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State of Our City event will challenge young professionals to take actionable results
Next month’s Greater Omaha Chamber Young Professionals’ State of Our City event will bring an open dialogue on building a strong city to Omaha’s impassioned, young professionals. State of Our City is extending conversations that began at this year’s YP Summit and opening a new discussion on what Omaha should look like, focus on and…
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Grammy winner, social entrepreneur to speak at YP Summit on Feb. 28
John Legend is coming to the CenturyLink Center on Feb. 28 but it’s not to sing in front of concert goers. Instead, it’s to speak to more than 1,500 young professionals and business leaders at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s Young Professionals Summit. Joining Legend as a keynote speaker for the annual event will…
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Bruce Mau, Peter Kageyama to headline YP Summit on Feb. 29
The 2012 Young Professionals Summit, an event produced by the Greater Omaha Young Professionals, will return this year on Wednesday, Feb. 29 at CenturyLink Center Omaha. Seeking to inspire ideas and creativity, the day-long conference will bring together young professionals interested in contributing to both the business and community dimensions of Omaha. Throughout the day,…
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Newark mayor Cory Booker calls Omaha to action at YP Summit
Do something. The message Newark, N.J. mayor Cory Booker gave as the keynote speaker at the Omaha Young Professionals Summit on Thursday was the same message he got from a neighbor after one particularly difficult day early in his political career, when Booker was on the Newark city council. Feeling deflated because of political infighting…
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Events: KC Launch Party, Dwolla Meetup, Pitch & Grow and More
The week ahead might just be the busiest week of events we’ve seen in a long while, and moreover, it’s filled with a handful of quality startup-focused events. We’re, of course, very excited about the first event on this week’s calendar, the Silicon Prairie News – Kansas City Launch Party, and we hope to see…
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YP Summit announces keynote speaker: Newark Mayor Cory Booker
We’re excited to pass along the announcement of next year’s Young Professionals Summit keynote speaker: Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker (photo from twitter.com/corybooker). Earlier today, the Greater Omaha Young Professionals group, the section of the Greater Omaha Chamber responsible for the Summit, broke the news on their Twitter account, see: twitter.com/omahayp. Next year’s Summit…
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Interviews from YP Summit about #YourSeat2010 and I Live in Omaha
At last Thursday’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit I tracked down two of the individuals behind the two most common phrases of the event: the Twitter hashtag #YourSeat2010 and the blue signs and stickers touting I live in Omaha. First up, Mark Pohl, the chair of this year’s Summit and an employee of the Omaha…
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Who wants to go to the Omaha YP Summit? We have tickets!
Silicon Prairie News has two all day passes ($125 value) to give away. To win one…
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Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor talks innovation & entrepreneurship
Here is the last of three posts in a series of interviews with the keynote speakers of this year’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit, which is taking place this Thursday, March 4. Bill Taylor is the co-founder and founding editor of Fast Company magazine as well as the author of Mavericks at Work, a New…