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  • Thursday
    May 7 2026
    Pitch Latino 2026 Q&A
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    Virtual

    Join us for a brief overview of Pitch Latino, a signature entrepreneurial showcase and pitch competition produced by Latino Founders. Designed to celebrate Latino entrepreneurship, innovation, and community impact, Pitch Latino provides founders with visibility, mentorship, and access to powerful networks and resources.

    This webinar will walk through what Pitch Latino is, who it’s for, and how it works. We’ll also answer your questions live and guide you through how to participate—from eligibility to application tips.

    Pitch Latino is industry-agnostic and open to Latino entrepreneurs across all sectors.

    Website
  • Think and Drink Trivia Night

    Think & Drink Trivia Night returns to OBI

    Join us at the Oregon Bioscience Incubator for an evening of dinner, drinks, and friendly competition. Whether you come solo or with friends, we'll form teams of four or fewer to keep things fair and fun, so bring your A-game!

    Your ticket includes a delicious catered dinner and two drink tickets to keep your mind sharp and your energy up.

    Get ready for classic pub-style trivia with a mix of general knowledge questions. Not too tricky, not too simple, and just challenging enough to keep the competition lively.

    Doors open at 5:30 PM for networking and mingling. Trivia starts promptly at 6:00 PM and yes, there will be prizes worth bragging about.

    Come for the trivia. Stay for the community. Leave with bragging rights.

    Website
  • Better Futures Club
    ruby

    ​Better Futures Club is a weekly event (alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays) focused on imagining and making better futures.

    Imagine an artist community, a think tank, and a research center in the same building. People in all of those fields working alongside each other imagining and creating different futures together. Cross pollination and inspiration. Liberal Arts and STEM and R&D. Photographers, physicists, authors, astronomers, musicians, makers, mathematicians, designers, developers, fashionistas, climatologists and all manner of imaginative optimists.

    All Better Futures Club events are covered by the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct (https://www.contributor-covenant.org)

    Website
  • Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: Expiring MS Certificates and Secure Boot with Loren Lang
    linux

    Summary:

    Secure Boot and how to deal with the upcoming certificate updates that are going to be required when the old Microsoft CA expires in June. Many systems will need this update.

    "I am hoping to go into the details of both installing your own certificates if you don't want to use the Microsoft certificates and how to deal with the Microsoft CA when you need to such as fulling the IT requirements for your employeer when you want to run Linux as your main operating system. I've had to deal with that to get my primary work laptop dual-boot enabled and with working Nvidia drivers that needed to be signed with a MOK."

    Bio:

    "While I got to play with my first Sun Workstation running Solaris back in 1996, but it was getting Red Hat Linux where my interest really took off. Since then, I have moved to better options and have spent some time contributing to various distributions and even a little time with FreeBSD ports. My primary job revolves around embedded engineering of some sort. I am currently working at Intel and am one of the very few people on the floor with an IT-approved Linux desktop for my primary workstation."

    Website

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  • Monday
    May 11 2026
    Dorkbot PDX: May Edition
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    Ctrl-H / PDX Hackerspace

    People doing strange things with electricity (and code)!

    DorkbotPDX is a laid-back meetup and show-and-tell for those who make, modify and use technical tools to weird and imaginative ends. You might run into creative coders, electronic artists, circuit designers, retro computing archaeologists, video game devs, modular synth gearheads and cyberpunk DIYers.

    Bring your electronic wonders, monsters, and works-in-progress to show off, or come see what others have been working on! Code or circuits, electronic creativity of all sorts is welcome here.

    Most of Dorkbot is a freewheeling hangout, but each month we feature a short talk about a cool project or teaching some esoteric wizardry.

    This month, Matthew Nielsen is sharing: A novel, super efficient data compression technique used for audio time stretching (and more!). The intended audience is not just synthesizer/sampling nerds but anyone with an interest in digital signal processing, particularly the efficient embedded variety. I've successfully applied this to weather data, GPS/IMU, and a range of industrial transmitters. See demo here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ3FgaHN-ig

    Table space with power will be available for project show-and-tell; we have a table for drinks and snacks, feel free to contribute to the communal cache/BYOB.

    We do this every month, usually on the second Monday night (check the site for upcoming dates to be sure)

    Note: We may be famous for the free parts cart…but the pile has gotten unruly, so we’re not accepting new stuff. If you have things to give away, check the Discord offer/ask channel to see if anyone would like to claim them. Feel free to exchange items at Dorkbot, just no leftovers please!

