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"description": "Rankfound is considered among India’s finest Digital marketing agencies for providing best in class SEO, PPC, ORM, SMO, Content writing and Email Marketing services. Means, we can be your complete Internet marketing company that consults and implements working digital marketing solutions.\r\n\r\nWe are unique and it is needed the most. In this age of increased competition in search engine optimization and changing SEO strategies, one needs to think and implement something beyond that traditional approach. \r\nWe understand each of client needs carefully, analyze their website issues and create the custom SEO plan that works. If you ask roughly, we do on-page and off-page works on each of our SEO projects but to understand in deep about our custom SEO work approach, we need a website address so that we can show you how we develop custom SEO approach to provide best in class SEO services in Chandigarh. Get the best [SEO services in Chandigarh](http://www.rankfound.com/).\r\n",
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"description": "If you are looking for free classified Australia then you visited the right place. Adsct.com.au is the largest classified website in Australia for the development of your business. You can post free advertisements to buy and sell products according to your category, which will help your business to move forward.\r\n\r\nPost [free classified in Australia](https://www.adsct.com.au) .\r\n",
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"description": "\r\nWe work with those in need of medical massage therapy and tissue manipulation; Clients with pain, poor range of motion, scar tissue, headaches, numbness and tingling, etc.\r\nMeet your Therapist, Abigail Wiggins, at Movement in Massage: \"Random fact: I love scarves! Problem is, I prefer the sunny weather lol...so Colorado is a really sweet balance of all seasons. Scarf weather also happens to be perfect for a massage. \r\n\r\n\r\n[Massage Therapy](https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1td7plnFoYzE2icddJ3lOrupqtRMJxoQW) at Movement in Massage may positively affect - Acute or Ongoing Pain, Numbness and Tingling, Neck Pain, Range of Motion due to muscle tightness, TMJ Disorder, Circulation, Discomfort in Running and Activities and Scar Tissue etc.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"description": "ADSCT is a Best classified website to Buy / Sell used products. Adsct is on top 3 websites in Australia in terms of selling. Millions of people are getting buyers every used products. You'll feel No.1 in design and user friendly. Aussie posting their used cars, books, jewellery, clothing, furniture, electronics, House, and more products like Business for sale as well as people are finding Jobs. Mainly Services category for Businesses. Making Easy to post we remove all conditions for the seller. People can also post Bulk ads for free. [Free Classified Australia](https://www.adsct.com.au/promote-your-ads).\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"description": "Are you looking for digital marketing services from the [Top Marketing Company Fort Collins](ttps://medium.com/@jp_watson/top-10-marketing-companies-in-fort-collins-co-updated-for-2020-405ec08983fa)? Well, we are here to fulfill all your needs. \r\n\r\nWe have a vast portfolio of clients who are satisfied with the services that our expert and professional teams provide them. Our clients include both Business to business and business to customer businesses. \r\n\r\nOur specialized digital marketing services will bring your business the growth it needs and increase your brand awareness to your customers. We also offer SEO services that will bring your business to the to of the search results and generate new leads.\r\n\r\n",
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"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",
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"description": "Hello,\r\nI'm Ed.\r\n\r\nDuring this session, we will be exploring group synchronization within remote conferencing.\r\n\r\nThis is not a technical talk. This is more like desk aerobics.\r\n\r\nThrough theatrical frameworks, we will begin investigating some of the constraints in video calls (sound, costuming, lighting, networking).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHope to have you at the session--\r\n\r\n\r\nP.S.\r\nIf you are able + comfy joining with a microphone and/or camera, please do!\r\nThis will allow us to explore a greater range of constraints but is not critical to our success.",
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"presenter_bio": "Eduardo Drake lives in the Twin Cities as father, artist, tango dancer yogi, patent wizard, and entrepreneur. He’s also founder of Fantastic IP Consulting and The Oneness Company. In both endeavors, he's wholly committed to delivering wisdom, imagination, and enthusiasm. \r\n\r\nAt Fantastic IP (changing to Invenity Law), Eduardo focuses 25+ years of legal wisdom and know-how on multiplying the value of ideas and businesses with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and related licensing and risk mitigation strategies and execution, Prior to founding Fantastic IP in 2011, Eduardo served as a shareholder at national patent powerhouse Schwegman Lundberg, winner of 15 top-ten national rankings for patent quality. He's on a mission to help fired up entrepreneurs change the world--- any way he can. He's also been recognized as an IP SuperLawyer for 8 years. Eduardo believes that the world is better off when more people can share and profit from their creative insights and wants to make it easier for more people to get their ideas into the world.\r\n\r\nThe Oneness Company is a venture founded to proliferate technologies (know-how, mindsets, frameworks, distinctions, etc) that promote human thriving, particularly technologies that multiply human connection, creativity, and celebration-- three evidence-based pathways to greater resilience and energy. Its flagship offering Connectorcise is a 60-minute workout which explores and expands our capacity to silently and verbally navigate the sensory experience of human connection through deeper seeing, listening, and speaking\r\n\r\nEduardo earned an electrical engineering degree from Mississippi State University, a law degree from University of Virginia, and a 200-hour Transformational Coaching and Leadership Training (TCLT) certification from The Circling Institute in San Francisco (led by Guy Sengstock, world renowned founder of Circling, which is sometimes called relational yoga or intersubjective meditation). ",
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"description": "Curious about getting into the patent game with minimal financial risk? Yes. Then, this session is for you. \r\n\r\nVeteran patent lawyer who loves connecting and teaching, Eduardo Drake, will share the essentials of building a quality provisional patent application without getting lost in hyper legalese. In this fast-paced session, you'll learn: \r\n\r\n*Why patents were invented;\r\n*What a provisional patent app is;\r\n*Why to file one;\r\n*What to include and exclude; \r\n*Top do's and don'ts; \r\n*Key value-add strategies; \r\n*When not to file your own.\r\n*Where and how to file it.\r\n\r\nYou'll see an example of a currently pending provisional application illustrating key principles. You'll receive free access to an Invenja group jam session to address questions you have in building your own provisional patent application. \r\n\r\n",
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"description": "We are a young startup, recently moved our HQ to St Paul as part of TechStars Farm to Fork Accelerator. We wanted to share our story in the hope that more people will understand the problems the industry is facing.\r\n\r\nHow increasing food safety regulations and customer demand for sustainably sourced products will shape the future of traceability. \r\nTopics: \r\n1- Why do we have an increasing demand for food traceability \r\n2- How can we transform from paper to data to create this future \r\n2.1- Getting your house in order (we need to start on QA in order to achieve the goal of traceability) \r\n2.2- The potential of this data \r\n3- How technology is helping companies to get there\r\n\r\nPresented by Nhat Nguyen and Lucas Cunha\r\n",
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"presenter_bio": "**Alex 'A-Rod' Rodriguez, is the Founder of Electrician Path. Electrician Path is the network for Millennial and Generation-Z Electrician Talent to find opportunities in the industry. The startup was built with no-code. \r\n\r\nHe's the founder of Graveti. A community focused on building businesses, creating wealth and developing the Tech ecosystem for people of color in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area.\r\n\r\nAlex, was a Minneapolis Code2040 Entrepreneur in Residence at Fueled Collective (COCO), powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. Alex, was Minnesota Tech Hustler of the Year for 2015.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @headhonchoarod",
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"description": "I fell in love with technology and startups the minute I discovered the startup industry. But like many others I was non-technical. So I've had to find ways to make it work. \r\n\r\nWith the rise of no-code and tools getting better. It felt like I could build an mvp and at last, electricianpath.com was born and has grown with no-code.\r\n\r\n\r\nThis session will cover the basics of no-code and more: \r\n\r\n- Intro and fundamentals to no-code\r\n\r\n- What's possible (a lot more than you'd expect) and what's not (yet)\r\n\r\n- Examples of products built with no-code\r\n\r\n- How I built my current startup (Electrician Path) with no-code and plan to scale it. \r\n\r\n- Why no-code will produce a new wave of entrepreneurs\r\n\r\n- Making your business 'tech-enabled' with no-code\r\n\r\n- Q&A\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPresented by: **ElectricianPath**, and **Graveti**\r\n\r\n[link](http://electricianpath.com)\r\n\r\n[link](http://graveti.com)\r\n",
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"session_title": "Accessibility Micro-Workshops for Devs, Testers, Designers, and Other Techies! ♿💻❤️",
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"description": "Accessibility is a **BIG** topic, so let's break it down into some fun, focused, bite-sized micro-workshops that everyone can get something out of! Like speed-dating, but for inclusive development and design practices and empathy-building (swoon ❤️)!\r\n\r\nIn this session a few small, focused \"stations\" will be set up around the room, each led by someone who has real-world experience in the topic area. You can come and go between stations whenever you'd like, or just stick at one for the whole session if it's super interesting to you.\r\n\r\nTo guarantee that we have a few stations ready-to-go, some of my co-workers from Accessible360 (a local accessibility testing + consulting company) will join us to share their experience. If you're interested in leading (or co-leading) a station, please reach out to me so we can coordinate!\r\n\r\nHere are some ideas for stations that you can expect (I'll finalize these closer to the event date based on feedback/interest):\r\n\r\n1. 🦯 **Live screen reader demos** from a native screen reader user - BYO-URL and we'll show you _exactly_ how a non-sighted user experiences it!\r\n1. 📃 **WCAG IRL** - learn how to actually read the darn thing, how to test to it, the difference between 2.0 and 2.1, that sort of thing.\r\n1. ⌨️ **Building accessible web components** - talk to an experienced UI developer about how to effectively research, build, and test anything from form validations to carousels.\r\n1. 🎰 **Free-for-all** - chat about anything that isn't covered in another station. Content creation, inclusive writing tips, legislation / case law / legal strategies, etc. If we don't have an answer, we'll help you figure it out!\r\n\r\nThe exact topics and number of stations, as well as the amount of space available, can be adjusted based on interest, so be sure to RSVP ➡️ if you're interested!",
