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Sticker Story Book rules the pitch at second annual Hack the Midwest
A children’s iPad app came out on top at the second annual Hack the Midwest last weekend after ideas were kicked around for 24 hours and pitched just off the pitch at Sporting Park’s Boulevard Members Club in Kansas City, Kan. About 150 developers and designers formed teams Saturday to present 30 apps in front…
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With Disruption Institute, KCITP aims to expand KC mobile talent pool
Last year was a busy one for Michael Gelphman and Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP), the grassroots group for Kansas City technology professionals that Gelphman …
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Compute Midwest event produces 16 projects, details of KCITP endeavor
The inaugural Compute Midwest featured a full day of talks from a slate of tech leaders on Nov. 9 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo. And on Nov. 10, that conversation gave way to action as Compute Midwest, an event put on by Kansas City IT Professionals, concluded with…
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At first Compute Midwest, speakers and organizer keep focus on future
By the end of Compute Midwest, the first-year conference and the year-old venue that housed it felt positively ancient by comparison to the ideas exchanged therein. Such was the forward-looking nature of the discourse Friday at the conference put on by Kansas City IT Professionals. The event, held at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts…
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Compute Midwest adds speakers, will host hackathon at Google Fiber Space
The organizer of Compute Midwest, a Kansas City IT Professionals event that will take place Nov. 8-11 in Kansas City, has announced that the event’s hackathon Nov. 10-11 will be held in Google’s Fiber Space, a showroom and event space offering visitors an early glimpse of Google Fiber. Hackathon competitors will be given access to…
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KCITP to host new conference, Compute Midwest, Nov. 8-11
Apparently hacking the Midwest proved so successful for Kansas City IT Professionals that the organization is now endeavoring to “compute” the same region. KCITP, a grassroots Kansas City tech group founded in 2008 by Michael Gelphman, announced on Friday that it will host a new conference and hackathon, called Compute Midwest, from Nov. 8-11 in…
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As KCITP turns 4, founder Gelphman reflects, looks toward future
In 2008, Michael Gelphman established a grassroots group with a modest goal: to connect people in the Kansas City tech scene. Four years and nearly 9,000 online members later, Gelphman’s group is doing that at a larger scale than he could have imagined. Gelphman founded Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP) four years ago as a…
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Netflix app nabs top prize after 24 busy hours at first Hack the Midwest
If you were to guess the location of some Kansas City and the Midwest’s best developers and designers over the weekend, a golf course may not be your first choice, unless you knew about Hack The Midwest. Saturday morning nearly 100 hackers filed into the clubhouse of the Heartland Golf Club and set up shop…
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KCITP hosting inaugural Hack the Midwest code-fest June 2-3
Kansas City IT Professionals is inviting developers and designers …
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Symantec CEO talks security, startup approach at KCITP event (Video)
Kansas City Information Technology Professoinals (KCITP) on Wednesday hosted InfoSec Night, an event to highlight information security and its role in consumer electronics. Staged at the Regneir Center on the campus of Johnson County Community College, the event featured a keynote delivered by Symantec CEO Enrique Salem. A hackathon-style session followed Salem’s address, and networking…