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"id": 688,
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"presenter_name": "Brandon Wetzstein",
"presenter_bio": "Brandon is driven by a passion to reshape the way we collaborate. In a world brimming with digital tools and automation, he's convinced that our real strength lies in how well we work together. With this belief, he founded IN8 Create, aiming to unearth the hidden potential in all of us. Given the right tools, environment, and support, Brandon believes we can reach incredible heights, enriching our lives, relationships, and communities. \r\nBrandon also loves burgers and welcomes all /any burger discussions and recommendations. \r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brandonwetzstein",
"session_title": "Retail at Sea- A Technology Oasis",
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"description": "Almost a year ago I started working for a company that operates as a white label retailer on major cruise lines. \r\n\r\nBut this isn't your regular retail environment...\r\n\r\nImagine if your stores moved globally, your demographics shifted constantly, your international teams lived at work, and your technology was from 1994. \r\n\r\nCruise lines are catching up fast in technology, adding connectivity on board at the demand of guests and opening up technology doors once locked. \r\n\r\nWhat would you do if connectivity suddenly became available to you and the candy store of technologies once out of reach were now available? \r\n\r\nIn this session I'll share the challenges and opportunities of retail at sea, and lead an open discussion on retail technology. \r\n\r\nWhat would you do? \r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "New York",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-04-13 13:53:22 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-14 05:29:28 UTC"
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"id": 687,
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"presenter_name": "David Quimby",
"presenter_bio": "I practice systematic innovation, experimental design, and technology forecasting at _Innovation Radiation_. I'm a patented inventor in Web architecture and a published author in technical and social innovation. I advised an array of manufacturing and service industries on emerging opportunities in artificial intelligence as a technology analyst at Stanford Research Institute. I've intentionally wandered, explored, and discovered on six continents... I've climbed Mount Whitney; I've done trekking in Thailand, a photographic safari in Kenya, and sea kayaking in Alaska; I've traversed the U.S. and Canada by motorcycle.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\nLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dhquimby\r\n\r\nWeb: www.innovationradiation.com",
"session_title": "Organizing for Innovation: Leveraging the Creative Tension between Product Management and Systems Engineering",
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"description": "Product management and systems engineering — never (or, mostly never) the twain shall meet. The disconnect between product vision and technical vision impedes vast untapped productivity and creativity. We will explore and propose new models of collaboration and social innovation for integrating the product vision and the technical vision into a shared vision.\r\n\r\nSystems engineering is not electrical engineering or mechanical engineering or chemical engineering. Systems engineering is not software engineering. As we will explain, systems engineering is “the queen of the disciplines”. In that nature lies its unique potential to dialogue with product management and accelerate product development. We will augment our rather unconventional application of systems engineering with design thinking and behavioral science to create a sandbox that frames the problem and possible solutions.\r\n\r\nWe have recently observed and experienced this dilemma from both the product management perspective and the systems engineering perspective; we have detected the various lamentations of the corresponding professional communities. We will use this MVP (“Minimum Viable Presentation”) in an interactive format to explore possible routes for bridging this inter-disciplinary gap. We will model lean innovation / experimental design by engaging our audience as co-creators in advancing the concept.",
"room_name": "Nebraska",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 14:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-04-12 23:05:58 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-14 05:29:09 UTC"
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"id": 686,
"participant_id": 2789,
"presenter_name": "Nicholas Doan Trinh",
"presenter_bio": null,
"session_title": "🏳️🌈 🌈 LGBTQ+ Technology & Innovation From My Daughter’s Eyes",
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"description": "My 13 year old daughter inspired me to talk about LGBTQ+ issues and how tech companies can innovate in the area of integration, education, and inspiration. We plan to present education, current highlights, and perspective from a daughter and father who both are into tech.\r\n\r\nShe’s also a great student, musician, gamer, artist, and working towards her Black Belt in martial arts.\r\n\r\nI gave a Minnedemo back in October 2017. Cardiology Prevention/Heartsavers www.heartsavers.me\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Georgia",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
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"Startups"
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"created_at": "2018-04-12 16:16:15 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-14 05:28:22 UTC"
},
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"id": 685,
"participant_id": 2772,
"presenter_name": "Bridget Kromhout",
"presenter_bio": "Bridget is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if “cloud” can be considered tangible). After 15 years as an operations engineer, she traded being on call for being on a plane. A frequent speaker and program committee member for tech conferences, she leads the devopsdays organization globally and the devops community at home in Minneapolis. She podcasts with Arrested DevOps, blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.",
"session_title": "Computers Are Easy; People Are Hard",
"summary": null,
"description": "Designing distributed systems means considering failure scenarios—both likely and less so. Will the network let you down? (Almost assuredly.) Will some portion of your IaaS misbehave? (Have you met computers?) We build in graceful degradation for much of our automation but often neglect the (just-as-essential) human interactions.\r\n\r\nThe classic “hard problems” of cache invalidation and naming things revolve around our understanding of what's correct and true and our agreements with one another on scope and relevance. Communication is essential for making context-dependent decisions. Whether we're attempting to determine the current state of reality or distinguish logical boundaries, democratized observability is key to answering our questions.\r\n\r\nAs the fractal complexity of our distributed systems grows, we need to mindfully choose practices that work with our tooling. You can't buy a silver bullet, but you can forge one from the collaborative efforts of your team.",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 08:45:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-04-12 00:26:14 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 04:13:38 UTC"
},
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"id": 684,
"participant_id": 1886,
"presenter_name": "Howard Sadoskas",
"presenter_bio": "Legal and financial consultant.",
"session_title": "What Term Sheets Mean for Ownership",
"summary": null,
"description": "Always wondered how a Term Sheet impacts ownership of your start-up? If so, this is a session for you!\r\n\r\nThe main focus of this session will be an interactive explanation of cap tables, dilution, and the equity and debt changes associated with a Series level investment. The session will begin with an example Term Sheet, and after an explanation of terminology will shift into how a Series investment affects ownership capitalization. Access to excel, or another spreadsheet program, will be useful, but unnecessary. \r\n",
"room_name": "Texas",
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"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
"level_name": "Intermediate",
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"created_at": "2018-04-09 20:48:59 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 683,
"participant_id": 2597,
"presenter_name": "Edward Euclide",
"presenter_bio": "Edward has been researching and designing immersive experiences for a decade as a performance artist, experiential educator and now as a UX Researcher. \r\n\r\nAs a performance artist he explored remote immersive performance, puppetry/object performance and interdisciplinary collaboration.\r\nAs an educator he explored embodied learning techniques and lesson plans.\r\nHe is currently researching industrial safety connected-equipment and IoT designs as a Senior UX Researcher with 3M.\r\n\r\n\r\nHis work was most recently featured as an installation at \"Limitless Spaces Gallery: Imagining New Digital Worlds\" (2019).\r\n\r\n\r\nEdward Euclide \r\n(he/him) \r\n[eeuclide.com](eeuclide.com) \r\nedeuclide@gmail.com \r\n",
"session_title": "Making a Moment (Exploratory Workshop) Using theatre methods for designing VR",
"summary": null,
"description": "After a short introduction to physical theatre methodology we will dive in to making moments together.\r\n\r\nIn particular we will explore how we can leverage a version of the \"Moment Work\" method as it allows us to breakdown present elements: sound, light, gesture, object, body and observe how they might play within our design.\r\n\r\nThis session is participatory as we will be exploring/researching how these fields might intersect in process.",
"room_name": "Kansas",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
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"Other",
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"created_at": "2018-04-09 14:11:12 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 682,
"participant_id": 1847,
"presenter_name": "Ben J MacKinney",
"presenter_bio": "Hi! Thanks for checking out my bio. \r\nIm an entrepreneur and advise startups. More than anything, I love to help people bring their ideas to life and help with strategic planning. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, product owner or marketer I'd love to connect and jam with you after the conference!\r\n\r\nI love MINNESTAR and am a huge advocate for entrepreneurship and innovation as ways to change the world for good. \r\n\r\nLooking forward to chatting!\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @BenMacKinney",
"session_title": "Group Discussion: How to Google Better in the Information Age",
"summary": null,
"description": "Note: Limit 25 participants. RSVP is clicking the *interest button. \r\n\r\nLearn from each other how to get to a working level of knowledge in any topic quickly and make better decisions by asking better questions. \r\n\r\nWe will start with a 5 minute presentation on the process we go through for finding information online. The rest of our time will be spent with structured small group discussions that will feed into whiteboarding conclusions.\r\n\r\nBring a laptop!\r\n\r\nJoin the discussion now!\r\nhttps://hangouts.google.com/group/3GdkTWU8lxXC78M83 \r\n\r\nFeel free to add any articles or youtube videos if you have any favorites on topics like how to research or write better Google search querys. ",
"room_name": "Florida",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
"level_name": "Beginner",
"categories": [
"Other",
"Design",
"Startups"
],
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"created_at": "2018-04-08 23:50:05 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
{
"id": 680,
"participant_id": 2037,
"presenter_name": "Dan Linstroth",
"presenter_bio": "Dan is Chair of the Make It MSP Tech Steering Committee, member of City of Saint Paul Full Stack Steering Committee and a small business owner. Prior to that, he co-founded a tech startup, presenting at Minnedemo, MN Cup and Beta.MN. ",
"session_title": "Investing in a Thriving Tech Ecosystem in MSP",
"summary": null,
"description": "Make It. MSP is dedicated to making Minneapolis-St. Paul the best place for people to come, stay and thrive. \r\nOur technology Steering Committee, made up of local tech leaders, is seeking new ideas and solutions to support which will help attract, retain and develop new technologists in our region. \r\n\r\n**What:**
\r\nThis is an open call for ideas. In this participatory session, we will discuss solutions on how we can better tell the story of our thriving tech industry, retain new graduates and advanced career tech professionals alike, and address the challenges that technologists face in their careers.
\r\n\r\nTo accomplish this, we’ll start with a quick opening statement and then break into small groups to generate new solutions that answer some of the most pressing questions, which could include:
\r\n\r\n* How might we better tell the story about the great things happening in our tech community?\r\n* How might local employers improve the way they attract, hire and train technologists? \r\n* How might we make it easier to get established in a tech career in Minneapolis-St. Paul? \r\n* How might we create a more open and inclusive community?\r\n* How might we … (your question/challenge/issue here)\r\n\r\n**Who:**
\r\nThis sessions is for: \r\nTech professionals with ideas on how to improve the industry\r\nIndustry group leaders, board members or event organizer who actively works to support the community\r\nAnyone with an idea on how to attract, retain or develop new technologists in our region. \r\n\r\n**Why:**
\r\nThe spirit of the tech community is alive and well. For those aiming for a career with purpose, where you can make an impact through technology, Minneapolis-Saint Paul is a good place to be. \r\n\r\nJust like a digital product, however, endless opportunities for improvement remain. As the MSP tech community grows, let’s be intentional in building an open, vibrant and supportive community that continues to thrive well into the future. \r\n\r\nLet’s experiment with new ideas and work together to scale the power of the tech community.\r\n\r\n\r\n**About Make It. MSP:**
\r\nThe Make It. MSP Tech Team is a cross-sector group of individuals from Fortune 500 companies to community foundations, local governments, nonprofits, and professional associations who are dedicated to making Minneapolis-St. Paul the best place for people to come, stay and thrive. The purpose of this work is to improve the net migration of skilled technology talent to the MSP region. In pursuit of this purpose, we support and invest in solutions with the potential to attract, retain or develop technologists in our community. \r\n",
"room_name": "Challenge",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 16:00:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
"categories": [
"Other"
],
"other_presenter_names": [
"Dalton FritzScott",
"Kelly Clausen"
],
"other_presenter_ids": [
2386,
1490
],
"attendance_count": 43,
"created_at": "2018-04-06 19:01:27 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
},
{
"id": 679,
"participant_id": 437,
"presenter_name": "Brian John",
"presenter_bio": "Husband, Father, Software Engineer, Tinkerer.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/f1sherman)\n- Twitter: @brianpjohn",
"session_title": "Decreasing Stress in Tech",
"summary": null,
"description": "Ridiculously short deadlines, maintaining features that nobody is using, chasing after the shiniest new tech instead of the battle-tested languages, libraries and frameworks that your team specializes in, etc. Anyone that has been in tech long enough may have witnessed these or similar irrational behaviors.\r\n\r\nThis behavior can hold us back from solving important problems that are facing us today. It may be causing talented, experienced people to leave the community and preventing new people from joining. According to behavioral sciences it may also be predictable. \r\n\r\nWouldn't it be great if we could recognize predictable irrationality in our own environment? Moreover, what if we could come up with some hacks that could prevent (or at least mitigate) it?",
"room_name": "Stephen Leacock",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 14:00:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
"categories": [
"Development",
"Other",
"Startups"
],
"other_presenter_names": [],
"other_presenter_ids": [],
"attendance_count": 57,
"created_at": "2018-04-06 01:44:54 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
},
{
"id": 678,
"participant_id": 2610,
"presenter_name": "Caryn Pagel",
"presenter_bio": "Caryn’s passion for digital accessibility began when she worked in the UX and visual design field. She has previously worked for Simply Accessible and Level Access, and currently works with the amazing accessibility team at Thomson Reuters.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @carynrlp",
"session_title": "CANCELED - The Beauty of Accessibility",
"summary": null,
"description": "We all want to design beautiful websites and applications, but the most beautiful website is the one that works for everyone. When you add accessibility to your design process, you are designing for everyone.\r\n\r\nIn this session, we debunk the myth that making an accessible site equates to making an ugly site. We will discuss common issues we see at Level Access, with a focus on maintaining aesthetics while making sites accessible. We’ll break out into small groups to work on solving some common issues, like making text easier to read and images available to everyone. Then we’ll come back together and review the solutions. Everyone is welcome to provide feedback in a respectful, loving way.\r\n\r\nIn this session, we will tackle common design patterns that cause accessibility issues, and how to remediate them without degrading the visual appearance of the site, app, program or service.\r\n\r\nAlthough this session is tailored for designers, it is open to everyone. We will be covering practical skills in these areas:\r\n* color contrast\r\n* text zooming\r\n* hover and focus states of interactive elements\r\n* ensuring color is not the only way of conveying information\r\n* alternative text for images\r\n* images that contain text",
"room_name": "Nokomis",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
"level_name": "Beginner",
"categories": [
"Development",
"Design"
],
"other_presenter_names": [],
"other_presenter_ids": [],
"attendance_count": 57,
"created_at": "2018-04-05 16:54:12 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-14 14:21:28 UTC"
},
{
"id": 677,
"participant_id": 2389,
"presenter_name": "Mike Emo",
"presenter_bio": "\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/emomon23)",
"session_title": "Are you thinking about becoming an independent consultant or freelancer?",
"summary": null,
"description": "This meeting will address some of the most common fears about making the transition such as:\r\n\r\n- How to find your next gig\r\n- Your hourly rate\r\n- Health Ins. & Taxes\r\n- Working with recruiters\r\n- How to work the contract\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Calhoun",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 10:20:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
"categories": [
"Development",
"Startups"
],
"other_presenter_names": [],
"other_presenter_ids": [],
"attendance_count": 74,
"created_at": "2018-04-05 12:43:10 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 676,
"participant_id": 1644,
"presenter_name": "Kyle Smaagard",
"presenter_bio": "Kyle Smaagard is a former Air Force Officer and self-taught programmer. His knowledge is all over the place including:\r\n\r\n* Satellite [Construction] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-221)\r\n* Supply Chain Management\r\n* 3d Printing\r\n* Android Development\r\n* Product Management\r\n* Machine Learning\r\n\r\nHe taught himself to code in the middle of the desert and has leveraged that knowledge to be effective in building Android Applications and a 3d Printing business. \r\n\r\nFor his real job he works at an awesome company called [Calabrio] (http://www.calabrio.com/) and for the last 3 years has been running an AI/ML research team.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/easycheese)",
"session_title": "One neat trick to make moar money from your app!",
"summary": null,
"description": "Alternative, non-click baitey title: Adventures in App Pricing :)\r\n\r\nOver the seven years I've been developing Android Apps I've done numerous experiments with app pricing models and I want to share my thoughts. We'll talk about the evolution of pricing options and I'll bring out a bunch of data I've collected over the years. This will be an extended version of my GDG talk last August (with more data!)\r\n\r\nAlso, I wasn't kidding about the one neat trick to make more money with little effort, we'll talk about how two of my apps made 60%+ increased revenue with no functional changes.\r\n\r\nTopics\r\n* Freemium\r\n* Pricing levels\r\n* Subscriptions",
"room_name": "Florida",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 16:00:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
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"Development",
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"created_at": "2018-04-05 12:02:54 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
},
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"id": 675,
"participant_id": 2599,
"presenter_name": "Kevin Burns",
"presenter_bio": "Kevin is a lean and agile product development coach with a passion for helping teams turn their ideals into implementations that wow their users and customers. He’s been helping teams think different about their flow and how they measure success for over twenty years. Kevin’s love for coaching and teaching came from his Peace Corps service in the 90’s. Today, Kevin is still trying to work-himself-out-of-a-job by coaching product teams to continuously learn and by focusing team success in terms of the beneficial impacts and outcomes they're trying to achieve for their users, customers, and stakeholders. \r\n\r\nhttp://sagesw.com\r\nkburns@sagesw.com\r\n@kevinbburns\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @kevinbburns",
"session_title": "R U Measuring Right Stuff: How do we know we’re delivery quality, value, and making a difference? ;-)",
"summary": null,
"description": "In honor of Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, let’s have a Chautauqua on quality and value how we’re measuring it. Piggy-backing on last year’s theme from the Twin Cities Agile Day, we’re part of an AntiFrAgile organization if we’re measuring the right stuff. Are we measuring the right stuff? How do you know? I’ll share some philosophy, thoughts, and experience to start our discussion. We’ll use a polling tool to make the discussion interactive, participatory, and allow you to share your stories and experience. ",
"room_name": "Louis Pasteur",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 12:10:00 -0500",
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"Development",
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"created_at": "2018-04-05 01:34:23 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 674,
"participant_id": 2596,
"presenter_name": "Shae Armstrong",
"presenter_bio": null,
"session_title": "Enterprise Risk management",
"summary": null,
"description": "**CANCELLED**",
"room_name": "Nebraska",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 10:20:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-04-04 23:57:51 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:14 UTC"
},
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"id": 673,
"participant_id": 1281,
"presenter_name": "Erin Warhol",
"presenter_bio": "Erin has led Information Technology and Information Security initiatives for 21 years for large corporations, K-12 and higher education, and start-ups. She also consulted for a risk management company that focuses on physical security, including intelligence and behavioral assessment. She also consults for small businesses and mentors in STEM. \r\n\r\nShe specializes in:\r\nThird Party Security\r\nSecurity Program Creation\r\nTraining\r\nRisk Assessment and Threat Modeling\r\nManagement Strategies",
"session_title": "Protecting Your People",
"summary": null,
"description": "Your organization has a responsibility to prepare to respond to physical attacks, acts of nature, and other dangers. This isn't just about hiring a guard to stand at the door. Every organization should learn how to recognize and respond to threats to its employees and visitors, even if you aren't open to the public.\r\n\r\nWe'll talk about:\r\nEmergency Notification (way to go, Hawaii...)\r\nActive Shooters\r\nRisk Assessments (yes Houston, you CAN foresee six feet of water)\r\nQ/A",
"room_name": "Kansas",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 16:00:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
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"Other"
],
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"Shae Armstrong",
"Ben Skoglund"
],
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2792
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"created_at": "2018-04-04 23:41:22 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
},
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"id": 672,
"participant_id": 2594,
"presenter_name": "Adam Johnson",
"presenter_bio": "I've been a professional software developer for over 10 years.\r\n\r\nMost of my experience has been as a full stack developer, but 4 years ago I caught the DevOps bug and never looked back!\r\n\r\nProfessionally speaking my DevOps journey has happened in two very different settings.\r\n\r\nFirst, it meant driving change through a larger software organization that was struggling to get a new platform up and running.\r\n\r\nAnd for the last 2 years it has meant building sound DevOps practices into a rapidly growing local startup.\r\n\r\nOutside of work I like news, politics, econ, ultimate frisbee, golf and vaporwave.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/@numberOneUser)\n- Twitter: @@numberOneUser",
"session_title": "StartOps: Building a DevOps mindset in startups or small teams",
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"presenter_name": "Thong Nguyen",
"presenter_bio": "Thong is working on growing [Roomera](https://www.roomera.com), a B2B VR startup, [Wellbeats](https://wellbeats.com/), a virtual wellness company, and is also on a search for future [TedX speakers](https://tedxminneapolis.com/). You can connect with him [here](https://linkedin.com/in/instapreneur).\r\n \r\nHe's passionate about technology, innovation and leadership, and crafting prototypes under the influence of coffee.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @instapreneur",
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"description": "\r\nCreating in VR will change how you think about collaboration, experience design and empathy for users. I'll be sharing some insights learned along the journey of creating VR tools and experiences for some well-known brands.\r\n\r\nIn virtual reality, the digital world evolves from being viewed through a two-dimensional screen, to overriding your vision, hearing, motion and touch sensory systems. It's software that \"feels real\". This has some obvious (and not-so-obvious) implications, not only for gaming and entertainment industries but also retail, health care, hospitality, education and others.\r\n\r\nDesigning and developing for world-space ends up being dramatically different than the UX/UI workflows that many are accustomed to using to design for a screen, and draws from a broad range of disciplines such as neuroscience, design and the humanities. \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Erin Warhol",
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"description": "Data breaches, social media harvesting, cats and dogs living together... mass data mishandling! While impressive technical tools exist to help grow the security maturity of organizations, we are finding that policy and procedure are the biggest weaknesses. This will be an energetic, non-technical discussion of the learning opportunities that are so abundant in the news these days. \r\n\r\nWe'll talk about:\r\nBasic best practices for information security\r\nWhat organizations can learn from the recent MASSIVE fails in the news (e.g. Equifax, Facebook...)\r\nQ/A\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Jason Peterson",
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"session_title": "Compliance - Songs, Shadows and a Desert Sky",
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"description": "Regulations and obligations are a part of business - and they are growing.\r\n\r\nI'll share some lessons learned and some thoughts on the 2018 terrain. \r\n\r\n\r\n- Compliance and Governance
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\r\n- Credit Cards and PCI Requirements
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\r\n\r\nLet's also chat about the challenges you are facing around compliance in your value chains and product offerings.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Lakshmi Ravipati",
"presenter_bio": "[AboutME](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lravipati/)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/wikivoks)\n- Twitter: @r_wikivoks",
"session_title": "Devops for Ops !! Where do I start?",
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"description": "If you're interested to know about **Devops in operations team** and don't know where to start. I am going to share my experience how I started my journey in Devops, what do you expect, and how I changed my view on infrastructure and my job responsibilities . \r\n\r\n*It's never too late to get started*. I am going to present broader picture how to get trained and get started. How will I setup and test my home lab environment for testing different open source technologies like **Docker** **K8S** **Ansible** etc.,",
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"presenter_name": "Ian Dees",
"presenter_bio": "After a stint writing Java for GE Healthcare in Milwaukee and Digital Cyclone in Eden Prairie, Ian moved to Chicago to work on the Obama for America 2012 campaign. He worked on the backend APIs and data flow for the campaign. Since then, he's worked on CensusReporter, a tool to make it easier for journalists to explore US Census data, on PayPal's e-commerce tools, and at Mapzen, an open source mapping company.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/iandees)\n- Twitter: @iandees",
"session_title": "Map Your World With OpenStreetMap!",
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"description": "Come learn how to use [OpenStreetMap](https://openstreetmap.org/), the free, wiki-style map of the world!\r\n\r\nYou've seen OpenStreetMap data in popular places like Foursquare, craigslist, Apple Maps, and Flickr, now come learn how the data behind these maps gets made. Audience participation is strongly encouraged: bring your laptop and we'll get you mapping in no time.\r\n\r\nDon't worry, if you can't make this talk, check out [an upcoming Meetup on May 8th](https://www.meetup.com/Map-Minnesota/events/249425728/) and consider going to the [annual conference in Detroit in October](http://www.openstreetmap.us/2018/04/announcing-sotm-us-2018-detroit/).",
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"presenter_name": "Ian Levitt",
"presenter_bio": "Ian is the owner of Studio Americana, a professional podcast studio in the Twin Cities. Prior to starting the studio, Ian spent his career as a broadcaster, working on both sides of the microphone (most recently as the Program Director of AM950 in Minneapolis). He now focuses on using his broadcasting knowledge to help others create impactful podcast content.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ianofthetundra",
"session_title": "Making the Most of Your Podcast",
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"description": "Podcasts are a phenomenal tool for communication. How will yours stand out from the rest? \r\n\r\nWhether you're new to podcasting or looking to improve your current show, this session will provide some key principles of presenting a professional podcast. Discussion will include interview tips, how to keep your audience engaged, and how to best leverage guests to gain more exposure. Topics are not limited. Bring any questions you have on podcasting in general.",
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"presenter_name": "Robbie Halvorson",
"presenter_bio": "Robbie is currently a Senior Designer at Boston Scientific designing anatomical models for testing and training. For almost 20 years he has focused on complex surface modeling, animation, and leveraging 3d printing to produce everything from pacemakers to bike saddles. Previously he has worked for Amazon, Specialized Bike, and HTC.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @rawbeecg",
"session_title": "Designing for 3D Printing",
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"description": "3D printing has become mainstream but the hurdle to success can be creating or finding the 3D models to print. This session will be part presentation, part discussion on free or low cost tools and resources for designing parts for 3D printing. We will also cover some design guidelines. The session will be very interactive and partly shaped by the experience level of the participants. ",
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"presenter_name": "Alan Jechort",
"presenter_bio": "I am a highly motivated, highly skilled technology professional with over 9 years of experience in the field.\r\n\r\nI started at Reeher as a software engineer, and am now the manager and coach of multiple teams. We have accelerated the way we incorporate Scrum into our teams and are seeing the results of how this framework works if you go about it in the right way. \r\n\r\nI have a beautiful wife who didn't know anything about software or Scrum before we started dating. She now knows how Scrum works and has even helped me code a few web pages!\r\n\r\nA few things I'm passionate about:\r\n\r\n\r\n- Do what you love to do - if you can't say you love what you do then move on to something else.
