Past Events

MOT Hybrid Information Session

Join us in person at McNamara Alumni Center or online to learn more about how our M.S. in Management of Technology program can help you stand out and advance your career. Once you register, an admissions associate will reach out with more information. If you register the day of the event, please call (612) 624-1846 to ensure your registration was received.

Careers in Medical Device Cybersecurity

Join us on June 3 for Careers in Medical Device Cybersecurity, a lunch and learn co-hosted by the University of Minnesota's Technological Leadership Institute and Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity (CMDC).

The need for professionals who understand cybersecurity and its importance in the medical device industry is growing rapidly. Whether it involves identifying vulnerabilities, evaluating risk, or mitigating it through design, there is a growing shortage of individuals with the training necessary to work in this evolving and competitive field. Hear how three alumni from TLI's M.S. in Medical Device Innovation and M.S. in Security Technologies have used their training to advance their careers.

Moderated by:

Michael Johnson, Honeywell/James J. Renier Chair in Technology Management, Director of Graduate Studies for the M.S. in Security Technologies

Dan Mooradian, Ph.D., Honeywell/James J. Renier Chair in Technology Management, Director of Graduate Studies for the M.S. in Medical Device Innovation

About the Panelists:

Andrew Bomett is the Director, R&D/IT Global Product Cybersecurity at Boston Scientific, focused on the safety and security of the company’s products, applications and supporting infrastructure. Before that, he was a principal security analyst in Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Information Security team. He has over 10-years’ experience in risk-driven healthcare security architecture, ranging from embedded systems to IT infrastructure, with a focus on medical device security. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Southwest Minnesota State University and a master’s degree in security technologies (MSST) from the University of Minnesota. He is certified as both CISSP and GCFE.

Shruti Iyer is a Senior Software Reliability Engineer at Medtronic, specializing in medical device therapies managing advanced-stage heart failure. Shruti has an M.S. in Medical Device Innovation from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2016). She is a medical device leader with a passion for empowering patients to manage their own health. Shruti is a subject matter expert in end-to-end medical device product development with 7+ years of experience. As a reliability engineering professional, she drives complex and timely risk management decisions in a highly regulated environment and solves product quality throughout the pre-market development cycle. Shruti champions Design for Reliability and Manufacturing best practices while designing statistical models to predict and grow product performance. She has facilitated in voice of the customer, as well as post-submission activities, including product launch and downstream marketing. Shruti is a team-oriented and strategy-focused leader with the ability to transform abstract and complex problems into tangible and simple solutions.

Judd Larson is a 2016 graduate from the M.S. in Medical Device Innovation program. He also earned a minor in Cybersecurity through the M.S. in Security Technologies program. His security career started at a major Minnesota healthcare delivery organization. He currently serves as a Senior Technologist in Medtronic’s Global Product Security Office. The day-to-day device security activities that Judd deals with in his role are vulnerability assessments, public vulnerability disclosures, global medical device security regulation implementation, and stakeholder education.

MOT Online Information Session

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EVENT: The Digital Revolution and the State

All the components of the "Digital Revolution," from silicon to software, were spawned by the American state, echoing previous state contributions to the development and deployment of transformational technologies. Now, the digital revolution has reached take-off velocity with global reach.

It has generated unprecedented disruption through IT-enabled globalization, automation and financialization, radically increasing inequality and undermining social stability. Far from depending on state support, it is attacking the authority of the state at multiple levels, even undermining the integrity of the political process in which the authority of the state rests.

The delegitimization of the state as an economic actor not only looks backward, given its failure to buffer its constituents from the consequences of the digital revolution, but it also reaches forward; it limits the state’s contribution — not only in America — to the next and much-needed "green revolution," where China is poised to play the leading role.

In case you missed it, here's video of the event:

About the Speaker

William H. Janeway is a venture capitalist and economist. He is a special limited partner of the multinational private equity firm Warburg Pincus. He joined Warburg Pincus in 1988 and was responsible for building the information technology investment practice. Previously, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr. Janeway is a director of Magnet Systems and O'Reilly Media. He is an Affiliated Member of the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge University.

Dr. Janeway is a co-founder and member of the board of governors of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council and of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance. He is a member of the management committee of the Cambridge-INET Institute, University of Cambridge and a Member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). He is the author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators, and the State, the substantially revised and extended new edition of the book initially published by Cambridge University Press in November 2012.

Dr. Janeway received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University.

EVENT: The New Frontier for Economic Value Creation

Goods and services everywhere are being commoditized. What consumers want today are experiences — memorable events that engage each individual in an inherently personal way. Businesses must embrace the principles of the “Experience Economy” to stage ever-more engaging experiences. Joe Pine, co-author of "The Experience Economy," will discuss the evolution of economic value creation from commodities and goods through services to the new frontier of differentiated experiences. He will discuss the principles that matter most in both B2C and B2B enterprises and show attendees how to create greater economic value for your customers. We'll tap the wisdom of the crowd to discuss best practices and key insights for our own Minnesota businesses. Please join us for a stimulating and interactive discussion.

We also invite you to join us for a happy hour (appetizers and cash bar) from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. to network with the University of Minnesota community and local tech and business professionals.

Event Schedule:
5:30 p.m.: Arrival, happy hour & networking
6:00 p.m.: Program begins
6:30 p.m.: Table group discussions, followed by Q&A with the guest speaker
7:00 p.m.: Program concludes & networking

About the Speaker

B. Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker and management advisor. He has addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; the original TED conference in Monterrey, California; and the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A lecturer in Columbia University’s Technology Management program, he co-founded Strategic Horizons LLP to help businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. A prolific writer, his first book was “Mass Customization,” and he wrote “The Experience Economy” and “Authenticity” with partner James H. Gilmore, and with Kim C. Korn “Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier.”