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US October 2026

October 2026

17 events

28 ClickHouse Chicago Meetup Group The Real-Time Roundup in Chicago 17:00 · Meetup
29 TechWalk | Chicago, 9/29 17:30 · Meetup NSCoder Night - Shipaton 2026 18:00
30 Fall 2026 Collaboratorium 17:00 · Meetup
1 Founder’s Therapy - Coffee Roundtable 09:00 · Meetup Business Acumen Series: Revenue & the Path to Profitability 10:00
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4 Chicago Founders Club Chicago Founders Run Club 09:00 · Meetup
5 Lunch and Learn with CEO of CCC Intelligent Solutions, Githesh Ramamurthy 12:00 · Meetup
6 Info Session: San Francisco VC Immersion Program 12:00 · Meetup Pizza with Polsky: College Student Programming Preview 17:00
7 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC): Kickoff 17:00 · Meetup
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13 No. 76 Tech Pulse 2030- Chicago AI Founders Spotlight: Innovators Shaping the Future 16:30 · Meetup AI Tinkerers Chicago: October Meetup ft. Antithesis 17:30 AI for Outlook + Lessons from creating an AI multimedia platform 17:30
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15 Founder’s Therapy - Coffee Roundtable 09:00 · Meetup Chicago AI Collective: AI Strategy & Happy Hour 17:30 1871 × Current × IHCC: Welcome to What’s Next 18:00
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18 ChiBots the Chicago Area Robotics Group ChiBots October 2026 Meeting 13:00 · Meetup
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24 Indie Video Game Developers Association IVGDA Chicago - Game Developers' Meetup 14:00 · Meetup
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27 Tiller: Structure, Gates, and State for Human + Agent Teams 18:00 · Meetup
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29 Founder’s Therapy - Coffee Roundtable 09:00 · Meetup
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About Chicago · October 2026

Chicago's next eight weeks are mostly builder nights, with the big draw landing in December. The marquee is Q2B x Chicago Quantum Summit on Dec 8, where the quantum-to-business conference moves to town alongside UChicago, Argonne and Fermilab. Sooner, the Chicago Frontier Hackathon on Oct 16 targets agent-driven code, and 1871's Fintech Innovation Summit on Nov 12 is the one to hold time for.

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