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Celebrating 10 Years of learning, sharing, and connecting™. Since 2015 the Open Source North Conference has brought together the enterprise application development community together to learn, share, and connect. Early Bird tickets will go on sale Monday, March 24 ($195).

Minnesota Digital Services May 2025 Coffee Meetup at Rustica Bakery! Get together with like minded technologists for the public good. Come for the conversation, stay for the baked goods. See ya then!

Get Ready for Naturally Rising Minnesota: The Conscious Business Pitch Competition and our Summer Spree! Join us for Naturally Rising Minnesota Pitch Slam, the ultimate event celebrating our region's most promising, purpose-driven brands! Whether you're looking to network with industry leaders, discover the next big thing in conscious business, or stay ahead of the latest trends, this is the place to be. Finalists will take the stage, delivering retail-ready, impact-driven pitches to a distinguished panel of judges and a live audience. The winner will earn a coveted booth at Newtopia Now, access to top mentors and retailers, a direct path to Naturally Network's national competition, plus additional prizes. More than just a pitch competition, Naturally Rising is a celebration of conscious business leadership, spotlighting brands that embody Naturally Network's bottom line—the 5 Ps: 🔥 Passion – The unwavering dedication of founders to their product and mission 🌍 Purpose – A clear, meaningful mission that addresses a real-world need 🤝 People – A commitment to community, customers, and team culture ♻️ Planet – Sustainability and environmental responsibility at the core 💡 Prosperity – Financial success achieved through ethical, mindful business practices Don't miss your chance to witness the future of conscious business—Naturally Rising MN is where innovation meets impact - and enjoy an evening of networking with the community. We'll see you there!

Silicon Prairie Friday Open Office Hours are now LIVE on ZOOM! Held EVERY FRIDAY morning from 9:30 to 11:30 AM (central)

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Can't make it? Watch a recent presentation here:

https://vimeo.com/506243666

Agenda: The first hour is “ask us anything” topics usually include: Small Business, Tech Startups, Financial Securities, Software Security, Blockchain, or Investment Crowdfunding. Even if you don’t ever become a customer of ours – we want to be a resource for you!

The second hour is an Investment Crowdfunding 101 we have a PowerPoint presentation that covers how to raise money for small businesses using Investment Crowdfunding. We cover fundraising options, the Investment Crowdfunding laws/ regulations, the process, dollar amounts, timelines, costs, pitfalls, and best practices.

We’ve been hosting Open Office Hours in-person for YEARS now, and now we’re delighted to share our experience and knowledge with our broader community. Friday at 9:30 is your chance to catch up with us and/or pick our brains, ask gritty questions, or just share what’s new with you!

As always, feel free to connect with us on Linkedin as well! Hope to catch-up soon!

Machine Learning, AI, Deep Learning, Neural Networks etc are the future of how insightful decisions will be made and how businesses will compete in the marketplace. These skills are becoming MANDATORY if you want to lead in the next decade. There is a lot to read on these topics. I have led a large Big Data team that also dived into Machine Learning by implementing few ML solutions. Few of us are planning to work in group settings to dive into Machine Learning by taking online classes like Udacity's Machine Learning and AI Nanodegrees and by doing group projects. We will like to meet during the evenings and weekends based on our collective availability. We will also explore use cases with publicly available data that present interesting business cases. We are looking for like-minded people who are passionate about learning by doing.

Agenda:

Share tips, tricks, notes, industry stories/insights and help each other to move forward in learning Machine Learning content. This is designed to support active members for all to move forward.

All coursework is selected from Udacity.com online learning towards growing Machine Learning foundation and skills.

Pre-requisite courses for Machine Learning Nanodegree:

These courses are FREE

1. Introduction to Python Programming

2. Intro to Descriptive Statistics

3. Intro to Inferential Statistics

4. Linear Algebra Refresher Course

5. Intro to Machine Learning

Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree (cost ~$200/month)

Additional FREE Udacity.com coursework considerations:

• Machine Learning (by Georgia Tech, C57641)

• Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning (by Georgia Tech, C57641)

Members and team progress maintained in Google Spreadsheet

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LegalCORPS conducts regularly scheduled free brief advice business law clinics, where participants can receive up to 30 minutes of guidance or the opportunity to ask questions on transactional business law matters. We have four different types of clinics available: general business law, intellectual property law, nonprofit law, and clinics for small business landlords. With both virtual and in-person options available, there is sure to be a space to suit your needs. Please visit our Events Calendar to view Brief Advice Clinics (BAC).

Hackers meet hackers. Hackers meet founders. Founders meet co-founders. Talk startups and tech, and help each other out. No speaker; no BS; just interesting people working on interesting things catalyzing the local tech startup scene.
Hackers and Founders is part of a global network of casual meetups focused around bringing together like-minded people working on cool things.
What we do:
• talk about startups
• talk about tech
• share startup advice, resources & lessons learned
• connect each other