Join us for a talk, workshop and community building event with Karla Starr - acclaimed science and business writer, speaker and author of the book Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers.

Hosted by Data Visualization Society's Portland chapter and the PDX Data Visualization Meetup group.

Learn more and register via the Meetup page or the DVS Eventbriite page.

Hope to see you there!

Topics will include:

Financial Foundations & Forecasting What to track as business owner Bookkeeping Getting paid Planning revenue Forecasting - how to and methods

Workshop Lead: Carla Titus, Founder of Wealth & Worth Within - https://www.wealthworthwithin.com/

Carla is a financial professional and expert with a combined 15yrs of corporate financial planning, analysis, strategy, and fractional CFO consulting experience.

Portland Design Thinkers is excited to announce a SPECIAL EVENT with The New Rules For Work!

You’re invited to participate in an experimental meeting designed to test how a meeting’s location and technology impact meeting results.

By participating in this experiment, you can help answer questions about when groups should meet in person and how to have the best possible meeting experience no matter where you might be. You may also experience new meeting techniques and technology that you can use in your work.

If you agree to participate, here’s how it will work.

-Please join the ZOOM call up to 10 minutes early. You will spend the first 15 minutes filling out a consent form and completing a brief survey. -The group will then participate in a 60-minute creative problem-solving meeting. Your goal is to identify two or three quality responses to a complex challenge. -A meeting leader will guide you through a pre-scripted process. -Following the 60-minute meeting, you will complete a post-meeting survey about your experience. -In addition to the surveys, researchers will collect audio-video recordings for further analysis. You must be 18 years or older to participate and consent to the audio-video recording.

Note: because this is an interactive workshop, the event is limited to the first 30 people. If your registration status changes, please update in MeetUp, in case there are others on the waitlist.

For more information about The New Rules for Work can be found on their website: https://newrulesforwork.com

If you have any questions or would like to join the PDT Slack you can do so at this link: https://bit.ly/2JuQ2V6

Registration is required to attend this event. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pdxwit-aws-and-hydrolix-present-how-to-prepare-for-a-technical-interview-tickets-622054340277

Are you looking for a new role in tech? A new role in a tech-adjacent industry? If you answered yes, then join PDXWIT, AWS, and host Hydrolix for a mash-up of our two most popular events: Get Hired Up! and How to Prepare for a Technical Interview!

Get Hired Up! will feature resume reviews by experts, so don’t forget to bring a hard copy of your resume! You’ll also have opportunities to network with recruiters, along with organizations like Women In Cyber Security (WiCyS), the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and Women in Big Data.

Looking to land a technical role? Then you’ll want to be sure to register for AWS’s How to Prepare for a Technical Interview (and bring a hard copy of your resume if you’d like advice from our expert reviewers!). By the end of the workshop, you’ll having a better understanding of:

• What to expect the day of the interview
• Approaches to navigate the coding test
• Where you can find more information and resources

Space is limited, so register early! If you have any questions after reviewing the agenda and FAQs, you can reach out to us at [email protected].

Important: During registration, please be sure to select the appropriate ticket: How to Prepare for a Technical Interview ONLY Get Hired Up! ONLY Both

If you’d like your resume reviewed, select “Yes” to the question “Do you want your resume reviewed?” during registration. Limit one resume review per participant.

Agenda:

4:15pm Doors Open for Workshop Attendees 4:30pm Resume Review for Workshop Attendees 5:00pm Welcome, Introductions, Announcements 5:05pm How to Prepare for a Technical Interview Workshop w/AWS 6:00pm Doors Open for Get Hired Up & Networking Attendees 6:15pm Get Hired Up/Networking/Resume Review 7:30pm Event Ends

Please note: all attendees will be required to show proof of a COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test within 48 hours of the event start.

PDXWIT is building a better tech industry by creating access, dismantling inequities and fueling belonging. Our events are inclusive. ALL people who support our purpose are welcome.

COVID Safety FAQ: Q: Will masks be required in indoor spaces? Will masks be required outside? Will hand sanitizer be provided and plentiful? A: Masks are optional and our host will provide hand sanitizer. We will ask all attendees to show proof of vaccination OR have a negative COVID test within 48 hours of the event.

Event FAQ

Q: What is the in-person event capacity? A: How to Prepare for a Technical Interview: 200. Get Hired Up & Networking: 300.

