ABOUT SEARCH PDX
DIFFERENT SEARCH.SAME CITY.
Search PDX is a Portland community for anyone interested in learning about search and how people discover information, businesses, products, and ideas.
Search used to be easier to define. Today it stretches across Google, AI assistants, marketplaces, maps, social platforms, ads, content, technical systems, and whatever comes next.
We created Search PDX to bring business owners, enterprise teams, students, and search professionals into the same room—to learn from one another.
Bring your questions, share your experience, and discover what search can mean for your business, your career, or your next idea.
SEARCH IS
CHANGING.
SO ARE WE.
The way people discover information, products, businesses, and ideas is changing fast.
Traditional search engines still matter. So do AI assistants, paid media, local search, marketplaces, social discovery, and emerging interfaces we may not even have names for yet.
Search PDX gives Portland a place to compare notes, share what’s working, ask better questions, and figure out what comes next together. We learn through practical talks, shared experiences, and conversations across the many areas of search.
BUILT FOR ANYONE
READY TO LEARN.
Search PDX is for business owners who want to understand how customers find them, enterprise teams navigating a changing landscape, students exploring what’s possible, and people already in the industry who want to learn about a new area of search.
Search professionals are a big part of this community. People from in-house teams, agencies, and independent practices help lead it, share their experience, and learn alongside everyone else.
Come curious.
Meet people.
Learn something you can use.
REAL SEARCH.
HOW WE WANT THIS COMMUNITY TO FEEL
GOOD PEOPLE.
USEFUL IDEAS.
BETTER SEARCH.
MAKE IT USEFUL
Share ideas, examples, and practical lessons people can put to work.
MAKE PEOPLE WELCOME
Welcome new faces, different backgrounds, and every level of experience.
KEEP LEARNING
Ask questions, compare experiences, and explore how search is changing.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY
Help create thoughtful conversations and useful events. Speakers and sponsors play a part in making that happen.
DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES. SAME ROOM.
Organic, paid, AI, technical, local, content, analytics, strategy and whatever comes next.
HELP BUILD SEARCH PDX.
Attend an event. Give a talk. Host a meetup. Sponsor something useful. Share what you’re learning.