Networking in Silicon Valley

If you are in Silicon Valley, there are a number of avenues to meet interesting people in Technology. You can attend events on a number of topics of your interest and they don't cost that much to attend. Here are some of the organizations which I attend whenever I get time.

a)SD Forum - www.sdforum.org

SD Forum is very much useful when you want to keep in touch with the latest Technical trends in the industry. They have various SIG's (Special Interest Groups) which you can attend and many startup founders present their technology in the relevant SIG's.

They also serve as incubator to companies and I heard that Sugar CRM incubated in SD Forum offices.

b)TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)
c)SVPMA(Silicon Valley Product Management Association)
d)Churchill Club