\r\n- Happiness is a choice - choose to be happy and life will be a lot more fun.
\r\n- Build strong relationships - people are what drives success so why not make the most out of your time with them.
\r\n
\r\n\r\nI love working with technology professionals and leaders to learn from others' experiences. The most rewarding knowledge comes from collaboration and working with other people to come up with ideas and ways to make each other more successful.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @jechrepublic",
"session_title": "Enhancing Agility - It's all about getting the right sh*t done",
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"description": "Teams and organizations are trying every day to build the next best thing, or just keep their current products afloat.
\r\n\r\nHow do we know that we are building the right thing?
Many times we don't, but if teams are delivering value consistently, the right thing seems closer to us.
\r\n\r\nWhat is value?
I will share some things we have to measure this, but this is something I would like to get input from others on, as it is a very hard thing to define for many organizations.
\r\n\r\n
Let's get together to talk about consistently delivering value and how sometimes the process can get in the way.
\r\n\r\nWe will leave time at the end to hear from others and get some conversations going
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"presenter_name": "Amber Christian",
"presenter_bio": "Amber has worked in the IT industry implementing SAP for 18 years. She has worked for Fortune 500 companies, consulting firms, and currently is an independent consultant. An incessantly curious person, her drive to take on bigger challenges has led to implementing SAP solutions on 6 continents and for over 60 countries.\r\n\r\nShe frequently speaks at a variety of conferences on technical and business topics- recently including a keynote speech in South Africa. She is also an active angel investor reinvesting in our local community. Tech makes her socks go up and down.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @@AceTreasury",
"session_title": "Female Founders Wanted",
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"description": "Are you already a female founder? Or interested in possibly becoming one someday?\r\n\r\nMaking the leap from employee to employer presents its own unique opportunities and challenges. Each of us is at a different stage on this journey. In this session, we'll talk about our journeys. We'll also discuss challenges and brainstorm practical solutions for how to encourage more female founders in tech.\r\n\r\nThis session is open for anyone regardless of gender. We want to further the discussion to get more female founders in tech for everyone's sake. ;o)",
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"id": 661,
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"presenter_name": "Jason T Voiovich",
"presenter_bio": "I come from a family of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs.\r\n\r\nMy father was a fine artist and an advertising creative director. My grandfather (on my mother’s side) manufactured some of the first mass-market coffee filters in Cuba in the 1950s. My mother fled that country in the 1960s with nothing but the clothes on her back and a few words of English to begin a new life in the United States. My grandfather (on my father’s side) started an auto body repair shop, matching the paint on rebuilt cars by eye – not by computer. A great-grandfather invented Neapolitan ice cream after World War II; another (on my wife’s side), invented the bazooka on the eve of World War I.\r\n\r\nThey taught me to see the joy and connection in everyday things. They taught me to love what I do for its own sake. They taught me to take risks and chart my own path.\r\n\r\nIn my early 20s, I co-founded a creative agency. My clients included Boston Scientific, Target Corporation, and Michael Foods – along with dozens of smaller firms. Missing the perspective of my clients, I left the agency environment to hold executive positions in marketing, experiencing the daily trials of driving growth in a complex, competitive, global environment.\r\n\r\nI was classically trained at the University of Wisconsin (Bachelor of Science), the University of Minnesota (Master of Arts) and MIT’s Sloan School of Management (Executive Education in Data Analysis).\r\n\r\nWhat I have learned is that for all the changes in our markets, our methods, and our technology, one facet of marketing remains constant: People. Marketing is a human discipline. Marketing is at its best when it mixes one part “commercial” with one part “art”. My career now is dedicated to exploring both sides of that equation, and how they can work better together.\r\n\r\nSign up for my mailing list to be the first to know when my book \"Rehumanizing Marketing\" is ready for purchase: [link]https://jasontvoiovich.com/rehumanizing-marketing/",
"session_title": "Information Management Lessons from China, Land of the Great Firewall",
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"description": "All technical professionals need to know three things about the Chinese censorship effort: 1. It is not about censorship; the techniques are much more sophisticated than that. 2. It works spectacularly well in China. 3. Those same techniques work even better in the United States. In fact, projects you could be working on right now is likely being used to color the truth and manipulate opinion. Are you okay with that?\r\n\r\n**Takeaways:**\r\n1. Understand the foundational strategies of Chinese government information management: Information Friction and Information Flooding.\r\n2. Review case studies of those strategies at work in the United States.\r\n3. Explore the ethical implications for you as an technical professional.\r\n\r\nCheck out more before you arrive at: [link]*https://jasontvoiovich.com/",
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"presenter_name": "Cody Ogden",
"presenter_bio": "I'm Cody Ogden. I like to do internet things with internet people.\r\n\r\nI've been crafting on the web since 2001, and it all started with a JavaScript program to help me cheat on math homework--fifth grade math is tough! I've held many hats in my career: individual contributor, technical lead, engineering manager, and company leadership. I've been lucky to work with companies like General Mills, Target, Best Buy, Rolex, and Charter Communications where I lead scalable, maintainable technology solutions that impact their business, people, and customers.\r\n\r\nYou might know me as the groundskeeper at the [Google graveyard](https://killedbygoogle.com) where I research Google's consumer product strategy and their 'killer' reputation.\r\n\r\n(they/he)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/codyogden)\n- Twitter: @killedbygoogle",
"session_title": "Tech Sign Language: Introduction to Web Accessibility",
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"description": "Join me as I introduce the concept of web accessibility while you pick up some technology related sign language. This session is for developers, designers, or anyone involved in building or planning technology experiences for others. Topics include defining web accessibility, the impact inaccessibility can have on your user's experience, and reviewing some tools available to evaluate your projects. I will also showcase concrete examples of accessible experiences that anyone can implement right now.\r\n\r\nAs a former sign language interpreter, I have had the unique opportunity to build an awareness through observing how disabilities affect one's experience with the world around them. I have been fortunate to incorporate that perspective into my current role as a developer, and I am excited to share my experience with you.\r\n\r\nSlides and info: https://cjo.li/waminnebar",
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"id": 659,
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"presenter_name": "Eryn O'Neil",
"presenter_bio": "In her 13 years in the industry, Eryn O’Neil has been a developer, a tech lead, an independent consultant, a manager, and a director. Coming from the agency world, she has worked on everything from e-commerce and online promotions to crafting a proprietary framework and CMS. Her philosophy is to build software by placing humans first: both the people who will use it and the developers who will build it with you (and maintain it afterward).\r\n\r\nLiving in Minnesota, Eryn spends most of her free time teaching blues dancing, being a new mom, and wishing it weren’t snowing. You can follow her on Twitter at [@eryno](https://twitter.com/eryno).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @eryno",
"session_title": "Junior Dev Speed Dating Interviews",
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"description": "Calling all junior developers currently looking for a job! \r\n\r\nJoin us for a series of one-on-one conversations with representatives from companies looking to hire developers **just like you**. This session will be run \"speed-dating\" style: Every five minutes, you'll get the chance to talk to someone from a local company about what you're both looking for and whether you might be a fit. If both sides like each other, great! Continue the conversation after the session. If not, that's alright-- we'll ring the bell within five minutes!\r\n\r\nDevelopers, come ready to talk about your experience and career goals. Resumes are helpful but not necessary -- we'll provide notecards for exchanging information.\r\n\r\nHiring managers, if you want to be part of this session, please [fill out this form to let us know](https://goo.gl/forms/ZpElHEWQvaxtGWm43). For logistical reasons, all hiring partners must commit before the session.\r\n\r\nNOTE: this session will have a maximum attendance enforced at the door so that everyone who gets into the room will be guaranteed conversations. If you don't make it into the session, not to worry! We'll have Raincheck boxes for you to let these recruiters know you're interested in their company.",
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"description": "We've all heard about functional programming - probably even heard that it can improve our code by eliminating nulls and many other benefits. This talk assumes you already *want* to learn functional programming but don't know where to start or how to tell when you've arrived. \r\n\r\nWe'll go over the landscape of functional programming with lots of (javascript/es6+) code examples. ",
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"id": 657,
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"presenter_name": "Mike O'Neil",
"presenter_bio": "Mike O’Neil is The LinkedIn Rockstar™, Social Media pioneer, 2x Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer and an internationally acclaimed LinkedIn authority and futurist. \r\n\r\nMike inspires audiences with his unique blend of classic rock music, LinkedIn and Social Networking taking a page from his hit LinkedIn book entitled “Rock The World with your Online Presence”. \r\n\r\nA 20-year B2B technology sales veteran, Mike has trained thousands of IT and sales professionals to use LinkedIn since 2004. As President of Integrated Alliances, the world’s first LinkedIn and social media firm, Mike’s time-proven LinkedIn program teaches you to “Fit In, Stand Out and Convert” to attract new business with LinkedIn and unique strategies and techniques.\r\n\r\nIn recent years, Mike has been focused on LinkedIn Sales Navigator, the highly advanced \"CRM-type\" version of LinkedIn for sales teams, entrepreneurs and revenue producers. He's been training on this tool since its inception in 2014.\r\n\r\nIntegrated Alliances provides LinkedIn & Social Media consulting services for select individuals as well as live training (workshops and webinars) for firms with sales teams. [Connect with Mike O’Neil](http://linkedin.com/in/mikeoneil).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @@linkedintrainer",
"session_title": "CANCELLED - Get More Business with LinkedIn Sales Navigator",
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"description": "LinkedIn is by far the #1 B2B social media platform and it’s been that way for a very long time. In 2014, LinkedIn introduced Sales Navigator, a premium add-on for sales reps, entrepreneurs, marketers and revenue producers. It took LinkedIn to a whole new level.\r\n\r\nIF you care a great deal about sales and marketing, you should attend this session and see what LinkedIn Sales Navigator can do for you. This is your golden opportunity to learn more about LinkedIn Sales Navigator - for free. \r\n\r\nAttendees will learn how to:\r\n\r\n♦ Upgrade to LinkedIn Sales Navigator\r\n\r\n♦ Attract inbound business with simple profile tweaks and settings\r\n\r\n♦ Find your top targets using the 29 Sales Navigator filters\r\n\r\n♦ Create Lead and Account lists using Sales Navigator\r\n\r\n♦ Engage top targets in a systematic way called “campaigns”\r\n\r\n♦ Manage it all using simple, free tools\r\n\r\nNOTE - This session is NOT for LinkedIn beginners. It is an intermediate to advanced class for experienced LinkedIn users and Sales Navigator users (ALL levels).\r\n\r\nAttendees will also receive links to 3 helpful LinkedIn InfoGuides for Profiles, Sales Navigator and Campaigns (4-page PDF’s).\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Jean Lee",
"presenter_bio": "Rev.Dr. Jean Lee is a fmr. Fortune 500 corporate auditor, has been on numerous Boards, Commissions, Task Forces, and Initiatives at the local, state and national levels. Dr. Lee has founded and Co-founded several organizations and businesses. She's done years of system changes and improvements from planning, development, and implementation to long term sustainable models. Core areas of work has been in education, economic development, Healthcare, housing, advocacy and services, public policy and technology.",
"session_title": "Building Sustainable Tech Products",
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"description": "Elements of building tech products for consumer and business use must be in planning and development as short term or long term values with sustainability measures in place. Interactive discussion of how these factors influence your profits or losses and work efforts.",
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"presenter_name": "Anna A Prisacari",
"presenter_bio": "[Anna Prisacari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaprisacari/) is the Senior UX Design Researcher at Honeywell and previously worked as VP of UX and Marketing at [Praxik](http://praxik.com), an Augmented Reality startup in Minneapolis. In her role, she closely works with clients to understand their pain points and needs and with developers and engineers to ensure the clients' needs are transformed into practical and desired products. To do so, Anna connects ideas and research findings, conducts UX testing, and oversees client satisfaction. She holds a BA in International Business, Marketing, Political Science, and French and MBA from St. Ambrose University and MS and Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University. Anna is the recipient of numerous awards in communication, teaching, and service and is a passionate speaker, writer, and mentor on subjects like UX, women in technology, and STEM. You can connect with Anna on LinkedIn and follow her on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/anna_prisacari/).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @AnnaAPrisacari",
"session_title": "[panel with CEOs] Startup and me: What does it take to run a successful tech startup day-to-day? ",
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"description": "Startup is hard so it's not for everyone. There are many questions one need to think before deciding to build their own startup or join one. Is startup for me? What does it take to start and run a startup? To answer these questions and more, several MN tech startup executives (founders, CEOs, VPs) will share what they do every day to build and grow their company. The audience is encouraged to ask questions. The discussion will be moderated by Anna Prisacari from [Praxik](http://praxik.com).\r\n\r\nPanelists
\r\nClarence Bethea, Founder & CEO at [Upsie](http://www.upsie.com)
\r\nAngie Eilers, Founder & CEO at [UR TURN](http://www.urturn.org/)
\r\nJames Jones Jr., Founder & CEO at [Spark DJ](https://sparkdj.com/)
\r\nMatt Ronge, Cofounder & CEO [Astro HQ](http://www.astropad.com)
\r\nSameer Kumar, Cofounder & CEO at [HabitAware](https://www.habitaware.com/)\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"updated_at": "2018-04-14 19:14:32 UTC"
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"presenter_name": "David Radcliffe",
"presenter_bio": "I am an organizer for the Minnesota Quantum Computing Meetup, and a cofounder and software developer for GogyUp. Our company develops assistive reading technologies for adult learners. I have a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/Radcliffe)\n- Twitter: @@davidradcliffe@mathstodon.xyz",
"session_title": "CANCELED - Build an Android app to classify images of flowers using TensorFlow",
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"description": "We will learn how to run Tensorflow, and use it to train a deep neural network model to classify images of flowers. Then we will build an Android app that uses your camera to identify flowers.\r\n\r\nNo experience with TensorFlow or Android development is required, but it would be helpful if you could install TensorFlow and Android Studio in advance. We will be following these Google Codelabs, which have installation instructions.\r\n\r\n* [TensorFlow for Poets](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/tensorflow-for-poets)\r\n* [TensorFlow for Poets 2: Optimize for Mobile](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/tensorflow-for-poets-2)\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Discovery",
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"id": 653,
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"presenter_name": "Chase Wackerfuss",
"presenter_bio": "Chase joined Blockstack as a software engineer after being an active community member and building one of the first decentralized apps on the platform. In his role at Blockstack, his focuses are React development, Javascript tooling, and frontend developer advocacy.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/cwackerfuss)",
"session_title": "CANCELED - Building Decentralized Apps with Blockstack.js",
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"description": "Building decentralized serverless apps doesn’t have to be complicated. With blockstack.js you can be up and running with authentication and encrypted storage in minutes. Learn how Blockstack works from a Blockstack core team member and see how you can start building decentralized apps today.\r\n\r\nAbout Blockstack:\r\nBlockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. Blockstack's platform helps entrepreneurs and engineers build these apps and deliver better end-user experiences.",
"room_name": "Texas",
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"id": 652,
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"presenter_name": "Tim Bates",
"presenter_bio": "I am president and board member of Smart Express and I run the Exponential Group, that works with young early-stage technology businesses in the US, Europe, and Asia developing and bringing to market product and services in the areas of mobile, digital imaging, SaaS, big data and IOT technologies. I have a BA in Mathematics from St. Olaf College and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.\r\n\r\nI started as a software engineer and was the inventor or co-developer of a number of leading-edge computer graphic software systems. I then moved on to managing, running, and starting technology companies that pioneered digital cameras, SaaS services, advanced database systems and e-commerce solutions helping them develop and build markets in the US, Europe, and Asia. \r\n\r\nIn addition to my day job at Smart Express, I currently am a board member and advisor to young technology companies as well as work with others as a mentor through MESA.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- Twitter: @timbates",
"session_title": "Building for Scale: Understanding what to do at key inflection points on your startup journey.",
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"description": "As an entrepreneur, you build three things -- the product, the sales machine, and the company. The Building for scale session will focus on developing the sales machine which takes you from ideation to scale.\r\n \r\nA sales machine built in the right way makes your company ready for growth, and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, done wrong you never get to product market fit, you burn through cash and die.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, in this session, we will discuss the sales learning curve process and sequence, sales-ready products, product superpowers and why it is vital to identify them, as well as understand how you work your way through the Gap Startup Stage, which is the time between customer development and scale. Moreover, we’ll discuss how to manage investor expectations and resources, and most importantly, build a system that will give you the right levers to pull to grow your company.\r\n\r\nKey topic points \r\n\r\n•\tThe gap stage and why it matters in the startup’s life cycle \r\n•\tGetting to product market fit and signposts that show that you are reaching it \r\n•\tThe importance of the Sales Learning Curve and how adhering to it will save you cash, help you better communicate with your investors, partners, and team\r\n•\tYour product’s Superpowers and why understanding what they are and how to use them to establish a sales-ready product \r\n•\tDeveloping a sales-ready product and why it matters\r\n•\tConsistency and repeatability - the lifeblood of a successful sales machine\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Georgia",
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"id": 651,
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"presenter_name": "David Dangerfield",
"presenter_bio": "People have been paying me to develop software for over 20 years. Since 2014 I've focused on frontend development using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vue.js, React, Angular, etc.\r\n\r\nUp until 2014 I was a backend developer with experience in Java, C#, C++, etc.\r\n\r\nFeel free to message me on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/dangerfield).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/ddanger)",
"session_title": "Intro to Vue.js: The Frontend Framework for Everyone!",
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"description": "**tl;dr**\r\n \r\n- Vue.js is a popular simple/minimal framework for making web applications\r\n- It requires no fancy complicated stuff, but can scale for \"enterprise\" apps\r\n- It's designed for incremental adoption -- you can gradually migrate to it\r\n- I'll show you the basics with running code -- not slides\r\n- https://github.com/ddanger/vue-basics\r\n\r\n![](\"https://vuejs.org/images/logo.png\")
\r\n**[Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) has received a lot of developer love.** Just looking at Github [stars](https://github.com/search?q=stars:%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories), it is way ahead of Angular and very close behind React.\r\n\r\nOne reason it's so popular is because it demands so little of those who use it, while allowing them to do what they want.\r\n\r\n- Don't like how Angular forces you into TypeScript? Vue doesn't force you to use it (but you can if you want).\r\n- Don't like how React forces you to use render functions? Vue doesn't force you to use them (but you can if you want).\r\n\r\n**In this session I'll demonstrate Vue.js basics by live-coding examples.** I'll talk you through each one so you understand what Vue is doing under the covers.\r\nBring your laptop if you want to follow along.\r\n\r\n**If you're new to Vue.js or modern JavaScript frameworks in general, this is the perfect _slow intro_** where you'll be able to really understand what's happening and what the framework does. (Also, if you're using **jQuery**, and you're interested in gradually modernizing ... Vue would be my choice)\r\n\r\nIf you've already used Vue.js, you will find the examples extremely basic. Depending on your knowledge, you may benefit from the in-depth discussion about how these basics work.\r\n\r\nIf you're an experienced Angular or React developer. You'll appreciate the simplicity of Vue and you'll leave with many questions about more advanced Vue concepts (I'm happy to talk more afterwards).\r\n\r\nIn this presentation you'll see: **Github, Codepen.io, Visual Studio Code editor, Chrome browser + developer tools, Git, npm, HTML, CSS, JavaScript**, and, of course, **Vue.js**!\r\n\r\nSession time will allow for questions and answers.",
"room_name": "Minnetonka",
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"created_at": "2018-03-30 02:34:57 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-16 15:35:34 UTC"
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"id": 650,
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"presenter_name": "Kiran Dalvi",
"presenter_bio": "Senior Development Manager @Veritas\r\n
\r\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kiran-dalvi-bb2622/\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @_kirandalvi",
"session_title": "Transformations in large enterprise products–Why?How? and When?",
