BSidesPDX 2024 is an information security and hacking conference bringing together top local talent to learn, share, and hack. Over 35 sessions and events will be held in downtown Portland. Registration is open now online for General Admission and Workshop Registration opens Wednesday 10/16.

ONLINE REGISTRATION: https://bsides-pdx.square.site/product/bsidespdx2024/21

DAY OF REGISTRATION: - In Person Registration on Third Floor, Room 338 beginning at 8:30am on 10/25. See website for more details.

ABOUT BSIDES PDX BSides Portland is a tax-exempt charitable 501(c)(3) organization founded with the mission to cultivate the Pacific Northwest information security and hacking community by creating local inclusive opportunities for learning, networking, collaboration, and teaching.

This fall, the Oregon Justice Resource Center welcomes Sam Sinyangwe to Portland for a very special event. Sam Sinyangwe is a policy analyst and activist who uses his analytical and data-mapping skills to advance the cause of racial justice, particularly with regard to police violence. Join us to meet Sam and hear from him about where the movement to end mass incarceration and make law enforcement agencies more accountable to all the communities they serve goes next.

TICKETS This event includes a meet-and greet with Sam where we will serve drinks and light hors d'oeuvres followed by a separate speaking event. Tickets for the meet-and-greet include refreshments and priority seating for the speaking event and are priced at $125.

We are offering sliding scale pricing for general admission to the speaking event at $65, $45, or $25. You are free to decide how much to pay.

Discounted entry to the speaking event only is available at $10 for students of any school, college or university.

Entry to the speaking event only is free for formerly incarcerated people.

No one will be denied for inability to pay; scholarships are available. Please contact Amie Wexler at [email protected].

All tickets to this event are fully tax deductible and your contribution will support all of the programs and services of the Oregon Justice Resource Center.

Presented by ChickTech Portland, the ACT-W (Advancing the Careers of Technical Women) Portland Conference is an annual 2-day action-packed event where talented women and allies can build skills, grow their community, and accelerate their career path.

Join us and 500+ individuals for speaking sessions, hands-on workshops, one-on-one coaching sessions, a career fair, and so much more. We welcome all people from all backgrounds and people of all genders!

All proceeds from the ACT-W Portland Conference go towards ChickTech’s programs providing local high school girls with STEM education and spreading ChickTech’s reach to create a culture of inclusion for all.

In its 7th year, ProductCamp is a user-driven “unconference” that brings together 200'ish passionate product managers & marketers who are interested in collaborating to share insights, learning best practices, and networking with other top professionals in the Portland product community.

Portland State University (PSU) welcomes employers to attend the last STEM Career + Volunteer Fair of the academic year. Employers are invited to share available job and internship opportunities, as well information about their organizations and industries. Fairs are widely publicized throughout campus and are attended by both students and alumni.

PSU is recognized as a leading urban research university. Employers with opportunities in STEM fields are invited to register for this fair and connect with STEM students and alumni. This could be a great time to start hiring for summer interns!

To maintain the focus on post-graduate development and employment, we accept registrations from employers and PSU-affiliated graduate schools only.

This year the Portland OWASP chapter is hosting a training day. This will be an excellent opportunity for students to receive quality information security and application security training for next to nothing. (Similar training may cost more than 10 times as much in a conference setting.) It will also be a great chance to network with the local infosec community.

For more information on the schedule and how to register, see the main event page.

Courses are held in two tracks: two in the morning session, and two in the afternoon session. Each student can register for one morning course, or one afternoon course, or one of each!

Morning Session

Cyber Hygiene - Critical Security Controls

With so many types of network attacks and so many tools/solutions to combat these attacks, which should I implement first? Which should I buy? Can I build it myself? The CIS Critical Security Controls are a prioritized approach to ensuring information security. As a general risk assessment, the Critical Security Controls address the past, current and expected attacks occurring across the Internet. In this course we will outline the controls, discuss implementation and testing, and provide examples.

