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Creative Oklahoma’s 2020 Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors Gala Postponed
In light of growing concerns about the containment of COVID-19, Creative Oklahoma has determined it would be prudent at this time to postpone the 2020 Oklahoma Creativity Ambassadors Gala that was scheduled for April 6th in just a few weeks. We will monitor the situation and based on conditions, we will reschedule! In the meantime, we will use this extra…
Read More →Entrepreneurs, You’ve Got Less Than 24h to Apply to Rise of the Rest!
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest is a nationwide effort to invest in and work closely with entrepreneurs in emerging startup ecosystems. You have less than 24 hours left to apply to pitch Steve Case and the Revolution team for a $100,000 investment. This is your final chance! Your application is due today, Monday, February 24 at midnight ET. Don’t…
Read More →GET YOUR TICKET! Phil Gilbert, GM of Design from IBM is coming to OKC! February 18, 2020
PresentsPHIL GILBERTGM of Design – IBM Tuesday February 18th 2020 IBM is flipping traditional tech product development on its head with an unprecedented culture change that spans 387,000 employees and 170 countries. Hear why, and how their customers are loving it, from the man who’s making it happen: Phil Gilbert, General Manager of Design at IBM! …
Read More →YOU Are the Lifeblood!
You get the importance of Creative Oklahoma’s mission – advancing the development of a vibrant, creative and innovation-based economy to make Oklahoma a place where our entrepreneurs, innovators and game-changers want to grow and thrive! But we can’t do it alone. We rely on people like you that understand and want to keep this critical work continuing. Will you help us by donating now? In 2019,…
Read More →Haven’t Made Plans For Global Entrepreneurship Week Yet?! Don’t Worry, We’ve Got You Covered! 🔥
Oklahoma offers a variety of events during Global Entrepreneurship Week During one week each November, thousands of partners across the United States hold events and competitions to celebrate and support local entrepreneurs. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16 2019 BlackTech Weekend Saturday, Nov 16 @ 10am – 6pm at 36 Degrees North – TULSAFeatured in Black Enterprise, Forbes, Huffington Post Entrepreneur…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma Announces FY20 New Chairman and Five New Board Members
Creative Oklahoma elected Robyn Elliott, Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Communications and Community Development at The Chickasaw Nation as its new board chairman for FY20. “It’s great to have Robyn coming in as board chair at this particular time because, after being in existence for 12 years, we are now at a time where…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma Helping Startups in its MIT-Backed Mentoring Program
Article from Velocity – Greater Oklahoma City Chamber (JULY 30, 2019) Anyone’s who’s done it can tell you – launching and growing a successful business from the seed of an idea is not for the faint of heart. It’s hard. It’s stressful. And it’s lonely a lot of the times. Yet, the ability of the…
Read More →Creative Oklahoma Hosts 18 International Scholars Studying Innovative Solutions To Economic & Workforce Development
OKLAHOMA CITY (July 30th, 2019) — Creative Oklahoma (COK) is hosting a group of 18 experienced foreign faculty and practitioners who are visiting Oklahoma and two other states as part of a U.S. State Department-funded program to study socioeconomic trends that have changed the concept of work, workforce development and career paths in the United…
Read More →Oklahomans Study Innovative Urban Development and Placemaking as Economic Development Strategies in Three Cities in Germany
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 18, 2019)— Two Oklahomans representing the nonprofit organization Creative Oklahoma traveled to three cities in Germany to study their significant successes in developing diverse and robust economies through improving community livability via urban place-making, investing in community-accessible high performance computing and strategically nurturing ecosystems that support growth in a wide variety of…
Read More →New Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentoring Program (OKEMP) Officially Launches With Five Entrepreneur Teams
Oklahoma City – Creative Oklahoma has chosen five promising entrepreneurs to be the first included in its inaugural Oklahoma Entrepreneur Mentorship Program (OKEMP), an initiative licensed from and modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Venture Mentoring Service. This statewide non-profit program provides free in-person mentorship and coaching to emerging entrepreneurs by matching them with…
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