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With Disruption Institute, KCITP aims to expand KC mobile talent pool
Last year was a busy one for Michael Gelphman and Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP), the grassroots group for Kansas City technology professionals that Gelphman …
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At first Compute Midwest, speakers and organizer keep focus on future
By the end of Compute Midwest, the first-year conference and the year-old venue that housed it felt positively ancient by comparison to the ideas exchanged therein. Such was the forward-looking nature of the discourse Friday at the conference put on by Kansas City IT Professionals. The event, held at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts…
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Tune in to the inaugural Compute Midwest live all day (Video)
The inaugural Compute Midwest conference is underway at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo., with a day full of talks on tap. Silicon Prairie News is on hand and will have full coverage of today’s event, which is the first of its kind put on by Kansas City IT Professionals, the…
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Compute Midwest adds speakers, will host hackathon at Google Fiber Space
The organizer of Compute Midwest, a Kansas City IT Professionals event that will take place Nov. 8-11 in Kansas City, has announced that the event’s hackathon Nov. 10-11 will be held in Google’s Fiber Space, a showroom and event space offering visitors an early glimpse of Google Fiber. Hackathon competitors will be given access to…
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KCITP to host new conference, Compute Midwest, Nov. 8-11
Apparently hacking the Midwest proved so successful for Kansas City IT Professionals that the organization is now endeavoring to “compute” the same region. KCITP, a grassroots Kansas City tech group founded in 2008 by Michael Gelphman, announced on Friday that it will host a new conference and hackathon, called Compute Midwest, from Nov. 8-11 in…
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As KCITP turns 4, founder Gelphman reflects, looks toward future
In 2008, Michael Gelphman established a grassroots group with a modest goal: to connect people in the Kansas City tech scene. Four years and nearly 9,000 online members later, Gelphman’s group is doing that at a larger scale than he could have imagined. Gelphman founded Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP) four years ago as a…
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Kansas City IT Professionals kick off 2012 with a happy hour with a twist
More than 120 professionals from around the Kansas City metro gathered Thursday evening at The Well in Waldo for drinks, discussion and networking. But this wasn’t exactly your typical happy hour discussion. The topic du jour? Goals. The Kansas City Information Technology Professionals (KCITP) kicked off their event schedule for the new year with a…
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Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase…