Here's a rundown of upcoming events around the Prairie. Make sure to check out our events page weekly as we're constantly adding new ones. Midlands Venture Forum Networking Dinner (Omaha) – April 22, 5:30-8 p.m. Featured Speaker: Pete Ricketts (left), founder of Drakon, LLC, an asset management company in Omaha. He previously served as a director for the Company from October 1999 to May 2006 before he resigned to campaign for election to the United States Senate for the State of Nebraska. Ricketts is also the chairman of the Omaha board of Children's Scholarship Fund. He is also a director of Chicago Baseball Holding LLC (the holding company for… read more

Omaha After following Robert Murphy's blog and reading his excellent, in-depth recaps of events – Big Omaha 2009, Nicholas Kristof at KANEKO – we've asked him to contribute event recaps to Silicon Prairie News. Today, we're excited to share hist first, which covers KANEKO's most recent event. read more

Omaha Tune in at 5:30 p.m. CDT to watch a psychoanalyst take the stage at KANEKO with three local social media users. From KANEKO's event page: Among his many pursuits as a Lacanian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Dr. Jean-Pierre Klotz examines the relationships between subjectivity… read more

Omaha With expected highs in the 50s this week, there's a great line-up of events in Omaha to get out, explore, and meet new people. Thursday, March 25, 6:30 p.m. – Cornstalks Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce building (1301 Harney St) Drinks and snacks will be served at 6:30 followed by the formal program at 7:30 p.m. This month we will be hearing from Dr. Mike McGinnis (pictured), executive director of the Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI). Prior to assuming his position at PKI in June 2009, Dr. McGinnis served as the executive director of the Virginia Modeling… read more

Omaha When I spoke with Jacquie Scoones of KANEKO last Friday, she told me the reason they selected four journalists to headline this fall's Great Minds Series was because they felt it's a field in which a tremendous amount ... read more

Omaha KANEKO, the venue at which we held Big Omaha last year, will kick off its Great Minds Series tonight at 7 p.m. with a presentation by Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of Half the Sky: ... read more

Omaha SPN had the opportunity to get a "sneak peak" at KANEKO's new library which will be holding an open house this Saturday from 4-7PM. We at SPN are thrilled to have such a vital and creative resource in ... read more

Omaha We are very excited to announce that our friends over at KANEKO are bringing to town Sir Ken Robinson to inaugurate this year’s Great Minds Series. You may recognize Sir Ken from his fantastic presentation at the TED ... read more