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TechFest North Carolina Speakers

May 13, 2026 - May 14, 2026

Keynote Speakers

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IBM
IBM Consulting's Global Leader for Trustworthy AI

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Cisco
Distinguished Engineer

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Cisco
Director, Network Engineering + Operation

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Deutsche Bank
Head of Group Technology Infrastructure + Head of Technology, Data and Innovation Americas

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Cisco
Distinguished Engineer, Cybersecurity and AI Security

Panelists + Speakers

Serving Securely: AI, Cyber Risk, and Public Trust Executive Conversation

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NC Department of Health & Human Services
CIO

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Accenture
Associate Director - Cybersecurity - Public Service

Turbo Tech Talk Speakers

AI at the Speed of Trust

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Walk West
CEO

The Future of Tech is Human Access

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Ablr
CEO

The Product That Rewrites Itself: Marketing AI in Real Time

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Vantaca
Head of HOAi Sales

The Forgotten Economy - The Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity Nobody's Talking About

Mark Bavisotto

RDULabs
CEO + Founder 

SI 360 and AI - How Can AI Improve Your City's Water

Mark Bavisotto

CGI
Senior Consultant

AI Across Industries: Innovating, Disrupting, and Transforming the North Carolina Landscape

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Deutsche Bank
Managing Director

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Peter Millar
CIO

Bill Higgins

IBM
VP, AI Developer Relations

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Artemis Immersive
CEO + Founder

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Callibrity
Senior Staff Consultant

Making AI Defensible, Auditable and Compliant

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Enact
CISO

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BlueAlly
Senior Solutions Consultant

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Auditable Intelligence
Chief Compliance Officer

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UNC Health
CISO

Words Matter: Communicating Cybersecurity Risk, Readiness and Reality

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NC Department of Information Technology
Deputy State CISO

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Pendo
CISO

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Stern Security
vCISO Practice Lead

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Brooks Pierce
Partner

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BRG
Managing Director, DPO, Head of Global Information Compliance Advisory

Building a Data Driven Culture (Not Just a Data Team)

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IBM
Distinguished Engineer

Shelley Willingham

The Diversity Movement
Chief Revenue Officer

Josh Bomba

Blue Cross NC
Chief Technology Officer

Todd Gillen

Fluree
Head of Business Development

Todd Boufford

Dogwood State Bank
SVP, Technology & Innovation

Apprenticeships, Early Careers, and AI-Ready Skills: How NC is Building Its Next-Gen Tech Workforce

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QuantumBloom
CEO + Co-Founder

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UNC Charlotte - College of Computing + Informatics
Associate Dean

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Dell Technologies
Principle Engineer

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SparkNC
Director of College + Career Navigation

AgTech in North Carolina

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Athian
CTO

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Sankofa Farms
Founder

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TARGAN
CEO

From AI Pilots to Enterprise Value: What NC's Economy Has at Stake

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MetLife
Vice President, Intelligent Automation & AI

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AWS
Senior Solutions Architect

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9+1AI
Co-Founder + CEO

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CGI
National AI Strategy & Technical Lead

More exciting speakers to come!

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