An annual gathering for the next Renaissance.
ChicagoWorld brings together people across technology, art, community, ecology, philosophy, psychology, sport, nonprofit work, entrepreneurship and culture.
To everyone who joined us in Chicago on September 4, 2026: thank you. The first ChicagoWorld became what we hoped it would be. Not an audience, but a gathering.
You brought the conversations, the questions, and the willingness to imagine a city and a century worth building. We are grateful to every one of you.
ChicagoWorld 2026 launched the 5 Star Movement: a campaign to add a fifth star to the Chicago flag, commemorating Chicago’s Bicentennial World’s Fair of 2033.
Two of the flag’s four stars already mark world’s fairs. The 1933 fair marked one hundred years since Chicago was incorporated as a town. The fifth star would mark two hundred.
Sport creates something remarkably useful:
Common ground.
On the padel court, titles disappear.
Robo-Padel is not a robotics demonstration.
It is a ritual of encounter.
The humanoid robot does not represent machines replacing humans. It represents a new participant entering human civilization, and our responsibility to determine how that relationship develops.
Future years will explore themes such as: