Upcoming Events at Cahoots
Cahoots isn’t just about working — it’s about growing. We host fun, educational events designed to inspire and encourage our members to keep innovating. Check out our calendar to see what’s coming up!
Interesting in hosting an event at Cahoots? Learn more about our event space.
Don’t Tell Comedy
Don’t Tell Comedy
Experience a mystery line-up of hilarious comedians at Ann Arbor's best-kept secret spots. Prepare for an evening full of surprises and side-splitting laughter—shh, it's our little secret! 🤫
Drop-In Day + Happy Hour!
Drop-In Coworking Day
+ Member Happy Hour!
Tired of working from home? Join Cahoots for a free day of community coworking open to the public!
Happy Hour from 4:30pm-6pm. It's a great chance to step away from the screens for a bit, meet some new neighbors, and cheers to your wins this week. We hope to see you there!
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
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CODE & COFFEE WITH TECH[INCLUSIVE]
Code & Coffee is a monthly opportunity for you to practice your skills, meet new friends, and get help if you need it. Bring your laptop, your recent projects, and your programming problems! Don’t have a project yet? We’re happy to just chat about all things code and tech.
All are welcome, regardless of skill level. If you’re a beginner, we’ll be right there to help you work through your questions as needed. Code & Coffee events are relaxed and informal, intended as a way for our community to work and play together while providing each other with ongoing support and feedback.
This event is free - feel free to come early, stay late, and/or drop in whenever you can.
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Midnight Madness
Looking for the perfect gift? Stop in for the annual Fourth Ave Midnight Madness Market from 5-9pm featuring local vendors with the perfect gift ideas, tasty treats and drinks from Cahoots Café, followed by a special 10pm show with Penny Seats Theater Company.
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
Chasing Clouds
About the event
Chasing Clouds, by Michael Alan Herman
In a world where silver linings are collected and sold, two “cloud farmers” struggle to maintain their farm and their relationship as their monthly deadline approaches. But when Earl Cooper falls victim to an accident, they begin to wonder if this month might be their last.
Directed by Lauren M. London
Starring Wendy Katz Hiller, Joel Mitchell, and Noah Askew
Run Time: approx. 60 minutes
The Culture Roundtable W/ the Hire Effect
A shout out to business owners or operators who want to do their best by their teams! If your interest lies in cultivating high-performance while helping individuals feel whole, valued, and authentic at work, come on by!
This two-hour roundtable is not a lecture, rather an easeful exploration of how culture shapes outcomes in real business terms.
Your business culture is a powerful switch that can accelerate or derail your strategy. Come and move your ideas about culture to measurable, practical action that your team can own and execute.
Pizza included!
Agenda:
Introductions
- Getting to know who you are and what you want out of the discussion
What is culture?
- Explore various models for understanding culture and its role in business
What is your culture?
- Discuss what pieces of your culture are working for you and what pieces might be toxic or misaligned and working against you
What do you want your culture to be?
- Finding what culture will be best for and most aligned with your business goals
What is culture change?
- How to guide with intention and tools for enacting culture change
- Expectations are for how long it takes and what the process looks like in practice
Closing/Questions and thoughts!
*Private Event*
The event space will be reserved for a private event.
Please Note: This event is not open to members or the public.
Don’t Tell Comedy
Don’t Tell Comedy
Experience a mystery line-up of hilarious comedians at Ann Arbor's best-kept secret spots. Prepare for an evening full of surprises and side-splitting laughter—shh, it's our little secret! 🤫
A2 Sustainable Innovation Meet Up
A Circular Solution to PFAS: Turning Wood Residuals into High-Performance PFAS Capture Media
PFAS remediation currently forces a tough choice: low-cost activated carbon with high replacement rates, or expensive synthetic resins that introduce microplastic risks.
Join us on November 12 with Dr. Juergen Koller, CEO and Co-Founder of Sequestro, to learn how their bio-renewable media (ArborSORB™) upcycles forestry waste like sawdust to capture "forever chemicals" with resin-level efficiency—at a fraction of the cost.
What You'll Learn:
Circular Chemistry: How wood residuals are engineered into high-affinity PFAS adsorbents.
Zero Microplastics: Delivering high-performance water treatment using bio-based materials.
Lab to Field: Scaling University of Michigan research into active commercial applications.
Speaker: Dr. Koller holds a Ph.D. in synthetic inorganic chemistry and brings 15+ years of industrial chemical manufacturing experience to bio-renewable water remediation.
AI Workshop Workflow
AGENTIC TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP
AI Workshop Workflow for Business Owners
Overview
Bring a laptop. Leave with a working AI workflow. One evening. Free. 60 seats. Ann Arbor, Nov 11.
In 90 minutes you'll design and build one AI workflow for your business — live, in the room. By the end of the evening you'll have a real automation running and a clear plan to implement many more.
What you'll walk away with:
- A working AI workflow you built yourself during the session.
- The 3 automations every small business should run first.
- The framework for building AI systems you own, not tools that break when a platform changes.
- A 30-day pilot plan to test and scale it.
Who this is for:
- Business owners doing $300K–$5M/yr in SE Michigan.
- Trades, healthcare, professional services, real estate, restaurants.
- Skeptics welcome, come with hard questions.
