It's been a week! A really, genuinely cool one: premieres, packed rooms, a hot tub time machine reference, and one very satisfying redemption story.

Megan and Nicole are back to recap a stretch of AI Portland events that somehow all landed in the same seven days: an advanced screening of *The AI Doc* (yes, the Sundance documentary — yes, Nicole left halfway through, no judgment), a sold-out design-focused collab with Friends of Figma where Alex from Paramount Plus dug into Figma Make, and a triumphant return to the Silicon Forest Tech Summit stage.

Along the way:

🎬 What *The AI Doc* gets right and why it's not a vacation watch

🎨 How a Paramount Plus design leader is actually (and honestly) using Figma Make

💡 Why showing > telling when it comes to getting your team on board with AI

🎤 The redemption arc we didn't plan to put in the podcast but absolutely had to

📅 What's coming up: healthcare panels, a civic hackathon, a scholarship, and more

Plus: why Portland designers are a little hungry for events right now, a psychedelics mixer that accidentally captured some AI Portland attendees, and a $11,500 scholarship through Willamette University that you should absolutely go apply for.

Related links:

• The AI Doc and the Case Against Cynicism (Megan’s Substack article)
• The AI Doc: Or I How I Became an Apocaloptimist
• Friends of Figma Portland
• The Willamette University MS in Data Science – AI Portland Scholarship
• Co-creAIt, an unconference about Human/AI collaboration - Save 15% with Code AIPDX15%
• AI Portland episode about 2025 tech summit
• AI: Start Here — Scott Hanselman

• Chapters:00:00 – N8N or Natan? Starting strong01:00 – Why we don't record our events (and what you get instead)03:30 – The AI Doc: apocaloptimists, empty chairs, and polar bears09:00 – What we took away from the film11:20 – Design night with Alex from Paramount Plus14:00 – The Figma Make workflow that actually works17:00 – Showing vs. telling: getting your team curious about AI19:30 – What Figma Make is (and isn't) good for right now22:00 – Willamette University scholarship announcement25:30 – Co-CreAIte conference + discount code27:30 – Nicole's redemption arc (we had to)32:00 – Silicon Forest Tech Summit: the sequel34:30 – Upcoming events