The Next TCNewTech? Local Entrepreneur Wants App-Building Workshops To Be The New Recurring Tech Event In Traverse City
By Craig Manning | Jan. 15, 2026
Kalob Hagen wants to teach you how to build an app, and he wants to do it in a single day.
A local entrepreneur, Hagen has spent the past several years helping businesses navigate website and social media challenges through his business, Luigi Solutions. This weekend, he’ll host an app-building workshop at Hotel Indigo in Traverse City – an eight-hour experience he says will be legible for anyone “even if you’ve never written a line of code.”
Hagen got the idea from the Michigan DevFest 2025 AI Hackathon, which drew tech professionals, startup founders, and computer science students to Wayne State University in Detroit for a shot at …
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