Hunting Creek Country Club, 6807 Foxcroft Rd, Prospect, KY
Techfest Louisville is an annual event organized and hosted by the Technology Association of Louisville KY (TALK), the area’s employer-led, non-profit tech council. TALK is a member of the Technology Councils of North America (TECNA). This 7th annual Techfest is designed for business and tech professionals in the region to gain knowledge and dialogue about all the tech current trends and their application, including governance, infrastructure, talent development, tech recruitment and more, through case studies, demos, overviews, panel discussions, keynotes, and tech-specific workshops. Our key focus areas in 2025 are: (a) Healthcare IT; (b) Cybersecurity; (c) Artificial Intelligence; and (d) Data Analytics.
Tech professionals, government officials, academics, and business executives are tasked with figuring out how to operate in today’s tech ecosystem with new products, stronger leadership, talent recruitment and management, governance, budgetary considerations, plus data quality and cloud management in a service environment. Our event is designed for engaging with tech circles of influence that may assist in your daily operations, project planning, as well as implementation, plus focus on innovation and deep-dive into emerging technology.
TechFest educates, connects, and entertains the audience of CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, VIPs, CEOs, entrepreneurs, professionals, programmers, data analysts, designers, IT managers, makers, government officials, and more by bringing national and regional speakers and vendors together to cover topics.
Schedule for Thursday August 21
8:30 AM
FIRESIDE ROOM:
Trade Show Setup
9:00 AM
GRILLE 64:
“A Look at Healthcare: Managing Your Cloud & AI” – Shane Rodabaugh, Executive Technology Leader, Baptist Health System
10:00 AM
GRILLE 64:
“Bardstown Bourbon: A Case Study of How ERP, Robotics, & AI Are Changing Bourbon Production” – Aaron Butler, Senior Project Manager at Bardstown Bourbon Company
11:00 AM
GRILLE 64:
Corporate Panel Discussion: “Examining Your Next Cybersecurity Spend – Beefing Up For AI & Cyber Resilience”
Panel Participants:
- Moderator: Dawn Yankeelov, CEO of TALK
- Jim Cox, Senior IT Auditor, Papa Johns
- Joe Harrington, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer. Churchill Downs Inc
12:00 PM
64 BAR / GRILLE 64:
Box Lunch will be served for all attendees and tradeshow booth personnel.
Keynote
Keynote Speaker: TBA
1:00 PM
“NEW: The KY Cyber Threat Intelligence Collaborative and Its Real-Time Sharing”- James Meece, CISO, Louisville Metro Government
2:00 PM
“Healthcare IT: The Latest in Risk Assessment Coding Technology” – Chetan Parikh, Founder and CEO RAAPID INC
3:00 PM
4:00 PM-6:00 PM
CLUB LOBBY AND FIRESIDE ROOM:
TALK Cocktail Hours. Heavy Appetizers. Special Prizes!
5:00 PM
Tradeshow Ends.
Schedule for Friday August 22
9:00 AM
FIRESIDE ROOM:
Trade Show Setup
9:00 AM
HUNTING CREEK ROOM:
TBD
9:00 AM
GRILLE 64:
Workshop:
“How to Build a Simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Pipeline” – Justin Tindle, Director of Software Development, E-Blu Solutions
10:00 AM
64 BAR:
ISACA – TALK SESSION
Edward McCabe, Founder/Principal, The Rubicon Advisory Group
CISM|CRISC|CGEIT|CDPSE|ISO/IEC 27K1 ISMS LI | COBIT | SABSA – Workforce Training – Certifications Overview & Signups
10:30 AM
64 BAR:
ISACA – TALK SESSION
“Winning at the Recruitment Game – What to Consider to Move Up the Ladder”
- Michael Newkirk, Healthcare National Sales Director, Experis Health Solutions
- Dan Lutes, Sr. Business Development Manager , TCI
- Chris Rittmuller, Sr. Business Development Manager, TCI
11:30 AM
64 BAR:
ISACA – TALK SESSION
TALK Panel of Corporate Recruiters
12:00 PM
64 BAR / GRILLE 64:
Keynote with Luncheon / Networking.
1:00 PM
TBA
2:00 PM
TBA
3:00 PM
Trade Show teardown
TechFest Louisville Sponsors for 2025
Friends of Techfest
Wrap-up Video from Techfest 2024
Our Mission
Our mission: Workforce and economic development
Goal: To create opportunities for job growth, job training, STEAM curriculum, plus public policy and advocacy around technology subjects at the state and federal level.
- One of 65+ tech councils in North America, including Canada.
- Member of TECNA (Tech Councils of America)
- Independent, non-profit educational organization
- Registered 501C3.
- Established officially April 22, 2014. First official meetup February 2013.
- In short: Create and identify jobs. Train people.
