Mission Creek’s Innovation conference seeks nominations

IOWA CITY—After the first year of Mission Creek: Innovation organizer Wesley Beary says there was room from improvement and as the conference gears up for a second year, its organizers need your help.

Mission Creek InnovationIOWA CITY—After the first year of Mission Creek: Innovation, organizer Wesley Beary says there was room for improvement. As the conference gears up for a second year, its organizers need your help.

“Last year I carefully curated and invited speakers, but I worried along the way that I was overlooking or forgetting about great options,” Beary told SPN. “So this year I’m hoping the nominations will help me better survey the landscape to find the best of the best.

“Anybody who has something exciting to share with entrepreneurs or technologists should definitely throw in their hat.”

The two-day conference will bring together entrepreneurs and technologists in Iowa City April 4-5 to “showcase where innovation may lead, stones we may stumble upon and the amazing promise that awaits,” according to organizers.

The showcase is a part of Iowa City’s annual art, music and literature festival. Last year, the tech and innovation component included speakers David Gould of the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, Chad Whitacre of Gittip, the PearDeck team, Integrated DNA Technologies, BIG Ideas School’s Shawn Cornally and keynote speaker Matthew Israel, director of Artsy’s Art Genome Project.

This time around, Beary says that he’s looking to act on some of last year’s feedback and expand the scope of the conference by adding workshops and creating distinct entrepreneurial and technology tracks throughout the two days.

“This year I hope to meet more people in the middle in terms of content and better serve the interests people expressed in feedback as well as the audience I see growing locally of both entrepreneurs and technologists,” he said.

Nominations will be open until midnight on Nov. 30 and organizers will contact all nominees by Jan. 11, 2015.

 

Interested in being part of Mission Creek: Innovation? The call for nominations is now live online

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