- AITP – Association of Information Technology Professionals https://aitpchicago.com/
Their website also lists other IT & Cybersecurity chapter events! - ISSA – Information Systems Security Association https://issa-chicago.org/
- ISACA https://engage.isaca.org/chicagochapter/home
- Chapter meetings third Thursday of each month at The Conference Center at One North Wacker (L Green Line to Roosevelt then Orange Line to Washington and Wells)
- UniForumChicago (for Open Source professionals) http://uniforumchicago.org/
- WiCyS – Women in Cyber Security Chicago Affiliate https://www.wicys.org/wicys-chicago-affiliate/
Illinois Tech hosted the 2018 WiCyS Conference - SIM – Society for Information Management SIM–Chicago https://www.sim-chicago.org/
Usually senior IT executives (but still welcome students) - ACM – Association for Computing Machinery http://www.chicagoacm.org/
https://www.meetup.com/acm-chicago/ (more current than the link above) - IEEE-CS – IEEE Computer Society https://ieeechicago.org/cs/
- AIS – Association for Information Systems
MWAIS – Midwest Association for Information Systems - https://communities.aisnet.org/mwais/
ITM Professor Maurice Dawson was the 2020-2021 MWAIS President- The 19th Annual MWAIS Conference will be held in person on in May 2024, hosted by Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois
- All professional organization chapters may have student volunteer opportunities
- AITP charges $20 to register as a volunteer but gives the $20 back if you actually show up!
- Chicago IT Meetups https://www.meetup.com/topics/information-technology/us/il/chicago/
- Chicago Chapters of AITP, ISSA, ISACA, SIM, WiSyS, InfraGard, and ChicagoFirst jointly award the Chicago CISO of the Year Award
- AITP Chicago, SIM–Chicago, and the Executives’ Club of Chicago jointly award the Chicago CIO of the Year Award
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