Q: Can I attend only the How to Prepare for a Technical Interview workshop and still get my resume reviewed? A: Yes. Resume reviews for workshop attendees will begin at 4:30pm PDT.

Q: Will there be gender neutral restrooms? A: Yes

Q: Is the space ADA accessible? A: Yes

Q: Will there be food and drink at this event? A: Yes.

Q: What is the parking situation? A: Nearby parking recommendations are: Broadway Tower (PDX17 building garage) - Entry off of SW Columbia between SW Broadway and SW Park | $5/hour, $17/day maximum

Unitus Plaza garage - Entry off of SW 5th between SW Jefferson and SW Columbia | $5/hour, $15/day maximum

Ladd Tower garage - Entry off of SW Jefferson between SW Broadway and SW Park | $5/hour, $15/day maximum

Metered Parking - 2 hour metered street parking | Meter rates and additional public parking resources are available here

Q: Is there any special information that might help me find the entrance? A: Entrance to the building is on SW Broadway between SW Jefferson and SW Columbia. Doors lock for the day at 5pm. After 5pm a volunteer will be posted near the doors to assist you.

Q: Is there secured bike parking? A: There are bike racks off SW Broadway in front of the building that can be utilized. There is no bike parking in the building.

Q: Should I consider using public transportation? A: Yes.

Q: Can I bring my dog? A: Sadly, no.

Q: Are the exits clearly marked? A: Yes.

Topics we'll cover:

🙋🏿‍♂️ Values and Culture-Alignment

🔦 Find Startup-specific Talent

👩🏻‍🏫 Recruiting 101

👷🏾‍♀️ Building a Hiring Process

🕵🏻‍♂️ Scoping Needs + Roles

Hiring is often the hardest things leaders need to do. And is also the most critical as people are the most important and differentiating part of our companies.

We often hear "we want that startup-gene", or "the intangibles" and have built this workshop towards building out an understanding and concrete language for identifying these target ideal candidate profiles, esp. leaning into the soft skill and value/impact/motivation alignment match. As we all know, the only thing we know for sure in these early hires is that their role will change over the coming months - so we need to be sure we're not over indexing towards hard skills that won't be as important later.

This workshop will be interactive as participants feel comfortable, and the goal is to learn from the facilitating team (at Hustle Hunters), each other, and especially ourselves during this session.

In terms of what to expect - There will be a mix of knowledge sharing and best practices from the facilitating team, small group discussions, and self-reflection work.

Who should attend?:

Anyone who is hiring and building out a critical team within a startup (or scale-up) where the stakes are high, and so often the only thing we "know" is that everything in their role will change over the coming months. So we need to make sure we're defining and hiring folks with a builders and owners mentality, that are values-aligned with our organizations. Even if you've hired before - we'll dig into your unique organization's values and needs to help create a repeatable framework and shared language for making consistently aligned hires that will become the foundation of your organization.

Who is leading this workshop?

Nikki Adamson (Founder, CEO of Hustle Hunters) will be facilitating this discussion, and bringing in her experience supporting dozens of founders as they go about their critical early stage hires. Hustle Hunters is a human-focused recruiting and consulting form that supports early stage startups in building out their foundational teams with an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

www.hustlehunters.com

More FAQ at eventbrite landing page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hiring-early-stage-startup-teams-interactive-workshop-tickets-620150736547

To the civic tech community, data analysts, open software developers, designers, advocates, community, and local organizations working on data, local residents and all those interested in civic data.

This event is an opportunity to engage with local residents to explore the City’s neighborhood data and other City of Portland open datasets and maps. This Disco Tech will include workshops and tables to help people to learn about data from zero to subject matter experts.

"DiscoTech" is short for "Discovering Technology." It is a term coined by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition which defines a replicable model for a multimedia, mobile neighborhood workshop fair. DiscoTechs are designed so that participants learn more about the impact and possibilities of technology within our communities.

The purpose of this event is to create a space for local residents and organizations to explore Portland neighborhoods data and other city open datasets. You can explore developing apps or spreadsheets to facilitate data visualization. Or, do your own data exploration and analysis, enhance the city data with other datasets; Or, dig deeper and explore metadata and link information underneath.

Participants will have the opportunity to learn, propose ideas and projects to others, join a team or individually, and develop their own analysis and apps that may contribute to our larger Portland Community. Multicultural, socially responsible, and projects in languages other than English are encouraged.

