Mike Hussey is an industry executive director for state and local strategy for Oracle Government and Education. Mike has 25 years of senior leadership experience with the State of Utah where he most recently served as CIO for the State of Utah and the executive director for the Department of Technology Services.  While serving in this cabinet-level position, Mike was known as a collaborative and transformative leader who enjoys applying technological advances available in the market.  Among some of his accomplishments while the state CIO, Mike led the state’s cloud journey and digital transformation efforts, created the state’s first cyber center, and formed the state’s first innovation fund.

Mike has been recognized as a “Top 25 Doer, Dreamer and Driver” in the public sector.

As Executive Director and State of Texas Chief Information Officer, I am responsible for the overall leadership, direction, and daily operations of the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), an agency with an annual fiscal profile of more than $6 billion per year. DIR’s responsibilities include protecting the state’s data and critical technology infrastructure, managing a multi-billion dollar cooperative contracts program, and providing strategic technology leadership, solutions, and innovation to all levels of Texas government.

Eric Rothrock is the AVP of AI/ML at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), where he has spent the past two years spearheading OCI’s innovative AI services across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and, most recently, Platform as a Service (PaaS) models. With deep expertise in artificial intelligence, Eric specializes in bringing products to market that accelerate the adoption and advancement of generative AI technologies within commercial enterprises, government agencies, and higher education institutions throughout North America.

Eric is passionate about driving growth and innovation, particularly in launching new business ventures for established corporations and scaling emerging startups. He joined Oracle following his leadership role at a successful AI-driven software startup. Throughout his career, Eric has consistently leveraged Oracle technologies, and he is now proud to be at the forefront of OCI’s transformative AI initiatives.

Based in northern New Jersey, Eric enjoys adventure travel with his wife and two daughters, continually striving to appreciate and cherish every moment shared with his family.

Scott is an Oracle Certified Database Administrator with proven ability to effectively manage databases, applications, and projects. Excel at analyzing products and procedures to generate new ideas to improve efficiency and production quality.

 Oracle product manager and business development professional that has built instrumental product development and marketing programs. Henry has broad experience across: PaaS and SaaS, Database and application server middle-ware, business-to-business integration and Internet commerce platforms.

Laura is Co-Founder and COO of MisaLabs, guiding company strategy, operations, and partnerships to scale AI adoption across industries. Before co-founding MisaLabs, she spent over 20 years at Intel in senior finance and corporate development roles, leading $30B in strategic partnerships and chairing multiple governance boards. Laura brings a deep background in business transformation, execution discipline, and strategic growth.

 Frank is the Founding VP of Engineering at MisaLabs, where he leads the development of modular and scalable AI infrastructure that enables rapid enterprise AI transformation. With over 25 years of experience in AI, cloud computing, and media systems, Frank has built and scaled global engineering teams and launched AI-driven SaaS platforms used worldwide. Previously, he served as VP of Engineering at Krane Inc. and Senior Director of AI Engineering at Ampere Computing (acquired by Softbank), driving real-world deployment of large-scale AI and generative systems.

With over 20 years of experience in High-Performance Computing (HPC), I have spent the past several years specializing in Artificial Intelligence. My expertise centers on AMD Instinct™ GPUs for AI and HPC workloads, while I also work with EPYC™ CPUs when needed.

State of Texas CAPPS ERP—including all the lexicon and concepts that accompany a large multi-tenant system. Chelsa has a strong background in payroll policy, expertise in fiscal policy, fund accounting, and the Comptroller’s traditional systems.
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Vijay Kumar is a technology executive with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and GPU computing. As Director of Business Development for AMD’s Datacenter GPU group, he drives strategic initiatives with hyperscale partners, leading the OCI AMD GPU program for next-generation AI and HPC workloads. Previously, Vijay served as Director of Cloud Strategy at Broadcom, where he led the development of VMware’s joint offerings with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, helping to expand VMware’s multicloud ecosystem.