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2025 Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration

December 12, 2025 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM (EST)

Description


You are invited to attend the 2025 ETEC Annual Meeting & Awards Celebration on Friday, December 12, 2025; 8:30-10:30 a.m. at the Hilton Knoxville Airport in Alcoa, Tennessee. 

This celebration will include:

Remarks by keynote speaker, Lynne Parker, former Principal Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology

Presentation of ETEC's Muddy Boot Award & Postma Young Professional Medal

Passing of the Bell Ceremony

Full breakfast buffet

Networking with colleagues and friends

Agenda:
8:00-8:30 am - Coffee & Social time
8:30-10:30 am - Breakfast & Program

To see more details about the event click here.

We are honored to have Dr. Lynne Parker as the keynote speaker for this event.

DR. LYNNE PARKER

Dr. Lynne Parker is the former Principal Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) and Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST). In these roles, she advanced policies across the spectrum of science and technology, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI). She has previously served in numerous other White House positions, including Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer, Founding Director of the National AI Initiative Office, and Assistant Director of OSTP for AI. In these capacities, she has led the development of numerous landmark national AI policies bolstering research, governance, education and workforce training, international engagement, and the Federal use of AI.

In addition to her White House roles, she has held numerous other leadership positions, including at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Associate Vice Chancellor, Leader of the AI Tennessee Initiative, and Professor of Computer Science), the National Science Foundation (Division Director), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Distinguished Research and Development Staff Member and Group Leader). She has authored numerous peer-reviewed technical papers and is a Fellow of several professional societies. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Time

8:00 a.m. - Coffee and Social Time
8:30 a.m. - Breakfast and Program Begins
Featuring: Full breakfast buffet, keynote speaker, Muddy Boot and Postma Medal awards presentations, and more
10:30 a.m. - Event Ends

Pricing

Individual Tickets: $85

Federal Employee Tickets: $50

Table for 10: $1,000

Sponsorships: $1,500 & $2,500

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Contact Information

East Tennessee Economic Council (ETEC)
Name: Hailey Lewis
Phone: (865) 946-3250
Email: hailey@eteconline.org
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