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"description": "Every large enterprise product goes through its own mid-life crisis where it needs to transform itself to stay relevant in the ever-changing marketplace. \r\n\r\nJoin me in a session where I will talk through \"Why? How? and When\" of Enterprise Product Transformations. \r\n\r\nI will be focusing on the various transformation techniques such as Re-architecture, Re-Design, Re-skin or Re-write. It is an interactive talk where we will go through real use-cases covering both success and failure examples. \r\n\r\nGood for folks working in large enterprises as well as those building startups.\r\n",
"room_name": "Louis Pasteur",
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"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 14:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-29 21:48:09 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
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"id": 649,
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"presenter_name": "Brian Krohn",
"presenter_bio": "Brian Krohn, Ph.D. is a serial entrepreneur with businesses ranging from heathIT, green fuel, Minnesota hops, and yes, creating a wizard staffs. He is currently the Entrepreneur in Residence and Project Manager at Modern Logic, where he helps businesses got from the spark of an idea to a scaled business. \r\n",
"session_title": "🔥Great Balls of Fire! 🔥 How to crowdfund a flame throwing wizard staff. 🧙♂️",
"summary": null,
"description": "The Lean Startup, Human Centered Design, Design Thinking, Rapid Prototyping, and Dynamic Equity are all great buzzwords but what do they actually mean in practice? \r\n\r\nA year ago we set out on a quest to test these ideas and demonstrate how they can lead to truly unexpected places. \r\n\r\n**Join us on our journey in creating a wizard staff that actually does wizard things (like shoot fog and fire).** \r\n[See them in action at www.magicwizardstaff.com](http://magicwizardstaff.com)\r\n\r\n Act 1: How to fail at killing your darling.\r\n\r\n Act 2: People power and unlocking potential with dynamic equity.\r\n\r\n Act 3: A whole new world: lean digital marketing and micro manufacturing.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Discovery",
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"created_at": "2018-03-29 19:23:21 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
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"id": 648,
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"presenter_name": "David Peteler",
"presenter_bio": "\r\nA native of Minnesota with over 30 years experience, starting in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, David Peteler has worked with tech companies in the start-up, growth, and exit stages. David has done over 200 private placements, as well as public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.\r\n\r\nDavid has a \"from the trenches\" view of what legal tools to use to position your business to move to the next level, and hopefully avoid pitfalls along the way.",
"session_title": "Tech Startups: Getting The Legal Part Right",
"summary": null,
"description": "Discussion of key legal issues and documents every startup should have to protect itself and be ready for financing.\r\n\r\nFull description to follow.",
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"created_at": "2018-03-29 19:21:55 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
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"id": 647,
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"presenter_name": "Kyle Coghlan",
"presenter_bio": "Digital Marketing Professional | Chatbot Designer\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @Kyle_Coghlan",
"session_title": "How To Attract Business Through Social Media",
"summary": null,
"description": "Hey everybody! Kyle Coghlan here with a community chat about how to attain quality leads through the use of social media. Now, this isn't just about attaining leads for your business but how to build life long relationships with people online that eventually can lead to, well, leads for your business. I have several years of content production experience where I've worked with national and local brands from various industries. I have great success with attracting people to my business through simply creating valuable content daily on multiple social media platforms. \r\n\r\nIn addition, the discussion will revolve around how to provide value to your audience online, what form value can take as and defining what value means in relation to your business. After all, with out providing value to anyone, your leads will have no reason to reach out. \r\n\r\nEssentially this will be a content marketing discussion about how your business can benefit from giving out value to your prospective customers. \r\n\r\nJoin me and let's learn together.\r\n\r\n",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
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"id": 646,
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"presenter_name": "Colin Lee",
"presenter_bio": "Colin is an experienced software engineer specializing in Android development. He worked for Mozilla on the Firefox for Android rewrite. He has worked for many successful companies in the past fifteen years, including Amazon, Flipgrid (acquired by Microsoft), Cray, Pearson VUE, and When I Work. He runs the Twin Cities Kotlin User Group in his spare time. He now works full-time for Meetup and enjoys traveling the world during their generous paid time off.\r\n\r\nHe has been programming since he learned BASIC on the TRS-80 computer in his parents' basement at age six. He has been writing Android apps since soon after the first Android phone launched and has done so professionally since the last space shuttle landed. In that time, he's probably been pitched every silly app idea and been offered a percent stake in the zero dollars most actually earned.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/colintheshots)\n- Twitter: @colinmlee",
"session_title": "Kotlin and Flutter All the Things: Building for All Platforms",
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"description": "This session will explore some of the newer and more interesting solutions to developing apps across a wide array of devices.\r\n\r\nYou've all heard about Facebook's React Native, but what about the alternatives? Why are we still coding in Javascript?!\r\n\r\nWe'll take an introductory dive into Flutter, Google's newest multi-platform app framework for Android and iOS.\r\n\r\nFlutter is essentially a C++ native game engine which renders UI elements which look exactly like native app widgets. It's based upon the language Dart, but should be immediately familiar to most developers using modern languages. The only difference between an Android Flutter app and an iOS Flutter app is a single constant.\r\n\r\nI will also explain my experience building a game across Android, iOS, web, server, and desktop using only Kotlin code and Kotlin build scripts.\r\n\r\nKotlin is a newer programming language created by JetBrains, the company that made the most popular Integrated Development Environments among software developers.\r\n\r\nOften compared to Swift and of about the same age, Kotlin has become Google's recommended language for Android development. It's also becoming the recommended language by Pivotal for Spring web service development.\r\n\r\nThe core Kotlin team has recently unveiled massively cross-platform features which I'll show off. This allows you to run Kotlin code on virtually any device, even Raspberry Pis, and to share similar code between devices.",
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"created_at": "2018-03-29 19:10:31 UTC",
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"id": 645,
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"presenter_name": "Matthew Orstad",
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"session_title": "CANCELED - Tables - They're Not Just For Layout Anymore",
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"description": "DataTables is a free (MIT licensed) plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, and will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.\r\n\r\nWith only a single line of code you can turn your boring old HTML table(s) into a magical widget with pagination, instant search and multi-column ordering.\r\n\r\nMaybe you've been looking at AngularJS, Backbone, Ember, or some other JavaScript framework but they seem like overkill for what you want to do. Perhaps you've looked at the existing grid components and found them lacking. Or maybe you're just looking to take your existing tables up a notch without a lot of extra effort.\r\n\r\nThe best code is the code you don't have to write and DataTables is highly configurable (with it's own API and a wide variety of extensions including Editor, TableTools, FixedColumns and more) and adding the feature you want is often as simple as just enabling the correct config option.\r\n\r\n* Reorder columns\r\n* Show/Hide Columns\r\n* Save state (including search, ordering, filtering, etc) across browser sessions/pages\r\n* Excel in your browser\r\n* \"Freeze\" left most columns in place\r\n* Fix in place the header/footer/left/right columns\r\n* Keyboard cell navigation\r\n* Autofill allowing click and drag over cells, filling in information and incrementing numbers as needed\r\n* A virtual renderer to speed up display of large datasets\r\n* Copy/Export CSV, XLS, PDF to the system clipboard\r\n* Make your data responsive and available across multiple devices and screen sizes\r\n\r\nIf you're looking for rapid application development, DataTables supports almost any data source (including DOM, Javascript, Ajax and server-side processing). The plug-in itself is language agnostic however so you can use it with any server side language you want. Getting your data into DataTables can be as simple as:\r\n\r\nSerializeJSON(qMyAwesomeQueryObject)\r\nWe will cover Web SQL (old busted) for legacy browser and device support, IndexedDB (new hotness) for newer and evergreen browsers, as well as all the shims that will make working with them all easier. We will also cover syncing to traditional relational databases such as MySQL, as well as NoSQL with an emphasis on CouchDB.\r\n\r\nDataTables is easy on the eyes too. The out of the box CSS is gorgeous but it's easily theme-able with your favorite CSS framework, including jQuery UI, Bootstrap, and Foundation.\r\n\r\nDataTables comes batteries included, is fully internationalisable, and it's backed by a suite of over 2900+ unit tests with commercial support available.\r\n\r\nAttendees Will Learn\r\n\r\n* Quickly get DataTables up and running\r\n* Properly configure DataTables to get the features you want with the least amount of coding required\r\n* Fix and prevent the most common gotchas\r\n* Sync to backend databases\r\n* Relational (MySQL)\r\n* NoSQL (CouchDB)\r\n* Customize the look and feel to match your existing CSS or CSS framework (Bootstrap, Foundation, etc)\r\n* Allow inline and batch editing of your data, including on touch screen devices\r\n* Perform multi-column advanced server side search with rich search input controls (datepickers, spinners, and other widgets)\r\n* Get your data into DataTables without rewriting your SQL code\r\n* Advanced search and filter options\r\n* RedQueryBuilder, a UI JavaScript component that will build your SQL for you\r\n* Materialized views, when your users just have to join all the tables\r\n* Walk out with a git repository full of examples and a slidedeck full of (hidden) notes as well as pretty pictures\r\n* If you know jQuery and want to make your tables sing then this session is for you.\r\n\r\nI've even got some tips for making all the magic work back on ancient browsers like creaky old Internet Explorer 6/7 (don't worry, jQuery does most of the heavy lifting here too).",
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"id": 644,
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"presenter_name": "Amanda Low",
"presenter_bio": "HR Specialist at the University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology. Having spent most of my life in Malaysia and emerging adulthood in the U.S., I am constantly amazed at how life experiences and circumstances shape personal identity, in the same way the opposite is true.\r\n\r\nA Psychology enthusiast, I find that positive psychology offers many practical benefits in life, and believe that learning and personal growth happen best through Inclusion.",
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"description": "“The people who make the biggest difference are the ones who do the little things consistently”\r\n\r\nAs our lives become increasingly driven by technology, the ability to use emotion to relate across differences and foster a human workplace has become more of a critical advantage than ever. The concept of ‘Inclusion’ has its roots in Special Education and Disability Rights, largely focusing on systemic changes. In this session, we will explore the topic at the individual level, using perspectives from Organizational Psychology. \r\n\r\nWe will discuss what the experience of inclusion means to each of us, its link to psychological safety, and how we can through micro-acts of positivity bring out the best in each other, professionally and personally. ",
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"id": 643,
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"presenter_name": "Nick Ciske",
"presenter_bio": "**Current**\r\n\r\nCTO at [LuminFire](https://luminfire.com)\r\n\r\n**Past**\r\n\r\nOwner at [Thought Refinery](http://ThoughtRefinery.com/)\r\n\r\n**See Also**\r\n\r\nCo-founder of [StartupsAnonymous](http://StartupsAnonymous.com/) with [Dana Severson](https://twitter.com/danerobert)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/nciske)\n- Twitter: @nciske",
"session_title": "Kids and Technology: Striking the right balance",
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"description": "We hear anecdotes about technology leaders like Steve Jobs minimizing technology in their homes, and read stories about technology-addicted kids that can't make it through a class in school without their smartphone.\r\n\r\nWe have massive deployments of Google Chromebooks in schools, and feel like we're missing something when our phone is charging vs. in our pocket.\r\n\r\nWe want our kids to be technologically savvy, but not slaves to technology.\r\n\r\nAs technical people, what balance do we strike between inviting our children into the world that has given many of us an identity, a career, and in some cases an addiction we're not fond of acknowledging (except in jest)?\r\n\r\nWhat kind of example are we setting for the next generation in regards to a healthy relationship to technology?\r\n\r\nI'll do a short presentation on some of the issues I'm weighing in my own family, why we've made some of the choices we have, and then open things up for a discussion.\r\n\r\nWhat works for your family? Why did you choose that path?\r\n\r\nWhat are your hopes and dreams for your kids in regards to technical literacy/coding, etc?\r\n\r\n(Bring your questions and ideas!)",
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"presenter_name": "Laura Bates",
"presenter_bio": "Brand, Content & Marketing Strategist,\r\nBeacon Hill Branding, [link] (http://linkedin.com/in/laurambates)\r\n\r\nCollaborator, facilitator, maximizer, relationship-builder. Laura helps brands clarify their purpose and connect more powerfully with their target customers.\r\n\r\nSometimes called the \"chief question-asker,” Laura loves working with clients to find nuggets of insight that lead to remarkable brand strategies. Not satisfied with a ho-hum or routine expression, she works hard to find what’s exceptional and most meaningful about a brand: exploring the “why” to stir ideas, aligning disparate voices, finding the moments that matter. \r\n\r\nKey work consists of:\r\n• Client discovery and interviews\r\n• Brand insights and competitive research, \r\n• Brand positioning, promise and core values\r\n• Brand messaging frameworks\r\n• Brand launches\r\n• Content campaigns to drive engagement\r\n\r\nShaped by two decades of experience in leading brand agencies, Laura has worked with blue chip brands like Star Tribune, American Medical Association, Sony, Microsoft, Piper Jaffray, Nuveen Investments, Prime Therapeutics, Medtronic, Pillsbury and more Today, Laura unites emerging and mid-size clients and their teams around a unique and memorable brand strategy – providing them with a solid foundation and tools to move their business and marketing forward.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @LMBates",
"session_title": "Branding: Overhyped or Undervalued? ",
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"description": "You can’t go anywhere in the world today without being bombarded by marketing and the buzzword: “brand.” But truthfully, how often are you consciously thinking about your company’s brand and leveraging it to guide your business? Join us to bust some myths about brand and branding, review some case studies for inspiration, work on identifying your own brand purpose, and leave with a clearer sense of how you can leverage brand as a strategic asset for growing your business.",
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"id": 641,
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"presenter_name": "Jason Hsu",
"presenter_bio": "\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/jhsu802701)",
"session_title": "Ruby on Racetracks: Ruby on Rails Development at NASCAR Speed Instead of Snail Speed",
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"description": "Too many of the conventional procedures used for basic tasks in Ruby on Rails are slow and bureaucratic. Fortunately, the red tape is obsolete. Under my [Ruby on Racetracks](http://www.rubyonracetracks.com/) system, you can complete basic tasks in minutes instead of hours or longer. At the same time, you are doubling down on quality control instead of cutting corners.\r\n\r\nMy Ruby on Racetracks system works in Linux but is available for Mac and Windows users as well thanks to VirtualBox. Instead of manually installing Ruby on Rails, you instead use a Docker image with Ruby on Rails pre-installed. You never have to wonder if you broke your development environment, because you can instantly reset it rather than delete and manually reinstall Ruby on Rails.\r\n\r\nI have two fast ways of creating a new and **high** **quality** Rails app quickly with user/admin authentication, static pages, tests, and Bootstrap styling already included. Under the Generic App way, you can have a prebuilt and modern Rails app ready for you in seconds. Under the Rails Neutrino system, you can have a fully up-to-date Rails app ready for you in minutes. Rails Neutrino is an autopilot system that starts a new Rails app from scratch (with the \"rails new\" command) and provides the features required in all or most Rails apps. In fact, I use the output of the Rails Neutrino system as the basis for the prebuilt app used by Generic App.\r\n\r\nI will demo the new Ruby.MN Rails app that I recently built with my Generic App tool as a replacement for the original one. Additionally, I will demo legacy Rails apps that I enhanced with Ruby on Racetracks features.\r\n\r\nThere's Ruby on Racetracks, and there's Not Exactly. Make sure you choose the correct one.",
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"id": 640,
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"presenter_name": "Matt Ronge",
"presenter_bio": "Cofounder & CEO of Astro HQ where we make [Astropad](http://www.astropad.com) and [Luna Display](http://www.lunadisplay.com).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @mronge",
"session_title": "How we built a $650,000 Kickstarter campaign ",
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"description": "Late last year we launched a Kickstarter campaign for [Luna Display](www.lunadisplay.com), a hardware solution that turns any iPad into a true, wireless second display. Within the first 72 hours we had surpassed $250,000 on Kickstarter, and by the end of our campaign, we reached $650,000. Come join this session and learn about how we built our Kickstarter.\r\n\r\nWe'll talk about:\r\n\r\n- What worked for us\r\n- How we got the press to cover us\r\n- What didn't work\r\n- And.. How to end your Kickstarter with a bang",
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"id": 639,
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"presenter_name": "Dave Mathias",
"presenter_bio": "Believer that the intersection of people, experience, process, data and technology drives maximum customer solutions. Entrepreneurial ventures around helping change data culture, [Beyond the Data](https://gobeyondthedata.com), and being customer focused, [Customer Focus North](https://CustomerFN.com). Otherwise doer of many things like MinneAnalytics, Ally People Solutions (soon to be CIP), Minnesota PDMA, Data Able podcast, Twin Cities Data Viz, Twin Cities Data Fluency, ProductCamp Twin Cities, and Customer Focus North. \r\n\r\nWant to connect? Reach out on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davemathias1), [@davemathias](https://www.twitter.com/davemathias) or [dave@gobeyondthedata.com](mailto:dave@gobeyondthedata.com).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @davemathias",
"session_title": "🤖🎙 Build a bot together for next-gen UX 🤖🎙",
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"description": "Bots aren’t just for marketers. Text and chat are more natural than traditional web and app navigation and provide users a *great 24/7/365 experience*. Still in their infancy but with more devices that use text or voice with things like Alexa, Siri, Slack, and Google Assistant it is an area of focus. We moved beyond the age of websites to mobile apps and now are moving to the age of voice and text bots as the go-to interface. \r\n\r\nGood thing is that even if you are not a coder but see a problem for your users, you can use tools like DialogFlow, ChatFuel, and others to deliver workable solutions for both voice and text. Then you can deploy your bot to places like Facebook, Twitter, Slack, and more. Of course with a little coding you will be able to do even more. \r\n\r\nDuring this session we will build a bot using DialogFlow (aka Google’s bot builder platform) and by end of session we will deploy it. Come with your bot ideas, passion and experience insights and let’s build a bot together.\r\n",
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"created_at": "2018-03-25 23:20:05 UTC",
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"id": 637,
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"presenter_name": "Dan Wallace",
"presenter_bio": "Dan Wallace serves as VP of Marketing and Brand Strategy for the Science Museum of Minnesota. The Science Museum's mission is to turn on the science, inspire learning, inform policy and improve lives. The museum also works to increase equity and inclusion, exposing more Minnesotans to STEM careers.\r\n\r\nDan has been involved in several entrepreneurial adventures, some profitable, some educational. For many years Dan served as a marketing and brand consultant, work that included growing local and international technology firms. Dan is a coauthor of \"The Physics of Brand,\" which he co-wrote with Aaron Keller of Capsule and Renee Marino of Cupitor.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/danwallace/\r\n\r\nhttp://physicsofbrand.com/\r\n\r\nhttps://twitter.com/ideafood\r\n\r\nhttps://www.smm.org/\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ideafood",
"session_title": "Causes and Effects of Technology",
"summary": null,
"description": "It's easy to look at technology in isolation. In fact, technology begins with philosophy and science — and results in an oversized impact on economics and culture. In this session we will explore technological intersections through the lens of systems thinking. We will use questions from the book \"Homo Deus,\" by Yuval Noah Harari to start a conversation. Discussion about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook is likely. Come ready to stand up, speak up and cause some effects.\r\n\r\nBy having a deeper understanding of technological intersections we can become better designers of technology, ",
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"created_at": "2018-03-25 16:31:06 UTC",
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"id": 636,
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"presenter_name": "Carl Schwab",
"presenter_bio": "Carl is head of business and customer strategy at [Publicis.Sapient](https://www.sapientrazorfish.com/), Minneapolis, a strategic advisor to early Minneapolis startups, a board member of [MIMA](https://www.mima.org/), and is passionate about finding better ways to connect our creative/marketing and startup communities.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ccschwab",
"session_title": "Ask an [AGENCY] | How startups and agencies can partner to fuel growth in Minnesota",
