Minnestar
Bio
Minnestar is a nonprofit community organization that connects Minnesota’s tech ecosystem through free, inclusive, and community-led events. We’re best known for Minnebar and Minnedemo — spaces where technologists, founders, creatives, and curious minds come together to share ideas, demo projects, and support one another.
At Minnestar, we believe the best tech community is one that’s accessible, welcoming, and powered by the people in it.
Meg Steuer is the Executive Director of Minnestar, where she leads efforts to build, nurture, and engage Minnesota’s vibrant tech community. With a passion for fostering connections and championing innovation, Meg brings years of experience in community building, economic development, and scaling initiatives.
Since moving to Minnesota in 2014, Meg has made a significant impact in the community through her work with organizations like GREATER MSP, Forge North, BETA, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, and the Small Business Development Center.
Presenting Sessions
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- Session 0 feat. Dr. AnnMarie Thomas!
- Lunch in Sandy's Place! 🍕
- Meet Our Community Partners!
- Newbie Table
- Open-to-Work Table
- Second Annual Charles Edge Social Hour in Sandy's Place
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- You Love It—So Why Are You Exhausted? The Burnout Puzzle
- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: Why Artists and Creatives Will Shape the Future of AI
- Networking. No, the other kind.
- Relax, Robots Won’t Steal Your Job: How AI Can Bring Back Humanity at Work
- 🎼 How To Direct a Software Team When You Have No Idea What They’re Talking About
- Testing Products for Accessibility: Why Manual and Automated Testing Go Hand-in-Hand 👨🦽➡️👩🦯➡️🤖🤝
- Mastering Event Deduplication in Real-Time Architectures
- Atari 2600: From Chip Design to Combat - An Engineer's Journey
- So, You Wanna Do a Side Project?
- 💎 DevTool Diamonds: Power Features You Didn’t Know Existed
- MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks, 2025
- Assistive Tech Is for Everyone (They Just Don’t Know It Yet 😏)
- How to (Privately!) Surf the Internet
- AI Told You So: The $1M Business I Actually Built Using ChatGPT
- Back to the <Future />: A Brief History of Web Development
- Deepfakes 101: What’s Real, What’s Not, and What to Do About It
- Radical Sabbatical - How I structured one year of creative web-dev
- Managing Your IT Career v16 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- Recruiting Hacks 2.0: Tips for Leaders, Hiring Managers and Senior Team Members to Boost the Talent Hunt
- Learn to Juggle: Meditation in Motion
- How to Yo-yo
- Minimal Viable Polka: My 100 day plan to win valentines day
- From Code to Community: Launching Innovation Together
- Beyond Hourly Rates: How Service Providers Build Wealth Through Shared Success Agreements
- UX Office Hours
- Tech Together Podcast Recording
- Open Source Technology and The Future of Civic Tech
- How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 issues of the Weekly Thing
- LEGAL AGENTS! Using both (1) LLMs and (2) Symbolic AI (GOFAI) to Help Lawyers (and Everyone) Access Justice
- Startups in the Real World: Founder Stories from the Frontlines
- Your software moat is dead and AI drank it like a milkshake
- The Only Productivity System That Actually Works — Yours
- The IKEA Effect: Why Your Team Can’t Follow What’s Only in Your Head
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Control+Alt+Delete the Middleman: Top AI Use Cases Reshaping Business as Usual
- UX & Product Meetup!
- UXer & Developer Hangout
- This Machine ____s Fascists (fill in the blank)
- Lightning talks! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- Session 0 feat. Dr. AnnMarie Thomas!
- Lunch in Sandy's Place! 🍕
- Meet Our Community Partners!
- Newbie Table
- Open-to-Work Table
- Second Annual Charles Edge Social Hour in Sandy's Place