Venkat moved to Oregon in 1997 and has since hired, mentored, and trained hundreds of students in STEM, high-performance computing, and AI. Prior to NVIDIA and a brief stint at a startup company building systems-on-a-chip for digital televisions, he was a computer architect at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, responsible for developing innovative technologies for Pentium®4 and Core™ processors. Since then his teams have developed products that enable technologies like self-driving cars, natural language processing, and recommendation systems.

Since 2021 Corey Hanson has been serving as the Vice President and General Manager of KPTV. Under her leadership, KPTV/KPDX saw ratings growth in all day parts and achieved the number one audience position for morning and late news. The duopoly has held that number one position for over a decade. Hanson also helped launch nine newscasts, producing nearly 70 hours of weekly news content. Corey began her career as a news producer at KOIN (CBS) before moving to KGW (NBC), both in Portland.

Jennifer has been a dynamic presence in the State of Oregon for over 15 years and is currently the conference and training coordinator for the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division. In this role, she coordinates outreach and education to customers and stakeholders, and manages special projects for the division. Jennifer received her PROSCI change management certification in January of 2020 and her Lean Six Sigma green belt, advanced analysis and process improvement, certification in 2023. From 2019 through 2023, Jennifer worked as the modernization change lead for the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division modernization program.

A Pacific Northwest native passionate about data, Kendahl Palmer has spent the last 13 years immersed in the dynamic world of data. As the Director of Customer Success at Placer.ai, Kendahl is dedicated to uncovering and delivering invaluable insights into our physical world.