Startup and tech events for this week

Looking for an event or three to attend this week…? Well, I’ve got some bad news: There are waaaaaay too many choices. That being said, I hope you can find something that piques your interest.

Monday (Oct 26)

• Code & Coffee – Beaverton — 9:00am

Tuesday (Oct 27)

• Virtual Lunch & Learn: Intentional Culture for the Bioscience Start-up — 12:00pm
• Better Futures Club — 1:30pm
• Portland AWS User Group – 10 deployments in 10 minutes, zero dropped packets! — 5:30pm
• Portland Geek Dinner – Hillsboro! — 5:30pm
• PCXN + Here For PDX (ADX Fest) — 5:30pm
• Beyond the Password Reset: Microsoft 365 Security + Live AI Deployment — 6:00pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• RainSec – PDX Information Security Meetup — 6:30pm
• Gather: People + Products — 6:30pm

Wednesday (Oct 28)

• What PDPP Unlocks: 4 Builders on What They Built, Why It Was Hard, What’s Next — 9:00am
• Chamber Membership 101 — 9:30am
• (CS)²AI Online™ Symposium: Smart Building Cybersecurity — 10:00am
• PDX AI Chat — 10:00am
• Portland Issues with Greg Retsinas, President of KGW TV — 12:00pm
• Green Flags and the Right Job: A Networking Event — 5:30pm
• Intro to Semantic Link Labs for Power BI — 5:30pm
• DevDay Exchange Community: Portland — 6:00pm
• Exploit Workshop — 6:30pm

Thursday (Oct 29)

• Measuring Ledgers With The Blockchain Decentralisation Index Lab — 8:00am
• Cascadia Public Sector AI Summit — 9:00am
• ZK Learning Group: Quantum resistance and ZKP — 10:00am
• NextNW Nightmares – Extremely Happy Hour — 4:30pm
• TAO: Physical AI in Practice: Building for Healthcare’s Realities — 5:00pm
• Vantechy Happy Hour — 5:30pm, Vancouver
• October 2026 Portland Linux Kernel Meetup — 6:00pm

Friday (Oct 30)

• Prompt to Profit Bootcamp
• PNW CoffeeOps — 8:00am
• CreativeMornings/Portland: Chelsea Tossing (Altitude) — 8:30am
• Friday Happy Hour at Beermongers — 12:00pm
• Tech Talk: Why a Dev Blog Is Your Career’s Secret Weapon with Rachel Kaufman — 1:00pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• 🌹 Silicon Florist watch party — 9:00pm

Saturday (Oct 31)

• Hacktoberfest Hack Day Portland x Portland AI Devs — 10:00am
• 🎃 Happy Halloween

Sunday (Nov 1)

• PARTS – Portland Area Robotics Society — 10:30am
• The Final Frontier: Star Trek Night! — 5:00pm