Q4 Tech Leadership Forum » MnTech

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 • 8:00 – 9:00 AM CT • Virtual

Event Summary

Sri Koneru, CIO of Winnebago Industries and incoming MnTech board chair, will team up with our own Joel Crandall, VP of Talent, to lead an interactive conversation focused on building tech talent strategies for 2024 and beyond. This forum will illuminate the broader workforce challenges we face as a state, highlight key levers for change, and the important role our business community can play in solving our talent challenges. Participants will gain valuable information and the perspectives of fellow tech executives to leverage in creating their own talent management strategies as they approach the new year.

On the heels of MnTech’s October 27^th Tech Talent Conference, we will share some of the data and insights from the conference to support an informed discussion among participants, including the current and projected tech workforce supply and demand, as well as key long-term demographic shifts anticipated for our state.

We welcome you to include your CIO/CTO/CHRO partners for this interactive conversation, to include topics such as:

- What is the role of business in solving our state’s talent pipeline challenges?
- Costs/benefits of offshoring when talent isn’t available here?
- How can we better tap into historically overlooked talent pools? What’s working? What’s not?
- Hiring for competencies vs. degrees – just talk or we hiring differently?
- Are IT teams coming back into the office or given a hall pass?
- And more…

Attendees will also receive a link to the latest State of Tech Talent report which will be hot off the virtual presses.

We hope to see you on November 8^th!

Please Note:

These forums are by invitation-only to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, CDOs, and others on their leadership teams.

Sponsored by:

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.