Registration is now open for our 2024 Tech Awards, to be held on Nov. 14 at the exclusive Peter Fink Private Car Museum, 5808 North 90th Street. This annual awards ceremony recognizes and honors individuals in our community who make a positive impact in tech. This year’s AIM Tech Awards Honorary Chair is Al Lopez, CEO & Managing Partner of Let It Fly, which recently opened its second location at 1311 S 203rd Street. The event emcee is Rick Allen. Rick is the lead race announcer for NBC Sports’ NASCAR Xfinity Series race coverage. The 2024 Tech Award categories consist of Technology Innovator of the Year, Technology Leader of the Year, K-12 Educator of the Year and many more. This event also is a fundraiser to support AIM’s programs that make tech education and career training accessible to youth and adults. Please join us for a fantastic evening—you can reserve your seat here. If you know of someone who is positively making an impact in tech, please nominate them here.
AIM Institute thanks the attendees who participated in this year’s Heartland Developers Conference and Big AI, presented by Farm Credit Services of America. The two-day event featured keynote speakers Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO & Founder XLabs and RIBO, and Matt Waite, a Pulitzer Prize winner who developed PolitiFact; each discussed vary aspects of AI. Other key speakers included Farm Credit Services of America’s Executive Vice President and CIO Russ Wagner and Vice President of Strategy Enablement Jaclyn McLaughlin who spoke about the importance of customizing agile transformations to meet an organization’s unique needs.
Leading tech news media entity Silicon Prairie News provided excellent in-depth coverage of the event—read SPN’s highlights/narratives here. We also are very grateful to our other sponsors, including Lunavi for sponsoring the Tech Bash held at Let It Fly Sports Bar in downtown Omaha. AIM is happy to announce the 2025 Heartland Developers Conference, presented by Farm Credit Services of America, will be held October 6-7 at CHI Center. More info here: https://bit.ly/3MJxRuR
Through AIM Institute’s Youth in Tech Program area high school students participated in a CyberPatriot program this past summer. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air & Space Forces Association to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Students learned the basics of Windows and Windows security as well as Linux and Linux security. Students then used these learnings in a CyberPatriot competition where they identified and solved issues.
