Minnebar20 – All Sessions
(most recently added first)
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Session 0: 20 Years of Minnestar (Trivia Edition)
by Minnestar -
Start Social Hour Early — Networking in Sandy’s
by Minnestar -
Medtech & Med Device Meetup [Networking Lounge]
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Women in Tech Meetup [Networking Lounge]
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Networking Lounge
by Minnestar -
Speed Networking #2 [Networking Lounge]
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Speed Networking #1 [Networking Lounge]
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The Minnesota First Check Playbook: How Early-Stage Capital Really Flows
by Minnestar and Meg Steuer -
Meet Our Community Partners! [During Lunch]
by Minnestar -
The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge
by Eryn O'Neil -
AI Films Are Real. Here's How I Use LLMs, Diffusion Models & Voice AI to Build an End-to-End Film Pipeline
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Editing Photos On Your Phone with No Apps
by John Wilson -
The Work That Holds Teams Together: Stop Blaming the Person. Fix the System.
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Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
by Jon Wilson -
🥳 Landing you First Software Engineering Job 101 (You vs AI)
by Fuad Jeet -
Solar and Battery Storage: What the process of getting a microgrid looks like.
by Shree Pandey -
The Minnebar Scavenger Hunt: Powered by AI & Tape
by Alice Smiddy -
Well Dontcha Know: The National Center for Autonomous Technologies is in Northern Minnesota
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Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective
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Research at the Speed of AI: What Works, What Breaks, and What Still Needs You
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How AI Shapes Human Judgment: Confidence, Trust, and Over‑Reliance Across Three Original Studies (As a High Schooler)
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Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
by Sean Hobin -
Service to Software: Turn Your "How-To" into a Monetized Micro-App
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What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
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PolitiClaw: building a local-first political co-pilot with OpenClaw 🦞
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Fire up yourself and your teams with Snowflake usage
by Nadir Doctor -
Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
by Rob Davis and John Peacock -
Government’s in the Room. Go.
by Peiyu Phua -
Migration Engineering: Automating Security & Tech Stack Upgrades
by Brad Broulik -
Influence Through Alignment: Technology Enablement in a Matrixed Organization
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Leverage Your Experience: How to Land Your First Advisory Role
by Loran Gutt -
10x'ing Myself and My Team: Leading With Agents, Not Just Using Them
by Andy Ganoe -
Building Elite Teams - Forgotten Lessons from the Ranger Battalion
by Craig Vosper -
The Startup Was a Financial Success. I Am Not Building It That Way Again.
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What’s a Second, and why do they matter?
by Ryan Schafer -
AI Sucks ☯️
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AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
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Elixir: Creating an AI Agent for our Clash Royale Clan
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JUMP! A regular person’s guide to introducing AI at work and in real life.
by Glenn -
LinkedIn Isn’t Broken...Your Strategy Is 😳 A LinkedIn growth workshop for founders who want leads-not likes 🙌
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AI-Powered CRM for Small Businesses: What Actually Works
by Abdi Mohamed -
🤖 AI LIGHTNING TALKS ⚡
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💥We Blame the Dogs, But...Have You Seen the Humans!: Designing Behavior Where Pressure Builds.
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The Human Side of AI Adoption: Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They Start
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Everything in Time: The Ultimate Guide to Android Date and Time Programming
by Andrew Haisting and David Perez -
I Tried to Replace Myself with AI. The AI Was the Easy Part.
by Kurt Schmidt -
Recruiting, Hiring, and Building Teams In An AI World
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Managing Your Tech Career v17 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
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Think First. Prompt Later. Be un-BOT-able.
