Summertime momentum is building for St. Louis entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and marketing professionals the week of June 22-28, 2026. The local ecosystem is brimming with events to help you sharpen your skills and expand your reach. Our Founder, Erik Lutenegger, has assembled the week’s top events and opportunities spanning networking, business resources, learning, and enjoyment.
ESO, Accelerator, and Funding Opportunities
Due June 26 // Small Business Launchpad | St. Louis County Library
Built for formerly incarcerated individuals ready to build a new chapter, this eight-week entrepreneurship program provides hands-on training in business planning, marketing, sales, and funding. Participants develop real-world startup skills, receive expert guidance, and pitch their business ideas for a chance at startup funding. (Bootcamp)
Due August 4 // IDEA Fund | Missouri Technology Corporation
The IDEA Fund makes direct equity-based investments in Missouri’s most promising emerging companies to promote growth and encourage additional future investment. They have 4 programs: Proof of Concept for early-stage entrepreneurs; TechLaunch for pre-seed; Seed Capital for the Seed stage; and the Venture Capital Program, which supports technology startups by matching equity or convertible debt investments up to $2,000,000. (Funding)
Startup, Tech, and Marketing Events
June 22
Data for Social Impact: Welcome to the (Data) Party! | WashU – Brown School – Center for Social Development
Understand concrete strategies for working together with program data as speakers present tools, workflows, and case-study-driven worksheets, sharing key takeaways from a practitioner-oriented book to help organizations engage stakeholders and strengthen data-informed storytelling and decision-making. (Virtual)
21 Easy Types of Content You Can Create to Attract Your Ideal Clients | NY Public Library, Thomas Yoseloff Business Center
Ignite your marketing with a concise, actionable webinar that demonstrates 21 content approaches to attract prospects who value expertise, answer their questions in advance, handle common objections, and streamline your sales process while strengthening your professional reputation online. (Virtual)
How to Get Your First 10 Customers Without a Marketing Team or Budget | Founder Institute
Dive into a hands-on masterclass where you’ll learn to identify overlooked customer pockets, craft a three-sentence outreach that feels authentic, run validation sales to test demand, and set up a simple referral loop, plus AI shortcuts to halve customer discovery time. (Virtual)
Funding Your Business Through St. Louis Partnership | SLDC
Discover practical financing pathways as SLDC’s Business Finance team outlines SBA 504 loans, specialty loan products, and bond options, guiding attendees through qualification criteria and application steps, and offering one-on-one advice to match the right funding solution to each business’s needs. (In-Person | NEEC at the William J. Harrison Education Center)
COBOL AI Bootcamp: Building the Future of Enterprise AI & Automation | Alambda Systems
Elevate your skills with a practical bootcamp emphasizing COBOL fundamentals, AI-assisted workflows, and enterprise-scale automation. Attendees from diverse backgrounds will engage in guided coding exercises, learn integration strategies with modern analytics, and apply real-world practices to build AI-enabled systems. (In-Person | Spark Coworking)
June 23
June 23-26 // Agentic Marketing Summit | Search Atlas
Uncover a four-day virtual working session focused on creating an agentic marketing system inside Search Atlas. Sessions cover AI search visibility, technical foundations, content production, authority building, paid distribution, performance tracking, and a 90-day roadmap designed to reduce manual marketing work. (Virtual)
AI infrastructure in 2026 – Architecting for agentic AI | Google Cloud
Unveil practical blueprints for architecting agentic AI by examining end-to-end infrastructure concerns, including resource optimization, continuous delivery for models, observability, governance, and automation, presented through examples that bridge research prototypes to production-grade systems. (Virtual)
BuildIT – Put Your Data to Work: AI Tools for Small Businesses & Nonprofits | TechSTL
Enjoy a hands-on workshop that shows how AI can turn spreadsheets, CRM data, and accounting records into actionable insights, with live examples of organizing records, crafting prompts, and quick-win AI applications for communications, operations, and research. No technical background required. (In-Person | CIC St. Louis)
