Tech Central is where Kansas City’s tech ecosystem comes to life. Anchored by KC Digital Drive and the KC Tech Council, it’s a shared space built for connection, collaboration, and momentum. This is where ideas get real, where builders and leaders come together, and where tomorrow starts—right in the middle of what’s next.
The Regional University Research Collective (RURC) is a collective impact initiative led by KC Digital Drive that unites the Kansas City region’s research universities—KU, K-State, and UMKC—with civic, industry, and philanthropic partners to strengthen the region’s innovation economy.
Empowering Kansas City with Collective Decision-Making
Solutions Lab Ventures is an innovation-based entrepreneur support program managed by KC Digital Drive.
2025 marked the inaugural year of the Heartland Digital Asset Exchange (HDAX) conference hosted here in Kansas City. On September 14–15, 2026, HDAX returns to Kansas City with more than 30 top-tier speakers from across the nation.
Community leaders from KC Digital Drive, Women’s Employment Network, Strategic Workforce Development, Inc., and Generations on Line shared ways to educate the public and especially workforce to navigate AI tools safely and effectively to catch up with all that artificial intelligence innovation has to offer.
Keystone CoLab hosted a VR Event on October 9, 2024, to showcase how VR technologies are transforming healthcare education and improving innovation and accessibility for healthcare professionals. Attendees tried their hand at performing surgery in mixed reality, and the event showed that not everyone could make the cut.