Gerding Theater at the Armory

The Elevating Impact Summit, brought to you by Impact Entrepreneurs at Portland State University, is a celebration of new approaches to generating social impact across business, social, public, and academic sectors.

This event features a dynamic day of interactive discussion and learning sessions, inspiring speakers, first-hand accounts from social entrepreneurs and innovators, and opportunities to connect with a diverse audience of business professionals, cutting edge entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and students all working to realize the full potential of business for positive impact.

Join us at Elevating Impact to connect with creative individuals and groups who are driving social impact across sectors and ages.

Clojure/West is a three day conference about the Clojure and ClojureScript programming languages at the Gerding Theater. There will be keynotes by Rich Hickey (Clojure) and Matthew Flatt (Racket) as well as about 35 talks. View the full sessions list.

The conference is $350. Register now!

Semi-Permanent's purpose is to unite and inspire the diverse and exciting creative world by bringing together a panel of exceptionally talented, globally renowned speakers via a premium event experience. Moving into its 11th year, Semi-Permanent is the most successful event of its kind in the world - born out of a desire to unite the world's creative communities.

Semi-Permanent combines speaker presentations, exhibitions and parties into a festival of creativity. A refreshing look at the current state of the art and design world - both educational and inspiring. A not to be missed event on your yearly creative calendar.

Speakers: Chuck Anderson (NoPAttern Studio, Design/art/illustration) Terry White (Adobe, Design) Rei Inamoto (AKQA, Advertising) Gary Baseman (Artist/Designer) Michael Muller (Photographer) Bradley Munkowitz (Gmunk, Motion graphics) Holly Andres (Photography) Stephen Smith (Neasden Control Center, Artist) Holly Wales (Illustration) Shawn Petersen (Instrument, Design)

Tickets: $100 (AIGA discount available). Buy here: http://www.eventbrite.com/org/3151901944

We invite you to join us for PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day, October 5, 2012, at the Gerding Theatre. Doors open at 1:30pm, presentations will begin at 2:00pm.

Demo presentations will be followed by a meet greet reception with the startups and respected members of the tech, brand, startup and investor communities.

This is the inaugural year of TEDxPortland. TEDx is a program of local, independently organized events that bring people together in the TED spirit of "ideas worth spreading." Our event will include live speakers and performers to spark deep discussion and connection. Please join us on April 30 for what we hope will be the first of many exciting and inspiring TEDxPortland events to come.

Please RSVP here: http://on.fb.me/e5Xvpu

Re VV2011 is a how-to conference experience for directors and staff from enterprise (nonprofits and for-profits), finance, foundations, and funders who will join educational institutions, community leaders, government, and people looking to make a difference. Six Big Themes (Impact Investing, Strategy, Metrics, Innovation, Start-Up, Ecosystem) drive the conference design. Spend time with international experts, and build community.

Hosted by Lisa Radon who blogs for Portland Monthly as the Culturephile.

Good minds from Portland arts institutions share the ways they’re using new and social media to engage audiences.

The Portland Art Museum creates conversational videos about works in the collection, creates a community website for its China Design Now exhibition, and tweets as M.C. Escher. Portland Center Stage creates show preview videos that go viral and uses Twitter in innovative ways. The Museum of Contemporary Craft creates video and podcast and invites audience response. PICA integrates Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube into its TBA Festival blog.

In education, programming, and marketing, we’ll talk about what’s worked and what’s on the horizon as the landscape continues to change with new tools and new challenges all the time.

Participants include:

Christina Olsen, PhD Director of Education & Public Programs, Portland Art Museum

Beth Heinrich Director of Marketing & Public Relations, Portland Art Museum

Cynthia Fuhrman Marketing and Communications Director, Portland Center Stage

Patrick Leonard Public Relations, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

Rebecca Burrell, Public Relations and Marketing Specialist, Museum of Contemporary Craft

Namita Gupta-Wiggers, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft

There are many people who love bicycles. But how many can take this love and turn it into a business? And once they've started their cycling-related business, how do they engage their audience, market and brand their company?

Join us for a conversation with a group of cyclists who are creating conversations through their love of bicycles... a panel of four cycling and communication experts will talk about why they're doing what they're doing, how they're doing it, and what's next for cycling as communication. The panel consists of: Jonathan Maus, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of BikePortland (http://bikeportland.org) Slate Olson, General Manager of Rapha, North America (http://www.rapha.cc/) Natalie Ramsland, Founder and Framebuilder of Sweetpea Bicycles (http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/) Heidi Swift, Newspaper Columnist, Freelance Writer, Photographer and Bike Racer (http://everydayathleteblog.com/)

David Lowe-Rogstad, Co-Founder of Substance (http://findsubstance.com) and former road racer (he's back on the bike for Cross Crusade this year), will be moderating the panel.

Coinciding with Oregon Manifest (http://www.oregonmanifest.com/), this panel is an opportunity for framebuilders, cycling enthusiasts, and business owners of all sorts to learn how different companies are utilizing events, technology and stories to create conversations.

Is one of your company's competitors weakened by the economic downturn? Are their signs of a problem?

