Networking Nights

A monthly meetup to hear women speak about technology, make new connections, and help build a community of technical women in Portland.

Format

Lightning Talks (shorter tech talks, 5-10 minutes each)
Panel (45 minute panel)
Workshop (45-90 minute workshop)
Around the World (split attendees in three to four different rooms for presentations, 10-15 minutes in each room, then the groups switch rooms)

provide an opportunity for engineers and technical women to speak about technology
learn about new technologies
make new connections
create a community of women who code and women learning to code in Portland

2015

March 5 - Jaguar Land Rover - "Open Software Technology Center Tech Talks"
April 30 - Elemental Technologies - "A Discussion on Tech Careers"
May 14 - CrowdCompass - "Building Products"
June 8 - New Relic - "Future Talks"
July 28 - AppNexus - "Around the Stack"
Aug. 4 - Jama Software - "Lessons Learned in the Tech Industry"
Sept. 8 - Urban Airship - "Never Stop Learning"
Oct. 6 - Quick Left - "Women and Negotiation: Professional Happiness, One Conversation at a Time"
Oct. 22 - eBay - "Testing Your Metal in the Portland Tech Scene"
Nov. 3 - Nike - "Creative Thinking in a Technical World"
Dec. 10 - Puppet Labs / Women+Tech Holiday Party - "Raise Your Voice"

2016

Jan. 14 - Airbnb - "Airbnb Engineering Comes to Portland"
Feb. 18 - Metal Toad - "Building the Future of Women in Tech"
March 8 - Intel - "How Women Power Intel Open Source"
April 18 - New Tech PDX - "Women Who Code"
May 24 - Mozilla - "Lightning Talks"
June 10 - Instrument + New Relic / 2nd Anniversary Party
July 14 - WeWork + Salesforce / Women+Tech Summer Soiree - "How Oregon Funds Innovation"
Aug. 10 - Code Fellows PDX - "A Journey of a Female Coder"
Aug. 16 - R/West - "Women in Leadership"
Sept. 7 - Treehouse - "Getting Started With Programming Languages"
Oct. 3 - New Relic - Resolution Fest
Dec. - Women+Tech Holiday Party