The third annual InsurTech Week kicked off Tuesday morning with the goal of exposing 15 insurance-technology startup companies to Iowa’s vast insurance network. Hosted by the Global Insurance Accelerator, companies from Iowa, California, Ohio, Texas, […]
Each police officer with the West Des Moines Police Department will wear a body camera to record their interactions with the public, starting next month. The department ordered 72 cameras and will assign a camera […]
Adapt or be left behind. As Director of Corporate Innovation for the Cedar Rapids-based nonprofit NewBoCo, Mandy Webber works to make sure less and less companies get left behind by helping them think with an innovative […]
I’ve been in love with turn-based strategy games since the early 1990s. I just didn’t know they were called that, not until “Final Fantasy Tactics” re-energized the genre in 1998. My introduction to the genre […]
To meet a growing demand Des Moines Area Community College is offering a cyber security program starting in the fall of 2018. The new four-term program will feature networking, security, Java, Cloud, composition and ethics […]
Thursday was deadline day for cities across the United States to submit their proposals to land HQ2—the second headquarters for Seattle-based tech company Amazon. In September Amazon announced its plans to open a second corporate […]
What started as a pop up art and plant shop in the Des Moines skywalks became a permanent retail space that opened earlier this year. Andrea Metzler had moved back to Des Moines and would […]
The first cohort for the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator completed the 100 day program Tuesday by pitching their companies Tuesday morning during “Demo Day.” Over 100 people gathered inside the World Food Prize in downtown Des […]
By hearing success stories, Michael Gelphman believes it can inspire others to create their own success story. And with the sixth Dare Mighty Things conference, Gelphman hopes he can continue inspiring others so eventually they can […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released an open-source software Monday to create payment platforms that will provide unbanked people around the world with access to digital financial services, according to a news release. Des […]