Future CampusTM Summit

Leading with Analytics and AI

EXPERIENCE

Shaping Leaders for Tomorrow's Educational Landscape

The Future Campus Summit is a meticulously curated, retreat-style event exclusively for visionary higher education leaders. Our mission? Equip you to not only foresee the horizon of the next decade but also actively shape it. In an era where generative AI is redefining the boundaries of education, this summit focuses on preparing individual leaders, recalibrating mindsets, and engraining a data-informed people-first philosophy.

January 17–18, 2024

Balboa Bay Resort
Newport Beach, CA

Space is limited to 100 attendees.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Collaborate and Align Across Your Institution

Attend with fellow senior leaders from your institutions to address your top challenges. Content will be relevant to leaders such as: Chancellors, Provosts, CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, VPs of Enrollment, VPs of Advancement, VPs of Student Success.

What is a Future Campus? An innovative institution that will thrive over the coming decade while weathering an unprecedented pace of change.

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

Forge Ahead on Your Future Campus Pathway

Join us for an unparalleled leadership experience, geared towards fostering alignment and forward momentum at your institution. During this intensive, selectively chosen executive event, you will:

Evaluate

Your institution’s current position and potential to embrace a sustainable innovation culture.

Discover

Cutting-edge analytics and AI-driven leadership techniques to motivate faculty & staff, revolutionize processes, and achieve superior results.

Strategize

Craft a tailored action plan to leverage analytics and AI in overcoming your institution’s foremost challenges.

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Opportunity to Network and Unwind in Luxury

We’ve designed the Future Campus Summit with ample opportunities to connect with your peers and facilitate meaningful conversations and collaborations. You’ll form valuable, lasting connections that will expand your knowledge during the event and long after.

There is no better way to spark a great conversation than over a spectacular meal or refreshing drink. That’s why we take food and drinks seriously at our Summit. From gourmet coffee breaks and delicious breakfasts to delectable lunches and gourmet dinners, we’ve curated a menu that showcases local flavors and healthy options to cater to every palate.  And it’s all included.

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Featured Speakers

Tom Andriola
Tom Andriola
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Data, Chief Digital Officer
University of California, Irvine
Dr. Laura Huang
Dr. Laura Huang
Distinguished Professor, Faculty Director of Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, Author, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
Northeastern University
Vicki Tambellini
Vicki Tambellini
Founder and CEO
Tambellini Group
Katelyn Ilkani
Katelyn Ilkani
President & COO
Tambellini Group
Dave Kieffer
Dave Kieffer
Principal Analyst
Tambellini Group
Karen Boudreau-Shea
Karen Boudreau-Shea
Vice President, Advisory Services
Tambellini Group
Matt Winn
Matt Winn
Senior Analyst
Tambellini Group
Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim
Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim
Senior Analyst; Lead Data Scientist
Tambellini Group
Hampton Shive
Hampton Shive
Strategic Advisor
Tambellini Group
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Karen Boudreau-Shea
Karen Boudreau-Shea
Vice President, Advisory Services

Leading Advisory Services, Karen Boudreau-Shea works closely with Tambellini Group members to ensure their technology enablement strategy and supporting solutions are effectively aligned with their academic and administrative systems. By applying her expertise in higher education finance and business operations, Karen helps technology leaders streamline operations, identify, and apply financially sound approaches, and drive successful institutional transformation to support their overall goals and mission.

For the past 20 years, Karen Boudreau-Shea has served colleges and universities in multiple roles. After a decade as the CIO at Lesley University, she most recently served as the senior director of Assessment and Optimization at CampusWorks, Inc., where she helped institutions improve their technology operations focused on the student life cycle.

Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim
Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim
Senior Analyst; Lead Data Scientist

As a senior analyst and lead data scientist, Dr. Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim contributes to Tambellini’s extensive database of research reports and guides, while also offering clients specialized advice and assessments. He primarily consults with clients on data management, cloud migration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

As the lead data scientist, Alpha oversees data science and research. He plans projects, develops analytics models, and spearheads internal efforts on using AI and analytics to enhance Tambellini’s research.

Alpha has more than nine years of experience leveraging the latest analytics and AI technologies to improve organizational efficiency and drive profitability. Before joining the Tambellini Group, Alpha was a data science manager at Accenture, where he helped businesses further their digital transformation initiatives through the strategic application of data science and cloud technologies.

Matt Winn
Matt Winn
Senior Analyst

As a senior analyst, Dr. Matt Winn focuses his research initiatives on academic administration, LMS, and other teaching and learning technologies. He uses his expertise to connect complex technology concepts and advise members on strategic planning and selection strategies. Matt also uses his wide range of experience to serve and improve higher education. Specifically, he assists higher education clients to increase their efficiency and efficacy, integrate disparate systems, create automations, and improve various processes across campus.

