Benjamin Schatz
Bio
Ben Schatz is a data nerd who loves digging deep to figure out how things work. After a career spent leading Analytics orgs at places like Google and Qualcomm, he’s now the Director of Analytics at Craig Frames, where he spends his time making good numbers go up and bad numbers go down. He’s more interested in the big levers than the individual gears and is dedicated to making insights actually lead to action. He is prone to hyperbole and metaphors and feels strongly that in order to be helpful, you need to be able to explain it to everyone.
Outside of work, Ben is a dedicated motorcyclist, an avid DIY’er, and a chronic tinkerer who can't seem to stop picking up new hobbies.
Presenting Sessions
Participating Sessions
- Building a Tech Community
- How I Use Notion to Run my Publishing Company
- How to Go Public in 2026 Using an Initial Crowd Offering
- What should I do while AI is working? answer will shape the future of humanity
- 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
- What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
- Early Stage Funding in Minnesota
- Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
- Dr. BotLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
- I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
- Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
- Don't Let AI Eat You Alive: What Every Employee, Leader, and Organization Must Do Before It’s Too Late
- Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
- I Learned How to Tell Stories in This Building — Here's What Most Techies Miss
- You’re Not Leading. You’re Reacting.
- Skill(.md)s, context engineering, and a way to take the garbage out
- Data & Analytics in the Age of AI: Lessons from Healthcare Analytics
- Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
- Livin' the Solo Founder Dream. I'll share learnings from building my second Consumer app. Open to participation!
- Stop Fighting the LLM: Mental Models for Fast, Frustration-Free App Building
- Every Engineer Sucks at Job Hunting Until They Learn This
- Business Partners and Co-Founders: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
- Managing Your Tech Career v17 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- The Human Side of AI Adoption: Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They Start
- Influence Through Alignment: Technology Enablement in a Matrixed Organization
- Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
- Fire up yourself and your teams with Snowflake usage
- What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
- Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
- Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective