With a big week ahead of us, here’s a preview of what to expect on the Prairie.
First, if you’re in Kansas City, check out the free events of the Smart Communications Technology Summit. This two-day event starts Tuesday with two networking activities before all-day speaker and breakout sessions on Wednesday.
In Omaha on Wednesday, individuals looking for co-founders will team up with the folks of Hacks/Hackers for the first Omaha Co-Founders meetup. The same night in Kansas City, KCITP will be holding its third annual summer happy hour event.* Thursday the pace keeps ticking with a TechBrew in Cedar Valley and Cornstalks Demo Night in Omaha sponsored by Treetop Ventures. Friday, Venture Fridays at Red Nova Labs will send us off into the weekend.
Details from the event websites are below, followed by links to sites where you can learn more. Find more upcoming events on our event page, siliconprairienews.com/events, and submit an event for consideration to info@siliconprairienews.com.
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Tuesday-Wednesday – 2011 Smart Communications Technology Summit
Kansas City – Various locations
Our Fourth Annual Smart Communications Technology Summit brings all the major communications experts together in one place, so you can see for yourself how Unified Communications can help you collaborate, communicate and connect.
Learn more at skccom.com/techsummit
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. – Omaha Co-Founders Meetup
Omaha – The Foundation (1407 Harney St.)
Join us for our first meetup! We want to promote anyone interested in founding a startup by having regular informal meetups where the Omaha creative talents can jam! Come with ideas, skills, or just plain passion — it’s all good when it’s innovative tech in Omaha. I’m very proud to announce that our first meetup will be a joint event with Hacks/Hackers.
Learn more at meetup.com
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. – Hacks/Hackers Heartland
Omaha – The Foundation (1407 Harney St.)
Hacks/Hackers is all about bringing disparate groups together. Coders and journalists. Editors and reporters. Corporate suits and bootstrap entrepreneurs. So when we heard about the Omaha Co-Founders, well, we figured we’d found a kindred spirit. The group aims to match ideas with talent, founders with hackers. Basically, it intends to introduce people in Omaha interested in starting a tech company. That’s right up our alley. So we’re happy to announce a joint operation between the Omaha Co-Founders and HH on August 3rd.
Learn more at meetup.com
Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. – KCITP Summer Happy Hour
Omaha – The Waldo Well (7421 Broadway)
Hacks/Hackers is all about bringing disparate groups together. Coders and journalists. Editors and reporters. Corporate suits and bootstrap entrepreneurs. So when we heard about the Omaha Co-Founders, well, we figured we’d found a kindred spirit. The group aims to match ideas with talent, founders with hackers. Basically, it intends to introduce people in Omaha interested in starting a tech company. That’s right up our alley. So we’re happy to announce a joint operation between the Omaha Co-Founders and HH on August 3rd.
Learn more at kcitp.com
Thursday, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. – TechBrew Cedar Valley
Cedar Falls – Voodoo Lounge (314 Main Street)
Join us for the Technology Association of Iowa’s TechBrew event, an informal gathering of entrepreneurs, technologists, business people and funders getting together to talk over a beer (social lubrication). Cocktails and networking will begin promptly at 5 pm!
Learn more at technologyiowa.org
Thursday, 6 p.m. – Cornstalks Demo Night
Omaha – Creighton University Harper Center (602 North 20th St.)
Demo night, sponsored by Treetop Ventures will feature eight young Silicon Prairie companies including Battle Bears and LoDo Software.
Learn more in our post: “Cornstalks Demo Night returning August 4“
Friday, 4 p.m. – Venture Fridays
Westwood, Kan. – Offices of Red Nova Labs (4830 Rainbow Boulevard)
Ready to come out of the entrepreneurial closet and meet like-minds in KC?
Red Nova Labs is pleased and eager to be part of a Midwest startup “uprising” proving that web/tech/app/game/mktg advances and success do not solely happen in the well-funded ‘burbs of Silicon Valley. Being a web/tech/app/game/mktg startup in the Midwest isn’t an easy feat. By bringing knowledge of technology startups to the farmbelt, we hope support a future beyond our own. That’s why we’re hosting “Venture Fridays.”
Learn more at meetup.com
*Updated Monday, 11:30 a.m. – Added KCITP Summer Happy Hour to list of events
