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.