Come learn a revolutionary strengths-based approach to business from entrepreneur Paul Allen of ancestry.com so you can successfully scale your startup!

Ticket includes lunch and a day pass to Centrl Office.

Join us as we gather to reboot our Startup PDX community!

We're taking this community from a former place of just beerhall networking...to becoming a hub for Startup Professionals and Startup Entrepreneurs to level-up...together! 

Our vision is to support the Portland Startup ecosystem, by being a place for Inspiration, Knowledge, and Networking. We're already lining up some amazing talks and meetups for the next few months.

Come to this first casual kickoff event! Learn more about the vision of this community. Get some FREE beer...and network with other Startup Professionals. Much thanks to Centrl Office for being our new community sponsor, providing our venue and beer!! RSVP soon as there's limited space for this event. 

And, in the spirit of Startup Happy Hour, we'll always be continuing the after party for people wanting to connect even deeper at 10 Barrel starting around 7:45pm.

Make sure to find me and say hello. Short blurb about me: I'm currently a co-founder of both a venture backed startup and a bootstrapped startup. I'd love to hear what you're working on! 

Also, find me if you want to get involved in helping with this community!

Pat Cheung

It's Portland Startup Week (February 6-10)! And it's become a bit of a Startup Week tradition to revisit some of our amazing Portland startup community events from yesteryear — like Portland Lunch 2.0. 

So… Can we buy lunch? Join Portland Lunch 2.0 sponsor StackPath and the rest of our community at CENTRL Office for a bite to eat, seeing old friends, and meeting new folks in our community.

Please mark your calendars and plan to be there!

After a great beta test, we're ready to take this thing into production. PIE and Built Oregon would like to invite you to our first Community Hour[s]. This will be an ongoing gathering of all the people who make up the entrepreneurial fabric in our community. There is no agenda, panel, or discussion. It’s a time to relax and network with old friends and new connections. As much as we all love technology, relationships are built through personal connections and shared stories. So we hope you’ll join us for a few minutes, or a couple hours at the CENTRL Office Main Bar on September 6th from 5-7pm. (Ending at 7pm sharp!)

See you there!

Hack Oregon Community Summit and Project Season Kick-Off

A Design Thinking Session with Developers, Designers, Government, Industry and Donuts

Hack Oregon opens its doors twice a year to assemble interdisciplinary focus teams of volunteers to build open-data resources on important themes in Oregon. Our projects take roughly three months to complete, and there are staggered start times for different roles within our build cycle.

This is a special event to brainstorm goals, build relationships, and create a shared vision for the next cycle of projects.

At the Summit we'll introduce new themes for projects, assemble teams, and collaborate with fantastic context experts and mentors through guided design thinking sessions.

We won't be coding this afternoon, but it's a exciting space for cross-pollination between disciplines while we take the afternoon to collaborate, plan, and constructively brainstorm.

Some of you will get started hacking the following week, and others we'll see 6-8 weeks later when we start the visual and storytelling phase.

Everyone is welcome, and we can't wait to meet you!

PS: Showing up to the Summit is not a commitment to volunteer, but fair warning, after you experience this you might just step through the looking glass and disappear into the data rabbit hole :)

Kindly RSVP at https://donutsummit.eventbrite.com

To be the best prepared, preregister and get in our volunteer hopper at hackoregon.org

Description 

Apache Spark has come a long ways since it began as a faster batch oriented map-reduce solution for Hadoop.  With support for streaming, machine learning and most recently SQL, Spark aspires to become a player in the realm of real time analytics at scale. 

However, much of its underpinnings remain batch oriented and unsuited for highly concurrent OLAP workloads. 

In this talk, we will describe how we are innovating and renovating Spark's core underpinnings to make it suitable for real time operational analytics, helping create a unified platform that supports row and column data, high concurrency and approximate query processing at scale.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:15 Welcome and Networking

6:15 – 7:15 Presentation by Jags Ramnarayan

7:15 – 8:00 Food, Drinks & Discussion

Presenter

Jags Ramnarayan is the chief product visionary for SnappyData. 

Jags is the Chief Architect for “fast data” products(GemFire) at Pivotal and has served in the extended leadership team of the company. At Pivotal and previously at VMWare he led the technology direction for its high performance distributed data Grid and in-memory DB products. 

He has spent more than two decades in this industry and has a bachelors degree in computer science and a masters degree in management of science and technology.

Sponsors

Snappy Data is the presenter of the event and sponsor for food and drinks.

Pivotal is the sponsor for the hosting fees.

CentrlOffice is the host for this event.

Every week we have a new local entrepreneur building an amazing company here in Portland. They give a short presentation followed up with a great Q&A session where you get to ask questions and ask about the real challenges and triumphs behind the business.

As always we welcome everyone interested in startups and founders building great companies here in Portland.

Come and check it out and bring a friend.

Well, it's been quite a May for Portland. First, President Obama swung by. And now, the Smartest Man in the World, Saul Colt will be in town, too. 

Only Saul will be way more accessible.

Who is Saul? In his career he has been named as one of the iMEDIA 25: Internet Marketing Leaders & Innovators as well as been called one of Canada’s best community builders/experiential marketers. NYT Best selling author and Internet Pioneer Chris Brogan once referred to Saul as “exactly who you want representing your company” and that message has been echoed by media properties ranging from Inc to Forbes Magazine. 

In a previous life Saul was the first international employee of Zipcar and the person responsible for launching Zipcar into the Canadian marketplace, was a key person in the growth of FreshBooks.com (The #1 Cloud Accounting service for Small Business Owners) and even knows what it is like to work for a large corporation from his time in a leadership role at Rogers Communications. On top of all that Saul is also a Professional Speaker and Consultant specializing in Social Media, Customer Service, Community Building and Word of Mouth Marketing. 

Whether you're an early stage startup or a well established business, Saul's unique perspective will have you rethinking how you spread the word about your company. Even if you don't care about marketing, he's just a great and entertaining speaker.

Startup Weekend B2B is a 54 hour event where developers, designers, marketers and other startup enthusiasts come together to pitch their business-to-business startup ideas, form teams, build products, and launch their revenue generating startup.

The whole reason we started Portland Lunch 2.0 was to give people the opportunity to visit awesome workplaces in the Portland area. This month is no different. 

Join CENTRL Office and Immix Law Group for some great company in an awesome location. We'll have Boke Bowl providing tasty food. Not only will you get a chance to meet your peers from the Portland startup scene, you'll also get the opportunity to see the newest coworking space in Portland. 

We're looking forward to seeing you there.