Events Preview: Second Fridays, weekend coding events
January 7, 2016 | Andrea Essner
There are a boatload of entrepreneurial events hosted in Kansas City on a weekly basis. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, supporter or curious Kansas Citian, we’d recommend these upcoming events for you.
WEEKLY EVENT PREVIEW
Second Fridays
When: Friday, January 8 @ 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Where: Village Square Coworking Studio
Second Fridays is simply a casual, fun gathering for the startup community to connect on a monthly basis with no agenda except good times.
Coding & Cupcakes
When: Saturday, January 9 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Where: Coding Koalas
Mothers and daughters are invited to attend sessions to learn about code and how to build websites together.
Coding & Cocktails
When: Saturday, January 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Where: VML (Downtown Airport)
You’ve seen the paint & wine classes, now it’s time to get techy and learn web development basics over trendy cocktails.
CoderDojoKC
When: Saturday, January 9 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Google Fiber
A free way for kids to learn to code in the Kansas City area.
ONGOING EVENTS
Don’t miss out on the events that happen every week at the same time, in the same place.
Code for America Hack Night @ Sprint Accelerator
Mondays from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
1 Million Cups @ Kauffman Foundation, Lawrence & KC Live Stream
Wednesdays from 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Coworking Wednesdays @ Sprint Accelerator
Wednesdays from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Hammerspace Open House @ Hammerspace
Thursdays from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
LOOKING AHEAD
Pipeline Innovator of the Year
When: January 21
Where: Midland Theatre
DAYTIME PRESENTATIONS: Our 2015 Pipeline Fellows will showcase the progress they have made over the year.
EVENING GALA: Come celebrate with the most hard-to-reach, fun, passionate, successful entrepreneurs, investors, advocates, media and performers you can imagine. Don’t you love it?
ReversED
When: January 29 – 30
Where: Sprint Accelerator
Take your unique talents in design, architecture, finance, the classroom, project management, or ukulele playing, and apply them to the problems that 5 area school system leaders will pitch to you and other attendees to solve in just 24 hours.
Gigabit City Summit
When: May 16 – May 18, 2016
Where: UMKC Bloch School
Register now for early bird special! A three-day learning and networking opportunity exclusively designed for leaders in current and emerging Gigabit Cities.
To see the full calendar, click here.
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