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Prompt to Profit is a 3-day online bootcamp focused on helping founders, builders, and creators set up the systems they need to move from idea to execution. Across three focused sessions, we’ll work through the foundations of product development, workflow systems, and practical next steps for building something people can actually use, test, and grow. This bootcamp is designed for early-stage founders, hackathon builders, vibe coders, solo entrepreneurs, and anyone with an idea they want to turn into a real product or business. You’ll learn how to organize your idea, define your product, build simple systems, and create a clear path from concept to launch. Schedule Friday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Saturday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Sunday: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Location Online Bring your idea, your laptop, and your willingness to build. By the end of the weekend, you’ll have more clarity, more structure, and a stronger foundation for turning your prompt into profit.

Some teams are hiring constantly. Dozens of roles a year, across functions that didn’t exist two years ago. Job descriptions have been rewritten, teams are smaller, and the bar is higher. Agentic tools have absorbed parts of some roles and created new ones, which makes evaluating a candidate harder than it used to be. In this session, two people who run that hiring every day walk through how they actually do it now. Speakers Tamika Bowman, Global Mobility at Tools for Humanity Tamika builds the programs that let fast-growing teams hire international talent and keep them. She has run immigration operations from the company side and the law firm side, including advising Electronic Arts’ talent mobility team. Melina Chervone, VP of Recruitment at micro1 Melina hires at high volume for roles that barely existed a few years ago, and she’s building micro1’s AI recruitment engine for finding and vetting talent worldwide. She came to recruiting through psychology and UX. Moderator Ashlee Drake Berry, Head of Legal at Casium Ashlee works with employers every day on when to sponsor, when to hire abroad, and what it takes to get it right. What we’ll cover – How a role gets scoped and leveled before it’s ever posted – Where the best candidates are coming from right now – What to look for when a résumé no longer tells you much – How to move fast without lowering the bar – Where international talent fits: when to sponsor, when to hire abroad, and what makes a candidate worth the extra steps Who this is for – People and talent leaders: see how peers run hiring at scale, and what holds up under volume. – HR, recruiters, and team leads: what to look for in a candidate now, and how roles are being redrawn. – Job seekers: how hiring decisions actually get made, and what makes someone worth the effort. Bring your questions. We’ll save time at the end for Q&A. Register: https://luma.com/9yjjsvct

The Writing Well invites writing for fun and inspiration. Each of us has a deep well of creativity and writing is one way to access the treasures from that well. A few places are still open for the fall program. “Writing alone, together,” we’ll meet on Zoom the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, September 8 through November 24, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time.

In The Writing Well sessions, we work with prompts to explore whatever is seeking your expression in the moment. We meet together in a safe space, hold one another’s confidentiality, and (if willing) take risks to share what we discover. Consistent practice can strengthen our creativity muscles and may promote healing, connection with self and others, and help improve craft and accountability. Sophia D. brings her experience as lay minister, spiritual director, and professional writer to these informal sessions, but promises there will be no critiquing or instruction.

To register for this event and receive the Zoom link, click here.

Community members and allies are encouraged to attend.

This meeting will take place via Zoom. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link and access meeting details.

Thank you to our 2026 LGBTQ+ Business Advisory Council Sponsors:

NODES 2026 is Neo4j's free, 24-hour global online conference, running across every time zone on November 12. The program is aimed at developers, data professionals, architects and AI engineers, with sessions on modern application development, multi-agent workflows, graph-backed retrieval and building context-rich systems that hold up in production. Talks are grouped by experience level, so there are introductory sessions for people new to graph databases alongside deeper technical material on knowledge graphs, agent orchestration and graph analytics at scale. Because the event streams continuously for a full day, Pacific-time attendees can join sessions in the morning, over lunch or in the evening, and recordings are typically published afterward. Registration is free through the Neo4j eve https://neo4j.com/event/nodes-2026-engineering-better-intelligence/

