On the last Friday of each month Young innovators, change-makers, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers come together with established industry professionals across the media, technology, social and creative sectors to hear rapid fire talks from the heart from 5 young people on the 5 C's of innovation: creativity, connection, collaboration, commercialisation, and community. Breakfast and networking happens before and after the talks.

This is a group for any social enterprise practitioner or employee who is establishing, managing or growing a social enterprise in Sydney, Australia. If you are an entrepreneur who wants to do more, be more and provide more to provide an enterprise with a pivotal social, community or environmental outcome. Or a Social Innovator or entrepreneur who needs to collaborate to develop your social enterprise - this is the group for you.

This group is for anyone in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney who is interested in sharing, and gaining knowledge. If you think you know it all, please don't join this group. In order to share your knowledge with others, we ask that you have an open mind to learn as well. Please get involved in the group by suggesting events & meetups where we can network & grow our knowledge together!

Think Act Change is a new monthly meetup where changemakers, thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs or anyone who is passionate about social innovation, social enterprise or simply doing good meet once a month. At our meetups we want to talk about ideas, but more importantly we want to connect people to enable them to act on their ideas in order to implement real change. We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. We'll have an informal gathering of people who want to talk about real issues. We'll a …

The young entrepreneurial community of Sydney is growing. We want to create a space where creative, social and business entrepreneurs can all come together to share stories, create networks and learn from each other. If you are innovative, passionate about social change, entrepreneurial, keen to learn and develop or keen to be part of the young entrepreneur community, we would love you to be part of this group.

Together Everyone Achieves More. The group is about networking between entrepreneurs, new & existing business owners, someone who is thinking of starting a business or someone who wants to discuss some ideas in their related field of work. During the course of the meetup if someone wants to showcase their business or products we will provide you with a corporate table with a very minimal of cost unlike some other networking meetups. We would also like to have a few people to share some of their …

Do what you love. Turn your passion into your career. Start a company. Create jobs. Inspire others. Change the world. Vision Women as Entrepreneurs were created with the vision to build, support and promote the Australian national community of like-minded aspiring and accomplished female entrepreneurs. With partnerships, empowerment and inspiration, WE encourage more women to bravely step into entrepreneurship, increasing the current 17% female presence in the Australian entrepreneurial space. …

Are you thinking of starting a business? Do you have a few ideas but don’t know where to start and you are not ready to quit your job yet? This is the meetup group for you! We are experienced Entrepreneurs who love to help and empower people to start your dream business. We want to connect with aspiring entrepreneurs to see what ideas they have and how we can help them take the first steps. Our evenings include: - Experienced guest speakers - OpenForum on your challenges - let’s find a soluti …

This is a group for everybody who owns their own business and is inspired by other entrepreneurs. It's a nice, simple, relaxed way to meet other like minded business owners, share ideas, create new networks and create new business opportunities. We meet once per week on a Tuesday morning for a brisk walk around North Sydney park and a coffee afterwards.

It has been said that 'the entrepreneur is the loneliest person in the world.' NOT ANY MORE!! Come and network with other enthusiastic and experienced traditional business owners and entrepreneurs to keep your motivation high. Networking is not only about acquiring new business, it's about building a support network that helps BUILD your business. I look forward to meeting you! Luke Shavak (Organiser)

New and aspiring entrepreneurs of all ages are welcome! Whether you are a new entrepreneur or an aspiring one, this meet up will be a great place to network with other business owners, brainstorm over ideas and/or find new avenues to join forces! The meet up is organized every Saturday by Stephen Licciardello, a life and business coach with the sole intention of offering new entrepreneurs an inexpensive forum to network, interact and grow. Why should you attend the Young Entrepreneurs Networki …

Coworking in Sydney. The aim of this group is to build networks within and around coworking, and coworking spaces in Sydney. We think it's important to grow your ideas in the company of other like minded people, and create a culture of innovation in the start-up and freelance communities. Join this group if you're a creative individual current working from a coworking space, or even working from home or a cafe, and would like to meet like-minded people who are also interested in innovation and b …

We want to build human-to-human networks of people who care about creating ventures that do social good and create value for society above and beyond the bottom line. We believe that it is possible to create successful ventures that make a profit and do social good. We connect people with ideas to people with skills so that they can create new ventures together. Find out more at http://socialinnovationsydney.org/

Creative Minds Sydney is a platform for connecting creative and inspiring people in these interesting times. We encourage collaboration between the creative, innovative, and ever-courageous people that come to our events - those speaking, and those listening The network and information society offers huge chances and possibilities. At the same time the ages of prosperity and growth are ending and society is changing. As an old Chinese saying states: "When the winds of change are blowing, some pe …

Interested in the future of education? The Khan Academy, Sir Ken Robinson and Daniel Pink have changed the way we think about the way students learn and the way teachers should teach. Let's accelerate change by starting a conversation about Education in Australia.

