Program

Speakers & Agenda

Final Conference Schedule

Day 1 in person at Grambling State University and Day 2 online. All Chicago participation is online.

All times are Louisiana local time, Central Daylight Time (CDT, UTC-5).

Paper presentations: 10 minutes per talk, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.

Day 1 / 25 September 2026

Grambling State University · In person

  1. 8:00 AM

    Registration

  2. 8:00 - 9:30 AM

    Breakfast

  3. 10:00 AM

    Opening Remarks

    Presidents / Conference Chair

  4. 10:30 - 11:15 AM

    Keynote 1

    Rajkumar Buyya

    Rajkumar Buyya

    Neoteric Frontiers in Cloud and Quantum Computing

    Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, University of Melbourne; Director, qCLOUDS Laboratory; Founding CEO, Manjrasoft

  5. 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

    Keynote 2

    Vithalbhai Dhaduk

  6. 12:30 - 1:30 PM

    Lunch Break

  7. 2:00 - 4:00 PM

    Session 1 (Session chairs: Bharat S. Rawal & Vashanth Iyer)

    • Paper 8Hybrid No-Sum Sequences for Cryptography
    • Paper 63Analysis of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Extraction from Large Language Models
    • Paper 49Next-Generation Cryptography for Secure E-Commerce Platforms: A Restaurant Case Study
    • Paper 32BDZT: Behavior-Driven Zero Trust Security with Post-Quantum Cryptography for Heterogeneous Quantum Processors
    • Paper 39Enhancing Facial Emotion Recognition Using EfficientNet-B4 with Advanced Augmentation Techniques
    • Paper 95Design of a Hybrid Classical-Quantum Framework for Quantum-Aware Database Query Processing
    • Paper 97An Intent-Based Networking Framework for Closed-Loop Reliable Small UAS Operations
  8. 4:00 PM

    Coffee Break

  9. 4:30 - 5:30 PM

    Keynote 3

    Jamesh Joshi

  10. 6:00 PM

    End of Day

Presentation Guidelines

Prepare your conference presentation using the recommended structure and formatting guidance. Aim for 8–10 slides in widescreen (16:9) format, with body text of at least 18 pt. Paper presentations allow 10 minutes for the talk, followed by 5 minutes for Q&A.

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Speaker Profiles

Explore the retained speaker biographies and presentation abstracts. These profiles are not assigned to individual slots in the updated schedule.

Remote
RC

Rebecca Cochran

Director of Information Security & Data Privacy, First Command

Data Privacy & Information Security

Abstract coming soon
Remote
RH

Raj Hindocha

Cloud Architect, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes Was Designed for Microservices - Not AI: Rethinking Cloud-Native Architecture for Agentic Systems

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In Person
AC

Anjan Chatterjee

Sr. Architect, AbbVie

Quantum-Ready Prior Authorization for Patient Access

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Remote
HP

Harshavardhan Peddireddy

Platform Data Architect, Meijer Inc.

Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data for Trustworthy Enterprise AI: A Governance-Driven Framework Validated at Scale

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Remote
DU

Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao

Senior Data Scientist, Amazon

Measuring AI Investment Through Causal Thinking: From Counterfactuals to Capital Allocation

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Remote
BS

Bharani Sudhakar

Lead AI Engineer

The Deepfake Dilemma: How AI Can Detect What AI Creates — and Why Platforms Aren’t Acting Fast Enough

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In Person
BS

Biswaranjan Senapati

Accenture

Bio-Quantum Computers and Industrial Application in Cybersecurity

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In Person
BS

Biswaranjan Senapati +5

Research Scientist

PQC and Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Implications and Challenges

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Remote
SC

Sandeep Chauhan

IT Architect

The Intralogistics Revolution: AI & Automation inside SAP EWM

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In Person
GS

Gaurav Shekhar

Enterprise AI Architect & Technology Leader

Chaos Engineering in Platform Engineering

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In Person
RB

Rashmi Bharathan

Director, ISSA

Talk details to be announced

Abstract coming soon
In Person
VG

Vivek Gunasekaran

AI Governance Specialist

Trustworthy AI in High-Stakes Environments: A Six-Level Governance Lifecycle for Regulated Industries

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Remote
A

Alekhya

Talk details to be announced

Abstract coming soon
In Person
KP

Kiran Palla

Chief Information Officer

Deep Dive into Quantum-Resilient AI Infrastructure

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In Person
MM

Madiha Shakil Mirza

AI Engineer

Transforming Data Quality Through Agentic AI

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In Person
PY

Pankaj Kumar Yadav

Database Engineering Expert

Designing Agentic AI Systems with Advanced RAG & Modern Data Architectures

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In Person
VS

Vijay Sudhakar

Sr. Technical PM, Apple

How AI / ML is transforming and enabling the Enterprises to adopt and leverage its benefits

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In Person
VC

Vishnu Challagulla

Engineering Manager, AI, Data & Cloud Solutions

Practical Generative AI in Healthcare and Enterprise Systems: From Concept to Real-World Impact

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Remote
RH

Raj Hindocha

Cloud Architect, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Trustworthy Agentic AI: Enterprise Patterns for Secure, Observable, and Governed Autonomous Systems

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In Person
RO

Ramprasad Ohnu

Founder & CEO, xoCaliber Inc.

AI for Legal Basics

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Remote
AD

Appala Venkata Subhadra Raju Dantuluri

Director, Commercial Analytics, Incyte Corporation

Scalable AI for Longitudinal Patient Trajectory Forecasting: Deep Learning over De-Identified Real-World Healthcare Data

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In Person
SN

Sreekanth Narayan

Sr. IT Program Manager

Enterprise Architecture to Regulated Industries

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Remote
FY

Fnu Yashu

Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom

AI-Driven Adaptive Security for Secure Cloud Computing at Enterprise Scale

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