FutureCon Events: St. Louis CyberSecurity Conference
FutureCon Events one-day cybersecurity conference covering threat intelligence, cloud security, and the latest in InfoSec.
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<iframe src="https://techkc.org/embed/calendar" width="100%" height="650" style="border:0"></iframe> KC IT Symposium
Annual one-day symposium for IT professionals in the Kansas City area. Sessions on leadership, technology trends, and enterprise IT.
IT LeadershipEnterprise ITNetworking
KC Design Week
Week-long celebration of design in Kansas City — events, exhibitions, and conversations across graphic design, UX, architecture, and more.
DesignUXCommunityMulti-day
BSidesKC
Kansas City's community-driven security conference. Talks, workshops, and villages run by the local security community for the local security community.
SecurityCybersecurityCommunityCTF
SecureWorld Kansas City
SecureWorld Expo security conference in Kansas City. Full-day event with keynotes, breakout sessions, and security vendor expo.
SecurityCybersecurityExpo
Nebraska IT Symposium
Annual IT professional symposium in Omaha covering leadership, cloud, security, and emerging technologies.
IT LeadershipEnterprise ITNetworking
Community Days Kansas City
CommunityDays KC 2026 is a new two-day event celebrating the strength and diversity of Kansas City’s tech community. It brings together some of the city's Meetup groups together (with more being added) to collaborate on content and build community.
DevOpsAIAgileCloudCommunityMulti-trackPostgresJavaScriptPythonJavaC#
DevOpsDays Kansas City
Community conference on DevOps, platform engineering, and the human side of software delivery. Talks and open spaces format.
DevOpsPlatform EngineeringOpen Spaces
FutureCon Events: Kansas City CyberSecurity Conference
FutureCon Events one-day cybersecurity conference in Kansas City covering threat intelligence, compliance, and InfoSec practices.
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KansasFest
The world's only Apple II enthusiast convention, held annually in Kansas City. Talks, workshops, and competitions for retro computing fans.
Retro ComputingApple IIHardwareCommunity
Nebraska.Code()
Multi-day software development conference in Lincoln, NE. Broad technical content covering languages, frameworks, architecture, and practices.
ConferenceMulti-trackAll Topics
FutureCon Events: Omaha CyberSecurity Conference
FutureCon Events one-day cybersecurity conference in Omaha covering current threats, cloud security, and InfoSec leadership.
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Oklahoma IT Symposium
Annual IT professional symposium in Tulsa. Sessions for IT leaders and practitioners on enterprise technology, cloud, and security.
IT LeadershipEnterprise ITNetworking
SecureWorld St. Louis
SecureWorld Expo security conference in St. Louis. Keynotes, breakout sessions, and security vendor expo.
SecurityCybersecurityExpo
Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC)
Kansas City's premier multi-day software development conference covering the full spectrum of modern software development.
ConferenceMulti-trackAll Topics
Kids Tech Day
Family-friendly tech event for kids ages 5-18 featuring hands-on coding, robotics demos, VR stations, creative STEAM workshops, and career exploration. Sponsored by Garmin, VML, KCTV5, and others.
KidsSTEAMRoboticsFamilyEducation
Digital Women Kansas City: DWKC MiniCon
Digital Women KC's annual one-day conference exploring the intersection of technology and humanity, with sessions on AI, automation, and professional development for women in digital fields.
Women in TechAIProfessional DevelopmentCommunity
Women in Security KC: WiSKC September 2026 Meeting
Women in Security Kansas City monthly networking meeting featuring Quinn Cosgrove as part of the Allies in Security speaker series, with local job connections. Sponsored by Arctic Wolf.
SecurityWomen in TechNetworkingCommunity
No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS): Central Iowa Software Symposium
NFJS-style developer symposium in Des Moines covering languages, frameworks, architecture, and agile practices.
ConferenceAll TopicsAgile
ElevateIT: Kansas City Technology Summit 2026
Regional technology summit for IT leaders and security professionals, featuring keynote presentations, expert panels, and interactive sessions on cybersecurity, cloud computing, data protection, AI, and enterprise IT operations.
IT LeadershipSecurityCloudAINetworking
PMI Kansas City: PMI KC Professional Development Day
PMI Kansas City chapter's annual Professional Development Day. Full-day conference offering 20 PDUs, with project management skills and leadership sessions.
Project ManagementPMIPDUsLeadership
Kansas City AI Club Meetup: Human-First AI
Kansas City AI Club meetup exploring human-first approaches to AI, hosted at Garmin's Olathe campus.
AICommunityMeetup
KC .NET User Group: An AI Driven Data-Driven Approach to Mental Health - Justin Rosenberg
KC .NET User Group meetup featuring Justin Rosenberg on managing bipolar disorder alongside a development career and perspectives on AI therapy, plus a lightning talk by Duane Newman on .NET Aspire.
