Returning for its 3rd year, Silicon Forest Tech Connect takes place on September 17th in Portland, OR. Venue/Location TBD!

Who Should Attend? Whether you’re looking to network with other experienced tech professionals and leaders, engage with local companies and community partners, meet tech recruiters, or recreate the magic of TechCrawl, the Silicon Forest Tech Connect is a can’t-miss event in Portland this fall.

What to Expect: Open networking with experienced tech professionals and leaders. Booths with local tech companies, community partners, and Meetup organizers. Complimentary drink ticket with RSVP and lite bites courtesy of ProFocus Technology. A chance to win cool prizes.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect, collaborate, and contribute to the growth of the Silicon Forest tech ecosystem. See you there! RSVP required.

For Companies/Partners/Sponsors: Space for community partners, meetup groups, and tech companies interested in hosting a booth is limited. Secure your spot by emailing people@profocustechnology.com.

Please join AWS User Group for a Buy Your Own Beverage (BYOB) happy hour with AWS User Group at Lucky Labs in NW Portland.

This is a no-programming networking social event for AWS Users to mingle and talk about all things cloud. Meet with your fellow cloud folks to discuss cloud security, cloud opportunities, cloud best practices, tips, tricks, and battle stories.

Can't wait to cheers our beers in person! See you there!!

Join Ram Vittal, Piyush Kadam & Karthik Rajendran from AWS,to hear about Accelerating AI to Production: Unlocking the Power of MLOps and Governance with Amazon SageMaker

Come to this meetup and hear how Amazon SageMaker enables robust MLOps and ML governance practices to accelerate your machine learning and generative AI deployments. You'll learn about SageMaker's key capabilities, including automated MLOps pipelines, model governance and traceability, and responsible AI management. Discover how SageMaker helps overcome common barriers to ML adoption, such as data quality issues, model governance challenges, and inefficient operations.

Speakers

Ram Vittal is a Principal ML Solutions Architect at AWS. He has over 3 decades of experience architecting and building distributed, hybrid, and cloud applications. He is passionate about building secure, scalable, reliable AI/ML and big data solutions to help enterprise customers with their cloud adoption and optimization journey to improve their business outcomes. In his spare time, he rides motorcycle and walks with his three-year old sheep-a-doodle!

Piyush Kadam is a Product leader for Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed service for generative AI builders. Piyush has extensive experience delivering products that help startups and enterprise customers harness the power of foundation models.

Karthik is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, with diverse Enterprise architecture experience across Finance, Retail, Insurance and energy sectors. He has over 20 years of experience architecting and building distributed, hybrid, and cloud native applications. His passion is helping enterprise customers with their cloud migration journey. Outside work passions include Milky Way photography and motorcycles.

This event is at ProFocus Technology! Check in and AWS User Group Community Networking begins at 5:30pm, AWS Tech Talk begins at 6:00, and the event ends at 7:30pm.

Kickoff @ 5:30 PM: Networking & introductions Tech Talk @ 6:00 PM: Talk nerdy to me: how to explain technical concepts to non-tech people.

Ever struggled to explain your work to people who don't "speak tech"? In this session, you'll learn how to break down complex ideas so anyone can understand — and actually care about — what you're saying. We'll cover the biggest communication mistakes techies make, the art of using analogies and stories, and how to tailor your message to different audiences. Whether you're pitching a project, training a team, or just trying to survive small talk at a family gathering, these tools will help you make your ideas clear, memorable, and impactful. Perfect for engineers, analysts, developers, and anyone who’s ever been told, "Can you say that in English?"

Kickoff @ 5:30 PM: Networking & introductions Tech Talk @ 6:00 PM: Talk nerdy to me: how to explain technical concepts to non-tech people.

Ever struggled to explain your work to people who don't "speak tech"? In this session, you'll learn how to break down complex ideas so anyone can understand — and actually care about — what you're saying. We'll cover the biggest communication mistakes techies make, the art of using analogies and stories, and how to tailor your message to different audiences. Whether you're pitching a project, training a team, or just trying to survive small talk at a family gathering, these tools will help you make your ideas clear, memorable, and impactful. Perfect for engineers, analysts, developers, and anyone who’s ever been told, "Can you say that in English?"