MHTA's Spring Conference is just a week away! » MnTech

MHTA — MHTA’s annual Spring Conference will be held on May 9th at the Minneapolis Depot Renaissance Hotel. More than 180 companies and organizations are participating in this exciting event, which includes great networking opportunities, five keynote sessions, and 15 breakout sessions.

May 9th will mark MHTA’s 21st year hosting this all-day conference. Keynote speakers include:

Neel Kashkari, President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve
Chris Wolf, VP & Global CTO of VMware
Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server at Microsoft
John Cuningham, Founder of the Cuningham Group and Paul Sobanski, Software Development Lead at Epic Systems
Dave Knox, CMO of Rockfish Innovation Group

Breakout sessions include:

Leading Tech Transformation
Unintended Consequences of IoT
Collaborative UX Design
Delivering Government Services through the Cloud
Cyber Liability: What the Board Needs to Know
IoT: From Hype to Here
Entrepreneurs & the Enterprise
Innovations, Disruptions, and Applications
Tech Enabled Workspace
Business Agility at Scale
Supply Chain Innovations
The Demand for Skilled Talent

You can find the full agenda, list of speakers, ticket prices and more at www.mntech.org/event/spring/. Ticket prices increase at the door — up $75 for members and $100 for non-members — so don’t wait too long to get registered!

Jayshree Seth
Corporate Scientist, 3M

Jayshree Seth is a Corporate Scientist at 3M and currently holds 77 patents for a variety of innovations, with several additional pending. She joined 3M in 1993 after an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, New York. She is a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from her alma mater REC Trichy India, now NIIT Trichy, where she earned a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering.

Jayshree was appointed 3M’s first ever Chief Science Advocate in 2018 and is using her scientific knowledge, technical expertise and professional experience to advance science and communicate the benefits of science and the importance of diversity in STEM fields. She is also a member of Carlton Society which is the 3M Science and Engineering “Hall of Fame.” Jayshree is the fourth woman and first female engineer to be inducted. In 2020, she was awarded Society of Women Engineers (SWE) highest Achievement Award. She is also the first-ever winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the new Female Thought Leaders of the Year – category in the 18th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business in 2021. Jayshree was featured in a docuseries titled Not the Science Type that premiered during the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and accepted for Brand Storytelling Showcase, a sanctioned event at Sundance Film Festival. She is the author of the books, The Heart of Science – Engineering Footprints, Fingerprints, & Imprints, and The Heart of Science – Engineering Fine Print published by the Society of Women Engineers, and all sales proceeds go to a scholarship for underrepresented minority women in STEM. She is a sought-after speaker, globally, on a multitude of topics such as innovation, leadership and STEM advocacy and has featured in local, national and international media.

Jayshree has served on the CEOs Inclusion Council, chaired the 3M Asian Employee Resource Group A3CTION and serves on the Steering Committee for 3M Technical Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF). She also serves on the Board of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Engineering Advisory Council for Clarkson University, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPP), Advisory Board for Innovation – The Conference Board, and Advisory Group of Aspen Institute Our Future is Science program.

Jayshree has two adult kids, and her husband also works at 3M.