The Smart City PDX program team members are committed to dismantling barriers derived from systemic discrimination that have reduced the voice of marginal communities in Portland. We base our approach on digital rights and equity principles like Targeted Universalism and the Smart City PDX Priorities Framework to build local policy that promotes equity and fairness.

We want this event to become a collaborative space, rather than something competitive. So, we won’t be offering prizes or awards; however, we will be able to incentivize community participation.

Projects will have the opportunity to be featured in the Smart City PDX site.

Be creative! Learn! Explore!

Details

Come join us for the first PDX Airflow meetup of the year. You'll hear from local Airflow and data engineering experts in a talk on how new Airflow features have enabled more dynamic data pipelines, and a hands-on workshop that covers getting started with Airflow, navigating the UI, and authoring simple DAGs. Make sure to bring a laptop if you'd like to participate in the workshop.

Agenda:

5:30pm Meet and greet 6:00pm Implementing dynamic use cases with new Airflow features, presented by Kenten Danas from Astronomer 6:30pm Airflow 101 workshop, lead by Parham Parvizi from Data Stack Academy 7:15pm Closing remarks and open discussion

Location details

The event will be held at Google's office at 555 SW Morrison St Ste 500, Portland, OR 97204. Head straight to the 5th floor and check in with reception to receive your guest pass.

If you find yourself in a career rut, in need of some clarity, not sure how to level up, or simply tired of spending countless hours applying to jobs, wasting time with recruiters, and going on interviews that lead to nowhere, then this workshop is for you.

Gaurav Valani is going to walk you through the exact process that's helped hundreds of his clients land high six-figure jobs that align with their career aspirations.

During this recession, Gaurav and his team personally helped more clients than ever:

Break six-figures for the first time Successfully land jobs at some of the world’s most admired companies Become first-time leaders Move into Executive roles Break the 200k and 300k barrier The three common traits he attributes to his clients success:

Overcoming limiting beliefs Knowing how to develop the exact strategy that allows you to navigate the job search effectively to meet your short-term and long-term goals Knowing how to implement your strategy effectively In this workshop, Gaurav is going to pull back the curtains and show you exactly how to develop and implement these strategies to help you achieve your career goals in 2023.

Gaurav is the founder of Career Sprout, a Career Coaching company dedicated to helping professionals find meaningful work. He is also the former co-founder of TrueBridge Resources, a $72M staffing agency that he helped grow prior to acquisition and the former Vice President of Talent Acquisition of Overstock.com

Gaurav’s mission is to help as many people as possible learn the exact strategies that helped him go from ten 10 dead-end jobs, laid off multiple times, and a directionless career to building a multi-million dollar company, becoming one of the youngest executives of a publicly traded company, and helping thousands of people build purpose-driven careers.

Join us Friday, January 27th at 1 pm Pacific Time (2p MT, 3p CT, 4p ET) in our Google Meet room.

RSVP on Meetup: https://bit.ly/TechTalk27 RSVP on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/TechTalkE27

Can't make it live? We will be posting the recording to our Tech Talks playlist on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/TTA-techtalks

Don't miss this opportunity to learn and network!

We're looking forward to seeing you at BSidesPDX on Friday October 7, 2022 for our tenth annual conference. Registration is free through September 30th!

BSides Portland is a tax-exempt charitable 501(c)(3) organization founded with the mission to cultivate the Pacific Northwest information security and hacking community by creating local inclusive opportunities for learning, networking, collaboration, and teaching.

As this is an indoor event, we are requiring that all participants of BSidesPDX wear a mask while inside of conference spaces for the entirety of the event, except when you are 1) actively eating or drinking; or 2) a presenter actively giving your talk/workshop. Masks must be worn completely over both your mouth and nose.

Matthew Liu from Bootup is joining us to share tips on how to land your first tech job after graduating from a bootcamp!

Matthew is the VP of Operations and Partnerships at Bootup. Bootup is the fastest way for individuals to launch their tech careers.

This talk will cover a resume workshop, Q&A section about recruiting and a demo of the Bootup platform.

Be sure to bring all your job search related questions and join us Friday, September 9th at 1pm Pacific Time (2p MT, 3p CT, 4p ET) in our Google Meet room.

RSVP on Meetup: https://bit.ly/TechTalk99 RSVP on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/TechTalkE99

Can't make it live? We will be posting the recording to our Tech Talks playlist on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/TTA-techtalks

Don't miss this great opportunity to learn and network!

