Sessions
Be sure to visit the official site and mark yourself as interested in any sessions that catch your eye.
Audience interest determines the schedule and who gets assigned to the larger rooms.
Not about AI
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Robert Boedigheimer Development Emerging Tech Wildcard Other
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Mike Benkovich Startups Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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How I Use Notion to Run my Publishing Company
Jeff Eddy Startups Emerging Tech Design
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Multiplayer Interactive Fiction on the Elixir VM
Brent Anderson Development AI & Machine Learning Wildcard Other
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Writing the Video Game Narrative
Savannah Boedigheimer Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Wildcard
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Lessons from Two Decades of Angel Investing
Rob Weber Startups
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Bootstrapping Your E-Commerce Empire Side Hustle With No Money
Jonathan Spaulding Startups Design Marketing & Sales
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The Future of Energy and the 30X Problem
David Koerner Emerging Tech
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How to Go Public in 2026 Using an Initial Crowd Offering
David Duccini Startups Other Emerging Tech Marketing & Sales Wildcard
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📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
Chris Wodicka Development Emerging Tech Design Wildcard
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MN Indie Gamedev Microtalks 2026
Martin Grider, Chip Pedersen, Samuel Fletcher, Andy Olson Development Wildcard Other
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Canary in a Gold Mine: De-risk Your Product with Quick & Dirty Experiments
Jamie Ryan Development Startups Design Product Management
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When Disability Is Misread: Safety in High-Stress Systems
Sharyn Morrow Wildcard Soft Skills & Personal Growth Community & DEI
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50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
Ian Young Development Startups Product Management
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Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
Beth Elliott Startups Careers & Talent Marketing & Sales
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The Good Years: Formative Tech Companies in the Twin Cities
Matt Decuir Development Startups Careers & Talent
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End-to-end tests considered harmful (securing credentials for E2E and synthetic testing)
Katie Kodes Development Design
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What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?
Dan Lew Development Emerging Tech
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Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
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Early Stage Funding in Minnesota
Sean E. Williams Startups Community & DEI Marketing & Sales
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Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
Mark Capaldini, Nick Gawreluk, Michael Petersen, Daniel Metcalf Startups
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Don't Rip and Replace: how to avoid the shiny upgrade pitfall in long-term systems
John Eckhardt Development Product Management Other
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Minnestar, Meg Steuer Other
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Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
Beth Korth, Minnestar Wildcard
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Cameron MacDonald Wildcard
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Code, cloth, and your hands: How engaging in textile craft makes you a better technologist
CJ Jensen Development Design Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Jenn Czeck Community & DEI Other
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I'm Disabled & You Will Be, Too
Jenn Czeck Development Design Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Horror Movie Survival: Protecting Yourself From Airborne Pathogens
Jason Hsu Other
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How To Sell Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi, For Fun and Bitcoin!
Stephen Gornick Emerging Tech
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Sol LeWitt, Combinatorial Enumeration, and Rogue
Mark Gritter Wildcard
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Growing a Social Media Community: What’s Working Right Now
Rayen Inostroza Startups Community & DEI Careers & Talent Marketing & Sales
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Questions to ask during a transition... and who can help.
Samantha Young Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Other
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Cannabis! Building a cultivation, R&D, manufacturing and dispensary business in the Twin Cities.
Mary MacCarthy Startups
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Photogrammetry to Furniture - Designing for the real world in Blender
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✨ Let’s animate! ✨ An Introduction to Rive.app
Shalanah Dawson Development Design
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When Before What: Practical prioritization for leaders and builders
Phil Ensminger Startups Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Other
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DefineTheBox Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Joe Slaughter Development Startups Design Marketing & Sales
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John Benninghoff Development Design Product Management Other
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A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
Jachin Rupe Development
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Boldly You: Showing Up to Your Life’s Purpose
Alan Fernald Development Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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From Uncle Sam to Civic Tech: Rebuilding Civic Engagement for Gen Z Using Design Thinking
Samhita Krishnamurthy Emerging Tech Design Community & DEI
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More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
Jade Barker Startups Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Wildcard
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Build A Bridge with Interactive Art
Kelly Anderson Development Startups Design Community & DEI Marketing & Sales
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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Defeating the Loneliness Epidemic!
Max G Community & DEI Other
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3D Printing: One step closer to the home replicator?
