Tech, Business & Society Action Lab at Greenhouse Loft – Chicago, IL

Tech, Business & Society Action Lab is an in-person event bringing tech, business, and society together. Join the conversation and explore fresh ideas!

Complex problems rarely belong to one discipline.

Keystone: Tech, Business & Society Action Lab brings together a small group of technologists, operators, entrepreneurs, designers, researchers, and community-minded professionals to examine one contemporary challenge from several perspectives.

This is not a traditional conference.

There are no hour-long keynotes, product demonstrations, vendor pitches, or pressure to arrive at one grand solution.

Instead, participants work through a structured sequence:

Frame the system. Surface the tradeoffs. Build a testable next step.

The evening combines a short three-perspective opening, facilitated working tables, an Action Canvas, and a final peer review.

The goal is not to promise “change.”

The goal is to produce clearer questions, explicit assumptions, and practical experiments that participants can evaluate after the event.

Featured Inquiry

The final event should focus on one clearly defined question rather than trying to solve technology, business, and society simultaneously.

A suitable example:

How should organizations introduce new technology when efficiency, human judgment, trust, and community impact point in different directions?

The final inquiry should be published only after participating contributors and source material are confirmed.