As you've likely seen in local media lately, gun violence in Portland has been on the rise. In response, the City of Portland commissioned a task force to study the issue and recommend actions that city commissioners can take to address the issue and solve the problem (reduce gun violence). After several months of meetings, the Focused Intervention Team / Community Oversight Group (FIT/COG) submitted a recommendation to Mayor Ted Wheeler in favor of adopting ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology.

What is ShotSpotter, and how does it work? Are its results accurate and is the technology effective? Has it been successful in other cities that have implemented it? What are the trade-offs, and would the benefits outweigh the costs — in terms of both financial and negative impacts to the community?

Join us for a two-part event to learn more about ShotSpotter and other gunshot detection systems and forms of acoustic surveillance! Decide for yourself whether this tool might be effective in solving Portland's gun violence problem.

During the event's first half, learn from our panelists how ShotSpotter and other gunshot detection technologies work and how they've performed in other cities.

The second half of the meeting will be a workshop, where you can learn more about what happens with the FIT/COG recommendation. Ways you can provide input into whether ShotSpotter should be installed in Portland.

Bring your questions, and come learn how you can make your voice heard on this issue!

Please RSVP via this Meetup page or by sending an email to [email protected].

Speaker bios:

Aje Amaechi (aka Je) (she/they) is a first-generation Jamaican-American born from Immigrant parents and raised in New Jersey. She has an educational background in the Philosophy of Mind and Critical Race Theory. As a student at Florida State University, she became involved with organizing for farmworker rights, environmental justice, and other causes related to Black and indigenous self-determination. Je currently works at Freedom to Thrive, an organization devoted to abolishing the punishment-based carceral systems through transformative organizing, strategic partnerships and convening shared learning spaces. Her work centers around combating crimmigration– the intersection of criminal justice and immigration enforcement– using a Pro Black, gender-affirming lens.

Sarah T. Hamid (she / her / no preference) leads the policing technology campaign at the Carceral Tech Resistance Network, an archiving and knowledge-sharing network for organizers building community defense against the design, roll-out, and experimentation of carceral technologies. Sarah co-founded the inside/outside research collaboration, the Prison Tech Research Group, sits on the board of the Lucy Parsons Lab in Chicago, and helped create the #8toAbolitioncampaign: a police and prison abolition resource built during the 2020 uprisings against state violence. Follow her work on Twitter at @tsnvaa.

Lia Holland (she/they) is a social artist, writer, and activist in Portland, OR, USA. She currently serves as Director of Campaigns and Communications at national digital rights organization Fight for the Future.

By attending this TA3M meeting, you agree to follow our Code of Conduct: https://www.meetup.com/Portlands-Techno-Activism-3rd-Mondays/pages/22681732/Code_of_Conduct/

{short} Code of Conduct Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays is dedicated to providing an informative and positive experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste, or creed.

Our events are intended to educate and share information related to technology and activism, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community, we do not tolerate harassment of members or event participants in any form.

Audio and video recording are not permitted at meetings without prior approval.

Our Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/Portlands-Techno-Activism-3rd-Mondays/pages/22681732/Code_of_Conduct/) applies to all events run by Portland's TA3M. Please report any incidents to the event organizer.

Learn how to set up a fully working customization from scratch for your writing team to create, review, and then publish directly to Medium with the click of a button! Our live workshop will walk you through creating the Kintone app and TypeScript customization. We will also introduce the VITE setup and Medium API for publishing articles.

This free 2-day workshop (July 12th & 13th) is sponsored by Data Stack Academy, and will teach beginner-level Python programming skills. We'll also talk about how and why to start a career in data engineering, and how to learn skills on your own or find a data engineering bootcamp. Please register in advance at https://cutt.ly/dsa_events. See http://datastackacademy.com/ for more details.

This free 2-day workshop (June 28 & 29th) is sponsored by Data Stack Academy, and will teach beginner-level Python programming skills. We'll also talk about how and why to start a career in data engineering, and how to learn skills on your own or find a data engineering bootcamp. Please register in advance at https://cutt.ly/dsa_events

This workshop is all about pitching...whether it's for investors, at a networking event (live or virtual) or to decide on a collaborator.

What does it really take to make a powerful pitch?

What are the pitfalls to avoid at all cost?

How can you master the art of pitching with your own style, personality and brand?

Join Career Coach/StartOut Workshop Facilitator, Jim Arnoff, who will give you the career coach's top tips for pitching with conviction and results.

