Healthcare + AI + Just the Right Amount of Cheese

Last week was a full week. Like, genuinely full: mayors, panels, happy hours, and a revelation about cheese portions.Megan and Nicole are back to unpack a stretch that somehow included a civic tech incubation lab with the City of Portland and Oregon State University, a sold-out healthcare panel that had people fired up enough to walk out (we mean that as a compliment), and a happy hour collaboration with Prosper Portland that brought knife makers and violin professors into the same room to talk AI.The healthcare conversation hit different: featuring Janet Johnson from the AI Governance Group, cancer patient and AI power-user Burt Rosen, and pediatrician Dr. Arpi Chalian, the panel dove into the real, messy, genuinely unresolved questions around AI in medicine.Along the way: 🏙️ How a civic incubation lab at Big Pink is setting the stage for Portland Startup Week's hackathon in May 🩺 The "three-legged stool" model: you, your doctor, and your AI 🧬 N=1 medicine vs. population-level care — and why Burt cares most about one of those ⚖️ The uncomfortable space between AI's promise in healthcare and the very real risks of getting it wrong 🧀 The just-right amount of cheese (no, really — it was a breakthrough)Plus: the mayor shakes hands and cleans up trash, a Nighthawk connection that somehow ties into the panel, and Nicole finally nailing the snack situation after years of cheese surplus.Related links:Janet Johnson Burt RosenDr. Arpi Chalian Oregon State University AI WeekProsper PortlandUpstart CollectiveCivic Incubation LabAI Portland Calendar of Events