Austin Just more than two weeks remain for startups to apply for the fifth annual SXSW Interactive Accelerator. Applications are due Nov. 9 for the Accelerator, a competitive pitch event featuring 56 startups with innovative new products and services, which takes place March 11-13 during South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Forty-eight companies will be chosen to participate March 11-12 in the main Accelerator event, which features six categories: social technology, innovative web, news technology, health technology, mobile technology and entertainment and gaming technology. Eight more startups will compete in the Accelerator … read more

Kansas City The organizer of Compute Midwest, a Kansas City IT Professionals event that will take place Nov. 8-11 in Kansas City, has announced that the event's hackathon Nov. 10-11 will be held in Google's Fiber Space, a showroom and event space offering visitors an early glimpse of Google Fiber. Hackathon competitors will be given access to a 300 Mbps … read more

Des Moines Iowa's capital city will host its second Startup Weekend of 2012 Nov. 16-18. Startup Weekend Des Moines, a weekend-long education in launching a high-growth business, will take place once again at StartupCity Des Moines (317 6th Ave.). During the event, teams devote a weekend to building the foundation of a business. It begins Friday evening with participants coming together and delivering minute-long pitches of ideas for startups. Attendees then spend Saturday and Sunday working in teams to … read more

Des Moines Summer may be over, but on Saturday in Des Moines camp was still very much in session. About 60 participants came together Saturday at StartupCity Des Moines for the inaugural SketchCamp Des Moines. The all-day event featured 12 speakers, many of whom focused on the benefits of sketching as a way to communicate complex strategies or ideas to a group. “It’s kind of cool because it’s something that everyone does,” said … read more

Sioux Falls South Dakota's Innovation Expo returns to Sioux Falls on Tuesday with a refreshed look and new tagline: "Where suits and shirts connect." "If you think of the typical tech conference, you have your 'shirts' (designers, developers, idea people) and your 'suits' (venture capitalists, angel investors, IP lawyers), but Innovation Expo wants to see what connections can be created here in South Dakota by putting the two groups together," John T. Meyer of 9 Clouds, an inbound marketing firm, said in a written statement. The South Dakota Enterprise Institute partnered with Meyer's firm to bring a new brand, identity and format to its nine-year-old event. Organizers are … read more

Kansas City The return of Startup Weekend Kansas City is less than a month away. Kansas City's sixth Startup Weekend event will take place Nov. 16-18 at the Ewing Kauffman Foundation (4801 Rockhill Road), providing participants the experience of launching a business over the course of one weekend. As at other Startup Weekend events, things in Kansas City kick off on Friday evening, when participants deliver one-minute pitches for their company ideas. Teams then devote Saturday and Sunday to … read more

Lincoln TEDxLincoln, an independently organized TED event exploring the theme "Wide Horizons, Open Minds," is taking place today at NET studios in Lincoln, and a live stream of the event is available courtesy of NET. Although we're a bit belated in publishing this post, there's still a full afternoon of talks on tap, starting at 1 p.m. Check out the speaker slate below … read more

Kansas City Modernizing the world of sports is the name of the game for Asim Pasha, co-founder and managing partner of Sporting Innovations. Pasha shared a brief history of the relationship between sports and technology, his mission of bringing it into the modern era with Sporting Innovations and what's ahead for the industry as he spoke Tuesday evening during the final Technology Entrepreneur Speakers Program (Tech ESP) event of the year at the offices of Polsinelli … read more