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  • Watch some of our Techweek KC highlights [Video]

    Watch some of our Techweek KC highlights [Video]

    Silicon Prairie News sent Jake Hull down to Kansas City last week to checkout Techweek KC, a week-long celebration of tech and innovation which included the Big Data Summit, sessions with local and national innovators, and keynotes from speakers like Jonathan Badeen, Co-Founder of Tinder. The event culminated in the announcement of the LaunchKC grant winners. See…

  • Techweek Kansas City! Now with more BigDataSummitKC

    Techweek Kansas City! Now with more BigDataSummitKC

    BigDataSummitKC will now be running during the same time as Techweek Kansas City this year, festival coordinators announced. Techweek will be September 14-20; BigDataSummitKC will be September 16-17. Techweek is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading technology conferences.

  • Launch KC celebrates one-year anniversary with event Thursday

    As Launch KC celebrates its one-year anniversary, the tech and entrepreneurial communities are invited to spend an evening celebrating the program’s first year. The initiative launched last year and aimed to attract tech entrepreneurs and companies to the Crossroads Arts District and greater downtown Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo. mayor Sly James—one of the intiative’s key supporters—will…

  • French tech company BIME lands U.S. headquarters in KC’s Crossroads

    A Montpellier, France-based tech company is about to land its U.S. headquarters in Kansas City’s Crossroads District. BIME Analytics, which provides cloud-based business intelligence …

  • Mayor unveils Launch KC, effort to attract and develop tech business

    They didn’t shout it, per se, but Kansas City leaders took a rooftop Monday to announce news about Launch KC, a new effort to attract tech entrepreneurs and companies to the Crossroads Arts District and Greater Downtown Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo. mayor Sly James and Mayors’ Bistate Innovations Team co-chairman Mike Burke led a…

  • Officials set to unveil strategic tech effort Launch KC at Monday event

    Launch KC appears to be just about go for, um, launch. Said to be a strategic initiative aimed at attracting tech entrepreneurs and professionals to the Crossroads Arts District and throughout downtown Kansas City, Mo., Launch KC will be officially unveiled next week. A press conference regarding the initiative is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday…