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Students can now learn and train using immersive medical simulations, thanks to the Omaha Virtual Reality Pipeline. 🩺⚕️ ...
11/10/2025

Students can now learn and train using immersive medical simulations, thanks to the Omaha Virtual Reality Pipeline. 🩺⚕️ This innovative learning tool, based at UNMC's UNeTech Institute, is a collaboration between University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC, and Metropolitan Community College (Nebraska). 🏥🚑

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Join us today at University of Nebraska at Omaha's Mammel Hall where we'll be building ideas together with the help of C...
11/10/2025

Join us today at University of Nebraska at Omaha's Mammel Hall where we'll be building ideas together with the help of CodeBuddy. 💡 💻 Bring your own idea to build or join a team and let's do this! 💪 Walk-ins are welcome or you can register here — 🔗 https://buff.ly/bcDBLHo

TOMORROW: Bring an idea to build or join a team. 💡 Build your idea in a single day using rapid prototyping with CodeBudd...
10/10/2025

TOMORROW: Bring an idea to build or join a team. 💡 Build your idea in a single day using rapid prototyping with CodeBuddy. 💻 Food provided. 😋

Register now — 🔗 https://buff.ly/bcDBLHo

10/10/2025

ICYMI — Midway of Innovation at Catalyst Omaha brought together attendees of both Silicon Prairie Startup Week and Hustle Conference to mingle and see some of the innovative work coming out of local university research and tech transfer offices. 💡 Founders and inventors with UNeTech Institute and UNeMed Corporation provided live demos of the medical and health care solutions they are building here in Nebraska — all while eventgoers enjoyed complementary drinks and treats. 👩🏾🥂🧔🏻🥂🧑🏼

Check out other networking opportunities going on during SPSW — 🔗 https://buff.ly/AqXxsXv

10/10/2025

Happening now — come on through! 💡✨ Connect with local resource providers to learn how to start or grow your business at the Resource Fair in the Harper Center, Room 2057, at Creighton University. We’re here until 12pm! 🕛

Join us! — 🔗 https://buff.ly/AqXxsXv

The second annual Silicon Prairie Startup Week Pitch Competition came to a close with Service Stories taking the grand p...
10/10/2025

The second annual Silicon Prairie Startup Week Pitch Competition came to a close with Service Stories taking the grand prize and Nebraska Innovation Labs receiving the people’s choice award. 🏆 Thank you to all the judges and startups who participated! And thank you to our sponsor Open Range! 🙏🧡

Learn more about the night and who made it to the top five — 🔗 https://buff.ly/R8Jr8UD

Happy Friday, Nebraska! 🌽 SPSW Day 5️⃣ continues at Creighton University's Heider College of Business today and ends th...
10/10/2025

Happy Friday, Nebraska! 🌽 SPSW Day 5️⃣ continues at Creighton University's Heider College of Business today and ends the day at Hot Shops Art Center with the Art Factory: After Dark ticketed fundraiser. 🎨 💃🏿 Walk-ins are welcome or you can register here — 🔗 https://buff.ly/bcDBLHo

TOMORROW: Join us for the Nebraska Enterprise Fund Resource Fair. 📌 📂 From 9AM-12PM at Creighton University's Heider Col...
09/10/2025

TOMORROW: Join us for the Nebraska Enterprise Fund Resource Fair. 📌 📂 From 9AM-12PM at Creighton University's Heider College of Business, Nebraska small businesses and entrepreneurs can connect with essential tools, resources and experts to help grow their businesses. 🌱

Register now — 🔗 https://buff.ly/bcDBLHo

University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC gave attendees the opportunity to tour its new CORE Building under construc...
09/10/2025

University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC gave attendees the opportunity to tour its new CORE Building under construction. 🚧🦺 Once completed, the building will offer wet and dry lab space for the university, corporations and startups to utilize. 🥽🥼 Planned for completion by late summer 2026, the CORE Building will have mixed-use spaces available for tenants to make their own.

More SPSW events this week — 🔗 https://buff.ly/AqXxsXv

Scaling a startup can take a toll on founders and leadership — but learning to embrace problems and change can be transf...
09/10/2025

Scaling a startup can take a toll on founders and leadership — but learning to embrace problems and change can be transformative. ⚖️✨ A panel at this year’s Silicon Prairie Startup Week talked about lessons from CompanyCam, Hudl and Bulu. 🌱

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Design Thinking in Action led by UNeMed Corporation encouraged participants to collaborate and strategize differently on...
09/10/2025

Design Thinking in Action led by UNeMed Corporation encouraged participants to collaborate and strategize differently on how they may approach building a solution. 🤔 Organizers said prototyping opens up constructive conversations that simply sharing ideas can’t enable. 🧱💡 They also spoke on the importance of empathy and always keeping the needs of end users in mind.

Stop by today. Walk-ins welcome — 🔗 https://buff.ly/AqXxsXv

Omaha: The AI City panel, organized by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, delved into how Omaha can continue to posi...
09/10/2025

Omaha: The AI City panel, organized by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, delved into how Omaha can continue to position itself to be the leader of AI innovation and talent attraction. 🤖 Panelists acknowledged concerns of power generation and job loss and pointed to the city’s current infrastructure that can benefit and lead, such as local universities, the AIM Institute, Offutt Air Force Base and Scott Data Center. 🔌 📊

Stop by today! Walk-ins welcome — 🔗 https://buff.ly/AqXxsXv

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