Kansas City Picture a weekend-long event in which you could meet new people, promote your idea and take that idea to the next level in just under 54 hours. I know, the thought of taking that idea to a social event and bringing it to fruition in a weekend seems insane, but this is exactly what happens at Startup Weekend. …  read more

Austin From March 11-15, more than 19,000 individuals from around the world gathered in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive. Recently, SXSW released podcasts of this year's panel presentations, three of which featured panelists from the Prairie. For those of you who missed out on SXSW or those of you who want to relive the… read more

Omaha As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we've… read more

Omaha The first Silicon Prairie News Meetup wrapped up last night with more than 50 people in attendance at Brazen Head Irish Pub in Omaha. Many thanks to everyone who stopped by; it was great for us to reconnect with some of you and meet others for the first time. Big Omaha tickets were a hot topic of discussion last night, breaking the ice quite nicely for continued … read more

Omaha Hollrback founder Gabe Kangas presented his company’s context-specific, event-based contact-management system. That description, Kangas said, is "a fancy way of saying that when you meet people, we’re going to try to take care of making that information useful to you." Technical difficulties prevented us from recording Kangas' presentation on Demo Night, but he was kind enough to record another version for us. A few highlights from… read more

Omaha During his Cornstalks Demo Night presentation, Kimo Scott, the chief engineer at 21CSI, focused on Kaimi, the company's surveillance software system that assists casinos with more than a traditional "eye in the sky" approach to surveillance. Through data fusion and data analysis system, Kaimi utilizes dashboards to show statistics on the gaming patterns of casino guests and next day data for full analysis of what happens on casino floors. read more

Omaha Sensus Machine Intelligence's VP of engineering Chuck Sloup presented his company's product, an innovative technology solution that integrates utility infrastructure systems and resource conservation, at the March 31 Cornstalks Demo Night. Essentially, Sensus pulls all automated information systems from within buildings together into one control system – a central point to coordinate all actions. Sensus operates based on automated detections… read more

Omaha In its fourth day of beta testing, Jason Schwab presented MiAlio and walked Cornstalks attendees through the process of setting up an online profile for the personalized shopping portal. MiAilo is focused on discovering, shopping and sharing users’ experience based on the individual profiles of each shopper. MiAlio acts as an umbrella that directs customers to the products they want, Schwab said. "MiAlio is relevant to you – the person." read more