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WednesdayFeb 11 2026Women Who Dare PDX: Founder Talk–
NedspaceWebsiteThe Power in the Pause, The Bravery in the Shift
You’re invited to an inspiring morning with Shi Choong, Founder & Event Producer of Women Who Dare PDX. This intimate speaker event will explore the deeper mission behind WWD and the transformational theme for 2026: “The Power in the Pause, The Bravery in the Shift.” This event is for women and allies who support women empowerment and lifting women up.
In this session, Shi will share: ✨ Her personal journey of courage, reinvention, and leadership ✨ Why intentional pauses and pivotal life shifts shape who we become ✨ How Women Who Dare creates spaces for women to be seen, heard & celebrated ✨ What to expect at the March 8, 2026 WWD Conference
If you’re navigating change, seeking clarity, or craving a community that supports your evolution—this conversation will speak to your heart. Bring a friend, your journal, or simply your open mind. Prepare to feel inspired, grounded, and ready to rise.
RSVP (free): https://www.meetup.com/startup-your-startup/events/312356008/
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Feb 11th Tech Lunch At Papaccino'sWebsite
Come hang out with other tech people for lunch every other Wednesday at Papaccino’s from 12 ~ 2pm.
Tomorrow
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ThursdayFeb 12 2026Portland Monthly BEAM Meet & ChatWebsite
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.
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Better Futures Club
WebsiteBetter 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)
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Implementing a Window Manager: developer workflows, C bindings, and Rust tooling
WebsiteAn artist might paint their parent a picture, a sculptor may craft them a vase, but a programmer writes them an x11 window manager.
For Christmas of 2025, Ben Massey started on a project for his dad: an x11 window manager written in Rust. Development workflow is an important part of a programmer's life: we use these computer things quite a bit every single day, so basic usage of them should aid the creative process, rather than fight it. After some discussions on the topic of workflow, Ben decided that there were some needs not met by traditional window managers, and that it was worth taking a stab at a solution.
This talk will go over the project "pick-full-wm", which takes full advantage of the wonderful tooling offered to Rust like Cargo, and the niceties of aspects like memory safety and compiler rule enforcement. This will also naturally lead to topics of Rust bindings to C, and more general discussions of Linux and software development.
Next two weeks
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FridayFeb 13 2026Tech Talk | EQ for Engineers: The Skills that Accelerate Your Career with Nikki MaginnWebsite
What happens when strong technical skills are not enough to move your career forward?
Many engineers discover that while coding and problem-solving get you in the door, communication, self-awareness, and relationship-building are what shape long-term growth and leadership opportunities. These skills are rarely taught, yet they influence how ideas are heard, how teams function, and how careers advance.
In this live Tech Talk, Nikki Maginn, Founder and CEO of Inside Out Engineering, will explore the emotional intelligence skills engineers need to thrive in real-world environments. Nikki will break down how to communicate more effectively, navigate conflict with confidence, and build trust without feeling forced or overly political. She will also share how these skills play a critical role in career advancement, team dynamics, and long-term success.
Join us for this engaging live session on Friday, February 13 at 1 PM PT | 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET and learn how emotional intelligence can strengthen your impact as an engineer, teammate, and future leader.
If you’ve ever felt like your ideas were getting lost in translation or that your career growth has stalled despite strong technical ability, this talk will give you practical insights you can apply right away.
Reserve your spot today and start building the skills that help engineers stand out and lead with confidence.
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SundayFeb 15 2026Portland Linux/Unix Group's Monthly Linux ClinicWebsite
That PLUG Clinic you like is coming back into style!
The PLUG Clinic returns again this month on February 15, 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!
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TuesdayFeb 17 2026action party for an AI-resilient future (dinner included)Website
Make friends who care about stuff at Soapbox Portland, the city's most fun community space for climate action! We're having a party for people who care about the planet. Same time, same place, every week. You're invited. Request a reparative ticket here if you need one.
It's time to take action on AI and how it's affecting our planet, minds, and communities!
The plan (more details to be announced soon!)
5~5:45 pm | arrive, eat dinner, chit chat
5:45~6:15 pm | context-setting & affinity activity
7-8 pm | action time!
Please arrive by 5:30pm so you have time to eat before the programming begins.
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Portland Accessibility and User Experience Meetup (PDX A11Y UX) - Making Accessibility the Default: Continuous Accessibility Practices [virtual]–
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Often relegated to episodic efforts such as late-stage audits and ad hoc projects, digital accessibility is most effective and efficient when it is the organization’s default mode of operation. Making the shift to continuous accessibility leads to better outcomes across the board, including improving the experience of disabled users, mitigating the risk of accessibility-related lawsuits, improving brand reputation, and even creating a positive return on investment (ROI).
