May 31, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
From two National Day of Civic Hacking events this weekend to the six-day extravaganza 1KC Week in late June, here are eight events to check out across the Silicon Prairie. Visit our event calendar for more events. ... read more
May 28, 2013 by Fred Bauters
San Francisco Kansas City-based EyeVerify and Cedar Falls, Iowa-based Banno recently showcased their work at Finovate, a conference devoted to financial and banking technology. Their presentations, which took place May 14 in San Francisco, are now posted on the Finovate site, which we've linked to below. EyeVerify's Toby Rush, CEO, and Chris Barnett, executive vice … read more
May 28, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha KANEKO and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce are teaming up once again to shine a spotlight on failure. Thursday evening at KANEKO, the two groups will present the second installment of Failing Forward Conversations, which will feature … read more
May 28, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Some of Kansas City's stellar talent lit up global competition to land two awards in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. A team of local programmers, designers, project managers and content developers from Salva O'Renick, Ingenology, RareWire, Sprint, Cerner, VML and Waddell & Reed worked on two applications April 20-21 at Ingenology's offices in the Crossroads Arts District. Sol, "a mobile and tablet app that integrates weather … read more
May 23, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Kansas City's six-day celebration of entrepreneurship, 1Week KC, announced today it has locked down dates for its second spin. June 25-30 will feautre grassroots events, larger conferences and more, all intended to "educate, inspire, encourage and celebrate entrepreneurship," according to the press release. "1Week KC was bigger than just a local event," said organizer … read more
May 16, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Kansas City hops on the motherboard of 51 cities participating in the National … read more
May 7, 2013 by Megan Bannister
Des Moines Classes may be out for the summer, but Dwolla is bringing teachers, students and administrators back together for its second Des Moines hackathon. … read more
May 6, 2013 by Megan Bannister
Spencer Sara Magnussen has been working remotely for Seattle-based Startup Weekend's community support team for almost two years. Traveling from her home … read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.