Type of Event: Networking

About Building Business Connections:Building
Business Connections blends structured networking, resource sharing and focused connection-building conversations. Make new business connections and grow your business.

Membership and Attendance:
The Alliance is a membership-based organization so attendance at Alliance events is a benefit of membership. It is Alliance policy to welcome first-time, non-members to attend up to two networking events (ShopTalk, and Building Business Connections) without charge. You must RSVP by calling Rebecca McCulloch at 503-552-6759 by 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 24th.

Event Sponsor: AVAILABLE
Series Sponsor: Oregon Business Magazine

If you arrive after 8:00 a.m., we will not be able to seat you in the structured networking portion of this event.

Free parking in the Garden Garage attached to the Moda Center: located on Winning Way

New to Alliance events? Look for Ambassadors wearing a blue ribbon to greet you, answer any of your questions and introduce you to other members.

Connect with us on Twitter at Alliance events using #pbaevents and tagging @PDX_BizAlliance.

Built Oregon & RAIN Eugene are pleased to invite you to the inaugural Willamette Valley consumer product Founder’s Event!  Built Oregon is bringing together Willamette Valley founders of consumer product companies for a night of networking, celebration, and interactive (i.e. – fun)  programming to ignite the inherent creativity within everyone.

Take a night off from the grind of building your companies to cultivate community with your fellow founders across industries. Our hope is that this event will create connections among different industries and instigate not only conversations about products, but also stimulate ideas on how we all can collaborate to elevate the entire consumer product ecosystem.

Built Oregon will also be sharing updates including an update on this year’s Built Up Festival, an overview of the nonprofit consumer products accelerator launching next year, and most likely other things since it’s a couple months away and things always seem to get added into the mix!

Register here.  Contact Mitch Daugherty at mitch@builtoregon.com or 503-490-1538 for more info.

Greater Portland Inc’s signature event celebrates GPI’s role as the region’s premier public-private partnership and shines a spotlight on our region’s competitiveness in a global economy.

This year, the Summit highlights our region’s most valuable resource – our people. With conversations led by nationally recognized experts, we will explore how our entrepreneurs, educators, business and community leaders, and innovators are driving returns to our region’s growing economy.

The Summit is the one event of the year that brings hundreds of key decision-makers from different parts of the region and different industries together in one room. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with the leaders shaping our community’s future. The morning begins with a networking breakfast in the Sunken Ballroom. After breakfast, an exciting program will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Kridel Grand Ballroom.

Schedule:
8:00 – 8:50 Coffee and Registration
8:50 – 9:00 Introduction, Welcome

Got Know-How?
9:00 – 9:30 Use What You Know – Increase Income Through Self-Employment – Jackie B. Peterson of Better, Smarter, Richer

Got Equity?
9:30 – 10:00 Use the Equity in Your Home – Strategic Use of Your Asset – Rachel Hemmingson NMLS# 1502324/1169 Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Specialist

Got Space?
10:00 – 10:30 Use Your Home to Provide Income & Share Costs – Anne L. Andler of Let’s Share Housing

Got Questions?
10:30 – 11:00 Questions and Answers – panel with Jackie, Rachel and Anne
11:00 – 12:00 One on One conversations, appointment setting, other

Every September, innovators from across the Pacific NW come together at VertueLab Impact Summit (formerly BEST FEST), the Pacific Northwest’s premier cleantech innovation conference. Now in its10th year, VIS2018 brings together the doers, thinkers, and innovators working in clean technology across the region. VIS2018 is about learning, inspiring, networking, sharing ideas, and shaping our future. We convene a diverse audience of business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, partners, corporates, university researchers, students, and scientists— who have the common goal of accelerating solutions to environmental challenges, then create opportunities to engage.

The Portland Creative Conference is an exploration and celebration of the creative process across all creative industries. This single-track event features presentations from leading creatives who take you inside their creative process and talk about their projects, challenges, influences and inspirations; showing samples of their work along the way.

For complete details, including this year’s amazing presenters, visit http://cre8con.com

This is an opportunity for attendees to network with other creative industries professionals, get inside the heads of visionary speakers and to be inspired and motivated in entirely new ways, viewing their own world with a fresh perspective as a result. All while raising money to support K-12 arts education in Oregon.

Many companies send teams of people to this conference so we have team discounts available.

Doors open @ 8:00am for Check-in / Registration and Networking (get there early if you need to register still)

Program starts @ 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm.

Wrap Party! Receptions for all attendees will take place at Wieden+Kennedy and the Wacom Experience Center from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. You must have a badge to attend the conference and the reception.

Benefits of attending:

• Learn from our creative industries-leading speakers
• See samples of their work and hear the stories behind it
• Network with other creative industries professionals
• Leave inspired and motivated in new and unxpected ways, with fresh ideas
• Proceeds go to provide financial support to various K-12 arts education programs in Oregon through Keeping the Arts, a non-profit organization.