Vibe-Code an AI Daily Briefing with Replit, Flask & Oracle | Datacamp
Build a working AI daily briefing application in a hands-on code-along that combines Replit, Flask, and Oracle, walking through setup, integration, and deployment, so you leave with a functional project and a clearer sense of how the pieces fit together. (Virtual)
Figma Config 2026 – Virtual | Figma
Absorb cutting-edge conversations from makers shaping product design, follow guided hands-on demos to level up Figma skills, explore in-depth topic sessions, and join a global community of designers and developers for networking, virtual meetups, and nearby watch parties. (Kimi)
2026 CX Trends Shaping Customer Trust and Personalization | Martech
Thrive through a guided discussion featuring Adobe analysts and Virgin Atlantic practitioners who reveal how AI enhances personalization and trust, present data on consumer behavior, and deliver step-by-step recommendations for building conversational, relevant interactions that elevate engagement and lifetime customer value. (Virtual)
Launching Your Business: A Step-By-Step Guide | Women’s Business Development Council
Uncover the essential actions for launching a small business as instructors explain entity selection, plan development, market and cost evaluation, funding alternatives, and registration requirements, plus the employment-related decisions entrepreneurs must make before opening their doors. (ChatGPT)
How marketing teams use Codex | OpenAI Academy
Witness a practical walkthrough of how Codex fits into marketing workflows, as presenters demonstrate how to turn disjointed context into structured drafts, explain review techniques, and provide adaptable prompt frameworks to accelerate campaign planning and stakeholder alignment. (Virtual)
June 24
June 24-26 // Startup AI Ready Bootcamp | Global Startup Ecosystem
Take in a compact virtual bootcamp focused on streamlining your business model, crafting trust-centered events that convert, and mapping AI-driven opportunities. Sessions combine frameworks, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides so you leave with a clear, executable growth blueprint. (Perplexity)
Mastering AI-assisted development with IBM Bob: From spec-driven practices to agentic engineering | IBM SkillsBuild
Join an interactive webinar where instructors demonstrate how to integrate IBM Bob into existing development environments, outline security and governance considerations, and provide templates, sample pipelines, and practical tips so participants can begin applying AI-augmented workflows to their projects immediately. (Gemini)
PitchSTL
Delight in a community-driven session offering brief six-minute presentations, extended interactive feedback, and plentiful networking opportunities, plus access to startup support tools, past event videos, and options to contribute through donations or sponsorships to help founders grow and refine their ventures. (In-Person | NEEC powered by SLDC)
100 AI Mini-Challenges to Kickstart Workforce AI Readiness | Gartner
Kickstart workforce AI readiness through a Gartner session built around 100 bite-sized challenges, offering a structured way to build practical skills, surface gaps, and give teams an approachable on-ramp to applying AI in everyday work. (Virtual)
The bot traffic reality check: a live discussion of Kinsta’s 2026 report | Kinsta
Admire a data-driven walkthrough of AI bot trends, backed by billions of requests, including real crawler examples, performance impact diagnostics, guidance for crafting context-aware rules, and practical advice for advising clients and optimizing infrastructure, followed by an interactive Q&A session. (Virtual)
GRIT June Luncheon | Jennifer Bardot, G.R.I.T Founder
Embrace an engaging two-hour in-person luncheon featuring a keynote presentation, “The Only Imposter is the Syndrome,” led by Joani Alsop. Expect thoughtful conversation, practical strategies for overcoming imposter feelings, casual networking with peers, and hospitality hosted by GRIT’s founder, Jennifer Bardot. (In-Person | The Lodge @ Des Peres)
Designing Better Products in Music with AI: From Consumer Insights to GenAI Applications | WashU Olin School of Business
Soak up a hands-on exploration of AI-powered product innovation that traces today’s songs to past successful styles, shows how GenAI suggests promising design directions, and walks through real-world redesign experiments assessed by listeners to illuminate broader business applications. (Virtual)
