Ian Bicking
Bio
Ian Bicking is a software developer, currently independent. His accidental largest contribution was as author of pip and virtualenv.
He previously worked at Brilliant.org, Meta, and Mozilla.
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Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- Capture the Flag
- Multiplayer Interactive Fiction on the Elixir VM
- All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
- Escape the Screenshot Graveyard: Using Notion AI to turn notes, memos & screenshots into action, content, and next steps
- Writing the Video Game Narrative
- Speak the Domain: How DSLs Help Humans — and AI — Model the Real World
- 📡🕸️ 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
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- 3D Printing: Getting Started
- Crafternoon
- Hack Your Legal Costs: AI + Your Attorney in 2026
- Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
- ✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
- Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
- Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
- Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis
- Leave With Something You Made: Crop Art, Community & an Unlikely AI Assist
- You Are a Superhero. Let's Discover Your Superpower So You Can Use It for Greatness
- From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
- Train AI To Be Your Employee
- Make your first video game with "just enough" AI
- Kill the Login: How AI Agents Replace Software Destinations
- The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
- I Tried to Replace Myself with AI. The AI Was the Easy Part.
- 🤖 AI LIGHTNING TALKS ⚡
- AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
- 10x'ing Myself and My Team: Leading With Agents, Not Just Using Them
- Government’s in the Room. Go.
- PolitiClaw: building a local-first political co-pilot with OpenClaw 🦞
- Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
- How AI Shapes Human Judgment: Confidence, Trust, and Over‑Reliance Across Three Original Studies (As a High Schooler)
- The Minnebar Scavenger Hunt: Powered by AI & Tape
- Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
- AI Films Are Real. Here's How I Use LLMs, Diffusion Models & Voice AI to Build an End-to-End Film Pipeline
- The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge
- Session 0: 20 Years of Minnestar (Trivia Edition)