NWA Startup Crawl, the biggest startup party of the year. The Crawl, which takes place throughout Downtown Fayetteville, will highlight innovative and technology-focused startup companies from around NWA, and there will be local craft beer and live music at each stop!
Wow! This is the essence of Techtober in Arkansas!
Startup Junkie is partnering with Arkansas Athletics to bring an event to Razorback Stadium. For a chance to win $1,000, contestants will pitch their idea for a business, product, service, or solution on the new Dickson Deck in the north end zone at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. The event begins at 11:00am, and the $25 registration for contestants and audience includes a ticket to the North Texas vs. Arkansas Football Game.
The IdeaFame Live contest, a 60-Second Elevator Pitch Contest hosted across the state of Arkansas, promotes startups, new ideas, and entrepreneurship. Prizes of $1,000 are awarded for both the Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice winners. Official contest rules and registration can be found here.
The Annual Fribourgh Award recognizes contributions to Arkansas through science and mathematics. Proceeds from this year’s awards reception will go to endow a scholarship in the Davis Family name. These funds help UA Little Rock attract and retain high-achieving full-time students in science and mathematics.
The 2018 honoree is Cory Davis ’00. As a partner and principal consultant at the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH), a management, technology, and science-based consulting firm based in North Little Rock, Davis has spent his career traveling across the country to help manage the fallout from disasters. For more information, click here.
Little Rock Tech Fest is a big deal! Two days of sessions on technology, opportunities for networking with hundreds of other attendees and visiting the booths of Arkansas tech companies. Last year there were over 400 attendees. For more information, to submit a session proposal, or to register go to http://www.lrtechfest.com/ There are scholarships available for high school computer science teachers. Email techtober@gmail.com for information on those.
Experience how augmented reality will disrupt Arkansas businesses and manufacturing. Guest speaker, Steve Davis, will join National Park College's ITC Tech Talks to demonstrate virtual and augmented reality technology and explain how this technology is being used in civil and military aviation to revolutionize an entire industry.
Interested in learning how augmented reality can streamline your manufacturing processes and reduce employee training costs? Want to start a career in augmented reality technology? Don't miss this talk at the Innovative Technologies Center, 2233 Albert Pike Road, Hot Springs, AR 71913.
This event is FREE and open to the community. Refreshments are provided. For more information, contact ITC Director Robin Pelton at 501-760-1615 or sign up here.
The 2nd Annual World Woman Summit at the Clinton Presidential Library features both local and global leaders and will have sessions covering 6 major areas: Entrepreneurship, Technology, Finance, Health, Education, and Sustainability.
For more information and to register use this link.
This is the third year for this growing EdTech conference. For more information and to register, click here.
Made by Few was conceived five years ago to inspire designers, developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs in the startup space. Today, MxF continues to carry that torch and has expanded by adding additional activities while highlighting the amazing food, people, culture, and talent across the region.
For more information about Made by Few and to register follow this link.
In addition to being a weekend of immersive fun with food, Jolt provides experiential workforce and professional development for the technological community in Central Arkansas. Teams from high schools, colleges, companies and community work on problems and build thinking skills. We understand this year the problems may involve satellite communications. Click here for information and to register teams.
Wow! An air show and STEM Expo in the heart of Techtober! This should be the event with the largest attendence this year. LRAFB is looking for STEM partners to fill one or more hangers (each the size of three football fields) with exhibits. There will be lots to see and do in the air and on the ground. This might be the largest STEM event in Arkansas history.
Here is the link for more information.
The Arkansas IDEA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence will have its annual meeting on Nov. 2 and 3. Registration begins August 1. For more information use this link.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. During one week each November, GEW inspires people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.
Each year, the Conductor hosts the Central Arkansas chapter of Global Entrepreneurship Week, and a number of workshops, networking events and a pitch competition. For more information check this link.
