KINGSVILLE (September 27, 2024) — The College of Business Administration (CBA) at Texas A&M University-Kingsville will host its annual Economic Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Grand Ballrooms of the Memorial Student Union Building, 1050 W. Santa Gertrudis. Admission to the forum is $12 and includes lunch. A table of eight is $96. Advance registration is required by Oct. 21.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Brian J. Picard, business operations specialist, North America Services, Dell Technologies. His topic is Using AI in Your Daily Life.
This year’s forum will feature Kleberg County’s Technological Landscape and Local Economic Trends, by Dr. Thomas Krueger, J.R. Manning Endowed Professor of Innovation in Business Education and chair of the Department of Accounting and Finance from the College of Business Administration.
To reserve your seat at the economic forum, visit
http://www.tamuk.edu/business/researchoutreach/economic-forum.html or call 361-593-3801.
About Brian J. Picard
Brian J. Picard, business operations specialist at Dell Technologies, is one of the nation's foremost experts in artificial intelligence (AI). During his more than 17 years at Dell Technologies, one of the world’s leading AI companies, Picard has worked with AI professionals ranging from sales representatives to tech support agents to organization leaders. His overarching goal has been to create custom AI solutions for several divisions of Fortune 100 companies, government, other organizations, and small businesses.
Along the way, Picard has trained students and professionals on how to engage new AI tools in a fruitful and fun manner. His insights have served over 16,000 Dell employees and 2,500 individuals outside of Dell, reached through Verteks Consulting and his thYnkunlimited.ai business-consulting firm.
About Dr. Thomas Krueger
Dr. Thomas Krueger is the J.R. Manning Endowed Professor of Innovation in Business Education at Texas A&M-Kingsville. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a master’s degree in business administration from Minnesota State University and a doctorate in business administration in finance from the University of Kentucky.
Since joining Texas A&M-Kingsville in 2011, Krueger has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses.
Krueger has authored over 120 refereed journal articles and has been cited 1,850 times in other articles. Perhaps his most widely read article, titled “Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor,” was published in the top-tier Journal of Finance.
He was chosen for the 2015 Teaching Excellence Award, an acknowledgment as the best instructor in the finance discipline, by the Academy of Finance, an international association of Finance Professionals. From 2014 through 2019, and again in 2023, Krueger was the recipient of the College of Business Administration’s Distinguished Research of the Year awards. He received the first TAMUK Outstanding Faculty Service Award in 2024.
He was the 2002 and 2017 President of the Academy of Finance, 2017-present chair of the accounting and finance department at Texas A&M-Kingsville, and a member of the Graduate Education Advisory Committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board from 2016-2019, where he has played a role providing inflation–adjusted information regarding student loan debt and graduate education costs in Texas. He also coordinates the Banking & Business Career Expo, which is in its fourth year of bringing students and employers together.
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