PROMPT. AI Innovation Series
PROMPT. kicks off Tech Week Chicago with one-of-a-kind programming dedicated entirely to AI, humanity and business development community in Chicago.
📍 CineCity Studios — a working film and production studio in Chicago
📅 July 20, 2026 | 8 AM – 8 PM
🎟 $79 presale · $99 GA · $199 VIP
WHAT IS PROMPT.
A curated, single-day AI innovation series bringing together founders, investors, operators, and creative leaders from across industries. Not a tech conference. Not a product showcase. A room full of serious people asking the questions that actually matter because nobody has all the answers yet, and the room is stronger for it.
THE DAY
8:00 AM — Welcome + Breakfast + Exhibitor Floor
The day begins with breakfast and the exhibitor floor open across the venue.
9:30 AM — Workshop: How to NOT Suck at Pitching Your AI Startup
Join Startup Hypeman Founder, RajNATION, for this session on how to craft a 1-minute elevator pitch that turns heads and gets people to say, "wait wait -- tell me more!"
11:00 AM — Discussion Panel: Present Tense
A civic conversation about AI as a Chicago story. Why this city, why this moment, and what we choose to build from here matters. Featuring local city leadership and community voices.
12:30 PM — Exhibitor Hour
1:30 PM — Workshop: Be Human
How AI changes the human experience of work. Explore the personal why behind the technical how. Facilitated by Bree Whitehead.
2:30 PM — Discussion Panel: By Design
The ethics, governance, and design choices behind AI as active decisions being made right now. A cross-disciplinary panel willing to say the things most rooms won't.
4:00 PM — Workshops: Prompt Like a Pro + Your AI Stack
Two hands-on tracks running simultaneously. Prompt Like a Pro: the craft of prompting as a thinking discipline. Your AI Stack: building a workflow that actually works. Choose your track. Pre-registration required.
4:00 PM — VIP Happy Hour
Curated and intimate. For VIP ticket holders and sponsors.
5:00 PM — Discussion Panel: The Ceiling and the Sky
The tension between AI as liberation and AI as a new kind of ceiling — who benefits, who gets left behind, and what it means to lead in the middle of that.
6:30 PM — Discussion Panel: The AI Money Game
Valuation, margins, investment thesis, regulation. The investor, operator, banker, and lawyer in the same room. Where the day's conversations come to rest on the hardest questions.
8:00 PM — VIP Dinner
A curated closing dinner for speakers, sponsors, and invited guests.
WHO IS IN THE ROOM
Founders. Investors. Operators. Creatives. Business leaders. Decision makers from finance, healthcare, media, real estate, consumer brands, and creative industries. The person at any organization who has to answer for where the business goes next.
VIP ACCESS
VIP tickets include access to the VIP Lounge throughout the day, VIP Happy Hour, and priority seating at all programming. Named Sponsors and above receive complimentary VIP access as part of their package.
Workshops require pre-registration. VIP ticket holders and sponsors receive early registration access. General registration opens on a first-come, first-served basis.
Hosted at CineCity Studios · Chicago, Illinois
A PROMPT. AI Innovation Series event