The Big Kansas City 2013 schedule

We’re less than two weeks away from our inaugural Big Kansas City, and today we’re making the conference more of a reality. We’ve put together the comprehenisive outline of what you’ll experience during two and a half days jam-packed with inspirational speakers, valuable relationship-building opportunities and top-notch parties. Below you can view the full March…

Clarity.fm’s Dan Martell is speaking at Big Kansas City on March 27.

We’re less than two weeks away from our inaugural Big Kansas City, and today we’re making the conference more of a reality. We’ve put together the comprehenisive outline of what you’ll experience during two and a half days jam-packed with inspirational speakers, valuable relationship-building opportunities and top-notch parties.

Below you can view the full March 26-28 event schedule,* complete with everything from parties to speaker times to our lunch hours featuring a special edition 1 Million Cups and a screening of the film “Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy.”

Find speaker bios, photos and event details on bigkansascity.co, and stay tuned to Silicon Prairie News for the most up-to-date information as we get closer to the conference.

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Tuesday, March 26

8:00 p.m.  Big Kansas City Opening Party with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
                 at MoBank Downtown (1044 Main St.) – Open to the public

Wednesday, March 27 

8:00 a.m  Doors open / Breakfast at Hangar 9 (201 NW Lou Holland Dr.)

9:00  Jeff Slobotski and Regan Carrizales, Silicon Prairie News

9:05  Jason Zone Fisher (Big Kansas City emcee) 

9:15  Dan Hesse, Sprint

9:30  Alexis Ohanian, reddit

10:10  Adam Wilson, Sphero  

10:45  Break presented by Hudl 

11:15  Jamie Wong, Vayable

11:55  Scott Harrison, charity: water

12:30  Lunch with special edition 1 Million Cups  

2:00  Dan Martell, clarity.fm

2:45  Dhani Jones, BowTie Cause

3:20  Break presented by Hudl

3:50  Ryan Downs, Proxibid 

4:30  Extended Speaker Q&A Panel

5:15  Jeff Slobotski and Regan Carrizales, Silicon Prairie News

9:00 p.m.  The Middle Party presented by Sprint (closed to badge holders only
                   at the 
Firestone Building, top floor (2001 Grand Blvd)

Thursday, March 28

8:30 a.m.  Doors Open / Breakfast 

9:30   Jeff Slobotski and Regan Carrizales, Silicon Prairie News

9:35   Jason Zone Fisher

9:40   Amy Jo Martin, Digital Royalty 

10:20  Thom Ruhe, Kauffman Foundation

10:40  Break presented by Hudl 

11:00  Mike Macadaan, Science Inc.  

11:40  Micah Baldwin, Graphic.ly

12:30  Lunch and “Silicon Prairie” film

2:00    Rachel Brooks, Citizen Made 

2:45    Abhi Nemani, Code for America

3:25    Bart Stein, Stamped/Yahoo!

4:05   Hangar 9 Happy Hour presented by Arsalon Technologies

8:00 p.m.  Closing Party presented by Polsinelli Shughart  

                   at The Cashew (2000 Grand Blvd)  Open to the Public

 

*Schedule subject to change. 

**Update 3/21/13 due to family reasons Bo Fishback will be unable to attend the conference

 

Credits: Photo by Malone & Co. / Big Omaha

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