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"description": "Minneapolis is home to a remarkable collection of agencies specializing in marketing, advertising, design, and technology. One thing all these agencies have in common is that they make connections. Connections between businesses and consumers, people and products, old and new, ideas and hungry minds.\r\n\r\nMinneapolis was also recently ranked as the #3 city for startups [link](https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2018/04/05/minneapolis-no-3-city-for-startups.html), beating out cities such as San Jose, Seattle, and Boston.\r\n\r\nHow can this vibrant agency community and the thriving start-up community help each other — join forces to make things neither could make alone? How can we partner to bring exciting new ideas and opportunities to the business community or directly to market? How can the Twin Cities create its own brand of start-up culture and find unique success?\r\n\r\nOver the course of this session, the panel will conduct an open forum on these and other ideas about how technology and creativity are conspiring to change the world through partnership. Together Sapient and Fallon represent the leading edge in idea-focused agencies leveraging technology and creativity to benefit our clients in healthcare, financial services, commodities, consumer packaged goods, automotive and more.\r\n\r\nBut what opportunities lie undiscovered and how can we conquer them together? Maybe only you know.\r\n\r\nSignal your interest on this page and then join us Saturday, April 14th at the Best Buy Headquarters in Richfield, MN.",
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"Todd Zerger",
"Kelly Larson",
"Mark Wagner",
"Greg Swan",
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"created_at": "2018-03-23 22:46:23 UTC",
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"id": 635,
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"presenter_name": "Patrick Donohue",
"presenter_bio": "[LinkedIn Profile](www.linkedin.com/in/patrickedonohue/)\r\n\r\n[Hill Capital Corporation](http://www.hillcapitalcorp.com/)\r\n\r\n",
"session_title": "\"Minne\" 1 Million Cups #1MC",
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"description": "Every Wednesday morning nearly 200 communities across the United States host 1 Million Cups to provide a free and comfortable venue for entrepreneurs to pitch their business (or idea) and the community asks \"What can our community do to help you?!\"\r\n\r\nWe are hosting 5 \"mini\" 1 Million Cup presentations for MinneBar!\r\n\r\nCome prepared to participate in dialogue on: What can we do to help the entrepreneur pitching! \r\n\r\nPresenters:\r\n\r\nMoses Tut - Running Tap\r\nAneela Idnani - Habit Aware\r\nPaul Rieder - Shadow Culture\r\nLou Abramowski - Evergreen\r\nJeremy Gilbert - Pandora Cybernetics\r\n\r\nMore about 1MC: \r\nOur regional community has several 1 Million Cup locations: St. Paul, Eden Prairie, Willmar, Rochester, Winona, Mankato, Eau Claire and there are probably more in the works! Look up the location that works for best for you: https://www.1millioncups.com/\r\n\r\nWhat Can Our Startup Community Do for You? 1 MILLION CUPS is a free, nationwide program designed to educate, engage and accelerate early-stage startups. We believe in the notion that entrepreneurs can discover solutions and thrive when they collaborate over a million cups of coffee. Drop in on our community of innovators and entrepreneurship enthusiasts to connect and support our local startups.",
"room_name": "Tackle",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
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"Kevin McArdle",
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"id": 634,
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"presenter_name": "Don Eitel",
"presenter_bio": "Currently works at Veritas Technologies in Roseville, MN. Serves as a member of the Agile Practice Group and Scrum Master to three teams. Interested in systems thinking, our relationship with ambiguity, and always looking for ways to get to 'better.'\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @@doneitel",
"session_title": "SMART Goals are DUMB",
"summary": null,
"description": "Have you ever been asked to write a SMART goal? Did your gut tell you that the exercise was silly or non-productive?\r\nWe'll discuss the dysfunctions of managing by goals.\r\nThen we'll discuss other strategies for reaching your aim.",
"room_name": "Stephen Leacock",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-23 17:35:07 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
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"id": 633,
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"presenter_name": "Kelly Lucente",
"presenter_bio": "Kelly Lucente is a CEO, Author and Brand Strategist who focuses on growing small to Fortune 500 brands, assisting them in differentiating themselves to move the needle through strategic brand positioning. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Re-Tool Marketing™, a boutique branding agency and Brand by Kelly™, her personal branding off-shoot in Minneapolis, MN. Kelly has a strong point of view and people listen. Her content has one common thread and one sole purpose… to educate small business owners on everything “brand” related that will help them eliminate the voice in their head saying, “I had no idea.”\r\n\r\nWith 30 years experience in marketing and sales, Kelly is known for her disruptive approach to getting brands noticed. She has worked with nationally noteworthy brands such as RE/MAX, Pearle Vision, Rollerblade, and Mattamy Homes, North America’s largest home builder (and only second to Pepsi in brand recognition). Kelly is the author of MOO-LAH-GY, a handbook for the entrepreneur and small business owner which offers practical solutions to frequently asked questions within the brand and positioning space.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @KellyLucente",
"session_title": "LinkedIn re-Boot",
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"description": "LinkedIn is quite possibly one of the strongest online business tools available today, yet very few are actually using it to grow their business. Here’s the truth: We live in an online world and if you’re in business you need to be on LinkedIn. Bottom line: People are looking for YOU, so let's help them find you.\r\n\r\nConsider this:\r\n\r\nThere are more than 497 MILLION LinkedIn users - The average LinkedIn user makes $110,931/yr - 52% of B2B buyers make purchasing decisions with LinkedIn - Over 80% of leads generated through social media come through LinkedIn\r\n\r\nBottom line:\r\n\r\nDon’t Look Like an Amateur Online\r\n\r\nWould you go to a business meeting without a shower and wearing clothes you grabbed straight from the laundry basket? Of course not. You want people to see you as a professional and a person they’d want to do business with and as such, you put forth effort in having a professional presence when you show up live. Well the same principals hold true for your LinkedIn presence.\r\n\r\nIf your profile is unkempt, you’ll look like someone people should avoid. Having a professional profile is especially important if you’re responsible for building new business or retaining customers, so don't neglect it.\r\n\r\nKey Takeaways:\r\n\r\nMy #1 secret for getting someone to respond to your request. \r\nTricks to improve your search rankings. \r\nProfile enhancements to get you noticed. \r\nThe power of attachments.",
"room_name": "Gandhi",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 12:10:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-22 17:13:50 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 17:35:51 UTC"
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"id": 632,
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"presenter_name": "Clarence Bethea",
"presenter_bio": "\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @Clarence_Bethea",
"session_title": "What I've learned working at General Mills and now investing in startups with Marc Belton",
"summary": null,
"description": "This will be a fireside chat moderated by Clarence Bethea with Marc Belton, former president of General Mills. He will speak about his time running at fortune 500 company and how those skills prepared him (or didn't) for investing in startups. Marc is an active investor in startups and passionate about serving underrepresented founders. ",
"room_name": "Proverb-Edison",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 15:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-21 17:58:30 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
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"id": 631,
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"presenter_name": "Chris Macgowan",
"presenter_bio": "Chris Macgowan is a Software Engineer, Filmmaker and Co-Founder of gstream\r\n\r\nChris has been building software since 1985. \r\n\r\nHerrn Macgowan has worked on a couple movies!\r\nhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm3807016/\r\n\r\nAfter failing to become a Film Director - he went back to software. Chris has developed various applications running under Windows, Linux/Unix and now iOS. Back in 1986 - Chris wrote assembler targeting the 8051 Intel Microcontroller.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/cmacgowan)\n- Twitter: @macgowan2",
"session_title": "Test Automation Framework Design using Selenium and Cucumber",
"summary": null,
"description": "We did this session last year and it was very popular - with a very diverse crowd. We had people just stepping into test automation and other with many years of experience. \r\n\r\nWe'll keep the discussion open and flexible. \r\n\r\nThe main focus will be test automation frameworks using java, selenium and cucumber. We could follow tangents into using Spring, reporting, Testing APIs, AWS, testing micro-services and more ... \r\n\r\nSelenium WebDriver: \r\n\r\nSelenium is a portable software-testing framework for web applications. Selenium WebDriver accepts commands and sends them to a browser. This is implemented through a browser-specific browser driver, which sends commands to a browser, and retrieves results. \r\n\r\nAlso worth noting - Selenium is months away from becoming a W3C specification for browser automation, based on the Open Source WebDriver. \r\n\r\nCucumber:\r\n\r\nCucumber is a tool based on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework which is used to write acceptance tests. It allows automation of functional validation in easily readable and understandable format (like plain English) to Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, etc.\r\n\r\nCucumber feature files can serve as a good document for all. There are many other tools like JBehave which also support BDD framework. Initially, Cucumber was implemented in Ruby and then extended to Java framework. Both the tools support native JUnit.\r\n\r\nPeace\r\n&Love\r\nChris",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 16:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-21 17:48:29 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
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"id": 630,
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"presenter_name": "Sarah Olson",
"presenter_bio": "\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/saraheolson)\n- Twitter: @saraheolson",
"session_title": "App Camp is Coming to Minneapolis! Learn How You Can Support Gender Diversity in STEM",
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"description": "**App Camp for Girls** is a one-week summer day program where girls, transgender & gender non-conforming youth can put their creative powers to work designing and building native iOS apps using Xcode and Swift. They learn about the business of software while being inspired by role models currently working in the tech industry. At the end of the week, they pitch their apps to a panel of local investors to get positive and encouraging feedback on all their hard work.\r\n\r\nThe inaugural season of App Camp for Girls took place in Summer 2013 in Portland, Oregon. In 2018, we will hold sessions in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and for the first time ever, Minneapolis! App Camp has worked with over 200 aspiring developers and over 60 mentor volunteers in over the last five summers!\r\n\r\nAt this session, you'll hear more about App Camp and the volunteer opportunities we have available at our first Minneapolis camp this summer, taking place August 6-10. And if you have children entering the 8th and 9th grades next fall, find out more about enrolling them in App Camp!",
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"presenter_name": "Scott Colesworthy",
"presenter_bio": "Scott has a background in contact center technology. He previously started, grew and sold Soltris; a contact center systems integration company. Scott is currently the founder of Intelligent Service, a new contact center systems integration company specializing in this emerging category of contact center platforms. When not working Scott races sailboats on Lake Minnetonka and enjoys traveling with his wife and son.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @scolesworthy",
"session_title": "Building custom contact center applications using Twilio and other building block components",
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"description": "The contact center technology market in the recent past has had two primary models:\r\nPremise based and cloud. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses.\r\n•\tPremise has more flexibility to be customized but can be extremely expensive with very long lead times to deploy.\r\n•\tCloud is much faster to deploy but is more limited in terms of flexibility\r\n\r\nA new category is now emerging and the name “contact center platform” seems to be emerging. The two early leaders in this space are Twilio and Amazon. They are cloud based to be sure, but not turnkey systems. Rather they are building blocks with API’s offering essentially unlimited flexibility in how a contact center may be designed. In this talk I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach and lay out the basics of what it takes to build a system using the Twilio platform.\r\n\r\nWe will close the presentation building a simple chatbot using Python and Twilio API's.\r\n",
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"id": 628,
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"presenter_name": "Lisa Vongchingtrong",
"presenter_bio": "Lisa is obsessed with food and grocery stores. She blends data and social science to answer some of the most important and stupid questions in life and business.\r\n\r\nLisa a professional food trend hunter (yup - it's a thing), a Minneapolis Running Ambassador, and co-chairs MSP HELLO, an initiative with Make it MSP to welcome newcomers to the region. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in economics, entrepreneurship, and political science.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @Don't have Twitter. Instagram is @lisaishungry",
"session_title": "What's up with Unicorn Frappuccinos? Unpacking Trends, Fads, and Viral Products",
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"description": "How can you tell if something is a fad or a trend? How do trends overlap and extend beyond categories? Why do some things catch on and others don't? What makes something go viral? In this session, we'll use food as a case study for trend analysis and design thinking to figure out how the Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino came to be and why Lady Doritos may not. ",
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"presenter_name": "Martin Hertz",
"presenter_bio": "Martin Hertz is a leader in software development with over 25 years of professional experience. These days, he’s focused on building exceptional software development organizations, shaping robust and self-sustaining delivery teams, and coaching engineers. He’s played roles of developer, architect, scrum master, product owner, people manager, project manager, and process expounder. Over the years, he has been fortunate to learn a lot from brilliant colleagues, mentors, and his mistakes.\r\n\r\n**Links:** \r\n\r\n* [Computers & People ](https://computersandpeople.com) (blog)\r\n* [@computersandpeople.com](https://bsky.app/profile/computersandpeople.com) (Bluesky)",
"session_title": "Beyond “Don’t Panic!” - Tips for Success When It Hits the Fan",
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"description": "We’ve all been there. It’s the end of your release cycle and a doozy of a defect is discovered. A production issue has suddenly flooded your inbox with alerts. A critical customer has relayed their deep dissatisfaction and they want their problem addressed now… or else.\r\n\r\nAfterwards, we often focus our energy on preventing emergencies like these in the future. However, what if you and your organization were to put a fraction of those efforts towards preparing for the next time the alarm goes off? Simple changes in how you and your organization react will pay big dividends. Your company can get back to business as usual sooner. Your customers can get quick satisfaction. Most importantly, you and your colleagues can retain your sanity.\r\n\r\nThis talk will examine high pressure situations commonly faced in software delivery to identify simple improvements that can be made. Whether you are an engineer or CIO, you have the power to make enhancements to behaviors and processes that will result in happier customers and less stressed employees. \r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Carl Schwab",
"presenter_bio": "Carl is head of business and customer strategy at [Publicis.Sapient](https://www.sapientrazorfish.com/), Minneapolis, a strategic advisor to early Minneapolis startups, a board member of [MIMA](https://www.mima.org/), and is passionate about finding better ways to connect our creative/marketing and startup communities.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ccschwab",
"session_title": "Engagement Economics (Empowering the Customer Journey across Moments that Matter)",
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"description": "Typical questions our clients and we, as marketing consultants, ask:\r\n\r\nQ: Which customers do I invest in and at what points of their journey? Which should I avoid?\r\nQ: What is the best way to engage these customers how much value can I create if successful?\r\nQ: How do I accurately measure the value that was created and know what worked?\r\n\r\nEngagement Economics provides the framework for working through these questions in a disciplined, consistent and reliable way.\r\n\r\nEngagement Economics Summary principles:\r\n1. Focused on Mutual Value creation. \r\nEstablishes a model that provides clear value to a customer while yielding a measurable business benefit\r\n2. Forces rigor in prioritization. Drives rigor in the selection of highest value opportunities (priority segment-based journeys & moments that matter). Prioritization is placed on mutual value creation.\r\n3. Enables customer-centric forecasting.Includes processes to create customer-driven forecasts that over time help optimize business strategies and ROI.\r\n4. Delivers a robust measurement & learning engine. Incorporates interaction, attitudinal, and behavioral metrics to identify and measure the impact on KPIs. \r\nMeasures the economic contribution increases as consumers become more engaged /grow relationships with the brand.\r\n\r\nThis session (open to all) will discuss how we (Publicis.Sapient) are working our clients to evaluate the marketing/experience impact within key moments that matter for their customers across the E2E journey. \r\n\r\nThink \"return on marketing/customer experience\" across the journey. \r\n\r\nWe'll cover both the framework and some of the tools we are using to execute for our clients. \r\n",
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"id": 625,
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"presenter_name": "Tea Dejanovic",
"presenter_bio": "Streamlining the delivery and adoption of new technologies Monday - Friday, empowering young women in tech on the weekends! Passionate about growing community engagement and fostering the mindset of 'pay it forward' in the professional setting. \r\n\r\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/teadejanovic/\r\n",
"session_title": "Volunteering with Twin Cities Tech Community",
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"description": "Looking to upgrade your evenings from Netflix and craft beer, and do something fun and productive with your time? Bored at your current job? Tired of corporate tech that's not making a real world impact? Looking to meet other like minded tech professionals in Twin Cities? Skill based volunteering is the answer to all of the above! Giving back helps improve your mood, increases your sense of purpose and reduces your stress levels. First part of the session will be a review of volunteer options that currently exist in Twin Cities tech community. Second part will be an ideation session on breaking barriers to introduce pro bono volunteer programs in the corporate work setting. ",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
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"id": 624,
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"presenter_name": "Paul Cantrell",
"presenter_bio": "Paul fell in love with programming at first sight on an Apple ][+ and never looked back. He teaches computer science at Macalester College and is a freelance software developer (often with the fine folks at Bust Out).\r\n\r\nLiving a secret double life as a classically trained composer and pianist, he brings a musician's passion for aesthetics and nuanced detail to the craft of writing software, thus making his bio sound all fancy.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [Personal site](https://innig.net)\r\n- [Mastodon](https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands)\r\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/pcantrell)\r\n",
"session_title": "The (not so) Secret to Hiring Great Junior Developers",
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"description": "EMPLOYERS: Why can’t I find good junior developers?\r\n\r\n_Meanwhile…_\r\n\r\nGOOD JUNIOR DEVELOPERS: Why can’t I find a decent job?\r\n\r\nThis panel brings together tech leaders, college students, and a professor to share success stories. We will discuss how to find, hire, and nurture less experienced developers so that they get great experience and their employers get great software.\r\n\r\nYes, it is possible. Yes, it is already happening!\r\n\r\n- Hear the stories of great interns who did amazing work.\r\n- Learn how employers discovered, selected, and courted those interns.\r\n- Hear about shockingly common mistakes that turn away the very people you want to hire.\r\n\r\nP.S. Where are all those junior devs hanging out, anyway? Probably at the companion session on [the state of the Junior Dev community in MN](https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/587)!\r\n\r\nP.P.S. Looking to interview or be interviewed right at MinneBar? Come to the [https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/659](Junior Dev Speed Dating Interviews)!",
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"Jeff Lin",
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"id": 622,
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"presenter_name": "Genghis Philip",
"presenter_bio": "Genghis is an ultimate player, boxer, and gamer. He has spent well over a decade making sure teams work well together at various and sundry tech companies around the cities, with titles ranging from Scrum Master to Director of Engineering to COO. He also sits on the board of the Twin Cities Ultimate League and is an assistant coach for the Strike, Minnesota's professional women's and nonbinary ultimate frisbee team.\r\n\r\nI guess you could follow him on Twitter (@hawksfire) or Bluesky (@genghis.bsky.social), but only if you're particularly interested in all-caps tweets about the Chicago Bears and Ultimate.",
"session_title": "Catastrophe is a core value: Leveraging failure as a job-seeker or hiring manager",
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"description": "The startup community is obsessed with the idea of failing fast, learning, and adapting. That's a good thing! But when we look to get hired, or we look to hire someone to improve our team, we only ever focus on what our successes were.\r\n\r\nBeing able to discuss failures -- real failures, not excuses to talk about how you pulled a win out of thin air -- creates a much richer, more genuine picture.\r\n\r\nThis talk is split between job-seekers and job-givers: my goal is to help put a stake in the heart of sterile, cookie-cutter interviews. That means that **both** sides need to be willing to embrace their previous failures.\r\n\r\nFor job-seekers, I'll talk about constructing your failure resume: \r\n\r\n- How to acknowledge failures and lessons learned without dismissing that you did indeed fail \r\n\r\n- How to use your failure resume to direct your job search\r\n\r\n- How to polish your failure resume for public consumption\r\n\r\nFor job-givers (be you hiring managers or just interviewers), I'll talk about failure as a *qualification* for a candidate:\r\n\r\n- How to talk to a candidate about your failures as an organization\r\n\r\n- How to coach a candidate into being willing to be candid about failure\r\n\r\n- How to create failure requirements for a job posting",
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"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
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"id": 621,
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"presenter_name": "Jade Barker",
