Nexus Maine

Nexus Coffee Kickoff @ Startup Maine Week
2026-05-20 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | 300 Fore St, Portland, ME 04101, USA
Join us for coffee and networking as we celebrate Startup Maine Week at the Maine Center.
This event will be packed (last year we had 150+ people) with Maine entrepreneurs and builders! So grab some coffee and jumpstart your connections.
Note: This event is free thank you to our friends at AccountTalent. HOWEVER, the rest of Startup Maine Week requires a paid ticket. We highly recommend scooping one up here (https://www.startupmaine.org/).
Register Here

Startup Maine Week
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-21
Startup Maine Week is back May 18-21, 2026!
Join us for four days of immersive learning, new connections, and collaboration across Maine’s startup ecosystem. Each year, the conference brings together startup founders, startup employees, investors, ecosystem partners, and the startup-curious to share insights, build relationships, and support growth across the state.
Registration for Startup Maine Week will open soon. Stay tuned to hear when early-bird tickets go live!

Mainebiz Women's Leadership Forum 2026
2026-05-13 07:30 - 10:30 | Good Theater, 631 Stevens Avenue, Portland, ME 04103
Mainebiz brings together a panel of women executives to share their unique experiences and perspectives on leadership through personal stories and key learnings.
Register Here

Maine JS Meetup: Build Reliable Agents in JavaScript Featuring Ryan Randall!
2026-05-12 00:00 | Portland Webworks
Join the Maine JS Meetup for a talk on JavaScript and AI by our member Ryan Randall! Optional visit to Novare Res afterward.
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Headshot Happy Hour
2026-05-12 00:00
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Maine Entrepreneurs Summit
2026-05-12 00:00
Join us for a full day of inspiration, connection, and actionable insight designed for Maine’s innovators, founders, and changemakers.
AGENDA
1:15 PM Registration Opens
1:30 PM High Impact Workshops
Workshop I: Growth Through Acquisition: Buying or Selling a Small Business
Workshop II: From Chaos to Clarity: Time Management Strategies That Scale with You
3:00 PM Maine Entrepreneurs Summit Opening & Keynote Address
Maine Economic & Business Outlook – Amanda Rector, State of Maine Economist
3:45 PM Trade Show & Networking Reception
Featuring products and services from Top Gun companies, industry funders, and sponsors. This
Networking Reception provides opportunities for attendees to connect, discuss ideas, and build
valuable relationships.
5:30 PM Opening Remarks & Top Gun Showcase Pitch Competition
Top Gun finalists pitch their innovative ideas, products, or services to a panel of expert judges.
7:55 PM Top Gun Pitch Award Winner Announcement
8:00 PM Close of Event
Registration Required: https://www.mced.biz/events/mes2026

MaineR User Group - What does it mean for an LLM to think?
2026-04-30 00:00
We’re meeting up at Novare Res again after work (5:30PM) as we slowly start to build up the base and regularity of the group.
In March, we thought it’d be nice to have a central topic to discuss and settled on the idea of “thinking” and large language models (LLMs, e.g. Claude, Gemini).
(…among the casual networking, talking about Claude + Positron integrations, complaining in a safe space about impossible data requests)
Mid-April, we will send out a few papers/blogs via the newsletter (yet to be created, but will be created mid-April), so if you’re interested in attending, the reading and details will be sent out there.
Reading is NOT required to attend, but does give attendees a common topic to bond, chat, ask questions, pontificate about.
The group ranges from people who have never used R once to those who depend on it to regularly publish peer reviewed research.
Please RSVP on the Meet Up so we have an idea of how big of a table to snag.
We’ll also announce that we’ve got our first guest speaker booked in for later this year!
https://www.meetup.com/maine-r-users-group/events/313982347/
Look for the group with the letter R on the table!

Portland Coffee Meetup
2026-04-29 08:00 - 09:00
Coffee meetup at CBD in Portland. 8-9am. Register here! https://luma.com/qqzpe7n1

