Come join us the week after the Moda Center I-5 Southbound construction has finished (and Carmageddon is over) when we will have an evening of learning and connection with speakers Karynn Jennings and Steve Moody from Databricks Partner Concentrix Catalyst! Karynn is a Senior Analytics Consultant who you may have seen recently presenting at the Salesforce Dreamforce conference. Steve Moody is a Lead Data Consultant and a co-organizer of our group.

🎤 Karynn Jennings - Setting Your Agent Up for Success

🎤 Steve Moody - From Legacy Code to Blueprint: Using AI to Drive Databricks Migrations

How do you migrate a system when its business logic is buried in more than 600,000 lines of undocumented VB.NET code and over 100 Oracle stored procedures?

Steve will share how his team used GitHub Copilot in VS Code to reverse engineer a legacy .NET/Oracle system ahead of a Databricks migration. He’ll cover indexing the codebase, using skill files to guide AI analysis, and establishing consistent documentation standards. You’ll see how the resulting documentation became the blueprint for the team’s actual Databricks build.

🗓 When:
Tuesday, October 20th • 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

📍 Where:
Beaverton City Library – Meeting Room A
12375 SW 5th Street, Beaverton, OR 97005

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🍴 Food & Refreshments:
Delicious bites from Hapa Pizza generously sponsored by VanderHouwen.

🧠 Agenda:

• 5:00 – 5:15 PM: Welcome plus Community Updates
• 5:15 – 5:40 PM: Karynn Jennings — Setting Your Agent Up for Success
• 5:40 – 6:10 PM: Steve Moody — Presentation
• 6:10 – 6:30 PM: Networking & Refreshments
• 6:30 – 7:00 PM: Cleanup & Close

💡 About the Meetup:

The Portland Data + AI Meetup connects professionals and enthusiasts working with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and the broader open-source Data and AI ecosystem (Delta, Iceberg, MLflow, Spark, and more). We explore everything from data engineering and data governance to analytics and generative AI.