MinneDemo is a quarterly event in the Twin Cities where local startups and technologists demo their products.
Zencoder is a distributed video processing system, built by Slantwise, that is scalable, reliable, and flexible.
The next MinneDemo event will be held December 6th at O’Gara’s Garage in St. Paul, and I’ll be presenting Zencoder there. This will be the first public showing of Zencoder, and I’m excited to be demoing the system after four months of development.
Whether or not you’re interested in video processing, if you’re reading this blog and you live within a 100 mile radius (or even 270), you should come. MinneDemo and MinneBar are the most worthwhile tech events going on in Minnesota.
MinneDemo works like this.
- Show up at 6:30 for a free beer/wine/soda or two.
- Meet interesting people: developers, designers, venture capitalists, tech lawyers, startup gurus, information architects, enterprise software providers, ISPs, and more. About 300 people typically show up.
- Have another beer/wine/soda.
- Watch five or six software demos, including Zencoder. The demos each last 15 minutes or less, and PowerPoint is not allowed, so you actually see working software, not marketing-speak.
- Continue to meet people, get ideas, land projects, and find partners. We met our attorneys, one business partner, two clients, and several friends at MinneDemo and MinneBar.
The event starts at 6:30pm on Thursday, December 6th (drinks and food), and the demos will start at 7:30pm. The demos will finish around 9pm, but some people will stick around for hours after that.
Many thanks to Dan Grigsby and our own Luke Francl for organizing MinneDemo, and Ben Edwards for starting MinneBar!