Open Door with Andrew Butcher, President of Maine Connectivity Authority
2026-04-29 07:30 - 09:00 | The Roux Institute at Northeastern University, Portland, ME
Andrew Butcher, President of Maine Connectivity Authority, will discuss leadership, progress, and vision with Stefanie Manning.
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Architalx Lecture Series: Timothy Mansfield | CambridgeSeven
2026-04-28 00:00
Architalx is back for its 39th season, bringing global voices in architecture and design to Maine. This lecture features Timothy Mansfield from CambridgeSeven.
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Roux Institute Founder Residency Info Session
2026-04-24 11:00 | Virtual
Join us for a virtual Info Session that will outline how the Roux Institute Founder Residency supports startups! We will be joined by two founders who have gone through the program and will share their experience.
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Moving Energy: A Walking Peer-Coaching Circle
2026-04-22 13:00 | Falmouth
A walking peer-coaching “circle” centered around moving energy in an area of your business that feels stuck.
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Nexus DNNR Club
2026-04-15 17:00 - 20:00
The DNNR Club is something new we are experimenting with. It’s a curated dinner party but with a twist. After you sign up and answer a questionnaire we will curate a match of 6 people for a dinner party. Restaurant reservations will be booked at separate venues across Portland and after dinner everyone is invited to join at the same venue for drinks/mingling.
Register here

Maine JS Meetup
2026-04-14 00:00 | Novare Res
If you’re learning or practicing JavaScript and/or web, come out and talk tech with us!
Register Here

International Conference on Public Health and Health Care System
2026-04-13 00:00 - 2026-04-15 00:00
PAGES conferences are excited to invite you to the upcoming International Conference on Public Health and Health Care System, scheduled to take place from April 13-15, 2026 in the city of finance Paris, France.
This event will bring together leading experts for keynote addresses, dynamic panel discussions, and engaging workshops that aim to poster collaboration and inspire innovative ideas. Topics will span a range of critical areas, including disease prevention, health promotion, epidemiology, environmental health, and global health policy.
Overall, the International Conference on Public Health and Health Care Research and Development promises to be an important forum for advancing our understanding of Public Health and Health Care and exploring innovative solutions to global health challenges.
We eagerly anticipate your participation in this exciting and inspiring event in Paris, France.
Sincerely,
Jyothsna P | Conference Secretary
Public Health-2026

Upper Midcoast Nexus Coffee
2026-04-10 09:00 | Villager Cafe in Camden
Nexus Coffee gathering at Villager Cafe in Camden. We’ll try to snag the big table in the front.

Upper Midcoast Nexus Coffee
2026-04-10 09:00 | Villager Cafe in Camden
We’ll try to snag the big table in the front. Hope to see you there!

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Barton Seaver @ The Roux Institute
2026-04-09 17:30 - 19:30 | Roux Institute, Portland, ME
A special conversation on living with intention in a time of climate change — weaving together science, ocean stewardship, and food systems.
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MaineR User Group meeting
2026-04-09 17:30 | Novare Res
Fun, welcoming space for anyone interested in the R programming language and all its tangential areas (data, data viz, statistics, modeling, ai, causal inference, science).
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MaineR User Group 2026 Kickoff Event @ Novare Res
2026-03-26 00:00
Join us in the evening of Thursday March 26th at 5:30 PM at Novare Res Bier Cafe for an informal evening of connection, conversation, and quickfire inspiration with the MaineR community!
What to expect:
Casual discussion about all things R and data
Informal networking
Hearing suggestions about what group members would like in 2026 (e.g. socials, tutorials, talks, networking for jobs, book clubs)
Great food and drink (first five people there will get a drink on the group!)
Whether you’re debugging ggplot, building dashboards, using Claude within Positron, modeling data, or writing your first R script, we’d love to hear about it.
Please RSVP so we know how many to expect.
We hope to see you there!
We will make it clear where we’e all congregating before the event starts (and rid ourselves of the awkward…. “ummm…. is this the uhh… R user group meetup?”)

https://www.meetup.com/maine-r-users-group/events/313608684/

Nexus Happy Hour @ Long Fellow Hotel
2026-03-25 17:00 - 19:30
​Join us for unstructured networking at our March Happy Hour from 5:00-7:30pm at the Longfellow Hotel.
​We will also be raffling off a $50 gift certificate to the Five of Clubs restaurant so make sure to RSVP.

Climate Work Maine Summit
2026-03-19
CWM invites you to participate in this one-of-a-kind event…the largest statewide gathering of business leaders focused on Maine’s economy and climate change with more than 800 registrants anticipated!

Breaking Barriers: Lessons Learned from Female Entrepreneurs
2026-03-17 00:00
For Women’s History Month, The Roux Founder Residency is hosting a panel featuring three accomplished entrepreneurs and incredible women from our startup community. Our featured speakers, all Roux startup alumni and 2025 Women Who Empower Innovator Award winners, will share their unique perspectives on leading companies, raising capital, and building strong networks.
The discussion will explore breaking into new markets, finding mentors, and creating opportunities in the startup scene. This panel is perfect for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, especially those passionate about belonging the startup world. Join us for an evening of real talk and inspiring advice, followed by a chance to network with the community after the panel. All are welcome to attend this complimentary event!
Registration is open to the public – share with your networks and bring a friend!