.NETAICommunityMeetup
IIBA Kansas City: Product Through Project: Roles, Disciplines, and Finding Common Ground
IIBA Kansas City panel discussion exploring the intersection of product and project management roles, examining different disciplines and identifying areas of collaboration.
Business AnalysisProduct ManagementProject ManagementPanel
Agile KC: Can't Culture: The Language Your Agile Team Uses to Stay Stuck
Agile KC interactive workshop led by JL Heather exploring how agile teams develop limiting language patterns, with hands-on exercises to distinguish real constraints from unexamined assumptions.
AgileCommunityMeetup
Data Professionals KC: Governed at the Speed of AI
KC Data Professionals meetup on how modern data platforms integrate governance into their workflows, covering why data quality, observability, and MDM matter more as AI agents start acting on data.
DataAIGovernanceCommunityMeetup
ASQ Kansas City Section: 18th Annual Quality Management Conference: Lean & Project Management
UCM ASQ Student Branch's annual quality management conference, sponsored by ASQ Kansas City, featuring keynote speakers, student research presentations, and a student poster competition. Free to attend, lunch included.
Quality ManagementLeanProject ManagementStudent
DevUp Conference: The Cloud and AAI Summit (DevUp)
DevUp Conference's Cloud and AAI Summit in St. Louis, covering cloud, AI, software development, architecture, and DevOps. Formerly Midwest.io.
ConferenceMulti-trackAll Topics
ProductTank Kansas City: ProductTank KC Relaunch
We’re kicking off the ProductTank KC relaunch with Hrishi Patel from Basys who will share how AI is accelerating product development and why scaling with AI is still widely misunderstood.
AIM Institute: Heartland Developers Conference
Annual developer conference hosted by the AIM Institute in Omaha. Technical sessions for software developers and IT professionals.
ConferenceAll TopicsProfessional Development
Women Applying AI Live- Kansas City Launch Party!
Launch party for Women Applying AI's Kansas City regional hub at the Keystone Innovation District, celebrating International Women in AI Day with networking and a look at practical, meaningful ways to apply AI.
AIWomen in TechCommunityNetworking
(ISC)2 Kansas City Chapter: (ISC)2 KC Chapter Monthly Meeting - October 2026
Collaborative discussion with Enterprise KC, presenting their TalentSphere, DataSphere, and Heartland Cyber Range: tools customized for our region that offer insight into the local market(s) and what organizations look for. 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM.
SecurityCybersecurityCareersMeetup
Dynamics UG Kansas City: Power Automate in Action: Workflows, Data, & Mapping Solutions
Kansas City Dynamics 365 and Power Platform community gathering featuring sessions on geocoding using Power Automate and building interactive workflows, with networking and a happy hour following.
Microsoft DynamicsPower PlatformPower AutomateCommunityMeetup
Data Science KC: Data Science Paper Club
Pick a research paper from a list of six (or choose one when you arrive), then split into small groups to dig into the ideas and bring the best insights back to the room. No PhD required.
Data ScienceMachine LearningCommunityMeetup
Python KC: PyKC Coffee & Code
Bring a laptop and work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and meet people. Help is available for beginners getting Python installed, with plenty of time for advanced topics too. All experience levels welcome.
PythonCommunityMeetup
KC Digital Drive: Community Partner Celebration
KC Digital Drive's annual Community Partner Celebration in the basement of Tech Central, bringing together community organizations, companies, universities, startups, funders, and public sector leaders, with a featured conversation on regional innovation initiatives.
CommunityNetworkingInnovation
Global AI KC Meetup
Kansas City chapter meetup of the Global AI Community, focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI application development.
AIMachine LearningCommunityMeetup
Thunder Plains Developer Conference
Oklahoma City's developer conference covering web development, JavaScript, and modern software practices.
JavaScriptWeb DevelopmentConference
Amazon Web Services Kansas City User Group: Small Community Talks with AWS
Join us for some fun and casual "table talks"! Enjoy drinks and food while having relaxed conversations at your table. Meet new people and chat about anything that comes to mind. This event is all about mingling! Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and pick up some valuable insights.
Agile KC: Building Innovation-Ready Teams: The DNA of High-Performing Groups
Agile KC session on why innovation depends on team conditions rather than hiring, organized around three pillars: Safety, Structure, and Speed. Covers what leaders contribute and the phrases that quietly shut innovation down, with a concrete change to try the same week. 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.
AgileLeadershipTeamsCommunityMeetup
ASQ Kansas City Section: ISO 9001:2026 - Analyzing Myths and Truths
ASQ Kansas City Section workshop covering changes in the ISO 9001:2026 revision, including updates to the Quality Management Principles, Harmonized Structure, terminology, and transition guidance, with an extended Q&A.
