How to become a great conversationalist – Big Think

Most of us seem to believe we’re facing a trade-off: You can be liked, or you can be interesting. It’s the logic behind the popular advice, “It is better to be interested than interesting.” Somewhere along the way, “be a good listener” turned into “don’t say too much.”

Endurance Energy hits a brief milestone in its quest for undersea geothermal power – GeekWire

Endurance Energy says its prototype marine geothermal power system generated more electricity than it consumed during a recent deployment 300 miles off the Oregon coast — though the milestone lasted just 8.7 seconds.

‘Difficult relationship’: UW task force proposes splitting Allen School from College of Engineering – GeekWire

The split would give new independence to what has become one of the world’s leading schools for computer science and AI, and a major source of talent for the Seattle region’s tech industry. As an independent, college-level school, the Allen School would gain greater control over its finances and a seat at the table with UW’s other deans.

(2014) Funding is only one of the impressive things about the Lytics announcement today

If you haven’t caught the news, Lytics announced that they have raised a $7 million Series A led by Comcast Ventures, bringing their total funding to over $9 million. And while that’s headline worthy, there are a number of other things about this announcement that pique my interest—probably even more so than the cash.

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot

Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated with a commercial anonymization network. While the vulnerability was under embargo, the targeting of a honeypot from an anonymized IP address suggests the activity was conducted by a threat actor, though it remains unclear how the actor acquired exploit information prior to disclosure.

‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire | WIRED

The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.

Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order

By controlling the large language models, chips, physical infrastructure, and capital that provide the foundations for advanced machine cognition, Beijing and Washington are not only attaining new heights of economic performance and power projection; they are also setting the terms of all future scientific and intellectual progress.

eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business

eMudhra Limited (BSE: 543533 | NSE: EMUDHRA), a global digital trust company, today announced that its Board has decided to voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business.

Thread by @DarioAmodei on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

At the core, a good fraction of the things you criticize are consequences of Anthropic’s basic theory of change that we have held for many years. Our strategy has always been what I’ve called the “race to the top” — by showing how it’s possible to build the technology responsibly, we can raise the bar for the entire industry. The forces that drive the race to the top are hugely more effective if the company practicing them is at the frontier; that’s one lesson I’ve learned repeatedly. And looking at that strategy as a whole, I’m proud of our track record and stand by it.

How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized – by Ted Gioia

Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions. Our fun is their gravy train.

The Agentic Dispatch: C1.ai to Join Workday

On October 13, Workday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai. Workday serves more than 11,500 organizations, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500.

In Community: Looking Back on the SCN Richmond Summit — Startup Champions Network

We were able to occupy so many unique spaces throughout the summit because Richmonders are so welcoming and excited to show off their city. We held panel discussions over lunch in local restaurants, we took tours and held programming in Startup Virginia, Studio Two Three, CNTR, VCU da Vinci Center, Black Iris, and Hatch. Heather Lyne herded a group of 20 on the Pulse, showing visitors our free, rapid transit option. We also had seven local hosts sponsor Dinner with Locals, where they took a small group to their favorite restaurant to share a meal. One of my favorite parts? Every night a small group of us landed at GWARbar for a nightcap to discuss the day.

Korea Investment Accelerator teams with Japan’s AS Capital to boost cross-border startups – CHOSUNBIZ

Korea Investment Accelerator’s bases for supporting startups’ overseas expansion are diversifying. Korea Investment Accelerator began collaborating with the U.S. “Oregon UAS Accelerator” in July. In August, it established and has been operating the “Oregon Defense Tech Basecamp” in Portland, Oregon, to help domestic defense and drone startups expand overseas.

The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day | TechCrunch

The internet is having a bad day, from a cybersecurity perspective. Government websites around the world went offline, Reuters reported, after AI discovered critical security vulnerabilities that impacted the programming language PHP. The issues were severe enough that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) advised organizations using PHP on their systems to either immediately update or take their systems offline until they could.

Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures | TechCrunch

The departures represent more turmoil at Automattic, whose team is still reeling from the board’s failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg in September, resulting in a complete board turnover and other exec departures, including its CFO, interim CFO, and chief legal officer. Automattic’s director of communications, Megan Fox, posted about her departure last week on LinkedIn, saying the move was an “unexpected end” and that her role had been “eliminated.”

