Every creative professional is looking for great work. Every creative organization is looking for great people.

This event matches these two groups for an intense 3 hour networking and recruiting event focused on making productive connections, and hiring and retaining outstanding creative workers.

The afternoon centers on a moderated panel discussion focusing on strategies for hiring top creative talent, and for getting yourself hired into these roles.

PANELISTS

Kirk James Creative Director, Cinco Design

Nick Oakley Head of Industrial Design, Mobility Group, Intel

Beth Sasseen Senior Design Recruiter, Nike

Chelsea Vandiver Head of Communications Design Group, Ziba Design

A cocktail reception will immediately follow the presentation and the remainder of the afternoon will be an open format. Mid- and senior-level designers, creative directors, recruiters, and other professionals in the product design, apparel, branding, and interaction design fields are encouraged to attend. Scheduling, registration and ticketing details can be found at the Creative Confab page at Coroflot.com.

This month's topic: GWT in the Real World - Building Enterprise GWT Applications in Legacy Application Frameworks

This is a discussion on how Nike replaced a legacy JavaScript data grid with a grid written in GWT. Topics covered will include: * Why GWT? * Architectural design considerations * Packaging and deployment * Deploying GWT into a JDK 1.4 container * Browser compatibility issues * Performance, performance, performance - how we made it as fast as possible * Useful tools, libraries, and technologies * Lessons learned

Speaker: Douglas Bullard

Douglas Bullard has been writing Enterprise applications in Java and associated technologies for 15 years. He has spent the last 10 years at Nike working on Nike.net - Nike's B2B e-commerce site.

PJUG meetings start with some time to eat and socialize (pizza and beverages are provided), followed by the featured speaker, then Q&A, discussion, sometimes a drawing to give away swag. :)

Though we like knowing how many people to expect, you don't have to RSVP, on Upcoming or otherwise. Go ahead and just show up!

Many people also go for a drink and further discussion following the meeting, at a location determined ad hoc (lately, Trees restaurant in the same building).

http://twitter.com/pjug http://pjug.org/ (join our mailing list, linked from the website!)

Nike MSI is one of many approaches to evaluate the environmental sustainability of materials and the suppliers that produce them. We have created this forum to capture feedback and new ideas from users and reviewers.

We hope that releasing this framework and data will jumpstart a rich conversation within the footwear and apparel industry. Please participate with questions and comments regarding the value of our approach, ways to improve and build upon Nike MSI, data to populate new materials and a wider variety of supply chains, and the development of a centrally managed, open-source center of excellence that provides access to all.

Nike Materials Sustainability Index

We will be hosting the event in Portland. Pizza, beer and soft drinks will be provided. We have an AV system and projector, so let us know if you want to pitch or do a demonstration.

If you are interested in bringing a company up to Portland to work with one of the leading brands in Digital Sports and one of the best Startup Accelerator operators, then come and talk with us. You don't have to complete an application to attend.

If you have completed your application, then please attend and let us know who your company is. We'd be happy to speak with you and answer any questions. If you are building a startup around health, fitness and/or the quantified self, then you will want to attend. You could not find two better partners to help get you launched. Working with the best brand people in the business at Nike and the experiences startup gurus at TechStars is a powerful, double boost.

Everyone who's interested in learning about, using, or creating new technologies for self-tracking is invited to join us at our Quantified Self Show-and-Tell Meetup at the Nike+ Accelerator (1714 NW Overton St) at 6 pm on Wednesday April 17.

QS Show-and-Tell Meetups feature first-person, personal experiments and experiences in self-tracking, as well as plenty of time for informal conversation and networking. Besides our QS community, we're inviting the startup founders at the Nike+/TechStars Accelerator to join the mix and share their personal stories too. Let me know if you're willing to be one of the presenters. We'll have an agenda up soon.

With two events this month -- the QS Co-Laboratory on April 9, and the QS Show-and-Tell on April 17 -- you can really top up your idea tank with exciting technology developments and interesting personal connections. See you there!