Claude on Google Cloud: Monitoring and Securing Agents at Scale | Anthropic
Discover a technical walkthrough featuring live demos that show how to build Claude agents with the Agent SDK, enforce per-agent identities and policies using Agent Gateway and Cloud IAM, and route OpenTelemetry traces and audit events into Google Cloud Observability for robust monitoring and auditing. (Virtual)
The Identity Gap: How Marketers Perceive Success and Where It Breaks Down | American Marketing Association
Explore a tactical session led by marketing experts that reveals where perceptions of success break down as operations scale, then offers step-by-step approaches for implementing identity resolution, addressing barriers, and choosing platforms and data strategies to better identify audiences and measure results. (Virtual)
Built to Adapt: Tech Strategies for Growth in a Volatile Climate | Inc Magazine
Unite with industry leaders in a focused session that outlines measurable ways AI and automation enhance everyday operations, advises on choosing technology by growth stage, and presents tactics for staying secure and adaptable as you adopt modern workplace tools without overbuilding future systems. (Virtual)
Practical Tools for Conflict Resolution | Nonprofit Marketers Network-STL
Appreciate a structured learning experience that emphasizes self-awareness and applied techniques, including active listening, perspective-taking, and conflict style adaptation, through interactive exercises and guided dialogue, equipping attendees with practical methods to strengthen collaboration and resolve workplace tensions. (Virtual)
Typeform CEO on Why Breadth Now Beats Depth as an AI Moat | Product School
Hear Typeform’s CEO make the case that, in an AI era, breadth of capability now matters more than depth as a durable moat, with a product-leadership lens on how that thinking reshapes strategy, roadmap priorities, and where teams should place their bets. (Virtual)
How To Get 5-10 New High Paying Clients In 90 Days Using AI | Network After Work
Celebrate a results-oriented webinar that teaches how to turn networking into a predictable pipeline of better contacts and meetings, leverage simple AI systems to scale outreach, shorten sales cycles without pressure, and adopt ready-to-use digital selling techniques and examples immediately after the session. (Virtual)
Using Templates For Storytelling in IG Stories | CreativeMornings
Transform your raw trip footage or everyday moments into a cohesive IG Story series as you follow step-by-step guidance creating templates in Premiere for Mobile, experiment with theme conversions, and build a template-driven narrative that opens and closes your story arc for stronger audience attention. (Virtual)
Strictly Social | T-REX
Wind down with T-REX’s recurring after-hours social, a relaxed, no-agenda gathering where members of the local startup and tech community can mingle, trade ideas, and make new connections over casual conversation. (In-Person | T-REX)
Reel Lessons: Strategic Coordination Under Pressure | St. Louis County Library
Marvel at curated scenes and informed discussion that illustrate how disciplined planning and coordinated tactics turn daring strategy into practical action, teaching participants to audit their organizations for risks, sharpen decision-making under stress, and strengthen their ability to respond to unexpected challenges. (In-Person | Clark Family Branch)
Protection and Income Strategies for Small Businesses | Porscha Anderson
Participate in a weekly virtual workshop designed for entrepreneurs and employers that explores how to protect business assets through contracts and trademarks, access tax and legal support, implement employee benefit solutions, and discover practical avenues for supplementary income and revenue diversification. (Virtual)
June 25
Cracking the code on longer sales cycles | Demandbase
Savor a practical discussion where GTM leaders unpack how intent data, buying signals and ABM plays help prioritize accounts, engage complex buying committees, spot predictive deal readiness, and sustain stakeholder engagement with coordinated marketing and sales tactics to accelerate revenue. (Virtual)
How AI makes website creation easier for small businesses | Enterprise Nation
Thrive by learning how modern AI tools reshape website creation as Selina Bieber outlines current use cases, walks through the from-to strategy shift, and performs a real-time build. The session includes tips and examples for prompting to help small businesses iterate smarter. (Virtual)
