Jade Barker
Bio
Warrior Princess of Tech - I use a wacky title because it saves me hassles.
Fintech Cofounder at Silicon Prairie, Founded in 2016. We're mostly Technologists that had to become Investment Bankers. We built proprietary software (and license it), plus operate several regulated Financial Institutions. We've done about $75 Million worth of deals to date.
- Co-Founder of a Blockchain 501(c)(3) - 2014
- Investment Crowdfunding Portals - 2016
- Smart Contract Document Stack Geppetto - 2017
- SEC Transfer Agency - 2018
- FINRA Broker Dealer - 2020
- Adjunct Professor for Blockchain Graduate Computer Science - 2023
- SEC/FINRA Alternative Trading System ("ATS") - 2023
Feel free to reach out on Linkedin, just mention Minnebar. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadebarker/
Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- Writing the Video Game Narrative
- AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage ... And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)
- How to Go Public in 2026 Using an Initial Crowd Offering
- Every Corpus Was a Body Once: Putting the [body] language into LLMs
- Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- Gopher Supercomputing: Past, Present, and Future
- Don't Rip and Replace: how to avoid the shiny upgrade pitfall in long-term systems
- Crafternoon
- Horror Movie Survival: Protecting Yourself From Airborne Pathogens
- Cybersecurity Warnings 😳
- Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
- More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
- Your AI Is Not Special: Red Teaming Before You Become a Statistic
- The Five Poisons of Business: Transforming the Patterns That Hold Us Back
- How we bootstrapped our podcast studio in six months to profitiablity.
- Business Partners and Co-Founders: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
- 💥We Blame the Dogs, But...Have You Seen the Humans!: Designing Behavior Where Pressure Builds.
- The Minnesota First Check Playbook: How Early-Stage Capital Really Flows