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TuesdayJan 27 2026The Power of Storytelling for Founders
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OnlineWebsiteThe Power of Storytelling for Founders: For Pitching or Selling, Be More Engaging with Stories
Make your investor or sales pitch more memorable and engaging with storytelling.
People naturally connect with stories and using storytelling can make your pitch more memorable and impactful. In today's competitive market, it's not enough to just have a good product or service; you also need to be able to effectively communicate your vision and value proposition. This is where storytelling comes in.
Storytelling helps founders stand out and make a lasting impression on potential investors and customers.
In this virtual workshop, Dana will take us through some strategies to:
· Make complex ideas more understandable and relatable to your audience.
· Increase engagement and keep their attention
· Build trust by sharing authentic stories that demonstrate your values and capabilities.
Join us to transform your big vision into stories that grab attention.
Dana Sather Robinson
Dana is an angel investor, pitch trainer and creator of the Pitch 4 Impact Framework. As a professional presentation skills trainer, she understands how to help clients communicate with impact, clarity and authenticity. Dana is an active member on the board of E8 Angels, an innovative cleantech angel investing group. The Pitch4Impact program was created from two perspectives, as an investor and as a trainer of presentation skills. Dana emphasizes how to make the most of your own natural style to be memorable and authentic. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-sather-robinson/
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Portland Java User Group meeting: DBOS–
ProFocusWebsiteThis is an in person meeting
Agenda
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm - Pizza and Intro 5:45 pm - 6:45 pm - Presentation
Details
So you have a new Workflow in your application. Let's say that it has 20 steps in the workflow
What happens if the instance handling the workflow goes down What happens if a remote service that is invoked in one of the Workflow steps is down This is where a durable workflow comes in. DBOS is a durable Workflow engine that provides this capability along with many other features.
Come learn about the durable workflow space and how you can add such a capability to your Java application
Speaker
Harry Pierson is a Software Engineer at DBOS and is responsible for the Java implementation of DBOS Peter Kraft is the Co-founder of DBOS
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WednesdayJan 28 2026PDXOSGeo January MeetupWebsite
Happy New Year geo-nerds!
PDXOSGeo connects again this week, Wednesday Jan 28, 6:30p Hot Lips Pizza @ the Natural Capital Center 721 NW 9th Ave, Portland OR. Join us for some show and tell and good open geo discussion!
Topic for January: David Percy “Percy” has been doing research on applying Reconstructability Analysis (RA) to categorical raster datasets since 2012, and is preparing to defend his dissertation on Spatial Reconstructability Analysis soon. RA is a form of machine learning that works exclusively with discrete data, so categorical data such as the National Land Cover Database is a perfect source of data for it. These NLCD data have been analyzed in attempts to predict forest dynamics (clearcuts), and wildfire size, specifically looking at how historical vegetation affects these outcomes. Results will be presented that show how these data are useful in modeling future events. All of the extraction for analysis was done in Python using open source GIS libraries Shapely and Rasterio. Code will be shared and discussed.
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ThursdayJan 29 2026Assessed Intelligence Networking Happy Hour
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The MuleWebsiteJoin Assessed Intelligence for an end-of-January AI networking happy hour bringing together professionals working in artificial intelligence, data, and intelligent systems. This relaxed, after-hours gathering is designed for thoughtful conversation, new connections, and idea sharing in an informal setting. Whether you’re building, deploying, or guiding AI initiatives, we’d love to have you join us.
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Ephemeral by Design–
VirtualWebsitePortland Design Thinkers are excited to welcome Leksi Kostur, Ephemeral by Design.
