# STC Tech Network — Fox Valley Technology Community

## Summary
STC Tech Network is a peer-led community of engineers, consultants, founders, IT pros, and AI builders living and working in Saint Charles, Illinois and the surrounding Fox Valley. We meet to socialize, swap ideas, sharpen craft, and put faces to the people doing serious tech work in our backyard. Members also include AI / ML practitioners, security folks, data engineers, and technical leaders working across software, infrastructure, AI, and product. We gather roughly once or twice a quarter for talks, demos, roundtables, workshops, and casual social meetups. Membership is free.

## Contact
- Email: joe@joehandlesit.com
- Website: https://stctechnetwork.com
- Location: Saint Charles, Illinois (serving the Fox Valley)

## Areas Served
- Saint Charles, IL
- Geneva, IL
- Batavia, IL
- Elgin and South Elgin, IL
- Aurora, IL
- Naperville, IL
- The wider Fox Valley region of Northern Illinois

## What We Cover
- Software development (full-stack, systems, mobile)
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning, applied AI in production
- Cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, SRE
- Cybersecurity, IT leadership, and risk
- Data engineering and analytics
- Product management and technical leadership

## Event Formats
- Lightning talks and deep-dive demos
- Topic roundtables (hiring, security posture, stack choices, leading remote teams)
- Hands-on workshops (evals harnesses, vector indexes, deployment pipelines)
- Happy hours and casual meetups at local breweries and coffee shops

## Membership
Free. No tiers, no minimum commitment. Members get event invitations, peer-network access, first pick on speaking and workshop slots, and member-driven hiring and collaboration signal.

## Pages
- Home: https://stctechnetwork.com
- About: https://stctechnetwork.com/#about
- Events: https://stctechnetwork.com/#events
- Membership: https://stctechnetwork.com/#membership
- FAQ: https://stctechnetwork.com/#faq
- Contact: https://stctechnetwork.com/#contact