🧠 The AI Collective Chicago | Chicago AI Collective Chapter 1 Year Demo Night
Chicago’s thriving tech scene meets real solutions at the AI Collective: Demo Night This special evening highlights groundbreaking AI-powered software and hardware solutions developed by local startups, judged by local luminaries, and a celebration of AI collective' impact in Chicago to date!
This isn’t your typical demo day. Thanks to our partner Boardy, an AI superconnector that helps you meet and connect with other industry professionals at just the right time, attendees can arrive with curated introductions already made - enabling deeper, more intentional conversations from the start.
Enjoy an interactive atmosphere as Chicago’s top innovators showcase their ideas, receive real-time feedback, and compete for the top prizes as judged by our panel of expert judges. Whether you're an AI enthusiast, expert, investor, or entrepreneur, this event is your chance to:
Witness cutting-edge demos across software and hardware innovation
Share your insights in live Q&A sessions and influence the awards
Network with Chicago’s most dynamic tech community in a spirited holiday setting
Let's cheers to the next year in the evolution of AI in Chicago.
We have quite a lineup from software to edge AI to medical devices all competing for the top prize:
Alex Olson, Novelus IP
Elliot Korte, Veku AI
Aliyah Kizilbash, CityQuantum
Nitin Uchil, Numorpho Cybernetic Systems (NUMO)
Mete Oğuzhan Öztürk, Stroma
Garrett Campbell, Objectionly
Erick Salvatierra, Electro Kinetics Supplies
Andrew Alexander Yeats Villarreal, Biotics
On the judging side we have:
- Pete Wilkins of Hyde Park Angels and founder of Omaxn another incredible AI community
- Cait Moran VP of AI at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
- Mary Grygleski Global VP of Western Hemisphere of The AI Collective,
- ☁️ Shane Garnetti ☁️ of PREDICTif Solutions gracious sponsors of the night and one of the prizer offerers
- Chris Werner of Vidar Law who is also sponsoring and providing a prize package to our startup presenters
- Al Lagunas, from last year's champion Levee
Event Agenda:
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM: Open Mingle & Festive Networking
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Welcome & Event Kickoff
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Live Demos + Panel Feedback & Audience Q&A
8:00 PM - 8:20 PM: Audience Networking
8:20 PM - 8:30 PM: Awards Ceremony 🎉
Partners:
Boardy is an AI superconnector that helps you meet and connect with industry professionals at the right time. As a partner for the AI Collective, Boardy is sponsoring this event by enabling pre-event introductions between attendees upon request — helping participants arrive with meaningful conversations already waiting for them.
PredictIf Solutions: A premiere tier AWS partner who is providing up to $50K in AWS Partner funding to help accelerate the winning company’s growth on AWS, and up to $25K in funding for all participating companies.
Vidar Law: provides fractional general counsel services delivering pragmatic, business-focused legal strategy without the cost of a full-time legal team. Whether you’re building, training, or scaling your AI product, we help you protect your technology, your team, and your future.
OMAXN: Omaxn is the Midwest's premier AI Forum, uniting the region's most influential business leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists, data and analytics executives, researchers, and investors who are purposefully shaping the future of AI. Check out their next event on December 16th here: https://www.omaxn.com/q4-event
The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 100,000+ 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 events affiliated with The AI Collective are subject to our Code of Conduct.