    You can subscribe to our calendar and mailing list, join the Discord and find our social links on https://www.dorkbotpdx.org (It also has our Code of Conduct, which we'd like you to check out while you're there)

    Website
  • Tuesday
    May 12 2026
    Product-Market Fit + Go To Market Strategy: A Free Lightning Workshop for Founders
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    Kiln

    A toolkit for founders from Ali Maaxa, Ph.D., incubation product & marketing strategist (founder: ProductTheory.io, former: AWS AI, New Relic AI, Meta AI, Recreation.gov), guest VC expert Marianne Motus (UC Berkeley Business School), PDX startup dev team Semi-Decent, and leaders from CHIFOO and the ORPIB Incubator.

    This is a FREE lightning workshop to help scrappy startup founders nail product-market fit (PMF) and go-to-market strategy (GTM). Be your own incubator, be nimble, and be ready to answer deep strategic questions for potential investors, flagship customers, or strategic partners — in a flash.

    Sure, PMF and GTM are buzzwords thrown around constantly. But they stand in for due diligence that actually makes a difference. Skipping the fundamentals is the primary reason 91% of startups fail:

    The classic frameworks that undergird successful incubations — from enterprise AI to EdTech startups Rigorous market research powered by smart AI context engineering Real-deal, progressive hypothesis-testing toward a heavy-hitting MVP In fact, 82% of "failed" founders say that challenging their assumptions about their market would have saved their business.

    Most startups don't find product-market fit for one of two reasons: consultancies charge high overhead to run studies and then throw their findings over the wall — or founders rely on raw AI outputs without the frameworks and context engineering that hold up under VC scrutiny and real product + user discovery.

    Founders need a toolkit they can use throughout their entire product and business development journey. Before you hire a fractional, take generic expert advice from someone who doesn't understand your context, or worse — guess your way into brand damage — let us help you develop your ProductTheory with startup-friendly canvases that will anchor your pitch deck and your upcoming rounds of critical business decisions.

    Learn more about Ali Maaxa's work: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimaaxa/

    Get on board with ProductTheory.io: https://www.producttheory.io/

    Website
  • Founder Demos & Networking

    Take a break from panels, and meet the people building things in Portland.

    This is a casual, walk-around event where early-stage founders will be demoing what they’re working on from small tables.

    You’ll be able to:

    • See what local startups are building

    • Talk directly with founders and teams

    • Meet others in the tech community

    • Move freely between demos and conversations at your own pace

    To help make those moments easier, we’re featuring Wyrl, a networking app built for in-person events. Wyrl shows you who’s around you in real time, lets you view their profiles, and message other attendees so you can connect while you’re attending this and other Startup Week events.

    Free drink tickets are available with Wyrl sign up. Download it at wyrl.io/app

    Hosted by Wyrl

    Sponsored by TiE Oregon Foundation

    Website
  • Community Broadband PDX Meetup

    Come join Community Broadband PDX to talk about building a publicly owned broadband network here in Portland.

    See you there!

    Website
  • Wednesday
    May 13 2026
    dMob @ Company Wine Bar

    Pull your shorts out of the back of the drawer and don’t forget the sunscreen! 🍷

    Join us on Wednesday, May 13 at 6:00 PM for a golden hour evening with friends, wine, and refreshing drinks at Company Wine Bar in SE Portland.

    Website
  • Thursday
    May 14 2026
    Portland Monthly BEAM Meet & Chat
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    Inner SE Portland

    Note: Your RSVP is required in order to attend this event.

    Let’s get together for an informal BEAM PDX hangout: coffee, conversation, and light co-working.

    This is a low-key monthly meetup for folks working with Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, and other BEAM languages, aimed at reconnecting the local community and rebuilding momentum after a long quiet stretch. We'll holding this on the second Thursday of each month.

    There will be opportunities to:

    • Ask questions about Elixir and other BEAM languages
    • Share what you’ve been working on (or stuck on)
    • Get help with programming or design problems
    • Co-work: get things done with like-minded folks nearby
    • Brainstorm ideas for future talk-based meetups and identify potential speakers
    • Bring your laptop if you’d like. It's totally optional.

    New to BEAM languages, or just curious? You’re very welcome.

    Please RSVP so we know roughly how many people to expect. If your plans change, un-RSVP when you can.

    This meetup is also part of our transition away from Meetup to a new home for the group, where we’ll be organizing future events.