In this talk we provide practical strategies for embedding accessibility into daily routines and technical systems, demonstrating how to start small and scale over time. Key topics include:
- Establishing a repeatable accessibility routine and improving it over time.
- The importance of data and metrics, such as bug counts and time-to-resolution (TTR), to establish a baseline and measure progress.
- Rallying cross-functional allies to drive change (yes, even without C-suite mandates).
- Creating a unified system where human workflows and technical tools work in concert.
A real world case study illustrates how the strategic application of automated regression testing and clear bug prioritization led to a profound cultural shift where accessibility is treated like any other product quality concern. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas for initiating and sustaining cultural change, making the case for accessibility as a core business principle.
Agenda
The event begins at 6 pm; join early, starting at 5:45 pm for networking.
- 5:45–6:00pm Networking
- 6:00–6:15pm Introductions and announcements
- 6:15–6:45pm Presentation
- 6:45–7:15pm Q&A and discussion
About the presenters
Devon Persing is your neighbor to the north in Seattle, WA. Before joining "big" tech as an accessibility professional around 2012, she worked in "small" tech as a UI designer, front-end web developer, and usability advocate in libraries, higher education, and local government. She has an MS in Information and is disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent, and as a result her approach to digital accessibility centers information literacy, organization dynamics, and disability justice. Her current focus as a solo consultant is on helping people do accessibility work that is more holistic, inclusive, cooperative, and sustainable. She wrote a book called The Accessibility Operations Guidebook with that goal in mind.
Portlander by birth and by choice, Andrew Hedges is COO for Assistiv Labs, an accessibility tooling company based in the PNW. His 28-year career as a web developer and engineering leader has taken him to companies from Apple to Zapier. As a longtime advocate for improving the usability of websites for people with disabilities, Andrew would love nothing more than for accessibility to become the default so we can finally realize the original promise of the web to democratize access to information for everyone.
RSVP
Please RSVP for the Zoom link.
Accommodation requests
If you have any accommodation requests, don't hesitate to contact us before the event to discuss.
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Get your resume seen! Talks to help your tech job searchWebsite
This event is hybrid; a Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees closer to the date, but please note that the talk itself doesn't start until 6:30!
February is right in the middle of peak hiring season, and PNSQC has a couple of speakers lined up to help you land that next role in a very competitive market.
First, Jeremy Elwood will give his talk titled The Paradox of Plenty: A Modern Hiring Story. It's a reflection on finding a job, but told from the employer's perspective: exploring what actually differentiated successful candidates from the rest, why resume screening failed to surface the strongest candidates, and what to look for in a successful candidate. Along the way, it offers concrete advice for everyone: how job seekers can better present their experience, approach take-home challenges, and prepare for interviews; and how hiring managers can ask better questions, design meaningful evaluations, and reduce unnecessary pain in the process. Ultimately, the talk aims not only to surface systemic problems in modern software engineer hiring, but also to offer practical guidance and cautious optimism for navigating (and surviving) the "paradox of plenty".
Heather Wilcox is excited to follow with her talk titled Resume Tips and Tricks, which will go further in depth on how to write a resume that hiring managers will notice, along with other helpful hints for survival in the era of AI. As an experienced hiring manager and job seeker herself, Heather has reviewed hundreds (maybe thousands?) of resumes. She can tell you that the AI and recruiter generated resumes are usually easy to spot and often treated with a certain amount of disdain and distrust. But, at the same time, you need your information to get past the AI screeners and into the hands of a real human. It's not an easy needle to thread, but she's done it and so can you!
Schedule (all times in PT): 6-6:30 PM: Light refreshments (soft drinks, pizza) and networking 6:30-7:30 PM: Talks/Presentation 7:30-8 PM: Q&A and more networking
Thanks to Trimble this month for lending us their space for the evening!
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Better Futures Club
Website
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)
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Healing After the Exit: Moving Past the Trauma of Being Let Go- Small Business & Community Resilience SeriesWebsite
Being let go is rarely just about a paycheck; it is a profound disruption of your identity and security. When managers aren't trained to handle these moments skillfully, the result is often "termination trauma." Even in the best-case scenarios, losing a job triggers a unique form of grief that can leave you feeling stuck, paralyzed, or resentful. Why This Matters for Your Career The weight of a bad exit doesn't stay at your old desk; it follows you. If left unaddressed, that "trauma energy" can leak into your interviews and follow you into your next role, impacting your confidence and how you show up for new opportunities. To be truly marketable, you have to work through the baggage. In this class, we will talk about the trauma, understanding that you aren't alone, that the person who had to let you go might also be struggling, and some ways to overcome so you don't bring it into your next job. This form is a google form that let's us know what class you are intrested please fill it out https://luma.com/lgdzr48d
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WednesdayFeb 18 2026Portland AI Engineers, Feb 2026 meetingWebsite
Core Defender returns with student (age 6-14) showcases in AI and Robotics.
