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​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures. Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal […]

A special fireside chat for startup communities with Brad Feld and Eric Ries. Eric has a new book coming out on May 26 called Incorruptible. It's about how to build companies that stay mission-driven over the long term. While The Lean Startup helps entrepreneurs create valuable organizations, Incorruptible covers how and why to […]

Kick off the month with First Friday at UpStart Collective, a relaxed happy-hour style gathering for good conversation, new connections, and a little end-of-week celebration. Join the UpStart Collective community on the 5th floor in downtown Portland for an easygoing hour of meeting people, catching up, and easing into the weekend with a festive vibe. […]

# InventOR Bootcamp Mentor & Judge Opportunities | Support Oregon Student Innovators Join the PSU Center for Entrepreneurship (https://www.pdx.edu/entrepreneurship/) in supporting the **10th Annual InventOR**, Oregon’s only statewide collegiate invention competition. InventOR (https://www.inventoregon.org/) is an 8-week experiential program that helps collegiate inventors and innovators refine their ideas through mentorship, prototyping, storytelling, and […]

Portland 503 Day Block Party Ankeny Alley featuring local vendors + artisans, a silent disco dance party, live performances Tags: portland, pdx, 503, 503day Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482557

Come join your fellow idealists, builders, and shitposters for another meetup about the atmosphere! Together, we’re doing our part to create a more social web so the internet belongs to The People and not the oligarchs. Co-organizer Brittany Ellich will give us a preview of the AT Proto 101 talk she’s presenting at (https://cascadiajs.com/) […]

When targets get missed, the instinct is to do more. More leads. More calls. More pressure. That's not a strategy. That's GTM hell. This session works on two levels - providing immediate strategies to improve results now and a framework for building a repeatable growth engine going forward. In 45 minutes, we'll walk […]

Join us for a brief overview of Pitch Latino, a signature entrepreneurial showcase and pitch competition produced by Latino Founders. Designed to celebrate Latino entrepreneurship, innovation, and community impact, Pitch Latino provides founders with visibility, mentorship, and access to powerful networks and resources. This webinar will walk through what Pitch Latino is, who it’s […]

Think & Drink Trivia Night returns to OBI Join us at the Oregon Bioscience Incubator for an evening of dinner, drinks, and friendly competition. Whether you come solo or with friends, we'll form teams of four or fewer to keep things fair and fun, so bring your A-game! Your ticket includes a delicious […]

People doing strange things with electricity (and code)! DorkbotPDX is a laid-back meetup and show-and-tell for those who make, modify and use technical tools to weird and imaginative ends. You might run into creative coders, electronic artists, circuit designers, retro computing archaeologists, video game devs, modular synth gearheads and cyberpunk DIYers. Bring your […]

A toolkit for founders from Ali Maaxa, Ph.D., incubation product & marketing strategist (founder: ProductTheory.io, former: AWS AI, New Relic AI, Meta AI, Recreation.gov), guest VC expert Marianne Motus (UC Berkeley Business School), PDX startup dev team Semi-Decent, and leaders from CHIFOO and the ORPIB Incubator. This is a FREE lightning workshop to help […]

Take a break from panels, and meet the people building things in Portland. This is a casual, walk-around event where early-stage founders will be demoing what they’re working on from small tables. You’ll be able to: - See what local startups are building - Talk directly with founders and teams […]

Come join Community Broadband PDX to talk about building a publicly owned broadband network here in Portland. See you there! Tags: broadband, internet, utility Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482536

Pull your shorts out of the back of the drawer and don’t forget the sunscreen! 🍷 Join us on Wednesday, May 13 at 6:00 PM for a golden hour evening with friends, wine, and refreshing drinks at Company Wine Bar in SE Portland. Tags: portland, pdx, dmob Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482548

Get up-to-date information at: https://luma.com/76lre84o Address: Hawthorne Asylum Food Cart Pod Portland, Oregon United States Hosted by Erin M Miles Rasmussen Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482565

**Note:** Your RSVP is required in order to attend this event. Let’s get together for an informal BEAM PDX hangout: coffee, conversation, and light co-working. This is a low-key monthly meetup for folks working with **Elixir, Erlang, Gleam**, and other **BEAM languages**, aimed at reconnecting the local community and rebuilding momentum after a […]

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures. Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal […]

This presentation introduces D3.js as a powerful tool for transforming complex data into clear, meaningful visual stories which non-technical audiences can understand and use. It explains what D3.js is, how it works with web technologies and why visualization is essential for revealing patterns and insights raw data alone cannot show. This talk emphasizes designing […]

Come join Community Broadband PDX to talk about building a publicly owned broadband network here in Portland. See you there! Tags: broadband, internet, utility Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482575

That PLUG Clinic you like is coming back into style! The PLUG Clinic returns again this month on May 17, from 1pm-5pm. Note the different venue this month, we are back at the Albina Branch Library. If you need help with your Linux computer, or want to offer help, you are welcome! Volunteer […]

​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures. Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal […]

Join us for our free Spring Maseeh Exchange, and see how advances in AI are being applied to real-world challenges at Maseeh College. As these technologies move from research into everyday use, they are reshaping how engineers, scientists, and organizations approach design, analysis, and decision-making. Across disciplines, our researchers are translating complex information into practical […]

A meeting of folks interested in BSD operating systems and related technologies to get together, eat pizza, drink beer, and talk about what interesting things have been going on. Tags: DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, bsd Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250482551

Please register on either Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/pnw-software-quality-professionals-pnsqc/events/314648123/) or Luma (https://luma.com/60m4kgqw) so we can count attendance! Converge with your fellow software professionals this May at Steeplejack on NE Broadway! What are project managers actually saying about AI, quality, and delivery — and what does it mean for us in QA? Jahzeel Ormeño, Founder and Principal […]

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​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures. Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal […]

Join us for OBI’s Accelerate Biotech Happy Hour on Thursday, June 4, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM. Kick off June with OBI’s Accelerate Happy Hour! Good conversations, great people, and a relaxed space to connect. This month’s happy hour is fueled by our beverage sponsors, Ramsey Cox Media Relations and Public Affairs and Nucleate. […]

Summary: Large language models and other frontier AI systems are trained on clusters with thousands to over a hundred thousand GPUs. But what does that infrastructure actually look like? This talk walks through the anatomy of an AI supercomputer from the ground up: individual GPUs, multi-GPU nodes, racks, and full clusters. We'll cover the […]

Portland Starlight Parade In 2026, the Portland Rose Festival proudly introduces an exciting evolution of two beloved traditions: the CareOregon Grand Floral Starlight Parade. This newly reimagined parade brings together the pageantry of the Grand Floral Parade with the energy and excitement of the Starlight Parade into one unforgettable celebration. By combining these iconic […]