"presenter_bio": "Jade Barker: Business Systems Consultant, Business and Blockchain Quartermaster, Warrior Princess of Tech at Silicon Prairie\r\n(Sorry my job title is wacky, we report to a lot of different regulators. The fanciful title saves me time)\r\n\r\nI’m a Fintech Geek: My specialty is Investment Crowdfunding (Exempt Securities), Blockchain, Smart Contracts/ Smart Documents, Startups, and Small Business Funding. I’m next in line to answer questions if our Founder David Duccini isn’t home. I’ve been in tech startups for 7 years in the Midwest, before that I was a pharmaceutical chemist.\r\n\r\nRoles:\r\nBlockchain CO-FOUNDER & Principal Consultant at Strength in Numbers (SNF), our blockchain education & consulting non-profit 501(C)(3). My mentor involved in Bitcoin since 2010, with a dozen patents for Blockchain in Banking. I’ve been in the space since 2015 and am currently the curriculum assistant for the semester-long Graduate Comp Sci Blockchain class at a local private college. \r\n\r\nBUSINESS SYSTEMS CONSULTANT at Silicon Prairie Portal and Exchange (SPPX). Live since 2016, our Investment Crowdfunding portal works like Kickstarter, but companies can sell real stock to regular people under MNvest, SCOR, and Reg CF. Also available Reg D and Reg A+ Our platform represents $1M in development to this point and is poised to be an industry leader in Investor Relations as a Service (IRAAS). Team experience with software security architecture, Fortune 100 banking best practices, & SOC 2/ Type II audits. Leadership on the “Geppetto” Project live since 2017. Proprietary one-to-many document automation system: we bridge the gap between lawyers and software developers. Smart Contracts require smart documents. We can help teams raising between $50K - $5M, plus those seeking up to $50M.\r\n\r\nFind me on Linkedin or our Friday Open Office Hours https://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Prairie-Investing/\r\nOr at an event near you, wearing a BLINKING BADGE so you can't miss me ;)\r\n\r\n*None of these comments are legal advice, please seek a credentialed professional.",
"session_title": "Bountiful Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin",
"summary": null,
"description": "Not all Blockchain is Bitcoin! Did you know HALF of all large corporations are researching how Blockchain's Distributed Ledger technology can streamline their industries? This session will begin with a primer on Blockchain and then expand into practical NON Cryptocurrency examples. Come hear from Subject Matter Experts in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency that offer the deepest Blockchain expertise available, combined with impeccable ethics. Don't wait till next year and then kick yourself for not understanding this \"stuff\" sooner!",
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"created_at": "2018-03-18 08:13:54 UTC",
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"presenter_name": "Chris Herdt",
"presenter_bio": "I am a source of confusion on the Internet, and occasionally also in the physical world. I once won a Webby Award, which I most certainly did not deserve. I work in a sub-basement on the campus of the University of Minnesota. I am an avid bot-rancher, and am frequently told I have too much time on my hands.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/cherdt)\n- Twitter: @cherdt",
"session_title": "Impractical Twitterbots",
"summary": null,
"description": "Perhaps you've considered making useful twitterbots for profit, but then you looked at your piles of cash and realized that material wealth cannot buy happiness.\r\n\r\nI will discuss a variety of impractical twitterbots, both my own and others, and talk about their capabilities and limits. Topics will include generative grammars, IFTTT, keyword triggers, Mad Libs, Markov chains, and (very little) natural language processing. Small amounts of Bash scripting and Python may appear.\r\n\r\nBots discussed may include:\r\n\r\n* @pentametron\r\n* @osric8ball\r\n* @HouseBudgets, @goth_lyrics, and others from Cheap Bots Done Quick)\r\n* @scifri\\_ebooks (and other heroku_ebooks)\r\n* @wumpus_bot\r\n* @iwant2Barobot (and other Sycophant Bots)\r\n* @HeatherFantoche (and other Last Word Bots)\r\n* @godtributes\r\n\r\nMay entertainment and chaos ensue.",
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"presenter_name": "Kelly Lucente",
"presenter_bio": "Kelly Lucente is a CEO, Author and Brand Strategist who focuses on growing small to Fortune 500 brands, assisting them in differentiating themselves to move the needle through strategic brand positioning. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Re-Tool Marketing™, a boutique branding agency and Brand by Kelly™, her personal branding off-shoot in Minneapolis, MN. Kelly has a strong point of view and people listen. Her content has one common thread and one sole purpose… to educate small business owners on everything “brand” related that will help them eliminate the voice in their head saying, “I had no idea.”\r\n\r\nWith 30 years experience in marketing and sales, Kelly is known for her disruptive approach to getting brands noticed. She has worked with nationally noteworthy brands such as RE/MAX, Pearle Vision, Rollerblade, and Mattamy Homes, North America’s largest home builder (and only second to Pepsi in brand recognition). Kelly is the author of MOO-LAH-GY, a handbook for the entrepreneur and small business owner which offers practical solutions to frequently asked questions within the brand and positioning space.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @KellyLucente",
"session_title": "The Brand of YOU",
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"description": "ARE YOU A PURPLE COW?\r\n\r\nSeth Godin says you’re either a purple cow or you’re not. You’re either remarkable or you’re not and that you have to make the choice or your audience will.\r\n\r\nWHO THE HECK ARE YOU?\r\n\r\nThe hard truth is, no matter what you do, there’s someone else who does the exact same thing. And, if you’re marketing your business on the internet, there are likely LOTS of people who do the exact same thing, selling to the exact same people. So how do you stand out from the crowd?\r\n\r\nThe question is, what makes you DIFFERENT? WHY should someone CHOOSE YOU?\r\n\r\nDid you know that less than 15% of people have truly defined their personal brand and less than 5% are living it consistently? Your personal brand communicates who you are and what you have to offer. It’s your reputation and your promise and why people should believe you. It’s how you are perceived outwardly and whether or not you will be taken seriously. What are you known for? What do you WANT to be known for? Do they match? If not, you’ve got a brand problem. During The Brand of YOU, you will identify: who you are, WHY you, who needs to know, and how they'll find out.\r\n\r\nKey Takeaways\r\n\r\nThe Power of 3: Image + Voice + Promise \r\nWhat to ask yourself before you enter a room \r\nResources to find out where you show up online \r\nWhy personal brand is such a big deal \r\nHow you can influence others' perception of you\r\n",
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"created_at": "2018-03-17 16:45:19 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 17:15:22 UTC"
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"id": 618,
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"presenter_name": "Rebecca McCann-Young",
"presenter_bio": "Rebecca has been programming since grade school. She has worked in everything from bioinformatics and computational biology, to retail web development, to mass communications, to security. She is passionate about engaging new developers about emerging technology and strongly believes that anyone can program and do cool things with computers if they have the interest and are willing to take the time.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/mccannyoung)\n- Twitter: @ramy_mn",
"session_title": "Docker 101",
"summary": null,
"description": "Have you heard about Docker and wonder what all the buzz is? Not sure if containers are VMs? Want to understand how the heck this \"microservice\" thing they say is the future runs on? This 101-level tutorial on Docker is for you! Please bring a laptop with Docker Community Edition (https://www.docker.com/community-edition) running. You will learn the basics of docker containers, images, and, if we have time, networks. ",
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"created_at": "2018-03-16 19:03:06 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
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"id": 616,
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"presenter_name": "Paul Zellweger",
"presenter_bio": "Paul Zellweger is a 35-year veteran of the database industry. As a newly minted graduate student in Computer Science, his first job was as a developer for a relational database on the DECmainframe. ",
"session_title": "Taking the Relational Database Into the Future",
"summary": null,
"description": "The relational database is the cornerstone of our IT infrastructure. It was first introduced in 1970 and since then it has successfully responded to the ever-changing world of technology.",
"room_name": "Harriet",
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"created_at": "2018-03-16 16:05:17 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
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"id": 615,
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"presenter_name": "Sameer Kumar",
"presenter_bio": "CEO @HabitAware, ex-corp strategy, hedge fund, management consulting; problem solver, husband of @ak310i\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @@iamsameerkumar",
"session_title": "Want to get a hardware product to market on a budget?",
"summary": null,
"description": "Have a hardware product idea? Don't want to be the next [Coolest Cooler](https://mashable.com/2016/04/16/coolest-cooler-money/#dWH1pf9Jvaqs)? With hard work - and a bit of luck - you can ship it! Sameer & John from the [HabitAware](https://www.habitaware.com) team will share our development journey, from idea to market, on a limited budget. We'll highlight our highs and lows, encourage you to share your own -- all in hopes of helping each other build hardware products, generate demand and ship! \r\n\r\n(About HabitAware: HabitAware was born from Twin Cities hackathons and community support to help people live better lives. We make Keen, a wearable device that helps people manage compulsive behaviors like hair pulling, nail biting, and skin picking.)",
"room_name": "Louis Pasteur",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 15:00:00 -0500",
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"presenter_name": "Matt Bauwens",
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"presenter_bio": "I am Meredith Kathleen Neumann. I work with entrepreneurs and business leaders to help them identify and overcome internal barriers and limiting mindsets so they can graduate to the next level of leadership. I call this work Scaling Within, and it’s basically a hybrid between counseling and executive coaching. In my past work as a Licensed Therapist, I specialized in understanding the neurology of complex trauma. This background helps me identify my clients’ underlying issues quickly, enabling them to level up both professionally and personally. Additionally, I do speaking and team trainings for companies, where I teach a simple framework from neurobiology that helps individuals grow in self-awareness, so that they have the practical tools needed to scale within as they scale up their businesses.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @scalingwithin",
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"presenter_name": "Sergey Tolkachev",
"presenter_bio": "I am a software developer and founder of a startup software company [256gl](http://256gl.com). Our goal is to deliver AI applications that have the ability to \"understand\". Prior to starting my own company, I worked as the CTO for Outsell, where we developed one of the first commercial ChatBots for car dealerships from 1999-2001. Before that, I was the Director of Academic Computing and an associate professor in the department of Applied Mathematics. My current research focuses on neural networks, contextual and conversational search, and building tools for personal assistants in healthcare, smart homes, and retail businesses. My credo is to merge science and engineering in harmony.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/stolkachev)\n- Twitter: @stolkachev",
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"description": "We will discuss new generation of personal Virtual Assistants, which facilitates conversation based discovery, adds domain specific meaning to sentences, fine-tunes choices, then handles the resulting information in accordance with personal needs, like: \"tell my doctor that I have a headache\", or - \"ask my local retailers to send me their offers\". Active Data is the solution for the problem of \"if-then\" logic and the core model of context-dependent interactions.\r\n\r\nAs an example, I will use Best Buy development API and NNOD SDK to present the demo of chatbot which was built in 7 days.\r\n\r\n[ChatBot in 7 days](https://github.com/stolkachev/neurons/blob/master/ChatBotDiary.pdf)\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Lisa Zufall",
"presenter_bio": "My journey with startups began in the mid 90's and my mission is to help those who are ready to bring their ideas to life. \r\n\r\n[Birch Solutions Website](https://birchsolutions.net)\r\n\r\n",
"session_title": "5-Steps to Launch Your Idea",
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"description": "You have the best new invention, the greatest solver of the world's most pressing issue, but if you don't tell anyone about it - it really won't matter. This workshop is for those who want 5 steps that can help them quickly build momentum and support.",
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"presenter_name": "Randy LaFoy",
"presenter_bio": "Randy LaFoy is a Renaissance Person. He has worked for Minnesota State for the last 10 years on a state-wide program designed to keep students in school, help them graduate and then help them get a job, the GPS LifePlan. He won a NISOD Excellence Award; was awarded 2017 Shark Tank Innovation Funding Award; and served as mayor. He has a TedTalk on being a ‘Renaissance Person in the 21st Century’ (9700+ views). His full bio can be found at: randylafoy.com\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @rlafoy",
"session_title": "Let's Build a Chatbot: From the idea stage to deployment",
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"description": "One year ago, my coconspirator and I earned a grant from a Minnesota State (aka MNSCU) to build a chatbot designed to help college students. Currently, we have a basic working chatbot - we will walk you through some of the issues and solutions we found to get to where we are now.\r\n\r\nWe will discuss some of the analysis and planning it takes to get started, then get into the weeds by talking about some of the software and programs we used, and why we chose what we did. \r\n\r\nNot only will you hear from the idea folks who got it started, from beginning to where we are right now. The instructor and the students cannot be here but we will channel their work. \r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Jenn",
"presenter_bio": "I am a web developer that loves building communities and mentoring others. I love tech and have been obsessed with computers my entire life.\r\n\r\nI am easily spotted at conferences and Meetups by my various code dresses, skirts, t-shirts, and shoes.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @geekgalgroks",
"session_title": "How to sneakily teach web development",
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"description": "Teaching non-developers about software development can be confusing and frustrating for everyone involved. Through trial and error and lots of stickers, I taught several not \"technical\" coworkers about basic web development. With these skills, they are empowered and confident in their ability to update and maintain several websites by themselves.\r\n\r\nThis discussion will go over how over three years I have been teaching communication/marketing team members about GitHub, HTML, CSS, and web accessibility.",
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"presenter_name": "Ben J MacKinney",
"presenter_bio": "Hi! Thanks for checking out my bio. \r\nIm an entrepreneur and advise startups. More than anything, I love to help people bring their ideas to life and help with strategic planning. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, product owner or marketer I'd love to connect and jam with you after the conference!\r\n\r\nI love MINNESTAR and am a huge advocate for entrepreneurship and innovation as ways to change the world for good. \r\n\r\nLooking forward to chatting!\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @BenMacKinney",
"session_title": "Meet and Greet: Find a Co-Founder!!!",
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"description": "The people have spoken! This will be a great opportunity to find other like minded aspiring entrepreneurs to potentially launch your next venture with. The format will be \"organic\".\r\n\r\n If you have an idea and are looking for co-founders you will be organized by industries in the main dining area.\r\n\r\n If you are interested in joining a venture you will have the opportunity to meet founders in a friendly \"job fair\" type setting.\r\n\r\nCome ready with your elevator pitch and be ready to network and trade contact information to follow up with people!\r\n\r\nLets see how many of these connections end up at Minnedemo's in 2018!!!",
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"id": 604,
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"presenter_name": "Ayoub Belemlih",
"presenter_bio": "CS Student and Research Assistant at Macalester College | [GitHub](https://github.com/abelemlih) | [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/belemlihayoub/)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/abelemlih)",
"session_title": "The State of the Medical Record Technology in Africa",
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"description": "This talk will address the state and the future of the medical records technology on the African continent. We will present current initiatives and products from different countries on the continent, and highlight the main challenges that the healthcare industry faces.\r\n\r\n* Overview of the main challenges of the healthcare industry in Africa\r\n\r\n* Discussion of the different solutions/products created to solve some of those challenges\r\n\r\n* The impact of open source projects like OpenMRS on the healthcare technology in the continent\r\n\r\n* It is not a matter of sending Epic to Africa…. It’s a matter of creating a solution that is tailored to the unique qualities of the market. \r\n\r\nWe are international students who attend Macalester College in St. Paul. Last semester, during Macalester’s entrepreneurship competition, we presented for our pitch competition a solution named Portable Medical Records (PMR), to solve the issue of missing medical and identification information in low-income communities in Africa. We are excited to share our market research with you, and provide you with an in-depth overview of the potential and challenges that lie ahead of the healthcare technology industry on the African continent.\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Jeffrey C. Robbins",
"presenter_bio": "Jeff is an attorney and shareholder in the business services practice group at Messerli | Kramer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 35 years, he has represented entrepreneurs who start and grow technology-based enterprises and angel and venture investors who target those companies. He is a serial entrepreneur himself, having founded two companies in the entertainment ticketing industry. Jeff represents high-growth, high-potential private enterprises and publicly traded companies. In 2011, he founded AngelPolleNation, a networking organization for investors that holds quarterly events in the Twin Cities. He has served as an advisory service member to the Minnesota Angel Network and serves as an advisory board member to Gopher Angels, a Minneapolis-based investor network. Jeff is also a judge for the annual statewide Minnesota Cup business plan competition. He is a board member of Venture Academy, a new Minneapolis charter school focused on developing entrepreneurial leadership skills for its students, and of the Minnesota Jewish Theater Company. Jeff was named in 2011 as one of “200 Minnesotans You Should Know” by Twin Cities Business magazine.",
"session_title": "Piranha Pool (R) 2018",
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"description": "Piranha Pool (R) 2018 is Minnesota’s own live take on the TV series “Shark Tank.” A panel of experienced, local tech investors will grill local entrepreneurs on the spot. Confirmed returning Piranhas are well-known local investors Ed Cannon, Cathy Connett and David Russick. Apply to participate by reaching out to Jeffrey C. Robbins, event emcee and AngelPolleNation Managing Director, at jrobbins@messerlikramer.com.\r\n\r\n**The Prizes**\r\n\r\nThe winner of the Piranha Pool pitch competition will receive:\r\n\r\n-- an invitation to present to investors at the May 17 Gopher Angels investor meeting\r\n\r\n-- followup fundraising and business advice from Cathy Connett of CorConnections\r\n\r\n-- a Jamstik and tour of Zivix's offices conducted by Ed Cannon\r\n\r\n**About Our Piranhas**:\r\n\r\n**Ed Cannon** is CEO of Zivix, creators of the award winning Jamstik line of products. Designed around multi-patented fingertip-sensing technology the new Jamstik 7 and Jamstik 12 instruments are designed to better meet the requests of both the learner and the accomplished musician. Ed spent the first years of his career with the Westinghouse Power Systems group and co-founded Cannon Technologies in 1987. As CEO, he led the team from a humble start in the basement to sales in excess of $100 million with 150 employees. Cannon Technologies was one of the first truly smart-grid companies, helping electric utilities better manage demand response, substation automation and smart meters. Cannon Technologies was acquired by Cooper Industries, now Eaton Corp (NYSE: ETN) and is an integral part of their Energy Automation Solutions group today. Ed holds a BSEE from South Dakota State University and was awarded the honor of Distinguished Engineer in 2007. Ed serves on various boards and advisory capacities including Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, the Discovery Capital committee at UMN, Enterprise Institute, and Donor Advisory committee of the Minneapolis Foundation and other boards primarily in MN and SD. He and his wife Judy live in Plymouth and are the proud parents of 4 tax paying Minnesotans.\r\n\r\n**Cathy Connett** is CEO and managing partner of the Sofia Fund, which invests in high-growth women-led businesses. She is also president and founder of CorConnections, which specializes in guiding businesses through new business initiatives, equity infusions, ownership transitions, and the building of alliances and partnerships. Cathy has served as the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas and, for the last 19 years, helped initiate multiple programs to support the entrepreneurial community, including the Minnesota Seed Capital Network, Women to Women (W2W) investment group and the Sofia Angel Fund. She has also served twice as a judge for the regional Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Cathy’s formal education includes an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has a diverse operational background in all functional areas, in union and non-union environments and in a wide range of B2B industries and marketplaces. Her experience includes roles at large companies such as Procter & Gamble, Boise Cascade and 3M as well as within start-up and small private companies.\r\n\r\n**David Russick** is co-founder, Managing Director, and a board member of Gopher Angels, an investment organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurship and early stage businesses in the state of Minnesota. David co-founded Bagster, LLC., a nationwide waste services company, where he served as President and a board member prior to Bagster’s acquisition by a Fortune 500 company. In addition, Russick serves on the Board of Advisors for the Dakota Venture Group. He also serves on the Business Advisory Group for the University of Minnesota’s Office for Technology Commercialization. David is a graduate of the University of South Dakota. He earned a Master of International Management degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management with studies at Oxford University, Oxford England.\r\n\r\n**About Our Emcee**:\r\n\r\n**Jeffrey C. Robbins** is a shareholder with the Minneapolis law firm of Messerli | Kramer. For 35 years, Jeff has represented entrepreneurs who start and grow technology-based enterprises and angel and venture investors who target those companies. Having started two companies in the entertainment ticketing industry, Jeff understands the challenges and demands faced by business owners and uses his experience when providing counsel to his clients. Jeff is an advisory board member to Gopher Angels, a local investor network and he is a judge in the high tech division of the annual Minnesota Cup business plan competition.\r\n\r\n**About AngelPolleNation**:\r\n\r\n**AngelPolleNation** is a Twin Cities networking organization that furthers awareness, communication and education among solo investors, informal investment clubs and formal angel investment groups. APN has hosted over 25 quarterly events and profiled over 70 early-stage companies since inception in 2011.",
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"presenter_name": "John Sheehan",
"presenter_bio": "Co-founder of Runscope, formerly of Twilio, Xamarin and IFTTT.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/johnsheehan)\n- Twitter: @johnsheehan",