Introduction to Injection Vulnerabilities

Instructor: Timothy D. Morgan Ever concatenated strings in your code? Did those strings include any kind of structured syntax? Then your code might be vulnerable to injection. Injection flaws are broad, common category of vulnerability in modern software. While many developers are aware of high-profile technical issues, such as SQL injection, any number of injection vulnerabilities are possible in other languages, protocols, and syntaxes. Upon studying these flaws in many contexts, an underlying "theory of injection" emerges. This simple concept can be applied to many situations (including new technologies and those yet to be invented) to help developers avoid the most common types of implementation vulnerabilities. The reason why "injection" is #1 on the OWASP Top 10 will become very clear by the end of this class. This course will provide students a detailed introduction to injection vulnerabilities and then get students busy with hands-on exercises where a variety of different injection flaws can be explored and understood in real-world contexts.

Afternoon Session

Applied Physical Attacks on Embedded Systems, Introductory Version

This workshop introduces several different relatively accessible interfaces on embedded systems. Attendees will get hands-on experience with UART, SPI, and JTAG interfaces on a MIPS-based wifi router. After a brief architectural overview of each interface, hands-on labs will guide through the process understanding, observing, interacting with, and exploiting the interface to potentially access a root shell on the target.

Communications Security in Modern Software

Securing communications over untrusted networks is a critical component to any modern application's security. However, far too often developers and operations personnel become tripped up by the many pitfalls of implementation in this area, which often leads to complete failures to secure data on the wire. In this course we discuss how attackers can gain access to other users' communication through a variety of techniques and cover the strategies for preventing this. The course covers specific topics ranging from the SSL/TLS certificate authority system, to secure web session management and mobile communications security. A hands-on exercise is included in the course which helps students empirically test SSL/TLS certificate validation in a realistic scenario.

About OWASP

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. To sign up for future meeting notes and to discuss security topics with local gurus, sign up on the OWASP Portland mailing list: https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-portland

EBER ON-DEMAND DAYS AT PSU

This February 3rd if you’re a PSU student, faculty member or alumni then you’re in luck! You’ll have access to on-demand hot chocolate delivered to you anywhere on PSU campus, whether you’re in class, the library, the rec center, or Cramer hall, we’ve got you covered. All you have to do is click the “hot chocolate” button on our app, and we’ll be on our way in less than 15 minutes! We’ll be in the Smith Memorial Student Union Cafeteria for more information.

COST: $0

This includes: * free hot chocolate * free delivery * free smile

EASY AND SIMPLE: 1. Make Appointment 2. Choose Hot Chocolate 3. Submission Completed

Hours of Operations: *10 am to 2 pm (February 3rd)

Once you have completed your request we’ll send you a text to let you know we’re on our way.

Yes, its that easy! bitly.com/ondemandeber

We will be giving free hot chocolate, coupon, information about our app and fun games with cool prizes.

Debconf 14 is in Portland Oregon and runs for over a week long!

International annual Debian conference. Conference starts on Saturday, but there is an event on Friday that shows up when importing the ical feed. Free, but be sure to register online.

ical feed https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14.ical

Please join us on Saturday, June 21, 2014 from noon–4pm at Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236 (Portland State University) for an edit-a-thon being hosted as part of Wiki Loves Pride, a global campaign to expand and improve LGBT-related content on Wikipedia. Prior Wikipedia editing is not required; assistance will be available the day of the event. Attendees should bring their own laptops and power cords.

Hosted by the Portland Open Source Geo User Group, this FREE event will happen on Friday April 18th following GIS In Action, in PSU's Smith Memorial Student Union, in rooms 238 and 296/8.

This is a participant-driven event - if you've never been to an unconference before, the format and sessions are determined on the day of the event by the people attending. No idea is too big or too small. Everyone gathers in the morning and decides how to organize it. If you have something to share, you throw your idea up on the board, sessions get arranged, rearranged and rooms are assigned by the crowd. It just sort of all happens - you have to experience it to understand how well this can work. It's fun!

Schedule:

9am - Registration

9:30 - Put sessions in rooms based on votes

10:00 - Sessions start

12:00 - Lunch on your own

5:00 - Adjorn for Geo-beers.

The event is FREE, but please head on over and get yourselves registered so we can plan rooms and sustenance:

http://pdxosgeo2014.eventbrite.com/

Have geo-curious friends? Forward them this message or registration link - the unconference format will be a great introduction to the many creative things that can be done with geodata!

Free Bar-camp unconference on all things geospatial, geographic, location-aware, and maps.

Hosted by the Portland Open Source GIS Users Group (http://groups.google.com/group/pdx-osgeo), this "unconference" will follow a 2-day traditional GIS conference, GIS In Action (http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action), which includes an open source track on Wednesday May 1st. Attendance at GIS in Action is not required to attend the unconference, but there is a single day rate for those who would like to attend that.

