Startup Weekend is the place to go to meet driven and creative professionals that understand the entrepreneur. It's also a great place to meet co-founders, technical employees, legal professionals, mentors and potential investors. Even if you participate and your team/idea fails, with the connections you make, you end up winning.
Startup Weekend has been great for me. I met my CTO and lead enterprise salesperson both at Startup Weekend. It is a great cause to rally your tech, business and creative community around.