Portland, OR - Investor Ready Workshop

🚨 Register on Luma 🚨 Join Firsthand's applied AI lead, Chen Chen, for a practical session on finding the agent projects actually worth building in your business. Everyone is being told to put AI agents to work. Almost nobody can tell you where to point one, and that's not a technology problem. You'll learn four tests you can run on your own operation to find where an agent would genuinely earn its keep, and where it wouldn't. ​Chen will walk through all four using one real business taken apart end to end, showing where its information quietly dies between teams and systems. You'll see which problems agents can finally solve that earlier automation never could, and which are still better left to ordinary software. ​Bring an operation that annoys you. Whether you're new to AI or already running agents in production, you'll leave knowing which part of it is worth handing to an agent, which parts aren't, and where to start. 🚨 Register on Luma 🚨

Join Firsthand's applied AI lead, Chen Chen, for a practical session on finding the agent projects actually worth building in your business. Everyone is being told to put AI agents to work. Almost nobody can tell you where to point one, and that's not a technology problem. You'll learn four tests you can run on your own operation to find where an agent would genuinely earn its keep, and where it wouldn't. Chen will walk through all four using one real business taken apart end to end, showing where its information quietly dies between teams and systems. You'll see which problems agents can finally solve that earlier automation never could, and which are still better left to ordinary software. Bring an operation that annoys you. Whether you're new to AI or already running agents in production, you'll leave knowing which part of it is worth handing to an agent, which parts aren't, and where to start. Our Speaker: Chen Chen leads the applied AI team at Firsthand, a B2B AI company, where she builds and evaluates the agentic systems behind live marketing campaigns, plus the internal "world model" that lets agents act on how the business actually runs.

Join us for our in-person project work nights! This is an opportunity for our project teams to meet and collaborate in-person. All skill levels are welcome, this is an inclusive learning experience for everyone. For more information, check out our website: https://www.codepdx.org/ If you're new to CODE PDX, a project work session is a perfect time to connect with project leaders and check out what we're working on, see what project sparks your interest, and join a team. Here's the scoop: 👉 We build civic tech projects that solve local problems. Every project has a team lead who coordinates the work of all the contributing volunteers, as well as the requirements from the community partner, a local non-profit or government agency, who will use the finished project. 👉 Our stack is generally Flask, Rails, and ReactJS, with some HTML and CSS. And we don't just need developers - we also need UX Designers, Project Managers, and Product Owners! 👉 All skill levels are welcome, this is an inclusive learning experience for everyone. 👉 For more information, check out our website (which is also a project, so if you have ideas for it, come and contribute!): https://www.codepdx.org/ Connect with us on Discord: