Hack the Midwest played host to 150+ developers and designers in a fierce competition for stacks of cash, tech prizes and coveted sponsorships from Application Programming Interphase (API) sponsors. Thirty … Read More
Betablox DemoDay
Thursday, June 6th, BetaBlox hosted DemoDay, a free event, at their startup incubator space in the Crossroads district. Over 200+ attendees, including investors from all over the country as well as … Read More
KC Roundtable: Impact Of Startup Efforts On Economic Development In The Region
KC Roundtable recently hosted a networking business mixer at Boulevard Brewery to learn more about the impact of startup efforts as they relate to economic development in the region. Attendees were … Read More
Discuss – Imagine – Build – CityCampKC
Saturday, April 20th, 300+ government officials, civic hackers, community leaders and entrepreneurs showed up at this year’s CityCampKC (#CCKC13) at The Kauffman Foundation to share ideas on innovation for municipal … Read More
Hacking the Gigabit City Weekend Wrap-Up
March 22-24th | More than 130+ hackers, developers and visionaries gathered in the City of Fountains for Hacking the Gigabit City, a weekend event aimed at creating and developing advanced … Read More
Hack and Tell Series Kick-Off Event
The inaugural monthly Hack & Tell series kicked off February 28th at Barkley in downtown KCMO. Michael Gelphman, founder of The Disruption Institute and Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP), kicked off … Read More
KC Start-Up Crawl Wrap-Up
On Friday, February 8th, Kansas City hosted a premier event called KC Startup Crawl. The Startup Crawl was a local experiment focused on what can happen when entrepreneurial initiatives are showcased … Read More
Welcome to the Digital Sandbox!
The Digital Sandbox effort was launched Friday afternoon at a gathering of civic and business leaders in Union Station’s new big-screen digital theater. Digital Sandbox KC broadly seeks new innovation … Read More
How does Kansas City rate? Let’s take a look back….
*Downtown Kansas City, Missouri in 1806 In the last 10 years, more than $6 billion dollars has been invested in Downtown Kansas City. No city in America has done so … Read More