Practitioner Presentations (Rooms 2 and 3)
8:30 - 9:20 Session 1
Room 2 - Mark Harmon (IBM) - 2026: The Year of Context Engineering and AI-Driven ROI
Room 3 - AJ Ansari (DSWi) - Balancing Innovation and Compliance: Navigating IT's AI Governance Dilemma
9:30 - 10:20 Session 2
Room 2 - Robert Stricklin (TAMU) - Securing AI Using the ARMOR Framework
Room 3 - Tim Scott (Frogslayer) - 6,200 Miles and 50 Venues: How AI Transformed Nine College Interns Into a Customer Experience Research Engine
10:30 - 11:20 Session 3
Room 2 - Daniel Sirias (United States Space Force) - Achieving Digital Superiority: The USSF Playbook for AI-Powered Space Operations
Room 3 - Steve O'Neal (Capsher Technology) - Flavors of AI
11:30 - 12:00 Session 4
Room 2 & 3 - Dr. Vince Kellen (TAMU) - Models for Democratizing Access to AI
1:00 - 1:50 Session 5
Room 2 - William Talavera and Vidya Sandela (Capital Farm Credit) - Managing AI at the Front End: Best Practices for Use Case Intake and Prioritization.
Room 3 - Anjan Rajkumar (Meta, Inc.) - The Unbreakable Ecosystem: How LLMs Fix Your Data Before It Breaks.
2:00 - 2:50 Session 6
Room 2 - Robbie Nicholls (Agentic Ai Services) - The Real World Power of Agentic AI: Building the Future Instead of Buying It
Room 3 - Russell Cates (Texas A&M University) - Building Agents That Get Used: The Trust Ladder from Autocomplete to Autonomous
3:00 - 3:50 Session 7
Room 2 - Joe Abraham (Cisco Systems) - The AI Mirror: Reflection of Human Bias
Room 3 - Dr. Jo Ann Kern and Dr. Justin Carrell (Tarleton State University) - Integrating AI with Project Management to support Transformational Change
Hands-on Labs (Room 1)
These presentations will be held in Flex Room 1, sponsored by Capsher Technology.
8:30 - 10:00 Session 1
Dr. Bruce Gooch (Blinn College) - AI For Instructors Lab (1.5 hours)
10:00 - 11:30 Session 2
1:00 - 4:30 Session 3
Academic Research (Room 4)
These presentations will be held in Flex Room 4, sponsored by DSWi
9:00
AI-Driven Privacy Orchestration for Federated Query Processing Across Distributed Data Silos
9:30
In Pursuit of Gen-AI Incidents: Alternative “Theories-In-Use” in Trust Infrastructures
10:00
From Feeling to Form: Co-Created AI Art for Emotional Support
10:30
Align Generative AI with Human Preferences: A Novel LLM Finetuning Method for Online Review
11:00
Domain-Aware Document Intelligence for Drug Discovery Through Extraction Driven Retrieval and Agentic Search