A free six-week tech space for South Shore youth — hands on the tools, not just talk about them. We’re standing this up with Alderman Yancy, Lost Boyz, and Lawrence Hall, with support from the Solana Foundation and Oddities R Us.
Chicago Tech Connect, powered by Kennedy-King College, is a community event connecting Chicago residents to high-growth technology careers, training programs, and educational opportunities. Explore pathways in Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Software & Web Development, Cloud Computing, and Networking while connecting with industry professionals, educators, employers, and community organizations.
Designed for career seekers and aspiring tech professionals, the event features interactive AI workshops, hands-on AI Makerspaces, and direct access to continuing education, certification, career development, and work-based learning opportunities that can help participants gain skills, advance their careers, and succeed in the technology workforce.
Get ready for a fun day exploring and connecting with fellow NuCoord adults on an awesome field trip!
🚀 PERMISSION SLIPS ARE OUT
Join NuCoord for an unforgettable Adult Field Trip Experience to Adler Planetarium during Chicago Tech Week.
We created this experience for curious minds, professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives, career changers, and lifelong learners who want to explore, connect, and experience something new.
Spend the day exploring one of Chicago’s most iconic STEM destinations while connecting with ambitious and like-minded individuals in a fun, engaging, and community-centered environment.
✨ YOUR EXPERIENCE INCLUDES
🌌 Admission to Adler Planetarium
🎥 Planetarium Show
🔭 Exclusive Tour and Access to exhibits and interactive experiences
🎒 NuCoord Field Trip Swag
🧺 Lakeside Picnic & Social (Food and Drinks Included)
🤝 Curated Professional Networking Session
CURATED PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SESSION
This experience is powered by NuConnect, a professional networking app available on iOS and Android that takes the awkwardness out of networking.
Download NuConnect and before the event, you’ll share your networking goals, interests, and the types of connections you’re looking for. NuConnect will automatically match you with attendees throughout the experience, helping ensure you meet people who align with your personal, professional, and entrepreneurial goals.
Because networking shouldn’t be left to chance.
🧺 LAKESIDE PICNIC & SOCIAL
After our Adler experience, we’ll continue the day with a lakeside picnic and social where attendees can relax, connect, enjoy food, take photos, and build meaningful relationships against the backdrop of Chicago’s beautiful skyline and lakefront.
✨ WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
• Professionals
• Entrepreneurs
• Creatives
• Career Changers
• Tech Enthusiasts
• STEM Enthusiasts
• Students & Lifelong Learners
• Anyone looking to meet great people and experience something new
Whether you’re looking to expand your network, discover new opportunities, learn something new, or simply enjoy a unique experience with an incredible community, this event was designed for you.
🎟️ Space is limited.
Give yourself permission to explore.
Give yourself permission to connect.
Give yourself permission to experience the future.
📅 Saturday, July 25, 11am-2pm (Adler)
2p-5pm Lakeside Picnic
📍 Adler Planetarium
Chicago, Illinois
Only for ages 21+
Presented by NuCoord
Explore. Connect. Experience the Future.
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“We are thrilled to invite you to celebrate the launch of the new Per Scholas Chicago satellite campus in partnership with Xchange Chicago!
We will officially announce this exciting collaboration to expand access to high-growth tech careers directly on Chicago’s South Side. Attendees will hear from organizational leaders about the importance of developing local talent pipelines for Chicago’s growing technology sector and learn how this collaboration is creating pathways to high-growth careers.
The program will include remarks from Per Scholas, Xchange Chicago, SDI Presence, and community partners, followed by an interactive classroom tour where guests can meet learners and experience the training environment firsthand.
The event highlights how cross-sector partnerships can address workforce challenges while creating economic mobility opportunities for Chicago residents.”
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.