    Website
  • Building D3.js Visualizations For Non-Technical Audiences
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    Virtual

    This presentation introduces D3.js as a powerful tool for transforming complex data into clear, meaningful visual stories which non-technical audiences can understand and use. It explains what D3.js is, how it works with web technologies and why visualization is essential for revealing patterns and insights raw data alone cannot show.

    This talk emphasizes designing visualizations with the audience in mind while also covering core D3 concepts such as data binding, scales, layouts and interactive graphics. Through examples, case studies, design principles and practical tips, this presentation demonstrates how builders can use D3.js to communicate ideas effectively and empower people to discover insights from data.

    Website
  • Cloud Native May Meetup: Change-driven Architecture and Serving Inference at Scale
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    Reperio Health

    Cloud Native PDX May: Change-driven Architecture and Serving Inference at Scale

    This May is all about scaling; scaling your infrastructure management, or scaling your LLM inference serving. Join us to find out about some open source tools to make managing large modern stacks easier.

    Date: Thursday, May 14 Time: 5:30–7:30 PM Location: Reperio Health, 4784 SE 17th Ave Suite 120, Portland, OR

    Recording: Talks are typically recorded (opt-in by speakers)

    A big thank you to Microsoft for sponsoring food & beverage, and to Reperio Health, our venue host.

    Drasi, a new take on Change Driven Architectures: Aman Singh, Microsoft

    Modern cloud-native systems constantly generate data changes, and applications often need to react to them. Building change-driven solutions that respond to specific changes in distributed data is challenging. This talk introduces Drasi, a CNCF Sandbox project that simplifies the design and implementation of change-driven architectures using Graph Queries and pluggable components. For example, with Drasi you can declaratively write automation to detect and respond to running containers with newly identified vulnerabilities across pods and deployments in a Kubernetes cluster. Join us for a walkthrough of real-world use cases that show how Drasi’s approach brings structure and responsiveness to complex distributed environments - without writing custom code.

    Dynamo: Large Scale Distributed Inference David Zeir, Director, DL System Software, Nvidia Neelay Shah, Distinguished Engineer, Nvidia

    This talk introduces Dynamo, NVIDIA's open-source Kubernetes-native distributed inference platform. We'll cover the problem space, walk through Dynamo's architecture — disaggregated prefill/decode, KV-cache-aware routing, and a transport layer that moves KV blocks directly between GPUs — and dig into the Kubernetes integration for scheduling, autoscaling, and graceful failure handling. We'll close with a demo of Dynamo serving a real workload.

    Website
  • Gresham Vibecoders Unite!

    Join us for our very first Gresham Vibecoders Meetup! We'll kick things off with introductions — who you are, what you're building (only if you want to share), and what tools you're using. From there, we'll do an open show-and-tell where anyone can demo a project they've been working on, no matter how finished (or unfinished) it is. We'll swap tips, talk about what's working, what's broken, and what we're figuring out as we go.

    Expect good conversation, a few laughs, and maybe a spark for your next build. Come as you are — beginner, builder, or just AI-curious. All are welcome!

    Website
  • Saturday
    May 16 2026
    Code & Coffee @ Roseline Café
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    Roseline Cafe

    Details

    What to Expect:

    Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. Drink some coffee, bring your laptop, and have engaging conversations. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work tasks. Still uncertain? Let's chat on Discord!

    Venue:

    The Venue is at Roseline Café, who is graciously allowing us to host a space. WIFI, power outlets Recommended Parking: Smart Park, $7 all day https://www.portland.gov/transportation/parking/smartpark

    Coffee:

    Roseline Café has drip coffee and fixings available for it

    Agenda:

    10 AM - Arrival 10:15 AM - Introductions: Share your name Discuss your current projects or interests. If you don’t have a specific project, share what intrigues you! Mention your expertise and how you can assist others. Are you job hunting or hiring? Let us know! Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too. 12:30 AM - Wrapping Up: You can stay longer, but we'll officially be done! We usually grab lunch as a group at near by food carts

    Website
  • Sunday
    May 17 2026
    Portland Linux/Unix Group's Monthly Linux Clinic

    That PLUG Clinic you like is coming back into style!

    The PLUG Clinic returns again this month on May 17, from 1pm-5pm. Note the different venue this month, we are back at the Albina Branch Library. If you need help with your Linux computer, or want to offer help, you are welcome!

    Volunteer helpers are as desirable as helpees. Helping is fun and rewarding. If you've ever helped out at a PLUG Clinic before, come checkout the space!

    Thanks to the taxpayers of Multnomah County for the beautiful new building!

    Website

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