Minnov8 Gang 399 – One Word for Minnebar: Wow‪!‬ Minnov8

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* 71 percent of Android phones on major US carriers have out of date security patches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