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"presenter_name": "Joe Schneider",
"presenter_bio": "Founder and President of [Dojo Five](https://www.dojofive.com) - embedded experts out to modernize the outdated firmware lifecycle.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @dojofive_official",
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"description": "Embedded software engineers have been behind for years due to hardware limitations, compiler and OS nuances, prohibitively expensive licenses, and old tools. In this session, Dojo Five (embedded software startup in St. Paul) is excited to show you the future of development and testing: automated firmware builds and tests, hardware simulation, security monitoring, and crash analytics. \r\n\r\nWeb developers have been using this process for years, but it's time for embedded to level up. Gone are the days of having a build machine in the corner of the office and worrying about what version compiler and OS you have to use! Come see the future of embedded software.",
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"presenter_name": "Anna Bliss",
"presenter_bio": "Anna Bliss is a Product Manager, podcaster, and community leader. Anna has worked in the tech arena for over 15 years taking a circuitous route to product management with roles ranging from business analyst to technical writer to project coordinator. These varied roles, along with some entirely unrelated to software development (such as theatrical scenic design) have built up a unique skill set that she wasn’t entirely sure how to integrate until she stumbled on product management. A liberal arts major at heart, Anna loves the interdisciplinary nature of the technology world. She is co-founder of the Twin Cities Product Community and co-host of the Women in Tech Twin Cities podcast.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @akbliss",
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"description": "A turtle race is a simple thing: pick a turtle, put it on the starting line, let it go. Turtles, though, have their own way of doing things and not all of them cross the finish line. Our customers can be much the same: we put them on the starting line, but their journey to the finish may not follow the path we expect – and there is a lot we can learn if we pay attention to our turtles…er…customers.\r\n\r\nThe turtle race follows a simple formula: pay your race entry fee, wait for your heat to be called, pick a turtle, carry it in its bucket of water to the race starting line, set it on the line when the race caller says, “Go!” and hope your turtle goes. Forward. In a mostly straight line. Much like a turtle race, we expect our customers to understand that by providing them with a nice bucket of water for travel, the freedom to Go! (hopefully forward), they will get to the finish line. Like those turtles, though, customers sometimes veer left or pull into their shells. Once we give them our product, our app, they may not use it the way we expect them to – so how can we learn from those turtles and customers who go their own way? Are there ways to think differently about your race track and provide a good experience for all of your racers? Through watching a turtle race in action, and walking through some examples of where customers behaved just like the turtles in the race, we can all learn to see the opportunities provided by watching the turtles who didn’t cross the finish line.",
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"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.",
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"description": "You’ve seen Silicon Prairie wearing the ***BLINKING*** light-up badges, but WHY? \r\n\r\nWe started wearing them last Startup week for ONE REASON, come learn why! Featuring: A scrappy underdog team of geeks, that must stand up to a petty tyrant, to fight for the user... \r\n\r\nTaste the forbidden fruit of mid-day schadenfreude (shameful joy) as you learn how much it costs emotionally and financially to “fight the man”\r\n\r\n•\tHear juicy gossip about the local stiffs!\r\n•\tProphylactic tips for juggling a six-pack of lawyers!\r\n•\tViscerally *FEEL* the confounding highs and lows!\r\n\r\n\r\nIf at least twenty people attend, we will do a drawing for a $50 gift card at the end of the session – so bring a friend!\r\n\r\n",
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"session_title": "An Engineer's Guide to Blockchain App Development",
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"description": "Blockchain is an immature technology in a space polluted with scams and snake oil. It is easy to become skeptical about a tech that promises so much and to date hasn't delivered a thing outside of some dicey investment opportunities. But the upside potential is real. And the tech is fun to play with. This blockchain primer will cover the fundamental concepts from an engineering perspective, as well as some of the emerging open source platforms you can start experimenting with today.",
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"session_title": "Hacking Your Health",
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"description": "Staying healthy is hard. And for programmers, our profession isn't doing us any favors. Sitting at a keyboard all day is murder on your wrists, your back, your cardiovascular health, your mood, and your lifespan. In this talk I will share my own journey from inactivity to activity, the challenges I faced, and how I overcame (some of) them. Spoiler alert: there is no one trick doctors hate. We'll talk stretches, standing desks, approachable aerobics, microbiomes, Fitbits, Beat Saber, and Tai Chi, and see what sticks.",
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"presenter_name": "James Tucker",
"presenter_bio": "James is a software engineer at [soona](https://soona.co) in NE Minneapolis, where he works with Vue and Rails on a daily basis. When he's not building things, you can usually find James hiking, spending time with his wife Megan, trying a new peaty Scotch, or making horrible screeching noises on his violin.\r\n\r\n[LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/jtuckermn)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/jamesctucker)",
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"presenter_name": "Paul Himes",
"presenter_bio": "As a principal software engineer, Paul has over 10,000 hours of three-dimensional experiences at [Livefront](https://livefront.com).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/paulhimes)\n- Twitter: @paulhimes@mastodon.social",
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"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",
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"description": "You have the \"Engineering\" part of \"Engineering Manager\" figured out... but how about the \"Manager\" part?\r\n\r\nMany first time managers got the job because of their skill as a developer, despite the fact that programming and managing are two different jobs. To be effective, new managers must develop the leadership skills to guide their teams to success.\r\n\r\nIn this session, you will start to develop your own leadership style as we break down the squishier parts of the job: building a cohesive and high-performing team; motivating and retaining talented engineers; giving effective feedback; having difficult conversations; and more.\r\n\r\n*[Note: This is a talk version of a 3.5 hour workshop, and it will be the first time it's delivered. I'll try to come back and update this description with the specific things that made the cut, but if I don't actually get to everything in that final paragraph, please don't hate me.*\r\n\r\n*On the other hand, if there's something specific you're hoping doesn't get cut, [let me know](https://twitter.com/eryno)!]*",
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"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",
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"description": "### Introduction\r\nBlockchain technology has been a major disruptor in today's finance landscape. It has transformed cross-border payments, challenged fiat currency, enabled decentralized exchanges, and promises to do much more. Major financial institutions such as the HKEX and ASX are now exploring its value in post-trade processing due to its ability to maintain a secure, accessible, trustworthy ledger. It is Adventum Technology's view that the next area for blockchain to disrupt is financial derivative processing.\r\n\r\nAdventum Technology will present a decentralized system for writing and trading financial derivatives using [Stellar's]( https://www.stellar.org/) decentralized ledger protocol. We will showcase the following:\r\n\r\n#### Improvements Blockchain Enables over Traditional Derivative Market Infrastructure\r\n\r\n- *Decreased Market Friction*: \r\n The incumbent derivatives market has a large amount of friction due to the numerous middlemen required to provide market access, facilitate trades, and lower counterparty risks. CME, a large derivative marketplace, [charges $.725 to clear a derivative](http://investor.cmegroup.com/node/43571/html). Our protocol processes derivatives for less than $.0001.\r\n\r\n- *Increased Market Accessibility*: \r\n Market accessibility is an issue in derivative markets. Investors outside of rich countries often do not have efficient market access. Building our solution on a decentralized ledger means anyone with an internet connection can use it.\r\n\r\n- *Increased Market Flexibility*: \r\n Stellar's [custom asset solution](https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/assets.html) combined with the flexibility of our solution enables users to write derivatives with any underlying asset. This is revolutionary for over-the-counter derivatives markets.\r\n\r\n\r\n#### Methods we use to process financial derivatives\r\n\r\n- *Holding Accounts*: \r\n We utilize a smart contract protocol to create and manage holding accounts. These accounts are used to hold margin or underlying deposits to reduce counterparty risk.\r\n\r\n- *Preauthorized Transactions*: \r\n We utilize Stellar's [preauthorized transactions](https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/multi-sig.html#pre-authorized-transaction) feature to facilitate derivatives without the need for a third-party intermediary.\r\n\r\n- *Lock and Key Assets*: \r\n We make our derivatives tradeable with a unique custom asset solution. Users issue cryptographic tokens that serve as \"keys\" for derivative contracts and represent contract ownership. This makes our derivatives tradeable on any number of decentralized or traditional exchanges.\r\n\r\nFor more information on the solution we plan to present please see our website: http://optionblox.com/\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Andrew Haisting",
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"description": "Are you tired of fixing formatting issues during code review? Have you thought about adding \"Detekt\" to your Android project, but got intimidated by the setup documentation? Have you ever wanted to track and report unit test coverage on an Android codebase? \r\n\r\nAt Livefront, we've spent the last year focusing on using static checks to keep our codebases squeaky clean and saving code review for difficult architectural decisions instead of fickle formatting fiascos. \r\n\r\nThis talk is primarily aimed at Android engineers, though there will be some general commentary on the value of static checking and unit test coverage reporting. In this talk I'll walk through the tools we use on our Android projects, including but not limited to:\r\n- Our new open source library, \"Shroud\", used to report unit test coverage.\r\n- \"Android lint\" which helps us catch bugs before the hatch.\r\n- \"Detekt\" which keeps our kotlin files squeaky clean.\r\n- Git push hooks to keep CI errors rarer than a thunderstorm in December. ",
