Tag: Sonia Hall

Beer isn’t paint by numbers, it’s science: Why the art of brewing gets its own showcase at Innovation Festival 

By Tommy Felts / July 28, 2023

When Innovation Festival returns to Kansas City next week, the deep tech conference is set to highlight one popular group of makers who typically go unsung as scientists: brewers. Innovation Festival — Thursday, Aug. 3 through Saturday, Aug. 5 at Crown Center — is expected to showcase breweries during the conference’s final day, said Sonia…

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Deep tech is the indie rock of innovation: How a summer festival’s return puts it back on stage

By Tommy Felts / June 20, 2023

After a successful debut in 2022, Kansas City’s Innovation Festival is returning in August with more beats, beer, and biologics, shared Sonia Hall, teasing the addition of burgeoning businesses and a berry. To industry insiders, the event — planned for Aug. 3-5 at Crown Center — is a deep tech conference (with the addition of…

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KC wants to be the nation’s most equitable hub for biologics; prestigious MIT pick could help

By Tommy Felts / July 22, 2022

Biologics is the entryway to personalized medicine, said Sonia Hall, and Kansas City is aiming to create the most inclusive hub for the development, production and distribution of biologics as part of its acceptance to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program.  “When you talk about personalized medicine, you’re talking about greater equity…

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‘Beats, beer, biologics’ coming to KC: Check out the bands set for Innovation Festival’s debut

By Tommy Felts / April 12, 2022

It might look like an indie rock music festival on the outside, but a just-announced, three-day event coming to Kansas City this summer is as much about the heartbeat of innovation in the region as the beats dropped by Grammy-nominated headliner Black Pumas, said Sonia Hall. “What we want to do is start to disrupt…

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