TECH.mn's Lauren Melcher spoke with
the Minnesota High Tech Association's incoming president and CEO,
Margaret Anderson Kelliher. The onetime candidate for governor will
finish her term as Speaker of the House in December and officially begin
her job with the association in January.
"We have a great history of innovation in this state, as well as the
ability to sell that creative environment," Kelliher tells Tech.mn. "We
also have quite strong link to the beginning of the computer industry,
and we have the opportunity to both build off of that and go farther
than we have in the past."
Other topics covered in the Q&A interview: startups, the digital
divide, STEM education, and the gender imbalance in those career fields.