Hewlett Packard VP To Deliver Keynote At WiSE Conference

SAN MARCOS – Tom Bradicich, vice president and fellow of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), will deliver the keynote address, “Broadening Participation in STEM,” during the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Conference at Texas State University on March 6.

The conference will run 8 AM to 5 PM in the LBJ Student Center Ballroom.

Bradicich directs the HPE Discovery Labs and IoT Innovation Labs in the U.S., Europe and Asia, for partner and customer collaborations.

Prior to joining HPE, Bradicich was a corporate fellow and officer at National Instruments.

He began his career with IBM, where he served as an IBM fellow, vice president, distinguished engineer and server chief technology officer.

He was named in CRN magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Executives and Top 25 Disruptors in both 2016 and 2017 and was inducted into the North Carolina State University Alumni Hall of Fame.

Other WiSE Conference speakers include Rhetta Andrews Bowers, state representative for District 113 in the Texas Legislature, and Shelley Gretlein, vice president of global marketing for National Instruments.

Networking Circle Leaders for 2020 include Beth Turman, Dell; Tanya Betancourt, Texas State; Shannon Weigum, Texas State; and Jennifer Jaques, Lighting Application Sciences.

Admission for high school, undergraduate and graduate students is $15. Admission for non-students is $35. Space is limited, with advance registration available at wise.cose.txstate.edu/2020WISE-Conference/Registration.html.

For more information on the WiSE Initiative, visit wise.cose.txstate.edu.