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Mission Creek’s Innovation conference seeks nominations
IOWA CITY—After the first year of Mission Creek: Innovation organizer Wesley Beary says there was room from improvement and as the conference gears up for a second year, its organizers need your help.
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Inaugural conference adds tech component to Mission Creek Festival
On Saturday morning, more than 50 entrepreneurs, students and members of the community gathered in the University of Iowa’s Pappajohn Business Building for a common purpose—the inaugural Mission Creek Tech + Innovation conference. The one-day conference featured local and national speakers, including David Gould of the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, Chad Whitacre of Gittip,…
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New two-day conference brings tech, innovation to Iowa City festival
For eight years now, music lovers, artists and creatives of all sorts have gathered in Iowa City, Iowa, for one purpose: the Mission Creek Festival, an annual week-long event that features a variety of concerts, comedic performances, literary readings, film screenings, public lectures and myriad other cultural events. But this year, organizers are adding one…
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Prairie Portrait: Wesley Beary of Heroku
Silicon Prairie News: What drove your decision late last year to join Heroku? | Wesley Beary: By that time I had been working almost entirely on fog for over a year. I was quite happy with where that took the project, but the challenge of it and the rate at which I was learning had…