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"session_title": "✏️📚🍎High School Computer Science in MN 🍎📚✏️",
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"description": "In this talk we will give an overview of computer science education available to high school students in MN. You will learn about programs available both in and out of the school day, as well as how you can get involved -- either as a student or a teacher!\r\n\r\n**Andrew Haisting**\r\n- Andrew is an alum of Rosemount High School, where his computer science journey began. Because of the vast CS curriculum offered at RHS, he was able to enter college with two full semesters worth of college credit and earn a CS degree in just three years. Andrew is an Android engineer at Livefront and also teaches the coding certificate at Project Success.\r\n\r\n**James Rone**\r\n- James is the Program Manager at the Project Success Institute, where he leverages his passion and experience in public education to offer a wide variety of after school curriculum to MPLS high school students.",
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"presenter_name": "Shawn Seymour",
"presenter_bio": "Shawn Seymour is a distributed systems engineer and builder exploring how great software is shaped by architecture, judgment, and leverage. His work centers on real-time systems, event-driven design, and building resilient platforms that turn technical complexity into something usable, scalable, and meaningful.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [Website](https://shawn.mn)\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Justy Carlin",
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"session_title": "🍷 Wine About It: The Oversight of Copy in Product Design",
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"description": "Copywriting is one of the most important design tools, yet it's often overlooked. In the midst of racing towards the next trend, many companies forget about the important role it plays in user experience. It determines whether or not a user understands what to do next, or what went wrong when an error occurs. It can explain something that's not obvious, or create even more confusion to something that is.\r\n\r\nCopy not only has to be good, it has to be consistent. If it's not, it can even keep you from getting the wine you ordered on the internet. Like me.\r\n\r\nSo just how big of a difference can copywriting make? In this talk, we'll discuss how beautiful visual design can still lead to an ugly user experience.\r\n\r\n*This is a strategy talk for designers, product managers, and engineers who want to create experiences that actually make sense.*\r\n\r\nJusty is an aspiring wine aficionado and a Product Designer at Livefront.",
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"session_title": "The Big-Team Slow Down: How To Speed Up Anything Using Faster Feedback Loops",
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"description": "Startups are fast and nimble, large companies are slow.\r\nThis is a widely accepted axiom, and it’s completely wrong.\r\nRather, startups must confront a set of constraints that encourage some common behaviors: lightweight experimentation, eager validation, and strong vision. Large teams often start small, so what is it about team size that changes these behaviors? Can the startup ideals be recovered, or even expanded?\r\n\r\nIn this session, we’ll use industry data to see how size and speed are not nearly as coupled as is commonly believed. We’ll explore how large companies have resources and capabilities to run experiments and validation on a scale that any startup would envy. Next, we’ll see why the size/speed illusion is based on an asymmetry that correlates with (but is not caused by) size. Finally, we’ll observe some common pathologies that arise when a growing team is slowing down, and why none of those problems are rooted in size.\r\n\r\n*This is a talk for product owners, managers, and engineers from any size organization that want to experience the benefits of faster feedback.*",
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"presenter_name": "Jesse Sutherland",
"presenter_bio": "Jesse Sutherland is a Minneapolis based entrepreneur specializing in designing and developing digital products such as SaaS web apps and WordPress products. Having worked in the interactive industry for more than 15 years first at a creative agency, and then as a freelancer, he has helped hundreds of clients design and build their digital properties.\r\n\r\nLearn more at [https://jessesutherland.com/](JesseSutherland.com)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/TheJester12)\n- Twitter: @TheJester12",
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"description": "Part of the fun of being a designer or developer is that you can make just about any kind of website or application if you put your mind to it. \r\n\r\nBut that is a **blessing** and a **curse**. We are good at building new things. Pretty terrible about marketing and sales. **Typical.**\r\n\r\nMaybe you have built a million things yourself, or maybe you are in the middle of your first foray into side project land. A lot of makers have an unrealistic dream of building something, putting it out there, having it become instantly popular, and making **reoccurring income** without bosses or obligations on your time. Sounds nice, right?\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, the real world rarely works like that. **I can tell you.** I've built over **20 side projects** over the last **10 years**, and while I've made almost **$40,000** on them total, most of them have been **total failures**. \r\n\r\nIn this talk I'm going to walk through **5 of these projects**, quickly demo them, and talk through **some lessons** I learned on each one. Hopefully it should be fun, inspiring, with some helpful advice, and you can learn from my mistakes.",
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"presenter_name": "Phil Grey",
"presenter_bio": "Owner at [Good Gravy](https://goodgravy.digital). \r\nWebsites, Apps, and Custom Software made in Minneapolis\r\n\r\nWe help put the right tools in the right hands at the right time.",
"session_title": "Late and Overbudget: Why Projects Always* Fail",
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"description": "There are systemic problems in how we approach planning and doing work for others.\r\n\r\nDespite our best intentions, we've all been a part of projects that were late, overbudget, or (usually) both. \r\nSomething isn't working, so let's talk about it.\r\n\r\nMakers. We're making promises that we won't keep. We're losing trust in our word. We're not getting paid for all the work we do. \r\n\r\nClients. We're getting burned, over and over. We're missing important deadlines. We're paying for the wrong things.\r\n\r\nWe'll set the table for a conversation to find solutions to these problems.\r\n\r\nPart strategic problem solving and part group therapy, this session will facilitate conversation to find alternatives to what we're currently doing. You will leave this session with a buffet of ideas that will ultimately create better expectations, communication, and transparency between makers and clients.\r\n\r\n*Used for dramatic emphasis.",
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"presenter_name": "Aaron Ackerman",
"presenter_bio": "I am a senior site reliability engineer working on container orchestration. I tweet at [@\\_aaronackerman\\_](https://twitter.com/_aaronackerman_) on twitter and I write open source at [@aackerman](https://github.com/aackerman) on github. Always striving to write high quality software.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/aackerman)\n- Twitter: @_aaronackerman_",
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"description": "Autoscaling! You **want** it, I **got** it. This is the session I wish I could have attended 9 months ago.\r\n\r\nA look into how autoscaling in Kubernetes works using open source components. If it makes sense for you to be using Kubernetes it also makes sense for you to need automated scaling based metrics. I'll cover several different components that are important to autoscaling including: cluster instance scaling with cluster-autoscaler, metrics with prometheus, pod replica scaling with horizontal pod autoscalers using the prometheus metrics adapter, pod resource scaling with the vertical pod autoscaler, and automated instance draining for scale in using an external service (Lambda in this session).\r\n\r\nWhatever cloud you choose don't be worried about getting something out of this. I guarantee 99% of the content will be cloud agnostic. \r\n\r\nThis session will start with an expectation that you have at least a passing understanding of Kubernetes and its core concepts like nodes/instances, pods, deployments. If you don't know about those concepts feel free to come anyways, you'll probably still learn something, but those concepts won't be explained in detail.",
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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": "Engineering in a Product Delivery World",
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"description": "The legacy assembly line of software development is breaking down. No longer is Product passing requirements to Engineering, who, in turn, hand artifacts to IT for release. The movements of “product mindset” and DevOps have taken hold, and the silos are collapsing. Engineering is no longer about software development but part of an abstract organizational collective providing “product delivery.” As Engineers, we should view this as a great thing! However, it begs the question, what does success mean for an Engineering discipline in what might feel like Product and DevOps dominated world?\r\n\r\nBefore the idea of “product mindset” came along, conventional wisdom held that Engineering success meant delivering a project on time and in budget. Likewise, before the DevOps opened our eyes to releasing frequently (ideally daily), annual Engineering success was measured in the number of releases. What do measurements of success look like in this new product delivery world?\r\n\r\nWe’ll dive into the role of Engineering in a product delivery world. We’ll understand how the different perspectives driven by Product, DevOps, and Engineering don’t cancel each other but build a better whole. We’ll also discuss what can be measured to help indicate success in Engineering.\r\n\r\nWhile providing an Engineering perspective, this session is for leaders and practitioners from all disciplines of Product, DevOps, and Engineering. ",
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"presenter_name": "Joe McIntosh",
"presenter_bio": "I bring value to startups.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @joemcintosh",
"session_title": "Meditation: How to do it, Why to do it",