More details to follow
This was a wonderful event back in 2025 and we are happy to see them return.
Schedule:
5:00 - 5:30: Snacks and networking 5:30 - 6:30: Presentations 6:30 - 7:00: Wrap up and networking
Get involved:
Present your work at a future event: Email us at [email protected] to discuss sharing your project or insights
Provide feedback: Help shape our community by sharing your ideas and suggestions
Sponsor an event: Contact us to discuss partnership opportunities
For more information and to join our community, visit portlandai.engineer
Thank you to our amazing sponsors
Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) Silicon Florist AlteredCraft O'Reilly
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ThursdayFeb 19 2026Think and Drink Trivia NightWebsite
Think & Drink Trivia Night is back at OBI and we’re kicking off the year strong.
Join us at the Oregon Bioscience Incubator for an evening of dinner, drinks, and smart competition. Whether you roll in with friends or show up solo, you’ll be placed on a team of four or fewer to keep things fair and fun. No trivia steamrolling allowed.
Your ticket includes a hearty catered dinner and two drink tickets to fuel both your brain and your confidence.
Expect classic pub-style trivia covering a wide range of general knowledge topics. Nothing too obscure, nothing too easy, and just challenging enough to spark a little trash talk.
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.
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PDXPUG: Portland PostgreSQL Users Meetup : What's new in PostgreSQL 18Website
Please note different location at Multnomah Arts Center. Also, please RSVP on MeetUp as space is limited: https://www.meetup.com/pdxpug/events/312977438/
PostgreSQL 18 was released September 25, 2025.
We will review freely available presentations available on the internet.
Come learn what's new, share experiences, or just meet with local peers! Casual, informal.
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BSD Pizza NightWebsite
A meeting of folks interested in BSD operating systems and related technologies to get together, eat pizza, drink beer, and talk about what interesting things have been going on.
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FridayFeb 20 2026Tech Talk | Inside Data Engineering: From Raw Data to Insights with Claire BourdonWebsite
Ever wondered how businesses turn messy, raw data into insights that actually drive decisions?
That’s where data engineers come in. Data engineering is the backbone of modern analytics and involves collecting, cleaning, transforming, and organizing data so teams can make smarter business decisions.
In this live Tech Talk, Claire Bourdon, Senior Data Engineer at NeoGenomics Laboratories, will break down what data engineers really do and walk through a simplified real-world example of the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. She will also share practical tips for standing out in data engineering interviews, even if you don’t yet have a visual portfolio or GitHub projects to showcase.
Whether you are just getting into tech or exploring data engineering as a career path, you will walk away with clear, actionable takeaways you can apply right away.
Save your spot now and join us on Friday, February 20 at 1 PM PT | 3 PM CT | 4 PM ET to see how data engineering powers real-world analytics.
Save your spot here: https://www.meetup.com/techacademy/events/
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SaturdayFeb 21 2026Code & Coffee @ Capital One Café (Upstairs) OR Roseline Cafe 1 Block AwayWebsite
Note: We are likely using our backup location Roseline Cafe for 1 more month, which is just a block away from Capital One Café and we should be back their next month Please check meetup for the exact location https://www.meetup.com/portland-code-coffee/events/312436808/
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 Capital One 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:
Capital One Café has drip coffee and fixings available for it
Agenda:
10 AM - Arrival: Head to the top by the glass rooms 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
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TuesdayFeb 24 2026can AI make art? (hands on craft night + dinner party)Website
AI isn't "good" or "bad" but in the moment we're in, it's directly hitting literacy rates, critical thinking, and the safety of our resources. We need to shift our resources, including time, money, and energy, and what better way to do that than an arts and crafts party?
You do NOT need any experience. You don't need to be "good" at art. Just come, hang out, use your hands, and have fun.
More details announced soon!
Please arrive by 5:30pm so you have time to eat before the programming begins.
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Good Idea, Bad Idea: How to Stand Out in Small Business & Employment- Small Business & Community Resilience Series
WebsiteIn the final installment of our series, we’re taking a page out of the Animaniacs playbook to master the art of standing out. Whether you are a small business owner trying to catch a break or a professional looking for your next role, success often comes down to recognizing the difference between a "Good Idea" and a "Bad Idea", in the art of standing out. In this high-energy session, we use the classic "Good Idea, Bad Idea" format to break down modern branding and professional presence. This class will start with stories of good and bad ideas for standing out, and then we will be creative together and generate ideas and ways you can personally stand out in your business or employment search. Please fill out the Google form so we can know what kind of classes you are interested in https://forms.gle/Gqb71tuVZ3SVQtrT8