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