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 Mixer: Connect, Compare, Collaborate

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

Exploring – Just starting to learn

Piloting – Running small-scale experiments

Scaling – Expanding successful use cases

Optimizing – AI is embedded and evolving

Attendees are encouraged to stand up, walk around, and talk! The room will have conversational zones based on your biggest challenges, including “Data”, “Change Management”, “Strategy” and “Risk” to help people self-organize around topics. Each conversational zone will also have prompts to get the discussions going, plus, our facilitators will roam the room to help spark conversation with light prompts or introduce people with shared interests.  

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

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