About

Minnesota Nice. Microsoft Obsessed.

MNUG is the Minnesota User Group, a free, community-led group for people working across the Microsoft business applications ecosystem: Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Copilot and agents, Azure, Fabric, and the data that holds it all together.

Nobody is selling anything here. Organizers are volunteers, meetups are free, and the sessions come from people who actually did the work.

MNUG

Minnesota Nice. Microsoft Obsessed.

MNUG is an independent community group. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, owned by, or operated by Microsoft, and we do not speak for Microsoft.

Open to assistants

MNUG has a public MCP server.

An AI assistant can find published meetup details, help submit a talk, request a topic, send feedback, or join the mailing list after you explicitly ask it to.

Read the MCP server guide
Find MNUG

Twin Cities, Microsoft business apps.

Meetings are held at the Microsoft Technology Center in Edina at 3601 W 76th St #600. Connect with the community between events on LinkedIn and Meetup.

Who it's for

Beginners

Never presented, never touched Dataverse, just curious? Start here.

Business users

Makers solving real problems inside real teams.

Developers and architects

Deep-end conversations welcome.

Consultants

Compare notes with people who ship the same stack.

Data and AI folks

Fabric, agents, Copilot, and everything under them.

Leaders

Governance, adoption, and what actually works.

The team

Organizers

Britt Thelemann Pangerl

Organizer

Mother of Dragons (little kids) | Helping Retail & CPG Leaders Stop Piloting and Start Executing | Business Development Director @ PS Hummingbird | Microsoft AI | Dynamics 365 | Power Platform

Merlin Schwaiger

Organizer

Power Platform Evangelist | Former Microsoft Biz Apps MVP

Joe Tews, MNUG organizer

Joe Tews

Organizer

Trusted business adviser for Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM customers and prospects

Carla Simonson

Organizer

ERP/CRM Business Analyst at Stein-Industries, Inc.

Justin Trantham, MNUG organizer

Justin Trantham

Organizer

flowdevs

FlowDevs builds the applications businesses and sometimes entire industries run on.

Come to the next one. It's free.