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Business is getting technical.
We're all prepared.

Speaker series, workshops, hackathons, industry visits, and a career team in your corner — Olin's home for everything tech & AI, with career paths, résumé tools, and a jobs board built right in.

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120+

Active members

30+

Events / year

40+

Companies in network

Club for all of it

What's next

Upcoming events

A look at what's on the calendar this year — see the full schedule for dates and details.

Sep 17

Fireside Chats with Industry Leaders 1

A candid, informal Q&A with an industry leader working in tech & AI.

BH 240, Bauer Hall, Olin Business School Oct 7

STL Tech Trek

A day trip visiting tech companies and startups around St. Louis.

Oct 12

Career Readiness Workshop 1

Hands-on résumé, interview, and networking prep tuned to tech & AI recruiting.

Oct 13

Data Center Visit

An on-site tour of a real data center — see the infrastructure behind the AI everyone's talking about.

Oct 29

Tech Consulting Case Study Session

Work a real-style tech strategy case with peers, guided by a case-prep framework.

Nov 6

Annual Tech and AI Summit

The club's flagship all-day summit — talks, workshops, and networking across tech & AI.

Nov 19

Hackathon / Product Pitch Competition

Build and pitch a product concept in teams, judged by industry mentors.

Feb 18

STL Tech Networking Gala

An evening of networking with St. Louis's tech & AI community.

See the full calendar →

How to get involved

From your first event to your first offer.

Whether you're here for the community, the career prep, or both — everything below is built for business students exploring tech & AI.

Come to an event

Fireside chats, workshops, hackathons, and visits all year — no experience or prep needed, just curiosity.

Explore career paths

See the roles business students actually land in tech & AI, and what each one involves.

Build skills & résumé

Learn the fundamentals with curated resources, then draft and tailor your résumé in the built-in tools.

Find the jobs

Browse internships and full-time roles, and know exactly where else to look.

Career paths

Where business students win in tech & AI.

Six roles, each with the skills that matter, how to break in from Olin, and who hires. See the full explorer →

PRODUCT

Own what gets built and why — the bridge between engineering, design, data, and the business. The hiring bar has shifted from "can you write a PRD" to "can you work with a system that's right most of the time, not all of the time" — which is exactly the judgment a business background is good at.

STRATEGY

Tech Strategy & Consulting

Advise companies on technology and AI decisions — strategy, transformation, and getting it implemented. A classic MBA path that's changed more in the last two years than in the prior twenty: AI is now graded directly in the interview, not just the job.

DATA/AI

Data, Analytics & AI

Turn data into decisions — from dashboards and experiments to models. Runs from business analyst all the way to the technical ML/AI-engineering track, and both ends are real, hireable outcomes from Olin.

GROWTH

Growth, BizOps & GTM

Drive adoption and revenue for tech products — growth, operations, marketing, and partnerships. A genuinely new hybrid role ("GTM Engineer") has emerged in the last two years for people who can pair business judgment with light technical/AI fluency.

INVEST

Tech Investing & VC

Evaluate and back technology and AI companies — venture, growth equity, or corporate development. Genuinely competitive and low-headcount, but there's a real, current on-ramp for students willing to publish their thinking before they have a title.

FOUNDER

Founder / Startup

Start something of your own — or join an early team and help build it from zero to one. WashU Olin was ranked #1 in Poets&Quants' 2026 World's Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship — the on-campus resources for this path are genuinely strong, not an afterthought.

What we do

Programming that gets you hired.

Each semester the club runs a rhythm of events built to turn interest into offers and ideas into projects.

Speaker series

Learn from operators

Alumni and practitioners in product, strategy, data, and AI share how they broke in.

Workshops

Hands-on builds

SQL, dashboards, and building with LLMs — go from theory to a working demo.

Case & datathons

Compete as a team

Product cases and datathons where teams ship something real against the clock.

Project pods

Build a portfolio

Small teams tackle a real AI/tech problem across a semester — the work recruiters want to see.

Recruiting prep

Get interview-ready

Résumé reviews, mock interviews, and case prep tuned to tech & AI roles.

Mentorship

Guidance from ahead

Matched with members and alumni a few steps further down your path.

Join the club

Technical or not — if you're curious, you belong here.

Career-switchers, aspiring PMs, future founders, and the AI-curious all start in the same place. Become a member, join the group chat, and come to one event — go from there.

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Business is getting technical. We're all prepared.