FlagshipKansas.Tech christened our 275-person event hall Oct. 16 with its “Scaling Up Tech” event.

The organization’s mission aligns well with Groover Labs’ own — to fuel collaboration and product development.

FlagshipKansas.Tech endeavors to meet three main goals:

Raise awareness: Highlight the innovation and ingenuity already at work in our cities and communities.
Grow our workforce: Develop and help Implement strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in Kansas.
Offer educational programs: Develop workforce training and education programs to meet the demand of the tech sector.

True story: Hutton had only turned over occupancy of the event center section of our building about 24 hours before FlagshipKansas.Tech’s event. Timing, indeed, is everything.

Our backup plan was to have the FlagshipKansas.Tech event in our makerspace, where we’ve had occupancy for a while. Many thanks to Hutton, our design build partner, for hustling to make it possible to use our event center and, of course, for creating such a fabulous space for us — and more important, Wichita.