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What was MMS 2025 at MOA?

This full MMS edition was held May 2025 at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN and followed the same recipe for all MMS events:

  • Sessions with two or more speakers
  • Extremely long Q&A for every session
  • Evening happy hour sessions
  • Smaller rooms and overall size to make sure you can get your questions in
  • Same great speakers from past MMS events

MMS at MOA also brought back our unique Fishing Sessions! Attendees signed up for 20-minute private sessions to talk to speakers or Microsoft in a tent. Sponsors held great evening events like Fair on 4 (Patch My PC) and FireLake Happy Hour (Recast). And of course, 2Pint took the Brewery Sponsorship like they do every year taking a good 50 people out to local breweries on Sunday.

The actual conference was held again at the Radisson Blu at MOA. We love this location for the quick access to the ballrooms, for the great white speaker\attendee table by the FireLake Grill, and of course, the FireLake itself which has outstanding food and is always a great evening hangout to talk tech all evening. 797 speakers, sponsors, and attendees showed up for the week for intense systems management sessions and fun networking with peers and Microsoft.

We had two bands at the welcome reception and brought back social coins for drinks and prizes.

Attendee Quotes

Valuable! I probably saved myself 120 hours of work learning about tools I don’t have to write, and got ideas for about 40 hours of open source code I’d rather write instead!.

Fun, insightful, worth every penny.

MMS never disappoints - the best information and networking experiences!

MMS is the best place to learn from your peers and get to talk directly to people who work on products we use everyday.

Was great to meet all these awesome people. Nailed it with this MMS 2025.

Experience and take backs will far surpass my salary in savings to my company.

Packed with insights, buzzing with innovation, and just the right amount of caffeine-fueled problem-solving!

First conference ever and I can't imagine anything being better than this!

This is my third time, came for the sessions, returned for the people.

Every session that I attended had information that is useful!

Approachable experts happy to answer my questions.

It's been a fun ride, new friends, old friends, and fun learning.

Best conference I have ever went to.

Best work week of my life!

A little overwhelming, but massively informative!

Great talks, great people, great mall!

Best Conference of the year!

High valuable because of the Deep dive and Networking.

Amazing content with friends along the way.

Absolutely the most enlightening experience.

    Recaps

    During MMS 2025 at MOA, speakers, sponsors, and attendees participated in auctions and donations to help gift $20,000 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Twin Cities. Their CEO, Pat Sukhum, spoke to us Thursday evening to thank everyone. Microsoft speaker Steven Hosking graciously auctioned his beard to be shaved (netting $3K!). Sponsors donated various prizes to entice the crowd to participate. We thank all who did!