CONFERENCE & EXPO HOUSTON 2023
CONFERENCE & EXPO HOUSTON 2023
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Founder
SuperX Academy
An Nguyen is a leadership professional with a remarkable personal and business development journey. He is known for his engaging and dynamic presentations, which combine personal stories, practical strategies, and inspirational messages.
His expertise in leadership development is diverse, focusing on areas such as effective communication, emotional intelligence, team building, creativity and innovation, conflict resolution, decision-making, and more. decision-making, change management, and ethical leadership.
Blockchain Technology Director
BeowulfChain Group
Dr. Sung Nguyen is serving as Head of Data Science for BeowulfChain Group. He previously worked at Google in 2005 - in the early days of Google Enterprise, now Google Cloud. Before Google, Dr. Sung worked at NASA (KSC), Lockheed Martin, and Borland Software.
He is the author of many technical papers on software development, speaks at the Borland International Software Conference, and co-authored a book on Java development published by Wiley and Sons in 2003. He holds a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from George Washington University.
Former Technical Director - Solutions to problems related to Information Technology and Humanity
The MITER Corporation
Dinh Quang Anh Tuan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from George Mason University, Virginia. He has taught at this University for many years as a Visiting Professor, majoring in Computer Technology. He also used to work at MITER company as Technical Director of Solutions for Problems Related to Informatics Data and Humanity.
Dean of the Graduate School of Business Jesse H. Jones Rice University
Peter Rodriguez is dean of the School of Business at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Jesse H. Jones. He is an economist professor who teaches macroeconomics, economic growth, and development classes.
He was previously a professor and senior vice president of the MBA Program and director of diversity at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, a faculty member at Princeton, and a professor at Texas A&M University's Mays School of Business.
Peter holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.S. in economics from Texas A&M University. He worked for several years as an associate in the Global Energy Group at JP Morgan Chase.
Peter currently serves a three-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Federal Reserve), Houston Branch, providing input on regional economic conditions as part of his tenure monetary policy capacity of the bank.
Chef, Owner
The Blind Goat & Xin Chào
Christine is a blind chef who won "MasterChef" season 3 with Gordon Ramsay. Her first cookbook, Recipes in the Book, My Home Kitchen, was a New York Times bestseller. She has spoken on disability advocacy at the United Nations, served as an overseas culinary envoy of the US Embassy, as well as the host of the Canadian cooking show "Four Senses" and a judge. of “MasterChef” Vietnam.
Ha holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where she served as the Fiction Editor for the Gulf Coast literary magazine, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Ha's first restaurant in Houston, The Blind Goat, was a semi-finalist for the 2020 Best New Restaurant in America by the James Beard Foundation. She opened her second restaurant, Hello, in September 2020 with Chef Tony Nguyen and the James Beard Foundation named them the finalists of Best Chef, Region Texas, in 2022 and again the semi-finalists of the Outstanding Chef in 2023. Ha's third concept, Stuffed Belly, will premiere this spring.
Owner
Rooster Vietnamese Grill
Rooster is the first Vietnamese restaurant invited to launch in the Shell Energy stadium.
Rooster has one of the highest-rated customer experience restaurants in the country (Yelp Top 100) and has won numerous culinary awards, as well as being included in the “Best Of ” by Houston Chronicle, CultureMap, Houston Press...
Chef, Owner
Kau Ba
Celebrity Chef from Netflix Somebody Feed Phil, Ugly Delicious and Street Food Asia. Chef Nikki Tran was featured on Phonomenal by NBC.
Top 10 best restaurant in Houston by Houston Chronicle.
Top 16 Vietnamese restaurant in the U.S. by Food & Wine Magazine
Chef Nikki Tran also has a Kau Ba restaurant in Saigon, Vietnam.
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