Ken Hester is a Solution Architect and manager for NVIDIA supporting the Energy industry in HPC, AI Deep Learning and Machine Learning, and CUDA GPU compute. He is based out of Houston Texas, and has been with NVIDIA for almost 8 years. Prior to NVIDIA, Ken worked in Energy for 15+ years as an industry expert in data science, software architecture, software design and development. Ken currently holds a Masters in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University. He also holds a MBA in Finance from the University of Houston.