Theresa Payton, former White House Chief Information Officer and cybersecurity authority, was announced as the keynote speaker for the Iowa Technology Summit in Des Moines on Sept. 26, according to a news release from the Technology Association of Iowa Wednesday.
According to the release, Payton was named one of the top 25 Most Influential People in…
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Homework is taking a different form.
KinoSol—a three-year old Ames-based company producing solar-powered food dehydrators— has over 100 units in 20 countries but still the founders still had homework because they were students at Iowa State University.
But co-founder Mikayla Sullivan says the team is looking forward to finally working—without homework—on their company that originally started as…
Inside the basement of the Zion Lutheran Church high school kids are playing with Legos for the first time.
That Lego will lead them—if all goes according to plan—towards breaking the cycle of poverty in their family.
The Legos are part of the curriculum for PI 515 (pursuit innovation)—a Des Moines-based non-profit organization that teaches science, technology, education…
Des Moines-based Denim is one of the area’s fastest growing social media companies that you probably haven’t heard of. In just five months, the platform has powered more than 10 million Facebook ads and aggregated more than 250 million data points about how consumers are interacting and engaging with Facebook ads relating to…
The Ag Startup Engine announced Monday that Veridian Credit Union joined the Ag Startup Engine effort, according to a news release.
According to the release, Veridian Credit Union will bring education, mentoring and financing resources to Iowa entrepreneurs and startups that focus on agriculture technology. Veridian is a not-for-profit financial cooperative owned by its members with more…
Old school and new school are merging to form a new coding program in Omaha this school year.
Midland University in Freemont, Neb. is launching Midland Code Academy —a ten-month three course program— at its Omaha campus that will provide students with a coding certification.
Classes will be three hours a day, three times a week at the Midland…
Drake University Art Professor Phillip Chen heard that a group of people would discuss and critique a piece of art Friday night.
He wanted to be part of the conversation.
"Because it doesn't happen that often," Chen says. "When I go to galleries I always want to know what people are thinking."
So Chen and over 30 other…
Describe, interpret, evaluate.
Those are the three steps Nancy Gebhart suggested in a guest commentary article last month to help understand works of art. And on the eve of our first Clay & Milk event that's aimed to connect the artistic and technological communities, we wanted to share the submissions we’ve received from artist Christopher Chiavetta’s…
It's one thing to sell somebody a new lawnmower by telling them how it drives.
It's another thing to have them virtually test drive it on a virtual lawn.
Using augmented and virtual reality technology the Des Moines-based team at Shift Interactive are able to take their clients to a space that has been unheard of in…
Last week I sat in on a meeting with Paul Pate, Iowa’s two-time Secretary of State, held at the Greater Des Moines Partnership. The meeting was one of several listening sessions that the Secretary has held across Iowa in recent months to find ways to improve our local business climate.
Among other duties, the Secretary of…
Next Level Ventures – a Des Moines based venture capital firm – announced Tej Dhawan as a senior advisor Wednesday according to a news release.
Dhawan will assist in making investments and managing portfolio companies, according to the release.
Dhawan is a partner with the Urbandale-based Entrepreneurial Technologies and is involved with Plains Angels, the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator and the Global Insurance…
As a fifth generation, Northwest Iowa dairy farmer Steve Brockshus remembers going to land sales and always asking his father what the land would go for and what it was worth.
As he got older he stayed curious.
“I started asking questions, talking with other farmers and learned that having access to updated information on what land…