      * You hear they didn't get a second round of funding.
      * A friend tells you about staff reductions.
      * You're not seeing them at trade shows.
      * Their marketing engine fizzled.
      * Salespeople are calling your firm looking for a new gig.


  What do you do?
  1. Play the waiting game and watch from afar hoping they spiral downward and out of existence
  2. Fuel the fire with an aggressive campaign of your own pointing out the differences between your stable company and this weakened competitor

  Is the law of the jungle appropriate or do we take the high road and wait it out?

  In this session, you'll hear arguments for both sides. You'll hear from marketing and sales professionals who say, "kick em while they're down" and others who say fate will take its course - no extra help required. What's your perspective? What are the ethical boundaries? When does pouncing the weak make you look bad? How can you ratchet up the attack without hurting your credibility? We'll debate how aggressive marketing and sales people can be in today's climate of relatively stronger/weaker competitors. Do salespeople encourage customers to ask for financial statements? What should companies do (if strong or weak) to defend and/or add to their market positions.


  Moderator
  Brian McCarthy, Adjunct Professor, Portland State University School of Business Administration + Oregon Executive MBA Program

  Speaker Panel
  Bill Piwonka, Sr. Director Marketing, Ethics Point
  Bill Booth, Business Development Manager, Babcock and Jenkins
  Kevin Cancilla, Director, Corporate & International Marketing, Tripwire
  Jason Lander, Founder, Vice President of Product & Business Development

April 16th: MetroArts, Inc. @ the Armory Café at Portland Center Stage.

  Join us for a performance highlighting the talents of MetroArts, Inc. and Niel DePonte speaking about arts integration and the creative process  for kids

  When: Every 3rd Thursday, 5- 7pm

  Where: Rotating Venues

You asked and we listened: the SAO brings together four of Portland's most dynamic technology companies - Jive, AboutUs, Serena, and Pop Art, Inc. - to share how they've adapted marketing and sales strategies to the realities of 2009. This panel brings together senior sales and marketing professionals for an interactive, informative breakfast event.

  Register today to learn practical ways in which Portland's most nimble technology companies adapt to changing times.

  Moderator
  Cecile Bos, Partner, Blue Research

  Panelists
  Dennis Deveny, Regional Sales Director, Jive Software
  Tony Bash, Sr. VP of Marketing & Business Dev, Pop Art, Inc.
  Nathan Rawlins, Sr. Director Product Marketing, Serena Software
  Martin Laetsch, VP of Sales and Marketing, AboutUs 

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The American Cancer Society’s PDX CANswer Project Hosts the First Ever March Man-ness in Portland

Whether a handle bar or a fringed masterpiece that would make Tom Selleck proud, American Cancer Society and ACS CAN are asking men to grow a mustache for the entire month of March to raise awareness about men’s cancers. The event, called March Man-ness, begins March 1 and ends April 1 with an event that allows supporters the chance to shave off their mustaches – for a prize.

For more information and to get involved please contact: Jodi Buell, ACS Distinguished Events Director 503.795.3937 jodi.buell@cancer.org

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1478697/ ] Date: Wed, Feb 4th Time: 7:30am-9:00am Location: Portland Center Stage 128 NW 11th Ave Portland, OR 97209 Cost: $25 for members $45 for non members Is the global economic downturn impacting your company and IT organization? If so, you will NOT want to miss this SAO forum on Wednesday, February 4th at Portland Center Stage. Local CIOs Fred Pond, Chris Dill, and Lance Kidd will share some of their direct insights and experience in dealing with downturns, and how your IT organization can even thrive in tough economic times. Speakers: Fred Pond, CIO, North Pacific Group Chris Dill, CIO, Portland Trail Blazers Lance Kidd, CIO, Halton Co

Inverge: the interactive convergence conference, is a transdisciplinary thought-leader event that focuses on the invergence of media platforms (transmedia/cross-media), of virtual + physical, content + advertising, and corporate content + consumer-generated content. To create a unique experience for attendees, this conference is integrated with, three other cultural events happening in Portland over the same multi-day period: + Time-Based Art Festival (performance : dance : music : new media : visual arts) + MusicFestNW (over 100 indie bands) + First Thursday Gallery Walk (an evening of art, wine and music) Visit the conference site to see the complete list of confirmed thought-leader speakers. Learn why Portland is an awesome place to visit for this event.

50th taping of the OPB radio show Live Wire! Gerding Theater at The Armory on NW 11th. Musical guests include the Dandy Warhols and the Portland Cello Project. Awesome radio variety show starts with the "Haiku Hotties" and comedy skits.

Join SEMpdx & pdxMindShare at this networking and educational event. Meet SEMpdx board members, network with other Web professionals, and learn more about membership and sponsorship opportunities.

To start out the year with a bang, Credit Suisse, manager of the Oregon Investment Fund, invites you to meet and exchange big business ideas with entrepreneurs and investors. Enjoy drinks and food on us while initiating conversations with some of the brightest business minds in the Northwest. Now is the time to make partnerships and grow your business. It's set to be the business event of the year. RSVP with name and company (if applicable) you'll be representing to Erin at erina@mackenzie-marketing.com.

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cost: Free

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/398749/

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