Schedule 9am - Registration 9:30 - Put sessions in rooms based on votes 10:00 - Sessions start 12:00 - Lunch on your own 5:00 - Adjorn for Geo-beers

Please register at Eventbright (http://pdxosgeo2013.eventbrite.com) so we know how much coffee and pastries to order!

Tickets here: http://pdxgeounconference11.eventbrite.com/

This is a free Open Source Geospatial Unconference put on by the Portland OSGeo User Group. The unconference takes place the day after the GIS in Action conference and is registration is free (though we request you sign up for a ticket here to assist us in planning). The unconference will begin with registration at 9:00am and end at 5:00pm. Coffee, tea, and water will be provided, however participants are on their own for lunch (there are numerous dining options within close proximity).

The unconference will take place in PSU's Smith Memorial Student Union building, on the third floor, in rooms 327, 328, 329, 333, and 338. Registration in room 338 (the VanPort room). Maps of PSU Smith Memorial Student Union are available here.

This is a participant-driven event! If you've never been to an unconference before (Portland's WhereCamp is an excellent example), the format and sessions are determined on the day of the unconference by the people attending. No idea is too big or too small.

A hackathon is planned for Friday so check the wiki as plans materialize for this.

Please feel free to contact the PDX OS GIS User Group (Google group) with any questions.

More info here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PDX-OSGEO#Unconference_March_31st_and_April_1st.2C_2011

MEET IN: Room 236 - The Cascade Room

The Master of International Management forum & social networking event

Due to the high demand/popularity on the Oct 20th forum- We are extending another forum discussion on November 17th.

Do you have what it takes to become the next global leader? Join us as we premier an exciting and new forum to learn more from the Master of International Management experts. Find out what it takes to become the next global leader in today’s competitive market. Mingle with some of the emerging global leaders and experts in Asian business and culture.

The Master of International Management forum will help you:

1. . Gain perspective on globalization and international leadership
2. . Cultivate effective cross cultural management relationships, liaisons and partnerships
3. . Learn more about the importance of Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability/Global Marketing/Global Supply Chain Management/International Finance to further enhance your marketability
4. . Get an overview of top-rated professional training and education on emerging language, culture and politics
5. . Network with current working professionals, alumni and graduate business students who are industry leaders

Who should attend: Working professionals who aspire to be leaders of Global Marketing, International Social Entrepreneurship & Sustainability, Global Supply Chain Management and International Finance.

Where:

Smith Memorial Student Union

1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201

Room 236 - The Cascade Room

When: Wednesday, October 20, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Forum will start at 6pm sharp- *RSVP/pre-registration is required as seating is limited to 30. http://mim.eventbrite.com/

The forum will include:

* Brief info session

* Panel discussion with experts in International Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability/Global Marketing/Global Supply Chain Management/International Finance

* Q&A

* Complimentary hors d'oeuvres + drinks

check out the panelist bio here: http://mim.eventbrite.com/

Your future as the next global leader starts right now

The world is constantly changing…What does it takes to be the next global leader? Come join us for an amazing forum, discussion and social event brought to you by the Master of International Management (MIM). Learn more about the current and emerging global business trends in a competitive market through the personal stories of thought leaders from MIM as well as Fortune 500 corporations including DHL and LG International.

RSVP for this free event before it fills up -- limited to 25 seats!

When: Wednesday, October 20th, 6 p.m. Where: Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201 Room 236 - The Cascade Room

Don’t miss the discussion that may help you become a global leader! RSVP now: http://psumim.eventbrite.com/

CLICK HERE to register for free on EventBrite

Oregon/SW Washington URISA (http://www.orurisa.org/) presents:

KOOL APPS 2010 FEATURING OPEN DATA AND OPEN SOURCE

This all day event is free to the public. It is co-sponsored by the PDX-Open Source GIS users group, a special interest group of OR-URISA.

This event is coordinated with WhereCampPDX, and attendees are encouraged to attend both events!

Attendees should plan on bringing a laptop to participate in the hands-on portion and a three-hour walk-thru of selected open source GIS applications.

