Today, we’re excited to release the official Big Omaha schedule. Next week, continue to look to Silicon Prairie News for a version of this year’s “big schedule and details” as well as information on the sponsors involved in this year’s event.
Thursday, May 13
7:30 p.m. Network Neighborhood : Big Omaha Opening Party by What Cheer
Friday, May 14
Event emcee Rachelle Hruska, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Guest of a Guest
8:00 a.m. Doors Open, Breakfast provided by PayPal X Developer Network
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9:00 Jeff Slobotski & Dusty Davidson, Co-founders of Big Omaha & Silicon Prairie News
9:10 Roger Fransecky, Founder & CEO of The Apogee Group
9:30 David Hauser, Co-Founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs
10:00 Scott Belsky, Founder and CEO of Behance
10:40 Break
11:00 Rachelle Hruska
11:15 Scott Harrison, Founder of charity: water
12:00 p.m. Lunch, Provided by Creighton University & Halo Institute
1:30 Matt Mullenweg, Founder of Automattic – Interviewed by Robert Scoble, Blogger, technical evangelist and Managing Director of building43
2:00 Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of Wine Library TV & Co-Founder of Vaynermedia
2:45 Break
3:15 Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder of IndieGoGo
3:50 Jason Fried, Co-Founder of 37signals
4:20 Extended Speaker Q&A
5:30 Happy Hour hosted by Hayneedle at Urban Wine Company
6:00 Delivering Happiness Happy Hour with Tony Hsieh at Urban Wine Company
9:00 Big Party presented by Nomad Lounge & Archrival at Nomad Lounge
Saturday, May 15
8:00 a.m. Doors open, breakfast provided by PayPal X Developer Network
9:00 Jeff Slobotski & Dusty Davidson
9:10 Dennis Crowley, Co-Founder of foursquare
9:45 Melody McCloskey, Co-Founder of StyleSeat
10:20 Entrepreneur Panel
- Alexa Andrzejewski, Founder of Foodspotting
- Justin Shaffer, CEO and Founder of Hot Potato
- Matt Galligan, CEO and Co-Founder of SimpleGeo
11:15 Break
11:40 Tony Hsieh, Author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos
12:30 Jeff Slobotski & Dusty Davidson
Update May 9 at 5:30 – Incorrectly listed “PayPal” as sponsor, changed it to the correct listing: PayPal X Developer Network. We’re excited to have them on board.