PACs and Megadonors Shift Millions as Oregon Governor’s Race Enters Final Stretch — Oregon Journalism Project

Behind each candidate is a network of financial backers. OJP analyzed the giving to determine the top contributors for each candidate—and who backed them in their 2022 matchup but didn’t show up in 2026.

In @IEEESpectrum this week, Jonathan Hurst wrote about Digit 5: the robot he didn’t expect to build. Tomorrow, October 22, at 4pm ET, he’s answering your questions about it here in an #AskMeAnything, exclusively on X. Ask about the engineering and the tradeoffs. Tune into @agilityrobotics for his #AMA takeover.

— Agility (@agilityrobotics) October 21, 2026

Some final words on Foursquare. – by Dennis Crowley

Translation: The Foursquare acquisition was a $0 outcome for equity holders – $0 for preferred, $0 for common. It’s bittersweet to see these details surface publicly – at least now there’s an opportunity to comment on them.

PDX Code & Coffee – Beaverton @ Fly Chai, Mon, Oct 26, 2026, 9:00 AM | Meetup

Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work.

ZincFive says Nasdaq unaffected by SPAC delisting – Portland Business Journal

Spark I Acquisition Corp., the SPAC ZincFive plans to merge with and use to reach the public markets, was recently bounced from the Nasdaq. The exchange cited Spark’s failure to complete a business combination — the whole point of forming a SPAC — within Nasdaq’s required three years.

US Startup Achieves First Deep-Sea Geothermal Power Generation at Underwater Volcano, Netting 2 Kilowatts; Commercialization Faces Steep Hurdles — BigGo Finance

The experiment was conducted on September 27 at Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located in the Pacific Ocean about 480 kilometers off the coast of Oregon. A 3-ton test device called “Adélie” was installed on the seafloor and remotely operated from an operations base in Seattle through the “Regional Cabled Array,” a subsea fiber-optic network owned by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

(2015) Builders gonna build: PDX Code Community forms to support those in PDX Code School limbo

If you haven’t been following the PDX Code School story, you should jump over to Malia Spencer’s coverage of what’s happening. It’s been a mess but her work has been nothing short of excellent. To summarize, PDX Code School abruptly closed over the weekend—as in locks changed and stuff—leaving students and instructors in a lurch. A few days later? The industrious and motivated community has formed their own group: PDX Code Community.

PHP: Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now

Who is at risk: all PHP installations serving web requests, including PHP-FPM, Apache with mod_php, php-cgi, FrankenPHP and LiteSpeed. We consider the risk highest for mod_php, with a demonstrated exploit where an unauthenticated request can trigger the attack before any application code runs.

Nvidia picks OpenShell to tame AI gents

Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its OpenShell Reference Architecture. Based on the company’s OpenShell secure runtime, It’s a recipe for creating, operating, observing, and policing AI agents using OpenShell on Nvidia hardware.

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised. They chain to roots trusted by the Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple and Chrome root programs and by many downstream trust stores.

EXCLUSIVE: EBay to lay off 9% of workforce in push to simplify operations, internal memo shows | Reuters

The move will eliminate around ​1,100 jobs, based on the 12,300 employees eBay had at ​the end of last year. The company also let go ⁠about 6% of its workforce, or 800 employees, in February as part of ​efforts to streamline operations.

Oregon campaign-finance data: download & analyze · Portland Civic Lab

All current records held in our published Oregon ledger, not all ORESTAR history or a complete election cycle. Includes all observed filers, not only council/governor campaigns. Federal FEC records are excluded.

The Myth of ‘Polybius’

When it comes to urban legends surrounding arcade video game culture in the early 1980s, one game rules them all: Polybius. Aside from the many 21st century accounts of people who played (and reacted) to this malevolent machine, the first online mention appeared in a 1998 article at Coinop.org. Since then, stories of the brief November 1981 sightings of this rarest of black box cabinets have excited the imaginations of game nerds and journalistic sleuths.

More than 800 city of Portland workers poised to strike – OPB

The union represents 800 city workers in largely behind-the-scenes positions, ranging from financial analysts to multimedia specialists to technology staff. CPPW was formed in 2023 and adopted its first two–year contract last year. Its members are currently negotiating over wage increases and layoff protections — a piece of that original contract that both parties had agreed to renegotiate this year.

