Portland startup and tech events for the week

Interested in getting together with folks…? Well, there are plenty of events this week to give you the opportunity to do just that. Hopefully, there are any number of interesting topics and opportunities for you in the list below.

Monday (Sep 28)

• Code & Coffee – Beaverton — 9:00am
• Go Karts with Engineers — 6:00pm

Tuesday (Sep 29)

• Startup Business Essentials: Technology Law for Early-Stage Companies — 8:30am
• Writer’s Workshop – The Anthropologist’s Eye: Writing Culture as Structure — 12:00pm
• Better Futures Club — 1:30pm
• PDX Tech Summit — 2:00pm
• Cascadia Builders Club (Sept Demo night) — 5:00pm, Vancouver
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• RainSec – PDX Information Security Meetup — 6:30pm

Wednesday (Sep 30)

• ZK Learning Group: Zero Knowledge Bridges — 9:00am
• Learning With a Porpoise: The Legal Side of the AI Boom — 12:00pm
• Beyond the Build: The Business of Technical Leadership — 5:00pm
• Portland Happy Hour — 6:00pm

Thursday (Oct 1)

• Open Source Climate Accounting: What Exists, What’s Missing+Where To Contribute — 9:00am
• Roast Summit Portland 2026 — 9:00am
• This Is *Not* a Talk About AI (It’s About Fire, Anthropology, Technology and Humanity) — 5:00pm
• Vancouver Veteran Meetup — 6:00pm
• Digital Creatives “Drink-N-Draw” at Rose City Book Pub! — 6:30pm

Friday (Oct 2)

• Prompt to Profit Bootcamp
• Policy-Checked, Attributable, Revocable, Provable AI Agent Authorization — 7:00am
• PNW CoffeeOps — 8:00am
• Thinking Local: Honey Latte Cafe – District 3 Coffee w/ City Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane — 9:00am
• AnalyticsCLUB JobExpo Virtual Business, Data & Technology Job Expo — 11:00am
• Friday Happy Hour at Beermongers — 12:00pm
• Tech Talk | Developer Experience: Why Good Tools Matter with Jeff Dickey — 1:00pm
• Unemployed Tech Worker Potluck — 4:00pm
• First Friday @ UpStart Collective! — 5:00pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• 🌹Silicon Florist watch party — 9:00pm, online

Saturday (Oct 3)

• Mentorship Saturdays @ Roseline Coffee & Online — 10:00am