A free virtual workshop from OVLA, the Oregon Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, covering the tax fundamentals that independent creative professionals most often get wrong. The session walks through tracking income across multiple clients and platforms, which expenses are actually deductible for a creative practice, how self-employment tax works and what it means for quarterly planning, and the recordkeeping habits that keep all of it manageable, plus strategies for staying organized year-round instead of scrambling in April. It is built for both newly self-employed creatives and established practitioners who have been improvising their bookkeeping for years. Registration is through oregonvla.org. Note that sessions are recorded and may be posted online, and registering constitutes consent to https://www.aigapdx.org/events/taxes-creatives

Pettis Webber Pacific p.s. elder care law firm will host a free seminar “The Vital Role of Incapacity and Long-Term Care Planning in Protecting Your Future” starting at 6 p.m. Nov. 4.

This event will be presented virtually by attorney Karen Webber.

Registration is free and required to attend. To register and receive seminar dates and details call, 360-696-2069.

LFDT Oregon Join us for a webinar with Cosmos Labs, an LFDT general member, on Designing Tokenized Deposits for a Multi-Ledger Future. Most tokenized deposit initiatives start within a single institution or consortium, but the architecture choices banks make today will determine how effectively deposits can reach new markets and power new use cases. This session examines how an interoperability protocol fits into a tokenized deposit stack, covering how deposits and data can be exchanged across l

PDX Neurodivergent Tech Workers **Who is this for?** Whether you are a seasoned software developer, a budding tech enthusiast, or whoever, this event offers a welcoming space for neurodivergent nerds. We are queer and trans led and welcome individuals of all backgrounds. Join us for an evening of community building!

**Where Will We be?** For winter we will be meeting online for covid friendlyndliness and sensory comfort.

**What are we doing?** Socializing, talking about challenges at work, tal

Portland Analytics Club Calling all developers, AI engineers, software architects, data scientists, DevOps professionals, and tech enthusiasts — **TechConnect** is your ultimate destination for career growth, project showcasing, and global peer networking in the tech ecosystem.

Hosted in a self-led, Slack-style virtual space, this **virtual tech networking event** invites you to connect, collaborate, and innovate with a diverse community of tech minds and hiring professionals from around the wo

Come sing, listen, learn and celebrate. Join Karen Kitchen (Osage Nation) for this story hour featuring songs and books from Native cultures. Children, families, elders, aunties and uncles — everyone is welcome. Note there are also in person events with Karen, but this one is online!

Register/join via Zoom.

Portland Analytics Club Join the global gathering of AI builders, researchers, and enthusiasts pushing the boundaries of agentic systems and multimodal intelligence. Connect every month for organic networking, 1-on-1 video chats, and powerful peer-to-peer exchanges across a flexible, open chat-based platform. **Watch how it works**: [https://youtu.be/trmf6Gqs6FM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trmf6Gqs6FM) What Is the **Agentic AI Multimodal** #MonthlyMixer? The **Agentic AI Multimodal MonthlyM

Agendas, minutes, legislation, videos and audio recordings are available online.

Metro Council work sessions are meetings where staff and guests present information to Council and hear their discussion and direction. Council does not adopt new legislation or take action on items at work sessions.

Work sessions are open to the public to observe; there is no opportunity for members of the public to give their comments during these meetings. Work sessions typically occur every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. unless otherwise stated. Check out the Council calendar for work session dates, agenda topics, and connection information.

If you are unable to attend a meeting live, audio and video recordings are available online within a week of each meeting.

Andrea’s Spanish School will offer Online Spanish Conversation Classes, Levels II and III, from 11 a.m. to noon Saturdays Oct. 24, 31, Nov. 7 and 14 via Zoom. Practice speaking Spanish with a native speaker in a small group of four to seven students. Sessions are built around real talk, not grammar drills. There is no homework and no tests. The cost is $25 per session. Sign up at learnspanishvancouver.com.

