MobileMonday is a global not-for-profit organisation that helps bring together industry professionals interested in mobile around the world through monthly gatherings and other online activities.

http://www.mobilemondaybelfast.org

Open Coffee

The Open Coffee Club started to create a reason for people interested in startups, entrepreneurship, technology and finance to get together, meet new people and learn new things. There is no fee, no regular venue, the meets are quite unstructured and attendance is entirely optional!

• Belfast
• Lisburn
• Derry
• Mid Ulster
• Newry
• Coleraine

Belfast Linux User Group (BLUG)

http://www.belfastlinux.org/

NIMUG

The Northern Ireland Mac User Group

http://www.nimug.org/

NIMTUG

Northern Ireland Microsoft Technologies User Group (NIMTUG) is an organisation which promotes best-practices using Microsoft technologies. The user group hold regular free user group meetings on a variety of different topics for Developers and IT Professionals (ITPro).

http://nimtug.org/

NW-MTUG

NW-MTUG is a Microsoft Technology User Group that covers the Northwest of Ireland holding regular meetings on topics for IT Pro and developer catering for all levels of experience.

http://www.facebook.com/nwmtug

BarCamp Belfast

BarCamp is a user-generated conference - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

http://barcamp.org/BarCampBelfast

XCake

The idea behind this virtual casual get-together is to share thoughts, tips, problems and ideas to do with Cocoa and writing applications for the Mac and iPhone.

http://xcake.org

Centre for Competitiveness (CforC)

Established by the Private Sector, the Centre for Competitiveness (CforC) is an independent, not-for-profit, membership organisation, dedicated to assisting N.Ireland organisations build best in class performance. Through our global partnerships and member networks, CforC provide organisations with the latest international best practice and the related practical tools and techniques that help to: * Increase productivity & efficiency * Improve, add new value and create wealth * Get closer to customers and build new relationships * Create new business opportunities. Our members realise that they are faced with the threat of global competition and the need to build high performing organisations that will distinguish them against the competition, both locally and internationally. With our expert help, organisations will be able to focus in on critical areas for improvement and therefore develop a culture of continuous learning, innovation and performance improvement.

http://www.cforc.org

The Digital Media Forum

The Digital Media Forum is an enterprise network that develops and administers enterprise resources for companies in the digital media industry. To date the Forum has successfully administered two Skillnets Network Training calls (www.skillnets.com) and has raised significant funding to develop its enterprise training network on an all-island basis. Our aspiration, over the next two years, is to develop a network of 200 companies in the Digital Media area on a national basis.

Our aim is simple: to facilitate the training and networking of digital media enterprises in Ireland with a view to helping them create digital media products and services for the global market.

http://www.digitalmediaforum.net

http://digitalmediaisland.com (the DMF Blog)