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"description": "We'll discuss:\r\n\r\n1). Practical ways to meditate \r\n\r\nI'm not a monk, I'm not a nun. I'm a regular person - I have a wife, 4 daughters, full time job, mortgage payment, a handful of really good friends, I'd like to exercise more etc.\r\n\r\nI've been meditating consistently for 4 years and the practice has changed my life. My wife and kids have noticed; but more importantly I've noticed. I'm a different person. I still have struggles though I have an order of magnitude more patience. I still get upset, though I have greater perspective. And, I'm less fearful too....the benefits are countless...\r\n\r\nMeditation knocked on my door several times before I finally committed to it. The same could be for you as well. Maybe you've read literature on meditation, perhaps you have a friend or colleague who meditates, or maybe you've even made it a new year's resolution to meditate and its never really taken off for you. Let this session be a sign for you. Come check it out and/or tell a friend. \r\n\r\nWe'll also explore:\r\n\r\n2). What stops us from starting or committing to daily meditation\r\n3). What would be the biggest impact if we meditated more consistently\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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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": "Google Ads for Beginners Like Me: Small Biz Owner Edition!",
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"description": "\"Let's go buy our first Google Ads!\" I exclaimed, not realizing the magnitude of the adventure I was about to embark on. That was 3 months ago, and I've learned a _ton_ of N00b lessons that I want to share with y'all.\r\n\r\nDuring this session, I'll share:\r\n\r\n* How to get started with Google Ads \r\n* How my process for buying ads has changed over the past few months. \r\n* How I do keyword research.\r\n* Things I got wrong + Things I got right.\r\n* Learnings that'll save you from a million headaches.\r\n\r\nIf all goes well, you'll leave this session with some helpful context + actionable next-steps to run your first Google Ads campaign!\r\n\r\n*I'm not a Google Ads expert, nor do I necessarily think you should buy Google Ads. I just want to share some hopefully-helpful knowledge and experiences with y'all.*",
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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",
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"description": "Come join me and work on your craft!\r\n\r\nI always bring knitting to conferences and enjoy finding other crafters in the halls. This will be a mostly quiet space where fellow crafters can relax for a moment and tackle that tricky stitch. Small group conversations may happen, help and encouragement will be available.\r\n\r\nThe only thing supplied will be a welcoming safe space.\r\n\r\nIdeas for small portable crafts to bring:\r\n- knitting\r\n- crochet\r\n- cross stitch\r\n- bullet journaling\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Joel Zaslofsky",
"presenter_bio": "Joel Zaslofsky is the community-animator, multipotentialite, and quantum biology fanatic behind a bunch of neat stuff. He’s the Connections and Operations Guy for [the Puttytribe](https://theputtytribe.com/), hosts the [popular Smart and Simple Matters podcast](https://joelzaslofsky.com/podcast/), and has one overarching theme in life: bringing people together.\r\n\r\nYou’ll often find him deep into a minimalist spreadsheet, making his wonderful wife roll her eyes at his antics, or playing with his two young sons around Edina, Minnesota. Otherwise, Joel’s out walking on frozen lakes, reigniting his personal renaissance, and Experience Curating.",
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"description": "The Offers and Needs Market (OANM) is a joyful, guided process where groups come together to discover and exchange their passions, knowledge, skills, resources, and needs. Whether for free, barter, or a set rate, people offer and need things like tech help, a place to live, or some extra produce.\r\n\r\nThe OANM unearths and shares the diverse forms of wealth we all have and reminds us that so much of what we need for a good life is already within our grasp.\r\n\r\nParticipants have found work, housing, new friends, a richer self-identity, and even a renewed trust in their community. Each exchange **builds a connection**, more connections create **meaningful relationships**, and the collective relationships **strengthen communities** – and maybe even create new ones.\r\n\r\nIt's also a way to practice Asset-Based Community Development as you focus on what resources (a.k.a. “assets”) the group already has. The OANM is a simple, playful, and cheerful way to highlight what people can already do, and provides a positive way to short-circuit the “But we don’t have any resources!” narrative. The emphasis is on creating and sustaining a mindset of what you can do to help – and get helped – right now.\r\n\r\nThe OANM works best when participants learn about them and prepare some of their offers and needs in advance. So do yourself and others a favor: [explore the process now](https://joelzaslofsky.com/oanm-participant).\r\n\r\nAre you looking for inspiration? [Here's a spreadsheet with real examples](http://bit.ly/OANM-Examples) of offers and needs from various events and gatherings.\r\n\r\nBring a friend or two and find out what their gifts are as well, plus how you might help each other in new or surprising ways.",
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"presenter_name": "Ken Krutsch",
"presenter_bio": "I’m a seasoned technology and operations executive, product architect, and user experience designer. \r\n\r\nMy mission in life is to create great products and customer experiences. My design and technical creativity has garnered the industry's highest recognition. \r\n\r\nOf note is Aireo for SoniqCast (CES Best of Show finalist in the Portable DAV category) and ICON Manager, winning numerous Editor’s Choice Awards as well as Best of Show finalist at VMworld. My clients benefit from 14 US patents, awarded as a result of my inventive product design.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/krutschcom)",
"session_title": "WATCH, LISTEN, LEARN: How to Setup and Run a User Study",
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"description": "A good UX design process breaks down big challenges by infusing fresh perspective with proven tools and techniques. However, none of these tools or techniques are more insightful or guiding than a user study. User studies recalibrate focus by uncovering key customer feedback and perceptions. They are the biggest driver of product innovation to create a competitive advantage.\r\n\r\nWe presented a 50 minute session last year called: EVERYWHERE UX at Minnebar 14 in 2019. We would like to continue the UX exploration for the Minnesota Tech community by diving deeper into last year's content; this time focusing on the specifics of designing and executing an effective user study.",
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"presenter_name": "Lee Prinkkila - CPA, CGMA ",
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"session_title": "Just like riding a bike: Lessons for technologists from cyclists",
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"presenter_name": "Christina Adams",
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"presenter_bio": "Co-Founder (Data) of aiforflights.com. [Over 500,000 miles flown in the past 10 years.](https://www.kayak.com/trips/users/!Fw8V-MGnOHk) My obsession is optimizing for value, knowing that value differs from person to person.\r\n\r\nLead Data Science Consultant in the 9-5 world.",
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"presenter_name": "Bill Gintz",
"presenter_bio": "[Bill Gintz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-gintz-63205b3/) is a Product Owner at [SPS Commerce](https://www.spscommerce.com/) focused on the document processing platform services. Bill is an advocate of the Agile Scrum framework and is a Certified Scrum PO, Scrum Master, and SAFe Agilist. Outside of his career, Bill is passionate about spending time with his family, coaching, and mountain biking year round.\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Mike Okiro",
"presenter_bio": "A Wide Area Network (WAN) is crucial system for any businesses having multiple branches in different and far apart locations. \r\nTo keep programs running, devices correctly configured, and data flowing, a secure and reliable connectivity is a must. With a [WAN acceleration](http://wanos.co/wan-optimization/) solution any business can ensure their system remains efficient and secure. \r\nAcceleration products help optimizes the infrastructure by overcoming regular network performance challenges. This results in rapid and secure data flow and savings bandwidth operations costs.\r\nCommon acceleration strategies include data deduplication, packet recovery, data compression, path selection, network transparency and more.\r\n",
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"description": "**Transmission Control Protocol** (TCP) is a primary source of transporting protocols used on IP networks. The purpose of the acceleration is to overcome protocol failures (TCP or application). Indeed, many applications have been created for use on a Local Area Network (LAN) and are now used over wide area networks (WAN). \r\nHowever, these applications exchange a lot of information between the client and the server and therefore depend on the transfer times. The primary objective of TCP acceleration is to devise means of reducing the number of network round trips necessary for the operation of the application. [Get TCP Acceleration software.](http://wanos.co/wan-optimization/tcp-acceleration-pep/)",
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"presenter_name": "Levi McCormick",
"presenter_bio": "Recovering DevOp now cosplaying as a Director of Engineering.\r\n\r\nLevi has spend the last ~20 years in tech at various levels and roles, doing everything from phone support to training and mentoring, architecture and application design, requirements gathering and customer engagement, and even taking out the trash on Fridays. He is very passionate about developer experience and leveraging cloud platforms so that all engineers can be 10x engineers.\r\n\r\n**Links:**\r\n\r\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/levimccormick)\r\n- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/levimccormick/)",
"session_title": "From intern to principal: an iterative approach to personal career planning.",
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"description": "You wouldn't build a high performing application without some kind of a plan, so why operate your career that way? Many organizations provide some career development support, but what about the rest of us? I'll share my approach and some of my insights into climbing the job ladder in the Twin Cities tech scene. Topics include skills, roles, recruiters, tracks, job hopping, and compensation. 😲 This discussion is useful for job seekers and hiring managers alike. Questions encouraged.",
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"presenter_name": "Daniel Feldman",
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"session_title": "Lightning talks",
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"description": "Did you know that the lightning talk was invented on July 3rd, 1922 at the Saint Paul World's Fair?\r\n\r\nMidway through a 4-minute PowerPoint presentation about the aerodynamics of the Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh was interrupted by a five year old boy, who demanded his autograph. Lindbergh graciously paused his talk and signed the little boy's airport terminal. \r\n\r\nThat little boy's name? Steve Jobs. \r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Kisha Delain",
"presenter_bio": "Kisha is a Sr. Software Engineer at Patterson Companies. Things she loves: digging into stakeholder use cases, figuring out how business logic turns into code requirements, learning yet another programming language. She likes to use the appropriate tools for the job, and she liked the fancy sander for smoothing off edges enough that she bought one for herself. Don't ask her about flying planes because she won't shut up about it.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/kdelain)",
"session_title": "Pair programming: Supporting Your Jr Devs Right",
