Riley Major

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Past Presentations

• Refactoring Database Stored Procedures
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Participating Sessions

• Bootstrapping Your E-Commerce Empire Side Hustle With No Money
• The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
• 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
• Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
• When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress Systems
• 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
• Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
• The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
• End-to-end tests considered harmful (securing credentials for E2E and synthetic testing)
• Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
• Don't Rip and Replace: how to avoid the shiny upgrade pitfall in long-term systems
• I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
• Questions to ask during a transition... and who can help.
• When Before What: Practical prioritization for leaders and builders
• A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
• From Uncle Sam to Civic Tech: Rebuilding Civic Engagement for Gen Z Using Design Thinking
• Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Defeating the Loneliness Epidemic!
• 3D Printing: One step closer to the home replicator?
• How To Talk With Your Team About Best Practices (a new way of efficiently discussing and prioritizing the best practices that matter most to your team)
• Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
• I Learned How to Tell Stories in This Building — Here's What Most Techies Miss
• You’re Not Leading. You’re Reacting.
• 💡Get finance to say YES to your idea: The other side of the dashboard
• 🛜 The Community Connection: Strategic Marketing, Outreach, and PR for Community Leaders
• No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
• Livin' the Solo Founder Dream. I'll share learnings from building my second Consumer app. Open to participation!
• Pricing Office Hours: How (and How Much) Should You Charge.
• Why Your Third COO Just Quit (And Why Recruiting Won't Fix It)
• 🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
• Exploring Six Types of Decisions Orgs Make When Working with Test Automation Frameworks That Often Lead to Trouble
• Shared Success Agreements: Stop Selling Your Time. Start Investing It.
• The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
• Convincing Energy - The thing you couldn't name that's been defining your company's growth potential
• Managing Your Tech Career v17 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
• AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
• What’s a Second, and why do they matter?
• The Startup Was a Financial Success. I Am Not Building It That Way Again.
• Leverage Your Experience: How to Land Your First Advisory Role
• Influence Through Alignment: Technology Enablement in a Matrixed Organization
• Migration Engineering: Automating Security & Tech Stack Upgrades
• Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
• What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
• Service to Software: Turn Your "How-To" into a Monetized Micro-App
• Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
• Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective
• Solar and Battery Storage: What the process of getting a microgrid looks like.
• Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
• The Work That Holds Teams Together: Stop Blaming the Person. Fix the System.
• The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge