Omaha This Thursday KANEKO, in conjunction with the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, will host the first in a three-part series of lectures on the the lessons that can be learned from professional and personal failure. Marcus Nelson (left), founder and CEO of San Francisco startup Addvocate, will speak at the first Failing Forward Conversations along with Anne Trumble, founder and director of Omaha nonprofit Emerging Terrain and Dr. Carl Greiner, a professor of psychiatry. "A community that accepts and endorses failure is a community that fosters an environment of creativity and innovation," Dusty Reynolds, Omaha Chamber director of entrepreneurship … read more

Omaha Making its official Nebraska debut last week, Pipeline played it cool. Pipeline, a regional entrepreneurial fellowship based in the Kansas City area, held the first Nebraska module in its history May 2-4 in Omaha and Lincoln. And, on Thursday night, Pipeline took over The KANEKO and opened the module to guests for the COOL Lounge Event. The evening included a "cool conversation" and various attractions from Pipeline innovators past and … read more

Omaha On Thursday, KANEKO will present a speaker whose bio boasts a computer science degree from MIT and a two-year stint as video game designer at Atari. Keith Sawyer, Ph. D., now a a professor of psychology, education, and business at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver a presentation based off his latest book … read more

Omaha KANEKO, an Omaha non-profit dedicated to exploring creativity, will feature a lecture by Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson on Thursday to kick off its new series, Understanding Creativity. Carson, author of "Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity, and Innovation in Your Life," will discuss how to expand and discover paths to greater creative capacity. More than a talk, the event will also get the audience involved in a series of exercises led by Carson and her team. "My goal in conducting research on creativity and brain functions is to discover ways that everyone – even those who do not consider themselves … read more

Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it's happening on the Prairie, you'll find it here. (Left: On Wednesday, artists like violinest Tim Fain will perform for the short documentary produced by The Siliver Screen, "KANEKO Experimental ...  read more

Omaha After an April visit for production and one performance, acclaimed violinest Tim Fain is returning to KANEKO in two weeks for the world premiere tour of Portals, a collaboration merging live performance … read more