Events

Join Us in Chicago for the Futurecon Cybersecurity Event! Hear from our esteemed speakers while gaining up to 10 CPE credits. Immerse yourself in the latest cybersecurity developments to gain valuable insights in today’s dynamic threat landscape. Learn how to effectively manage risk, demo the newest technologies from an array of different sponsors, and network with your local community. Don’t miss our special ceremony recognizing our honorary attendees receiving an Award of Excellence! Join us live for breakfast, lunch, and a wrap up cocktail happy hour! Come visit the IEEE Chicago exhibit table and say hi! Registration link: https://app.futureconevents.com/register/futurecon-registration-form-chicago-2026 IEEE promo code: IEEE26 (update: unfortunately, all tickets have been sold out) [] Co-sponsored by: FutureCon Agenda: 8:00 am Opening Introductions | Check In | Networking 9:00 am Current Security Operations 9:30 am Modern Data Protection 10:00 am Sponsor Networking Time Visit Sponsor Booths – find amazing people, information, and prizes! Get updated on the latest technologies! 10:30 am The Human Element of Cyber Security 11:00 am Cyber Security Fundamentals 11:30 am Sponsor Networking Time Visit Sponsor Booths – find amazing people, information, and prizes! Get updated on the latest technologies! 11:45 am Lunch Keynote 12:00 pm From Case Files to Firewalls and Encryption: What a Former Social Worker Knows About Security and Privacy 1:00 pm Sponsor Networking Time Visit Sponsor Booths – find amazing people, information, and prizes! Get updated on the latest technologies! 1:30 pm Your Guide to AI in Cyber Security 2:00 pm Zero Trust Security Framework 2:30 pm Sponsor Networking Time Visit Sponsor Booths – find amazing people, information, and prizes! Get updated on the latest technologies! 2:45 pm Cyber Security Predictions 3:15 pm The Future of Cyber Security 3:45 pm Sponsor Networking Time Visit Sponsor Booths – find amazing people, information, and prizes! Get updated on the latest technologies! 4:00 pm Panel Discussion "Securing the Future: CISO Insights and Industry Leaders Discussing Current Cyber Threats and Strategic Defense Practices" 5:00 pm Closing Remarks Bldg: Chicago Marriott Oak Brook, 1401 West 22nd Street, Oak Brook, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60523

PNW Student Chapter Design Studio and Project Tour - a joint PNW Student Chapter - Calumet Section Meeting Date: Jan 29th, 2026 Location: Purdue Northwest (https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=9629f7818286ca650468ac7b8125e63de3384687f92453dd52e6e36ce8895dc8JmltdHM9MTczNjY0MDAwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=134f9460-6c22-6161-20c4-80816d4360dd&u=a1L21hcHM_Jm1lcGk9MTI3fn5Vbmtub3dufkFkZHJlc3NfTGluayZ0eT0xOCZxPVB1cmR1ZSUyMFVuaXZlcnNpdHklMjBOb3J0aHdlc3Qmc3M9eXBpZC5ZTjI5OXgyMTkyOTg1NjMmcHBvaXM9NDEuNTgwMzg3MTE1NDc4NTE2Xy04Ny40NzQwMTQyODIyMjY1Nl9QdXJkdWUlMjBVbml2ZXJzaXR5JTIwTm9ydGh3ZXN0X1lOMjk5eDIxOTI5ODU2M34mY3A9NDEuNTgwMzg3fi04Ny40NzQwMTQmdj0yJnNWPTEmRk9STT1NUFNSUEw&ntb=1) Time: 5:30-8:30 The Purdue University Student Chapter will be hosting this event at the Purdue Northwest Hammond Campus. While there we will tour the Design Studio and senior design groups will present their projects. We will begin with a dinner held in the Student Union, and once that is completed walk over for the Design Studio & Projects Tour. Please join us in viewing the work put into the PNW Senior Design Projects. Agenda: 5:30-5:45pm: Social Hour @ SULB Cafeteria 5:45-6:30pm: Dinner @ SULB Cafeteria 6:30-6:45pm: Walk to Design Studio 6:45-8:15pm: PNW Student Chapter Design Studio and Project Tour 2200 169th St, Hammond, Indiana, United States, 46323

Join us for a special hands-on “AI Coding Tools Demo Night” on Thursday, January 29th, 2026 at 6:00pm, hosted at the Madison College Truax campus. Over the course of two hours, 3–4 presenters will each use a different AI-assisted coding tool—Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, etc—to build the same small app from scratch in about 20 minutes each, from first prompt all the way through deployment. This is a great chance to see how these tools actually behave in real time and to ask questions about how people use them: prompting strategies, workflow tips, costs, subscription tradeoffs, and anything else you’re curious about. It’s not a competition—just a guided, practical way to learn what these tools can do. The project itself is deliberately small and easy enough that most developers could quickly plan out how they'd build it: a lightweight aggregator for Madison Common Council member blog posts. Each presenter will create a simple static web app hosted on GitHub Pages that pulls new posts from the 20 alder blogs, supports filtering by alder and date range, includes basic search over recent posts, and publishes an optional RSS feed. All the backend work is handled through GitHub Actions and scheduled jobs that perform the scraping. Every presenter will get their own GitHub repo and will build the whole thing live so you can watch how different tools plan, scaffold, generate, debug, and deploy code. You’re very welcome to bring your laptop and follow along. Our project description is available at https://github.com/Programming-with-AI/Civic-Hacking-Alder-Aggregator-Overview/ and we encourage anyone interested to fire up their own coding assistant and try building the app themselves as the demos run. Also, please feel free to take a look at the repository ahead of time, and chime in with suggestions for our initial prompts and a few other resources we'll provide that night by joining in the Github Discussions, or by opening a pull request. We'll be in the Madison College Truax Main Building, at 1701 Wright Street. We'll be in the conference hall, which near the cafeteria. The room number is D1630, breakout rooms B and C, and is labeled as '21' on this map: https://madisoncollege.edu/files/media-document/2023-12/truax-first-floor.pdf We recommend parking in the visitor lot, which can be accessed via Hoffman Street. The access code to the visitor lot will be #0146. If the lot is full, you can use the surrounding student stalls. There is also metered parking at the Anderson St entrance, near the meeting room. The Truax Building is also on the Bus Rapid Transit line, if you want to skip the driving and parking. This will be a joint session of the IEEE Computer Society, MadAI Meetup and the Civic Hacking Madison Meetup, and we hope to make it a friendly, low-pressure, high-learning evening. If you’re a software developer who’s never touched an AI coding tool before, this is a perfect on-ramp—you’ll see multiple real workflows side-by-side, get a feel for how these assistants “think,” and a chance to see what you think is worth paying for (and what isn’t). And if you’re already using these tools daily, this is a chance to see how other developers structure prompts, debug with an agent, and collaborate with these models in practice. No matter your level of experience, you’ll come away with new ideas, new techniques, and a clearer sense of what these tools can add to your own development style. We’d love to see you there! Room: Rooms 309 & 311, Bldg: Madison College, Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53711

Rock River Valley Section presenting a watch party with David Rosewater, grid energy storage researcher with Sandia National Laboratories. Speaker(s): David Rosewater, Agenda: 6:00 PM Social Time 6:30 PM Dinner 7:00 PM Section Meeting, Networking, Introduce Speaker 7:15 PM Presentation Room: Classroom 2108, Bldg: Woodward Technology Center (WTC), Rock Valley College, 3301 North Mulford Road, Rockford, Illinois, United States, 61114, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/533197