Dr. Matt Winn has become vetted in the education technology space with nearly 20 years of experience. Passionate about using technology to serve and improve education, he has led several modernization and implementation projects with student information systems, learning management systems, CRM, and other different student and academic systems. Before joining Tambellini Group, Matt served as a university VP of Information Technology and dean of Online Education at Dallas Baptist University. He has also worked in various roles, including Information Technology, Online Learning, Teaching, Admissions, and Student Affairs.

Katelyn Ilkani
Katelyn Ilkani
President and COO; Principal Analyst

As President and COO of Tambellini Group, Katelyn leads operations across all internal teams, including analysts, strategic advisors, research, sales, marketing, and administration. Katelyn’s day-to-day responsibilities include meeting the needs of Tambellini’s clients across institutions and the vendors serving them. Her cloud migration and security expertise guides institutions through critical and timely transformation initiatives.

Katelyn Tambellini Ilkani brings over 15 years of technology and leadership experience across higher education, healthcare, consumer goods & services, and financial services. She has deep informatics and cyber security expertise, having completed both a Master of Public Health and a Master of Science in Cyber Security. Her career includes time in leadership at IBM and Accenture, as well as building her cyber security start-up. She is a member of the Information Systems Security Association.

Tom Andriola
Tom Andriola
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Data, Chief Digital Officer

Tom Andriola is UC Irvine’s Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Data (ODIT) and Chief Digital Officer. His role is designed to ensure the strategic use of data and technology, drive interdisciplinary partnerships, and champion digital strategies that expand UC Irvine’s role as a leading research university, healthcare provider & community partner.

Andriola is a global business & technology leader with a broad array of experience in the public and private sector. Throughout his career, he has been an agent for change and disruptive innovation in the marketplace. During his tenure as Vice President & Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the University of California System, he created a platform to support the collaboration of 8,500 IT professionals across the University, launched a nationally-recognized IT Leadership Academy, and was integral in developing UC Health’s big data strategy, which led to the creation of the UC-wide clinical data warehouse representing 16 million patients.

Previous to his University experience, Andriola held technology and business executive roles with organizations such as Philips, Marconi PLC, Sapient and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Eventually entering the healthcare industry and leading teams to develop solutions across the globe, including enabling the first national mammography program in Europe, introducing a virtual care solution for intensive care patients in India, and collaborating with Peking University and the China Association for Cardiologists to build its first clinical data repository of cardiology patients in China.

He remains active in the higher education and healthcare industries as an advocate for progress and equity utilizing technology and data, serving on the boards of OCHIN and Unizin. Andriola is also an advisor to various software startups, medical device, and life sciences companies, and maintains advisory relationships with UC Irvine’s Institute for Precision Health, UC Health’s Center for Data Driven Insights & Innovation, and with UC Davis’ Innovation Institute for Food and Health.

Andriola holds a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University, a master’s degree from the University of South Florida, and has completed the Stanford Executive MBA program.

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Dr. Laura Huang
Laura Huang
Distinguished Professor | Faculty Director of Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative | Author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
book cover of EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Laura Huang is a Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizational Dynamics, who has held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative at Northeastern University, and is on the board of Wharton Alumni Angels and NJECC. Laura’s award-winning research examines the role of intuition and interpersonal relationships in entrepreneurship and in the workplace, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Forbes.

She is the international best-selling author of EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage, which was published by Portfolio: Penguin Random House—and she is also the creator and co-founder of Project EMplify, an initiative dedicated to addressing inequality and disadvantage for unserved and underprivileged K-12 communities through the principles of EDGE.

Laura was named one of the top 40 business school professors by Poets and Quants, and was a recipient of the 2020 Cozzarelli Prize given by the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, she was named to the Global Thinker50 Radar list as one of the top thinkers with the potential to change the world of theory and practice.

Prior to her academic career, she held positions in investment banking, consulting, and management, for organizations such as Standard Chartered Bank, IBM Global Services, and Johnson & Johnson.

Laura holds an MS and BSE in electrical engineering, both from Duke University, an MBA from INSEAD, and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine.

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Hampton Shive
Hampton Shive
Strategic Advisor

Hampton Shive works closely with Tambellini members to align their technology and institutional strategies. As institutions face unprecedented challenges, the importance of looking forward and developing long-term roadmaps for change and/or transformation is more relevant than ever. Hampton focuses on guiding institutions toward the best technology components for their strategies and on helping IT professionals develop the leadership skills required to ensure digital tools fully support student and operational success.

For 30 years, Hampton Shive has worked in technology in higher education. In his last role as AVP of Business Services and CIO at Hinds Community College, he led a successful ERP implementation that served as a modernization effort for the institution and as the foundation for developing and executing next-generation business architecture. Hampton has also been a private business owner for 20 years, strengthening his expertise in creating value by developing and delivering solid educational services and experiences.