What you'll learn:

Tips on how to prepare How to read the person you're pitching how to engage with & anticipate every question If you ever wondered what it really takes to do a successful pitch, this workshop is for you!

Got a great idea? Need an app for it? It can be daunting, but it's easier than you think.

Get a $50 discount by sharing this event on social media. Details below!

Early Bird Tickets: $369 Tickets After March 31st: $449

In this 3 hour workshop I'll work through how to get your product off the ground and launch it into a market.

I'll spend the first 2 hours walking through how to develop the product with a live example:

• The Idea.
• Product Mockup
• MVP Development
• Product Launch!

The 3rd hour will be used for questions / stories.

This workshop is ideal for the following businesses:

• Small businesses needing an app for their service
• Entrepreneurs with an app idea for a new business
• Businesses/entrepreneurs needing a website
• Businesses needing an app for their own needs

Don't fit into those categories but still want to build an app? No worries. You'll still find this workshop valuable.

About Jordan

Jordan is a software developer with over 10 years of software development experience. He's currently freelancing as part of his own company Damn Good Technology that provides IT consulting and development services to medium and small businesses.

You can find out more about him at https://damngood.tech

Discount Details

Either share this even page or the posts from @damngoodtek related to this event to get $50 off ticket price. Simply create a screenshot of the post, email it to [email protected] with the subject "SaaS app discount" and receive a code for the discount.

IMPORTANT: This must be done before purchase. If you do it after purchase I'll do my best to refud you the lost amount but I can't guarantee it.

Cory Althoff, author of The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally, and a developer advocate at Vonage, will discuss his experience as a self-taught programmer, the community he started, and his thoughts on coding boot camps and why people should consider enrolling in them.

Cory will also host an introductory workshop focusing on APIs (application programming interface). You will leave this workshop understanding core concepts of: -What is an API -How APIs work -Examples of popular APIs -How you can use APIs to create fun side projects that help you get started -Join us Friday, March 18th, at 1pm Pacific Time (2p MT, 3p CT, 4p ET) in our Google Meet room.

RSVP on Eventbrite: bit.ly/3v63S8L RSVP on Meetup: bit.ly/3h5GMXJ

Can't make it live? We will be posting the recording to our Tech Talks playlist on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/TTA-techtalks

Don't miss this great opportunity to learn about APIs!

Looking for some inspiration to get creative? How about joining others in a workshop to share and work on your creative ideas.

In this workshop, we'll spend time talking about ideas and working on art projects. Bring your art supplies, sewing kits, pottery equipment, cameras, sketchpads, or even digital if you prefer. If you're not sure what to create that day, we can try a daily prompt.

This will be our last virtually only meeting. We're looking to get started in person and keep virtual for anyone who cannot attend in person starting February 2022.

All families are welcome. Let's be inspired and create together!

Knowledge Mavens

As another application season approaches, hear from Y Combinator on the hallmarks of a successful application.

After a short introduction and question and answer session, we’ll break out into small groups for hands-on application tips from investors and founders that have successfully applied to accelerators.

Featuring: Nick Vivion, Founder - Ghost Works Tamanna Khemani, Outreach - Y Combinator Robyn Exton, CEO - HER Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, Co-Founder & CEO of Lumify Care

AGENDA:

5:00pm - Welcome and Introductions 5:15pm - Y Combinator Interview + Q&A 5:30pm - Hands on workshop with YC mentors 6:00pm - Goodnight!

How often do you take the time to invest in yourself, especially if you're consistently labeled as "underrepresented"?

StartOut welcomes BIPOC, LGBTQ+ founders and allies to connect in a space designed to uplift diverse identities.

This networking and professional development event is to represent the underrepresented entrepreneurs out there; particularly those that are Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, people of color and our allies/supporters. Breakout rooms with discussion moderators will lead safe-space conversations for how to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive, challenges people of color experience while fundraising, leading/building an authentically diverse team, and how to activate your allyship to diverse founders.

Digital and physical surveillance are at all-time highs, and privacy is dissipating from our society. The consequences to us individually and collectively are significant, but what can we do about it?

In this session, AJ Rice will discuss what governments should and shouldn’t do to protect our privacy, evaluating good regulations and bad ones. Rice will also discuss managing trade-offs and what steps we can take individually and collectively to better protect our privacy, as well as provide some privacy-focused tech tips and tricks.

