WeWork US Custom House

Eat, drink and tech talk your way through Portland tech offices during the 5th Annual TechCrawl

Last year over 1,500 people joined this event.

HOW IT WORKS:

Step 1) Get to the Starting Location @ 5pm. WeWork Building: 220 NW 8th AvePortland, OR 97209

You must arrive at the starting point location between 5:00 and 5:45 where you will be given your map and wristband for the TechCrawl.

Step 2) Kick-off and Crawl @ 5:30pm:

Kick-off announcements at the starting location will take place from 5:30 - 5:45.

Then keeping it weird Portland style, the TechCrawl is more of a free for all walking open house tour (but TechCrawl sounds so much better...). You will receive a map when you check in at the WeWork building. Use that to pick which offices you would like to visit. Have fun crawling and networking your way through the PDX tech offices.

2016 Companies on the Portland TechCrawl

AKQA Aruba Networks Cedexis Clinicient CorSource CrowdCompass by Cvent CrowdStreet Customer.io The Dyrt
iovation Jama Software Marquam Mirador New Relic Notion Obility Open Mesh Perka Pollinate ProFocus Technology Puppet RADAR Response Capture Treehouse Squarespace Starve-Ups The Tech Academy Vacasa Vadio WebTrends WeWork

Step 3) Join The After Party @ 8:30pm

The After Party @ On Deck Sports Bar. Swing by from 8:30pm on for a great wrap up of the evening.

TechCrawl Founding Companies

The Dyrt Hiring Front-end Developers to build "Yelp for Campgrounds" - Apply at thedyrt.com. The Dyrt is also giving away over $100,000 this summer for campground reviews.

Technology Association of Oregon TAO’s vision is to create a world-class and inclusive innovation economy in Oregon and SW Washington.

Speaker: Chester Ismay (https://github.com/ismayc) - Instructional Technologist/Statistical Consultant at Reed College

Abstract: One of the great recent additions from RStudio is the ability to create templates in R Markdown that allows R users to customize output to a variety of document formats while only needing to write in Markdown. You can create templates for outputting Word documents, HTML documents, and PDF documents all including R code and its output. I’ll discuss how to go about creating templates, demonstrate an R Markdown senior thesis template I created for Reed College seniors that interfaces with the traditional LaTeX thesis template, and hopefully provide you with an opportunity to write a template of your own during this meeting.

Aggregate meetup No. 3! Everyone is welcome!

Agenda:

• brief intro/R project or problem: We'll go around the room, each person talk about an R project they've been working on, or a data/data-science problem, or something they want to learn, etc.

• After going around the room, anyone can share some code they've been working on and want help with / want feedback on. Make sure to have this ready before the meeting. Discuss here https://github.com/pdxrlang/aggregate/issues/8

• Before arriving, use the pdxrlang/aggregate GitHub repository to discuss ideas for things to work on at aggregate -https://github.com/pdxrlang/aggregate/issues - One idea was proposed

• Do bring your computer (if you have one) in case you want to work on something.

Time: 630pm - 8pm

Doors open after 6 - DON'T SHOW UP BEFORE 6 - we'll start between 615 and 630.

Enter on the 8th Ave. entrance where there's gates - The gates may be locked, but a security person will let you in. If you have any trouble message me in the meetup app, or on Twitter at @pdxrlang or @sckottie

Laugh until it hurts at the Do What You Love Comedy Series PDX, a live and independent stand-up showcase, highlighting the next generation of Pacific Northwestern Stand-Up Stars. Every month, five of the most accomplished Portlander comedians as featured on Bridgetown Comedy, All Jane Comedy, SF Sketchfest, Helium Comedy, and Comedy Central are showcased.

Join us, have some drinks, and meet some new people who like to laugh! Bring photo ID and prepare to show the attendant at the front door your RSVP to gain entry.

Bar/Door 5:30pm Show 6pm* 21+

NOTE: RSVP IS REQUIRED on Universe for entry and will be checked at the door:

On May 5th our featured comedians include:

Bri Pruett (Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast, NPR’s Live Wire TBA Festival, Bridgetown, Riot LA, SF Sketch Fest, All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot and more)

Matt Monroe (The Limestone Comedy Festival, High Plains Comedy Festival, Hell Yes Fest, and Crom Fest.)

Caitlin Weirhauser (Bridgetown, All Jane Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot, and Seattle Sketchfest)

David Moscarro (FUNNY HUMANS VS. THE Wheel, The Awkward Phase.)

