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Minnov8 Gang 374 – Who’s Driving?

September 10, 2016 By Steve Borsch

whos-driving-main2Quite an interesting set of stories to discuss this week and we also have on as our guest Mark Wilkie, CTO, for the new Who’s Driving app.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Blues Menor by EMCA L’Hospitalet under a CC by 3.0 License

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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
  • MN Cup names eight division winners
  • Hackers can take over an entire network with this tiny $35 box
    • RedTeam Security Consulting (in St. Paul)
  • Star Tribune deletes, apologizes for C.J.’s awful column about Jacob Wetterling and Jana Shortal’s jeans
  • Filling The STEM Pipeline
  • Kidblog, once a free service, tries to convince users it’s worth paying for
  • Mayo Clinic’s Think Big Challenge Competitors Narrow To Five Finalists
Other Top Tech Stories
  • Apple
    • The 11 most important things from Apple’s iPhone 7 event
    • The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
    • Apple’s Strategy Is Innovation By A Thousand Tweaks
  • Fitbit unveils $100 ‘swim-proof’ Flex 2 and $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring
This Week’s Guest

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Mark Wilkie (Twitter), CTO, Who’s Driving app. Mark spent the early part of his coding career in Minneapolis. He moved to New York City and joined Buzzfeed in it’s earliest days. After leaving his role as CTO there early this year, he moved his family back to MN and is now CTO of startup Who’s Driving.

Cool Thing of the Week
  • Phil: Smart Urinal
  • Tim: Super Mario Run for iOS
  • Steve: Estimote (and one of their blog posts: Updated Location Beacons: 200 m range, NFC, new APIs, and more)
Upcoming Events
  • The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
    • The list as a Google spreadsheet
    • 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
  • ConnectED Day September 13th
  • Startup Week, September 19-25
  • DocuMNtary Film Release – Sept 22nd, 7pm, McNamara Alumni Ctr, U of MN
  • MinneDemo24 during TC Startup Week, Sept 21st, Riverview Theater
  • MN Developer’s Conference, Sept 27th, Earle Brown Ctr
  • U of MN’s Cyber Security Summit 2016, JWMarriott (MOA), October 11-12
  • Minnesota Venture Conference, Oct 13th, Mpls Cnv Ctr
  • Converted 2016 by Leadpages, Oct 18th, Depot Renaissance Hotel, Mpls
  • Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov 18th, Bloomington

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