Startup and tech events for the week of Oct 5, 2026

If you’re looking for an event or two to attend this week, we’ve got a few options for you. Hoping to run into you out in the community, this week.

Monday (Oct 5)

• Code & Coffee – Beaverton — 9:00am
• AI Tinkerers Portland — What Your UX Isn’t Telling You — 6:00pm

Tuesday (Oct 6)

• Startup Business Essentials: Gain Clarity and Build Your 2027 Roadmap — 8:30am
• AI × Decentralized Trust: Kickoff of the LFDT AI Working Group — 9:00am
• Writer’s Workshop – Borrowed Truth: Writing From Real Life Without Writing Your Diary — 12:00pm
• CORAL Chats: Community Organization Roundtable – Ask A Lawyer — 12:00pm
• WEBINAR: How To Market Your Agency — 12:00pm
• Better Futures Club — 1:30pm
• ADX Fest: Your Art Is Your Business® — 5:30pm
• Portland Geek Dinner – Beaverton! — 5:30pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm

Wednesday (Oct 7)

• October: Co-Work with OEN — 9:00am
• Work-In Wednesday — 10:00am
• (CS)²AI Online™ Seminar: Water Cybersecurity: Keeping It Pure — 10:00am
• Talk Tech Together: Strategies for Digital Empowerment — 12:30pm
• TechConnect: Global Virtual Job & Networking Event for Data, AI, and Tech Pros — 4:00pm
• Assistive Tech User Research with Cindy Merrill (Hybrid) – CHIFOO / PDX A11Y UX — 6:00pm

Thursday (Oct 8)

• Portland, OR – Investor Ready Workshop — 9:30am
• BLD PNW 2026 — 10:00am
• Brand Storytelling Workshop – Your Brand is NOT Your Logo — 3:00pm
• Community Broadband PDX Campaign Meeting — 5:30pm
• Play pool. Talk tech — 5:30pm
• Pitch Latino Portland 2026 — 6:00pm

Friday (Oct 9)

• Sweater Weather Coffee & Connecting! — 8:00am
• Pumpkin Spice and Sweater Weather — 8:00am
• PNW CoffeeOps — 8:00am
• AI & Robotics Field Trip — 9:00am
• Friday Happy Hour at Beermongers — 12:00pm
• Tech Talk: Inside the Role of a Forward Deployed Engineer with MJ Hill — 1:00pm
• World Mental Health Day @ UpStart Collective — 4:00pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• 🌹 Silicon Florist watch party — 9:00pm, online

Saturday (Oct 10)

• PDX Code & Coffee – Happy Valley @ Peet’s Coffee — 10:00am
• Web Surfing Party! — 1:00pm

Sunday (Oct 11)

• PNSQC Innovation Day — 1:00pm

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