From scientific poster sessions to GitHub global actions: Accelerating digital innovations at 3M

Why did 3M, the 115-year-old manufacturer of Post-It® Notes, Scotch® Tape, ACE™ bandages, and thousands of other known brands, adopt GitHub? Come learn how a broad group of software engineers, data scientists, material scientists, modelers, and manufacturing subject matter experts worked together to overcome a host of obstacles to bring 3M into the future. This talk will also cover 3M’s GitHub journey from nonexistence to innersource and opensource collaboration. Expect highlights like how a group PhD modelers used GitHub to democratize their models and enable new innovations.