AI meetups in Chicago

Chicago's AI meetups are where the scene actually gathers: LLM and machine-learning nights, live demos, and the hallway conversations that happen after the talks. Every upcoming AI meetup in the city, verified daily and almost always free to join.

9 upcoming meetups

Sep

15

Tue

Sep

22

Tue

Sep

23

Wed

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT

Chicago: Building Apps with Lakebase

Analytics8by Databricks Community Meetup Chicago

A Chicago Databricks Community Meetup featuring a live Lakebase demo and practical discussion of building AI-native applications with the Databricks data platform.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

From Root Cause to AI Agents: Elastic & Gigamon in Action

Improving Chicagoby Elastic Chicago User Group

The Elastic Chicago User Group and Gigamon present an in-person meetup on evidence-based root-cause analysis and building AI agents with Elastic skills, workflows and Agent Builder.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT

Chicago | Claude for Finance

Ferris & Coby Claude Community Events Chicago

A free Loop gathering for finance practitioners sharing real AI workflows, live demonstrations, governance concerns and candid lessons from attempts that did not work.

MeetupFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Oct

1

Thu

Oct

27

Tue

Nov

5

Thu