Tag: Global Entrepreneurship Week Kansas City

Union Station tapped for GEWKC base camp; training for treps arrives Nov. 19-21 in KC

By Tommy Felts / August 1, 2024

When GEWKC pulls into Kansas City this fall, the metro’s largest educational entrepreneurship event will be stationed within one of the community’s crown jewels — a link to the past that points to a brighter future for the regions’ innovators, said Chante Keller. KCSourceLink on Thursday formally announced Union Station as the 2024 base camp…

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Want on stage at GEWKC? Organizers need your ideas for 2024 entrepreneur event series

By Tommy Felts / June 4, 2024

Kansas City’s business and entrepreneur community is invited to submit sessions for this fall’s Global Entrepreneurship Week-Kansas City, an interactive, community-driven educational experience organized by KCSourceLink. “Kansas City is gearing up for an even better Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2024,” said Callie England, director of GEWKC and marketing director at KCSourceLink, which has organized GEWKC…

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Global Entrepreneurship Week returns with dozens of events planned in Kansas City

By Tommy Felts / November 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Missouri Business Alert, a member of the KC Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and The Kansas City Beacon. Click here to read the original story. Kansas City’s annual multi-day educational and networking event for entrepreneurs begins Monday. Global Entrepreneurship Week…

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Her new role is reenvisioning one of KC’s most iconic events for entrepreneurs; how Callie England is shaking up GEW

By Tommy Felts / September 15, 2023

Callie England misses the life of an entrepreneur, she shared, but her new role with the UMKC Innovation Center — and GEWKC — allows her to stay in the game without being on the field. As of January, the veteran Kansas City startup founder is responsible for managing the branding and marketing initiatives of the…

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GEWKC organizers announce return to Midtown; 2023 base camp set for Westport at Park 39

By Tommy Felts / July 13, 2023

The metro’s largest educational entrepreneurship event is expected to return to a familiar, but proven setting this fall. Organizers of Global Entrepreneurship Week – Kansas City announced today that main sessions for the 2023 event series will return to Plexpod. GEWKC rotates its location for each year’s massive block of programming with Plexpod Westport at…

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