InfoFORCE: Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Date: April 10th, 2026
Time: 10:15am-10:45am
Location: Frisco Landing, Room TBD

Marcus D. Taylor, MBA

Visionary Instructional Designer | AI Integration Expert | Leader in Learning Innovation & Transformation

Marcus D. Taylor is an instructional designer, researcher, and technology strategist whose work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, learning technologies, and human-centered education. He currently serves at the University of North Texas Health Fort Worth, where he leads initiatives that explore the responsible integration of artificial intelligence into teaching, learning, and organizational practice.
Taylor is the founder and lead facilitator of the institution’s Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice, a collaborative initiative that brings faculty, staff, and professionals together to examine the practical, ethical, and strategic use of AI in higher education and healthcare environments. Through this work, he has helped develop training programs, workshops, and resources designed to improve AI literacy and support informed adoption of emerging technologies.
A doctoral candidate in Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas, Taylor’s research explores how non-technical professionals develop AI literacy and how institutions can support responsible engagement with intelligent systems. His work integrates concepts from technology adoption theory, cognitive science, and instructional design to help organizations build the knowledge needed to work effectively alongside AI.
Before transitioning into higher education and technology leadership, Taylor served 23 years in the United States Army, where he held roles in logistics, operations, training development, and instructional design. His military experience informs his practical approach to leadership, problem solving, and workforce development.
In addition to his academic and professional work, Taylor is an entrepreneur, mentor, and community leader. He frequently speaks on topics related to AI literacy, emerging technologies in education, leadership development, and the future of work, helping audiences understand how human judgment, ethical awareness, and technological capability must work together in an AI-enabled world.

Date: April 10th, 2026
Time: 1:15pm-1:45pm
Location: Frisco Landing, Room TBD

Coleman Hilton

Medical Informatics | Enterprise Data Strategist | AI & Analytics Leader

Coleman Hilton is a healthcare data strategy and medical informatics leader with more than a decade of experience modernizing data ecosystems and driving AI-enabled transformation across complex clinical and operational environments. He is recognized for advancing next-generation analytics, enterprise data architecture, and responsible AI in healthcare, and is a frequent voice in national thought-leadership communities.

Coleman serves as a key architect of Shriners Children’s enterprise data and AI strategy, where he leads the development of a unified, AI-ready data architecture spanning FHIR-based ingestion, medallion-structured data engineering, enterprise semantic modeling, and advanced analytics activation. His work has accelerated systemwide initiatives including whole-genome data integration, motion-analysis informatics, enterprise dashboards, patient access analytics, and a modernized pipeline for clinical and operational data.

He led the design and execution of Shriners Children’s recent work attribution engine, an OpenAI-powered system that reliably interprets clinical documentation and generates high-fidelity metadata for downstream reporting and workforce analytics. This initiative has become a template for safely and responsibly integrating generative AI into enterprise data pipelines.

Coleman is also championing the creation of a healthcare Data Science Institute at Shriners Children’s, a multidisciplinary hub focused on AI readiness, data literacy, ethics, resident and student training, exploratory research, and industry-academic partnership. His vision centers on scaling advanced analytics to support novel care models for children with complex medical needs and ultimately expanding that impact across the healthcare sector.

Date: April 11th, 2026
Time: 10:15am-10:45am
Location: Frisco Landing, Room TBD

Zeeshan Rizvi

Entrepreneur | Technology Strategist | AI Security & Governance Expert | Cloud & Edge Specialist

Zeeshan Rizvi is the CEO and Co-Founder of XScale AI and the creator of the GRITS framework, the premier open-source standard for Agentic AI Governance and Security. As a former CTO at the DoD Inspector General and Cisco, he built AI strategies for national security programs in collaboration with NIST and the Chief Digital and AI Office. Zeeshan has spent the past decade at the critical intersection of AI governance, cloud infrastructure, and zero-trust architecture.

Date: April 11th, 2026
Time: 1:15pm-1:45pm
Location: Frisco Landing, Room TBD

Spencer Smith

Public Sector AI Implementation Expert | Strategic Planning & Organizational Development Leader | Library Services & Community Engagement Specialist

Spencer Smith has worked as the Director of Libraries in the City of McKinney for 11 years. Prior to that he worked in Little Elm, Fort Worth, and as a knowledge manager at a venture capital firm. He graduated from UNT with an MIS in 2006.