Corporate Innovation

  • New at Nebraska Journalism Trust: More directors, hires and Silicon Prairie Startup Week

    New at Nebraska Journalism Trust: More directors, hires and Silicon Prairie Startup Week

    An update from Nebraska Journalism Trust Executive Director Matt Wynn.

  • Corporate Pitch Days Connect Enterprise and Innovation

    Corporate Pitch Days Connect Enterprise and Innovation

    The Nebraska Startup Academy (NSA) is working to introduce Nebraska startups to potential early enterprise customers to accelerate proof of concept for founders building B2B solutions, and spur corporate innovation.

  • Omaha companies navigate hybrid work and invest in upgrading office spaces

    Omaha companies navigate hybrid work and invest in upgrading office spaces

    The COVID-19 pandemic changed how and where Nebraskans work. Omaha companies are exploring ways to make their physical workspaces more appealing in a hybrid work environment.

  • Five Things: AIM Heartland Developers Conference

    Five Things: AIM Heartland Developers Conference

    Artificial intelligence was a popular topic at the AIM Heartland Developers Conference in Omaha on Oct. 23-24. At the conference, New York Times bestselling author and futurist Martin Ford shared his insights on how AI will impact the future of work.

  • Nebraska employers increasing access to quality child care to attract and retain working parents

    Nebraska employers increasing access to quality child care to attract and retain working parents

    Hudl opening an on-site child care center and QLI providing access to vetted on-demand backup caregivers for staff via Swishboom are two examples of how companies are increasing support for working parents with the hope that other employers will follow.

  • Five Things: Responsible artificial intelligence and the future of business

    Five Things: Responsible artificial intelligence and the future of business

    The director of the Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology organization in Google Research visited Omaha to share her perspective on responsible model evaluation, harm mitigation techniques and the future of work.

  • RNAissance Ag names agri-tech leader Steve Meyer new CEO

    RNAissance Ag names agri-tech leader Steve Meyer new CEO

    TechAccel LLC, a Kansas City-based technology and venture development company investing in scientific breakthroughs for healthier agriculture, today announced that Steven Meyer has joined subsidiary RNAissance Ag LLC as chief executive officer.   Meyer most recently was chief operating officer at Lucy Scientific Discovery Inc., British  Columbia, a cGMP manufacturer of psychotropic compounds for therapeutic uses. Prior…

  • Beyond slacktivism: Samaritan and the rise of app-tivism

    Beyond slacktivism: Samaritan and the rise of app-tivism

    “Walk with, not by.” So goes motto for Samaritan, a mobile app that helps users fight homelessness through direct, case-managed giving. It’s a slogan that rejects slacktivism for what could be called “app-tivism”—the use of consumer apps to generate meaningful social action. More than just sharing news of a cause or signaling one’s ethos with…

  • Callers to Coders, led by AIM Institute, upskills Physicians Mutual employees with tech training

    Callers to Coders, led by AIM Institute, upskills Physicians Mutual employees with tech training

    The Callers to Coders program, part of the nonprofit AIM Institute’s partnership with Physicians Mutual, is currently introducing six employees to training in core data management. Physicians Mutual is eager to amplify the success and impacts of last year’s Callers to Coders initiative by again utilizing AIM’s Custom Training program. The 2022 cohort, which launched…

  • Kearney-based startup technology could help shore up weaknesses in U.S. electric grid

    Kearney-based startup technology could help shore up weaknesses in U.S. electric grid

    The U.S. electrical grid is the largest interconnected machine on Earth. Over 200,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and 5.5 million miles of local distribution lines link thousands of electricity-generating plants to homes, schools, companies and all manner of buildings, street lights, stoplights and other nodes of vital infrastructure. A typical utility company today can…