What to bring: A laptop and one real problem from your business.
Free. 60 seats. First come, first served.
Hoots Free Friday
MEMBER EVENT
Members enjoy free food with rotating themes of treats and eats from Cahoots! Occasionally, we mix it up with special perks like professional headshot sessions. Monthly themes are announced in the community Slack channel.
Founders First Fridays (MFF)
An informal coffee meetup every First Friday with Michigan Founders Fund as a way for founders to connect and be resources for each other. This meeting will gather in the Cahoots event space (with alternate location in the cafe).
Michigan Python Meetup
Hybrid MI Python - Workflows for Bioinformatics
We meet the first Thursday each month. We are an open community whose mission is to connect people who love writing Python code. Everyone is welcome to join the group and contribute to our mission.
At a Michigan Python event, you can expect to discuss:
Python—Basic and advanced techniques, PEPs, new versions, implementations, etc.
Web Development— FastAPI, Django, Flask, httpx, etc.
Data Science —machine learning, neural networks, TensorFlow, etc.
IoT—Raspberry Pi, Arduino, maker culture, etc.
Plus anything else Python-related!
Members of the Michigan Python community are open, considerate, and respectful. For more information, please see our Code of Conduct.
If you would like to chat with us, come join the Michigan Python Discord.
Thanks for joining!
Office Hours with Techstars Chicago
Open office hours - no pitch or deck necessary, just time for us to see if we can be helpful with your startup. If you have questions about Techstars Chicago, our new fund Long Chicago, or anything else startup / founder related, come chat.
Techstars Chicago, in partnership with Long Chicago, is an early stage accelerator & venture fund. We're long on the Midwest and intensely founder-focused. To our selected companies, we offer a large and committed investor + mentor base, dedicated office space in downtown Chicago for up to a year, and a program centered on building and fundraising. Our mission is to earn the right to be your most trusted advisor. Techstars Chicago is not industry or vertical focused - all ambitious founders are welcome to apply. If you're building something inevitable — especially if others don't see it yet — get in touch.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
CODE & COFFEE WITH TECH[INCLUSIVE]
Code & Coffee is a monthly opportunity for you to practice your skills, meet new friends, and get help if you need it. Bring your laptop, your recent projects, and your programming problems! Don’t have a project yet? We’re happy to just chat about all things code and tech.
All are welcome, regardless of skill level. If you’re a beginner, we’ll be right there to help you work through your questions as needed. Code & Coffee events are relaxed and informal, intended as a way for our community to work and play together while providing each other with ongoing support and feedback.
This event is free - feel free to come early, stay late, and/or drop in whenever you can.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
Shine & Rise Coworking Day
Shine and Rise Members are welcome to enjoy a free day of coworking and free tasty drinks from the Cahoots Cafe. Come for a few hours, an afternoon, or the entire day. Shine & Rise is a locally founded organization dedicated to cultivating connections and fostering community for female and non-binary individuals in the tech and startup ecosystem.
Members are welcome to bring a guest to co-work that day!
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
AI Learning Collaborative
Unlocking Claude Code: how to make small tools that solve problems at work & home
Most of us use AI tools in a chat window. This hour-long BYO lunch work session goes further. Claude Code is a powerful tool that works directly in the files and folders on your own computer. We'll cover what it is, what it's genuinely good at, the risks worth knowing about, and how to set up your first project. Then we'll take one real problem submitted by an attendee and work it live as a room.
No coding background needed and no prior Claude Code experience assumed. Hands-on participation is encouraged: bring a laptop with Claude Code installed and an active Claude subscription.
Laptop not set up yet? Come at 11:00 and we'll help you get running before we start at 11:30. Stay after 12:30 for open work time or networking.
Drop-In Day + Happy Hour!
Drop-In Coworking Day
+ Member Happy Hour!
Tired of working from home? Join Cahoots for a free day of community coworking open to the public!
Happy Hour from 4:30pm-6pm. It's a great chance to step away from the screens for a bit, meet some new neighbors, and cheers to your wins this week. We hope to see you there!
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
The Opera Ghost
About the event
A gothic drama. Deep beneath the famed Palais Garnier Opera House, a mysterious man named Erik has reached the end of his life. The masked musician recounts his macabre life as an alchemist's apprentice, a carnival attraction, a master builder, a killer, a magician, a composer...all of which led him to Paris, where he'd become infamous as The Phantom of the Opera!
Directed by Brandy Joe Plambeck
Content Warning: Discussions of death, child abuse, and portrayals of violence.
Cahoots x Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum | Spark Official After Party
Cahoots x Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum | Spark Official After Party
After a week of pitch competitions, product demos, and tech events, come to the Official After Party at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum!
The 4th annual A2Tech360 Official After Party is a unique networking event connecting sponsors with Ann Arbor's tech community through brand activations and product demonstrations, as guests enjoy food and drinks at this 21+ event throughout the Museum's 250+ interactive exhibits.
The best part? This 21+ event is totally free thanks to our partners!
Here's a link to see the other events going on during A2Tech360: a2tech360.com
Hoots Free Friday
MEMBER EVENT
Members enjoy free food with rotating themes of treats and eats from Cahoots! Occasionally, we mix it up with special perks like professional headshot sessions. Monthly themes are announced in the community Slack channel.