OpenAI Forum Chicago

Chicago's next mayor will help shape the city's ability to attract talent, investment, and business growth for years to come. The Technology Industry & Chicago's Future is an ongoing series of conversations connecting Chicago's mayoral candidates with the business leaders building the city's future. One candidate. One conversation. October 13 | Susana Mendoza Doors Open (5:15 PM) Moderated Conversation + Audience Q&A Conclusion (7:00 PM)

Important: Register on the event website is required for admission. RSVP on meetup is turned off. Building Next Gen Autonomous Agentic Systems with Google - Chicago Join Google and AICamp for an intensive, 90-minute in-person build lab where theory translates directly into functional software. Most AI tutorials stop at simple single-turn prompts, but scalable systems require autonomous agents that reason over live data, manage persistent context, and execute complex multi-step tasks. In this hands-on workshop, you will step beyond conversational interfaces to architect, configure, and deploy next-generation autonomous agentic systems using Google Cloud. Bring your laptop! This is an active engineering session with zero local setup required. You will leave with a fully functioning system running in your cloud environment. What We'll Do: Autonomous Task Orchestration: Configure multi-step agent workflows that plan, reason, and act across complex task flows. State & Tool Integration: Connect agent architectures to cloud tools, execution environments, and live datasets. Resilient System Design: Implement robust patterns built to manage complex runtime inputs, long-running processes, and error recovery. Agenda: \- 5:00pm\~5:30pm: Checkin\, food and networking \- 5:30pm\~7:30pm: Hands\-on workshop/Code labs \- 7:30pm\~8:00pm: Build your own projects \- 8:00pm\~8:30pm: Demo\, Open discussion and Mixer Hands-on Workshop: Building Resilient Asynchronous Agents Moving beyond conversational chatbots requires systems that do more than predict the next token. Real-world autonomous architectures must plan multi-step operations, interface with external tools, maintain state across asynchronous operations, and recover cleanly from runtime failures. In this intensive 90-minute, in-person masterclass hosted by Google and AICamp, you will move directly into active engineering. Working entirely inside Google Cloud Shell, you will build and deploy a next-generation autonomous

Bring your laptop! This time we're pairing up strangers to build Grok Bots with Cursor. When you arrive you'll be matched with someone you haven't met yet. Together you'll have about 1.5 hours to build a Grok Bot of your own using Cursor. Every team gets 3 minutes to present, then we'll vote as a group on our favorite. Doors open at 5:30, building starts at 6. There will be a security guard downstairs, and you'll need to show your Luma invitation.