May 6, 2011

  • Join us for the Big Omaha Opening Party presented by Rackspace

    Next week’s Big Omaha festivities are just around the corner, and we want to make sure you have all the details on the evening events, all of which are open to the public. We have a number of venues booked to accommodate the more than 600 attendees we have coming in from more than 20…

  • Weekly Wrap-Up: Five days until Big Omaha edition

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Big Omaha, and the buzz about the event on the Weekly Wrap-Up has reached a crescendo. In the final pre-Big Omaha WWU, which comes five days before the conference’s opening party, Dusty Davidson and Jeff Slobotski look ahead to the big event and back over the week that…

  • May GDMLI breakfast to focus on Des Moines’ Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

    The Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute’s (GDMLI) quarterly Daybreak Leadership Breakfast series will be taking an in-depth look at the local entrepreneurial ecosystem when the group gathers at the Greater Des Moines Partnership Building (700 Locust) on May 19. The May breakfast, with the theme “Silicon Prairie: A Developing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem”, will feature a panel…

  • FutureMidwest draws region’s ideas, innovators to Detroit

    Last week, I was able to attend and speak at the FutureMidwest conference in Detroit. The conference was made up of about 800 designers, developers, marketers, and creatives across the Midwest (primarily Michigan natives). Like Big Omaha, FutureMidwest is in its third year, has a cow for a mascot, and put together an awesome event…

  • Prairie Moves: Bozell, Turbine Interactive, Skid Vis and more

    Published every Tuesday (four days late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…