What we're about
Our group supports and celebrates the participation of Portland's Black community members in Portland's professional community. Black women, nonbinaries, and men. Black immigrants and nonimmigrants. We have regular public networking and speaker-focused events. https://bitpdx.org/
All are welcome. Please especially keep in mind that we have Black centered and uplifting conversations in our Slack Channel. https://blacksintechnology.typeform.com/to/ZyRYG2
Looking forward to working with the community of other meetup groups...including LGTBQIA, women, Latinx, students, vets, and other tech fans.
We help our members to interview and continue to prepare for top companies in Portland. We also enable learning and career development. We lately serve more of the STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art Math) ecosystem in Portland, particularly volunteering with students.
Friends and Supporters are welcome to all events.
Donate to us here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butto...
Be sure to join BIT as an official member at https://foundation.blacksintechnology.net/join-bit/. It's free to join and members receive free and discounted products, services, and training resources.
Upcoming events (4+)
Update:
| Please join us for a Mar 17, 2023 ⋅ 10:30am – 11:30am (Pacific Time - Los Angeles) virtual training for the upcoming STEM Connect volunteer program! During this hour, we will go over
Click here to get a head start on the background check process
Click here to join the training
This training will be recorded. Recording and other relevant information will be sent after the meeting. |
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Volunteering description:
Take an early lunch and work from Aloha, Beaverton.
Blacks in Tech PDX has an opportunity to volunteer with students at Reedville Elementary in Aloha through in4all. Their corporate sponsor needs a few volunteers.
Please let us know if you might be available to help. Typically there are 4 sessions each lasting 1 hour at the schools. Tentative schedule is Friday mornings:
- 4/7
- 4/21
- 5/5
- 5/19
- Sharlee
- Dwayne (he/him/él) T.
- Blanch O.
- 6 attendees
Inperson Panel featuring Lestarya of Fridie Outdoors
Charlie of Software Diligence Services & Oregon Venture Fund
Software Services
https://fridieoutdoors.com/
https://oregonventurefund.com/
BIOS
Lestarya
After seeing a commonly experienced problem in the outdoors, Lestarya launched Fridie Outdoors to empower more people to get camping by making the know-how accessible offline.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lestaryatuadi/
Charlie
40+ years tech experience working with companies innovating in the cybersecurity, AI/ML, networking, and software industries, with an emphasis on government requirements. Expert in product development, software and information security engineering, product marketing, public speaking, business development, technical sales, partnership development, patents/trademarks, fundraising and M&A. https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliekawasaki/
Current industry-volunteer-community engagements include:
* NW Cyber Camp, Management Committee
- Dwayne (he/him/él) T.
- 1 attendee
Past events (59)
- Dwayne (he/him/él) T.
- Dianne J.
- Dimitra W.
- 9 attendees
