Have an opening in your schedule coming up soon? Take a look at the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s weekly calendar. Labor Day typically signals what most people consider the end of summer — though the official end is actually toward the end of September, not the beginning. After you give summer one last hurrah over the long weekend and come back to the real world, one event to note is the Minority Women’s Business Conference on September 6 in San Jose. Presented by the CalAsian Chamber of Commerce…

The first event was held in 1986 when the founder, Larry Harvey, gathered a group of friends at Baker Beach in San Francisco, where he torched an 8-foot-tall wooden man. Today, more than 70,000 attendees trek to the Nevada desert for a weeklong event that some say has lost its soul.

A longtime executive at Foster City-based security software company Qualys, Inc. is stepping down after agreeing to pay $581,000 to settle a federal investigation into insider trading. Amer Deeba, 51, joined Qualys in 2001 as its chief marketing officer, when it was a two-year-old startup. Earlier this month, he stepped down as the company’s chief commercial officer, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement. Federal investigators claim Deeba caught wind in April 2015 that…

As summer winds down, take a look around — you might find a deal on something unique or find keys to new futures in business.

Labor up, Portland. You’ve only got one more Friday to slog through before a well-earned day off. Put another way, my oh my, where did the summer go? The long run AWS Elemental honored its own Sam Blackman this week a year after his sudden death. The company honored him with its annual race, which drew hundreds of participants. Malia Spencer has the story, for which the PBJ’s photographer Cathy Cheney took pictures. New kid in town Health Share of Oregon’s Janet Meyer has spent 15 years leading…

Dozens of Boeing’s best-selling aircraft sit unfinished in Seattle and Renton as suppliers struggle to keep up.