Cary Christopherson Emerging Tech Wildcard Other
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Only Amiga Makes It Possible: Discovering the Future in a Computer from 1985
Benjamin Ortega Development Emerging Tech Wildcard
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Xandra Best Development Design Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Wildcard
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Scott McKuen Emerging Tech Wildcard
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I Learned How to Tell Stories in This Building — Here's What Most Techies Miss
Meredith Clause Startups Soft Skills & Personal Growth Marketing & Sales
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Project Vanguard - Veterans in (or interested in) Energy Networking opportunity
William Hossain Community & DEI Careers & Talent Other
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From Founder to Marketing Department of One: What Actually Works When You're Doing It All
Sofiia Hohunska Startups Marketing & Sales
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Marta Daehn Design Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Bryce Howitson, Rothanak Chhoun, Elle Yesnes, Homer Rutledge, Alexis Logsdon, Joe Lencioni Startups Design Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Other
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You’re Not Leading. You’re Reacting.
Paul Cramer Product Management
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Normalize Your Team: Working Genius IS the Primary Key
Mitch Bliven Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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💡Get finance to say YES to your idea: The other side of the dashboard
Mena Duarte Community & DEI Careers & Talent Marketing & Sales
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You Are a Superhero. Let's Discover Your Superpower So You Can Use It for Greatness
Michelle Smeby Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Venture Capital: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Walk Away
Stephanie Rich Startups
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50 Years of Consoles, Computers, and Handhelds: The Convergence of the Steam Deck
Peter Lonnquist Other
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Rawson Stovall Careers & Talent Other
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Resume Refresh: Ready for AI, Designed to Impress
Angela Peterson Careers & Talent
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From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
Dagmawe Mamo Development Startups Emerging Tech Design Community & DEI
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🛜 The Community Connection: Strategic Marketing, Outreach, and PR for Community Leaders
Juan LLerena Startups Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth Marketing & Sales
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More Than a User: Bringing Unreasonable Hospitality into IT Support
Tyler Moen Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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The Five Poisons of Business: Transforming the Patterns That Hold Us Back
Deborah Peteler Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
Tom Harren Development Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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larry bieza Development Startups Design Marketing & Sales
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Play Well With Others: Creativity Through Collaboration
AnnMarie Thomas Design Product Management Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Pricing Office Hours: How (and How Much) Should You Charge.
garrick van buren Startups Product Management Marketing & Sales
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Why Your Third COO Just Quit (And Why Recruiting Won't Fix It)
Kaitlin Strand Startups Careers & Talent
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Decoding Your Equity Compensation: Stock Options & RSUs with AMA
Trevor Ausen Careers & Talent
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🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
Sara Heitkamp Wildcard Development Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Every Engineer Sucks at Job Hunting Until They Learn This
Tyler Dane Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Trevor Wagner Development Other
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Shared Success Agreements: Stop Selling Your Time. Start Investing It.
Zack Steven Careers & Talent Marketing & Sales
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The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
Janel Anderson Design Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Business Partners and Co-Founders: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Richard Chandler, MA, LPC, Grant Chandler Development Startups Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Convincing Energy - The thing you couldn't name that's been defining your company's growth potential
Nathan Young Startups Marketing & Sales Other
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Managing Your Tech Career v17 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
Paul DeBettignies Careers & Talent
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Everything in Time: The Ultimate Guide to Android Date and Time Programming
Andrew Haisting, David Perez Development
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💥We Blame the Dogs, But...Have You Seen the Humans!: Designing Behavior Where Pressure Builds.
Air Gustafson Design Product Management Community & DEI
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Colin Hirdman Startups Soft Skills & Personal Growth Marketing & Sales
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What’s a Second, and why do they matter?
Ryan Schafer Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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The Startup Was a Financial Success. I Am Not Building It That Way Again.
Jonathan Anderstrom Startups Careers & Talent Marketing & Sales
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Building Elite Teams - Forgotten Lessons from the Ranger Battalion
Craig Vosper Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Leverage Your Experience: How to Land Your First Advisory Role
Loran Gutt Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Influence Through Alignment: Technology Enablement in a Matrixed Organization
Ben Wadsworth Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Migration Engineering: Automating Security & Tech Stack Upgrades
Brad Broulik Development Emerging Tech
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Catan, Clean Energy, and Code: Can You Prove That Wind Farm Actually Generated Electricity?
Rob Davis, John Peacock Development Emerging Tech Product Management Marketing & Sales
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Fire up yourself and your teams with Snowflake usage
Nadir Doctor AI & Machine Learning
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What tech lessons should we learn from the ICE invasion?
Paul Cantrell Development Product Management Wildcard
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Why is tech sexist? A farming perspective
Emily Rhoades Emerging Tech Community & DEI Wildcard Other
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Well Dontcha Know: The National Center for Autonomous Technologies is in Northern Minnesota
Marty Wetherall Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Careers & Talent
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Solar and Battery Storage: What the process of getting a microgrid looks like.
