The 25 most sponsor-active event communities in Minneapolis, ranked by our Event Leader Score and refreshed daily.
Origin House is a Minneapolis founder community and venture lab running recurring demos, founder dinners, pitch nights, open houses, and entrepreneurship meetups for local builders.
Minneapolis chapter of the long-running startup meetup brand that brings founders, developers, and aspiring entrepreneurs together for informal networking and startup conversations.
Nonprofit community hosting conferences, power luncheons, networking, and mentorship programs advancing women leaders in the Twin Cities.
Innovate MN runs recurring Idea Jam and Idea Happy Hour events in Minneapolis, giving founders, innovators, and business owners collaborative feedback and structured brainstorming sessions.
She Talks Data is a Minneapolis-area community program funded and operated by the Moxy Foundation that convenes women who work with data for discussion, networking, and peer support.
Twin Cities Startup Week is a citywide startup and innovation week spanning Minneapolis and Saint Paul, with an official calendar open to founders, investors, companies, and community hosts. It is operated by BETA.MN with a dedicated direct…
Minnesota chapter of ACG for middle‑market M&A dealmakers and growth leaders; runs networking, education, and flagship programs year‑round.
SMBMSP is a recurring Twin Cities marketing and social-media event series bringing together agency, brand, and creator professionals for breakfast talks, panels, and case studies.
Minnesota nonprofit serving the data science and emerging tech community, producing large conferences like Data Tech and student challenges such as MinneMUDAC.
Minnestar is a long-running Minnesota tech community organization that runs recurring programs such as Minnebar, Minnedemo, job fairs, and community-hosted tech events in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities.
Nonpartisan speaker series and membership organization hosting forums with national and international business and policy leaders in Minneapolis.
HealthcareMN is a Minneapolis-area nonprofit community for healthcare innovation and startups, running recurring happy hours, pitch events, hackathon-related programming, and ecosystem convenings for founders, operators, and investors.
Annual Twin Cities developer conference and year-round speaker series focused on enterprise application development and open source.
Healthcare and life sciences industry association hosting the Medical Alley Summit, Alley Chats, and member gatherings in Minneapolis.
Statewide community for founders and operators in the natural products and food/ag ecosystem; runs tours, pitch slams, and the Food. Ag. Ideas programming.
Business and leadership forums, awards, and networking events produced year-round for the Twin Cities business community.
Google Developers Group - Twin Cities is a Minneapolis-area developer community running workshops, talks, and DevFest-style programming around Google technologies and AI. It serves developers and technical learners across the Twin Cities.
JavaScript MN is a long-running Minneapolis-based developer community for JavaScript engineers and web developers, hosting monthly discussion, demo, and networking sessions.
Minnesota-based AI community and nonprofit running a conference, podcast, newsletter, and recurring meetups focused on practical AI education and networking.
Community-led Salesforce conference brand that runs recurring Midwest Dreamin' events and related sponsor/demo programming for Salesforce professionals and ecosystem partners in Minneapolis.
Founder Institute's Minneapolis Meetup brand for recurring startup education sessions, founder workshops, and investor-oriented webinars for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs.
Recurring Minneapolis AI meetup focused on demos, practical AI work, and builder-to-builder networking rather than polished conference-style talks.
Twin Cities chapter of UXPA offering monthly education and community events for UX designers, researchers, and product teams.
State chapter of the AMA offering monthly programs, networking, and professional development for Minnesota marketers.
Local Minneapolis chapter of the AI Engineer community for practitioners building production AI systems and AI-enabled products. It runs recurring technical meetups focused on practical engineering, demos, and peer discussion.
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