After the presentation and Q&A, the session will conclude with a guided hands-on exercise in threat-modeling and evaluating privacy-related tradeoffs geared at helping attendees better protect their own privacy and manage privacy-related tradeoffs in their own lives.

This is part-3 of a special 3-part privacy workshop in June. If you miss part 1 and/or part 2, you’re still more than welcome to attend this session:

For the meeting link and password, please RSVP via Meetup or send an email to: ta3mevents AT pdxprivacy.org.

Speaker bio:

AJ Rice is a privacy advocate and the Founder & CEO of Privo Mobile - a tech startup making dumb phones designed for kids with a modern user experience and interface. AJ is author of the privacy blog Private Matters.

Related links: Privo Mobile - https://www.privomobile.com/ Private Matters blog - https://privatematters.substack.com

By attending this TA3M meeting, you agree to follow our Code of Conduct: https://www.meetup.com/Portlands-Techno-Activism-3rd-Mondays/pages/22681732/Code_of_Conduct/

{short} Code of Conduct Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays is dedicated to providing an informative and positive experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste, or creed.

Our events are intended to educate and share information related to technology and activism, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community, we do not tolerate harassment of members or event participants in any form.

Audio and video recording are not permitted at meetings without prior approval.

Digital and physical surveillance are at all-time highs, and privacy is dissipating from our society. But why should we care about privacy if we have nothing to hide?

In this session, AJ Rice will discuss how a lack of privacy affects us as individuals and as a society. Using specific examples, Rice will cover the direct consequences of a world without privacy and also the more subtle ways an absence of privacy undermines the rights of those who have nothing to hide.

After the presentation and Q&A, the session will conclude with a guided hands-on exercise in threat-modeling geared at helping attendees better understand the individual risks posed to them by different types of surveillance.

This is part-2 of a special 3-part privacy workshop in June. If you miss part 1, you’re still more than welcome to attend this session:

Part 3: Monday 6/28 – What we can do about it

For the meeting link and password, please RSVP via Meetup or send an email to: ta3mevents AT pdxprivacy.org.

Speaker bio:

AJ Rice is a privacy advocate and the Founder & CEO of Privo Mobile - a tech startup making dumb phones designed for kids with a modern user experience and interface. AJ is author of the privacy blog Private Matters.

Related links: Privo Mobile - https://www.privomobile.com/

Private Matters blog - https://privatematters.substack.com

By attending this TA3M meeting, you agree to follow our Code of Conduct: https://www.meetup.com/Portlands-Techno-Activism-3rd-Mondays/pages/22681732/Code_of_Conduct/

{short} Code of Conduct Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays is dedicated to providing an informative and positive experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste, or creed.

Our events are intended to educate and share information related to technology and activism, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community, we do not tolerate harassment of members or event participants in any form.

Audio and video recording are not permitted at meetings without prior approval.

Join Yelp for Business and General Assembly for a series of workshops focused on empowering business owners.

If you're a startup or small business, you're likely time-poor and resource constrained, so on top of growing your business and acquiring users and customers, how do you also market your company brilliantly?

If you want to reduce your marketing mistakes and increase your successes—this is the workshop for you. Packed with practical tips on how to fast track your business growth through proven lean marketing strategies, this session will help you get started on effectively getting the word out about your business. You'll learn the basics of content marketing strategy, social media marketing, email marketing, and so much more. You'll also gain knowledge of the appropriate marketing channel to use based on your business model and startup marketing strategy.

Come along if you're a startup and small business owner—or are thinking about starting one—with little or no marketing experience.

There’s a myth our personal data is all anonymous and that the different bits of information we give to different companies remain in separate silos; that a bunch of companies know a little about us, but no one has a complete view. In reality, our data is so granular it can easily be used to identify us, and so widely shared it can easily all be linked together.

In this session, AJ Rice will provide a broad overview of what the internet knows about us, how companies and governments track us, and why they track us. The session will cover what data specific companies and industries collect about us, how they obtain the data with or without our knowledge, and what happens to that data after they collect it.

After the presentation and Q&A, the session will conclude with a guided hands-on exercise geared at helping attendees better understand what data is being collected about them personally.

This is part-1 of a special 3-part privacy workshop in June:

Part 2 Monday 6/21 – Why Privacy Matters

Part 3 Monday 6/28 – What we can do about it

For the meeting link and password, please RSVP via Meetup or send an email to: ta3mevents AT pdxprivacy.org.