Shree Pandey Emerging Tech Other
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🥳 Landing you First Software Engineering Job 101 (You vs AI)
Fuad Jeet Development Startups Careers & Talent
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Join our quest to throw a ring into a volcano
Jon Wilson Community & DEI Development Emerging Tech
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The Work That Holds Teams Together: Stop Blaming the Person. Fix the System.
Meghan Gencev Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Wildcard
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The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge
Eryn O'Neil Community & DEI Wildcard
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Minnestar Other
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The Minnesota First Check Playbook: How Early-Stage Capital Really Flows
Minnestar, Meg Steuer Startups
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Speed Networking #1 [Networking Lounge]
Hillary Drake Community & DEI
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Speed Networking #2 [Networking Lounge]
Hillary Drake Community & DEI
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Minnestar Community & DEI
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Women in Tech Meetup [Networking Lounge]
Hillary Drake Community & DEI
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Medtech & Med Device Meetup [Networking Lounge]
Hillary Drake Community & DEI
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Start Social Hour Early — Networking in Sandy’s
Minnestar Wildcard
AI Sessions
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The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
Caroline Swift Holden Startups AI & Machine Learning Marketing & Sales
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Where is Maldo? An LLM Adoption Journey for Software Engineers
Jay D Haase Development Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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git commit -m "I didn't write this"
Jackson M Tomlinson, Ben Bakken AI & Machine Learning Development Wildcard Startups
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
Kellen Baker AI & Machine Learning Wildcard
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Jenna Redfield Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage ... And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)
Lou Abramowski Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Marketing & Sales Wildcard
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🚀 AI Is Changing What Matters in Software
Shawn Seymour Development AI & Machine Learning
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What should I do while AI is working? answer will shape the future of humanity
Ryan Wold AI & Machine Learning Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Sandeep Bhuiya Startups AI & Machine Learning
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Every Corpus Was a Body Once: Putting the [body] language into LLMs
Kelly Heitz Development AI & Machine Learning Community & DEI Other
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Speak the Domain: How DSLs Help Humans — and AI — Model the Real World
Jake Arntson Development Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning
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Whose Utopia? Restructuring the Digital Environment in an Age of Human - AI Relationships
Kris Taylor AI & Machine Learning Community & DEI Wildcard Other
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Learning Together to Build LLMs at Scale with Open-Source Coursework
Sona Maniyan, Jason A. Grafft AI & Machine Learning Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Jeff Lin AI & Machine Learning Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Tamil Kadir Rajavel Development AI & Machine Learning Product Management Careers & Talent
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We Won a Global Hackathon. Then We Built a Real Company. Here's What Changed.
Shannon Seaver Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Community & DEI
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Dr. BotLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI
Benjamin Schatz AI & Machine Learning Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth Wildcard
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Hack Your Legal Costs: AI + Your Attorney in 2026
Alex Frescoln, Todd Taylor Startups AI & Machine Learning Other
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What Happens When You Combine Bad Bunny + AI + Mental Health?
Michael Arulfo, Dr.Charryse Johnson AI & Machine Learning Development Startups Emerging Tech Design Product Management Marketing & Sales Wildcard
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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVITY: THE POWER OF AI TOOLS IN THE WORKPLACE V4
Senthil Kumaran Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Product Management Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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Real World Speech Interfaces: What Builders Are Seeing
Jaim Zuber, Ian Bicking, Vaish Sagar Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Product Management
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Rod Brown Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Product Management Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Marketing & Sales
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Understanding Agentic Commerce 🤖🛒
Ahnaf Prio Emerging Tech
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Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
Tom Benbow Development Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design
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Outlearning Ai: How Small Wins Beat "Big Data"
Walter Ethan Lick Eagle Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Wildcard Other
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We Automate Your "Real" Workflows (Live)
Justin Trantham, Caleb Anderson Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Marketing & Sales Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent
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Three Musicians, One Engineer: Building AI Systems for Musicians in Minneapolis
Vaish Sagar Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Wildcard Other
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Leave With Something You Made: Crop Art, Community & an Unlikely AI Assist
Alisa Dean Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth Wildcard
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Your AI Is Not Special: Red Teaming Before You Become a Statistic
Chase Peterson AI & Machine Learning Design Product Management Community & DEI Wildcard
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Design - AI Agents + Skills in Figma
Drea LeMaster AI & Machine Learning Design
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From Demo to Deployment: Why Most AI Projects Never Make It to Reality
Darsh Garg Startups AI & Machine Learning Product Management
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Is AI Coming for Your Job? Interior Design as a Case Study
Kate Kuehl, Steven Bonoff Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Product Management Careers & Talent
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Skill(.md)s, context engineering, and a way to take the garbage out
Robert Tomb Development AI & Machine Learning
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Data & Analytics in the Age of AI: Lessons from Healthcare Analytics
Aniruddha Ghosh AI & Machine Learning Careers & Talent
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Ai + Fractionals: The Next Chapter of the American Economy Is You
John Arms Development Startups AI & Machine Learning Careers & Talent
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Building a Knowledge Graph Your AI Can Actually Use
Jared Rickert Development AI & Machine Learning
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How we bootstrapped our podcast studio in six months to profitiablity.
