Even though summer tends to be a little slower around here, there are still a bunch of opportunities to connect with community. From meeting with fellow founders to learning from some of the smartest folks in town, here’s what’s on the docket for this week.
Monday (Aug 17)
Tuesday (Aug 18)
- Startup Conversations in the Couve – August — 10am, Vancouver
- Bridgespace Coworking X ATPROTO PDX | Open Coworking in the North — 10am
- Abundance – Office Hour — 11am
- Pitch, Please: August — 11am
- Discover the Metro Region Innovation Hub – Online Info Session — 1pm
- Better Futures Club — 1:30pm
- Portland Geek Dinner — 5:30pm
- AWS User Group Tech Talk – From 0 to Golden Jacket: AWS Certifications — 5:30pm
- Coding Club — 6pm
- PDXCPP – Monthly Meetup — 7pm
Wednesday (Aug 19)
- Webinar with Zeeve: Tokenized Deposits & Regulated Digital Money Infrastructure — 7am
- (CS)²AI Author Spotlight on Matthew Luallen — 10am
- B Lab Standards Workshop: Stakeholder Mapping — 12pm
- Drafting Hours — 1pm
- Green Energy Entrepreneurship: Venture Capital & Banking for Startups — 5pm
- Tech to Timbers: TAO Member Appreciation Night — 5pm
- The BFCM Countdown Starts Now — 5pm
- Agentic AI Multimodal Monthly Mixer – Where Agents’ Minds Meet — 5pm
- Database Patterns for Application Developers — 5:30pm
- PNSQC x SpoQuality — 5:30pm
- Cocktails + Code — 6pm
Thursday (Aug 20)
- LP Connect 2026: The Q4 Revenue Playbook for Ecommerce Brands — 8am
- Startup Cafe: Swag Day — 9am
- Ambition Without Depletion – A New Blueprint for Women of Color — 12pm
- Beers with Engineers — 5pm
- Social Beer — 6pm
- BSD Pizza Night — 7pm
Friday (Aug 21)
- PNW CoffeeOps — 8am
- PDX Code & Coffee @ Kiln — 9am
- Workshop: Abundance Belongs to Us All — 11:45am
- Friday Happy Hour at Beermongers — 12pm
- Tech Talk | The Future of Work: AI and Robots Are Not Going to Take Your Job — 1pm
- PDX Neurodivergent Tech Workers Online Meetup — 6pm
- Coding Club — 6pm
Saturday (Aug 22)
Sunday (Aug 23)
