We invite you to meet vibrant, ambitious and fun people at events in Oakland or the San Francisco East Bay Area ranging from casual get together's to professional business networking events. We provide a place to meet new people and make connections while helping each other significantly grow our businesses through quality leads.

The purpose of Oakland Events is to assist you in getting good referrals that will expand your San Francisco Bay Area business success. Our goal is very simple, to expand each member's business by promoting and marketing each other! We work together to assist one another build our businesses and achieve our goals. We will do this by providing opportunities to meet other professionals at mini-mixers (think “Table for Six or “It’s Just Lunch”). We will help you organize your mini-mixers and help match you with “power business partners.”

Our members include business owners, hospitality and restaurant professionals, fashion industry professionals, business and technology startups, recent college graduates, young professionals, retail professionals, attorneys, physicians, bankers, brokers, accountants, advisers and other San Francisco Bay Area 20- and 30-somethings.

We keep you informed and connected to the best San Francisco Bay Area social, business, music, charity, and after work networking events - If we post an event, members of the group will be there to enjoy the event with you!

Join us! It's free and easy! You don't have to live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area to be a member! … we look forward to meeting you!

We have a mix of social events and business networking strategy sessions to address challenges and explore all the new areas for growth including mobile marketing, customer loyalty programs, and social media.

This group is for anyone and everyone interested in the food industry, not only for restaurant owners or employees.

The Oakland Events Meetup is hosted by Piedmont Avenue Consulting (www.PiedmontAve.com) and David Mitroff, Ph.D. who has an extensive background in San Francisco Bay Area Business Consulting and San Francisco Restaurant Marketing. Piedmont Avenue Consulting is a San Francisco Bay Area Restaurant Consulting firm who creates brand awareness, strengthens customer loyalty, and increases lead generation through leveraging new technologies and streamlining business processes. Learn more at www.piedmontave.com/bay-area-restaurant-marketing and www.piedmontave.com/bay-area-business-consulting.

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