Microbusiness Coffee Hour | Neighborhood Innovation Center
Join a monthly coffee hour that blends networking with hands-on collaboration, featuring pitch practice, goal check-ins, and idea swapping. The meeting emphasizes practical support, accountability, and connections that help attendees iterate, improve, and make measurable progress. (In-Person | Neighborhood Innovation Center)
AgentCon – Saint Louis | Global AI Saint Louis
Explore immersive technical workshops and live demos that walk attendees through real code, deployment strategies, and scaling challenges, and provide direct access to pioneers who share operational insights, debugging tips, and design trade-offs for modern AI agent systems. (In-Person | Millennium Student Center)
Fundraising Strategy for Venture-Backable Founders | Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center
Embrace a strategic session focused on positioning your company for institutional capital, where KK Hart walks founders through signaling readiness, communicating vision and differentiation, choosing the right investors, and connecting fundraising timelines and milestones to operational plans for sustainable, scalable growth. (Virtual)
Going AI-native in Enterprise & Geospatial Sales | Locatix
Transform your approach with practical frameworks tailored for infrastructure, mapping, and engineering vendors as the webinar explains timing, procurement awareness, and multi-threaded execution, plus a live demo of AI tools to track tenders, triggers, and the stakeholders who matter in long-cycle deals. (ChatGPT)
The MENA Private Markets Playbook: Cap Tables, SPVs, and the Infrastructure Behind the Deal | Carta
Get a practical look at how private market deals come together across the MENA region, with Carta walking through cap tables, SPVs, and the operational infrastructure behind closing and managing investments. (Virtual)
How to Prepare Your Startup for Venture Capital Funding | Idea to IPO
Dive into a practical session led by an experienced speaker who explains organizational and ownership issues critical for VC discussions, addressing founder stock restrictions, option impacts, capital needs, securities options, diligence priorities, and strategies to avoid financing delays, with time for live questions. (Kimi)
Cloud Agents and Automations: Building a Self-Driving Codebase | Cursor
Experience a practical walkthrough of cloud-based development where long-running agents are launched from desktop, web, Slack, GitHub, Linear, or API to build, test, open merge-ready PRs, and surface remote artifacts for validation without local checkouts, plus security and permission patterns. (Virtual)
250 Years of Agriculture with GIS | Esri
Bask in an applied session exploring how ArcGIS supports agricultural workflows, from predictive yield mapping and risk assessment to land-use evaluation and supply chain monitoring, highlighting concrete steps and tools that translate spatial analysis into better day-to-day operational and strategic choices. (Gemini)
Navigating AI in the Workplace | Serendipity Labs
Engage in a conversational workshop about workplace AI, where experts address selecting appropriate tools, mitigating security risks, and ensuring compliance. Learn how to draft flexible policies, establish clear usage expectations, and discuss real scenarios to prepare your organization for rapid AI change. (In-Person | Serendipity Labs)
Financing Options for Small Business Success | Start Small Think Big
Walk through the financing options available to small businesses in a session from Start Small Think Big, covering how different funding sources work, what they require, and how to weigh which path fits your goals. (Virtual)
Top AI Workflows for Marketing Teams | Moz
See how marketing teams are putting AI to work in repeatable, day-to-day workflows, with Moz highlighting practical approaches teams can adapt to speed up content, research, and campaign tasks without sacrificing quality. (Virtual)
Data-Backed Secrets for Winning Subject Lines | Constant Contact
Understand how subject lines perform through a data-rich, interactive presentation featuring live comparisons, trend insights drawn from millions of examples, and expert coaching from Jay Schwedelson and Stephanie French to help you craft subject lines that consistently drive opens. (Virtual)
CIC Pride Community Mixer: Love is Community | CIC St. Louis
Kickstart your Pride afternoon with signature beats from DJ Nyara, curated cocktails and mocktails by Decoding Cocktails, a Sugar Witch ice cream bar, photo moments, create-your-own Pride and pronoun buttons, Pride swag giveaways, and easygoing conversation to foster inclusion and community ties. (In-Person | CIC St. Louis)
