Ben Damman

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Participating Sessions

• Capture the Flag
• The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
• Multiplayer Interactive Fiction on the Elixir VM
• No Cloud Required: Running an AI RAG Pipeline on your Phone
• Lessons from Two Decades of Angel Investing
• The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
• How to Go Public in 2026 Using an Initial Crowd Offering
• 🚀 AI Is Changing What Matters in Software
• Building A Profitable Independent Newsletter
• "They'll take anyone - even English majors!": Putting the Language in Large Language Models
• 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
• MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
• Whose Utopia? Restructuring the Digital Environment in an Age of Human - AI Relationships
• 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)
• What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
• Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
• AI Doesn't Care If You Can Code
• Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
• Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
• Dr. BotLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
• Hack Your Legal Costs: AI + Your Attorney in 2026
• Cannabis! Building a cultivation, R&D, manufacturing and dispensary business in the Twin Cities.
• Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
• ✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
• (Cybersecurity) Warnings 😳
• Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
• More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
• 3D Printing: One step closer to the home replicator?
• Your AI Is Not Special: Red Teaming Before You Become a Statistic
• Design - AI Agents + Skills in Figma
• Architecting Your Life OS: Applying Scaling Frameworks to Personal Growth
• Project Vanguard - Veterans in (or interested in) Energy Networking opportunity
• From Founder to Marketing Department of One: What Actually Works When You're Doing It All
• Normalize Your Team: Working Genius IS the Primary Key
• Get finance to say YES to your idea: The other side of the dashboard
• Venture Capital: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Walk Away
• Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
• AI Is Becoming Infrastructure: Why Context Engineering and Platforms Will Define the Next Decade