Hoeven and the Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce will host the annual State of Technology conference, a business technology conference featuring keynote addresses by Tami Reller, executive vice president of Microsoft’s marketing group, and Doug Burgum, founder of Great Plains Software. The event will showcase some of the cutting-edge technologies being developed in North Dakota to drive growth in diverse industries, including energy, agriculture, information technology, health care, manufacturing and other growing business sectors. The senator will deliver remarks at 11:00 a.m. to begin the conference. Prior to the start of the technology conference, the senator and keynote speakers will hold a press conference.