A tech community creating rising tides together
New Tech is the largest community of Pacific Northwest technologists assisting each other with the next step in each other’s tech careers and tech companies. We build real relationships to connect and support each other while having as much fun as possible with you.
Our special sauce is a truly relationship-oriented engaged community that loves our region. We believe that doing business together is more productive when we’re being real, happy and human in our professional conversations. You know, like dropping by the neighborhood Saturday afternoon BBQ.
About New Tech Northwest
You can attend, advertise to, present at, or sponsor our monthly one-of-a-kind Seattle events (averaging 100+ attendees each month) to connect with the PNW tech community’s finest professionals. Historically our bi-annual job fairs averaged 500+ candidates with 35 startup and enterprise hiring companies. We’re looking to bring to bring them back when the hiring climate is ready again.
Together, this is where we celebrate the world class innovation being developed in your backyard (the 2nd biggest tech talent pool in North America) with you while inspiring and supporting each other to create more together. Join us!
How We Started
The seeds of New Tech Northwest started in 2012. Brett Greene and Red Russak took their experiences attending New York Tech Meetup and New Tech Boulder and added some Seattle spice to launch New Tech Seattle. Over 250 techies attended the first Meetup to get innovation inspiration from 5 companies, celebrate Seattle’s tech community, and connect with new friends. The next month attracted over 350 techies and within a year New Tech Eastside and New Tech PDX launched (with New Tech Tacoma not far behind) to expand across the region creating New Tech Northwest. By 2015 we had over 9,000 techies in our community, mentored multiple other tech groups to grow tech communities across North America, had hundreds of startup and enterprise companies showcase their technology on our stage, helped hundreds of people find technical and non-technical tech jobs, hosted delegations from over a dozen countries, and presented at the White House Tech Meetup.
What We Do
We gather and connect everyone in the technology community in support of growing each other’s tech careers and companies. This includes entrepreneurs, employees, and executives from startups to Fortune 50’s, investors, and newcomers wanting to learn about the community. Through in person and online events and job fairs we connect techies to innovation, education, networks, resources, and jobs. In service to the tech community, we share with the media, meet with the government, and develop partnerships.
Who We Are
New Tech Northwest is the hub connecting you to the spokes of all Pacific Northwest tech organizations and companies. With Seattle being the #1 American city to find tech workers with over 100 engineering centers, being the #9 startup market in the world, as well as the #2 tech talent market in North America, and Portland being #16, this is a very fun and exciting region to live and work in.
We’re a dynamic world-class tech ecosystem with generous leaders in artificial intelligence, cloud, space, ecommerce, robotics, big data, fintech, biotech, virtual reality, and more.
We celebrate our innovation economy while collaborating to build more opportunities together.
What We Believe In
Being Human.
While our events are B2B and help people in their careers, we’re all people who want to be understood and appreciated. Listening, sharing, and having fun are core values for us. We believe that the journey is more fun and successful when we start by being real, curious and supportive with each other. Some had described their experiences at our events as “always feeling like I’m coming home”.
Being Collaborative. Success is sweeter when we combine our skills, share our stories, and celebrate the accomplishments of the professionals in our community. Highlighting the wins of community members inspires others to give themselves permission to act on their innovative product and service ideas to create a better tomorrow.
Connecting You to the Pacific Northwest Tech Community
60,000 Technologists and Growing Strong!
60,000+
Community members
1,900+
Event presenters
700+
Events hosted
3
Cities hosting NTNW events
10,000+
Job Fair candidates
1
Invitation to speak at the White House
Our Team
Brett Greene
Founder, New Tech Northwest
Executive Coach for Tech Founders and Professionals with ADD/ADHD
Award winning innovation ecosystem builder with ADHD, a Masters degree in clinical and counseling psychology, and over 15 years experience coaching hundreds of professionals with ADHD, tech entrepreneurs, founders, leaders, teams and individual contributors. Brett has coached multiple companies through scaling and acquisitions, worked with multi-platinum bands (including a few in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame), is a Forbes Top 35 Social Media Power Influencer, and is a professional speaker was has spoken at the White House and international conferences.
Kathleen May
Business, and Technical Communications Specialist who loves working with innovative companies to shape brand stories into compelling messages that attract new customers and clients using persuasive writing, deep research and thoughtful interviews. Kat is also a shameless foodie lucky enough to have called San Francisco, Seattle and Boulder home.
Thubten Comerford
Founder, NewTech PDX (NTNW Affiliate)
Thubten is a serial tech entrepreneur, new media publisher, international public speaker, and tech community organizer. He began his tech marketing career at Apple Computer in 1990, where he realized his path was to help ordinary people maximize their use of technology. Thubten is very active in the Pacific Northwest’s startup community.
