La Vista The Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship returns to the Omaha metro April 12 with a new name, brand and speaker lineup. The conference is now called Intersect and in addition to its local slate of speakers, the organizers are also bringing in three presenters from outside of the region. Venture capitalist, author and TechStars co-founder Brad Feld will kick off the seventh annual event with the morning keynote "Startup Communities." Feld last year released a book with the same name … read more

Kansas City Startup Weekend lands in Kansas City for its seventh round April 12-14. Two-hundred cities around the world … read more

Ames Now Ames, Iowa entrepreneurs, developers, designers and tech enthusiasts have the opportunity to participate in the "global grassroots movement" … read more

Omaha The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization at the University of Nebraska at Omaha is preparing to host the second annual Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference April 5-6 … read more

Kansas City Coders 4 Charities is set to host its sixth annual event March 22-24 as a way to utilize local tech talent to give back to area nonprofits. The event pairs web developers and designers with representatives from local … read more

Sioux Falls Hugh Weber created OTA Sessions based on a simple belief. "People of this region are just as creative, innovative and entrepreneurial as New York City or Silicon Valley," Weber said. "However, we face challenges of disconnection from each other and from the rest of the world's thought leaders. On Friday, Weber his team are set to hold the fourth annual OTA Sessions in Sioux Falls, S.D. Named to … read more

Kansas City For 52 hours from March 22–24, technologists will be asked to dream up uses for Kansas City's gigabit internet connection. The occasion, the first Hacking the Gigabit City event, is being organized by Mozilla, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, US Ignite and KC Digital Drive. Dinner, drinks and a rapid-fire pitch session kick off the free … read more

Austin More than 27,000 people have descended on Austin, Texas for the 19th annual South by Southwest Interactive. And that's just registered attendees, according to ABC News. To help those from the Silicon Prairie find each other in the Lone Star State, we've rounded up the region's presence at SXSW. We've also assembled a Twitter list of attendees – tweet @SiliconPrairie to be added. … read more