KCKCC to hold 2016 Innovation Showcase Thursday

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC

The Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Center is holding the 2016 Innovation Showcase Thursday evening.

The event is from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at the TMV Visionary Impact Theater, 1017 N. 6th St., Kansas City, Kan. The event is free to attend. Registration can be completed at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-showcase-tickets-24577857032#tickets. The Showcase Expo will begin at 4 p.m., and the program will begin at 5 p.m.

The Innovation Showcase is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas in from of investors, other entrepreneurs, business leaders and capitalists. Participants submitted their ideas in either the idea generation or revenue generation category. If an entrepreneur has an innovation idea that has not generated revenue, they qualified for the first category. If the idea has generated revenue, they will be in the second category. There are more than 19 entrepreneurs who will showcase their ideas this year. To view some of the entries, visit https://app.reviewr.com/s1/showcase/Innovation-Summit-16-2.

Showcase winners are chosen, in part, from attendees who will have the chance to select their favorite idea or business through live, real-time voting, via their cell phone.

Information is available on the Innovation Showcase by visiting www.InnovationSummitKc.com or by [email protected].

Kelly Rogge is the public information supervisor at KCKCC.