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Email: main@mgccc.edu
Website: mainms.org
Based at: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
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Speaking and Workshops
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MAIN and Dr. Kollin Napier support AI speaking engagements, keynote presentations, workshops, training sessions, and executive briefings for government agencies, school districts, colleges, businesses, healthcare groups, civic organizations, and community partners. Explore the AI keynote speaker page for Dr. Napier’s full speaking profile.
AI keynotes
Education, workforce, government, healthcare, industry, and community events.
Hands-on workshops
Generative AI, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, data platforms, and practical AI workflows.
Policy briefings
Responsible AI, governance, procurement, academic integrity, and public-sector implementation.
Leadership
About Dr. Kollin Napier
Statewide AI leadership
Dr. Kollin Napier directs AI strategy across every sector of Mississippi through the Mississippi Artificial Intelligence Network (MAIN), the state’s coordinated statewide AI initiative and the first of its kind in the nation. He leads AI literacy, adoption, and readiness spanning K-12, higher education, workforce development, government, and industry.
Based at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, he works statewide to connect public institutions, government agencies, and industry partners around practical AI training, implementation, and long-term economic competitiveness.
Dr. Napier chairs the Mississippi AI Workforce Readiness Council, serves on the Mississippi AI Regulation Task Force, and has provided expert testimony and briefings at the state and federal levels, including before the United States Congress.
Under his leadership, MAIN has delivered over 30,000 hours of no-cost AI training, built strategic partnerships with organizations such as NVIDIA, Amazon Web Services, and Intel, and advanced major workforce initiatives statewide.
He is nationally recognized for advancing practical, responsible, and workforce-focused AI adoption in Mississippi.
MAIN Staff
Wayne Francis
AI Strategist
Mr. Wayne Francis is the Mississippi Artificial Intelligence Network (MAIN) AI Strategist.
Based at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Wayne supervises Project Based Learning initiatives, develops solution architectures for Mississippi agency and industry partners, and coordinates implementation team training through practical AI workflow implementation.
Wayne comes to MAIN from a 25-year career transitioning technology in the Defense Industrial Base on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His work includes program portfolio management, leadership of systems engineering teams, and design of cutting-edge communication and sensing systems.