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Shadow AI! Innovation Without Oversight
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Convincing Energy - The thing you couldn't name that's been defining your company's growth potential
by Nathan Young -
Business Partners and Co-Founders: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
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The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
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Shared Success Agreements: Stop Selling Your Time. Start Investing It.
by Zack Steven -
Kill the Login: How AI Agents Replace Software Destinations
by Justin Buhl -
Exploring Six Types of Decisions Orgs Make When Working with Test Automation Frameworks That Often Lead to Trouble
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Every Engineer Sucks at Job Hunting Until They Learn This
by Tyler Dane -
🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
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How AI can help bring balance to our souls instead of taking that balance away
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The Future of GSD - AI Conversational Task Management
by Matt Pacyga -
Stop Fighting the LLM: Mental Models for Fast, Frustration-Free App Building
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs at Creating Broken Systems
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Make your first video game with "just enough" AI
by Andy Krueger -
Decoding Your Equity Compensation: Stock Options & RSUs with AMA
by Trevor Ausen -
Train AI To Be Your Employee
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Why Your Third COO Just Quit (And Why Recruiting Won't Fix It)
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Lessons learned building LAIC: Life Time’s AI Concierge
by Peter Pascale and Drew Trabing -
Pricing Office Hours: How (and How Much) Should You Charge.
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Secure AI Agents from Development to Runtime
by Kishor Patil and Misho Changalov -
AI Is Becoming Infrastructure: Why Context Engineering and Platforms Will Define the Next Decade
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Play Well With Others: Creativity Through Collaboration
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How we bootstrapped our podcast studio in six months to profitiablity.
by Karl Ness -
Livin' the Solo Founder Dream. I'll share learnings from building my second Consumer app. Open to participation!
by larry bieza -
Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
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No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
by Tom Harren -
The Five Poisons of Business: Transforming the Patterns That Hold Us Back
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More Than a User: Bringing Unreasonable Hospitality into IT Support
by Tyler Moen -
🛜 The Community Connection: Strategic Marketing, Outreach, and PR for Community Leaders
by Juan LLerena -
From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
by Dagmawe Mamo -
Resume Refresh: Ready for AI, Designed to Impress
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Growing Up "Vid Kid"
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50 Years of Consoles, Computers, and Handhelds: The Convergence of the Steam Deck
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Ai + Fractionals: The Next Chapter of the American Economy Is You
by John Arms -
Venture Capital: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Walk Away
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You Are a Superhero. Let's Discover Your Superpower So You Can Use It for Greatness
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Data & Analytics in the Age of AI: Lessons from Healthcare Analytics
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💡Get finance to say YES to your idea: The other side of the dashboard
by Mena Duarte -
Skill(.md)s, context engineering, and a way to take the garbage out
by Robert Tomb -
Is AI Coming for Your Job? Interior Design as a Case Study
by Kate Kuehl and Steven Bonoff -
From Demo to Deployment: Why Most AI Projects Never Make It to Reality
by Darsh Garg -
Normalize Your Team: Working Genius IS the Primary Key
by Mitch Bliven -
You’re Not Leading. You’re Reacting.
by Paul Cramer -
UX Office Hours
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Lowering Anxiety for Product & UX/UI Designers (or anyone!) -or- How Language and Perspective Shape Work Dynamics
by Marta Daehn -
From Founder to Marketing Department of One: What Actually Works When You're Doing It All
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Project Vanguard - Veterans in (or interested in) Energy Networking opportunity
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Design - AI Agents + Skills in Figma
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I Learned How to Tell Stories in This Building — Here's What Most Techies Miss
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Your AI Is Not Special: Red Teaming Before You Become a Statistic
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Leave With Something You Made: Crop Art, Community & an Unlikely AI Assist
by Alisa Dean -
Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis
by Vaish Sagar -
What the Heck is a Qubit?
by Scott McKuen -
We Automate Your "Real" Workflows (Live)
by Justin Trantham and Caleb Anderson -
Outlearning Ai: How Small Wins Beat "Big Data"
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Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
by Tom Benbow -
How To Talk With Your Team About Best Practices (a new way of efficiently discussing and prioritizing the best practices that matter most to your team)
by Xandra Best -
Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
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Understanding Agentic Commerce 🤖🛒
by Ahnaf Prio -
3D Printing: One step closer to the home replicator?
