Minnov8 Gang 399 – One Word for Minnebar: Wow!

This week’s show was recorded at Minnebar, an enormous gathering of techies in Minnesota. Our guest is Adrienne Peirce (LinkedIn), Product Owner at Leadpages and President of Minne*, the organization responsible for Minnebar and Minnedemo.

Hosts: Steve Borsch and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off)

Music: Woke Up With The Blues by Deep Sea Gypsies under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Minnesota Cup Applications now open. $450,000 in seed money up for grabs.


• MN Story: Ex-Target CMO Jeff Jones bails out of Uber

Other Top Tech Stories

• US Senate votes 50-48 to do away with broadband privacy rules; let ISPs and telecoms to sell your internet history
  
  
  
  • How ISPs can sell your Web history—and how to stop them
  
  
  
  


• Tech community “dumbfounded” by Mnuchin’s dismissal of AI impact on jobs


• 71 percent of Android phones on major US carriers have out of date security patches
  
  
  
  • Android plans to improve security update speed this year
  
  
  
  


• Akamai Intros Media Acceleration for OTT (over-the-top content), Video Game Publishers

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil and Steve talk about the new mobile network unlimited data plans they chose this past week:
  
  
  
  • Sprint
  
  
  • AT&T
  
  
  
  

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 280+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2017
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  
  


• Beta.mn, March 30th, Machine Shop, Minneapolis


• Enterprise Rising Conference, March 30th
  
  
  
  • Use the code Minnov82017 for 21% off your admission
  
  
  
  


• IoTFuse Conference 2017, April 21st, Mpls Conv Ctr


• Overnight Website Challenge, April 22-23, 2017, CoCo Minneapolis


• MHTA Spring Conference, May 9th, Minneapolis Depot Renaissance Hotel