ERP and data rationalization Master Data Management Data Governance Operational assessments  Enterprise Data Management  Design Functional & …

The annual CMS Expo is your place to connect to the CMS Community. If you're a web designer, developer, content creator, administrator or business person, you need to attend the CMS Expo Learning & Business. Hosted by the CMS Association, the CMS Expo has quickly grown to be a "must-attend" event for Content Management Professionals at all levels of expertise. Whether you're a freelancer, an in-house content producer or part of a major enterprise, CMS Expo is for you. Check our website for all t …

Business Network Chicago (BNC) is a network for professionals offering extensive offline and online networking opportunities to the Chicago business community. Our mission is to bring professionals together, facilitate the development of mutually beneficial "win-win" relationships, educate, and promote the growth of business in Chicago. We support members in all phases of their career whether looking for clients, talent, a job, capital, or strategic alliances. BNC Groups – Each month BNC ho …

This meet-up group serves as a centralized calendar for Chicago events that are of interest to information technology professionals. We also occasionally schedule our own meetings. Our goal is to meet and network with other local IT Professionals -- employees, managers, consultants, recruiters, and IT business owners. We also welcome any non-professionals with an interest in the industry, such as students, and the ever elusive prospective customers and employers.

The main reason behind the creation of the group is social interaction for certified network engineers and IT professionals in computer networking industry. This group strives to bring network engineers of any technology together to share their know-how, expertise and experience. Although this group is named Cisco Network and Security Engineers, but it's scope is not limited to only Cisco engineers and it welcomes network engineers of other vendors such as Juniper, Nortel, Microsoft, HP, IBM, In …

This meet up consists of industry professionals that have been involved in the development of software for five or more years. The Software Development Community is an informal and interactive group of professionals that have a passion for software development, thus are interested in employing best practices and sharing their knowledge and experiences. This Software Development Community doesn't focus on any one technology (Java, .Net, Ruby, PHP, etc.), methodology (waterfall, agile, etc.), pr …

WHY SHAREPOINT 2010?  LATEST UPDATE Many organizations are doing quite well with their 2007 and 2003 SharePoint farms. However, Microsoft is expected to announce the next version of SharePoint some time late this year.  Additionally, Microsoft will discontinue formal support of SharePoint 2007 in October 2012. This can be a huge push to 2010, depending upon the size of an organization’s SharePoint installation. If it’s small and not utilizing much of the complexity of SharePoint, it might not be …

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 …

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 …

The Chicago Area DotNetNuke Users Group is for anyone who uses DotNetNuke to host, administer or develop websites. We are a community of Users, Administrators and Developers who come together to share information about our common interest DotNetNuke. Not a DotNetNuke user yet, but interested in Content Management System driven Websites? Then please join us for an upcoming meeting and see what DotNetNuke is all about. We are here to help, so feel free to jump in and ask questions. Please check ou …

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 an …

Social Media Club Chicago Social Media Club [SMC] is a worldwide organization, with local chapters, that serves as connecting organization for anyone interested in social media. Membership is free and open to all levels, including beginners. Chicago’s SMC chapter, launched in October 2008, presents events that mix socializing, networking and learning. Barbara Rozgonyi [@wiredprworks], founder and Jeff Willinger [@jwillie], president, lead the Chicago SMC chapter. Event attendees include entrepr …