East × West: A Black Tech Saturdays Creative Collision

Tech Week Grand Rapids doesn't end. It collides.
East × West is Black Tech Saturdays' closing activation for Tech Week GR 2026 — and it's the moment the week stops talking about ecosystem and starts being one.
This is what happens when Detroit's tech movement comes west. Live product demos you can actually touch. Matcha matchmaking with Femology that puts founders in front of the resources, capital, and collaborators they've been circling all week. Dueling DJs. Talk-out moments built to turn the person next to you into your next co-founder. The kind of room where culture, technology, and purpose collide — and nobody leaves the way they walked in.
We're hosting it at Bamboo Grand Rapids, a Detroit-born innovation hub that made the same move west we're making. Fitting.
Black Tech Saturdays started in 2023 with five people in a room in Detroit. We're now a movement of 25,000+ founders, creatives, technologists, and community builders across a dozen cities. East × West is how we close Tech Week — and how we plant our flag in West Michigan.
Come build. Come connect. Come celebrate what this region is becoming.
East × West. September 19. Grand Rapids. The collision starts at noon.