During Global Entrepreneur Week, Kansas City joined 33 cities across the globe as a partner of the international Big Data Festival. With over 25,000 participants in over a dozen countries, the conversation stretched from Sydney to Shanghai, Delhi to Dublin. Sponsored by Launch KC, this was the first year Kansas City stepped onto the world Big Data stage to add its unique voice to the global conversation.
Big Data Kansas City included scientists, visualizers, architects, researchers, engineers, experts, beginners, professors and learners. The conference focused on the challenges and opportunities presented by the growth of Big Data and how Kansas City can continue to expand its role intellectually and economically in the field.
With nearly 300 participants, the two-day event was held at the Kansas City Convention Center. Top-of-their-field speakers from IBM, Sprint and DST Systems led the discussion at the event, which included a civic data hackathon. The best and brightest of Kansas City’s digital makers and doers joined together and raised Kansas City’s global profile.
Following the successful Big Data KC conference, Launch KC celebrated its first year with a celebration at the Bauer in the heart of the Crossroads. Lead by Pete Fullerton – President of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City and Mayor Pro-Tem Cindy Circo, the event highlighted the outstanding work Launch KC has done over the last year to change how the EDC works to recruit entrepreneurs.
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With five high-tech and high-growth companies relocating to Kansas City in the last year, there was much to toast. The evening culminated in welcoming Bime Analytics from Montpellier, France to Kansas City. Bime opened its American headquarters just blocks from the site of the evening’s festivities.
Here’s to even more success in year two of Launch KC!