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"description": "Hey! You're a senior programmer! You want to mentor that new person, and what better way than to pair up with them on some programming? There's all kinds of advice out there on different ways to pair program, and you have a ton of wisdom to impart. But you're worried: what if you overwhelm your junior dev? How can you make this a good experience for them? Let's talk about some ways that might help, and some things to try if things go off the rails.",
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"presenter_name": "Noel Miller",
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"session_title": "Sonic Pi",
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"description": "## Description\r\nSonic Pi is a live coding music creation and performance software. It allows people to learn how to code and how create music at the same time. It can be used by musicians from a beginner to professional level. More information on their website: https://sonic-pi.net/\r\n\r\n## Content\r\nThis talk is going to include basics on the software and reasons why you would want to use it to create music and use it as a live performance tool. My hope is to get people interested in playing around with the software and potentially build a local community of musicians to trade techniques, samples, and ideas.\r\n\r\n### Topics\r\n* Create your first tone\r\n* How to use notes, chords, and scales\r\n* Samples\r\n* Loops\r\n* Functions and Live Coding\r\n* Syncing\r\n* Effects (if there is extra time)\r\n* Live Demo\r\n* Q/A (I am by no means a professional with the software)",
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"id": 982,
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"presenter_name": "Jeff Lin",
"presenter_bio": "I'm the founder of Pennant and Bust Out. I love ice cream.",
"session_title": "Airbnb Hosting for Fun and Profit",
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"description": "In this session I will share with you my experiences as an Airbnb host over the past four years, and perhaps inspire you to become a host as well. If you're currently a host, please come and share your tips as well!\r\n\r\nSome of the topics we'll cover: \r\n\r\n- You're basically running a hotel. Now what?!\r\n- Long-term renting vs. short-term Airbnb guests.\r\n- What to do when your guests forget their cocaine and heroin at the house.\r\n- How good, really, is the side-hustle income?\r\n- Tricks of the trade for getting 5-star reviews and maintaining Airbnb Superhost status.\r\n- How to perfectly fold a fitted sheet in 30 seconds.\r\n\r\nMy property: https://www.airbnb.com/h/uptown-house\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Rob Weber",
"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)",
"session_title": "Scaling a Company Outside of Silicon Valley",
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"description": "I will share key management lessons for anyone involved in the leadership of a high-growth startup, and take you through 3 practical exercises with the goal of improving your readiness to lead and manage a high-growth startup.\r\n\r\nTopics Covered: Skills, Culture, and Coaching, with specific attention on Building a Company to Scale and The Importance of Creating a Silicon Valley Mindset. \r\n\r\n3 Practical Exercises include: \r\n1. Using an Onboarding Checklist to set-up your new hires for success \r\n2. Using the 9-Box to coach and develop your team based on performance and potential \r\n3. The Field Goal Post- a method for creating an organization which promotes managerial AND technical growth\r\n\r\nThese lessons come from my experience as a founder and operator, were refined in my experience as a mentor and investor, and distilled into talks I have given at various conferences around the country, including recently Revolution's Rise of the Rest annual conference. \r\n\r\nI spent 15+ years bootstrapping a publishing and advertising technology company from 2000 to 2015 as founder and CEO. NativeX was headquartered in Minnesota, and had a significant operating office in San Francisco, plus remote workers around the world. It peaked at $70 million in revenue in 2012, with 175 employees. We had multiple exits, the last of which was in early 2016.\r\n\r\nI've been a \"super angel\" in Minnesota and across the Upper Midwest, with 25 early-stage investments from 2005 to 2017. I am currently a founding partner at Great North Labs, which invests in early-stage startups throughout the Upper Midwest.",
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"presenter_name": "Michael L Heuer",
"presenter_bio": "https://github.com/heuermh\r\n\r\nDad helping kids who love to build things.\r\n\r\nCurrently working remotely from Mpls for biotech startup Mammoth Biosciences, Inc. in San Francisco.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/heuermh)",
"session_title": "Nextflow: Might scalable and reproducible workflows be useful for more than science?",
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"description": "In bioinformatics we have been obsessed as of late with repeatability and reproducibility\r\n\r\n[Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research](https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003285)\r\n\r\nThere are now more workflow engines and technologies than there are ways to align DNA sequences\r\n\r\n[Computational Data Analysis Workflow Systems, an incomplete list](https://s.apache.org/existing-workflow-systems)\r\n\r\nIn my experience the best of these is the Open Source workflow manager Nextflow.\r\n\r\n[Nextflow](https://www.nextflow.io) provides a domain-specific language (DSL) which greatly simplifies writing complex distributed pipelines. Nextflow workflows are portable and can be made reproducible.\r\n\r\nIn this session I will demonstrate writing and executing a simple Nextflow workflow and not talk at all about science. Or at least very little.",
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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": "Mental Money! A Framework for navigating money for your business / startup",
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"description": "Money is a complicated topic -- it's highly personal, emotional, and many people are not comfortable talking about it. \r\n\r\nWe will share a framework to navigate money in business and open a dialogue around best practices and traps to avoid. \r\n\r\nBased on a keynote - [highlight video](https://vimeo.com/390055203) - but will be interactive to engage the audience in sharing insights\r\n\r\nPresenters:\r\nThe Audience!\r\nPatrick Donohue - Investor and Managing Partnerr of Hill Capital Corporation\r\nNick Ehret - Investor and Managing Partner of Hill Capital Corporation\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Joe Karlsson",
"presenter_bio": "Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate. He empowers developers to think creatively when building web applications through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need.\r\n\r\nJoe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one of the largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid [TikToker](https://www.tiktok.com/@joekarlsson) and [Tweeter](https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1).\r\n\r\n- My Website - [https://www.joekarlsson.com](https://www.joekarlsson.com/)\r\n- Weekly Newsletter - [https://joekarlsson.substack.com](https://joekarlsson.substack.com/)\r\n- Twitter - [https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1](https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1)\r\n- TikTok - [https://www.tiktok.com/@joekarlsson](https://www.tiktok.com/@joekarlsson)\r\n- LinkedIn - [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson/)\r\n- YouTube - [https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKarlsson](https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKarlsson)\r\n- Mastodon - [https://hachyderm.io/@JoeKarlsson](https://hachyderm.io/@JoeKarlsson)\r\n- GitHub - [https://github.com/JoeKarlsson](https://github.com/JoeKarlsson)\r\n- Twitch - [https://www.twitch.tv/joe_karlsson](https://www.twitch.tv/joe_karlsson)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/joekarlsson)\n- Twitter: @joekarlsson1",
"session_title": "An Introduction To IoT (Internet of Toilets 🚽); Or How I Built an IoT Kitty Litter Box Using JavaScript",
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"description": "My favorite things in life are cats 🐈, computers 🖥 and crappy ideas 💩, so I decided to combine all three and make an IoT (Internet of Things) litter box using a Raspberry Pi and JavaScript! If you have ever wanted to get build your own IoT project, but didn’t know how to start, then this is the talk for you.\r\n\r\nTogether, we will go through how I setup my IoT Litter Box from start to finish. Including how to setup Node.js on a Raspberry Pi and how to connect sensors to a Raspberry Pi and how to read the sensor inputs with Node.js.",
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"presenter_name": "Andrea Edstrom",
"presenter_bio": "Artist, illustrator, senior designer/developer at Minnesota Public Radio. I started out in graphic design, then moved into web design and landed in front end development and design. You can view some of work at [www.andreaedstrom.com](http://www.andreaedstrom.com) and on my [codepen.io](https://codepen.io/designer_guru). I enjoy sketching and painting in my free time. I will be displaying my art at [Art-A-Whirl](https://nemaa.org/art-a-whirl) in May at the [Q.arma building](http://www.qarmabuilding.com/). You can view some of my work at [www.andreasartgallery.com](https://www.andreasartgallery.com/shop/)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/dreascode)\n- Twitter: @andreaedstrom",
"session_title": "Create Beautiful Complex Animations with GSAP 3",
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"presenter_bio": "\r\nMickeli's devotion to the art & science of startup sales has gained national (Men's Journal, Touch of Modern, Uncrate, etc.) & local (WCCO, Pioneer Press, Finance & Commerce, Twin Cities Business Journal) exposure.\r\n\r\nMickeli's involvement in our Startup Community:: \r\n\r\n+ co-creator & host of Coffee&Closers [Closers Media, LLC]\r\n+ 2019 Twin Cities Startup Week Impact Award Winner \r\n+ 2019 MinneInno 50 on Fire Award Winner\r\n+ 4x startup founder [Otium Outdoors, BeBG, Closers Media, Hemony/GreyDuck Growth]\r\n+ MHTA supporter \r\n+Tech Advisory Board for Make it. MSP/Greater MSP advisor\r\n\r\n[link](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickelibedore)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @mickelibedore",
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"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",
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"description": "Everything in software is broken.\r\n\r\nBreaches happen everyday. We get so many offers of free credit monitoring from companies that lost every bit of our data to the dark web that it makes no sense to buy any.\r\n\r\nIn the past few months, every certificate check on Windows was broken. Every VPN on non-Windows was broken. Every app and service seems to be breaking all of the time.\r\n\r\nI’ll give a crash course in the best ways to not crash your apps with remote code execution.\r\n\r\nSecurity is not magic. Hackers don’t break your code like it appears in the movies. You can be a respected expert who other engineers come to for security advice. But it all starts with simple steps that any developer can perform.\r\n\r\nModem languages offer more safety if you know how to use it. If you’re not aware of the ways in which programs break, you may not know which patterns to use and which to avoid. Not knowing what to look for, you could be allowing critical, zero-day security flaws to pass through your code reviews without even a warning.\r\n\r\nWe will examine well-known security exploits, how code broke, and how coding with style can help you avoid these problems",