Portland Fabric User Group Explore how the Port of Portland is blending machine learning and AI with traditional BI to support operational and customer experience insights. Using the PDX terminal passenger‑arrival forecasting model and the Customer Experience Scorecard as examples, we’ll trace the end‑to‑end data journey – from raw data to Databricks pipelines to Power BI. The session emphasizes practical design considerations for surfacing AI‑generated data products or advanced analytics in a w

Write The Docs PDX Hey, Write the Docs PDX!

Join us for our next meetup on **Thursday, November 12 @ 5:30 PM**. It's our annual supermeetup with the Tech Comms program at Portland State University. We'll meet somewhere TBD at the PSU campus, but you can also join us remotely using the Zoom link you get after you RSVP on Meetup.

Show up at 5:15 for pizza and/or come out afterwards for a drink/snack at the nearby [McMenamins Market Street Bar](https://maps.app.goo.gl/QjArSwJFKcDoqWQd6).

We'll m

The Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission serves as a catalyst for culture, community and economic vitality for Oregon and the greater Portland region through leadership, advocacy and expert management of public event venues.

MERC meetings are open to the public. The committee typically meets the first Wednesday of the month.

Agendas, minutes, legislation, videos and audio recordings are available online.

Public comment may be submitted in writing. It will also be heard in person and by electronic communication (video conference or telephone). Written comments should be submitted electronically by emailing [email protected]. Testimony on agenda and non-agenda items will be taken at the beginning of the meeting.

Those wishing to testify orally are encouraged to sign up in advance by either: (a) contacting Amy Nelson by phone at 503-314-2360 and providing your name and the agenda item on which you wish to testify; or (b) registering by email by sending your name and the agenda item on which you wish to testify to [email protected]. Those wishing to testify in person should fill out a card located on the table directly outside the meeting room door.

Those requesting to comment virtually during the meeting can do so by joining the online meeting using this and using the “Raise Hand” feature in Zoom or emailing [email protected]. Individuals will have three minutes to testify unless otherwise stated at the meeting.

The Tech Academy **How can developers use AI effectively without losing sight of the fundamentals?**

AI is changing how software is built and how developers approach everyday problems. For students and early-career engineers, keeping up with new tools and practices can feel overwhelming. Understanding how the industry has evolved and learning to make thoughtful decisions about AI can help you adapt and build skills that last.

Our guest speaker, **Bethany Janos**, is a senior software engineer

This preschool storytime is especially welcoming for children and families who are looking for a more adaptive virtual storytime experience.

This program is intended for children and their caregivers. Participants may be asked to identify themselves either through camera, chat, or by unmuting. If you would like to attend as an observer, please contact us at 503.988.5123.

Topic: TCO Board Meeting Time: Normally the Second Tuesday of the month, 07:00 – 9:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Trails Club is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Trails Club's Personal Meeting Room Join Zoom Meeting https://trailsclub.org/zoom Meeting ID: 906 118 7636 Passcode: 1243 One tap mobile +13462487799,,9061187636#,,,,,,0#,,1243# US (Houston) +16699006833,,9061187636#,,,,,,0#,,1243# US (San Jose) Dial by your location +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C) Meeting ID: 906 118 7636 Passcode: 1243 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aBJfWIfvk

Agendas, minutes, legislation, videos and audio recordings are available online.

Metro Council meetings, sometimes called business meetings, are when the council hears public communication on agenda items, listens to reports and presentations from staff, and takes action to vote on legislation.

Council meetings are held online and in person at the Metro Regional Center council chamber. The public is encouraged to attend all Metro Council meetings, and every meeting includes public communications, or time for the public to give their comments, either generally or on items on the agenda for the day. Public testimony may be delivered either in person or online. See the public testimony page for information on how to give your comments before or during the meeting.

If you are unable to attend a meeting live, audio and video recordings are available online within a week of each meeting.