BSides Maine
2026-03-13 08:00 - 17:00
BSides Maine is where the state’s hacker community shows what it’s really made of… scrappy, curious, hands-on, and unafraid to dig into the weird corners of technology. It’s a day of talks, workshops, hardware hacks, live demos, and the hallway discoveries that happen when curious people collide. Built locally, priced fairly, and always free for students and job seekers. Open to anyone who cares about how technology intersects with the world around us.
May 30th
https://www.bsidesmaine.org/

Catalyzing Maine’s Future – Women Who Empower
2026-03-12
Presented by Northeastern University’s Roux Institute
This signature event celebrates the remarkable women who are shaping Maine’s future through entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation. Part of Northeastern’s global Women Who Empower initiative, the program spotlights inspiring stories of impact while fostering mentorship and collaboration. Attendees will hear from trailblazing women entrepreneurs and leaders across industries. The event creates a powerful platform for connection, empowerment, and advancing gender equity in Maine’s innovation economy.

Climate Salon @ The Roux Institute
2026-03-05 17:00 - 19:00
The ClimateTech Incubator at Northeastern’s Roux Institute is hosting Climate Salon on March 5 for small-group discussions on what it takes to scale climatetech innovation across blue economy, built environment, energy, food & ag, and software/AI.
Table Leads include Laney Brown (Avangrid), Mike Jackson (Earthshot Ventures), Will Hewes (Amazon), Amy Piscopo (WattTime/Climate TRACE), Mike Conathan (Upwell Collaborative), Rory Dunn (Aperture), Mike Pulaski (Solen Works), and other experts.
~100 entrepreneurs, investors, corporates, public sector leaders, and students will gather in Portland to connect and tackle real challenges facing climate innovators.
Register: https://events.humanitix.com/climate-salon-roux-institute

Nexus Maine 2026 Kickoff Happy Hour @ Orange Bike
2026-02-26 17:30 - 19:30
Welcome to 2026! Join us as we celebrate the founders, builders, business owners, and operators of Maine’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
​We’ve rented the production space at Orange Bike Brewing for an unstructured happy hour… oh, and your first drink is on us!
​Thank you to our generous sponsors Baker Newman Noyes (BNN) and Orrick for their support.

https://luma.com/wdp407x7

Blockchain Maine Meetup- Policy Edition
2026-02-25 17:00 - 19:30
Join us for a special policy-focused meetup exploring how Maine can lead in blockchain innovation and digital asset policy.
​We will be hosting an informal happy hour at Oxbow Brewing!
Special Guest: Owen McCarthy, a local entrepreneur running to be Maine’s next governor.

The Founders Guide to Cap Tables, Options & Equity - Presented by Carta
2026-02-20 12:00 - 12:30
This is a virtual event for Nexus Maine members courtesy of our friends at Carta!
Starting a business is hard, but the potential upside can change lives if you’re able to achieve a successful exit while maintaining a reasonable amount of ownership in that business. In this session you will learn: (1) the basics of equity and cap table management, (2) how equity amongst co-founders is typically divided, (3) how to size an option pool, and (4) how to properly incentivize advisors and your first 10 hires.
​We will also have Maine specific startup data presented from Carta’s database.
Presenter Bio: Ryan O’Conor manages VC and Accelerator partnerships at Carta. Prior to Carta, Ryan spent 3 years at DoorDash building its white-label delivery business. Before joining DoorDash, he spent 7+ years working in business development and partnership roles across several early-stage companies. Ryan is a former founder, startup advisor, and an active angel investor in early- and growth-stage companies.

https://luma.com/j5trxdia

Headshot Happy Hour
2026-02-18 16:30 - 19:00
A networking event in Portland, Maine! Grow your local network, enjoy great local drinks, and get a new headshot.

Headshot Happy Hour is back for 2026!

Bringing the fun back for the 2nd installment of the 2025 series. We will be bringing these events to different local breweries, distilleries, wine bars, or other happy hour friendly establishments. Bringing local connections together and offering a chance to have a professional headshot taken.
These events are for everyone. Whether you are attending to just network, need a new headshot, or trying a new local spot.
