Union Station Kansas City Is Base Camp for GEWKC 2024
KCSourceLink has announced that Global Entrepreneurship Week – Kansas City, the metro’s largest educational entrepreneurship event, has a new base camp for its 17th year. The multiday event that draws thousands to network, learn and grow will have its main in-person base camp sessions from Nov. 19-21 at Union Station Kansas City.
“KCSourceLink has held GEWKC at base camps across Kansas City that have thriving communities with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and we’re happy to bring the event this year to the iconic Union Station Kansas City, a place that offers a lot for attendees and is easily accessible,” says KCSourceLink’s Chanté Keller at KCSourceLink. “We’re excited to help entrepreneurs get what they need to move their business and business ideas forward in a place that has a rich history of bringing innovators, pioneers, doers, dreamers and makers together.”
KCSourceLink organizes GEWKC each year with input from the community, and sessions are crowdsourced from entrepreneurs, service providers, policymakers and champions of entrepreneurship. GEWKC is 100% free and open to anyone.
Union Station Kansas City at 30 W. Pershing Road in Kansas City, Missouri, is a centralized location for all in-person GEWKC sessions will be held. Drawing tourists from all over the world, Union Station hosts business meetings, recognition events, weddings and parties of all sorts. Just as you could 100 years ago, you can still catch the train at Union Station’s AMTRAK stop. You’ll also find exhibit spaces for touring exhibits produced by the Smithsonian, National Geographic and other international organizations; a planetarium; an interactive science center Science City; and a vibrant Theater District featuring giant-screen movies, live theatre, restaurants and more.
Past base camps have been in the 18th and Vine District in Kansas City, Missouri, Westport and in at multiple locations in downtown North Kansas City, Missouri — thriving entrepreneurial hubs that have been historic hotbeds of arts, community and culture.
If you’d like to stay in-the-know about updates and news, please visit gewkc.com.
Photos courtesy of Union Station Kansas City and Jonathan Tasler.
