by Jason Harper | Oct 21, 2015 | Marketing the Region, Global Roundtables, Gigabit Ecosystem Building
KC Digital Drive helps Kansas City join exclusive community of five global cities. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced today that it has selected Kansas City as the first U.S. city to become a Core Smart City. IEEE (often referred to...
by Jason Harper | Oct 20, 2015 | Marketing the Region
The Vancouver, BC-born, globetrotting conference CityAge returns to Kansas City, October 29-30, 2015. Alert city-tech watchers will remember this as one of the first conferences to be hosted by the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, back in the...
by Jason Harper | Oct 19, 2015 | Marketing the Region, IT Workforce Development
Compute Midwest returns to Kansas City this week, Oct. 22-23, at Municipal Hall in downtown KCMO. Now in its fourth year, the conference (much like KC Digital Drive) was founded around the time a certain large tech company had chosen KC for its big launch. As Compute...
by Jason Harper | Oct 19, 2015 | IT Workforce Development, Marketing the Region, Event Calendar
This Fall, remarkable people from around the globe will converge in Kansas City to explore the technologies transforming tomorrow at Compute Midwest. Get exclusive insights from 14+ visionaries & learn how they overcame enormous challenges to create breakthrough...
by Jason Harper | Aug 25, 2015 | Marketing the Region
Creating a Culture of Social Entrepreneurship The Kansas City area has seen lots of change over the last half century. Not all of it has been good. Taking one side of the city as an example: Between the years 1960 and 2000, over 30,000 people moved out of . Kansas...