Mark Leavitt

NIKE Tech Talk

Thank you to the 175+ people who attended the first NIKE Tech Talk in our new program! The event was a big success and we're excited to host a second evening of talks.

Please join us at the NIKE campus on Wednesday, March 18th (3:30-7:00pm) for two tech talks, snacks, and drinks. Learn more about the talks and RSVP at: http://niketechtalks-march2015.splashthat.com.

The Insecurity of Things

Stephen A. Ridley (Principal, Xipiter LLC)

...and Hardware for All

Joe Grand (Founder and Principal Engineer, Grand Idea Studio)

For those of you who attended last time, the venue set up has been adjusted for an improved attendee experience. If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with us.

Nike Tech Talks - October 15

Clear your calendar! Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting tech talks for the PDX tech community on October 15th. We're bringing great speakers to the Nike campus and there will be time to network and enjoy snacks and drinks.

How Augmented Reality Will Change Your Life, Relationships, and the Planet

Todd Revolt / Director of Strategic Alliances, Meta / @sfrevo

Augmented Reality opens new opportunities beyond gaming and entertainment. People are only beginning to explore how practical applications of augmented reality in science, medicine, engineering, commerce and education can improve people’s lives in far reaching ways. Due to the broad impact of applications, augmented reality is projected to eclipse virtual reality and become a $120 billion industry over the next five years. This talk touches on the types of applications that will drive the proliferation of AR.

Todd Revolt is the head of Strategic Alliances at Meta. He has more than 20 years experience in the software industry. He built global channels at Zendesk, Atlassian, Lithium, and Zero G. At each, he was responsible for overseeing a variety of activities including marketing, sales, new business development, and global expansion. Todd has entertained, and educated audiences at several major conferences, and events including Wearable Technology Show, We are Wearables, MindCET Isreal, Wearable Tech Expo Japan, and Paris Descartes University.

The Virtual Reality Revolution: The Future of Immersive Technology

Kent Bye / Voices of VR Podcast / @kentbye

Virtual Reality is a completely new communications medium that has the potential to radically change everything from gaming, entertainment, education, health care, architecture, marketing, and social telepresence applications. The consumer launch of VR is just around the corner, and Kent Bye has conducted over 250 Voices of VR podcast interviews with the leading VR developers and academics. Kent will talk about the current state of virtual reality, some of the exciting applications in different fields, some of the current limitations of VR, what is on the horizon, as well as insights into the ultimate potential of virtual reality. He will also have some virtual reality gear on hand that you will be able to try.

Kent Bye is the host of the daily Voices of VR podcast and the co-founder of the Portland Virtual Reality Meetup. The Voices of VR podcast has featured over 200 of the pioneering game developers, enthusiasts and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual reality. Kent has been traveling to the top VR gatherings around world since May 2014 in order to capture a diverse range of VR perspectives and insights from the leading pioneers of VR. He’s also a VR developer creating a variety of different immersive educational experiences.

RSVP and learn more at: https://niketechtalks-oct2015.splashthat.com!

Join Nike Digital for the next event in our Nike Tech Talks series this Thursday, August 11th (4:00-7:30pm). Learn about scaling stateful services and the history of distributed programming and network over snacks and drinks. RSVP today at: https://niketechtalksaug112016.splashthat.com!

Building Scalable, Stateful Services & Lessons Learned at Scale - Caitie McCaffrey, Tech Lead at Twitter

A Brief History of Distributed Programming - Christopher Meiklejohn, PhD Candidate at Universite catholique de Louvain

We hope to see you at the event and encourage you to invite your colleagues. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with [email protected].

At this unique meetup, "I want to work for _ _ _ _ _ _", each month we introduce a new company through one of their star employees.

For September its going to be Gokul Surya from Nike!

In his own words, here's how Gokul manages his career:

"Continuously iterate to reach the pinnacle” is what comes to my mind whenever I take time to think about the future. I believe that people, processes and perspectives will help me get to where I want to be. Trusting the people, collaborating on developing the processes, and using different perspectives to solve problems along the path to develop a successful organization.

