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Presented by Hung Brown Ton, Chief Architect, 3M Company
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.
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A
Good
morning
afternoon
and
evening,
everybody,
my
name
is
hung
brownson
and
I'm
the
chief
architect
and
lab
manager
at
r3m's,
corporate
research
and
development
group.
I'd
like
to
share
with
you
our
journey
today
from
scientific
poster
sessions
to
get
up
global
actions,
how
we've
accelerated
our
digital
innovations.
A
A
Here
you
see
our
technology
platforms
in
the
form
of
a
periodic
table
ranging
from
adhesives
abrasives
to
micro,
replications
to
non-woven
materials,
our
digital
elements,
which
include
data
science,
sensors,
robotics,
modeling
and
simulation.
These
were
added
recently
to
our
periodic
table.
Yet
it's
more
than
just
the
breadth
of
our
technology
that
sets
us
apart.
It's
also
how
our
scientists
share
and
combine
these
technologies
to
solve
problems
in
a
variety
of
different
ways
for
our
customers.
A
This
is
why
we
invest
close
to
six
percent.
Sixty
six
percent.
Sorry,
six
percent
of
our
sales
into
r
d
annually
it'd
be
great
to
have
sixty
percent,
so
innovation
happens
when
we
combine
various
periodic
table
elements
together
with
a
deep
understanding
of
our
customers
to
develop
products
ranging
from
materials
such
as
command.
Strips
scotchgard,
post-it
notes,
the
optical
film
found
in
cell
phones
to
digital
connected
solutions
as
of
late
such
as
posted
plus
mobile
applications.
A
A
A
A
We
then
have
folks
walk
around
the
room
to
learn
and
ask
questions
about
current
research
to
take
back
to
their
own
labs,
to
see
what
other
combinations
are
possible
when
other
innovation
are
possible
somewhere
at
3m,
there's,
usually
a
poster
sessioning
happening
with
recent
and
coveted
times.
We've
been
doing
this
virtually
via
video
conferencing.
A
A
challenge
was
posted
to
me
a
few
years
ago
and
how
we
can
accelerate
r
d
and
establish
a
culture
of
code
reuse.
At
the
time
we
were
also
embarking
on
researching
and
developing
new
digital
and
software
platforms
for
broader
3m
adoption.
Poster
sessions
were
not
necessarily
conducive
for
this
type
of
collaboration.
A
The
solution
we
launched
github
back
in
january
of
2018
as
a
common
repository
in
which
users
could
search
store,
manage
access
and,
most
importantly,
leverage
github's
collaboration
capabilities
to
accelerate
our
software
use
the
result.
Since
then,
we
flipped
the
model
from
human
interface
to
digital
content.
First
and
self-service,
we
have
broken
up
vertical
organizations
into
horizontal
content
domains
instead
of
having
a
one
one-to-one
or
one-to-many
interaction.
A
Let's
go
a
little
deeper
with
an
example,
so
we
had
a
challenge
where
we
have
a
group
of
research
scientists
with
phds
in
math
and
material
science
who
develop
complex,
physics-based
fea
models
or
what
we
call
finite
element:
analysis
models,
these
models,
help
to
analyze,
predict
material
properties,
materials
that
you
use
in
your
daily
life.
Today
we
develop
a
platform
called
model
hub
that
manages
the
complex
inputs
and
outputs
to
run
sophisticated
models
in
a
high
performance
cloud
computing
environment.
A
At
the
onset
it
was
really
difficult
to
onboard
new
modelers
lots
of
manual
steps,
along
with
the
challenge
of
using
the
cloud
and
a
new
tool
set.
Thus,
it
was
critical
that
we
had
to
remove
such
friction
and
make
it
easier
for
modelers
to
use
the
model
hook
platform
the
solution.
Well,
we
naturally
started
with
github
we're
already
collaborating
in
the
software
world.
A
So
how
do
we
onboard
the
monitors
and
the
scientists
we
developed,
a
booster,
which
is
an
integration
layer
between
github
and
model
hub
and
our
cloud
high
performance
computing
engine
using
github
as
a
self-service
interface?
Modelers
can
create
repos
using
existing
github
templates
to
get
started
which
simplified
their
adoption.
They
could
upload
their
models.
A
They
could
test
their
models
using
pull
request,
which
was
very
powerful
which
deploy
the
models
via
web
hooks
into
model
hub.
In
addition,
github
use
issues
and
updates
were
being
auto
created
using
our
github
apis,
which
then
tied
back
to
the
models.
How
simple
is
that
by
extending
github
into
model
hub
platform
and
using
booster
as
that
interface
with
github,
we
have
drastically
shortened
the
time
it
took
for
our
modelers
to
onboard
new
models
from
weeks
to
days,
we've
also
tripled
the
number
of
models
since
launch
launching
booster
with
github
this
spring.
A
A
We
have
now
organically
grown
through
value
versus
mandates.
This
is
really
really
important,
as
we
cannot
mandate
innovation.
We
have
now
have
over
1400
diverse
set
of
users
from
software
engineers
to
scientists
to
modelers
to
ip
attorneys.
It's
often
said
that
people
vote
with
their
feet.
At
3m,
we
have
over
3
200
active
repos
of
all
kinds
from
software
code
to
models
to
engineering
docs
to
turning
materials.
A
Github
has
been
used
across
our
corporate
r
d
organization
to
a
growing
list
of
divisions
and
business
functions.
We
are
also
extending
our
collaboration
with
well-known
research
universities
via
github
sas.
It's
been
pretty
amazing.
I
think
that
github
has
helped
us
bring
us
closer
together
across
our
diverse
communities
and
geography.
Since
we
have
it's
a
it's
been
an
amazing
journey.
A
You
know
for
us
to
get
to
this
point
of
success.
We've
had
to
build
partnerships
along
the
way
with
key
internal
partners
that
may
traditionally
have
been
viewed
as
barriers,
we've
partnered,
with
it,
security
on
all
things:
security
related
from
data
classification
to
data
loss,
prevention
to
external
identity,
access
management
to
two-factor,
authentication
and
so
on,
and
so
on.
We've
also
partnered
with
our
intellectual
property
attorneys
on
licensing
and
approval
process.
A
One
of
the
critical
pivot
points
for
us
was
early
this
year
when
we
hosted
jason
warner,
github
cto
to
come
and
talk
to
our
cso
and
our
vp
of
r
d.
These
conversations
really
helped
broaden
our
perspectives
on
how
security
and
innovation
were
occurring
across
other
github
enterprise,
users
and
customers
and
communities.
A
A
Speaking
of
culture
barriers,
hackathons
has
been
a
great
way
to
overcome
them.
The
past
two
years
we've
hosted
an
annual
3m
company-wide
global
hackathon.
This
past
summer,
we've
had
over
800
persons
globally
participating
across
10
countries.
This
photo
was
from
2019
when
we
could
gather,
but
this
past
summer
it
was
virtually,
was
all
virtual
do
that
pandemic.
A
Github
was
at
the
core
of
that
collaboration
as
both
a
platform
and
as
a
sponsor
with
training,
support
and
prices.
You
would
be
amazed
with
what
engineers
and
scientists
are
willing
to
do
for
a
github
hoodie
these
days
and
thank
you
github
for
sponsoring
and
your
support
of
these
hackathons
kudos
also
to
the
github
account
team.
They've
been
a
great
supporters.