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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.