Alex Bangs
Bio
Alex Bangs is a recent transplant to the Twin Cities after spending over two decades in Silicon Valley. He is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer for a new digital health startup, and advisor to multiple startups in healthcare and life sciences including software, devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Previously, he has been a company founder, and the CTO/CIO for three startups involved in life sciences and healthcare. He has developed systems including a simulation platform for pharmaceutical R&D, an analytics platform for healthcare providers, an app for people living with rheumatoid arthritis, and a data science and modeling organization focused on fighting infectious disease. Before getting into healthcare, he developed software for analytical decision-making and robotics, including the world’s first robot bartender.
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Participating Sessions
- Lead Where You Are: The Skill of Intentional Adaptability
- Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
- The Five Poisons of Business: Identifying and Transforming Destructive Patterns
- You Love It—So Why Are You Exhausted? The Burnout Puzzle
- AI as My Thought Partner: Gaining Courage and Perspective 24/7
- Relax, Robots Won’t Steal Your Job: How AI Can Bring Back Humanity at Work
- AWS Cloud Networking at Scale: How to solve problems for others by creating your own!
- Risk ledgers Define The Box, starting with the failure in mind
- Startup 2.0: AI Agents Meet 'The Sims'
- AI Told You So: The $1M Business I Actually Built Using ChatGPT
- 🔓Unlocking Our Brain’s Power to Innovate 🧠
- Radical Sabbatical - How I structured one year of creative web-dev
- Managing Your IT Career v16 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- Build game changing products using Product Discovery workshops
- Don’t Be That Boss: Applying Hard Learned Lessons in Leadership
- Beyond Hourly Rates: How Service Providers Build Wealth Through Shared Success Agreements
- Human Intelligence Movement
- How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 issues of the Weekly Thing
- What Product Managers Can Learn from The Art of Standup Comedy
- I Made Every Marketing Mistake So You Don’t Have To (You're Welcome)
- Enabling Disruptive Thinking with Generative Intelligence
- How to use AWS without using AWS
- Building Efficient & Resilient Engineering Teams
- How to Not Suck at CEO-ing When You Didn’t Mean to Be One
- Software Engineering in 2027 or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI Vibe Coding
- Can LLMs Reason? Challenges, Breakthroughs, and Future Directions
- 🎉 Founders: Learn how to grow your network, leads, and sales using LinkedIn! (and receive the proven playbook u can use immediately)
- Good Vibes Only: Security with AI Vibe Coding
- People Debt: The Hidden Cost Holding Your Team Back
- Go Against Your Default: Why ‘Trust Your Gut’ Is Keeping You Small
- From Friction to Consensus: Tools for Tackling Tough Conversations for Partners & Teams
- The IKEA Effect: Why Your Team Can’t Follow What’s Only in Your Head
- ✱✱ State of Minnestar: A Community Conversation on the Past, Present & What’s Possible! ✱✱
- Control+Alt+Delete the Middleman: Top AI Use Cases Reshaping Business as Usual
- This Machine ____s Fascists (fill in the blank)
- Lightning talks! ⚡️⚡️⚡️