Coxon Day – by Rufus Knuppel – The New Critic

Over the next decade, our political life will undergo a total transformation. The tectonic continents of Left and Right will shudder, fracture, and re-form. Ideas and ideologies, so long fossilized in our institutions, will be liquidated and repoured. The first glimmers of that societal revolution are, right now, appearing all around us. But the battle lines of this new era will be drawn from geography altogether strange and foreign to the electorate: the once obscure, and often extreme, Bay Area factions that have so long labored and lamented over the most significant technological creation of our time.

Making every harness durable – Vercel

Developers are familiar with running coding agents locally through harnesses like Pi, Claude Code, and others. They are reliable daily drivers for generating code, but keeping agents running around the clock requires your computer to be on and awake, which led to the laptop lid memes and Mac mini demand spike.

Your product is not the center of the universe · Andy Peatling · Working with React.js, TypeScript, LLMs, & Agents

I think this product-centric view has an expiry date. Once someone’s agent can work across all their tools, visiting each product one at a time starts to feel like friction. Coding and personal agents are bringing that date a lot closer.

Pivot! – by Zack Urlocker – Build To Scale

A pivot can feel like an admission of failure, because often it is one. The current strategy has stopped working, and admitting that is the only way forward. But a pivot can also be the best thing that happens to a company: a chance to redefine it and refocus everyone on a winning strategy. That’s the exciting part.

You Can’t Vibe-Code a Network – by Euclid Ventures

Coyne Lloyd was on the founding team at Snapdocs, the mortgage closing platform that now supports roughly 1 in 4 U.S. mortgage transactions and raised a $150M Series D at a valuation over $1.5B in 2021. He went on to become a partner at Fractal Software and has since helped incubate Layer (embedded accounting and bookkeeping for SMB platforms) and Reach (embedded marketing tools), both sold through Vertical SaaS platforms. He’s also an angel in companies like Moxie and Vesta. He’ll share his view on why the AI copy threat is real, and why the defensibility that’s left looks a lot like what made Snapdocs work long before LLMs.

America Next 250: Rebuilding Albina

Our goal is not to define Black Portland’s terms of engagement. Our goal is to secure and steward the place that belongs to us.

For more, visit Election Night 2026.

Thirteen finalists presented across three tracks: Early Stage, Growth Industries and Growth Tech. Together, the companies represented a range of industries and approaches to solving problems, developing new products and bringing innovations to market. Through its connections between founders and investors, BVC helps promising companies gain exposure, pursue funding and build relationships that can support their next stage of growth.

“Bend Venture Conference is about more than investment dollars. It’s about giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to put their ideas in front of people who can help them move forward and connecting investors with companies working to solve real problems and build lasting businesses,” said Jon Stark, CEO of EDCO. “This year’s results reflect the talent and determination of the founders who took the stage, as well as the investors and community members willing to get behind them. We’re proud to bring these people together and help create opportunities for companies to grow.”

The winners…? Early stage was VeriBuy out of Bend, which walked away with a $40k cash award. Growth Industries gave out $125k to Bend’s Osheru and $200k to Eugene’s Penderia Technologies. Portland’s Caravel Bio won $150k and CleanHaus took home $65k. Permeta out of Lake Oswego received $420k.

“This year’s Bend Venture Conference highlighted the strength and diversity of Oregon’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, with $1 million awarded to six outstanding Oregon companies,” said Wendy Morgan, EDCO’s Venture Catalyst Director. “From pioneering medical technologies that improve patient care to innovations that accelerate energy infrastructure development, these founders are solving meaningful challenges and building scalable businesses. Their success will create high-value jobs, attract investment, strengthen Oregon’s economy, and elevate our state’s reputation as a national hub for innovation.”

For more information, see the press release or visit Bend Venture Conference.

Z School is (back) in session! – by Dr. Astrid J. Scholz

“Capitalizing Your (Social) Business” addresses some key underlying issues across all these questions, and provides entrepreneurs with reliable, easy to digest information about how to think about capital, how to get their business ready for it, how to find investors, and how to structure an investment.

(2009) Portland’s Jive Software secures another $12 million in venture capital from Sequoia

While it may be hard for folks to agree on whether venture capital investing is on the rise or decline, one thing is for sure: Portland-based Jive Software certainly has a little more ammo in the old war chest. And it’s all thanks to another investment from Sequoia Capital—to the tune of $12 million. That brings Jive’s VC total to $27 million.

