Founded in 2015 by the Quad Cities Cybersecurity Alliance and presented by the Docent Institute, the 11th-annual CornCon – an event designed to raise community awareness and provide business solutions for dealing with cybersecurity threats – will boast breakout sessions, expert speakers, panels, tutorials, vendors, a tech expo, children's activities, awards presentations, and more on October 10 and 11, this year's Davenport RiverCenter event titled Manifest Your Inner Cyber Superhero.

Making an area stop on her latest national tour, Kentucky-based comedienne and Southern Fried Chicks headliner Etta May brings her reputation as “The Queen of Southern Sass” to Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre with an October 11 performance co-presented by Grandstand Concerts.

A beloved touring comedian whose platinum-selling debut recording Here's Your Sign held the number-one position on the Billboard Comedy Chart for an astounding 15 straight weeks, the Grammy-nominated Blue Collar Comedy veteran Bill Engvall returns to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on October 3, the actor/standup currently traveling the country on his acclaimed "Here's Your Sign, It Wasn't My Time" tour.

Joshua Freedman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Six Seconds – the global non-profit dedicated to teaching people how to use emotional intelligence (EQ) – will deliver the Fall 2025 Michael Lester Wendt Character Lecture at the University of Dubuque's Heritage Center, his presentation "From Me to We: Developing Character for the Common Good" being presented free to the public on October 6.