BARcamp Chicago is Chicago's longest running unconference. It is a conference focusing on technology and entrepreneurial topics that is free and open to the public. All talks are given by the attendees of the conference. The schedule and talks are determined the day of the event. We have 3 tracks for talks: development, entrepreneurial, and miscellaneous.

Pumping Station One (3519 N. Elston Ave) will be hosting BARcamp Chicago. The doors will open at 9:30am on Saturday Sept 22nd with an introduction starting at 10am and talks following. The space will be open till 7pm or until PS1 kicks us out.
Would you like to sponsor barcamp? We accept money, beer, time, or anything you can think of!
If interested, contact "Special" Kevin Harriss.
Do you know something that others might like to learn about? Of course you do! Consider giving a talk about it at BARcamp Chicago. All types of presentations are welcome as long as offer some kind of knowledge to the attendees. Previous talks have been on topics such as Open Science, Beer, OpenStreet Maps, Starting Grubhub, Design, Programming, and How to Give Better Presentation. If you are planning on giving a talk at BARcamp please submit it to our talk or would like to see potential talks for this years BARcamp you can see the talk proposals. Some potentials talks this year include: