2026 Speakers
Giuliana Auinger
Global Vice President
Schneider Electric
Srinivas Aluru
Associate Dean
Georgia Tech College of Computing
Dallas Austin
Songwriter, Record Producer, and Film Producer
Donnie Beamer Jr.
Senior Technology Advisor
City of Atlanta
Rep. Arlene Beckles
State Representative
State of Georgia
Avoilan Bingham
General Manager
Drive Capital
Jerry Blair
SVP, Hyperscale Sales
DataBank
Leslie Ann "LAB" Brooks
Head of AI Enablement
Raymond James
Angie Brown
EVP & CIO
The Home Depot
Davis Burgess
AVP for Data, AI, Innovation
Grady Health System
Ángel Cabrera
President
Georgia Tech
Charlinda Catchings
U.S. Community Relations Senior Manager
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Aaron "Ronnie" Chatterji
Chief Economist
OpenAI
Barry Clark
CTO
Zero RFI
Chris Clark
President & CEO
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Leann Collins
Partner
RSM US
Robert Conrad
President
Tekterra
Stuart Countess
CEO
KIA Georgia
Jasmine Crowe-Houston
Founder & CEO
Goodr
Konstantin Cvetanov
Global Field Technologist, AI Factories
NVIDIA
Andre Dickens
Mayor
City of Atlanta
Jelovy Djaja
Student
Georgia Tech
Irina Dolinskaya
Directorate Head, CISE
National Science Foundation
Prashant Doshi
Executive Director of UGA Institute for AI
University of Georgia
Steven Ferguson
Deputy Director
Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
Patricia Florissi
Technical Director
Google Cloud
Ben Garrett
Director
The Hatchery at Emory University
William Gaudelli
Dean
Georgia Tech College of Lifetime Learning
Steve Gertz
Chief Growth Officer
Qumulus AI
Natalia Gonzalez
Founder & CEO
Altera Media
Blake Gordon
General Manager - Digital Trading
Georgia-Pacific
Andrew Grant
Founder & CEO
TAPN
Eric Gray
CEO, Power Segment
GE Vernova
Joy Harris
Executive Officer of Entrepreneurship
Georgia State University
David Hoffman
Professor
Duke University
Ayanna Howard
President
Spelman
Leo Howell
VP of IT & CIO
Georgia Tech
Charles Isbell
Chancellor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dean Jerding
Chief Solutions & Delivery Officer
ImagineX
Bryan Johnson
Superintendent
Atlanta Public Schools
Rep. Todd Jones
State Representative
State of Georgia
David Joyner
Interim Vice Provost for AI in Education
Georgia Tech
Deep Kalina
Founder & CEO
RightShift
Elizabeth Kealoha
Co-Founder & COO
Altera Media
James Kelleher
President & CEO
Georgia Association of Manufacturers
Kevin Kiley
CEO
Airia
Lauren Koontz
President and CEO
YMCA of Metro Atlanta
Honnie Korngold
CEO
CineVantage
Narayanan (KK) Krishnakumar
VP and CTO
Delta Air Lines
Robin Lanier
Managing Director, Grid Strategy and Solutions at Georgia Power Company
Southern Company
Philip Lewis
Partner
Fulcrum Equity Partners
Lo Li
Chief Technology, Data, Operations Officer
Truist
Arthur Liou
Dean, College of the Arts
Kennesaw State University
Lou Marino
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Kennesaw State University
Brionte McCorkle
Executive Director
Georgia Conservation Voters
Anuj Mehrotra
Dean
Scheller College of Business
Juana Mendenhall
Vice Provost
Morehouse College
Ana Lenoir Minter
Principal
RSM Consulting
Candace Mitchell
Co-Founder & CEO
MYAVANA
Tope Mitchell
Director of Technology and Entrepreneurship
Invest Atlanta
Girish Modgil
Chief Data & AI Officer
McKesson
Fonz Morris
Head of Product
Black Girls Code
Muhsinah Morris
Director of Metaverse Programs
Morehouse College
Scott Moskowitz
VP of Market Strategy and Public Affairs
Qcells North America
Alessandro Orso
Dean
College of Engineering at UGA
Dr. Jerry Parrish
Chief Economist
Metro Atlanta Chamber
Chintan Patel
Chief Information Officer
National DCP, LLC
Naynesh Patel
Managing Director - Cybersecurity
Accenture
Renee Pearson
GVP & Chief Information Officer
Rollins, Inc.
Nadine Peever
Founder & Executive Director
Bonne Fire
Padmakiran Penchala
Director, Science
Infor
Kenneth Pentimonti
Managing Director
Paladin Capital Group
Richard Phillips
Dean
Robinson College of Business, GSU
KP Reddy
Founder & CEO
Zero RFI
Bert Reeves
Vice President of Institute Relations
Georgia Tech
Valerie Montgomery Rice
President
Morehouse School of Medicine
Heather Rocker
CEO
Women in Technology (WIT)
David Rubinger
Market President and Publisher
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Nabile Safdar
Chief AI Officer
Emory Healthcare & Emory University
Dorren Schmitt
VP IT Strategy & Innovation
Allen Media Group
Nashlie Sephus
Founder
The Bean Path
Gorkem Sevinc
Co-founder & CEO
Qualytics
Jen Shepherd
Global Head of Uber Health
Uber
Jonathan Shieber
Editor-At-Large
Resilience Media
Raghupathy "Siva" Sivakumar
VP & CCO
Commercialization, Georgia Tech
Hector Soliman-Valdez
State and Local Government Affairs
Zipline
Le Song
CTO
GenBio AI
Anna Stenport
Dean
University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Brent Stubbs
Chief Administrative Officer
Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America
Usha Talasila
Principal, Head of AI
Inverness Graham
Yuanzhi Tang
Executive Director
Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute
Laura Taylor
Director of Energy Policy and Innovation Center, Professor
Georgia Tech School of Economics
Rep. Brad Thomas
State Representative
State of Georgia
Al Trujillo
President
Georgia Tech Foundation
Judith Odili Uchidiuno
Assistant Professor
Georgia Tech
Sophia Velastegui
CEO
Velastegui Ventures
Sarah Woodward
GTM & Product Marketing Leader
AI Growth Ops
Margaret Weniger
Director of Entrepreneurial Programs
CREATE-X at Georgia Tech
Rae Williams
Director of Customer Engineering
Google Cloud
Howard Wright
VP, Startup Ecosystem
NVIDIA
John Yates
Partner
Gunderson Dettmer
Nick Yaitsky
VP, Head of Infrastructure & Global Operations
Elevance Health
Tina Zhao
Director, Head of Advanced AI Solution
BlackRock