/dev/color TechChicago: Fore the Culture

Trade your keyboard for a putter. Join Chicago’s Black tech professionals for an evening of mini golf, craft cocktails, and real connections at Puttery. Whether you’re in engineering, product, design, or building your own thing, come play a round, meet your next collaborator, and celebrate the culture during Tech Week. Casual competition, curated vibes, no swing experience required.

As part of Chicago Tech Week, /dev/color is exploring hosting a lighthearted, community-centered social experience designed to bring together Black technologists, builders, founders, creators, and partners across the Chicago tech ecosystem.

​Rather than creating another heavily programmed panel event, the goal is to create an environment focused on authentic connection, visibility, community building, and relationship development.

​The event would serve as an opportunity to:
​*deepen engagement with existing Chicago members,
*​introduce new people to /dev/color,
*​strengthen local ecosystem relationships,
​*and position /dev/color as an active contributor to Chicago’s growing tech landscape.

/dev/color is a global non-profit career accelerator and community specifically built for Black software engineers, technologists, and executives. Founded in 2015, its mission is to help Black professionals advance into leadership roles, end industry isolation, and enact positive changes in the tech sector.