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Oct. 10: What You Need to Know About GDPR

Host: Association for Women in Communications Greater Des Moines
About: GDPR — Four letters striking fear, or at least a little confusion, into the hearts of marketing professionals everywhere. To help ease the confusion, AWC …

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Governor, secretary of state to participate in Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Gov. Kim Reynolds and Secretary of State Paul Pate are declaring October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month in Iowa, along with state Chief Information Officer Robert von Wolffradt and Chief Information Security Officer Jeff Franklin. Each …

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Astronauts, rapper to appear at ciWeek 10

The 10th edition of Des Moines Area Community College’s ciWeek inspiration fest will run the week of March 4 with the theme “Small Steps to Giant Leaps.” With the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing also …

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Angel Capital Association funds nine Midwest startups

The Angel Capital Association has announced investment in nine regional startups that recently presented in Des Moines at the annual Best of Midwest Conference, hosted by local investment group Plains Angels. 

Hosted by the Greater …

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IDx secures $33 million in venture capital for eye diagnostic system

Coralville-based IDx, which has developed an autonomous diagnostic system for detecting diabetic retinopathy, announced it has secured a $33 million venture capital infusion to accelerate market adoption and further develop diagnostic systems for its artificial …

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Global Insurance Accelerator seeks new managing director

Four years after its launch, the Global Insurance Accelerator is kicking off a search for the program’s second managing director after Brian Hemesath announced plans to step down in 2019.

Hemesath has committed to stay with the…
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Nov. 8: Introduction to the Des Moines Startup Scene

Host: Gravitate Coworking
About: Join for Intro to the Des Moines Startup Scene with Geoff Wood, a local community builder who has been helping to grow our local entrepreneurial ecosystem for the last decade. Are you …

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NewBoCo, Code.org taking applications for 2018 Computer Science Education Week

NewBoCo in Cedar Rapids and Code.org are taking applications to send representatives from two Iowa school districts on a trip to Seattle for the 2018 Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) Kickoff event on Dec. 3. District representatives …

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Worker shortage, Midwest entrepreneurism top Atlantic summit in East Village

The Atlantic magazine and Wells Fargo teamed to stage a full-morning discussion of the future of the Heartland at Curate, and it appeared if we can find workers, support immigration and fight off the erroneous…
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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: The broad problem with narrow gene studies

Around 16 percent of all human genes were identified by 1991. Yet 24 years later, those genes were still the subjects of about half of all genetic research published in 2015, the New York Times reports. …

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