The 25 most sponsor-active event communities in Minneapolis, ranked by our Event Leader Score and refreshed daily.
A Minnesota-based health innovation ecosystem organization that convenes healthcare companies, startups, investors, researchers, clinicians, and policy leaders through summits, networking events, leadership programs, and industry programmin…
A Minnesota nonprofit supporting technology startup founders through accelerator programming, founder education, community events, mentorship, and investor connections.
A Minneapolis founder community and venture lab providing founder dinners, weekly demos, pitch opportunities, startup programming, and early-stage capital support.
A Minnesota technology community organization running Minnebar, Minnedemo, community programming, and other events that showcase local builders and connect the regional tech ecosystem.
A recurring Minneapolis startup and technology meetup bringing founders, developers, prospective co-founders, and technology professionals together for informal networking and peer support.
Nonprofit community hosting conferences, power luncheons, networking, and mentorship programs advancing women leaders in the Twin Cities.
A Minneapolis-based community innovation organization running recurring Idea Jam and Idea Happy Hour events where founders, business owners, professionals, and community members collaborate on real business challenges.
A large, multi-day startup and innovation week connecting founders, investors, students, operators, universities, and ecosystem organizations across Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
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.
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.
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.
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 nonprofit AI education and community organization running monthly meetups, workshops, a major annual conference, a podcast, and other programming focused on practical artificial intelligence.
The Minneapolis chapter of the global AI Engineer community, focused on practical engineering for production AI systems, including agents, evaluations, RAG, infrastructure, and reliability.
A community-led Salesforce conference serving administrators, developers, architects, consultants, executives, and Salesforce ecosystem professionals. The recurring conference combines education, networking, an expo hall, sponsor showcases,…
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.
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