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Last week, KCADC hosted its second “Real-Time Update,” with a focus on travel in a post-pandemic world. More than 100 participants joined in to hear from travel experts who shared current thinking on short and long-term expectations for corporate, convention and leisure travel, and what to expect as social distancing restrictions begin to loosen.

With COVID-19 flooding inboxes and newsfeeds, the Kansas City Area Development Council is highlighting #GoodNewsKC, and sharing stories of the ways our OneKC region is stepping up to support our community through this unprecedented time.

KCADC held its 2019 Annual Meeting, AMPLIFY, hosting more than 1,700 of KC's top corporate and civic influencers.

KCADC’s mission is to facilitate the community’s adoption of the KC heart brand and quickly turn our focus out of market, making the heart an invitation to a relationship with the KC region. This will be a long-term, sustained effort that will require the entire KC region’s participation in order to have the impact necessary for our community to remain competitive into the future.

The heart has a long history in Kansas City culture, all the way to today representing a resurgence of pride felt by those living in or connected to the KC region.

Overstock.com’s selection of KC for expansion and a recent Forbes’ story on KC led national headlines for the KC region.

KCADC held its 42nd Annual Meeting, Leading For All, with more than 1,700 of KC's top corporate and civic influencers in attendance. More than 410 individuals used #KCLeads in approximately 891 posts, resulting in 2.3 million impressions.

DataBank will build a new 50,000-sq.-ft state-of-the-art, purpose-built data center in Kansas City offering a variety of IT business services including colocation and cloud solutions

Kansas City is one of just two cities in the U.S. where Mozilla will fund gigabit-enabled projects focused on education and workforce development.

Kansas City's rankings in tech and entrepreneurship were highlighted in the "What Is" video that debuted at KCADC's Annual Meeting 2015.