Chicago 🕵♂️ Special Mystery Event 🧠 GenAI Collective x Programmers Inc 🧠 "Agentic AI Unleashed"
GenAI Collective × Programmers Inc, "Agentic AI Unleashed" 🕵♂️ and Special Mystery Event
Date & Time
Thursday, June 5, 2025 | 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CT
Location
Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart Hall, Chicago, IL (full address sent upon RSVP)
Event Description
Autonomous agents are moving from research to production. Join us for an evening that reveals how Agentic AI is reshaping software—from continuous retrieval and reasoning to automated execution.
Our sponsor, Programmers Inc, will show us how Prodgy.ai works and what the future holds for this AI agent platform that's built for Product Ops, followed by a second talk on how they've built an agentic solution that did the heavy lifting to greatly reduce the time spent to clean and standardize an address data set.
We will then close the evening with a lively short discussion.
Come for the insights, stay for wood-fired pizza from local favorite Brix & Stix, and leave with new connections in Chicago’s AI community.
Agenda
5:30 PM – Check-in & Networking (pizza served)
6:00 PM – Welcome from GenAI Collective
6:15 PM – Presentation #1 (Programmers Inc)
6:50 PM – Presentation #2 (Programmers Inc)
7:25 PM - Closing panel discussion (AI Alliance, Discover Financial Services, and GenAI Collective - Chicago)
8:00 PM – Lights off
Speakers -
Carlos Cardoso, Operations Director at Programmers Inc
John Gianforte, Senior Sales Executive at Programmers Inc
Arunava Majumdar, Open Development (Member of AI Alliance)
Mo Haghighi, Senior Director / Distinguished Engineer at Discover Financial Services
Jonathan Johnson-Swagel, Senior Manager and AI SME @AWS | GenAI Collective Chicago Head
Mary Grygleski, Director of Emerging Tech @Callibrity | GenAI Collective Chicago Leadership team
Sponsored by
Programmers Inc — Autonomous AI solutions for enterprise innovation
Food & Beverage
Wood-fired pizza by Brix & Stix (vegetarian options available)
Tickets
Limited to 120 attendees. Auto-waitlist enabled.
As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying, and please tune in to our livestream (we will publish the link prior to the start of the event). We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
The GenAI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 40,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
All attendees and organizers at GenAI Collective-affiliated events are subject to the GenAI Collective's Code of Conduct.