Karl Ness Startups AI & Machine Learning Marketing & Sales
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AI Is Becoming Infrastructure: Why Context Engineering and Platforms Will Define the Next Decade
Lyndon Carlson Development Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning
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Secure AI Agents from Development to Runtime
Kishor Patil, Misho Changalov AI & Machine Learning
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Lessons learned building LAIC: Life Time’s AI Concierge
Peter Pascale, Drew Trabing Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Product Management
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David Solberg Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Careers & Talent
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Make your first video game with "just enough" AI
Andy Krueger Development AI & Machine Learning Design Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs at Creating Broken Systems
Grant Udstrand Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Wildcard
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Stop Fighting the LLM: Mental Models for Fast, Frustration-Free App Building
Stephen Fluin Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Product Management
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The Future of GSD - AI Conversational Task Management
Matt Pacyga Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Product Management
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How AI can help bring balance to our souls instead of taking that balance away
Abdirahman Ali Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning
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Kill the Login: How AI Agents Replace Software Destinations
Justin Buhl AI & Machine Learning
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Shadow AI! Innovation Without Oversight
Frida Kreitzer AI & Machine Learning Careers & Talent Wildcard Emerging Tech Other Development
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Think First. Prompt Later. Be un-BOT-able.
Kathy Comfort Soft Skills & Personal Growth Careers & Talent Other
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Recruiting, Hiring, and Building Teams In An AI World
Paul DeBettignies Startups Careers & Talent
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I Tried to Replace Myself with AI. The AI Was the Easy Part.
Kurt Schmidt AI & Machine Learning
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The Human Side of AI Adoption: Why Most AI Projects Fail Before They Start
Heather McCarl AI & Machine Learning Soft Skills & Personal Growth Other
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Daniel Feldman Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Wildcard
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AI-Powered CRM for Small Businesses: What Actually Works
Abdi Mohamed Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Community & DEI Marketing & Sales
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JUMP! A regular person’s guide to introducing AI at work and in real life.
Glenn AI & Machine Learning Soft Skills & Personal Growth Marketing & Sales
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Elixir: Creating an AI Agent for our Clash Royale Clan
Jamie Thingelstad, Tyler Thingelstad Development AI & Machine Learning
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AI in Schools: What Students Are Actually Doing (and What Comes Next)
Tyler Thingelstad AI & Machine Learning
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Sergio Najera-Feito Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Community & DEI Soft Skills & Personal Growth
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10x'ing Myself and My Team: Leading With Agents, Not Just Using Them
Andy Ganoe Development AI & Machine Learning Product Management Careers & Talent
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Peiyu Phua Community & DEI Other AI & Machine Learning Design Careers & Talent Wildcard
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PolitiClaw: building a local-first political co-pilot with OpenClaw 🦞
Alec Rippberger Development AI & Machine Learning Community & DEI
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Service to Software: Turn Your "How-To" into a Monetized Micro-App
Marlaina Love Development Startups AI & Machine Learning Product Management Marketing & Sales
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The AI Native SDLC: Idea to Working Code at Scale, Live
Michael Halagan Development AI & Machine Learning Product Management
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Mouth to MIDI in 11 Milliseconds: A Live Beatbox Drum Engine I Built on Nights and Weekends
Sean Hobin Development Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Wildcard
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Shiven Kharidehal Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Wildcard
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Research at the Speed of AI: What Works, What Breaks, and What Still Needs You
Frank Schilder Development AI & Machine Learning
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The Minnebar Scavenger Hunt: Powered by AI & Tape
Alice Smiddy Development Wildcard
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Shared Intelligence for Humans and AI Agents: How Engram Built Our Company Brain
Niko LeMieux, Andrew Fisher Development Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning
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Venkata Sai Praneeth Sirigiri Startups Emerging Tech AI & Machine Learning Design Careers & Talent Other