"session_title": "CANCELED - What it's like to be acquired as the founder of a VC-backed startup",
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"description": "My story of going from startup employee (at Twilio) to founder (at Runscope) and the crazy path we took from raising a seed round to getting acquired.",
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"presenter_name": "Nate Grahek",
"presenter_bio": "Nate founded StickyAlbums.com in 2012, a bootstrapped SaaS company which now helps over 7,000 portrait photographers around the world easily create mobile apps for each of their clients. As a Photographer, Educator, Nerd, and Entrepreneur, Nate is passionate about helping others use technology to grow their businesses.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @nategrahek",
"session_title": "✂️⏰Cut the time you spend in Email and Meetings in HALF! ✂️⏰",
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"description": "→ Don't you **LOVE** *pointless meetings*?\r\n\r\n→ Aren't email threads and REPLY ALL noobs the BEST?\r\n\r\n→ Isn't constantly being interrupted all day by chat apps your favorite?\r\n\r\n**Yeah, I hate all of those things too.**\r\n\r\nJoin me for a fun conversation: **low** on *theory and jargon*, but **high** on *practical tactics you can use*: \r\n\r\nI will share with you the key software tools I have used over the last 6 years to run, and grow my software startup to 7,000 customers around the world, and a team of 10 remote employees and contractors around the US.\r\n\r\nMost importantly I will share with you how we first used these tools wrong, what we learned, and now, how we use them right.\r\n\r\nI promise to make it worth your time, whether you are *on* a team, or *run* one, and whether you work in an *office*, or with a *remote* team.\r\n\r\nAs a special bonus - I will share my favorite new tactic on how I spend half as much time *writing* emails but still get 9/10 people to reply to my emails everytime.",
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"presenter_name": "Ashley Monseth",
"presenter_bio": "Ashley has over 15 years of experience in tech recruiting, most recently with Target, where she has built recruiting strategies to hire engineers at scale for Target Technology. She saw the need for the Engineering Management Immersion Program (eMIP) concept after facing the challenge of a limited candidate pool and brought that vision to life. She created the use case to support the program build-out and was instrumental in program content creation and execution. She currently is on the eMIP Advisory Board and is recruiting for the 2018 cohort.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ashleymonseth",
"session_title": "How Target is Propelling More Women into the Ranks of Engineering Leadership",
"summary": null,
"description": "The gender gap in software engineering is well known. Recent studies show that although more women are graduating with engineering degrees, there remains a persistent problem: too many women leave the field mid-career, often citing a non-supportive work environment and lack of advancement opportunities. Target's 12-month Engineering Manager Immersion Program (eMIP) is designed to bring more women into engineering leadership positions. Hear about the program's origins, progress, and components, which include classroom training, cohort development, individual sponsorship, and on-the-job leadership experience. This will be a panel conversation with members of the eMIP advisory board and cohort member.",
"room_name": "Zeke Landres",
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"Rebecca McCann-Young",
"Ethan Sommer",
"Cailin Wertish",
"Millicent Walsh"
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2771,
2760,
2812
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"created_at": "2018-03-14 18:02:48 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
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"id": 598,
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"presenter_name": "Sibi",
"presenter_bio": "Program Director @ gener8tor (www.gener8tor.com for more info)",
"session_title": "What the Heck are Startup Accelerators? ",
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"description": "You've heard about startup accelerators but you probably have questions about what they are, why your company might be a good fit, how they work, etc. \r\n\r\nThis session will answer the above (and more) so come to learn and bring your questions!\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Georgia",
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"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 15:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-14 17:34:32 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:16 UTC"
},
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"id": 597,
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"presenter_name": "Brent Peterson",
"presenter_bio": "Brent has been in the Magento world since Magento 1.0 and is active in the Magento community. He is a frequent speaker at Magento conferences around the world and, with his wife Susan, organizes the Big Dam Run at Magento Imagine. He specializes in selfies while running. Brent hosts the largest repository of Magento patches in the world.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/brentwpeterson)\n- Twitter: @brentwpeterson",
"session_title": "Why do we need to have a project manager when building software.",
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"description": "Demonstrate why software projects need a project manager.\r\nTalk about why customers are unaware of what they do.\r\nTalk about how project managers actually help developers to be more efficient.\r\nReal world examples of where one could have been used\r\nWorkshop on real-world examples of what worked and what didn't\r\n",
"room_name": "Gandhi",
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"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-14 17:27:03 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
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"id": 596,
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"presenter_name": "Wessam Sonbol",
"presenter_bio": "Over 18 years in startups, product management and learning how to better partner with clients to develop better products that can scale.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @Wsonbol",
"session_title": "Product Management 101",
"summary": null,
"description": "How do we partner with business users to develop better products? Product Management is plays a critical role in a successful product, helping create high impact and product usability. \r\n\r\nPoor product management can lead to bad consequences, impacting revenue, morale and reputation to the product. \r\n\r\nLet's talk about:\r\n- Good product managers\r\n- Streamline vs. Process change when developing a product\r\n- Balance to impact all factors\r\n- Sales sales sales\r\n- Clear goals and advantages ",
"room_name": "Proverb-Edison",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 14:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-14 17:19:36 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 592,
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"presenter_name": "hotlou",
"presenter_bio": "hotlou – aka Lou Abramowski – spent a decade joking he could build a 100k follower list on watching paint dry. Today, much to his surprise and delight, that’s no joke. Dozens of brands, big and small, have benefited from his professional guidance on growth and entrepreneurship, including\r\n\r\nwww.Evergreen.to - founder, ceo, social media automation for SMBs\r\n\r\n8thBridge – cofounder, MN Cup Grand Prize 2009, acquired in 2014\r\n\r\nJack Link’s Beef Jerky – from 0 to 1M LIkes on Facebook\r\n\r\nOurFamilyWizard – first tech hire, from startup to #1 family management tool in the world\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @hotlou",
"session_title": "3 Myths Killing Your Social Media Strategy ",
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"description": "Social Media is long out of its infancy and while some marketers were born runners, there's no shortage of professionals trying to figure out why they're still crawling or walking.\r\n\r\nTogether, we'll explore the 3 biggest myths in social media marketing that continue to plague even the smartest and most successful marketers -- even after nearly a decade of evidence has repeatedly shown them to be nothing more than misconceptions that are killing the effectiveness of your work.\r\n\r\nPlus, we'll take a deep dive into the anatomy of a social media strategy that's so good you'll want to marry it. Or, if you've already got a spouse, we'll talk about how you might manage a mutually beneficial relationship with it.",
"room_name": "Harriet",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 14:00:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-12 23:03:44 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 591,
"participant_id": 1885,
"presenter_name": "Alex Ives",
"presenter_bio": "I manage the Database group at GitLab where we're building (mostly) internal tooling to help our team deliver database changes faster and more safely.\r\n\r\nYou can learn more about me on [my website](http://alex.ives.mn/).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/alexives)\n- Twitter: @alexeives",
"session_title": "(Typing) Keyboard Enthusiast Meetup",
"summary": null,
"description": "Do you like typing? Chances are that if you're reading this`,` your job involves typing a great deal. If that's the case`,` you may have pretty strong feelings about your keyboard. Whether it's an old IBM model m, your `Mac` laptop keyboard, or a `bespoke` split you made yourself, this session is a place for you to come chat about why you like it with other people who have similarly strong feelings!\r\n\r\nLast year it was pretty free form, just a bunch of people sitting around talking about keyboards. I thought that worked pretty well. A few of us brought in some of the more interesting things in our collections. I'd encourage people to do that again! Personally I'll probably bring in half a dozen different keyboards I've got lying around.\r\n\r\n### You should attend this session if:\r\n- You really like keyboards and you just want to talk about them to everybody!\r\n- You don't know anything about keyboards but want to want to know what the fuss is about\r\n- You have a cool new keyboard and you want to show it off so people think you're cool\r\n- You want a cool new keyboard and are trying to figure out what to get.\r\n",
"room_name": "Louis Pasteur",
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"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
"categories": [
"Hardware"
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"created_at": "2018-03-11 23:02:02 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
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"id": 590,
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"presenter_name": "Damien Riehl",
"presenter_bio": "Damien Riehl is a lawyer and technologist with experience in complex litigation, digital forensics, and software development. A coder since 1985 and for the web since 1995, Damien clerked for the chief judges of state and federal courts, practiced in complex litigation for over a decade, has led teams of cybersecurity and world-spanning digital forensics investigations, and has led teams in legal-software development. \r\n\r\nCo-Chair of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Connected and Automated Vehicles, he is helping recommend changes to Minnesota statutes, rules, and policies — all related to connected and autonomous vehicles. \r\n\r\nDamien is Chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association's working group on AI and the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL). \r\n\r\nAt FOLIO, the legal ontology project from the ALEA Institute, Damien helps corporations, their law firms, and legal technology vendors implement legal data standards. For years, Damien led SALI, the legal data standard, where he developed and greatly expanded the taxonomy of over 18,000 legal tags that matter, helping the legal industry's development of Generative AI, analytics, and interoperability. \r\n\r\nAt vLex Group — which includes Fastcase, NextChapter, and Docket Alarm — Damien helps lead the design, development, and expansion of various products, integrating AI-backed technologies (e.g., GPT) to improve legal workflows and to power legal data analytics. \r\n\r\nIn 2019, Damien gave a TEDx Talk about his All the Music project, which to date has computationally composed over 400,000,000,000 (400B) melodies, has written them to disc (fixed in a tangible medium), and has given the public access through Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which provides rights similar to rights to works in the Public Domain. Arguably improving copyright law through legal decisions that appeared to draw upon his TEDx Talk's arguments.\r\n\r\n“This guy [Damien] rocks!” - Elon Musk\r\n\r\nLinkedIn\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- Twitter: @damienriehl",
"session_title": "Top 10 Tech Law Developments This Year",
"summary": null,
"description": "What are some of the most important technology law developments over the past year? Notable lawsuits, regulation, and legislation span areas that include autonomous vehicles, biometrics, revenge porn, privacy, copyright, internet of things, patents, trademarks, licensing, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and many others. \r\n\r\nA technology litigator and cybersecurity lawyer will discuss the evolving tech law landscape, as well as trends that will likely continue to affect technologists in the coming year. \r\n\r\nAttorney Damien Riehl frequently speaks and writes on legal topics that affect businesses, including the legal implications of the Internet and technology.",
"room_name": "Nokomis",
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"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-08 13:40:21 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 589,
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"presenter_name": "Ben Peter",
"presenter_bio": "Ben is an API wrangler, who loves assembling things into [a grand-scale Rube Goldberg](http://www.panurgy.net/). \r\n\r\nPresently working at [Zapier](https://zapier.com/), where he helps connect [1000+ different SaaS services](http://zpr.io/hsQU) that enable humans to get more accomplished.\r\n\r\nIn the nearly non-existant spare time, he works on new ways to [connect lots of multi-colored LEDs to an Internet controlled Raspberry Pi](http://www.panurgy.net/).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/panurgy)\n- Twitter: @panurgy",
"session_title": "Extending the reach of Zapier: when 1000+ apps isn't enough",
"summary": null,
"description": "**Overview**\r\n\r\n[Zapier has 1000+ available integrations](https://zapier.com/apps?utm_source=Minnebar2018), that can be connected to create workflows which power your startup and eliminate busy-work (like copy-pasting information from one site into another).\r\n\r\nSometimes, you'll need to connect up data from a site or app which doesn't have an integration (or a public API). \r\n\r\n**Details**\r\n\r\nThis session will cover some of the Zapier basics (setting up a Zap with the existing set of integrations), and then will cover the three most popular ways to connect up data when an integration isn't available:\r\n\r\n * Taking emails, and [automatically parsing specific data/fields](https://zapier.com/blog/email-parser-guide/). This is an effective way to auto-import info, and doesn't require any coding.\r\n\r\n * Using [Webhooks](https://zapier.com/blog/how-use-zapier-webhooks/), to send or receive data with an external site/service/app. This also doesn't require any coding, but may require a bit of knowledge about composing specific API calls (which we'll cover).\r\n\r\n * Write up [a small bit of serverless code](https://zapier.com/blog/zapier-code/) using Javascript or Python, if the options above aren't usable.\r\n\r\n**Join the Conversation!**\r\n\r\nThere is plenty of time allocated for questions and discussion, so that we can chat about your important workflows (and ways to automate them), along with other related topics, based on the audience's interests.\r\n\r\n\r\n ",
"room_name": "Louis Pasteur",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 09:25:01 -0500",
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"categories": [
"Development",
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"created_at": "2018-03-08 03:25:06 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 16:42:15 UTC"
},
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"id": 588,
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"presenter_name": "Katie Kodes",
"presenter_bio": "Once told, \"I've always imagined your brain is shaped like an old-fashioned library card catalog,\" Katie is thrilled by any chance to help others find -- and maintain -- order in their data and tech processes.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [KatieKodes.com blog](https://www.katiekodes.com/)",
"session_title": "Clean up your CSV data files with easy Python coding",
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"description": "# Slides: https://pypancsv.github.io/pypancsv\r\n\r\nIf you've ever moved table-style data from Point A to Point B, you may have tried exporting it to CSV, cleaning the CSV file in Excel, and re-importing the results.\r\n\r\nWhen Excel seems \"just not quite enough\" for that middle step, consider Python, a programming language that has exploded in popularity among non-programmers dealing with complex data problems.\r\n\r\nSee how short pieces of Python code can perform advanced filter-and-replace operations, summarize data, combine multiple CSV files _(VLOOKUP across multiple columns? no problem!)_, and speed up processing of extra-large CSV files.\r\n\r\nWe'll cover:\r\n\r\n- When it's faster to code Python, and when to click buttons in Excel\r\n\r\n- Some \"programming 101\" to help you read the session's demo code\r\n\r\n- Demos\r\n\r\n- Training and practice resources\r\n\r\nThis session is aimed at:\r\n\r\n- \"Non-programmers\" who are are pretty darned handy with Excel formulas, if you do say so yourselves\r\n\r\n- Non-Python programmers who want to see what CSV processing looks like in Python",
"room_name": "Stephen Leacock",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 12:10:00 -0500",
"level_name": "Beginner",
"categories": [
"Development"
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"created_at": "2018-03-07 21:55:12 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-14 20:19:31 UTC"
},
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"id": 587,
"participant_id": 917,
"presenter_name": "Matt Decuir",
"presenter_bio": "Matt (he/him) is a software engineer, entrepreneur, and Minnestar board member. Past projects include [Invisible Network](https://www.invisiblenetwork.com/), [Mpls Jr Devs](https://mplsjrdevs.com/), and [OMG Transit](https://omgtransit.com).\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/experimatt.com)\r\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/experimatt)\r\n- [Personal website](https://experimatt.com/)\r\n",
"session_title": "The state of the Junior Dev community in MN",
"summary": null,
"description": "**Mpls Jr Devs** is a community of aspiring and less experienced software engineers that was [born](https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/406) at Minnebar in 2017.\r\n\r\nTo celebrate our first birthday, we'll facilitate a guided discussion.\r\n\r\n**What we'll talk about**\r\n\r\n* **Junior developers**\r\n * What can the MN tech community do to support junior developers?\r\n * What does that support look like, and where does it come from?\r\n * What can non-junior-developers in your (workplace, community) do to better support you?\r\n* **People who aren't junior developers**\r\n * How have your expectations of junior developers changed?\r\n * As you're hearing this, what can you do to support the juniors in your (workplace, community?)\r\n* **Mpls Jr Devs**\r\n * What can Mpls Jr Devs to do support these things?\r\n\r\nWe’ve learned a lot over the last year and have some thoughts, but we’d love to hear yours!\r\n\r\nWhat will the future of the junior dev community in Minnesota look like going forward? Come to this session and help shape it!\r\n\r\n**Who this session is for**\r\n\r\n* Aspiring and less-experienced software engineers\r\n* Experienced software engineers\r\n* People who are interested in learning more about and/or helping support our community of junior developers\r\n\r\n**What to expect**\r\n\r\nThis will be a guided discussion.\r\n\r\nCome with ideas, and be ready to contribute!",
"room_name": "Minnetonka",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 16:00:00 -0500",
"level_name": "All levels",
"categories": [
"Development",
"Other"
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"other_presenter_names": [
"Ian Coldwater",
"Brandon Johnson"
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"created_at": "2018-03-07 20:50:45 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-13 17:15:22 UTC"
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"id": 586,
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"presenter_name": "Kristine",
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"session_title": "CANCELED - Storytelling Workshop: Stories That Engage Both Sides of the Brain",
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"description": "Neuroscience shows that our brain’s hard wiring does not allow us to retain logic for very long. Our left brain holds our linear, reasoning functions, the analytical and logic. This is the part that processes language and decodes facts. Our right brain is the creative and emotional center. This side thinks in pictures and images.\r\n\r\nStories that are well-crafted and told, activate both left and right brains in the same way our brain is activated when we experience events, so the information sticks. Every day we make decisions based on emotion, intuition, feelings, then we use logic to justify our decisions.\r\n\r\nLaern how to tell stories that engage both sides of the brain. Work with the interplay of logic and emotion.\r\n\r\n\r\n",
"room_name": "Zeke Landres",
"panel": false,
"projector": false,
"starts_at": "2018-04-14 11:15:00 -0500",
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"created_at": "2018-03-06 23:30:11 UTC",
"updated_at": "2018-04-14 14:21:28 UTC"
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"id": 585,
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"presenter_name": "Ian Fitzpatrick",
"presenter_bio": "![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/dadcore.png\")
\r\n\r\nLet's make it weird.\r\n\r\n- I made you a video game\r\n- I made you a twitter bot\r\n- i made you a web site\r\n\r\n-- \r\n\r\n@ianfitzpat\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ianfitzpat",
"session_title": "Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade 3 (All Day)",
"summary": null,
"description": "![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/minne-arcade1.png\")
\r\n\r\nWe're doing it again (again) this year!\r\n\r\nHello Computer Friends, what if I told you there was a vibrant community of independent game developers in your very own state of Minnesota (and surrounding principalities) making seriously excellent video games?\r\n\r\nYou would demand PROOF, as is your right.\r\n\r\n**Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade** is here to provide you so much proof that you are like \"Okay, okay, I get it. Enough already.\"\r\n\r\n*We got:*\r\n\r\n💪 4 big screen TVs running a selection of locally made games\r\n\r\n💪 A VR station running local VR games\r\n\r\n💪 This thing's going all day long\r\n\r\n💪 In the main hallway area of Minnebar\r\n\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\n***FEATURED GAMES***\r\n\r\n**Automaza** — *Nate Yourchuck*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/automaza.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nAutomaza lets you puzzle a robot through a series of increasingly difficult mazes in VR.\r\n\r\n*NOTE: Located at VR Station*\r\n\r\nhttp://automaza.com/\r\n\r\n
\r\n**AVARIAvs** — *Juncture Media*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/avariavs.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nIn AVARIAvs, players choose a party of 3 heroes to battle against an opponent’s party. During battle, opposing players choose their actions simultaneously and then witness the mayhem of their decisions. Combat rages on until one winner reigns victorious by decimating their opponent’s HP to zero.\r\n\r\nhttps://avariavs.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Color Jumper** — *@ben_burnes, Tallbeard Studios*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/colorjumper.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nColor Jumper is an abstract, color-based puzzle platformer which focuses on fast, precise movement to navigate your surroundings. Inspired by hardcore platformers like Super Meat Boy, Downwell, VVVVVV, and many others.\r\n\r\nhttp://tallbeardstudios.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Fingeance** — *Escape Industries @escindustries*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/fingeance.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nFingeance is a four-player shoot-em-up that places emphasis on teamwork and strategy, discarding traditional twitch-based gameplay. You’ll need to make the most of every randomly-generated weapon and enemy that comes your way.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.escapeindustries.net\r\n\r\n
