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SUMMARY:DIGITAL SCENE – KC: Artificial Intelligence   September 14th 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence or “A.I.” has been around for a while\, but recently it has been getting lots of attention in the media\, education and popular culture.  Companies are tapping into its capabilities to create competitive advantages for their business.  Creative professionals are using it to support creative writing and artistic ventures.  Artificial Intelligence also creates special opportunities for digital media professionals. \nJoin us on September 14th from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. for our networking event: DIGITAL SCENE – KC: Artificial Intelligence! \nConnect with KC area digital media professionals in a casual\, happy hour event while you learn more about what’s going on in KC with A.I. \n\nEnjoy free food and drink\nNetwork with other KC area digital media professionals and digital media educators\nMeet with some of KC’s best A.I. practitioners\nLearn what ai is doing with A.I. at their beautiful Industrious facility\n\nWho Can Attend? \nDigital media professionals and digital media educators.  (Sorry\, no students under 21 as beer & wine will be served). \nThis event is free\, but you must REGISTER to attend: \n \nGuest Exhibitors \n(soon to be announced)  \nAbout Our Host \nLocated in the beautiful Industrious co-working facility on the Plaza\, Saile.ai is “sales with A.I.”  Saile.ai uses A.I. and its patent-pending Salebots® to eliminate repetitive\, manual prospecting tasks in favor of high-value\, high-return sales activities. \nThis event is part of the DIGITAL SCENE KC series and is sponsored by: \n \nand
URL:https://digistory.org/event/digital-scene-kc-artificial-intelligence-september-14th-500-630-p-m/
CATEGORIES:DIGITAL SCENE KC
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SUMMARY:DIGITAL SCENE – KC: Digital Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Digital media technology has greatly enhanced the storyteller’s ability to reveal a story. Come and see how best-practice storytellers in KC have embraced the wide range of digital technology to tell their stories in fascinating ways. Connect with graphic novelists\, screenwriters\, bloggers\, animators\, digital story strategists\, and more in the enchanting Woodneath Library Center where story is king. \nJoin us on July 19th from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. for DIGITAL SCENE – KC: Digital Storytelling. Connect with KC area digital media professionals in a casual\, happy hour event while you learn more about what’s going on in KC with digital storytelling. \n\nEnjoy free food and drink\n\n\nNetwork with other KC area digital media professionals and digital media educators\n\n\nMeet with some of KC’s best digital storytelling practitioners\n\n\nSee screenings of short digital stories and discuss the work with their creators\n\n\nTour Woodneath’s antebellum mansion that now serves as a regional story center\n\n  \nWho Can Attend? \nDigital media professionals\, digital media educators and digital media students. \nThis event is free\, but you must REGISTER to attend: \n \nGuest Exhibitors \n\nPeter Martin\, Graphic Novelist for Mexikid\n\n\nKatina Bitsicas\, Projection Mapping & Digital Storytelling\n\n\nTammy Broaddus\, Story Strategist at Overflow\n\n\nJeff Daly\, Storyboarding for Animatics\n\n\nLee Ann Garrison\, Mizzou’s Digital Storytelling Program\n\n\nMichael Price\, Documentary Filmmaker for English Landing Films\n\n\nPaul Epp & Pete Whitehead\, the story behind The Timekeeper\n\n\nChuck Schneider\, The Big Climb Travel Story\n\n…and more to be announced \n  \nAbout the Woodneath Story Center \nLocated in the historic Woodneath home at the Woodneath Library Center\, The Story Center is a mission-enhancement program of Mid-Continent Public Library. It offers services\, resources\, and educational opportunities to help people create\, share\, and connect with stories of all kinds. For more information visit https://www.mymcpl.org/story-center or check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mystorycenter.
URL:https://digistory.org/event/digital-scene-kc-digital-storytelling/
LOCATION:Woodneath Library Center\, 8900 NE Flintlock Road\, Kansas City\, MO 64157\, 8900 NE Flintlock Road\, Kansas City\, MO\, 64157\, United States
CATEGORIES:DIGITAL SCENE KC
ORGANIZER;CN="KC IMAGINE":MAILTO:rronaldgreen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:DIGITAL SCENE - KC: Data Visualization
DESCRIPTION:We are surrounded and inundated by data.  With so much data to absorb\, how can we know we are getting the right data\, presented in a visually appealing format that is understandable and relevant to our needs?  That task falls to those who are talented at DATA VISUALIZATION: the process of graphically representing information and data. \n  \nKansas City is home to many companies and individual experts who are masters in analyzing and then graphically presenting data in an understandable way.  Join KC IMAGINE’s next DIGITAL SCENE – KC event on Data Visualization on Thursday\, March 9th from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.  The location for this event is The DeBruce Foundation\, 4520 Main Street Suite #1400\, Kansas City\, MO 64111. \n  \nLearn how data visualization is relevant to your own digital media career.  Connect with other digital media professionals in a casual\, happy hour event where you can discuss what’s happening with data visualization and digital media in Kansas City. \n\nEnjoy food and drink\nNetwork with other KC area digital media professionals and digital media educators\nMeet data visualization professionals from KC companies that specialize in that sector\nSee best practice examples of how to create visual solutions that make data appealing\, understandable and relevant\n\n  \nThese guest exhibitors will be on hand to demonstrate their work in data visualization during the networking event: \n\nDeBruce Foundation (innovative\, interactive reporting structure program)\nPorchlight Insights (data analytics consultancy)\nPomerol Partners (data analytics consultancy)\nPREP KC (Data Viz contest program for high school students)\nEric Winter (JCCC student projects utilizing data viz)\nKansas City Art Institute (Data Viz for graphic designers\, with educator Lisa Maione)\n\nWho is Invited?  Digital media professionals and digital media educators.  (Sorry: students under 21 cannot participate due to the availability of beer & wine). \nThis event is free\, but you must REGISTER to attend: \n \nThis event is sponsored by: \n \nand
