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Chicago, what's on.
This week
Between now and Sunday night.
- Wed, Oct 7, 5:30 PMHappy Hour | Chicago Sports TechPB&J: Pizza Beer and Jukebox · Chicago · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Thu, Oct 8, 10:00 AMBusiness Acumen: Build It Right - Operations, Systems and ScalingPolsky Exchange North · Chicago · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Thu, Oct 8, 11:00 AMWDAI Chicago Members Coworking Open HouseMox.E Coworking · Chicago · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Thu, Oct 8, 4:00 PMChicago n8n Meetup at DePaul's Coleman Entrepreneurship CenterDePaul University Coleman Entrepreneurship Center · Chicago · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Thu, Oct 8, 5:30 PMChicago Physical AI Workshop and MeetupUIC Student Center East · Chicago · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Thu, Oct 8, 6:00 PMTony P's Real Estate Networking Event @ Galeria: Thursday October 8th
Galeria Chicago · Eventbrite Chicago business, 3-week window (broker)
9 West Division Street, Chicago, IL 60610 - Thu, Oct 8, 6:00 PMWest Town Business & Creative Exchange: Ideas & Connections
Midwest Coast Brewing · Chicago · Eventbrite Chicago business, 3-week window (broker)
Private Event Room, 2137 West Walnut Street, Chicago, IL 60612 - Fri, Oct 9, 7:00 PMChicago Entrepreneur Networking Event
Joy District · Chicago · Eventbrite Chicago business, 3-week window (broker)
112 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL 60654 - Sat, Oct 10, 4:00 PMRejecting AI: Digital Inclusion Means Knowing When To Say NoEvanston Public Library · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Sun, Oct 11, 10:00 AMTechWalk | Chicago, 10/11Chicago · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Sun, Oct 11, 2:00 PMBeyond The Business Mixer
Zhou B Art Center · Chicago · Eventbrite Chicago business, 3-week window (broker)
1029 West 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60609
Next week
Monday to Sunday.
- Mon, Oct 12, 5:30 PMPilot Taping Waitlist: Oops, So I Launched a Startup?Chicago · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Tue, Oct 13, 4:00 PMCanva for Designers: “Level-Up Your Instagram” Workshop with Emily Boyce
Areté Renovators · Chicago · Eventbrite Chicago business, 3-week window (broker)
155 N Harbor Dr, Unit 1C8A-W, Chicago, IL 60601 - Tue, Oct 13, 4:30 PMNo. 76 Tech Pulse 2030-Responsible AI Investing & Pitch Showcase-ChicagoChicago · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Tue, Oct 13, 5:30 PMAI for Outlook + Lessons from creating an AI multimedia platform
Aon Center · Chicago · Digital Delivery Chicago (formerly Chicago JavaScript)
200 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601 - Tue, Oct 13, 5:30 PMGoogle Agentic AI Builder Lab
Chicago · Chicago AI Developers Group
311 North Green Street, 311 N Green St, Chicago, IL 60607 - Tue, Oct 13, 7:00 PMAI, ML, DeepTech: Business & Startups Networking Mixer with Elevator Pitch
Ten Cat Tavern · Chicago · Chicago Startup Pitch & Networking Group
3931 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL - Wed, Oct 14, 6:00 PMAutonomous Agents: The Emerging GenAI Threat
Chicago · Elastic Chicago User Group
10 S Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606 - Thu, Oct 15, 9:00 AMFounder’s Therapy - Coffee Roundtable
Bitter Pops · Chicago · Founder’s Therapy - Chicago
3345 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL - Thu, Oct 15, 10:00 AMBusiness Acumen: From Solo to Team - Hiring, HR and Managing PeoplePolsky Exchange North · Chicago · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Fri, Oct 16, 10:00 AMChicago Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code FactoryWest Loop · Chicago · Obvious Community Events — Chicago
Further out
15 more on the books · open the full list
- Mon, Oct 19, 7:00 PMWomen in Tech, Fintech, AI, Startups, Networking & Elevator Pitch
Ten Cat Tavern · Chicago · Chicago Startup Pitch & Networking Group
3931 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60613 - Mon, Oct 19, 7:00 PMWomen in Business, Startups, Professionals Social Networking Event
Ten Cat Tavern · Chicago · Chicago Startup Pitch & Networking Group
3931 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60613 - Tue, Oct 20, 12:00 PMEntrepreneurship Essentials (E2): AI Prototyping 101 with Cathy KiriakosChicago Booth Harper Center · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Tue, Oct 20, 5:00 PMInfo Session and Kickoff (Harper): New Venture Challenge (NVC)Chicago Booth Harper Center · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Tue, Oct 20, 5:30 PMDatabricks Oct Meetup
Chicago · Databricks Community Meetup Chicago
200 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601 - Tue, Oct 20, 7:00 PMTech Startups, Investors, Innovators Networking with Elevator Pitch
Easy Bar · Chicago · Chicago Startup Pitch & Networking Group
1944 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622 - Wed, Oct 21, 9:00 AMSoftware Quality Summit
Courtyard by Marriott Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mile · Chicago Software Testing
165 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL - Wed, Oct 21, 2:00 PMThe AI-Fluent Revenue Leader: What It Takes to Win in Today's Market (Chicago)Chicago · Luma Chicago AI discovery feed
- Wed, Oct 21, 5:30 PMChicago Data Night: Harper Reed (Former CTO Obama for America)
TechNexus Venture Collaborative · Chicago · Data Science Institute, The University of Chicago
20 N Wacker Dr 12th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606 - Thu, Oct 22, 4:30 PMAI‑Accelerated Model‑Driven Development
Selby Jennings · Chicago · Chicago C/C++ Users Group
181 West Madison St, 18th Floor, Chicago, IL - Thu, Oct 22, 5:00 PMLeadDev Chicago @ Thoughtworks: October 22, 2026
Thoughtworks inc. · Chicago · LeadDev Meetup - Chicago
200 E Randolph St # 2500, Chicago, IL - Thu, Oct 22, 5:30 PMGrassroots Tech Community Meetup - OctoberChicago · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Thu, Oct 22, 6:00 PMBuilding Trust in AI: Data Governance, Risk, and Responsible Adoption
Chicago · Tech in Motion: Chicago
100 South Wacker Drive, 100 S Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606 - Tue, Oct 27, 5:30 PMTechWalk | Chicago, 10/27Chicago · Luma Chicago tech discovery feed
- Tue, Nov 3, 5:00 PMTech Pulse 2030 Chicago
Discovery Partners Institute · Chicago · AI 2030: Responsible Artificial Intelligence for All
200 S. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
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Featured Neighbor
This quarter, the Chicago room is spotlighting Project Exploration
Project Exploration provides hands-on STEM learning and mentorship to Chicago students from communities underrepresented in science.
We send attention their way. They didn’t ask us to, we just think you should know about them. A cause our members can back locally. Share their work with a parent, teacher, or business owner who would want to know. Visit their site to learn more and find the ways to get involved that fit you.
Our nonprofit partner
And the one this whole network is for: Best-Friend.org
Millions of healthy animals are put down simply because shelters run out of room. Best‑Friend.org is the world’s first decentralized nonprofit with a planned ending: it builds the system any community can install to fix that, then shuts itself down because it is no longer needed.
It never asks anyone for money. Sharing is the donation. The rooms build the businesses, and the attention they earn goes to emptying the shelters.
