Silicon Florist 🌹 PIE perspective, Oregon electeds, Midtown Beer Garden 🍻
Issue 709
Portland Incubator Experiment steps away from software
The Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE), which played a central role in building the city’s tech community in the years after the Great Recession, is shutting down its software accelerator and seeking a new path to support Portland startups… More
Oregon elected leaders on AI, startups and tapping public support
It was standing room only at UpStart Collective for the first Congressional Startup Day and the message from elected leaders, both state and federal, to entrepreneurs in the room: Get involved. The morning featured remarks and a question-and-answer session from Oregon Rep. Janelle Bynum, Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden before about 100 founders and startup supporters… More
Midtown Beer Garden – Grand Opening on Sunday, August 20th!
Expensify is deeply committed to supporting local communities, and our own neighborhoods are no exception. Just across the street from Expensify HQ in downtown Portland, we’ve been quietly working away on our latest endeavor: Midtown Beer Garden… More
🗓️ Events
Be sure to check Calagator for the latest list of events — or to share your event with the community. It’s absolutely free.
Saturday (August 19) Portland Adult Soap Box Derby
Monday (August 21) Portland Surveillance Technology Inventory
Tuesday (August 22) Hardware Happy Hour Portland
Thursday (August 24) PDXWIT Presents: Game Night Summer Soiree
Monday (August 28) Intro to AI and Unity ML Agent
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