Jim Parker

Jim Parker

Senior Program Manager Tennessee Valley Authority

Jim is a self-motivated leader, who maintains a positive attitude, promotes teamwork, empowers teammates to achieve excellence, and continually seeks to utilize the leadership experience gained over his career. His passion is in leading, developing people, and creating an outstanding work culture. Jim strives to enhance business operations with new technology capabilities.

Main Conference Day 1 - February 24, 2026

5:30 PM AI Readiness Mixer & Cocktail Reception: Connect, Compare, Collaborate

Where are you on your AI journey, and who else is walking the same path? Grab a drink and join this dynamic networking session to find and connect with peers at a similar stage of AI readiness. During sign in, attendees are requested to select a badge that identifies their AI readiness level from:

    Attendees are encouraged to stand up, walk around, and talk! The room will have conversational zones including “Biggest Barriers”, “Quick Wins,” “Tech Stack Talk”, “AI Workforce Readiness” and “Data Foundations & Architecture” to help people self-organize around topics. Plus, our facilitators will roam the room to help spark conversation with light prompts or introduce people with shared interests. Finally, every attendee gets a simple “AI Readiness Reflection Card” to help them jot down one idea, one contact, and one next step. 

    • Exploring – Just starting to learn
    • Piloting – Running small-scale experiments
    • Scaling – Expanding successful use cases
    • Optimizing – AI is embedded and evolving

    Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Jim.

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