The Minnesota Tech Community

Join industry experts, startups, and partners for this groundbreaking event. Cleantech represents the next wave of opportunity and impact for Minnesota. To leverage the moment and mobilize our regional efforts, we are bringing together partners from across multiple sectors – energy and cleantech, utilities, building design and efficiency, transportation, agriculture, and higher education. Over 50 businesses and organizations are already registered to attend. The event features presentations from 12 startups, keynote speaker Taj Ahmad Eldridge, and panels discussing Minnesota’s emerging technology opportunities and investor perspectives. We have added two events for the week. Register for all events here. Or if you won’t be joining us on the 7th, visit the reception and career event pages to register separately. – June 6 Welcome Reception – Graze Food Hall, 4-7 PM Register for the reception only. Thank you to the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce for sponsoring. – June 8 Cleantech Pathway Event – St. Paul College, 10 AM – 12:30 PM. Register for the workforce/pathway event only. Thank you to Clean Energy Economy Minnesota, the Center for Microgrid Research at the University of St. Thomas, Full Stack, and Fresh Energy for sponsoring. Email McKay@gridcatalyst.org for additional information.

We are coming together in person for the first time ever! Our ICCON community has been fully virtual since its inception in 2021, so we are excited to see some of you in person for this hybrid event. Please join us for an afternoon of informative talks on Reliability and Efficiency, and stick around for happy hour to connect with the speakers and other attendees. This event will be hosted at our beautiful Target headquarters, at Target Plaza Commons: 1001 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403. AGENDA: note: All talks will be followed by a short Q&A session Event Kicks off at 2pm Shannon Schulte, Incident Response Engineer Manager, Shipt Shannon will guide us through the afternoon with a quick overview of the sessions and some helpful information for attendees Driving SLO Culture Prathiba Dorairaj, Principal Engineer, Target Nathan Brezina, Lead Engineer, Target Learn why Service Level Objectives (SLO) across the enterprise are vital to any organization. SLO is not just another metric on your panel, but it is an ACTIONABLE insight into the guest experience. Based on what matters to users, it will tell you where to focus. The goal is to triage, identify, and resolve the suspicious incident without finger-pointing and backed with data! SLO is about: – Simplifying the information overload for the engineers – Reducing Mean-Time-To-Detect for incidents – Reducing Mean-Time-To-Isolate for incidents – Having actionable metrics Hear how SLOs are changing the engineering mindset and culture. Short Break Product Based Approach to SRE Kyle Marek-Spartz, Director of Site Reliability Engineering, Shipt Roy Tewalt, Senior Principal Engineer, Shipt A product mindset can benefit teams operating internal-facing services, but often these teams lack experience with product techniques that can benefit them. How does a team treat abstract “non-functional” requirements like reliability as a product? How can a team shift from reactive project work to proactive product vision? Shipt’s Infrastructure organization is establishing a product vision for itself. Come hear our initial approaches, the things that are tripping us up, and where we might go next. Short Break Staying Current with Tracing Taylor Corrello, Lead Engineer, Target Bryan Bertz, Senior Engineer, Target In the world of microservices and distributed architectures spanning multiple teams, guest experiences increasingly rely on a complex set of services. Understanding the journey a request takes, the bottlenecks, and error flows can provide the visibility that enables engineers to better prioritize reliability and efficiency efforts. This talk will trace through the journey Target has taken to enable distributed tracing for some of our key guest experiences, the challenges we have faced, and the benefits we have seen so far. Short Break FinOps as a Product Kim Wier, Director Production Engineering, Target Ron Tatro, Principal Engineer, Production Engineering, Target Gartner, Inc. forecasts that in 2023, worldwide public cloud spending will grow 20.7% to total $591.8 billion. The practice of FinOps, or cloud financial management, is also growing as companies look to control their cloud costs. In this session, representatives from Target will share their journey and success in adopting the FinOps framework and share an overview of FinOps, how Target has applied the concepts, and how they intend to bring FinOps to their private and public cloud operations. Happy Hour starts at 4:30pm Stick around and meet the presenters and other attendees If you require accessibility assistance or an accommodation to experience this event – such as closed captions or material in an accessible format – please contact iccon@target.com. Portions of this event will be recorded. By registering to attend ICCON, you acknowledge that your image, comments and questions (written or verbal) may be recorded and rebroadcast. By registering for this event, you agree to Target’s Privacy Policy.

Data Tech is back! Join us on June 9 at Best Buy HQ as we continue to explore the latest in emerging technology and its impact on data science. More info coming soon. For updates, subscribe to our newsletter. Now Accepting Speaker Proposals Want to share your knowledge at this event? Complete the speaker submission form via the link below. Now Accepting Sponsors If your organization is interested in sponsoring this epic event, contact dan@minneanalytics.org. More than 1,900 people registered for the previous Data Tech which featured 63 sessions.