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Business & Entrepreneurship
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arredondo, executive director of the KC Startup Foundation, and Maria Meyers, executive director of the UMKC In...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with the opening of the new Library exhibit UpStart, a panel of Kansas City’s foremost entrepreneurs and business e...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Stephanie and Adam Carey, new owners of Kansas City’s alternative news publication The Pitch, sit down with editor David Hudnall...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Americans already have seen some benefits, in the form of smaller payroll withholdings, from the new tax law signed last December. But for the most pa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...