In support of Mental Health Awareness Month, Lori Eberly, LCSW is curating a panel to explore how collective trauma, oppressive systems, COVID grief, and layoffs threaten our wellbeing
Are you looking for a new role in tech? A new role in a tech-adjacent industry? If you answered yes, then join PDXWIT, AWS, and host Hydrolix for a mash-up of our two most popular events: Get Hired Up! and How to Prepare for a Technical Interview!
Are you a PDXWIT volunteer? Have you been interested in becoming a volunteer but don’t know where to start? Join us for a celebration of the PDXWIT volunteer community!
Are you looking to find your place in leadership and need some advice and inspiration to move you along your path? Our panelists are successful leaders with stories to share about how they have made their way to high profile leadership roles and burst through the rainbow ceiling! Join PDXWIT and our sponsor Convergence to learn how they define success and the tips and tricks they used to be successful while being queer in the tech industry.
This month, join PDXWIT and Viewpoint for a happy hour event focused on what it means to normalize technology.
Are you a mentor, or looking for an opportunity to become one? Join us at Cambia Health as we dive into the PDXWIT Mentorship Program. You’ll hear from some of our current mentors about their experiences as part of the program, and our volunteer Mentor Team will explain what you can expect as you work with a mentee.
Join us and the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity at the University of Portland for a panel discussion on the different pathways you can use to get into tech.
In this virtual happy hour in collaboration with hosts First Tech Federal Credit Union and PixelSpoke, PDXWIT is celebrating Black voices.
PDXWIT and Blacks in Tech (BiT), along with host NV5 Geospatial, have teamed up to highlight Portland organizations working to provide access to tech to marginalized and underserved communities in our school system.
Join PDXWIT for a small and informal in-person dinner discussion where we share our experiences with diversity in the tech workplace.
Join us for a virtual Town Hall Happy Hour where you’ll hear from PDXWIT’s new Executive Director, Hazel Valdez!
Wondering how to break into the tech industry? We’re here to help you land that dream opportunity. In collaboration with our community partner Dress for Success and event host Zapproved, join us for an evening panel discussion where you’ll learn from folks who’ve successfully broken into the industry.
Hosted by First Tech Federal Credit Union, come together to network, learn, and build community with speakers from NW Veterans In Technology and learn about their professional certification scholarship for Oregon residents. Not a vet? Not an issue! Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Join PDXWIT for a small and informal in-person dinner discussion where we share our experiences with diversity in the tech workplace. If you identify as a tech professional from a marginalized* background, this opportunity is for you.
Join PDXWIT as we kick off Latinx Heritage Month with our friends at Nike! Come for the dynamic lightning talks, and stay for the networking and community building. ¡Hasta pronto!
Interviewing for a new job can be a stressful proposition. A group of volunteers from Amazon Web Services (AWS, aws.amazon.com) created this training to demystify the interview process. This is tailored to job seekers seeking employment in tech. In this virtual seminar, they’ll cover good and bad interviewing practices they’ve witnessed through their careers. They’ll also present helpful tips and resources to prepare for your next technical interviews.
Level up your tech career! Join PDXWIT and host Matrix Networks for our monthly happy hour where we will learn some tips and tricks that’ll help you land your next job. After hearing from expert lightning speakers, we’ll have volunteers available for review resumes, mock interviews, and networking.
Join PDXWIT for our State of the Community Survey 2022 launch party! In addition to data-focused lightning talks, you’ll learn about the impact this survey has had and why your feedback is important to us. We’re teaming up with Salesforce to bring this event to you.
PDXWIT Job Board Live: The networking event that comes to you!
Are you ready to get hired up?!? Then this virtual meetup is for you. PDXWIT’s Job Board LIVE is tailor-made to help you find the career of your dreams.
Join us during Pride Month for a special edition in-person Happy Hour hosted by Zapproved. Let’s get together and reminisce about the good times.
Meet face-to-face with PDXWIT staff, volunteers, and recruiters at this onsite networking event!
Are you job seeking? Then this in-person event is for you! PDXWIT has teamed up with Autodesk to get you hired up! Recruiters, hiring managers, and internal community leaders will be onsite to connect about open positions at the company. Get your resume and LinkedIn profiles ready and register today
This month we are exploring the theme of leadership through collaboration. Join PDXWIT volunteers, Zhou Fang and Anusha Neelam, as we dive further into this topic.
We’ll kick off the meetup with some lightning talks from our friends, Allie and Kim, from Apano and in the spirit of leadership through collaboration, we’ll be holding more space for community networking through breakout rooms after the talks – but you don’t have to wait until then to meet someone new! Connect with folks in the chat throughout the event as well.
PDXWIT Job Board Live: The networking event that comes to you! This time we’re partnering with Simple X to bring you even more amazing talks and employment opportunities.
Are you ready to get hired up?!? Then this event is for you. PDXWIT’s Job Board LIVE is tailor-made to help you find the career of your dreams.
Get ready for PDXWIT Happy Hour with event host PixelSpoke!
This month’s Lightning Speakers will explore wellness and mental health as a social justice issue, as well as ways companies can better support their employees’ wellness. We will have ASL interpretation and closed captioning throughout.
Interviewing for a new job can be a stressful proposition. A group of volunteers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) created this training to demystify the interview process. This is tailored to job seekers seeking employment in tech.
Join PDXWIT for a small, informal-yet-focused virtual discussion where we share our experiences with diversity in the workplace. If you identify as being historically and systematically underrepresented* in tech, this opportunity is for you.
Our goal is to create a dedicated space for an honest and impactful conversation exploring our shared experiences as individuals in the industry.
Have you ever taken a mental health day or thought twice about putting your therapy appointment publicly on your work calendar? Let’s explore these and other topics at PDXWIT’s virtual Happy Hour themed around Destigmatizing Mental Health Conversations in the Workplace. This lunch hour is hosted by Lytics.
We will have ASL interpretation and closed captioning throughout.
PDXWIT Job Board Live: The networking event that comes to you!
Are you ready to get hired up?!? Then this event is for you. PDXWIT’s Job Board LIVE is tailor-made to help you find the career of your dreams.
We’ll get you fired up with a lightning talk, then companies with open roles on the PDXWIT job board will share their open positions (local and remote) during our Recruiter Roll Call. You’ll have a chance to chat with them in breakout rooms after the presentation, so bring your questions, your professional statements, and be ready to share your brilliant skills and qualifications.
And don’t forget to bring your up-to-date resume! We’ll have a team dedicated to reviewing resumes so you can make an even better impression.
Our career successes don’t happen in a vacuum. During this Black History & Futures Happy Hour, we’ll explore the vital role that community and networks play in the career journey.
We will feature dynamic lightning talks by Dr. Amber Lenon, Astrophysicist and Data Analyst at iRobot, as well as Tanisha Payne, Software Engineer at Puppet. We’ll also highlight some Black-led organizations in the PNW and beyond.
Join Humanizing Tech Podcast hosts Rihana Mungin and Dawn Mott for a LIVE interview with Tia Hopkins.
We’ll learn about Tia’s journey to become a seasoned cybersecurity professional and what motivated her to help build a gateway to the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Hosted by our friends at Cambia.
