🧠 The AI Collective Chicago | Make.com - Let's Build and Automate
⚙️ Let’s Build & Automate
Presented by The AI Collective Chicago × Make.com
📍 Microsoft Midwest District, Downtown Chicago
An evening of pizza, people & pure automation energy
Grab your laptop, roll up your sleeves, and join Chicago’s builders, tinkerers, and tech-curious minds for a night of hands-on automation magic. We’re diving into Make.com — the platform that turns everyday tasks into seamless, one-click workflows.
Expect:
💡 Short live demos that show what’s possible
🧠 Hands-on time to craft your own flows
🚀 Experts and peers to help troubleshoot or inspire
🍕 Pizza, music & good vibes (because automation should be fun)
Whether you’re a founder, freelancer, or just love geeking out over efficiency, this night is about experimenting, connecting, and seeing how far you can go when you make things move on their own.
🧩 About Make.com
Make is the world’s leading visual automation platform — empowering over 350,000 organizations to connect tools, streamline processes, and put AI to work. From no-code automation to intelligent orchestration, Make helps you innovate faster and build systems that think with you.
🕓 Agenda
5:00 – 5:45 PM Pizza + Networking
5:45 – 6:00 PM Welcome & Announcements
6:00 – 6:30 PM Intro to Make.com + Live Demo
6:30 – 8:45 PM Hands-On Workshop / Build Your Flows
8:45 – 9:00 PM Q&A / Raffles
9:00 PM → Close Social Mingling — until they turn off the lights
🌆 Chicago energy. Global innovation. One unforgettable night.
Come ready to build, automate, and celebrate the power of making.
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! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 70,000+ 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.
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