Love getting out and about and enjoying the coastline and beauty of Sydney, but also want to take it easy Sunday morning and not rush out? Also, want a smallish group so you can get to know people better? Then, this is the group for you. ! We walk on Sunday afternoons, often on a coastal track or near water, but could sometimes mix it up a bit. We are very social, like to chat and go at a pace that all group members can cope with.  Numbers are limited to 20. Walks are usually between 5-10kms max …

**NOTE: The Digital Storytellers.us group is on hold until 2013 -- we're currently figuring out our strategy for next year. So please hang tight and we'll be in touch when we get things up and running again. Are you a digital storyteller in Sydney or a social venture that needs a film made on a shoestring? Then we want to hear from you. This group is meant to do two things: Bring aspiring changemaker filmmakers together to collaborate and create inspiring films on a monthly basis To provide a …

Ever wondered about the future of money? What's the impact of Facebook credits and Bitcoin? What role can traditional banks and financial institutions play in today's world? What's the true impact of phasing out cheques? How can we support the un-banked? Here's what you need to do to get started: Join our group and add a topic you're passionate about eg. How could virtual currencies be taxed? Come along to our meetup, have a drink, have a chat and explore the future of money. Each meeting we'll …

Established in 2007, The Sydney Development Circle (SDC) is a mentoring and networking group open to anyone interested in international aid and community development at the local, regional and global levels. SDC represents people of all ages, backgrounds and experience, across diverse development sectors. There are no membership dues. A volunteer steering committee coordinates events, and members are invited to recommend speakers and topics. We collaborate with other Development Circles througho …

Randwick Area Connect is an initiative that brings together local businesses, residents and non-profit organisations from Randwick and surrounding areas. Hosted by the Rotary Club of Randwick, it is open to everyone who has an interest in community activities and getting to know their neighbours. Usually held on first Tuesday of Month. Format: First Tuesday of the Month- Special Networking Night Open networking 6:30pm-7:30pm (Free entry, drinks available from bar, guest speaker at 7pm). Optional …

A group for sydneysiders dedicated to use their software building skills for the greater good of humanity, through contribution to open source projects. We are currently looking for someone to assist with coordinating and hosting our meetup! Let us know if you want to get involved and can help.

Sydney Wiki is launching in 2012 to give Sydney a community-owned, living information repository on the the people, places, and events that shape our communities. It uses a revolutionary new wiki code that is super easy to use and specifically developed to create a localwiki.

This group is for difference makers who want to stand out from the crowd. It's about finding out and helping each other to identify, express and integrate the unique, special talents we use to make a difference in the world.

Sydney Tech Startup Meetup (formerly known as OpenCoffee Sydney)  is based on a similar, successful idea introduced in London, and is about creating a regular, informal, meeting place for people involved in, or who want to be involved in, the Tech Startup Industry We know Sydney has the talent, but we've never really had a regular place for all the technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers, creatives and anyone else with an interest in tech startups to just hang out. The more we get to kno …

TiE Sydney is the local chapter of the world's largest, non-profit entrepreneur network, run entirely by volunteers. Our goal is to foster entrepreneurship globally - via mentoring, networking and education. We have Charter Members who have 'been there, done that' and volunteer their time and money to help others succeed. We meet once a month, but also run pitching contests, biz planning workshops and connect Aussies with our 61 chapters in 17 countries. Membership is not required for our free M …

As featured in the Sydney Morning Herald. Hi there, my name is Adrian Abrate and my vision is to connect time-poor business owners and entrepreneurs with free high impact information and business networking events. I want to help you experience eureka moments and make great B2B connections when you participate at one of our events. You know, those moments when you make a new business connection or you're suddenly made aware of a new fact or process that changes how you do business from that poi …

The Marketing and Business Strategy Meetup aims to bring together current and new business owners, entrepreneurs and marketing professionals together to discuss marketing plans that work! Start driving revenue to your business with a strong marketing strategy. Join us and share what has worked for you, whilst learning new techniques and promotion methods that might work for your business.

We are a Sydney meet-up group, interested in connecting educators, tutors, tech geeks, start-ups and investors who are passionate about the education space and interested in applying technology to solve current problems in the education sector. If you are a developer / hacker / entrepreneur / investor — who is passionate about education — please join us. You can follow us on this meet-up, or "like our Facebook page" or follow us on Twitter at @SydEduTechGroup. We plan to bring together interesti …