This group is dedicated to advancing innovations that focus on improving patient care with the active involvement of Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Administrators, Engineers, and even Lawyers.  If your interest is in improving the practice and performance of medicine, than this is the meetup for you. Borne of the Health 2.0 international movement, Eugene Borukovich started the NYC chapter in 2008. Our chapter has since grown to become the largest healthcare innovation focused meetup in the world …

The NY Quantified Self meetup is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. Your host for the NYC meetup is Steve Dean @sgdean. Write us with your recommendations, tips, and observations. This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share what you are doing and learn fro …

The only reason to join my meetup is if you're someone who wants to know as much as possible about bipolar disorder, especially in regards to how best to thrive with our disorder. I come armed with numerous thorough, expensive and informative Psychiatric textbooks, a few Clinical Psychology Textbooks, as well as numerous excellent books on Bipolar Disorder, which you will have full access to once you join the group. The books alone are worth thousands of dollars. Then I also add to the mix profe …

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

CDI was created by a group of creative, motivated and committed young professionals from around the world and aims to build strong and sustainable urban and rural communities in both the worst off developing countries throughout the world and in disadvantaged local communities in the developed world. CDI implements innovative projects and programs, following the Millenium Development Goals and within CDI's six core inter-related focal areas; Education, Health, Agriculture, Energy, Eco-Enterprise …

Learn about all the great ways you can volunteer with the Greenbelt. Find out about the many fun and exciting volunteer opportunities the Greenbelt has to offer. From environmental education to ecosystem restoration, from tree care to wildlife monitoring, learn about the Greenbelt's current initiatives and how you can get involved. This group is great for students, seniors, and anyone else who wants to find a way to make a difference.

The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization part of a network of 27 chapters worldwide. Our mission is to be the New York City-based leader in hosting networking and educational events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. We host monthly events that attract between 30 and 200+ people. We count a membership of 200 people and a subscription list of 10,000 people, and have been an active chapter since 1971. We also occasionally host events with part …

Come meet people who love learning about and exploring the Hudson. Beczak Environmental Education Center is the lower Hudson's hub for river-related education and activities. Members are invited to events such as: RiverTalks - smart conversation about the Hudson River and a free drink. Urban H2O - rockin' roots concerts featuring the best local and regional artists Opportunities to Volunteer - pitch in and help with Hudson clean-up, neighborhood bbq, and fundraising events Catch of the Day Seini …

The aim of this Manhattan-based group is to serve as a social outlet for creativity, and to produce fun-to-watch short films of acceptable quality for the film festival circuit. No experience necessary! We may not produce as impressive a product as we want, but we’ll make movies, learn a lot, and we’ll have fun. Films will be written and directed by its members, and we’ll decide collectively which will be the next project. Any collective, and certainly this one, will require frequent compromise, …

The DMX Dance Company is a movement that began to take shape in April of 1999, when friends & other dancers came together to teach and share their dance experiences beyond simply giving quick tips, sparking the development of a team of well-informed dancers whose commitment to the Art of Dance would develop a teaching program regarded by many as simply….THE BEST. These individuals dedicated themselves to the promotion of their Art as the African American treasure that it is. They further desired …

Welcome to NY Mens Soccer For the 2013 Spring Season NYMS will host the following: Wednesday 8 a-side League in Williamsburg beginning April Sunday League on Randall's Island in May For more details and to register click here. We're still hosting our Monday, Friday and Sunday Indoor Meetups in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Format is 5-a-side with teams rotating. For those of you who haven't played with us, while we suggest players should be of intermediate experience and above, each session will …

This group is for adults living with type 1 diabetes in Westchester county, as well as Fairfield and Rockland counties. We're here to support each other, educate each other, and have fun together! We will have regular dinners together, plus any other activities that members would like to do.

This is a group for anyone interested in research concerning artificial neural networks, deep learning, and so on. The format varies between discussion groups, guest speakers, and tutorials. Proposed topics include: training deep belief networks with unsupervised pre-training/supervised finetuning, recurrent neural networks, different optimization methods, scalable architectures for large networks across clusters, practical GPU programming (with Python!), NNs for NLP, using NNs in robotics, visu …

Are you interested in consumer behavior? Are you trying to figure out what the digital era means for you as a brand manager, marketing strategist, etc.? Then this is the group for you. Together, and with the help of experts from industry and academia, we'll answer challenging questions such as: how do you effectively monitor and influence social media, how can you drive behavior change in the health domain and in general, and any other issues that keep you chewing on your proverbial pencil.

Art Lab, the Art school in Snug Harbor Cultural Center, is STILL the only place on Staten Island that regularly hosts a walk-in life drawing open studio! Thursdays from 7pm-10pm every Thursday from now until March 14th and starting up again in the Spring on April 11th for 10 consecutive Thursdays! Call our office at 718-447-8667 with any questions. Our hours are Mon-Thu 10am-8pm and Fri-Sun 10am-5pm. We hope to see you there! Look below for our full Life Drawing course description found on www.a …

Come Together For Health™ Improving access to affordable healthcare by promoting innovative technologies that transform healthcare. Health Technology Forum (HTF) is a platform for people worldwide who have a common interest in making healthcare better, more accessible and affordable. Our international network of technology and healthcare entrepreneurs, developers, regulators, and providers are advancing the pace of healthcare innovation by engaging in exciting and productive dialogue between exp …

Calling on healthcare technologists to foster motivated patients’ use of evolving body sensor data together with mobile devices and web sites to preempt health emergencies, monitor, adjust and capture daily health routine and enable in-depth specialist consults that take advantage of their expertise.

Do you run web sites on IIS, .NET (or Mono) and Microsoft Windows Server? Do you use Windows PowerShell to manage your Infrastructure. Do you spin up Microsoft Windows cloud instances on Windows Azure, EC2 or RackSpace? Microsoft shops that run Web Sites face the same problems with configuration management, deployment and operations as folks that run on the LAMP stack. This community will teach each other good practices with running web sites on Microsoft Windows, IIS and .NET from OS provisioni …

Are you getting tired of the same movie night and bar scene week in and week out? Are you interested in trying new things that don't necessarily include getting hit by paint, being strapped into a harness, or spending mad cash money? Are trips to NYC a drag because of cost and transportation? Do you feel like your "missing out" since the North/Central NJ scene kind of sucks? Are you a creative, artistic, musical or open-minded individual? Do you have a mullet-ful of imagination that cannot be co …