This talk explores the role of biodegradable materials in the future of design. Drawing from work in festivals, weddings, and funerary contexts, Leksi examines design situations where short-lived and single-use objects are not failures, but appropriate and even advantageous choices. Rather than positioning biodegradability as a universal solution, she focuses on material logic and circular design practices, aligning purpose with lifespan. She also looks at whimsy, imagination, and references to nature as intentional design choices, framing optimism as a designer’s responsibility at a time when environmental fatigue and resignation are widespread. Designing with nature becomes a way to counter eco-nihilism and imagine more regenerative futures
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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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WednesdayFeb 4 2026"Imagine all the People": A Talk on Digital Futures, Computer-Human Interaction, and Radical Innovaton by author Dr. Alexander Reid RossWebsite
Join the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon for a Talk on Digital Futures by author, activist, and professor Alexander Reid Ross
“Imagine All the People”: Socio-Ecological-Technical Imaginaries and Utopian MovementsJohn Lennon’s famous directive to “imagine all the people” is virtually impossible for social movements that require enemies and scapegoats to foster egalitarian visions of the future. Building on research into the far right, this talk describes the emergence of powerful socio-ecological-technical imaginaries in the 21st Century and their relation to social movements and community organization. Discussing the rising movement against data centers and right-wing social media, it locates imaginaries in the complex, mimetic struggles for freedom in which technology seems to threaten as much as it promises. In the contexts of theories like “abundance,” accelerationism, and eco-modernism, it possible today, as utopianism and pessimism surge, for “all the people” to fit into our imagined past, present, and future?
Alexander Reid Ross is an award-winning geographer working at the intersection of human-natural systems, focusing on climate, water, and the political far right. He holds a doctorate from Portland State’s Earth, Environment, Society program, and his work has appeared in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, The Public Historian, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers Review of Books. He has produced three books, with a forthcoming work on Shakespeare and the concept of the sublime due out later this year.
All are welcome. Free to enter, small donations to cover expenses encouraged. Feel free to bring a bottle of wine, some snacks, or seom refreshments to consume and share.
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ThursdayFeb 5 2026Portland Linux/Unix Group General Monthly Meeting: Certificate Transparency with Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
WebsiteSummary:
A few things like the recent update to the Certificate Transparency ecosystem to allow the “static CT API”, which is much cheaper to operate; and the new IETF working group PLANTS for Merkle Tree Certificates and why it’s relevant to Post-Quantum cryptography. I’ll provide an intro about what Certificate Transparency is.
Bio:
Jacob Hoffman-Andrews leads EFF's work on the Let's Encrypt project, which assists over 400 million domain names in providing HTTPS encryption to their visitors. His areas of interest also include AI, online authentication (in particular multifactor authentication and passkeys), trusted execution environments and attestations, browser security, DNS, and memory safety. Besides Let's Encrypt's Boulder software, he is a maintainer of the go-jose package, rustdoc, and ureq.
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FridayFeb 6 2026Up & Running - A one-day mini conference on resourcing your early stage startupWebsite
Hosted by the Metro Region Innovation Hub and HERE, this is a first-of-its-kind, day-long conference to help founders and tech startups navigate the obstacle course of early stage business development.
Seeking Investment capital? A brand strategy? Wondering about your sales funnel? No matter your challenge, this is the place to get you past the confusion. Experts and prospective business partners in multiple disciplines will be on hand for you to learn from, huddle with, and grow your local network.
The day will feature panel discussions, presentations, Q&A sessions and 1-on-1 advising with business investors and professional service consultants.
This mini-conference is best suited for early stage startups that involve technology-based innovation. As this is an educational conference, pitching, selling, and solicitations will be prohibited.
Lunch is included. Space is limited to the first 80 registrants. Walk-in registrations will not be available.
Registration closes February 5. Early pricing ends January 28 ($35 registration fee beginning 1/28).
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SaturdayFeb 7 2026Mentorship Saturdays @ 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/mentorship-saturdays/events/312483371/
Coffee, bagels and people working on their careers and code! We have 2-5 mentors every month ready to help people get started in the industry, get help with a particular problem, or get career advice. We offer resume reviews, portfolio reviews, and sometimes mock interviews (time permitting).
Hosted by Aaron Campf.
Or call in (audio only)
+1 872-240-8681,,882162595# United States, Chicago
Phone Conference ID: 882 162 595#
Thanks to Capital One Café for providing a physical location!
Discord https://discord.gg/nSCxgbcG7U
If there are any issues with joining in person or online please message on here and Slack or Discord