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5 (more) reasons to attend Highlight Midwest in Des Moines #hmdm
Inspired by Andy Brudtkuhl’s post, 5 Reasons To Attend Highlight Midwest In Des Moines #hmdm, I’ve written my own. Before you read mine, however, make sure to pay a visit to Andy’s site to see his in its entirety. Here’s a rundown of them: Party Killer Presentations Keynote Presentations Get Interviewed Meet People And here…
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Movement Bash to kick off Highlight Midwest festivities
The second annual Highlight Midwest event coming up on October 23rd is already drawing the creative class from places like Kansas City, Omaha, and beyond as well as those who call Des Moines home. Details emerged today about an adjacent event that is being planned the preceding evening called “Movement Bash” that is sure…
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Second annual Highlight Midwest taking place in Des Moines Oct. 23
Fall is unconference season on the Silicon Prairie, and following the three local events in Des Moines, Kansas City, and Omaha, will be a composite event: Highlight Midwest. Des Moines is proud to host the second annual iteration of Highlight Midwest, an event founded as a means to showcase – or highlight – the best…
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Highlight Midwest coverage in Omaha World-Herald
Kuddos to Stefanie Monge for her coverage in Monday’s OWH on the recent Highlight Midwest Conference which Silicon Prairie News was a part of. The story gives a good overview of the event as well as some quotes from Bo Fishback of the Kauffman Foundation. “The support of the Kauffman Foundation is the key to…
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Evening presentations at Highlight Midwest
Here are the long awaited evening presentations from each of the cities represented as well as the panel moderated by Bo Fishback of the Kauffman Foundation. Before we reveal the presentations, the following are a collection of links reviewing the Highlight Midwest event: Nathan Wright of Lava Row Highlight Midwest 2008 by Christina Maki What…
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Bo Fishback of the Kauffman Foundation at Highlight Midwest
Here’s a clip that SPN did with Bo Fishback, VP of Entrepreneurship for the Kauffman Foundation. Bo was the moderator during Highlight Midwest’s panel discussion and asked some very poignant and timely questions of the panel. Fishback’s role at the Foundation include developing and advancing transformative programs that strengthen entrepreneurial engagement in the economy and…
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Carl Schramm at Highlight Midwest
While at Highlight Midwest last week, we had the opportunity to hear from Carl Schramm, President and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation. Schramm is one of the world’s most recognized thought leaders on fostering and advancing entrepreneurship. Titles such as “evangelist of entrepreneurship” by The Economist and USA Today noting, “On every front,…
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Highlight Midwest review
Silicon Prairie News is back from Highlight Midwest, an outstanding event just held in Kansas City along with a team of innovators from Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. It was a whirlwind of activity, and we’ll have more posts coming soon including various interviews with the other city’s leaders. In addition we’ll have the opening comments…
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Highlight Midwest is here!
It’s finally here! As many of you know, a number of us from Omaha are involved with a conference in Kansas City this week called Highlight Midwest The goal of the conference is to “highlight” or showcase the interesting/exciting things that are going on in KC, Des Moines & Omaha regarding technology, entrepreneurship,…
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Updates & weekend fun
It’s been a great week here in Seattle…I mean Omaha…hard to tell with all of the rain and clouds we’ve had. That being said, there’s a lot of great forward progress around the entrepreneur and creative class in the city over the past few weeks. Saturday night, make sure to swing down to the Bemis to…