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  • 3 things our news team learned from iKC’s unconference model

    SPN’s Iowa editor Megan Bannister and Nebraska editor Jordan Pascale were first-time unconference attendees and thought they’d share what they learned from iKC’s unconventional model.

  • Here’s what people are talking about at the iKC Unconference

    Here’s what people are talking about at the iKC Unconference

    iKC. the day-long conference without an agenda, drew hundreds of people to Union Station in Kansas City Thursday. Topics ranged from bettering Kansas City with tech and social good to creating a mentoring program for entrepreneurs to partnering corporations with startups.

  • Stop, collaborate and rejoice with your Silicon Prairie neighbors Aug. 21

    Stop, collaborate and rejoice with your Silicon Prairie neighbors Aug. 21

    This is your heads up before August 21 rolls around and you’re left wondering where everyone in your co-working space or office has gone. It’s hard to pull entrepreneurs away from their work—passions, really—and get them all in one place, let alone a different city. But the results typically are incredible. Add in a passion…

  • iKC announces VegasTechFund’s Andy White as keynote

    There are lots of way to help celebrate and grow a local startup community. At iKC: The Unconference, that means getting leaders from all different areas together in the same room and getting them to talk about what they find important.

  • iKC shifts from June to October, unwinds into an “unconference”

    With the recent release of the 1Week KC schedule, you may have been left wondering where Think Big Partners and the KC Chamber’s iKC conference fits into this year’s program. First held last June during 1Week, the event is absent from this year’s schedule because it has a new date and direction …

  • At iKC, Deloitte’s Raynor details deliberate path to innovation

    Michael Raynor is a director at one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Deloitte Consulting, where he works with executives of world-leading companies across a variety of industries. His résumé doesn’t stop there though, as he’s also written multiple best-selling books on innovation, including “The Innovator’s Manifesto,” which he published last year. Ten years of…

  • Kansas City’s collaborative spirit lies at heart of inaugural iKC

    Collaboration. It’s not an “i” word, so it didn’t fit neatly into the branding of iKC, a conference that aimed to innovate, ignite and inspire. But collaboration was an awfully popular topic on Wednesday at H&R Block world headquarters in Kansas City, Mo. For one, the very existence of the conference was a testament to…