Speaker bio:



AJ Rice is a privacy advocate and the Founder & CEO of Privo Mobile - a tech startup making dumb phones designed for kids with a modern user experience and interface. AJ is author of the privacy blog Private Matters.

Related links:

Privo Mobile - https://www.privomobile.com/

Private Matters blog - https://privatematters.substack.com

By attending this TA3M meeting, you agree to follow our Code of Conduct: https://www.meetup.com/Portlands-Techno-Activism-3rd- Mondays/pages/22681732/Code_of_Conduct/

{short} Code of Conduct Portland's Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays is dedicated to providing an informative and positive experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste, or creed.

Our events are intended to educate and share information related to technology and activism, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community, we do not tolerate harassment of members or event participants in any form.

Audio and video recording are not permitted at meetings without prior approval.

Without question, it takes something for we humans – even in great times – to have a vision and take the right actions to create the success we want in our lives, both personally and professionally.

Whether you want to take on your career, love life, health, fun & adventure, family (yes, even yours), and/or bank account, this workshop will help you wake up to your summer dreams and get into the right actions to realize them. You will walk away with a new perspective, attainable goals, and an inspired personal plan.

Join us for an insightful, thought-provoking workshop to kick off your summer, and not only design your next move but ensure its success.

Modern-day living is demanding. We don't only have high expectations at work, but also life outside of work. According to Forbes, burnout is contributing to 50% or more of a company’s turnover rate! As a busy professional, how can you expect to prevent burnout and perform at your best if you don’t know the fundamentals of health and wellness? Identifying the biological, environmental, and psychological factors that define your habits is one of the first steps towards living a high-performance life. You will walk away from this workshop with a greater sense of clarity and commitment to elevate your health, potential, and life!

Learn how to “Stop Starting and Start Finishing”

Join us for an all day Kanban workshop on May 15th, 2021; featuring Suzanne Ward MBA MEng PMP CSM CSPO PSM CSP, a Scrum Master & Agile Coach/Trainer from Intel.

Our Kanban workshop will help you adopt a value–centric system of planning and executing your work. In the one-day training, we cover the basics of Kanban, one of the agile processes, through a combination of theory and extensive exercises. With in-depth exercises and coaching from an experienced practitioner, participants will learn how to initiate change with Kanban and bring in process improvements by identifying and addressing bottlenecks, prioritize, and initiate collaboration.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Understand how to make prioritization, sequencing, and scheduling decisions based on economic factors instead of hunches. Learn how to forecast single and multiple work items (releases, sprints) and be able to answer the questions like "When will the work be finished?" accurately instead of guessing due dates. Acquire skills to avoid emotional objections to changes in general and to Kanban WIP limits introduction in particular. Enabled by seven Kanban cadences, be able to introduce continuous learning and improvement process by implementing organizational feedback loops. Familiarize with Kanban Risk Management approaches, service orientation, asymmetrical commitment and rollout phases for a Kanban initiative. Increase Kanban knowledge to manage, sustain and scale evolutionary improvements in their organization.

BENEFITS

Get a thorough understanding of the Kanban method, its core principles and practices. Learn how to design and introduce a Kanban system into your existing work environment. Understand how to improve service delivery with Kanban systems and ensure better customer focus. Learn to maximize benefits of the Pull-based workflow, limit Work In Progress (WIP) through continuous collaboration and active, ongoing learning and improving by defining the best possible team workflow. Learn concepts through case studies, interactive role play, exercises and discussions. Retain more information because of our unique hands-on approach; based on the latest research into brain science. Be entertained by stories from our real-world experienced and knowledgeable instructors. Maximize investments already made by gaining valuable Professional Development Units (PDUs). Increase your personal worth within your company and in the marketplace. Network with people from Intel Corporation and other software companies.

WHO SHOULD COME?