Agenda: * 9am - 11am : OpenStreetMap - Presented by Cloudmade * 11am - Noon : The Open Source GIS stack - Presented by PDX-OSGIS * Noon - 1pm: Lunch on your own * 1pm -3pm : The Open Source GIS stack * 3pm - 5pm : Invited demos of projects solved with open source gis tools.

Beverages and light snacks provided by OR-URISA

This event takes place at Portland State University, in the Smith Center's VanPort Room (#338). Registration is free but space is limited to 72 participants.

• PSU Campus map
• PSU on Google Maps

Please feel free to post any questions to the PDX-OSGIS user group!

CLF Summit: Building Alliances to Get Results

Coalition for Livable Future 2010 Annual Regional Livability Summit Building Alliances to Get Results Where: Portland State University Smith Center, 1825 SW Broadway, Third Floor

When: April 29, 8am – 4pm

April 29 Highlights (8am – 4pm)

KEYNOTE: A New Story: Moving Hearts, Minds and Policy in the 21st Century a keynote address by Alan Jenkins, Executive Director of The Opportunity Agenda.

Plenary Panel of Community Leaders, Breakouts, Caucuses & Multimedia Experiences

Participate in “Green Jobs for an Inclusive, Just & Sustainable Economy Panel Dialogue” lunchtime discussion and one or more developmental or action-ready break-out sessions taking place at this year’s Summit.

DATES Days of Equity Action (April 17 – May 13 - Various Locations): Participate in one or more “done-in-a-day” service or advocacy activities hosted by Coalition for a Livable Future member and partner organizations across the region.

For more details and registration, go to http://www.clfuture.org/events/2010summit

Room 238

Dale Jamieson is Director of the Environmental Studies program at New York University, where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law. He is also the current Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the University of Oregon. A prolific presence in his field, Professor Jamieson has authored Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002) and Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2008); and edited or co-edited seven books, including the forthcoming Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2010). His research has been funded by both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Rasmus Lerdorf will be in town for Open Source Bridge and has graciously offered to lead a meeting for PDXPHP. So the Tuesday before the OSBridge festivities kick off, He (and possible a few other speakers in town), will lead a discussion on various PHP and web topics. Rasmus is of course know for creating the PHP language but is also an expert in application security, and is currently employed with Yahoo as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer, so there will be no shortage of interesting topics for this meeting.

• event is in room 338

Pizza and Beverages provided so show up hungry *Note this meeting is the 3rd Tuesday of the month (not the regular 2nd Tuesday)

Special thanks to our sponsor:

Fine Design Group

Course Dates: June 15-19, 2009

  This 5-day course immerses learners in the practical aspects of the ITIL® v3 Service Lifecycle and processes associated with the Service Offerings and Agreements of services and service delivery. The main focus of this course is on the operational-level process activities and supporting methods and approaches to executing these processes in a practical, hands-on learning environment. This training is intended to enable the holders of the certificate to apply the practices during the Service Management Lifecycle. This course is designed using an engaging scenario-based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice and positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam.

  #saopdx #itil

Course Dates: June 3-5, 2009

  This exciting and dynamic 3-day course introduces learners to the lifecycle of managing IT services to deliver to business expectations. As well as an engaging, case study based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice, this course also positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam, required for entry into the future ITIL v3 intermediate level training courses.

  The ITIL Version 3 best practice is composed of five core disciplines: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operations and Continual Service Improvement. These disciplines represent a service life cycle framework that further enhances alignment to the business while demonstrating business value, ROI and enabling IT to solve specific operational needs.

  #saopdx #itil

Course Dates: May 27-29, 2009

  This exciting and dynamic 3-day course introduces learners to the lifecycle of managing IT services to deliver to business expectations. As well as an engaging, case study based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice, this course also positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam, required for entry into the future ITIL v3 intermediate level training courses.

  #saopdx #itil #otn

May 20th Day of Mobilization Highlights (8:30 - 3:30)

"Toward a Just Sustainability?" Keynote Address by Julian Agyeman From London to Australia to the US, Julian has been a government advisor, academic, and activist. Currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, Agyeman adeptly navigates the intersection of environment and society, expanding our thinking about the possibilities for a just sustainability.

Mobilizing for Regional Equity - Plenary Panel of Community Leaders, Breakouts, Caucuses & Multimedia Experiences Participate in one or more developmental or action-ready sessions focused on campaigns and projects that aim to address systemic causes of inequities to built environment resources and opportunities for prosperity.