Thank you to our Sponsors: Wacom, Oregonian Media Group, Ideas Collide, City of Hillsboro, Cambia Health Solutions, Art Institute of Portland, Charles Schwab, and Oregon Film.

To see the most up-to-date speaker list, visit http://cre8con.com

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is final and no refunds will be processed. However, you can transfer a registration to a different person.

Do you have a food and beverage business that you want to promote and celebrate? Are you looking for an opportunity to promote your food & beverage startup? Now is your chance!

The OEN Food & Beverage Showcase & Pitch Program is a series of workshops and events dedicated to supporting F&B entrepreneurs in Oregon and SW Washington. This program is perfect for entrepreneurs who want to better tell their story, whether it’s getting products on shelves, engaging distributors, seeking investment, hiring talent, or getting a new customer.

Your application fee includes:

1. Admission to Learn to Pitch Workshop on August 20th ($50 value)
2. Access to Palo Alto Software’s Live Plan platform ($60 value) for 3 months to create your one-page pitch page
3. Admission to Hone Your Pitch Interactive Session with industry experts during the week of September 17th (attendance required—judges will select the top 12 presenters to compete at the October 3rd F&B Showcase)
4. Admission to the October 3rd F&B Showcase ($85 value)
5. A table to sample your product at the October 3rd F&B Showcase (first 50 applicants only)
6. Prizes! Read below for details.

Applying is quick and easy! Just click the button on the right to apply.

See below for event details.

Event #1: Learn to Pitch

Taught by executive training and development consultant Dave Underhill and Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software, this workshop will teach you how to craft a clear, concise, and compelling story regardless of your audience, whether talking to someone in line at the supermarket or pitching your business to a VC.

When: Monday, August 20th | 11:30 AM-2:30 PM

Where: Portland State Business Accelerator, Portland, or via webcast.

Event #2: Hone Your Pitch

This workshop will help you take your presentation to the next level with input from experts in the food and beverage industry, including entrepreneurs, mentors, and seasoned investors. You will have an opportunity to practice your presentation in front of F&B industry experts and hone your presentation throughout the day through personalized feedback. These experts will pick the top presenters to move on to the F&B Showcase on October 3rd. 

When: Week of September 17th

Where: To be announced

Event #3: F&B Showcase

This is it—the main event. First, you learned how to craft a clear, concise, and compelling story regardless of your audience at Learn Your Pitch. Then, you improved your presentation based on personalized feedback from industry experts at Hone Your Pitch.

At the F&B Showcase, you get:

• A table to sample your awesome product (first 50 applicants only)
• Stellar networking with F&B industry stakeholders from across the state
• Top 12 applicants get a chance to strut their stuff on stage and compete for awesome prizes
• Insight from successful F&B entrepreneurs (stay tuned for Fireside Chat participant list)
• Inspiration from a conversation about thoughtfulness and social justice in the F&B industry

Prizes include:

• Shelf space at Green Zebra
• Financial and accounting services
• Legal services from Tonkon Torp
• Financial forecasting consulting from Palo Alto Software
• Branding and packaging consulting
• Risk assessment advising
• Distribution counseling

The F&B Showcase will bring together diverse channels within the food and beverage industry to celebrate, promote, and inspire one another to success.

When: Wednesday, October 3rd

Where: Left Bank Annex, Portland

Not yet an OEN member? Contact Marissa at marissa@oen.org to get 25% off your first year of membership!

Learn how to translate your speaking into sales and impact, without compromising who you are (in a radically supportive community of coaches and experts seeking greatness)…

Intuitive Speaking is an interactive, experiential public speaking event that will give you lots of opportunities to practice and play.

You’ll have the opportunity to speak in group settings as well as ON STAGE (if you choose). Plus, you’ll watch your colleagues and new friends make huge transformations in their speaking, too.

Either way, this is not merely about KNOWING, but learning through SEEING and DOING and BEING.

At Intuitive Speaking LIVE, you’ll learn how to:

• be irresistible and magnetic on stage, without trying to be different, clever, or forcing yourself to use popular scripts or structures that don’t work for you

• say goodbye to unnecessary stress and second-guessing whether you are standing up at a networking meeting or preparing for the biggest speaking opportunity of your life

• thrive in any speaking setting, whether you are presenting online or offline, doing keynotes, workshops, online courses, or live streaming

• be the kind of speaker who builds a reputation and word-of-mouth buzz

• allow the message that wants and needs to be shared to flow through you, effortlessly

Would you LOVE to attract more (or all) of your clients from speaking? Would you love your speaking to be magnetic and effortless? Then this event is for YOU.