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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Defeating the Loneliness Epidemic!
by Max G -
Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
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Don't Let AI Eat You Alive: What Every Employee, Leader, and Organization Must Do Before It’s Too Late
by Rod Brown -
More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
by Jade Barker -
From Uncle Sam to Civic Tech: Rebuilding Civic Engagement for Gen Z Using Design Thinking
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Boldly You: Showing Up to Your Life’s Purpose
by Alan Fernald -
Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
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A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
by Jachin Rupe -
UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVITY: THE POWER OF AI TOOLS IN THE WORKPLACE V4
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Cybersecurity Warnings 😳
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DefineTheBox Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
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When Before What: Practical prioritization for leaders and builders
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✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
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Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
by Paul Carroll -
Cannabis! Building a cultivation, R&D, manufacturing and dispensary business in the Twin Cities.
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Questions to ask during a transition... and who can help.
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Growing a Social Media Community: What’s Working Right Now
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Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
by Mark Gritter -
What Happens When You Combine Bad Bunny + AI + Mental Health?
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How To Sell Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi, For Fun and Bitcoin!
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Hack Your Legal Costs: AI + Your Attorney in 2026
by Alex Frescoln and Todd Taylor -
Horror Movie Survival: Protecting Yourself From Airborne Pathogens
by Jason Hsu -
I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
by Jenn Czeck -
Crafternoon
by Jenn Czeck -
Dr. BotLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
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Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
by CJ Jensen -
3D Printing: Getting Started
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Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
by Beth Korth and Minnestar -
Newbie Table
by Minnestar and Meg Steuer -
Don't Rip and Replace: how to avoid the shiny upgrade pitfall in long-term systems
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We Won a Global Hackathon. Then We Built a Real Company. Here's What Changed.
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Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
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Early Stage Funding in Minnesota
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Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
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Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
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Shipping Atoms and Bits: What Building Physical Products Taught Me About Better Engineering Decisions
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Deep Dives, Vulnerability, and Learning: The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Method of Self-Reflection
by Jeff Lin -
What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
by Dan Lew -
End-to-end tests considered harmful (securing credentials for E2E and synthetic testing)
by Katie Kodes -
The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
by Matt Decuir -
Learning Together to Build LLMs at Scale with Open-Source Coursework
by Sona Maniyan and Jason A. Grafft -
Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
by Beth Elliott -
50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
by Ian Young -
Whose Utopia? Restructuring the Digital Environment in an Age of Human - AI Relationships
by Kris Taylor -
When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress Systems
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Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
by Jamie Ryan -
MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
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📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
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Speak the Domain: How DSLs Help Humans — and AI — Model the Real World
by Jake Arntson -
Every Corpus Was a Body Once: Putting the [body] language into LLMs
by Kelly Heitz -
What Does It Take to Build an AI a Man Will Trust at 11pm? The making of mrkos.ai and what silence taught us about designing for the hardest conversations.
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What should I do while AI is working? answer will shape the future of humanity
by Ryan Wold -
Building A Profitable Independent Newsletter
by Rick Ellis -
🚀 AI Is Changing What Matters in Software
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How to Go Public in 2026 Using an Initial Crowd Offering
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AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage ... And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)
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The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
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Bootstrapping Your E-Commerce Empire Side Hustle With No Money
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Lessons from Two Decades of Angel Investing
by Rob Weber -
Writing the Video Game Narrative
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Escape the Screenshot Graveyard: Using Notion AI to turn notes, memos & screenshots into action, content, and next steps
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
by Kellen Baker -
git commit -m "I didn't write this"
by Jackson M Tomlinson and Ben Bakken -
Where is Maldo? An LLM Adoption Journey for Software Engineers
by Jay D Haase -
Multiplayer Interactive Fiction on the Elixir VM
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How I Use Notion to Run my Publishing Company
by Jeff Eddy -
Building a Tech Community
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The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
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Capture the Flag