Advancing coding in low‑resource programming languages | OpenAI

Our latest model advances bring stronger capabilities for building and migrating software in low-resource programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic. These languages have less code and documentation available for models to learn from than languages like Python and JavaScript, yet support critical infrastructure and essential services around the world. COBOL supports⁠(opens in a new window) more than 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person credit card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions, while Fortran is used in weather forecasting⁠(opens in a new window) and nuclear reactor safety analysis⁠(opens in a new window). Improving AI’s ability to work in these languages could help teams maintain and modernize the software that essential services depend on.

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers – POLITICO

The confidential draft, obtained by POLITICO and not previously reported, marks a notable effort by the frontier AI lab to shape the rules governing its own technology as Congress weighs how to respond to the fast-moving industry.

1 in 5 Americans Regularly Get News on TikTok | Pew Research Center

Younger adults are especially likely to regularly get news on TikTok. Among Americans ages 18 to 29, around four-in-ten (39%) say they do this regularly. That compares with 25% of those ages 30 to 49, 11% of those ages 50 to 64 and 4% of those ages 65 and older.

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads | Teddy Svoronos

As of iPadOS 27, if you have multiple windows open while AirPlaying (whether or not Stage Manager is on), tapping on anything other than the presenting app will snap the external display into showing your whole iPad screen. This means that my students see all my notes on who I want to call on, or poll results that should be hidden from them. They also get distracted from what we’re learning by all these jarring windows popping up and disappearing. If you’re presenting at a big conference, it’s extremely embarrassing.

Startup Cafe | Metro Region Innovation Hub

Whether you sell products, offer services, or are simply curious whether this could work for you, this session is designed to demystify government contracting and help you take your next step with confidence.

Three candidates make their case to be Multnomah County Chair – OPB

Voters in Multnomah County will see three familiar names on their ballots running for county chair. It’s the first time ranked-choice voting will be used for this position.

AI Benchmarks: Climbing the Wrong Hills | Contrary Research

AI benchmarks no longer just measure models; they shape how models are evaluated in training and the capabilities they are designed to have. Poorly constructed, error-ridden benchmarks risk pushing the industry up the wrong hills. Correcting over-indexing to benchmarks, or “benchmaxxing,” will require expert-built benchmarks that measure what we actually want from AI systems.

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test – Ars Technica

“The deep ocean gives us unlimited cold seawater for cooling, and its weight keeps the system and the well pressurized, so our plants can be compact,” said Andrew Redd, founder and CEO of Endurance Energy, in an email to Ars.

Netflix, America’s Dominant Streaming Service, Has Hit a Wall – WSJ

It abruptly replaced content chief Bela Bajaria last week just hours after a layoff of 1,000 employees that she helped engineer. By Monday, film chief Dan Lin lost his job, too.

ZoomInfo settles class action investor lawsuit – Portland Business Journal

ZoomInfo⁠ (Nasdaq: GTM) entered into a proposed settlement for $44 million in exchange for dismissal of the suit, according to regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Staff Front-End Engineer, Creative Tools Job at HILOS in Portland, Oregon | Silicon Florist

We’re looking for a Staff Front-End Engineer to be the technical owner of the GHOST front end: a professional creative tool running in the browser, on Mac and Windows desktops, and on iPad with Apple Pencil.

Oregon startup funding drops to $640.9M in first nine months – Portland Business Journal

For the first three quarters, $537.4 million was invested in the Portland metro across 63 deals. That compares to $660 million invested in the same time frame last year, across 84 deals.

The Booming Portland Economic Sector No One Talks About? Music Equipment.

A 2023 study published by Portland State University estimated that Oregon’s concentration of music instrument and gear manufacturers is double the national norm. Narrowing to the Portland metro area, the industry’s concentration is six times the national average, according to 2026 research by Music Craft Northwest, a music equipment industry advocacy group. Its findings identified over 130 independent instrument and gear makers in Portland and Southwest Washington, including synthesizer and electronics builders, luthiers, and drum, brass and microphone manufacturers.

