Kick off Chicago Tech Week with coffee, cake, and conversation at Chicago’s 2nd annual Fashion Tech Meetup, hosted at AIBI From 9–11 AM in the AIBI Fashion Lab. We are bringing together designers, developers, founders, and innovators who are reshaping the future of fashion through technology.
Whether you’re working on circular fashion solutions, wearable tech, retail AI, or digital design tools, this is your chance to connect with like-minded creators and discover how many of us are out there. This meetup is just the beginning—we’re exploring the launch of a dedicated Fashion Tech Cohort at AIBI, and we want you at the table! So come say hi and meet others in this niche industry.
TechChicago Week brings the whole city out. We are carving out our queer corner of it. Join Queer Tech Club and PIE during TCW26 for an evening where LGBTQIA+ technologists trade ideas, meet collaborators, and build the network that makes Chicago tech amazing.
Illinois Clinicians for Climate Action, Third Act Illinois, and Illinois PIRG Education Fund invite you to tour a climate-smart GreenStar certified rehab of a historic landmarked home highlighting latest innovations in climate resiliency and health optimization through electrification, solar technologies, as well as sustainable materials, water management, and land use.
The event features a guided tour. Spaces are limited. Register to attend.
After a week of exploring big ideas, breakthrough technologies, and bold solutions to grand challenges, join us for the closing TechWalk of TechChicago Week.
This walk is an opportunity to reflect on what we learned, the people we met, and the opportunities that emerged throughout the week. Together, we’ll discuss what’s next for Chicago’s innovation ecosystem, where momentum is building, and how founders, technologists, investors, creatives, and community leaders can continue shaping the future of our city.
Whether you attended one event or twenty, come share your insights, make a few final connections, and help close out the week with a conversation about the ideas, collaborations, and possibilities that will carry forward long after TechChicago Week ends.
Because the best outcomes aren’t just the events we attend, but the relationships, ideas, and actions that continue afterward.
As TechChicago Week kicks off a week of conversations around quantum computing, climate innovation, and emerging technologies, we’ll begin by exploring another challenge that touches every aspect of innovation: human connection. What if community and connection are the next grand challenge?
Research continues to show that strong communities improve health, resilience, creativity, and economic opportunity. Yet loneliness and social isolation remain growing challenges in our increasingly digital world.
Join founders, technologists, creatives, operators, and community builders for a TechWalk focused on the role connection plays in solving our biggest challenges. Through conversation and movement, we’ll explore how relationships, trust, and community infrastructure create the conditions for innovation to thrive.
Whether you’re building technology, growing a company, or simply looking to meet thoughtful people, this walk is an opportunity to start TechChicago Week by making meaningful connections and discovering new perspectives.
The Chicago Center for Arts & Technology (CHICAT) offers no-cost art and tech programs to underserved youth and adults. We focus on the unique power at the intersection of art and technology. At our Tech Week Open House, you will have a chance to meet some of our students and see samples of their amazing tech-based art, including 3D animation, Digital Game Design, and Virtual Reality experiences. You’ll even have a chance to try out some of the technology yourself! Tours of our facilities will also be offered throughout the evening so you can see the labs where all the magic happens.
We will show participants how PCs for People turns 60,000 lbs of electronic waste per month into home computers for low-income households. Participants may bring personal computer equipment to recycle and support our mission.
We will show participants how PCs for People turns 60,000 lbs of electronic waste per month into home computers for low-income households. Participants may bring personal computer equipment to recycle and support our mission.