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"presenter_name": "Jen Williams",
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"presenter_name": "Leslie Mollner",
"presenter_bio": "As a UX designer, Leslie works in collaborative environments to bring digital products to life. Her path to the design and UX fields was eclectic. She spent 13 years as a college librarian which included several years helping with design, development, and content creation for the library and campus websites. Before this, Leslie used her psychology and sports psychology background to teach college students and coach college gymnastics. She uses the skills and knowledge she learned from these experiences in the world of user experience design. Leslie strives to bring passion, empathy, and understanding to her projects and is especially interested in how we incorporate inclusive design practices into these projects.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @lesliemollner",
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"description": "How can we as designers help with the process of making digital products accessible? What does it mean to be inclusive in our design practices? We will look at 10 ways for design folks to bring human-centered, inclusive, and accessible processes into their projects.",
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"presenter_name": "nicholas diesslin",
"presenter_bio": "Pizza acrobat. Also a developer sometimes.\r\n\r\n[My LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasdiesslin/)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @ndiesslin",
"session_title": "🍕Pizza Acrobatics 101🍕",
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"description": "\r\n---\r\n\r\n**DISCLAIMER:** Sounds like a joke, but this is totally serious.\r\nYou may be asking what is **pizza acrobatics**? Who does such things? I do, and I'll be guiding you all through a once in a lifetime **pizza** experience. Join me in this session to learn all about this energy-fueled hobby.\r\n\r\nWhat you'll be learning:\r\n\r\n- How to do some awesome pizza tricks\r\n- What pizza acrobatics is\r\n- The creative process of constructing a performance\r\n- How to handle a performance that isn't going as anticipated\r\n- Planning dough for performances\r\n- Asynchronous practice\r\n- Dealing with frustrations when learning\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Lynn Langit",
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"description": "While working either at Microsoft, or running my own technical consulting business, I have devoted ~25% of my time to technical volunteering. In this talk I'll share what has worked for me over the past 20 years. Examples will include what my team did, what worked and what didn't. \r\n\r\nVolunteering efforts included the following: \r\n - **Child Foster Care** - build machine learning model to more quickly identify potential issues with child placements \r\n - **Philharmonic Orchestra** - build machine learning model to improve subscriber revenue \r\n - **Global Education** - build database of donors for global non-profit \r\n - **Electronic Medical Records** (Africa) - 5 year long part-time project - build application, local capacity, interact with non-profits and national government \r\n - **Teaching Kids Programming** - 12 years - build and open source Java library and courseware for K-12 (middle school) teachers on GitHub \r\n - **Cancer genomics** - build cloud pipelines to speed up cancer genomic research (Australia, UK and US) \r\n\r\nI'll cover patterns for effective technical volunteering bases on these experiences.\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Alicia Cozine",
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"presenter_name": "Casie Siekman",
"presenter_bio": "Casie is a software developer based in Minneapolis and is passionate about making the Twin Cities and Midwest tech community more diverse and accessible to all. Along with that, she is also interested in communication, the meanings and motivations behind what we say and how all that can bring us together (or, push us apart).\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/CassandraDanger)\n- Twitter: @CassandraDanger",
"session_title": "“I work better alone”, and other lies you tell yourself.",
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"description": "Gone are the days of the stereotypical developer; one single person, typing furiously in a dark room, drinking copious amounts of caffeine. The caffeine part hasn't changed, but the rest of the experience has. No matter what role we take on in the tech industry, we are dependent on the help, knowledge and experience of others. Our output is the product of several minds coming together. This talk will focus not only on WHY it's so important to work together, but also HOW to work together. ",
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"presenter_name": "Shalanah Dawson",
"presenter_bio": "\r\n\r\nShalanah is crafting digital products at [Livefront](https://livefront.com).\r\n\r\nConnect on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/shalanah)\r\n",
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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": "🤖 Cyborgs are the future: Creating AI products to improve humanity",
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"description": "Last year’s Minnebar presentation of [LENR: A Primer](https://www.theunlitpipe.com/lenr-a-primer) gave a backgrounder on efforts by researchers and corporations like Leonardo Corp., Google, [Brilliant Light Power](https://brilliantlightpower.com/pdf/Randy_Booker_Report.pdf) and [Brillouin Energy](https://brillouinenergy.com/test-results) to monetize Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, or what used to be known as “cold fusion”. This year the US Congress has charged the [National Science Foundation](https://www.aip.org/fyi/2020/final-fy20-appropriations-national-science-foundation) to evaluate the experiments and theories surrounding LENR as part of the 2020 NSF budget. \r\n\r\n**Today’s session** will focus on Andrea Rossi's E-Cat. After a short introduction and backgrounder, we’ll be joined by Frank Acland, creator of the [E-Cat World](https://e-catworld.com/) website which has followed Rossi’s research for a decade. We will open the session to questions from the audience for Frank and other interviewees.\r\n\r\nCould LENR power and heat an electric vehicle for over a year on a single charge? Will it supplement – or supplant – solar in some regions? What is its future as a non-intermittent distributed energy generator? ",
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"session_title": "Alternative Paths to Justify Skipping College",
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"description": "Back in the day, wealthy families had their children get Liberal Arts degrees because it taught them history, philosophy, language, social science, economics, science, math and, especially, writing persuasive arguments in order to lead and influence others. One could get a degree for the price of a Chevrolet.\r\n\r\nToday's universities and colleges create graduates who can't articulate either side of an argument, who cower in rooms with plush toys and bean bag chairs when triggered, and who graduate with debt that could have bought a cool early-model Tesla.\r\n\r\nLower quality for a higher price.\r\n\r\nIt's time to disengage from the herd. This talk will start with a Google workbook, breaking down the costs of private, federal, and a mixture of student loans up to $100,000. \r\n\r\n[College Loan Payments](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/149nnDS4k2PPwMXiUjdVtVW4DRiQ5r7gootwizZHOl4s/edit?usp=sharing)\r\n\r\nHigher education wants you to ask no questions about **affordability** and **value**. The presentation identifies alternatives to a four-year institution, and the debt that goes along with it, while being more well-rounded than someone who does attend these daycare centers.\r\n\r\nAs seniors get their acceptance letters this time of year, it's time for adults in their lives to offer **real guidance** and, at the very least, persuade them to defer for a year while they learn about alternatives. This is the talk guidance counselors want to censor. ",
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"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",
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"description": "\r\n\r\n**Are you lost in the dark? Me too.**\r\n\r\nDark Mode (aka light-on-dark, dark theme, night mode) was the design trend of 2019. Currently, Windows 10, macOS, iOS, and Android have all introduced a system-wide dark mode setting. This setting allows users to control the entire look and feel of their operating system. Third-party native applications like web browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome, & Firefox) can also sense and act upon this user preference. Now all major browsers have introduced a way for web applications and websites to detect this user setting.\r\n\r\n**You're probably like:**\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n**Yeah. I feel the same way.**\r\n\r\nAs far as technologies working together to improve a user experience, this is pretty neat! But it’s time to sit the fork down and learn more about implementing dark mode by looking at how our eyes work, the history of dark mode in user interfaces, the new considerations we must address when implementing a dark mode, and learn Dos and Don'ts through examples.\r\n\r\n**So, after this session, I hope that you can say:**\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"description": "I'll walk the participants through tech stack requirements and the steps involved in implementing closed loop analytics. You'll want a basic handle on JavaScript and Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics and at least a little experience using a CRM. We'll use hidden form fields to automatically send attribution data into the CRM and from the CRM, back into Google Analytics so you can use it! \r\n\r\nThis gives us an accurate view of which tactics and channels drive actual sales and revenue - not just leads. It also provides a single source of truth for everyone (sales, marketing and vendors) to work from that opens up more advanced technical capabilities and data complexity to answer the toughest questions across all channels.\r\n\r\nExamples of awesome next steps after implementing closed loop: \r\n- building custom advertising audiences or triggering marketing automation sequences based on the stage in the sales funnel\r\n- calculating what to spend for which leads to maximize your sales department's capacity before you encounter diminishing returns\r\n- evaluate all of your marketing/advertising teams and vendors with metrics that your c-level team will be excited about",
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"description": "**Note: I will likely cancel this session but create and host a virtual session outside of Minnebar itself.**\r\n\r\nYou know query plans can help you fix SQL Server performance issues, but maybe you aren’t sure of all the ways query plans can help. Maybe you use index suggestions, but you wonder if you could do better. Maybe you’ve never used a query plan at all. Come to this workshop and learn!\r\n\r\nLet’s roll up our sleeves and dig into some SQL Server performance work. We’ll work together to examine query plans and enhance query performance. Feel encouraged to take part in the conversation, no matter your experience level. We’re all here to learn!\r\n\r\nInternet permitting -- which I know has been a challenge in our venue -- you’ll get even more out of the session if you bring a device that can use OpenVPN (if you have SQL Server Management Studio or another client) or remote desktop (if you don’t). You can then experiment on your own to discover suggestions for the group and see improvements for yourself. I'm going to work on an alternative that doesn't require internet access.\r\n\r\nWhen you leave the session, you’ll have more practical ways to fix slow queries the next time you run into a real-world performance problem.\r\n\r\nThis session is an encore of a session at [SQLSaturday #913](https://www.sqlsaturday.com/913/Sessions/Details.aspx?sid=96424). But, it can go in a completely different direction because *you* set the direction with your questions, ideas, and experiments.",