Oregon governor candidates on small business support – Portland Business Journal

Given the impact on the regional economy, I circled back to the candidates and asked them to share, in 300 words or fewer, how they would support Oregon small businesses and startups. Here’s what they had to say…

Regularly Revisit the Ideal Customer Profile – David Cummings on Startups

Entrepreneurs would do well to sharpen their ideal customer profile and stay laser focused on the long-term mission while constantly asking the question: Does this potential new customer help us achieve our goals?

(2010) City of Portland: Calling all Androids! Well, at least these specific models of Android devices.

Well, the City of Portland has been working on those other platforms and devices. And now, they’re ready to test an app for the open source Android operating system. (Or maybe not so “open.”) Got an Android device? Want to help the City test its app? Right this way.

Cybersecurity Jobs Report, 2026 through September | CyberSN

Every number here counts job postings: what employers asked for, not jobs or people. United States only, with duplicate listings removed at the source. One dot is 200 postings. The CyberSN taxonomy defines 45 cybersecurity functional roles. Reading the ten leadership roles as one CISO area gives 36 areas, 33 of which have a posting series here.

Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip | WIRED

Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.

[2610.18861] Hybrid Reasoning Agents

These designs preserve tool-integrated agentic capabilities while making latent thoughts directly inspectable. Building on this architecture, we further develop dedicated post-training algorithms for hybrid reasoning: HybridSFT stabilizes tool-integrated hybrid generation by teaching the backbone to coordinate with HybridLink, then HybridRL scales reasoning by learning when to think in latent space and when to act through text.

If you don’t run your own LLM proxy, how the fuck do you even know whats going on?

Own your infrastructure, your application visibility, data pathing, and storage. I do this at home because it’s fun and it’s how I like to learn. I do this at work because I’m not doing my job right if I don’t. I may never fully understand how the fuck a large language model works well enough to white board it in an interview. But I can wrassle it down and make sure it’s instrumented while serving inference.

This geothermal startup produced a tiny bit of power… | Canary Media

Endurance Energy tested its novel underwater geothermal tech off the coast of Oregon. The firm has raised $63 million for its ​“eyebrow-raising” approach.

Deepfake of Washington County, Oregon, Candidate Goes Viral Nationwide — Oregon Journalism Project

Fai, who lives in Aloha, is running against fellow Commissioner Pam Treece in the Nov. 3 election to become chair of the Washington County Board of Commissioners, which oversees the county’s $2 billion annual budget. Her race has already endured one bizarre turn of events last month, when then-Chair Kathryn Harrington resigned her position six days after flipping her middle finger at Fai during a board meeting.

Portland & Public School Closures

Projections are only a glimpse into a possible future—our decisions matter now more than ever. Economically thriving, affordable, opportunity-rich cities grow, attract families, and make it possible to raise children. Economically thriving cities are forced to make fewer painful choices like the ones our community now faces.

Consumer sentiment slides in September amid high gas prices – Portland Business Journal

The Portland metro area has consistently sat near the bottom of the index, and it fell farther last month, sliding 80 to 79.2. That score is lower than all but 11 of the metros in the survey.

How employment is changing at Anthropic

How has AI restructured work and employment at Anthropic? As a company at the frontier of AI adoption, Anthropic could be a leading indicator of how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy.

The 2026 Portland Fermentation Festival

Sample fermented foods and beverages, get tips and recipes from professional and amateur makers. Categories include: Pickled Vegetables – Kraut – Meat / Fish Liquid – Dairy – Solid Dairy – Liquid: Non-alcohol / Alcohol – Soy Ferments (Tempeh, Natto, Miso) and Other!

Weekly Review: Where the Work Moved – by Sam Keen

Hello, and welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Thanks for reading, and for passing it along to your teams. This week’s pieces keep landing on one question: once agents write the code, where does the slow part go? Anthropic rebuilt code review and replaced Git to keep pace, decision models take on the small yes/no calls, and the news weighs what each agent loop costs before closing on Brooks’s Law.

Valuations Need a Correction – by Nnamdi Iregbulem

These misleading metrics dominate startup headlines and public conversation. They lead us astray in our efforts to understand the state of the venture market, and anyone using these numbers as a benchmark pays a price for it: founders pricing rounds based on peers’ valuations, investors citing “comps,” the LP marking their book. Worse, this misconception can mask deep structural problems.

