We’d love for you to join us during the week of June 24th for our Techweek Grand Tours. The TechweekGT is an interactive tour of the most innovative, compelling office spaces in Chicago. This is your chance to exchange ideas with local executives and see where all the action happens.
Stop 1: BrainTree
Stop 2: SingleHop
Stop 3: Centro
We’d love for you to join us during the week of June 24th for our Techweek Grand Tours. The TechweekGT is an interactive tour of the most innovative, compelling office spaces in Chicago. This is your chance to exchange ideas with local executives and see where all the action happens.
Stop 1: kCura
Stop 2: Cars.com
Stop 3: ifbyphone
We’d love for you to join us during the week of June 24th for our Techweek Grand Tours. The TechweekGT is an interactive tour of the most innovative, compelling office spaces in Chicago. This is your chance to exchange ideas with local executives and see where all the action happens.
Stop 1: Groupon
Stop 2: Raise
On June 26 we will host a special Director’s screening of “Downloaded”. The film’s director, Alex Winter (the famed Bill of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”) will be on site to host a Sundance style Q&A.
Attendance is open to all Conference Badge holders. Please email downloaded@techweek.com to RSVP. Like all of our Techweek @ the Movies events, seats are reserved on a first come, first served basis.
As new technologies emerge, so does the demand for employees with previously non-existent skill-sets. The divide between this supply and demand is a wide one, though a few thought leaders plan to close the gap through innovative hiring practices and educational opportunities for their current and prospective employees. Hear how progressives are attracting and retaining top tech talent, meanwhile paving the way for alternative training and hiring routes.
The right environment can make or break a business. Without a strategy that everyone from executives to interns believes in, growth—and success—can’t be achieved. Creating and maintaining a vibrant company culture is an essential ingredient to a healthy, fruitful business, and Chicago-based companies such as Coyote Logistics have managed to keep their employees happy while scaling at an impressively fast pace. Find out what it takes to keep an ever-evolving team happy through explosive growth spurts.
There is no question we live in an age where our mistakes could potentially haunt us. Somewhere in the depths of the Internet live the offhand statements we've typed, photographs of us in candid moments, and records of our previous selves. Despite this, the Internet is also a powerful tool for creating a persona that represents your best qualities. Learn from the founder of about.me best practices for creating a compelling online brand and leveraging it for personal and professional success.
Meet Sal Khan, the creator and philanthropist behind the revolutionary Khan Academy—a non-profit education site. During this chat, he answers your questions and provides insight on his mission to provide world-class education to anyone who wants to receive it. In true Khan Academy fashion, we will meet with Sal on the web.
We all know the benefits of a first-mover advantage. However, in technology, it’s the last mover that usually wins over the long run, as demonstrated by Microsoft, Google, Instagram and Hailo. How can you enter the market late enough without getting crushed by your competition, yet not so late that the market is already closed off to new entries? Learn how TheLadders’ strategic assessment of the current job-search landscape enabled them to build and launch its industry-disruptive native iOS mobile app, which quickly has risen to top ranks on the App Store℠ and surpassed pioneering giants including Facebook and Indeed.
Summer – time to hit the open road with your favorite tunes blaring, play tourist in our city, and plot your points along the way using the new Google Maps.
As part of +Techweek Chicago 2013, together with +Social Media Club Chicago, we invite you to learn more about Google Maps in a Mappy Happy Hour Summer Social at Google’s Skydeck Lounge. Enjoy a brief presentation to help you discover new ways to navigate the world around you with Google Maps then share your summer plans as you network the night away.
The primary role of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is to make Chicagoland the most business-friendly region in America by enhancing our members’ success through aggressive programs in advocacy, member benefits and services, and actionable information.
Serving as “The Voice of Business” since 1904, the Chamber leads aggressive public policy and business growth initiatives and we create meaningful events and programs to inform, engage, and connect our members to each other and the community.
Though the high-end luxury industry has been slow to adopt technological advances, a few key players saw the unfilled space as an opportunity—and are now shaking up the industry. These innovators have successfully brought high-end luxury online. Sit down with Michigan Avenue Magazine and AHALife to hear more about this budding market.
Sure, you’ve got something to say—but do you have anyone willing to listen? It takes time, a bit of luck, and hard work to grow your reader base. Bottom line: the quality of your content matters, take it from industry players who have successfully grown their daily visitor counts into the millions. In this fireside chat, they share how to hook readers in and turn them into evangelists for your brand.
The story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 isn’t really about the fire. It’s about what happened next: A remarkable moment when the most brilliant engineers, architects and inventors came together to build a new city.
Their innovations – born of passion and practical ingenuity – shaped not just Chicago, but the modern world.
What started 140 years ago continues to this day.
Chicago’s brightest digital designers, engineers and entrepreneurs are shaping new technologies, disrupting old business models, and resetting the boundaries of what’s possible.
If that sounds like you, join us.
Come to a place where you can share ideas, make mistakes, work hard, build your business and, with a little luck, change the world.
Welcome to 1871.
Yappem hosts a night of all-American fun at American Junkie. Amidst the sprawling space, party goers can play games for prizes and enjoy a craft cocktail or a glass of American Junkie's own private label wine.
SEMPO is a global non-profit organization serving the search engine marketing industry and marketing professionals engaged in it. Our purpose is to provide a foundation for industry growth through building stronger relationships, fostering awareness, providing education, promoting the industry, generating research, and creating a better understanding of search and its role in marketing.
• Hear first-hand how automakers are re-thinking their structure and business models to move in-sync with the broader connected ecosystem and consumer trends.
• Explore how the GM SDK will expand access to the infotainment environment and engage the developer community through enabling multiple opportunities for app monetization.
• Assess how a flexible software framework including HTML5 and JavaScript will enable apps which are customizable and updatable for the entire vehicle lifecycle.
Government censorship threatens the liberties of a country’s citizens, and Internet blockades have been implemented in attempts to stop uprisings, organized protests, and the convergence of people. Despite the government’s stronghold on the internet in some countries, technologies are emerging that work to circumvent the barriers they’ve put in place. Find out how encryption and other tactics crack censorship systems—and help ordinary citizens communicate.
Technology has democratized wellness allowing individuals access to information and regimens for healthy living. Find out how a few innovative companies are spreading the wellness gospel, making good health accessible to everyone, and streamlining the entire process.
Presented by W Hotels, Rent the Runway, and Bombay Sapphire, the first-ever Techweek fashion show blends clothing and e-commerce, highlighting burgeoning online retailers and both local and faraway designers.