May 21st and May 23rd: Days of Equity Action (Specific times and locations TBA): Participate in one or more "done-in-a-day" service or advocacy activities hosted by Coalition for a Livable Future member and partner organizations across the region.

For more details and registration beginning April 6, 2009, go to http://www.clfuture.org/events/2009summit

Course Dates: May 18-20, 2009

  This 3-day course immerses learners in the overall concepts, processes, policies and methods associated with the Service Strategy phase of the Service Lifecycle. The course covers the management and control of the activities and techniques within the Service Strategy stage, but not the detail of each of the supporting processes. This course is designed using an engaging scenario-based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice and positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam.

  #saopdx #itil #otn

Course Length: May 11-15, 2009

  This 5-day course immerses learners in the practical aspects of the ITIL v3 Service Lifecycle and processes associated with the Release, Control and Validation of services and service delivery. The main focus of this course is on the operational-level process activities and supporting methods and approaches to executing these processes in a practical, hands-on learning environment. This training is intended to enable the holders of the certificate to apply the practices during the Service Management Lifecycle. This course is designed using an engaging scenario-based approach to learning the core disciplines of the ITIL best practice and positions the student to successfully complete the associated exam.

  #saopdx #otn #itil

Room: Portland State University, The Vanport Room (rm 338), Smith Memorial Student Union. The building is at Harrison and Broadway; enter via door on Harrison and take stairs to 3rd floor.

Content: Series of presentations by distinguished members of the FP community from around the world:

• Algebra of Programming using Dependent Types. Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica)
• Realizability Semantics of Parametric Polymorphism, General References, and Recursive Types. Lars Birkedal (IT University of Copenhagen)
• A Compiler on a Page. Kristoffer Rose (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
• A Proof Theory for Compilation. Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku University)
• Data Parallelism in Haskell. Manuel Chakravarty (University of New South Wales)
• Push-down control-flow analysis of higher-order programs. Matthew Might (University of Utah)
• Slicing It: indexed containers in Haskell. Conor McBride (University of Strathclyde)
• Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research)
• Koen Claessen (Chalmers University of Technology)
• Taking the monad laws seriously. Andrzej Filinski (University of Copenhagen)
• A compiler front-end for Mini-ML and its Coq proof of correctness. Xavier Leroy (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt)

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1899630/ ] The 1/2 day v3 Awareness course provides learners with the unique opportunity to receive an introduction to the concepts of ITIL and ITSM. It provides an overview of the concepts within the ITIL best practices domain while also introducing the key ITIL processes. This non-certificate course explains how ITIL processes are driven by a Service Lifecycle to provide smooth functioning of organizations, thus ensuring high-quality services to their customers. It has been designed for learners who need a basic awareness of ITIL v3 as a general interest, as part of a larger program initiative as opposed to the full certification Foundation course or for those who may not be sure of their future v3 training path and want to assess ITIL / ITSM viability in their organization. Instructor: Ray Anessi, PanglossIT #SAOpdx #OTN

The 8th Annual Portland Zine Symposium will be on AUGUST 23rd & 24th, 2008 in Portland, Oregon at Portland State University in the Smith Memorial Ballroom.

Portland Zine Symposium hours will be:

Saturday from 10:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M.
Sunday from 10:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M.

Please e-mail any questions to [email protected]

To get all the latest Portland Zine Symposium information, join our new google group: http://groups.google.com/group/portlandzinesymposium

On July 31 & August 1, 2008, Portland State University is hosting IP3, Inc. for a comprehensive Information Assurance and Information Technology Security seminar. Ken Kousky, CISSP and CEO of IP3 (and former president of Wave Technologies, a NASDAQ publicly-traded company) will present “Strategy to Reality: Don't Look Back”, the nation’s leading IT security forum addressing issues on the cutting edge of compliance, information assurance, human capital and risk management. Go to http://www.ip3seminars.com to read our brochure.

During this two-day lecture style seminar for CEO's, Risk Management IT Executives, CPAs, Physical Security Professionals, IT Auditors, Forensic Specialists, IT professionals and students entering the IT field, you will learn about how the technologies, threats and deployment environments have changed, even since 2007.

http://www.postgresqlconference.org/

PSU Smith Center, Room 294

http://pdxlinux.org/