\r\n**HyperDot** — *Tribe Games*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/antipiracy.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nHyperDot is an intense action dodge ‘em up with a minimalist design. Evade countless amounts of enemies as you try and outlast your friends for the highscore. Change up the how the game plays with various modifiers ranging from the speed and size of your player to manipulating the arena itself.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.tribe-games.com\r\n
\r\n\r\n\r\n**Joggernauts** — *Space Mace*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/joggernauts.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nA cooperative switching game about trying NOT to kill your friends.\r\n\r\nhttps://spacemacegames.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n**The Moon Fields** — *Juncture Media*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/themoonfields.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nThe Moon Fields is an upcoming high speed sword & sorcery brawler for two to eight players. Choose from dozens of characters, melee weapons, magic spells, weird gadgets, and more to compete in fast paced matches where you smash or get smashed.\r\n\r\nhttps://lunarsignals.itch.io/the-moon-fields\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Newt One** — *DevNAri LLC*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/newtone.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nNewt One rewards you for how much life you bring to the game world, not how much life you take from it. Embodying your progress through color and music, Newt One's purpose is to generate happiness. You play as Newt, a new tone in a musical land that has fallen to the Great Slumber. Awakening this sleeping, silent world is your rite of passage. \r\n\r\nhttp://devnari.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Ollie-Oop** — *@alexcarlson__*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/ollie-oop.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nIt's a dog on a skateboard!\r\n\r\nhttps://vividredemption.itch.io\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Pinbrawl** — *Northern Heart*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/pinbrawl.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nPinbrawl is a local multiplayer pinball deathmatch game featuring juicy, cartoon-like action and hilarious physics-based characters used to smack the ball around colorful, 4-way pinball tables and score on your friends.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.northernheartgames.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n**Psycho Squirrels** — *Intangible Games [Scott Bullard]*
\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/psychosquirrels.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nPsycho Squirrels is a 2D platforming, puzzle game where players must navigate squirrels through a variety of stages to collect acorns before winter arrives. Use the local flora and fauna to guide your squirrels to their goals in over 50 puzzling stages.\r\n\r\n*NOTE: Located at Keyboard & Mouse Station*\r\n\r\nhttps://intangiblegames.itch.io\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n**Small Hours** — *Behind You*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/smallhours.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nSmall Hours is a stealth horror game about a little girl named Ausha searching for her lost cat in an otherworldy town. The player will explore the corrupted streets, looking for signs of their cat and hiding from a monster roaming around on the hunt for small children. It's a dangerous game of hide and seek.\r\n\r\nhttps://smallhoursgame.wordpress.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Treasure Stack** — *PIXELakes*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/treasurestack.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nInspired by the likes of Puyo Puyo Tetris, Puzzle Fighter, Wario Woods and Towerfall — Treasure Stack is a fast-paced falling block puzzle game where organization, platforming, and sharp reflexes combine to create intense solo and competitive 2-4 player versus matches! Organize. Stack. Score. Experience single and multiplayer mayhem!\r\n\r\nhttp://pixelakes.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Umbrella Mondays** — *Turnip Town*\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/umbrellamondays.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nUmbrella Mondays begins on a rainy morning when a little girl named Fella awakes, finds a journal, and journeys to explore a beautiful ruin of mystical wonder. Players help Fella protect adorable fire spirits with her umbrella, solve puzzles and unlock clues along the way about the significance of the green rain and Fella’s missing memories.\r\n\r\nhttps://umbrellamondays.com\r\n\r\n
\r\n**Verdant Skies** — *Howling Moon Software*
\r\n\r\n![](\"http://ianfitzpatrick.com/assets/images/mmmima3/verdantskies.jpg\")
\r\n\r\nVerdant Skies is a life simulation game filled with friendship, exploration, farming, and crafting. Lose yourself in the lovingly hand-painted world and ensure the success of the colony as you make friends and pursue romance with a diverse cast of characters.\r\n\r\n*NOTE: Located at all stations, but plays easiest at Keyboard & Mouse Station*\r\n\r\nhttp://verdantskies.com\r\n\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\nAlso, would you like to get plugged into the local game dev scene?\r\n\r\n**Ice Cold Games**
\r\n[website](https://icecold.games)\r\n\r\nA one stop shop for upcoming game dev related events, game creators, organizations, and more.\r\n\r\n**Glitch Con**
\r\n[website](http://www.glitchcon.mn)\r\n\r\nA three-day jam packed digital games festival run by Glitch, happening this Fall.\r\n\r\n**IGDATC**
\r\n[website](http://www.igdatc.org)\r\n\r\nThe local chapter of the International Game Developers Association has monthly general meeting plus a VR meeting.\r\n\r\n**Nice Games Club Podcast**
\r\n[website](http://nicegames.club)\r\n\r\nThe podcast where nice gamedevs talk gaming. Nice! And, local!",
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"presenter_name": "Lemon 🍋",
"presenter_bio": "Working as the lead developer of a downtown agency, Lemon spends a whole lot of time making websites. Like, over a hundred of them. Large sites for clients like General Mills and the Minnesota Wild, and small sites like [damn.dog](https://damn.dog) and [idiots.win](https://idiots.win).\r\n\r\nHe also hosts a podcast called [The F Plus](https://thefpl.us/) which is probably not appropriate for your particular workplace.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/AhoyLemon)\n- Twitter: @AhoyLemon",
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"description": "\r\n\r\nWhen tasked with the responsibility of putting a website together for a client, millions of designers and developers have chosen Wordpress as their platform. They've trusted the popularity of the software and ventured out on the same website journey as so many before them: They chose a theme, bought some plugins, launched the site with part of it broken, and then got hacked so the home page became a Turkish flag, a pistol and the Jason Derulo song \"Wiggle\". True Story.\r\n\r\nWith an eye for choosing the right fit for every client, Lemon will be taking you on a tour of different content management systems (CMS) and how each one could be used to suit the needs of a potential client. He'll be demonstrating some options. A bunch of options. *SO MANY OPTIONS*. Such as...\r\n\r\n* Jooma & Drupal\r\n* Concrete5\r\n* Grav\r\n* Kirby \r\n* Craft\r\n* ProcessWire\r\n* Pagekit\r\n* some headless CMS\r\n* static site generators\r\n\r\nIf you're currently a Wordpress builder, this might be an interesting look at other options. If not, there's still a lot of cool CMS you could expose yourself too.",
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"presenter_bio": "\"Leah is a positive force, natural leader, and change catalyst. Passionate and purpose filled who leaves a wake of success anywhere she goes. She's literally rocket fuel for any organization trying to deliver digital products with agility.\" - Jon Helmberger\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/cunningleah)",
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"presenter_name": "Ted Kusio",
"presenter_bio": "Ted is a Creative Technology Director, Hybrid Designer/Developer, or whatever the groovy creative/technology title-of-the-week is.\r\n\r\nHis experience is rooted in web/app development and motion graphics in advertising/marketing industries. This includes: leading a team of enterprise software developers; teaching college students; juggling technology and creativity at/for some companies you've heard of, like The New York Times, Vogue, Macy's, and DDB.\r\n\r\nPeople also seem to enjoy hearing that he has a dual degree in mechanical/aerospace engineer, as well as in music, and he also worked as an engineer at Boeing, and as a TV critic, that his [site](http://kusio.net/) has samples of stuff he did in the past, and he should probably update it soon.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/DigitalWheelie)\n- Twitter: @DigitalWheelie",
"session_title": "How to Wiggle Your Web! - Web Animation 2018",
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"description": "\r\n\r\nA survey on ways to **animate on the web**: lots of info on frameworks, software, APIs and tools, such as CSS, JS, and some earth-friendly sorcery, both open-source and for sale.\r\n\r\nThis is THE session to attend if you ever wanted to make full-screen digital madness, online crazy character animation, or sweet corporate-friendly transitions. There's no single one-size-fits-all \"best way\" to animate online, so instead we'll look at some of the better ways (IMHO), standards (or lack thereof), and efficiency. If there's time at the end, let's brainstorm about possible projects you want to do and how to approach them.\r\n\r\nIt's an up-to-date version of [my 2016 talk](https://kusio.net/webanim/AnimationPres_Minnebar11.pdf) with **all-new info**, samples, jokes, and sour beer recommendations.\r\n\r\nBONUS: The session will include **discounts for software and on-line animation courses!** WOOP!",
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"presenter_name": "Anna A Prisacari",
"presenter_bio": "[Anna Prisacari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaprisacari/) is the Senior UX Design Researcher at Honeywell and previously worked as VP of UX and Marketing at [Praxik](http://praxik.com), an Augmented Reality startup in Minneapolis. In her role, she closely works with clients to understand their pain points and needs and with developers and engineers to ensure the clients' needs are transformed into practical and desired products. To do so, Anna connects ideas and research findings, conducts UX testing, and oversees client satisfaction. She holds a BA in International Business, Marketing, Political Science, and French and MBA from St. Ambrose University and MS and Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University. Anna is the recipient of numerous awards in communication, teaching, and service and is a passionate speaker, writer, and mentor on subjects like UX, women in technology, and STEM. You can connect with Anna on LinkedIn and follow her on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/anna_prisacari/).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @AnnaAPrisacari",
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"description": "As nearly every business has a digital component, a seamless, frictionless user experience (UX) has become a basic product requirement. However, companies often bypass users or users are included but are given limited attention or poorly understood. In this talk, I will show why engaging users in product development is important and what are some concepts every UX practitioner needs to know. Fun activities will be included to demonstrate how these concepts work for which attendees are asked to bring with them a pencil and paper.",
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"presenter_name": "Eric Martell",
"presenter_bio": "Managing Director of [gener8tor Minnesota](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gener8tor), and former COO/co-founder of [EatStreet](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eatstreet)! [https://github.com/ericmartell](https://github.com/ericmartell)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/ericmartell)\n- Twitter: @EricDMartell",
"session_title": "Retention KPI's As Explained By 101 Dalmatians",
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"description": "When you start a company, intuition tells you all stats should be up and to the right.\r\n\r\nNew users? Check\r\nMore revenue? Check\r\nIncreasing rate for both of the above? Check\r\n\r\nWhile these stats are certainly important, they miss a big piece of the puzzle. User retention allows startups to grow more quickly, burn less cash, and ultimately have more control of the fate of the company.\r\n\r\nBut retention isn't as intuitive as aggregated graphs. There are a lot of terms thrown around... cohort analysis, attrition rates, active users, lifetime value, each with a vacuous definition that seems to vary from one conversation to another. It's a lot to keep track of... just like taking care of 101 Dalmatians.\r\n\r\nThis talk will focus on cohort analysis as a great tool to track retention, while highlighting some of the other general KPI's startups use to track their financial/user health. All illustrated through a Disney classic.\r\n\r\nBrought to you by gener8tor!",
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"presenter_name": "Eric Martell",
"presenter_bio": "Managing Director of [gener8tor Minnesota](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gener8tor), and former COO/co-founder of [EatStreet](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eatstreet)! [https://github.com/ericmartell](https://github.com/ericmartell)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/ericmartell)\n- Twitter: @EricDMartell",
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"description": "Founders often view VCs as mysterious entities... some combination of mother nature, investing as the wind blows, and Scrooge McDuck, laughing in his piles of money.\r\n\r\nThe purpose of this presentation is to demystify the job of \"Venture Capitalist,\" by explaining the inner workings of a fund, how VCs make money, and investment considerations by walking through a detailed example.\r\n\r\nBrought to you by gener8tor!",
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"presenter_name": "Paul DeBettignies",
"presenter_bio": "Paul DeBettignies is the Founder of Launch Hiring and is better known as “Minnesota Headhunter.” Recognized as a Talent Leader, for 25+ years Paul has sat at the intersection of talent advisory and talent strategy building software, tech, product and digital teams with startups and tech companies throughout the country with a focus on Minnesota and the Midwest while creating recruiting strategies for Fortune 500 clients.\r\n\r\nHe is a regional and national writer speaker, trainer, subject matter expert and trusted media source on recruiter, HR, career, job search, networking and social media topics.\r\n\r\nBorn and raised in Minneapolis, Paul despises bios and does not take himself as serious as this all sounds. He loves sunsets, fishing, gardening and still believes that one day the Gophers will go to the Rose Bowl.\r\n\r\nStay in contact with him by clicking: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mnheadhunter) | [@MNHeadhunter](https://twitter.com/mnheadhunter) | [Minnesota Headhunter Blog](http://www.mnheadhunter.com)\r\n",
"session_title": "Managing Your IT Career v10 (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)",
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"description": "Awwwww yeah... this is my 10th year doing this session at Minnebar.\r\n\r\nNOTE: before then I will be posting my Spring 2018 Minnesota IT Jobs Report and will put a link here.\r\n\r\nFor this session a few slides and a lot of Q&A and discussion.\r\n\r\nFrequent conversations I have had lately and will talk about (I'll likely add a few):\r\n\r\n- What the local job market is like right now \r\n- Why salaries have been stagnant the past 2 years\r\n- Are Midwest employers slow to hire junior developers\r\n- How to find potential employers that are not well known\r\n- How does the Minneapolis tech scene rank with other cities\r\n\r\nWhat is on your mind? Send me a note paul@mnheadhunter.com",
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"presenter_name": "Toby Cryns",
"presenter_bio": "Hi, I'm Toby Cryns! \r\n\r\nI founded [Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group](https://mspwp.com) and [The Mighty Mo! WordPress Design](https://www.themightymo.com). \r\n\r\nI also write for [WP Tavern](https://wptavern.com), [blog about biz stuff](https://tobycryns.com) and [talk WordPress tech](https://themightymo.com/updates).\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n- [My WordPress Tech Blog](https://themightymo.com/updates/)\r\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/themightymo)\r\n- Twitter: [@tobycryns](https://x.com/tobycryns)",
"session_title": "🦄🦄🦄 Stay Artsy Minnesota! 🌈🌈🌈",
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"description": "Every now and then, my conversations with y'all will accidentally veer from (boring) business stuff and into (more interesting) artistic pursuits. \r\n\r\nI'm always surprised to learn what y'all are working on by firelight - Like who knew Jaim was one of the raddest jazz musicians in town?!\r\n\r\nSoooo... Let's get together and share what we are doing that doesn't fit into a business box. \r\n\r\nWe might talk about what it means to do art, why we create art, what's the point of it all, life, the universe, everything, etc. etc. \r\n\r\nMaybe we'll collectively explode each other's minds and make some friends.\r\n\r\nMaybe we'll even see a performance or two...[It's been known to happen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTzIH5FnbTg).\r\n\r\nThe sky's the limit!\r\n\r\nNo pressure - we'll see where the conversation takes us.\r\n\r\nIf all else fails, we'll listen to the musical stylings of [Weird Al](https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc). \r\n\r\n![Stay Artsy Minnesota!](http://tobycryns.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/stay-artsy-minnesota.jpg \"Stay Artsy Minnesota!\")\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Zack Naylor",
"presenter_bio": "Zach Naylor (@zacknaylor) is a design and product person with over 10 years of experience across nearly every industry and company size. His passion is helping people use customer feedback and user research to make the best design and product decisions they can. His biggest passion in design is to help people solve the right problems for their company and their customers. Zack is co-founder and CEO of Aurelius, the smartest user research and insights platform for design and product teams. (www.aureliuslab.com)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @@zacknaylor",
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"presenter_bio": "Chris has been working with python and other open source technologies for many years. He frequently blogs at [Practical Business Python](http://pbpython.com).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/chris1610)\n- Twitter: @chris1610",
"session_title": "Blogging for Fun.....and Profit?",
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"presenter_bio": "Jeffry Brown\r\nDreamer - Doer - Storyteller\r\nhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrybrown\r\n \r\nTHINKING DIFFERENTLY - ENTREPRENEUR - CREATE POSITIVITY - INVESTOR\r\nJeff has spent his career starting, leading, leaving and coaching businesses, after first working at Apple in that company's early years. There he worked directly with Steve Jobs on creating the company's future and culture. He is one of the founding members of Hill Capital and coaches entrepreneurial businesses in growth strategy and human relations. \r\n\r\nLifelong teacher and learner never looking back but always looking forward. \r\nNot retired but re-fired to happily help others find and enjoy their purpose.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\nLinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrybrown/\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_bio": "The Great MN Tech 2Gether is a growing coalition of Minnesota business, education and tech groups excited about creating a bigger stage for Minnesota. Partners include Minneanalytics, IoT Fuse, Genesys Works, Minnesota State IT Center of Excellence, Cade Savvy, Make IT MSP, DocMNtary and many more. Our lead evangelist, Tom Motzel has worked in the data and information management space for over 20 years and very active member of the Minnesota tech scene. He recently received Minne Inno's '50 On Fire' award for his work on this effort. More information and contact info at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tmotzel/ ",
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"description": "Despite all the amazing people, companies and community groups fueling Minnesota's tech scene, the workforce gap for technical skills continues to increase. We talk a lot about the exponential pace of technologies transforming our world, but we fail to apply this same thinking to our skills gap. It's time we make more noise in Minnesota, TOGETHER. \r\n\r\nThe three primary challenges we will address:\r\n1) Preparing *ALL* Minnesota students for 'digital transformation'. \r\n2) Re-enforcing Minnesota's identity as an innovative tech hub.\r\n3) Resolving our growing workforce gap **from within**!\r\n\r\nWe hope you will join us to hear more about Minnesota's growing coalition around a MEGA-event 'The Great MN Tech 2Gether'. You saw what we accomplished for the NFL!, now come learn about the stage were going to build for MINNESOTA! ",
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"presenter_bio": "Mark Gritter is a Founding Engineer at ThirdLaw, his fifth startup experience, building monitoring and control for AI systems.\r\n\r\nMark formerly worked at Akita Software and Postman on API observailbity; at HashiCorp on the Vault team; co-founded Tintri, an enterprise storage company that IPOed in 2017; and was a day-one employee at Kealia, a video streaming startup acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2004.\r\n\r\nMark's previous Minnebar presentations have covered topics such as correctness of algorithms, combinatorial auctions, scaling a startup, building a file system, and procedural content generation.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/mgritter)\r\n- [Mastodon: @markgritter@mathstodon.xyz](https://mathstodon.xyz/@markgritter)\r\n- [Bluesky: @markgritter.bsky.social](https://bsky.app/profile/markgritter.bsky.social)",
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"session_title": "Comp Sci in MN Public High Schools: Successes + Failures from an Educator and a Student",
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"description": "**Background**\r\n\r\nRosemount High School (RHS) boasts one of the largest and most advanced Computer Science programs in the state of MN. It is not uncommon to have graduates of RHS leave with two semesters of college CS credit, entering college programs as Sophomores. Hear the story of how Tom and Andrew started this program 5 years ago and discuss the state of CS in public education as a whole. \r\n\r\n**Dr. Thomas Reinartz**\r\n\r\nFormerly an English teacher, Tom now teaches exclusively Comp Sci at RHS. \r\n\r\n**Andrew Haisting**\r\n\r\nRHS alum, Currently an Android Engineer at Livefront.\r\n\r\n*This description is a work in progress.*",
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"presenter_bio": "I am a Community Manager focused on helping companies put community in the heart of their operations & become a community-driven business.\r\n\r\nI am a Developer Evangelist who passionately advocates for developers' needs and help them build their brilliance.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @AlexandraABowen",
"session_title": "CANCELED - How to hack harassment",
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"description": "Don’t let trolls define your experiences in work, in your communities and in your projects. If you've ever had to deal with an intellectual bully in an online community, on a project, or social media, you know that it's one of the most unpleasant aspects of the internet. An intellectual bully may be adding value, but is mostly condescending, rude and aggressive. Don't let your toxic users define your community. Do you want a \"death star\" or \"rock star\" community member? I will also touch on how to create inclusive experiences.",
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"presenter_name": "Dan Lew",
"presenter_bio": "Dan Lew has code in his DNA and has been speaking since he was two years old. He's focused these skills on software development for the past two decades, working on many large mobile apps (FlightTrack, Expedia, Trello) as well as maintaining some open source libraries and applications. Currently he works on civic tech projects at [Mighty Acorn Digital](https://www.mightyacorn.com/).\r\n\r\nWhen not speaking, he's silent.\r\n\r\nYou can [contact him on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/danlew42.bsky.social), [read his website](http://danlew.net/), or [stalk his commit history](https://github.com/dlew).",