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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": "Gestural interfaces are nothing new - tapping, swiping, and pinching are the core interactions that have made mobile experiences what they are today.\r\n\r\nBut what happens when your hands and fingers are tracked in three dimensions? Is it good enough for general consumers today? Will all the prevailing wisdom and tools we have for creating flat interfaces still be relevant?\r\n\r\nWe will be discussing: \r\n * Device demos & discussion (i.e. Quest, HoloLens, Index) \r\n * Interactions that should work in theory but not in practice \r\n * Looking forward - why all this matters\r\n\r\n![Obligatory Tony Stark reference](https://notpublishinginthedigitalage.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/8/8/23884343/762085741.jpg \"\r\nObligatory Tony Stark reference\")",
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"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": "Your domain has expired: stories behind domains we’ve let lapse",
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"description": "Have you ever had a great idea, bought a domain for it, and then subsequently never done anything with it? Or you've owned one for years and you'll totally build it out in the *next year*. Then you get a domain renewal notice and realize another whole year has gone by.\r\n\r\nIf that hits close to home, then this is the session for you!\r\n\r\n\r\n**What to expect**\r\n\r\nThis session will be a forum for people to share the stories behind the domains they've let lapse (or probably should let lapse).\r\n\r\nAudience members will line up to take turns sharing their stories. Each person will get a maximum of one minute each to tell their best expired domain story (or stories). We anticipate a lot of interest, and with limited time, we'll be aggressively cutting people off after a minute.\r\n\r\nCome prepared to be entertained, and to share your domain story.\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Matt Schraan",
"presenter_bio": "Matt Schraan leads Product Management at [Livefront](https://livefront.com), where he always strives to find the correct route. ",
"session_title": "Zen and the Art of Bug Reports",
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"description": "At their worst, bug reports create distrust and resentment within product development teams. At their best, bug reports can build up trust and demonstrate an earnest commitment to raising the floor for your product. \r\n\r\n\r\nAnother side benefit of good bug reports is that occasionally, when the conditions are right, they can actually be useful for helping engineers resolve real product defects! \r\n\r\n\r\nIn this session we will discuss the mindset and ethos that testers should have when testing a software product, the composition of a high-quality bug report, and then view a demo of a few testing tools that have helped the Livefront team make our bug reports a little less noisy, a little more useful, and a lot more fun. ",
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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",
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"description": "What this past year's most-important developments in tech law? Notable lawsuits and legislation span areas that include cybersecurity, data privacy, facial recognition, copyright, trademark, patents, Internet of Things, and autonomous vehicles. A technology litigator and software designer will discuss the evolving tech law landscape, as well as trends that will likely continue to affect technologists in the coming year. Attorney Damien Riehl frequently speaks and writes on legal topics that affect businesses, including the legal implications of the Internet and technology. He currently builds data analytics, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing systems on a nearly 400-million-document dataset.",
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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": "Now a MinneBar *institution*, Indie Game Dev Microtalks looks to come back in 2020 with even MORE from a parade of all star local Game Developers than in previous years. Each will take the mic for 6 minutes to present their experiences and learnings as Independent Game Developers in the Twin Cities.\r\n\r\nRecent years have seen a boom in local indie game launches, but we're always looking include projects in all phases of development. Stay tuned for more as we announce speakers and topics!",
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"presenter_name": "Ben Leadholm",
"presenter_bio": "A developer for almost 25 years, starting out with Excel macros and parlaying those skills to an entry-level development position. From VB3 to Ruby (with a stint of .NET and Java in between). Ben is now contracting with specializations in Ruby, Python, and database migration.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/bclead3)\n- Twitter: @bgbn3",
"session_title": "The History of the Motorola 68000 Processor",
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"description": "A follow-on to the talk about the MOS 6502 processor given in 2019. This talk will detail the history of this 16 bit processor, and how it was used to build GUI-based computers like the Apple Lisa & Macintosh, Atari ST, and the Commodore Amiga.\r\n\r\nIntrigue, back-stabbing, betrayal, mice. \r\n\r\nOne of the highlights of last year's talk was folks sharing their 8-bit computing experiences. We'll leave time at the end for more 'war stories' from the audience.\r\n\r\nAn old Mac may be brought for demonstration purposes.",
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"description": "Does the sound of people eating chips, clearing their throat, chewing gum, coughing put you in a rage?\r\n\r\nYou might have misophonia: a neurological disorder that causes a strong, irrational rage when hearing certain sounds - like coughing, crunching, throat clearing, dripping water, chewing, snapping gum, or repetitive noises, such as pencil tapping. Treatment might involve therapy or lifestyle recommendations, such as using sound protection or creating \"noise-free\" zones within living spaces. This is relevant for the tech community because of the need for deep concentration, and the proliferation of \"open workspaces\".\r\n\r\nI started with doing a tiny session at Minnebar in 2017 and it has grown steadily ever since as more people realize they have this condition.\r\n\r\nIn November 2019 I launched [The Misophonia Podcast](https://misophoniapodcast.com) which has already broken into the top 100 charts for Mental Health in Apple Podcasts.\r\n\r\nThis session is very informal - you can just come and listen to learn, or share your experiences if you like.\r\n\r\nView and share the [Facebook event](https://facebook.com/events/s/misophonia-coping-with-a-hatre/1303390206715848/?ti=as)\r\n\r\n**If you think you have misophonia - this session may change your life.**\r\n\r\nSome news articles on misophonia:\r\n[NYT](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/health/sounds-people-hate.html), \r\n[NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/18/702784044/misophonia-when-lifes-noises-drive-you-mad), \r\n[Harvard](https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/misophonia-sounds-really-make-crazy-2017042111534), \r\n[Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/brain-chemistry/201812/stop-noise), \r\n[Quartz](https://qz.com/1256773/what-is-misophonia-when-sounds-cause-you-discomfort/)\r\n",
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"description": "Mobile app development is evolving at a rapid pace. As the desire for companies to build efficient and fast applications using less code grows, the more demand there is for better frameworks and tools. Luckily there is a new toolkit to power future applications, and that toolkit is Flutter.\r\n\r\nFlutter is a UI toolkit that helps developers build apps faster, develop on multiple platforms, and save lots of time. In this talk, Guled will share his experience with Flutter and perform demos to showcase the capabilities of Flutter. ",
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"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).",
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"presenter_bio": "Adam Bezemek is an accomplished Director of Front-End Technology. He specializes in helping companies write better quality, easily maintained and more scalable user interfaces; ultimately, increasing their bottom line. For over ten years, he has been crafting creative solutions to unique business problems and leading teams into better tomorrows.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/adambezemek)\n- Twitter: @adambezemek",
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"description": "**FACT:** Building a Content Management System website is hard.\r\n\r\n**FACT:** A Design System makes it easier to build and maintain a CMS.\r\n\r\n**FACT:** Bears eat beets... *Bears. Beets. Battle Star Galactica.*",
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"description": "**From nothing to slightly more than a blinking LED, the equivalent of “Hello World” in FPGA, in 50 minutes, using Verilog, an open source tool chain, and an amazingly capable $40 FPGA.** \r\n\r\n**What's an FPGA?**\r\n\r\nAn FPGA is to a canvas what a custom microchip is to a painting. You write code, it configures the hardware into the chip you designed. \r\n\r\n**What can you do with an FPGA?**\r\n\r\nTraditionally, FPGAs were used in aerospace, defense, cryptography and hardware accelerators, but those are not the foci of this talk. For most people at a MinneBar, an FPGA is to an Arduino as Superman is to a hooman. The particular rabbit hole I went down that led me to FPGAs was wanting to capture hundreds of megapixels worth of image (and maybe eventually video) data from multiple image sensors simultaneously. That's too much for an Arduino, a Raspberry Pi and even an nVidia Jetson. \r\n\r\n**But a blinking LED, really?**\r\n\r\nBelieve it or not, unlike “Hello World”, getting to “Blinky” equips you with a useful set of tools for creating FPGA designs. \r\n\r\n**I'd be sold with something aspirational, perhaps involving childhood. Have anything?**\r\n\r\nSure: As a kid, when I discovered programming, it felt like magic 🧝♀️. It felt like creating worlds 🌎. With FPGA, it feels like bringing magic into the real world ✨. \r\n\r\n**Um, don't I need to be a hardware deity, or at least a close-to-the-metal type programmer?**\r\n\r\nNo. You don’t need to be a low level or systems programmer. This session is suitable for adept coders of all varieties. There's no C pointers or other memory management. There is timing to think of, but it's basically like jumping rope. ",
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"presenter_name": "Lloyd Dalton",
"presenter_bio": "Lloyd Dalton is an engineer with [Echo Data Analytics](https://echodataanalytics.com).\r\n",
"session_title": "Decent web mapping, finally",