Hosted by & Co-Produced by

Alex Falcone (Portlandia, Live Wire, Bridgetown, Bumbershoot, Sketchfest, and the Brooklyn Comedy Festival)

Curtis Cook (Vice, Big Sky Comedy Festival, the SLC Comedy Carnival, the Chicago Comedy Exposition, SF Sketchfest, and Bridgetown Comedy Festival.)

⇒Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/dowhatyoulovecomedyseries/events/

'Like' us on Facebook and RSVP that you're attending & access open bar.
⇒LIKE US HERE: https://www.facebook.com/Do-What-You-Love-Comedy-Series-PDX-236875326667626

⇒RSVP HERE: https://www.facebook.com/DoWhatYouLoveComedySeries/app/165292890192474/

WHEN: FRIDAY MAY 20TH WHERE: WeWork Custom House -220 NW 8th Ave TIME: 5:30 pm Libations – 6:15 pm Showcase

⇒This is a LIVE show. Due to the popularity of this event and out of respect for the artist, it's advised to show up before 6pm to guarantee entry. ⇐

It's happening again. Portland Startup Week! We're excited to be teaming up with WeWork at the Custom House for this year's event.

Remember last year? Over 85 over you showed up and we nearly shut down Glyph. This year we're taking this to WeWork's event space, but we still have some limitations on space. That being said, we'll have a capacity of 75 people.

If you plan on coming to this event please RSVP as this event will fill up quick!

PLEASE NO SERVICE PROVIDERS! With the limited space we'd like to keep this event to Business Owners/Founders.

WeWork will be providing coffee and goodies!

About Coffee w/ Co-Founders: This event is meant to be a very informal gathering of entrepreneurs to talk about their projects, challenges, and successes. This event is not just for tech founders. We usually see all types of business owners from a variety of industries.

Join us for happy hour at WeWork! No specific agenda, just network and have fun! Make sure you say hi to Lisa Siems, Community Manager at WeWork. Read our January newsletter to learn more about Lisa!

Thanks to this amazing group, we will be celebrating our 4 year anniversary! We will have a keepsake at the event for the first folks that show up to commemorate our anniversary! Start thinking of your favorite PDXWIT memories!

PDX Women in Tech exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company - or anything in between - come join us!

Grant Humphries of Trimet will start your 2016 right with an OpenStreetMap 101 session! Come learn the basics of the "Wikipedia of maps" and get started mapping the places you love.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license.

Please bring a computer as this will be a beginner friendly and hands-on Maptime.

Pizza and drinks will be provided by Esri and the space has been provided by WeWork.

RSVP Here

Agenda:

• 6:00-6:15: Social time

• 6:15-6:30: Intro/grab pizza

• 6:30-7:30: OSM Tutorial

RSVP Here

Maaaappy New Year!

Bresslergroup presents: Internet of Things Device Development 101

Join Todd Zielinski, Bresslergroup's Director of Electrical Engineering, at WeWork Custom House for a talk about the process of designing and building world-class connected devices. He’ll present on strategies for the implementation of Internet of Things hardware, including the available range of connected device prototyping solutions, from low-end to high-fidelity, and the integration of electrical engineering and interaction design processes during the prototyping phase.

Bresslergroup is an award winning research driven product innovation lab. Work with us www.bresslergroup.com

Thanks to WeWork for hosting! Check them out at Wework Custom House

Registration is required @ http://bresslergroup.ticketleap.com/iot-device-development-101/

Drinks and light snacks provided

Calling All Adventurous Eaters and Cooks!

Join us for Portland's first ever Cricket Cook-Off on Wednesday, December 9th.
We invite you to show off your talents and palates using crickets.
That's right. The kind that chirp.

Adventurous Cooks: We welcome cooks of all experience levels to design new dishes or recreate your favorite recipes using crickets. We provide the crickets, you provide the goodies. Did we mention there will be prizes?! Sign up by Mon, Nov 23.

Adventurous Eaters: Where else will you get to sample such an amazing array of cricket goodies? You'll also have the great honor of selecting the People's Choice Award for your favorite bite of the night. Tickets are $5 and must be purchased in advance.

Competition Sign-up: Sign up by Mon, Nov 23 at http://bit.ly/1QqG2t7.

Tickets: Free to compete and $5 to eat. Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets.

Full details about the Cook-Off available at www.foodbytespdx.com.

MaptimePDX is excited to welcome John Gravois from Esri for November's meetup!

Come and check out some of Esri's free resources for publishing data, performing spatial analysis and creating websites to share your work.

We'll focus on:

• Introducing Esri Leaflet

• Fundamentals of JavaScript (variables, methods, events etc.)

• Q/A

This is a beginner friendly. Bring your laptop and questions.

Come hungry! Pizza provided by Esri.

Thank you to WeWork for providing the space!

Please RSVP