Alpha School Presents

Two Evenings That Challenge Everything You Know About Education

An intimate fireside series with the founders of Alpha — two nights, one question worth betting on: what a school should be. Attend one or attend both, we’d love to welcome you.

Friday · July 24

Chicago Founder’s School Panel Discussion

A student panel discussion

Current & graduated Alpha students · Moderated Q&A

Join current and graduated Alpha students for an inside look at what it’s like to attend a high school built for entrepreneurs. In this candid panel discussion, students will share their experiences building real businesses, working with AI, learning from world-class founders and operators, and balancing rigorous academics with hands-on execution.

Hear firsthand how students spend their days launching products, acquiring customers, generating revenue, and developing the skills needed to thrive in an AI-powered economy. Panelists will discuss their projects, biggest lessons learned, challenges they’ve overcome, and how Founders School’s unique model is preparing them to graduate with both a diploma and real-world entrepreneurial experience.

This session includes a moderated discussion followed by audience Q&A.

Time 6:00 – 8:30pm CDT
Location Loft on Lake
1366 W Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60607
Saturday · July 25

The Most Important Thing You Could Build Right Now Is a School

An evening with Joe Liemandt

Principal, Alpha School

Joe Liemandt almost never does this. The man who left Stanford and funded his first company on fifty maxed-out credit cards, built the first company to sell a billion dollars of artificial intelligence, and landed on the cover of Forbes at twenty-seven has spent most of his life out of public view — and is now spending the next twenty years of it building schools.

On Saturday night he’ll tell the founder’s story he rarely tells, then make his blunt case: that the two-hundred-year-old classroom is the worst way we’ve institutionalized to learn — and that we finally have the tools to replace it. If you want to understand where education is going, this is the room to be in.

Time 6:00 – 8:30pm CDT
Location Loft on Lake
1366 W Lake St.
Chicago, IL 60607
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