Kanban is one of the easiest ways to get your process and delivery under control, anyone with work that needs to get done will benefit. Kanban works across multiple functions of an organization, from senior managers looking to adopt Lean Management to members of delivery teams willing to improve their working practices. Who should come? People whose work is completed through projects and through teams;

  * Senior Managers
  * Program and Project Managers
  * Product Managers, Product Owners and Business Analysts
  * Scrum Masters, Team Leads and Change Agents
  * Product & Software Developers & Testers
  * Software Engineers, Marketing Professionals, Project Managers,
  * Agile Coaches & Practitioners (Scrum, XP, DSDM, AgilePM, etc.
  * Portfolio Managers, Supply Logistics Professionals.
  * Other roles such as HR and Finance professionals

SPEAKER'S CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  * Product, Brand, and Marketing Management in diverse range of markets and industries, with P&L responsibilities up to $100 million annual sales.
  * Quick Learner of new industries/product offerings with results-oriented achievements. Created excitement around a static accessories category in condensed timeframe. Created full line of support, educational, training, and presentation materials. Impact of efforts increased sales from $16.4M to $37.2M in 24 months.
  * Program management for multiple high tech/electronic development projects, averaging $3 million annual budget. Serve in project manager and product manager capacities. Two successful worldwide launches in 3 years. $1M annual OEM/B2B sales and $10M annual sales.
  * Combine demonstrated product management leadership experience with strong hands-on technical background. Equally comfortable delving into product requirements with hard-core engineers as well as presenting to executive level decision makers.
  * Uniquely skilled at fostering new ideas, building successful cross-functional teams, and nurturing a culture of consumer-driven product development and user experience       *       innovation. Experience working in and managing cross-functional, cross-division, cross-geographic and multi-cultural sales, marketing and engineering organizations.
  * International program management, sourcing, engineering, OEM/ODM management/development experience. Overseas work assignments in EU and Asia with extended stay in Asia.

SUZANNE WARD'S CERTIFICATIONS

  * PMP, Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute
  * PSM, Professional Scrum Master, Scrum.org
  * CSM, CSPO, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance
  * CSP, Certified Scrum Professional, Scrum Alliance

Looking to meet new professional contacts but want to skip the small talk? Interested in getting help in facing work challenges head on? Ready to learn the best way to have positive and supportive professional relationships to become a better leader?

Welcome to the power of peer coaching.

Peer coaching is awesome! It's a mutually supportive, powerful form of learning and development where peers work together to reflect, share ideas, teach one another, or solve problems in the workplace through deep inquiry, accountability, direct feedback, and encouragement.

Peer coaching also helps build emotional intelligence, which is indispensable when stepping into leadership positions. The best leaders take the time to learn and practice skills like active listening, empathy, open communication and effective feedback, which can all be learned through practicing successful peer coaching relationships.

Join StartOut for a 1-hour peer coaching event where attendees will:

Learn basic peer coaching strategies like active listening, asking open questions and giving/getting effective feedback Get matched with 3 new people and meet 1:1 together for 15 minute breakout sessions Get to know each other by sharing your story with conversation prompts, practice your new peer coaching strategies, and create meaningful connections Have the opportunity to stay in touch and continue supporting your new contacts throughout the year

About the host:

Hi! I'm Tracy (they/she), a StartOut programming board member. I design strategic programs for client companies who focus on community. In the past I've built experiences for Airbnb, Girl Scouts, Ketel One, the Alliance for Downtown New York, the Brooklyn Museum and more.

I'm also an independent creator, building events and programs like Lady Boss (curated talks and speed mentoring for womxn and non-binary people), Radical Sabbatical (a creative retreat to take a break and make some progress) and Queer Future (a community for LGBTQIA+ folx to talk about work).

I've also participated in many group coaching, peer-led or cohort-based learning experiences over the years, so I know a lot about collaboration, active listening, asking honest questions, and giving/receiving feedback.

StartOut, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is the largest national organization to support LGBTQ entrepreneurs with 17,000 members nationwide. Its mission is to increase the number, diversity, and impact of LGBTQ entrepreneurs and amplify their stories to drive the economic empowerment of the community. StartOut helps aspiring LGBTQ entrepreneurs start new companies; supports current entrepreneurs as they grow and expand their existing businesses; and engages successful entrepreneurs as role models and mentors, on its online portal and through targeted events nationwide.

please join us each month for timely discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities. This month Naomi Derner CFA, Managing Director of Vantage Point Advisors will talk to us about company valuation.

Entrepreneurs seeking their first round of funding may be asked about their company’s valuation by potential investors. Most new founders have no experience or training in valuation, and may pick a number without any support or rationale, or accept a valuation suggested by an investor without understanding what it means.

In this workshop, we will help you prepare for these conversations.

-- Demystify the language and math used by investors around valuation. -- Techniques for estimating the value of your company….even if you are pre-revenue. -- Why your valuation matters, and why sometimes it doesn’t.

https://www.january.ventures/events

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