You definitely don't want to miss this :)

Don’t look now, but your life depends on user experience design. Smartphones lead us around by the hand, we strap computers to body parts like it’s going out of style, and autonomous cars are already on the road. Thankfully, Mark Wyner is determined to humanize those experiences. As a user experience designer, Mark has architected software for the US Army, Nike, Intel, Chrysler, and more. He has eloquently addressed the need for interfaces we understand and trust, both in writing and as a speaker at events like Webvisions. Come hear about his efforts to work with the machines, before they take over for good.

Join us for the We Code for Good Hackathon for Women and Friends on December 1-2! This is the 3rd We Code hackathon hosted by Nike and Puppet, and we’re excited to partner with non-profits and help them address challenges with technical solutions. Details about the non-profits we will be working with will be shared soon.

Web designers and software developers of all levels are invited to work on a fun project in small teams at this creative and collaborative coding event. You will have an opportunity to meet and work with other talented people, develop your skills, and help non-profits. T-shirts, prizes, and great food will be provided.

Join Amy Nguyen, Software Engineer at Stripe, at the next Nike Tech Talks on July 12. Amy will give a talk on Using Chrome Developer Tools to Get What You Want.

Food and beverages will be served, and there will be time to network before and after the talk.

RSVP: https://niketechtalksjuly2018.splashthat.com

Join us online for desktop or mobile at https://zoom.us/j/7891236789

Want to see the first version of our smart sneaker for OMSI Maker Faire Portland? Garrett will share the first version to inspired all of to create our own for Maker Faire.

Do you want to learn and share your passion in a supportive community? Knowledge Mavens is an ethos of sharing, creativity, and inspiration.

Our Meetup provides an opportunity to "Show and Tell" followed by a feedback and Q&A. You'll have the opportunity to share with our channels such as Meetup, GitHub, YouTube, and Facebook to connect with more passionate people.

The second half of our session we'll collaborate on new topics. The winner wins an award for the most interesting topic and the opportunity to share in an upcoming session.

Join Alice Goldfuss, Site Reliability Engineer, at the next Nike Tech Talks on August 9. Alice will give a talk titled, The Container Operator’s Manual.

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Lean more about the talk and RSVP at: https://niketechtalksaug2018.splashthat.com/.

Join Nike Digital Engineering for the next event in our Nike Tech Talks series on Thursday, October 11 from 4:30 PM - 6:30 p.m. in the Nike Decathlon Club Cafe.

Kris Nova, Senior Developer Advocate at Heptio, will give a talk titled, Cloud Native Infrastructure.

Enjoy snacks and beverages as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts from Nike and beyond. Please feel free to invite friends and colleagues to attend this event. RSVP today!

RSVP: https://niketechtalksoct2018.splashthat.com/

Join Nina Zakharenko, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, for a Nike Tech Talk on Thursday, January 17. Nina will give a talk titled, "Elegant Solutions For Everyday Python Problems."

Are you an intermediate Python developer looking to level up? Luckily, Python provides us with a unique set of tools to make our code more elegant and readable by providing language features that make your code more intuitive and cut down on repetition. In this talk, Nina will share practical pythonic solutions for supercharging your code.

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Find out more and RSVP at https://niketechtalksjan17.splashthat.com/

Join Beth Long, DevOps Solutions Strategist at New Relic, at the Nike Tech Talks on March 14. Beth will give a talk titled, Brains, Bytes & Blowups: How Humans Learn to Keep Complex Systems Alive.

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Abstract: As software systems become more complex, we look for strategies to move faster and produce more reliable systems. Yet the price of success is new and more challenging failures. If failure is inevitable, how do we cope? How do we learn from incidents and other types of failure? And how do our ways of collaborating shape the systems we create?

Bio: Beth Long is a software engineer who sneaked into a solutions strategist role at New Relic. Many years ago, she abandoned a potential career as a rocket scientist to tinker with websites. She has written, tested, broken, rescued, and taught code. She's the project lead for New Relic's collaboration with the SNAFUcatchers research project, investigating how tech companies cope with complexity and learn from incidents, a project which has caused her to randomly point and declare, "joint cognitive system!"

