Lincoln

  • NMotion Lunch and Learns dish up tips for aspiring founders

    NMotion Lunch and Learns dish up tips for aspiring founders

    Looking to learn about market competition and financial growth milestones? Lincoln-based NMotion Accelerator is holding a series of virtual informational sessions to help aspiring founders demystify the process of launching a start-up. The events, held weekly on Tuesdays, are free and open to the public. Much of the material covered is what NMotion’s leaders share and…

  • Nebraska music festival launches streaming initiative Lincoln Calling TV

    Nebraska music festival launches streaming initiative Lincoln Calling TV

    Lincoln Calling — a long-running music and arts festival in Nebraska’s capital city — is launching a new subscription-based livestreaming initiative that aims to recreate the live music experience on screen. The project, Lincoln Calling TV, is the product of a partnership between the festival and Basement Creators Network (BCN), a Lincoln production company that…

  • Midwest art and music turn to technology to keep making fans—and money

    Midwest art and music turn to technology to keep making fans—and money

    As it has with nearly every aspect of life over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we experience art. With many galleries and performance venues closed or limiting in-person attendance, art organizations and artists across the Midwest are increasingly turning to technology to showcase their work safely and maintain relationships with…

  • UNeTech levels the playing field for high-risk, high-reward tech startups

    UNeTech levels the playing field for high-risk, high-reward tech startups

    The “valley of death” is a term used in the startup community to refer to the dreaded gap between the discovery of promising new technologies and the bringing to market of commercially viable new products based on those technologies. It is the badlands where risky and possibly disruptive tech goes to die.  Put more formally,…

  • HTI Labs fights human trafficking through research, technology, policy

    HTI Labs fights human trafficking through research, technology, policy

    An Omaha-based company using a data-driven approach to combat human trafficking recently raised funding to expand its crucially needed work to support law enforcement, victims and survivors of the practice.  HTI Labs,  a social enterprise corporation combating human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault through data-driven research and tech, has grown far larger than CEO…

  • Oh Hello wins web design award, strives to break marketing’s glass ceiling 

    Oh Hello wins web design award, strives to break marketing’s glass ceiling 

    The Lincoln-based, woman-led brand development and brand management agency Oh Hello recently won Best Web Design Agency in the Midwest from Corporate Vision Magazine’s Media Innovator Awards.  A panel of expert judges selected Oh Hello in recognition of the agency’s expertise in web design, dedication to customer service and client satisfaction. The award complements a…

  • “Like driving an aircraft carrier”: developing skilled workers in Nebraska a major challenge

    “Like driving an aircraft carrier”: developing skilled workers in Nebraska a major challenge

    The state of Nebraska needs skilled workers. Badly. University of Nebraska Provost Susan Fritz last year acknowledged that that state faces demand for 15,000 new workers in engineering and computer science alone by 2026. Speaking generally of the gap between supply and demand of skilled labor in early 2019, former NU president Hank Bounds called…

  • Infotec 2020 virtual conference connects tech talent and companies this Friday

    Infotec 2020 virtual conference connects tech talent and companies this Friday

    In an era of remote work and major uncertainty, it’s time for the Silicon Prairie tech community to reconnect. But how? Attend Infotec 2020, for one. The AIM Institute’s longtime annual business technology conference is known for its ability to cultivate a sense of community between tech talent and companies with IT needs. “It’s a…

  • This Lincoln developer’s app creates such realistic zombie pics, we had to use these pumpkins as a cover photo instead

    This Lincoln developer’s app creates such realistic zombie pics, we had to use these pumpkins as a cover photo instead

    Content warning: contains zombie images some readers may find disturbing. The wife of Josh Brown Kramer, senior data science consultant for Lincoln-based medical AI developer Ocuvera, is tired of zombies.  For the past year, the computer vision researcher has been working on an app that zombifies user selfies, turning their everyday visages into grotesque monstrosities.…

  • On Nebraska Innovation Campus, The Combine incubator hatches new agtech startups

    On Nebraska Innovation Campus, The Combine incubator hatches new agtech startups

    Before Seattle-based Costco broke ground on its $280 million poultry operation in Fremont in 2017, Scott Niewohner remembers a conversation with his cousin about the pros and cons of building barns to raise chickens to supply the plant.  Chief among the cons, according to Niewohner’s cousin: daily retrieval of the dead birds scattered throughout the…