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.