Founders Lounge Global | Powered by Metis
Enhance your technical chops in a weekly, conversational lab where founders, engineers, and operators explore core AI principles, agentic systems, model behavior, and system design through discussion, shared learning, and hands-on insights, with the aim of building practical understanding and real-world product applications. (In-Person | Spark Coworking)
Open House + Networking ft. St. Louis Business Besties | Elevator + St. Louis Business Besties
Revel in an evening of discovery with tours of the warehouse, office, and coworking areas, conversations with local entrepreneurs, and networking opportunities focused on scaling operations, fulfillment strategies, and flexible membership options, complemented by light refreshments in an inviting community setting. (In-Person | Elevator St. Louis)
AI Builders Meetup | STL AI Lab
Absorb a focused lineup starting with an open news roundtable, then dive into demonstrations and candid discussions about AI appearing in unexpected industries, small contractors, fence installation, and local services, showcasing concrete LLM use cases for quoting, scheduling, and customer communication. (In-Person | Renaissance AI Lab)
Social Thursdays | KRe8 Spaces
Embrace a midweek social gathering that prioritizes fun and downtime while fostering meaningful connections among attendees. The event offers a casual mix of mingling and low-key entertainment in a friendly setting, with affordable general admission to encourage wide participation. (In-Person | THE KRe8 Place)
June 26
CreativeMornings St. Louis | Presenter: Bruce Burton
Enjoy a morning presentation by artist-curator Bruce Burton exploring making, gathering, sorting, and site-based curation, followed by a guided tour of his exhibition space. Expect outdoor, open-roof conditions, light walking, coffee, breakfast pastries, and conversations about experimental display practices. (In-Person | NON STNDRD)
Training AI on Your Brand | MarketingProfs
Learn what it takes to train AI on your brand so that generated content reflects your voice, positioning, and standards, with MarketingProfs offering practical guidance for marketers seeking consistent, on-brand output. (Virtual)
Bourbon Friday | Sponsored by Tenacity
Ignite new connections at a recurring community gathering for startup-minded people, combining structured and freeform conversation with curated bourbon tastings and three hours to mingle and learn. (In-Person | TechArtista UCity)
Code til Dawn (June) | TechSTL
Celebrate hands-on building alongside a diverse community of early-career and senior professionals in a monthly late-night meetup that blends structured focus, flexible workflows, peer support, and food to sustain long stretches of productive collaboration. (In-Person | CIC @ CET)
June 27
June 27-28 // PrideFest St. Louis
Immerse yourself in multi-day Pride programming including themed performances, audience-participation screenings, a citywide bar crawl, professional networking mixers, community volunteer opportunities, merchandise sales, and a centerpiece festival with live entertainment and a grand parade celebrating LGBTQ+ advocacy and solidarity. (In-Person | Soldier’s Memorial)
June 28
St. Louis Code & Coffee
Bask in an inclusive, informal co-working session where attendees of all skill levels optionally bring projects, introduce themselves briefly during an intro circle, hear organizer announcements, and join member-led workshops or self-organized collaboration and socializing throughout the afternoon. (In-Person | TechArtista UCity)
She’s a Work of Art: The Renaissance Edition | #SheCan Connect Global Network
Delight in a sunlit meetup centered on creativity and identity, featuring curated vendors, art and fashion showcases, practical personal branding experiences, candid conversations on confidence and reinvention, rooftop networking with culture makers, music, and ample opportunities for content creation. (In-Person | Angad Arts Hotel)
JSGC CITY2 FUNdraiser Night | Job Seekers’ Garden Club of St. Louis
Connect through a night of high-energy soccer and community impact as CITY2 takes the field in support of job seekers. Ticket proceeds help sustain an organization offering encouragement, practical resources, professional connections, and a welcoming network for people pursuing new opportunities. (In-Person | Energizer Park)
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