URL:https://digistory.org/event/digital-scene-kc-data-visualization/
CATEGORIES:DIGITAL SCENE KC
ORGANIZER;CN="KC IMAGINE":MAILTO:rronaldgreen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:DIGITAL SCENE KC - Animation
DESCRIPTION:KC IMAGINE and KC Digital Drive will conduct our second DIGITAL SCENE KC event on Thursday\, November 3rd at Trinity Animation from 5:00 – 6:30.  These DIGITAL SCENE KC events are targeted for Kansas City’s digital media professionals.  The purpose is to allow them the opportunity to connect with other professionals in a casual\, after-hours networking format.  KC area digital media educators are also invited to the event.  Each DIGITAL SCENE KC event is located at an interesting site that is related to the digital media theme for that session. \n \nIn this session\, participants will be able to tour Trinity Animation’s studio and learn about the many forms of animation produced by the studio.  Jim Lammers and his team at Trinity Animation develop all manner of 3D visualization for medical\, technical and advertising\, as well as AR/VR and realtime asset and animation development. In addition\, Trinity sells V-Ray\, 3ds max\, Sketchup\, Maya\, and most other animator tools and also offers custom training for those. Trinity develops backgrounds for the hit TV Series ARCHER on FXX which just aired its season 13 finale\, and Trinity will have some door prizes of Archer swag for attendees. \nThe session also features several guest exhibitors: \n \nHOLLYWOOD ANIMATION ACADEMY \nGavin Dell recently returned to KC from Hollywood where he spent over 30 years as a Director\, Animator\, Character Designer & Story Artist for films\, games and TV.  He has started a new 2-year animation training program\, the Hollywood Animation Academy\, to help students gain successful entry into the Hollywood animation scene. \n \nOTHER BROTHER STUDIO \nStuart Bury and Isaiah Powers of Other Brother Studio have done impressive work in many forms of animation but they specialize in very creative use of stop-motion animation.  They will bring objects from their work and show behind the scenes how a recent Halloween animated short was created. \n \nTHANK YOU WALT DISNEY \nDan Viets is President of Thank You Walt Disney\, the non-profit that owns Walt Disney’s Laugh-O-gram Studio near 31st & Troost.  Dan is a Disney historian and will bring artifacts of interest including a Universal Camera like the one Walt used to create his Laugh-O-gram cartoons in KC. \nScott Cauger is the grandson of A.V. Cauger the owner who hired Walt Disney for his first commercial artist job at the Kansas City Slide Company.  Scott will bring some very interesting Disney artifacts related to his family’s connection to Walt. \n \nSTOP-MOTION FOR KIDS \nJeff Daly & Ron Green\, former Hallmark colleagues\, worked together to create a 20-lesson online curriculum for stop-motion animation targeted to grades 4 – 8.  Check out how their new curriculum can help introduce young people to digital media. \n \nJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ANIMATION PROGRAM \nJohnson County Community College has one of the strongest animation programs in the Kansas City area.  Meet animation instructors and learn more about their program strengths. \n 
URL:https://digistory.org/event/digital-scene-kc-animation/
LOCATION:Trinity Animation\, Trinity Animation 9200 Indian Creek Pkwy\, Unit 650\, Overland Park\, KS  66210\, United States\, Trinity Animation 9200 Indian Creek Pkwy\, Unit 650\, Overland Park\, KS\, 66210\, United States
CATEGORIES:Animation,DIGITAL SCENE KC
ORGANIZER;CN="KC IMAGINE":MAILTO:rronaldgreen@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Getting Immersed in AR/VR and More...
DESCRIPTION:  \nWednesday\, September 14th at UMKC \n4:00 – 5:00     Tour of Immersive Technology at the \nRobert W. Plaster Free Enterprise & Research Center \n5:00 – 6:30.   Networking and Information Sharing at Pierson Hall \n  \nConnect with KC’s digital media professionals in a casual\, happy hour event where you can network and learn more about what’s happening with AR & VR in Kansas City. \n\nEnjoy food and drink\nMeet Michael Eichenseer\, VR Coordinator at the Plaster Center\nGet a free digital body scan from 3DHQ\nWin door prizes!\n\nThis event is free\, but you must REGISTER to attend.  Digital media professionals may contact Ron Green (rronaldgreen@gmail.com) to be added to the DIGITAL SCENE KC distribution list. \nThis is the first event in KC IMAGINE’s new DIGITAL SCENE KC series of themed networking events for digital media professionals and educators in digital media.
URL:https://digistory.org/event/getting-immersed-in-ar-vr-and-more/
LOCATION:Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise & Research Center\, 805 E. 51st Street\, Kansas CIty\, KS\, 66062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Animation,DIGITAL SCENE KC
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