Quality ManagementISO 9001Workshop
KC .NET User Group: Scaling AI Features: Capacity Planning and PTU Cost Realities in Azure
Dhanabal Chandrasekaran (H&R Block) on taking an LLM-powered feature from pilot to production in Azure: estimating capacity from token usage, load testing into HTTP 429 throttling, weighing pay-as-you-go against provisioned throughput units (PTUs), and how cost findings shaped rollout and fallback decisions. Plus a lightning talk by Duane Newman, "Have Dotfiles, Will Travel," on portable developer environments with Git-managed dotfiles and VS Code Dev Containers. 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.
.NETAIAzureCloudCommunityMeetup
Google Developer Group Kansas City: Spec - Swarm - Software
Chris Perrin (PSI Services) on AI coding that starts from a real software specification and aims for production-quality results. A live demo shows an agent swarm in Google Antigravity turning a spec into a working feature, with Vertex AI reviewing the code, generating unit tests, flagging problems, and deploying. Covers how agents collaborate, where they fail, and why human engineering judgment still matters. Doors open at 6:00 PM with pizza; program 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM, then networking.
GoogleAIAgentsVertex AICommunityMeetup
Data Professionals KC: Right-Sizing Your Analytics Architecture: From Laptop to Lakehouse
Aaron Spiegel, Derek Moore, and Elizabeth Christensen walk through a real-world analytics pipeline that starts on a single machine with open-source tools like Polars, Postgres, and DuckDB and scales to Databricks or Snowflake without a rewrite. Covers when one machine is enough, how open table formats like Apache Iceberg let you switch engines on the same data, GPU acceleration for single-node performance, and a framework for avoiding lock-in. For data leaders, engineers, and architects. 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.
Data EngineeringAnalyticsPostgresLakehouseCommunityMeetup
Kansas City Cyber Security Conference
KCCyber's annual cybersecurity conference bringing together security professionals from across the region.
SecurityCybersecurityConference
F2F Events: INTERFACE Omaha
F2F Events IT conference for technology decision-makers in the Omaha area. Vendor expo and educational sessions.
IT LeadershipEnterprise ITExpo
AI Collective KC: DevDay Exchange Community: Kansas City
Community-led recap of OpenAI DevDay (not an official OpenAI event): watch a 25-minute DevDay recap, then join Daniel Green, Kansas City's Codex Ambassador, for a conversation on new features, live Q&A, demos, and discussion. Open to anyone working with Codex, using ChatGPT at work, or curious about AI; no technical background required. 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM. Registration requires approval.
AIOpenAICodexCommunityMeetup
Google Developer Group Kansas City: DevFest KC
Google Developer Group Kansas City's annual DevFest — a community-run tech conference covering Google technologies and modern development.
GoogleGCPAndroidCommunity
Kansas City Postgres User Group: Postgres: Take a Hint
Dan Gras and Elizabeth Christensen on query hints in Postgres, from the pg_hint_plan extension to the query plan advice planned for Postgres 19. Dan shares hints he recently used to resolve production issues, and Elizabeth presents new Postgres 19 features. Open to all database experience levels, followed by snacks, drinks, and networking nearby. 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM.
PostgresDatabasesSQLCommunityMeetup
Kansas City AI Club: KC AI Expo 2026
In-person showcase of 30+ Kansas City companies building AI, from early-stage startups to established enterprises. No keynotes or stage program: walk the exhibitor floor, ask questions, and network with founders, operators, engineers, and decision makers. Open to the whole local AI community, including students and job seekers. 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Tickets $20.
AIExpoStartupsNetworkingCommunity
Kansas City Java Users Group: KCJUG Lightning Round Talks
The group's annual Lightning Round Talks: members share something they've learned in 5- to 15-minute talks, with ideas submitted through the group's Sessionize page. Meet, greet, and food at 5:30 PM, Java news at 6:15 PM, presentations from 6:20 PM, followed by a social hour nearby. 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM.
JavaJVMLightning TalksCommunityMeetup
Data Science KC University & Early Career Showcase
Lightning talks from university students, recent graduates, and early-career data science professionals from across the region, plus a chance to connect with Kansas City's data science community. Sponsored by Burns & McDonnell. Want to present? Submit an idea through the form on the event page. 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM.
Data ScienceStudentsCareersLightning TalksCommunityMeetup
Global AI KC Meetup
Kansas City chapter meetup of the Global AI Community, focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and AI application development.
AIMachine LearningCommunityMeetup
Amazon Web Services Kansas City User Group: AWSome Holiday joy!
Casual holiday get-together with food and drinks, short informal AWS talks, and a chance to share your own projects, reconnect with members, and meet newcomers. Bringing a small new toy for a local charity is optional. 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM (may run later).
AWSCloudCommunityNetworkingMeetup
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