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"description": "For decades, making a data-heavy online map was a tricky prospect. It demanded steep tradeoffs in cost, complexity, and maintenance effort.\r\n\r\nThe past few years have seen great progress in bringing the value of real GIS to the browser. It's very exciting!\r\n\r\nIn this session, we will \r\n\r\n- Look at some of the standards, tools, and services that are part of the renaissance:\r\n - Geocoding\r\n - Data storage\r\n - Interaction\r\n - Printing (printing?)\r\n\r\n- Compare and contrast the cool web stuff with standard analysis tools (ArcGIS, QGIS, Tableau). These aren't going anywhere.\r\n\r\n- Review some recent projects, and their costs in time and effort.\r\n\r\nBe ready to gaze at fancy maps!\r\n",
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"description": "Prior to two years ago, no one on our team had any real experience in digital tech creation or design. With our varied backgrounds in art, fashion design, construction, politics and home building, the team from Kinetic Legacy was at best politely advised against starting a technology firm and at worst, flat-out laughed at. Thankful for being Minnesotan and therefor lacking any real expectation of acceptance or encouragement, we have none-the-less gone on to create a unique suite of products that may not have easily been conceived of by more classically trained tech folks. This trend of including people from outside the usual channels that we all find ourselves in is one of enlightenment and innovation.\r\n\r\nJoin Sarah Anderson, James Holmberg and Sam Devine from Kinetic Legacy as we discuss what it is like to enter the somewhat exclusive world of digital technology with a very limited tool-set. We will talk a little bit about the similarities between a tech start-up and the other business ventures we have had throughout our lives. We will even talk about the many many things we have learned from doing them the wrong way, and the few we got very right.",
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"description": "Because something is digital, does that exclude it from having a soul? Can it not be produced with passion and artistry simply because exists in a digital world? What past examples of new inventions and technology do we now connect with as we would something handcrafted?\r\n\r\nJoin James Holmberg, Sam Devine and Sarah Anderson from Kinetic Legacy as we explore the idea that there is an inherent necessity for us to understand the human element behind our digital creations. We will also talk about where the limits of machine learning put we, the human, back in the driver's seat.",
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"presenter_name": "Cihan Behlivan",
"presenter_bio": "Cihan Behlivan, MBA, COO, Interim CFO, is a technology entrepreneur and operations executive. Former investment banker with $250m+ acquisition transaction experience. Over 18 years of digital health startup experience from cloud based clinical documentation systems to clinical outcomes data collection and analytics platforms. Eight years of financial and operational experience in long term care industry. He led first technology IPO of Turkey in 2000. He joined his first technology startup in 2002 as employee number one. He oversaw product development and engineering teams, managed sales and marketing efforts and actively raised 500K funding for the Company. He started his own technology company in 2009 with 2 partners and sold it to a CRO company in 2017. He raised $750K from his partners and angel investors. He earned his MBA from University of Minnesota in Finance, Strategy and Entrepreneurship. ",
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"description": "With our digital marketing and social interactivity platform; we will spark human connections through good food, happy toasts and great occasions. We have 1000s of buddies in the digital world but when we turned off our screens we sink into human loneliness and isolation. What if we use all digital marketing and social interactivity technologies to build great events in real venues with real people. What if we build long term meaningful relationships during these events which we co-develop with our real friends. \r\n\r\nCan we simply marketing? Can we get KPIs and turn them into human connections? Can we define marketing as the alchemy of human understanding? \r\n\r\nWe will discuss digital marketing, technology, human isolation and human mind through our AppyHour journey?\r\n\r\nWe will be vulnerable, open and provocative...",
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"presenter_name": "Mary Albright",
"presenter_bio": "I'm the President of the Starbird Association, a nonprofit focused on promoting teens in aerospace and STEM career exploration and advocating for Minnesota to be #SpaceNorth, the Midwest hub for the space industry in the US. \r\n\r\n2019 NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador\r\n\r\nOfficer, Civil Air Patrol, United State Air Force Auxiliary. \r\nI direct the largest unit cadet program in the North Central Region with a focus on STEM and aerospace. \r\n\r\nIn my business life, I'm a business ops consultant for solorpreneurs and Fascinate Certified Advisor, one of less than 60 worldwide.\r\n\r\nFun fact: I have self-diagnosed O.D.D.~Obsessive Disney Disorder. The magic is real.\r\n\r\nWebsite: [Starbird Association](http://www.starbirdmn.org)\r\n\r\n[LinkedIn Profile](http://www.linkedin.com/in/maryalbright)\n\n**Links:**\n\n- Twitter: @maryalbright",
"session_title": "What's Up in the Final Frontier: The State of the Space Industry",
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"description": "Get up to date on what's happening in space in this interactive session. \r\nFrom Commercial Crew to Artemis to the newest discoveries about Saturn to the cool Minnesota experiments up on the International Space Station.\r\n\r\nBe ready for a fun engaging Kahoot during this session!\r\n\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Jessica Smith",
"presenter_bio": "Jessica Smith is a passionate App Developer & content writer who writes articles related to jobs and career opportunities in various profiles. She also writes about varied topics such as education, mobile app development , web development, business and technology, gadgets, SEO, career tourist spots etc.\n\n**Links:**\n\n- [GitHub](https://github.com/jessicasmith26)\n- Twitter: @Jessica30050419",
"session_title": "Latest Emerging trends to follow by healthcare app Development Company",
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"description": "Ever since there is an emergence of new technologies, it has revolutionized every sector. Healthcare industry is the most rapidly evolving industry. It is leading in revenue generation by adapting to the latest technological trends such as IoT, cloud technology, blockchain and many more. To stay ahead in the competitive market healthcare app development company need to be aware of the recent market trends, the mobile application is coming out as a norm for the healthcare professionals as it enhances the efficiency and delivers convenient services.\r\n\r\nIn-app store share of healthcare, apps is growing at a rapid speed. The app developers are expecting burgeoning ascendance in the healthcare market. As per market research conducted, there is drastic in the users of mobile healthcare applications. There is a significant downfall in the in-person appointments and visits to the hospitals. People who are in remote locations are increasing using healthcare applications for primary consultation\r\n\r\nTo achieve success healthcare app development companies are expected to adhere to the latest technological advancements and drifts in the healthcare landscape.\r\n\r\nPatient-related health data: Patient health data has become one of the most prominent trends in the healthcare environment. The data related to the medical patients include medical history, disease indications, and recovery progress report and lifestyle information. This data can be utilized by medical practitioners for health predictions and aid in making medical decisions.\r\n\r\nReal-time health monitoring: The safeguard of medical data has become a significant matter of concern. As the technology is growing, the data fall in the question of security. There is a daunting risk for data breach, theft and data being put in the wrong hands. \r\n\r\nAugmenting telemedicine services: Telemedicine involves extending long distance medical services using telecommunications and information technology. Telemedicine is growing at an extensive rate among the other entire healthcare IT services. The market for on-demand healthcare services is expected to grow thrice in the coming future. The rationale behind the accelerated growth is the enhanced access and improved quality of care and uncomplicated services. \r\n\r\nData security: During the ongoing telemedicine sessions and in other healthcare software, data is automatically or manually stored in the device, the security of data becomes very crucial for the protection of sensitive information. The healthcare professionals are seeking more advanced solutions and using the latest technologies for safeguarding data from any theft or security breaches. New technologies are emerging that assured better security.\t\r\n\r\nRise in trend for wearable devices: In recent years there has been a huge increase in the revenue generated from the wearable devices. The devices empower to record and monitor health devices and all the individual has to do is tie on their wrists. Internet of Things is going to play a vital part in assisting the patient's medical professionals in suggesting treatments and administration of health. \r\n\r\nInjection of cloud-based mobile healthcare applications: The incorporation of cloud technology in electronic health records can facilitate with many benefits such as hassle-free sharing and transmission of health data, easy access and also inspecting e-prescriptions. The cloud technology assists the hospitals, medical professionals and patients in uncomplicated and round the clock access to medical bills, prescriptions, and other information.\r\n\r\nArtificial intelligence in mobile health: Although it has not been long since the introduction of Artificial intelligence technology in the healthcare sector, it has rendered effective outcomes. The combination of AI and machine learning is going to provide breakthroughs in the healthcare sector The developers aim to build innovative healthcare applications based on data analysis using AI and ML.\r\n\r\nIn-ap payment gateways: The in-app payment in the healthcare application is sure a prominent consideration in healthcare mobile app development. The payment gateway is relief in pain in case of emergency scenarios. It enables users to use credit, debit cards, and more options.\r\n",
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"presenter_name": "Brittany Jenneth Richter",
"presenter_bio": "UX Designer based in the Twin Cities with a passion for Podcasting. Check out Lunar Light Studios online.",
"session_title": "Podcasts? I have a great idea!",
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"description": "How do you start a podcast? What items do you really *need* to have good sound quality? Would anyone listen?\r\n\r\nI help run a podcast network and have 3 podcasts of my own. Sometimes starting out can be frustrating. Sometimes you spend WAY to much on equipment that you might not even need. ",
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"presenter_bio": "Code Brew Labs is an experienced Mobile app development company in Dubai, which booms your business with the latest trends in technologies by providing solutions that are not only profitable but help you stay strong in competition. Our developers inherit vast experience to grow your idea with the current trends.\r\n\r\nWelcome to the world of iPhone application development in Dubai. The tech-savvy consumers of Dubai are tapping on their mobile screens for doing almost everything. Businesses are now going mobile first, and it’s safe to say that the trend will keep rising in coming decades.",
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