Kansas City hosted its last Startup Weekend in April. The 54-hour event will return for the second time this year Nov. 11-13 as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Photo by Michael Stacy.
Kansas City will be one of 21 cities participating in Startup Weekend Nov. 11-13. The 54-hour event, during which participants build ideas into web or mobile applications that could form the basis of credible businesses, returns to the city as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Startup Weekend, now an affiliate of the Kauffman Foundation (see our post “Kauffman Foundation brings Startup Weekend into affiliate fold“), will begin in Kansas City on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. with a welcome and opening pitch session at the Cerner Innovations Campus (10236 Marion Park Dr.).
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After the initial pitches are made Friday night, developers, designers and business people will break into teams and execute on the newly formed ideas for the remainder of Friday, all of Saturday and most of Sunday. The event concludes on Sunday evening, when teams demo their final products to a panel of judges.
Kathy Walker, managing director of Openair Equity Partners, will serve as a panelist, and Avery Pennarun, a developer at Google, will also join in for the weekend as a mentor. The full slate of panelists, mentors, judges and presenters will be announced in the coming days on Startup Weekend Kansas City’s site.
Tickets are available now. They cost $80 per participant and can be purchased on Startup Weekend Kansas City’s registration page.
