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* 71 percent of Android phones on major US carriers have out of date security patches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