The Oregon Zoo Bond Oversight Committee is appointed by Metro Council to ensure public accountability for expenditures and implementation related to the 2024 Zoo Bond.

The committee meets quarterly and meetings are open to the public.

Are you interested in volunteering your time, skills, and talents to help cats and kittens at Cat Adoption Team? Attending a Volunteer Orientation is the first step to joining our volunteer team! This online session will last approximately 90 minutes and includes information about the wide variety of volunteer opportunities CAT has to offer. You must RSVP in advance so that we can send you the virtual Zoom meeting login details. Click here to RSVP. If you have not used Zoom before, please read our tip sheet prior to the orientation time. Click here to learn a bit more about the volunteer opportunities that await you, including volunteer requirements and more. Children must be at least 12 years old to volunteer; volunteers under 16 years old must volunteer alongside a parent/guardian during every shift.

The Transportation Policy Alternatives Committee provides technical input to the Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation for transportation planning and funding priorities for the region. TPAC meetings are held on the first Friday of the month unless otherwise notified.

TPAC reviews regional plans and federally funded transportation projects, and advises area leaders on transportation investment priorities and policies related to transportation. Such efforts include curbing greenhouse gas emissions and creating communities with easy access to public transit. The committee also helps identify needs and opportunities for involving the public in transportation matters.

PDX Women Coders Join PDX Women Coders for a back-end study session, where we read and discuss *[Designing Data-Intensive Applications (2nd edition)](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensive-applications/9781098119058/)* by Martin Kleppmann. We plan to go over one chapter (or so) each session, and we will be meeting every two weeks for 7-8 months to finish the book. Each session, we'll go over that we learned in that chapter, and explore key concepts in distributed systems,

AI agents dominate current industry discussion, yet clear explanations of what they are, why they fail, and what roles they are creating remain scarce. This session offers a foundational introduction for students and early-career technologists. We’ll examine what distinguishes an agent from a conventional chatbot — tools, memory, and planning loops — and trace an agent through the completion of a realistic task. We then turn to the less-demonstrated half of the problem: the data an agent requires to be useful, and the boundaries it requires to be safe.

LFDT Oregon Panurus ([https://github.com/LFDT-Panurus](https://github.com/LFDT-Panurus)) is an open-source framework for building token-based applications that preserve transactional privacy while remaining fully auditable and interoperable across ledgers. In this talk, we'll walk through how Panurus's driver-based architecture lets developers plug in different token technologies — from Fabtoken to zero-knowledge schemes — behind a common transaction lifecycle (Request → Assemble → Sign → Commit

Portland Analytics Club **What is FirstFridayFair Monthly Job Fair?** [FirstFridayFair Monthly Job Fair](https://events.tao.ai/pod/analytics.club/6j382kbpcnvd) is a **global virtual job fair and remote hiring event** hosted by the [Analytics.CLUB](Analytics.CLUB) community. This **online job fair platform** brings together **professionals, employers, recruiters, and career coaches** for an immersive, **self-managed career networking experience**. 🎥 **New to FirstFridayFair? Watch our explainer

NAMI Connection is a recovery support group for adults living with mental illness. Online meetings are 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursdays weekly via Zoom. Register at us02web.zoom.us.

LFDT Oregon **LFDT Labs Introduces CLPR - An Architectural Deep Dive into CLPR (Cross-Ledger Protocol)**

Join us for an in-depth technical session introducing CLPR (Cross-Ledger Protocol), a newly approved open-source project hosted under the LF Decentralized Trust Labs. Traditional cross-chain bridges often introduce security vulnerabilities, liquidity locking, and third-party trust assumptions. CLPR takes a fundamental shift: enabling direct, asynchronous ledger-to-ledger communication using

Seattle Song Circle continues its tradition of a virtual circle, now marking the sixth online year. Held every Sunday. For more info, go to: https://www.seafolklore.org/about-sfs/seattle-song-circle/.