"session_title": "Re-Architecting Applications (Without a Rewrite!)",
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"description": "A good architecture can make a huge difference in the development of your application. Whether you're developing new features or maintaining old ones, your app's architecture can make your job easy and simple… or tiresome and difficult.\r\n\r\nThere are plenty of architectural patterns out there you can follow… but how can you possibly do that, when you're working with a legacy codebase? How can you adapt to the latest and greatest patterns without rewriting your whole app?\r\n\r\nAt Trello, we're constantly experimenting with new code design patterns, sampling them to see what works and what doesn't. In this talk, I'll discuss how we evolve our app's architecture without having to start from scratch each time. I'll also discuss which patterns have been a boon and which ones we regret.",
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"presenter_name": "Jennifer Simon",
"presenter_bio": "Jennifer has been in sales for over 25 years, she focuses on partnering with clients to develop and maintain relationships. Jennifer takes care of her clients by listening to business needs, matching the correct consultant/team and continually works on creating deep partner relationships. She also has a passion for technology and continually wants to learn more. Jennifer is on the planning committee for Women Leading in Technology connecting women of all levels on the technology journey.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @@jenniferlsimon",
"session_title": "Level up your Hustle! How to sell yourself, your project or idea.",
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"description": "Jennifer Simon has been in consultative sales for over 25 years, mentoring other sales people has been a side passion of hers for many years. Communication is key to success for every position at every level of a company. If you are a developer who has an idea how will you communicate it to your team? What if you are a project manager with an idea for a better process or procedure? If you are an executive with a great roadmap, how will you gain interest from the board and other C-Level executives?\r\n\r\nCome to Jennifer’s talk on Level Up Your Hustle,\r\n\r\nLearn how to be your own consultative sales person\r\nHow to better prepare for meetings\r\nHow to ‘Pitch’ your idea or project\r\nMost importantly, how to make an impact for your organization.",
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"presenter_name": "Meghan Hatalla",
"presenter_bio": "Highly caffeinated project manager who's made her name by getting things done in an industry not really known for getting things done.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @megtalla",
"session_title": "CANCELED - The 5 People You Meet in UX-Resistant Environments",
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"description": "It's hard to push user experience when you encounter resistance, especially since good UX takes time and patience... Two things for which many environments fail to make time. Most of us don't get to pick our coworkers (or bosses, or bosses' boss) any more than we get to pick our family. Here's how to deal with the ones you wouldn't pick--the sad panda, the wunderkind, the grinch, the pied piper, and the shadowy figure--and how to stop them from interfering with your good work and good intentions.",
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"presenter_name": "Jeff Pesek",
"presenter_bio": "Cofounder [@TECHdotMN](http://tech.mn)",
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"description": "Another year, more better data surrounding Minnesota's tech startups! \r\n\r\nJoin us if you're into the facts...we'll bring 'em. \r\n\r\nRequired reading: [link](https://tech.mn/news/2017/08/23/why-were-pulling-startup-from-the-database/)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_bio": "Jeffry Brown\r\nDreamer - Doer - Storyteller\r\nhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrybrown\r\n \r\nTHINKING DIFFERENTLY - ENTREPRENEUR - CREATE POSITIVITY - INVESTOR\r\nJeff has spent his career starting, leading, leaving and coaching businesses, after first working at Apple in that company's early years. There he worked directly with Steve Jobs on creating the company's future and culture. He is one of the founding members of Hill Capital and coaches entrepreneurial businesses in growth strategy and human relations. \r\n\r\nLifelong teacher and learner never looking back but always looking forward. \r\nNot retired but re-fired to happily help others find and enjoy their purpose.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\nLinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrybrown/\r\n\r\n",
"session_title": "Steal the Show Public Speaking",
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"description": " **For introverts and extraverts alike who want to shine when performing in public**\r\n\r\nEvery day there are moments when you must persuade, inform, and motivate others effectively. Each of these moments requires you in some way, to play a role to heighten the impact of your words, and manage your emotions and nerves. Every interaction is a performance whether you’re speaking up in a meeting, pitching a client, or walking into a job interview. You'll learn how to express yourself authentically, be more creative and increase your confidence in all aspects of life.\r\n\r\nYou know the power of public speaking and performance, but very few can do it well. This session will get you on the way to changing that. You may have never planned on presenting your message and stories to the world but damn, it feels so great to be on when presenting and make a difference in getting your audience engaged and taking something away with them.\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Zach Robins",
"presenter_bio": "I'm a Securities attorney at Messerli & Kramer and co-founder of MNvest.org, promoting the state's investment crowdfunding law. \r\n\r\nhttp://linkedin.com/in/zjrobins\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @zjrobins",
"session_title": "Tokenize the World! An Intro into Securities on the Blockchain",
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"description": "As the SEC continues to shut down illegal Initial Coin Offerings, we’ll discuss the reasons for raising crypto capital using securities regulations and why such offerings can and should be backed by real assets. Join us for a dive into the world of “tokenized assets”.",
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"presenter_name": "Adeel Ahmad",
"presenter_bio": "Founder/Principal at [Lab 1908](https://lab1908.com), a startup studio in St. Paul. \r\n\r\nInvestor/advisor at a bunch of startups around Twin Cities and San Francisco. \r\n\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelahmad/)\r\n- [The Misophonia Podcast](https://misophoniapodcast.com)",
"session_title": "🤩🤘🏽 Side Projects for Fun and Profit - 2018 Edition",
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"description": "This is a follow up to last year's popular session with new advice and updated slides. **[Here they are!](https://www.slideshare.net/AdeelAhmad41/side-projects-for-fun-and-profit-2018-edition)**\r\n\r\nThis took will be super fast-paced but fun and informative...\r\n\r\nI'll go over things like:\r\n\r\n- why do a side project?\r\n\r\n- what if I don't have the coding skills?\r\n\r\n- how can I learn what I need to code?\r\n\r\n- how should an experienced coder approach side projects?\r\n\r\n- what if I don't have the money?\r\n\r\n- how do I get users?\r\n\r\n- how do I validate it?\r\n\r\n- how much time will this take?\r\n\r\n- what about XYZ myth that says I can't do this?\r\n\r\n- what about XYZ reason to keep procrastinating?\r\n\r\nI'll also go over my own progress on projects since last Minnebar.\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Adeel Ahmad",
"presenter_bio": "Founder/Principal at [Lab 1908](https://lab1908.com), a startup studio in St. Paul. \r\n\r\nInvestor/advisor at a bunch of startups around Twin Cities and San Francisco. \r\n\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelahmad/)\r\n- [The Misophonia Podcast](https://misophoniapodcast.com)",
"session_title": "🤫 Misophonia - Coping With a Hatred of Sounds 🤬",
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"description": "Does the sound of people eating chips, clearing their throat, chewing gum, coughing put you in an rage? You might have misophonia. \r\n\r\nMisophonia may cause a reaction to sounds such as dripping water, chewing, snapping gum, or repetitive noises, such as pencil tapping.\r\nPeople with misophonia can become irritated, enraged, or even panicked when they hear their trigger sounds.\r\nTreatment might involve therapy or lifestyle recommendations, such as using sound protection or creating \"noise-free\" zones within living spaces.\r\n\r\n[News 1](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/health/sounds-people-hate.html)\r\n[News 2](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/misophonia-sounds-really-make-crazy-2017042111534)\r\n\r\nThis is a follow up to my talk last year - [get the slides now](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HhGyMCK31DZBvnw7AlYJ1s4LHvyFYrc-gNpA8R8YTz8/edit?usp=sharing) which I'll update for this year!\r\n\r\nThis is relevant for the tech community because of the need for deep concentration, and the proliferation of \"open workspaces\".\r\n\r\nIf you think you have misophonia - **this session will change your life.**",
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"presenter_name": "Dev Jana",
"presenter_bio": "By day, [Dev](https://twitter.com/devjana) is a *Director of Instruction: Full Stack Development* at [Prime Digital Academy](https://primeacademy.io), *Adjunct Game Professor* at Augsburg University, *Treasurer for International Game Developers Association, Twin Cities*, and *President of Code and Noises* at [DevNAri LLC](http://devnari.com) whose first release Newt One is available on [XBox One](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/newt-one/9pljwpmqjq18), [Nintendo Switch](https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/newt-one-switch/), [Playstation 4](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/newt-one-ps4/), and [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/842850/Newt_One/).\r\n\r\nFavorite Games: Arkanoid, Rocket League, Mario Series (specifically SMB & 64), Journey, X Wing, The Legend of Zelda, Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, Doom II, Red Dead Redemption, Tetris, The Last of Us\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/devjanaprime)\n- Twitter: @devjana",
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"description": "A parade of all star local Game Developers will each take the reigns for 6 minutes to present their experiences and learnings as Independent Game Developers in the Twin Cities.\r\n\r\nPresenters:\r\n\r\n- [Dev Jana](http://twitter.com/devjana), [DevNAri](http://devnari.com): Emcee\r\n- [Sami Sati](https://twitter.com/MetaWaddleDoo), [Sati Bros](http://astralgunners.com/): **Difficulty in Games**\r\n- Kris Szafranski, [Thought Shelter](http://store.steampowered.com/app/333970/A_Druids_Duel/): **Prototyping Your Game’s Economy**\r\n- [Stephen McGregor](https://twitter.com/leonyx03), [Escape industries](escapeindustries.net): **Coroutines and You**\r\n- [Nicolaas VanMeerten](https://twitter.com/nicolaasvm), [GLITCH](https://glitch.mn/): **Research, Analytics, and User Testing**\r\n- [Martin Grider](https://twitter.com/livingtech), [Abstract Puzzle](http://abstractpuzzle.com/): **Superbowl VR**\r\n- [Evva Kraikul](https://twitter.com/Evvahs), [GLITCH](https://glitch.mn/): **Game UX: Decoding Data for Game Designers**\r\n- [Zachary Johnson](https://twitter.com/zacharyjohnson), [Space Mace](https://spacemacegames.com/): **TBD** \r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Hao Wang PhD",
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"session_title": "High availability and disaster recovery technologies in cloud and on-premise systems",
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"presenter_bio": "[Rob Weber](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjweber/) is Managing Partner of [Great North Ventures](https://greatnorthventures.com/), an early-stage venture fund focused on helping founders launch and scale companies in Minnesota and across the U.S. Prior to Great North Ventures, Rob co-founded NativeX (formerly named W3i/Freeze.com) in 2000. Rob has been a successful entrepreneur since the age of 16 when he, along with his brothers, launched their first consumer app and media tech business. By the age of 20 the Weber brothers had turned their basement endeavors into a multi-million dollar business, and Rob became CEO. \r\n\r\nIn 2006, Rob shared the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award with his twin brother, and business partner, Ryan Weber. Rob was also named to the 2007 Inc. 5,000 CEO’s Under 30 list.\r\n\r\nRob received his B.S. in Entrepreneurship from St. Cloud State University. Rob has been one of the most active regional angel investors since 2005 when he co-founded the 32 Degrees angel fund. Rob previously served on the Board of Directors for Minne*, the 30,000+ member community of Minnesota tech enthusiasts.\r\n\r\n- Twitter: [@robertjweber](https://x.com/robertjweber)",
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"presenter_name": "Ryan Weber",
"presenter_bio": "Ryan Weber is the Co-Ambassador for [SingularityU Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter](https://global.su.org/chapters/minneapolis-st-paul) and Managing Partner of [Great North Labs](http://www.greatnorthlabs.com). Previously, Ryan was Co-Founder/Chief Product Officer for NativeX (FKA Freeze and W3i), a digital media company that scaled to 170 employees, and offices in Silicon Valley and Minnesota. \r\n\r\nGreat North Labs invests in technology startups across any industry that are based, or have meaningful operations, in the upper mid-west. We have assembled a team experienced in scaling technology startups across a variety of industries, along with individuals with strong expertise in exponential technologies, so that we can help regional startups achieve greatness!\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @mnvikingsfan",
"session_title": "Exponential Technology & Leadership",
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"description": "There are possibly 20 technologies that have the potential to disrupt as much as the internet and mobile did over the next 20 years. The future is up to us to define but these are a few bold predictions being made by futurists/innovators:\r\na. a colony on the moon\r\nb. 80%+ of world energy consumed using clean energy\r\nc. 95%+ autonomous, electric vehicles\r\nd. the majority of the known 30,000 diseases will be cured\r\ne. 41% of jobs in Minnesota today will no longer exist\r\n\r\nHumans evolved based on a linear way of thinking and so it's difficult for most to imagine the impact that will come along with each of these technologies. I graduated from Singularity's Executive Program, in Mountain View CA, in January and plan to share a brief summary of key takeaways in this session:\r\n\r\n1. Intro To Exponentials\r\n2. Inventory Of Exponential Technology\r\n3. Tools For Being An Exponential Leader",
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"presenter_name": "Ryan Weber",
"presenter_bio": "Ryan Weber is the Co-Ambassador for [SingularityU Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter](https://global.su.org/chapters/minneapolis-st-paul) and Managing Partner of [Great North Labs](http://www.greatnorthlabs.com). Previously, Ryan was Co-Founder/Chief Product Officer for NativeX (FKA Freeze and W3i), a digital media company that scaled to 170 employees, and offices in Silicon Valley and Minnesota. \r\n\r\nGreat North Labs invests in technology startups across any industry that are based, or have meaningful operations, in the upper mid-west. We have assembled a team experienced in scaling technology startups across a variety of industries, along with individuals with strong expertise in exponential technologies, so that we can help regional startups achieve greatness!\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @mnvikingsfan",
"session_title": "How Running Lean Can Help You Raise Capital",
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"description": "I've been on both sides of the table as an entrepreneur/product manager and investor. I've participated in regional and national early stage venture capital conferences, startup festivals, mentored and attended in various accelerators, invested in dozens of startups, and pitched investors my own startups many times at various stages. Now, I'd like to share some of the key lessons I learned from using lean startups and how the stages line-up with funding sources and their expectations. \r\n\r\n1. Lean Startups Review\r\n\r\n2. What Investors Care About\r\n\r\n3. Investment Rounds - How Does Each Stage Of Funding Generally Line Up The 3 Phases Of Customer Development?\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Thea DeSilva",
"presenter_bio": "Thea also known as sigflup is a Nintendo emulator author and c/assembly programmer and speed-coder. She focuses on software for various game consoles including the Sega Genesis. She's won several demo-scene competitions from parties like BlockParty @Party and PixelJam\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/sigflup)\n- Twitter: @sigflup",
"session_title": " Programming The Sega Genesis ",
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"description": "This session will be on programming roms and cartridges for the Sega Genesis game console from the 80s. \r\n\r\n\r\nThe session will take on this form: General overview of the Sega-Genesis. Setting up a C environment. Details concerning the VDP. Sample graphics program overview. Details concerning the Z80 and FM/PSG chips. Sample sound program overview. Sprite-editor overview, FM-tracker overview. Putting things together. Cartridge construction and overview. Tricks and tips. Questions.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Kent Katterheinrich",
"presenter_bio": "Research and Development leader that strives to make a positive impact on the world.\r\nMechanical Engineering background currently in the retail industry focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT) with background in the aerospace industry.",
"session_title": "\"I have an idea...\" Physical Product Development 101",
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"description": "**The What** \r\nThe first thing many people say to me immediately after I tell them that I work in Product Design and Development is \"I have an idea...\" that is followed up with some random idea they once had for a physical product. Many of these conversations then lead to a lengthy discussion about how just having an idea doesn't do much unless you know how to build, source, develop that into a product, but before all that you should really find out if you have a *good idea*. This presentation aims to help others with that first step.\r\n\r\n**The Why** \r\n1. idea people (see above) \r\n2. digital/physical line is blurring \r\n3. my younger self (naive inventor) ",
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"presenter_name": "Bryce Howitson",
"presenter_bio": "Bryce is obsessed with creating products that people want to use. He helps organizations of all sizes prototype and test their ideas. Sometimes called a designer, a developer, a strategist, a writer, or an artist, Bryce has led teams and worked in the trenches.\r\n\r\nBryce is a Google Developer Expert in UI/UX/Product/Web Technologies and a certified Design Sprint Master.\r\n\r\nHe shares his knowledge by mentoring and teaching from his homeland in the great frozen north of Minnesota.",
"session_title": "I didn't know Jack: How I've started designing with empathy",
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"description": "When I \"learned\" design, it wasn't user-centric. This presentation follows my personal journey toward empathy with users, customers, and neighbors. I discuss using shared emotions to humanize audience pain points, creating actionable \"fear personas\" of users and why this process works. Plus I tells some stories about the hard lessons I've learned throughout my career.\r\n\r\nAnyone who makes things to be used by people will come away with a better understanding of empathy and a framework to apply it daily.",
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"created_at": "2018-02-04 18:51:49 UTC",
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"presenter_name": "Bryce Howitson",
"presenter_bio": "Bryce is obsessed with creating products that people want to use. He helps organizations of all sizes prototype and test their ideas. Sometimes called a designer, a developer, a strategist, a writer, or an artist, Bryce has led teams and worked in the trenches.\r\n\r\nBryce is a Google Developer Expert in UI/UX/Product/Web Technologies and a certified Design Sprint Master.\r\n\r\nHe shares his knowledge by mentoring and teaching from his homeland in the great frozen north of Minnesota.",
"session_title": "UX/Design Office Hours",
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"description": "**Get feedback on your app, website, product or idea from professional designers**\r\n\r\nYou've got an idea that you hacked together on a budget, but you're not a designer. Perhaps your MVP response is that \"it's confusing\" or \"kinda hard to use\". There's no better time to get help. \r\n\r\n**We're offering 20-30 minute reviews of your product/interface/concept,*** available throughout the day to get design feedback on any project. Office hours will be staffed by a handful of local area designers with expertise across many areas and industries.\r\n\r\nIn addition to the Minnebar code of conduct, all critiquers agree to:\r\n- Hold your discussions in confidence (No need for an NDA)\r\n- Provided candid and truthful feedback\r\n- Do our best to be objective to help you improve\r\n\r\n* * *\r\n\r\nTo get the most out of this time, please be prepared to show us something (verbal descriptions are very hard to critique). Additionally, you may want to read about how to [win a design critique](https://blog.prototypr.io/5-steps-to-win-a-critique-a982c8828828)",
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"presenter_name": "Aneela Idnani",
"presenter_bio": "Aneela Idnani is Cofounder & President of HabitAware (www.habitaware.com). HabitAware created it's Keen smart bracelet to help people “Retrain The Brain” from detrimental behaviors to positive ones. To do this, Keen creates awareness and mindfulness of hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting, which at their core are debilitating mental health conditions. Having grown up with hair pulling disorder, Aneela is now an outspoken mental health advocate, raising awareness of these very common yet unknown conditions. Aneela is a HAX hardware accelerator alumnus and her company recently received a research grant from the NIH to improve their device and validate Keen as a treatment for these disorders. Her life’s work (HabitAware) has been featured as a TIME Magazine 2018 Best Invention and in BuzzFeed, SELF Magazine, The Washington Post, Prevention Magazine and more.\r\n\r\n\r\n**follow**: www.twitter.com/ak310i or www.twitter.com/habitaware\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @habitaware",
"session_title": "MNtal health in TC: speaking up about being down",
"summary": null,
"description": "Let's talk about the mental health-iness of our tech/entrepreneurial community.\r\nHow can our already supportive community support each other on the mental health front?\r\nWhat cultural changes can we encourage our corporations to take?\r\nWhat skills can we give our freelancing cohort, working primarily on their own?\r\nHow can we enable startups to build an open culture from the start?\r\nWhat can our co-working spaces do to help their members stay mentally healthy?\r\n\r\n\r\nPatrick, Laurie & I can’t wait to have this conversation with you all. Our hope is then start rolling out events through the year to help end the stigma and give all of us tools to manage stress/anxiety & other mental health issues, regardless of severity. ",
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"presenter_name": "Daniel Feldman",
"presenter_bio": "I'm a software engineer working on open source network security stuff. Follow me @dfeldman.org on BlueSky.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/dfeldman)\r\n",
"session_title": "⚡⚡⚡ Lightning Talks ⚡⚡⚡",
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"description": "Did you know lightning bugs use their flashes as a means to warn each other about threats, the P-38 Lightning was the most successful US fighter plane during WWII, and we used to have a women's soccer team called the Minnesota Lightning? Probably not! \r\n\r\n**Lightning talks are 5 minute, unscripted presentations, open to anyone who wants to present.** No planning necessary! In the past we've had lightning talks on stock trading, vegan cooking, artistic Twitter bots, and -- just once -- JavaScript development. \r\n\r\nCome with a slide deck, a link to a demo, or just an idea you feel like chatting about! But keep it short -- most lightning talks are under the 5 minute limit. \r\n\r\nLightning talks are often one of the most popular sessions at Minnebar, so show up early to get your seat!\r\n\r\nHere's a picture of lightning striking a lightning research tower:\r\n",
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