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US October 2026

October 2026

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7 Empathy: The Secret Weapon for Sales, Fundraising & Hiring w/ Mark Achler 09:00 · Workshop Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Workshop: ETA @ Booth (Harper) 12:00
8 Business Acumen: Build It Right - Operations, Systems and Scaling 10:00 · Workshop
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13 Chicago Enterprise AI Google Agentic AI Builder Lab 17:30 · Workshop
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15 Business Acumen: From Solo to Team - Hiring, HR and Managing People 10:00 · Workshop
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20 Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): AI Prototyping 101 with Cathy Kiriakos 12:00 · Workshop
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29 Chicago, IL - Investor Ready Workshop 09:30 · Workshop Business Acumen: B2B Growth - Finding Partners, Landing Contracts 10:00 Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Incorporation 101 for Startups with Scott Smedresman 12:00
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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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