At this month’s virtual Happy Hour, PDXWIT and sponsor First Tech celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!
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.
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.
Join us for a virtual Town Hall Happy Hour where you’ll hear from PDXWIT’s new Executive Director, Hazel Valdez!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new year is upon us and with that often comes a financial check in. Join PDXWIT, Simple X, and First Tech Federal Credit Union for industry tips exploring the basics of getting your finances in order.
During the first half of the presentation, we’ll share how to build a plan for getting out of debt and how to save in ways that fit your budget. The second half of the presentation will focus on ways to secure your financial future that go beyond saving a little bit every month.
We’ve launched into 2022, and with that we’re excited to announce PDXWIT’s January Happy Hour. We’re looking forward to partnering with Slalom to bring you a happy hour themed around Artificial Intelligence!
Lightning speakers will share their thoughts on a human-centered approach to AI, how Artificial Intelligence can be used responsibly while unlocking potential for today, tomorrow and beyond.
As always, we will have recruiters ready to share our open positions at their companies, and they will be available to directly connect with job seekers who are looking for their next opportunity.
Can y’all believe we made it through another pandemic year? Thank you for sticking with us and standing up for each other. This December marks TEN YEARS since the co-founders of PDXWIT decided they were going to build this incredible community. Let’s celebrate this milestone together.
Join PDXWIT and host Alchemy Code Lab as we celebrate a decade of changemaking.
PDXWIT Job Board Live: The networking event that comes to you!
Are you job seeking? We are rounding out our 2021 events calendar with an event tailor-made to help you find the career of your dreams.
Companies with open roles on the PDXWIT job board will have recruiters and hiring managers share their open positions (local and remote) during our Recruiter Roll Call, and you’ll have a chance to chat with them in breakout rooms after the presentation. Bring your questions, your professional statements, and be ready to share your brilliant skills and qualifications.
Join PDXWIT and talented folks throughout our community for our second annual PDXWIT Talent Show, a night of fun where we’ll showcase some of our many talents. Let’s leave work behind and come together to sing, dance, tell jokes, read poetry, twirl a baton, and more! We’ve also got some extremely talented pets and kids, too.
PDXWIT joined Kiva to put on a virtual 6-week hackathon for social good. Over 200 participants came together to create solutions that provide financial access across the globe.
Let’s celebrate the hard work of all our participants and watch the winning hackathon videos!
We will have ASL interpretation and closed captioning throughout. Please get in touch with any additional accessibility needs you may have.
At our November 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.