AI Safety Awareness Group Portland **A free, 90-minute online workshop—no technical background needed** Over the last several years, AI has advanced at a pace that has surprised the public and even many leading experts. It is already reshaping work, the economy, relationships, and even crime, and it is doing so quickly. This workshop explores where AI may be in the next one to five years and what that could mean for daily life for all of us. We'll dig into questions like:

* **Jobs:** Could AI l

OpenSearch Community & Triage Meetings The Data Prepper team will be triaging issues in the [Data Prepper project](https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper). We meet at 11:00am US Central time.

Please see [our agenda in TRIAGING.md](https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper/blob/main/TRIAGING.md#is-there-an-agenda-for-each-week) for details on our weekly agenda.

[Code of Conduct](https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)

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This is a virtual event hosted via Microsoft Teams

Curious about working for the City of Portland, but not sure where to start? Come join us for an interactive webinar where we'll walk you through the basics and share some helpful tips along the way.

In this session, our recruiters will walk you through:

• How to find jobs that match your skills and interests
• What makes a strong application (and common mistakes to avoid)
• What interviews are really like with the City
• Where to go when you need help or have questions

We'll keep things simple, practical, and open for questions. Bring your curiosity!

Whether you're brand-new to City jobs or just looking for a few pointers, this session is designed to help you feel more confident about the process and your next steps.

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Westside Coding Club We'll be working on some *LeetCode* problems. If you have any specific problem or topic in mind, drop a message for the event.

See you there.

OpenSearch Community & Triage Meetings **Join Zoom Meeting** Open Zoom, click "Join", and use the following meeting ID and passcode to join. **Meeting ID: 9701 5262 880** **Passcode:** 960633

Generally, in this meeting we cover all aspects of “Search”, including core search functionalities, query capabilities, resiliency, and relevance. We can also use the time to review the roadmap of various streams, and gather broader feedback on planning and releases.

* We welcome community discussion and

Portland DevOps Groundup We're a welcoming community from the Seattle-to-Portland PNW region!

In this event, we gather to talk about software tools and culture in downtown Portland. We meet Friday mornings on Zoom.

Our Lean Coffee (http://leancoffee.org/) format allows us to talk about a diverse range of topics.

We follow the Seattle DevOps Code of Conduct https://seattledevops.net/codeofconduct/ and all attendees must read and abide by it.

Join us on slack! https://join.slack.com/t/coffeeop

Portland Analytics Club Join a global, open-format gathering for those building and questioning AI — from real-world use cases to critical conversations around ethics, bias, and transparency. Every month, we create space for developers, researchers, and policymakers to connect in meaningful, unmoderated dialogue — with flexible chats, peer learning, and 1-on-1 video networking. Watch how it works: **[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOYkxBjrAYY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOYkxBjrAYY)** **Wh

Enterprise Blockchain Club We've changed our schedule the second Monday of the Month! Please RSVP and add this to your calendars for updates.

Meet-Up Information:

• Start at 6PM Pacific time (-8 GMT)

• We are experimenting with new ways to facilitate and involve interaction and networking... Stay tuned!

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

LFDT Oregon A learning group for zero knowledge and SNARK application development.

During the year we will systematically explore different aspects of zero knowledge and SNARK programming in application development.

Coordination of the learning group is in the discord channel of Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust: [https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/1329201532628898036](https://discord.com/channels/905194001349627914/1329201532628898036)

Github repo for the lab: [https://github

OpenSearch Community & Triage Meetings Join the "Storage Triage and Backlog Review" community meeting to review, triage and deep dive on Storage related issues and PRs. Meetings are open-to-all and attendance is encouraged for anyone who hopes to contribute, discuss an issue, or learn more about the project. See [Triaging](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/blob/main/TRIAGING.md) on OpenSearch for more details and FAQs.

**Agenda**

* **Introduction (5 mins)** * Host’s Intro * What