Join Allison Smith, Netflix Globalization Innovation Manager, and Dr. Rohit Puri, Netflix Engineering Manager of Cloud Media Systems, at the Nike Tech Talks on May 16. They will give a talk titled, "Best Practices in Timed Text Localization."

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Abstract: Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with over 148 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Since Netflix first began its international expansion in 2010, localization has played a critical role in bringing joy to global audiences. This presentation will cover the best practices learned through developing and refining a Unicode based timed text processing pipeline, as well as the role of various timed text formats and standards in helping us realize this scalable end-to-end pipeline. In addition, we will discuss the business and tooling strategy for creating and reviewing localized content at scale. This overview will provide an understanding of how the localization ecosystem balances the challenges of scale while prioritizing unique aspects of audiences and languages.

Join us for the Nike Tech Talks! Amanda Casari, Google Cloud Engineering Manager, will give a talk titled, "From Zero to A^X: Scaling Data Science Teams."

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

More info: https://niketechtalks-august2019.splashthat.com/

Join us for the Nike Tech Talks! Abel Wang, Principal Cloud and DevOps Lead at Microsoft, will be presenting "Real World DevOps"

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

More details and RSVP at https://niketechtalksnov19.splashthat.com/

Join us in February for a fantastic introduction to AWS CloudFormation from Senior Software Engineer at Nike, Yves Gurcan!

From Yves: "Tired of zipping and updating your Lambda functions by hand every time you want to deploy to production? Yeah, me too.

What if I told you that there is a solution out there that lets you deploy your entire application to AWS from your local machine? What, you don't believe me? But this tool even has a cool aerial name that's like super on point because it's about cloud computing! Too good to be true? Great news! This service exists and it is called AWS CloudFormation.

Let's talk about infrastructure as code! In this presentation, Yves will walk us through how to create a stack with CloudFormation... and then delete it! Together, we will thoroughly explore the capabilities of this service through the AWS Console. We will look at the CloudFormation template of an example application and decrypt the hieroglyphs 🐦 ☀️🏺 (also known as YAML CloudFormation) that deploy your resources to AWS. We will build things, break things, and have a good laugh!

Bonus: After demoing how CloudFormation works, host Yves Gurcan will also showcase how Stackery can help you visualize your stack while you are writing it in Visual Studio Code!"

About Yves: Yves Gurcan is a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and a senior software engineer. Expert in all things JavaScript, he enjoys building bleeding edge web applications in React and Node. He also is the maintainer of an open-source library that enables browsers to play MIDI files: https://github.com/yvesgurcan/web-midi-player.

Want to know more about this mysterious Frenchman? Get in touch with him at https://connect.yvesgurcan.com

Schedule:

Doors Open at 5:45 p.m. Programming to begin at 6:15 p.m. with Q&A after.

Drinks and a casual dinner will be served.

Interested in speaking at a future event? Message us and let us know or fill out the form below! We'd love to have you.

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We look forward to seeing you at the next Nike Tech Talks on February 27!

Fastly CTO Tyler McMullen will give a talk titled, "Making Functions as a Service Safe for Users."

Abstract: Functions as a Service has grown dramatically in popularity over the last few years. First, in centralized cloud computing, and now as the primary model of edge computing. The industry has put a lot of work into securing these environments against intruders; however, little has been said and less done to protect users against each other and against their own errors. In this talk, Tyler will introduce a new model for functions as a service, explain how it's implemented at Fastly, and talk about how it could change the way we think about end user security.

Speaker: Tyler McMullen is CTO at Fastly, the leading edge cloud platform, where he is responsible for evolving the system architecture and the company’s technology vision. Tyler leads a team of experienced technology innovators focused on internet scale and working on future-facing, ambitious projects and standards. As part of the founding team at Fastly, Tyler built the first versions of Fastly’s Instant Purging system, API, and Real-Time Analytics. Prior to joining Fastly, Tyler worked on large-scale web applications, text analysis, and performance. He can be found debating edge computing, networking, and distributed systems all over the world.

Please RSVP here: https://niketechtalksfeb272020.splashthat.com/

See you soon!