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 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.
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.
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.
Coming out stories in the LGBTQ+ community runs the gamut of experiences. In honor of National Coming Out Day (10/11/2022), join PDXWIT and hear from community members on how it has been for them navigating the deeply personal decision to come out at the office. Find out what it was like for them. Was it a good experience, a bad experience, or was it an indifferent experience.
Join PDXWIT for a panel discussion focusing on relevant needs and issues facing tech professionals in product management. ASL interpreters and closed captioning will be available.
When we think about the queer community we think about those amazing people that bring us all together. From LGBTQ+centric organizations to leaders who love to create connections, we want to celebrate their work and continue to build an even broader community!
PRIDE is every day and we want you to join PDXWIT as we come together to celebrate how love will keep us together!
Last year we came together to debunk the model minority myth. This year, join PDXWIT and AAPI in Tech to highlight powerful women who are leading us into the future.
Two Portland powerhouses are joining forces to humanize tech, create access and connect awesome people! PDXWIT + Cinder presents a panel discussion, moderated by Katy Byrtus, focused on tech leaders who come from backgrounds that have been systematically excluded from positions of power.
At our April Native Americans in Tech mixer, we’re creating a decolonized space for Indigenous folks who work in tech or would like to. In the spirit of storytelling, we would like to encourage the community to share some 3 minute talks on recent projects, life events or challenges. This will be an informal, virtual meetup for attendees to nurture existing relationships and build new ones.
This community will center the experiences of Indigenous people of North America. While this group is for folks that have a grounding in their Native American identities, we understand that Indigenous folks exist from all points of the globe and welcome you as well. We recognize the varied experiences of indigeneity for those who have had barriers in reclaiming their culture.
The long-awaited AAPI in Tech group is kicking off its first official meetup, Let’s F*cking Go!!
AAPI In Tech centers people who identify as part of the Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander community, while welcoming people who not only consider themselves as allies, but also take action toward supporting their AAPI comrades. During the event, we will learn more about PDXWIT’s AAPI in Tech initiative, hear from lightning speakers and have the opportunity to connect in breakout rooms.
Virtual community and feelings of isolation in the workplace are not new, but COVID-19 has heightened those feelings and needs for many of us. Join PDXWIT for this panel discussion to learn more about the power of community, and what virtual community can look like in the context of this global pandemic.
The wise video game director of “Tell Me Why,” Florent Guillaume said, “...authentic representation was crucial, in part, because video games can put you in the shoes of characters that you don't necessarily relate to.” Gaming is a big industry. With representation from all over the world, it takes more than just code to represent the authenticity of a character within a game. It also means that the people creating it are well represented in order to provide as accurate a representation of the cultures and behaviors enacted within a game.
Join PDXWIT for this panel discussion to learn more about how game acculturation is changing the gaming industry and what it takes to create characters and stories that you and I can relate to in a virtual environment.
Join PDXWIT and host Momentive for a panel discussion moderated and led by people living with disabilities in Portland as they provide education, share their experiences, and make recommendations for how tech can become more accessible.
Join us as we meet with Queer leaders in tech spaces, creating connections to talk about what they’re doing to celebrate and connect with the community at large. From driveway dinners to virtual happy hours, the community is built by us, and the pandemic can’t stop our spirit! Hosted by our friends at Cambia.
Join our Inaugural Native Americans in Tech mixer. We’re creating a decolonized space for Native Americans who work in tech or want to. This community is exclusively for indigenous people of North America.
It’s time to come together again… from the comfort of our homes. This month we are partnering with our friends at Nike to host a Happy Hour. If you’re looking for work or just looking to reconnect with the PDXWIT network, join us!
Connection. That’s what we all want, but sometimes, it’s not so easy. Join PDXWIT, host Marmoset and Out in Tech’s Digital Corps team for a panel discussion and find out how building websites globally takes on a bigger and better definition of community and connection.
Are you a founder of an existing company? Need funding for your side hustle? Then join PDXWIT and ThinkShout for a discussion about women innovation, the roadblocks that exist when it comes to funding and what we can do as a community to drive the discussion forward.
Join us for an open, honest, and inclusive panel discussion with real women in leadership roles from some of the most recognized tech companies in Portland. We’ll get a chance to ask them tough questions about their journeys to becoming Director, Vice President, and CEO.
This happy hour is dedicated to the launch of the PDXWIT Native Americans In Tech group being led by Erin Grace. Erin will speak on the importance of building community and creating opportunities for Native Americans in the tech industry. We will also learn more about our host company, New Relic, including the open positions they have available.
Join PDXWIT and First Tech Federal Credit Union for an event dedicated to Public Speaking! Public speaking is one of the most useful tools to have in your arsenal in both your professional and personal life. Being able to speak to people in small or large groups can be daunting, and learning how to gain confidence will make the experience more enjoyable. Join PDXWIT speaker Sarah Spieglman as she explores ways of empowering your confidence and your voice
Join us for our quarterly BIPOC in Tech event series, along with PDX Blacks in Tech and Simple X, for a conversation with several Portland transplants who’ve created supportive spaces. Dianne Jarvis Lumsden, Front End Software Developer at Coinbase and facilitator of PDX Blacks in Tech, and Wilson Kubwayo, co-founder of Simple X and Adjunct Instructor at Portland Community College, will be taking part.
Join us for a special edition Virtual Happy Hour hosted by Cambia Health Solutions and centered on PDXWIT’s theme for the month of February: Black Futures && Black History.
Kick off Black Futures && Black History Month by joining Humanizing Tech Podcast hosts Jesselle Hedman and Dawn Mott for a live interview with Rihana Mungin. Mungin has been featured on Nickelodeon (she sent slime to space!) and has collaborated with NASA on numerous life support experiments. She has served on the leadership team at PDXWIT for the last two years while the organization has culturally redefined itself and adapted into an entirely virtual environment.
NOTE: This event has been moved to January 21st
It’s a new year, so let's try a new thing! Join us for a special edition Virtual Happy (Lunch) Hour hosted by Kiva on January 21st. The theme for this event is “The Importance of Research,” and we will hear from lightning speakers Laure Cast and Rihana Mungin about their research projects! We will also learn more about our host company Kiva, including the open positions they have available.
Access to healthcare is tough enough, and for the LGBTQ+ community, it is even harder and more challenging to navigate. We’re excited for you to join PDXWIT, Plume, Euphoria and Included Health for a panel discussion on how technology is bridging some of that gap. Sign up to learn how the LGBTQ+ community can gain access to healthcare resources including gender affirming hormone therapy (GAHT).
This two-day interactive presentation will provide an introduction to data science, with a special focus on understanding the following concepts:
- Big data
- Algorithms
- Supervised and unsupervised machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
This two-day interactive presentation will provide an introduction to data science, with a special focus on understanding the following concepts:
- Big data
- Algorithms
- Supervised and unsupervised machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
We are looking forward to coming together with our host AT&T to look back on a very strange year. The theme of the event will be Celebrating our Community. In honor of our theme, our conversation starter for the night will be “How do you celebrate your community?” We will also be hosting our annual Awards Program. Stay tuned for details on how to nominate and vote for Best Contributor and Best Speaker!