My old job feels very distant now

I can hardly remember first experiencing ChatGPT. Its become so infused into my professional life, that going back to that first moment, or moments, is difficult. Instead a blur of a few moments. At some point, I realized it was a better Google. It was very similar to when Stackoverflow took off, and how Google search results for coding topics went from being useless to useful. Absence of results indicating a “you are holding it wrong” moment. I remember toying with it, and then remember Bryan nagging me “did you ask ChatGPT?” and being constantly annoyed. Until I wasn’t, and that became my default starting point.

Hacktoberfest Hack Day Portland x Portland AI Devs · Luma

Join us for Hacktoberfest Hack Day Portland x Portland AI Devs — a one-day, in-person community hack day focused on learning, collaboration, and open-source contribution, part of Major League Hacking’s Hacktoberfest.

Portland hackathon | Meetup

I’m looking for a younger 18-22 group looking to lock in on a tech startup and create content

Monday (Oct 19)

• Code & Coffee – Beaverton — 9:00am
• Discover the Metro Region Innovation Hub – Online Info Session — 12:00pm
• Show & Tell + Beyond Text: Image, Video & Music on Your Own Machine — Full Stack Devs PDX — 7:00pm

Tuesday (Oct 20)

• AI in the AM: Coffee with AI Portland — 8:30am
• Angel Oregon Technology Pitch Day — 10:00am
• Pitch, Please: October — 11:00am
• Better Futures Club — 1:30pm
• Portland Data + AI October Session — 5:00pm
• Portland Geek Dinner – Portland! — 5:30pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• PDXCPP – Monthly Meetup — 7:00pm

Wednesday (Oct 21)

• Beyond Permissioning: Bank-Grade Enterprise Blockchain Privacy — 7:00am
• (CS)²AI Online Seminar: Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reporting & Remediation — 10:00am
• Angel Oregon Consumer Packaged Goods Pitch Day — 10:00am
• Learning with a Porpoise: Pumpkin Spice and Brand Advice — 12:00pm
• North Bank Vancouver Tech Crawl — 4:30pm
• Agentic AI Multimodal MonthlyMixer – Where Agents Minds Meet — 5:00pm
• End-to-End Database DevOps: Building Automated CI/CD Pipelines for Azure SQL — 5:30pm
• In Dialogue with AI: The AI Culture (Night 2) — 6:00pm
• Exploit Workshop — 6:30pm

Thursday (Oct 22)

• Free AI Office Hours – Beaverton, OR — 9:30am
• Angel Oregon Life Science/Bioscience Pitch Day — 10:00am
• Free AI Office Hours – Portland, OR — 1:00pm
• Thursday Professional Networking Happy Hour — 4:30pm
• The Workplace Has Changed. Have We? — 4:30pm
• AIDataTech Connect: Global Virtual Networking Event for AI, Data & Tech Pros — 5:00pm
• Free AI Office Hours – Vancouver, WA — 5:00pm
• Velocity to Market: Market Strategy to Help Founders Succeed in the Chaos of the Moment — 5:30pm
• You can build and launch software — 5:30pm
• EcommNW: Fall Happy Hour — 5:30pm
• PDX DevOps — 6:30pm

Friday (Oct 23)

• PNW CoffeeOps — 8:00am
• Friday Happy Hour at Beermongers — 12:00pm
• Tech Talk | Blocked: A Survival Guide with Mindi Weik — 1:00pm
• Coding Club — 6:00pm
• Silicon Florist watch party — 9:00pm

Saturday (Oct 24)

• Coffee and Code — 9:00am
• Hack for Humanity: Portland, Oregon — 10:00am
• Work Party+Open House — 12:00pm
• BSidesPDX Afterparty — 5:00pm
• Brews & Books — 6:00pm

Sunday (Oct 25)

• The Final Frontier: Star Trek Night! — 5:00pm

Filming on location in Central Oregon during High Desert Innovation Week and Bend Venture Conference, a rough week and a massive week of Oregon tech news. Intel-alum founded Mueon raises $65M (bringing total funding to $80M) to pioneer modular 3D “cublet” AI compute architecture, cybersecurity and AI identity company C1 (formerly ConductorOne) is acquired by Workday, and the Oregon UAS Accelerator brings its defense and autonomy demo day from Pendleton right to Big Pink in Portland. Let’s get into it…