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Dave Kieffer
Dave Kieffer
Principal Analyst

As a principal analyst, Dave spearheads research focused on Finance and HCM applications, data management, and other critical higher education technologies. His research provides actionable insights on how Tambellini members can leverage technology to improve the experience and outcomes for students, faculty, staff, and administrators through effective architecture, functionality, and accessibility of enterprise-class technology. Dave is a regular speaker and panelist at national conferences and has served on multiple education technology advisory committees.

With over 30 years of experience leading technology operations in higher education, Dave Kieffer has become a vetted leader in the technology space. Before joining Tambellini Group, he served as the administrative systems AVP at The Ohio State University. In this role, he oversaw every facet of the university’s enterprise applications, including implementation, mobile and web development, application architecture, security, and integration technologies.

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Vicki Tambellini
Vicki Tambellini
CEO and Founder; Principal Analyst

Since founding Tambellini Group in 2001, Vicki Tambellini’s strategic leadership has driven the organization’s continued growth and positive impact on hundreds of colleges and universities.

Her expertise in strategic sourcing, higher education market trends, and development of the Education Institution Technology Profile Database® guide higher education institutions through the process of making strategic technology decisions that support their long-term goals.

Vicki Tambellini has served the higher education market’s technology needs for over 30 years. As a former vice president at Oracle, she built their higher education field operations, and has received numerous awards and honors from companies including PeopleSoft, Oracle, and NCR for her contributions to advancing learning and sharing knowledge with her peers. She is a frequent speaker at industry events including SACUBO, the Oracle HEUG, E!Learning Summit Events, Smart Woman’s Network, and the Richmond Venture Forum.

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Bala Subramanian
VP and GM, Education

Bala Subramanian is VP and GM for Education at Salesforce. In this role he is responsible for driving Salesforce’s product strategy and roadmap for Education. Bala is passionate about Salesforce’s role and track record in helping Educational institutions transform their processes and systems to maximize learner success and outcomes, and create lifelong learners. Prior to this role, Bala has over twenty years of experience in Enterprise Software across a variety of industries such as Health and Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing and High Tech. He is passionate about bringing his learnings from best practices in other industries and applying them in meaningful and relevant ways to the Education mission.

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Alexander Clark
Alexander Clark
Founder and CEO
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Alexander Clark is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Technolutions. Alexander founded Technolutions in 1994 while a seventh-grader in Mississippi. In 2000, while a first-year English major at Yale, Alexander developed and introduced Slate, which supports the enrollment, student success, alumni and advancement operations at over 1600 colleges and universities worldwide. Described as a higher ed “Wizard of Oz” in a feature article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Alexander has continued to lead Technolutions and its Slate community through its decades of innovation and growth.Alexander has a tremendous commitment to education as the Founder of Slate School, a non-profit K-12 independent school located in North Haven on a 40 acre campus with a focus on cultivating creativity, fostering ingenuity and curiosity and inspiring a deep passion for lifelong learning. In 2018, Alexander was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Quinnipiac University for his work as an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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Rob Curtin
Rob Curtin
Director, Higher Education
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Rob is the Director of Higher Education for Microsoft’s Worldwide Education Industry team. Based in the Boston area, he is responsible for market strategy, and landing Microsoft’s industry priorities for Higher Education globally. He is grateful his role connects him with innovators that share bold goals to modernize campus experiences, and spark innovation in their home countries. Rob is most passionate about the role of technology to guide student ownership of their lifelong learning journey and help college and universities adopt more student-centric engagement models.

Rob has been deploying technology in education for over 30 years. Beginning with IBM in 1988 he implemented the first classroom networks in the Boston Public Schools and joined Microsoft in 1991—before Excel had the AutoSum button. In the 30 years since first joining Microsoft Rob has been a two-time EdTech entrepreneur, spending a decade working on the Exeter Student Information System (1995-2004), and co-founding Pip Learning Technologies in 2014 providing cloud identity and student privacy services to K–12 school districts. Rob has served in various roles within Microsoft always focused on the education industry.

Rob received a BS from Northeastern University, his favorite sport is women’s soccer, and he deeply appreciates his wife for tolerating his travel schedule—and now even more for tolerating him at home.

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Michael Bisson: Vice President of Student Product Strategy at Workday
Michael Bisson
Vice President, Student Product Strategy
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Michael joined Workday in 2013 seeding the Student project team and contributing to its initial architecture and design. Michael led the Product Management team as they designed the core student product and facilitated a three-year customer design partner program. Today, Michael leads the Product Strategy team responsible for determining market fit, competitive market intelligence, and overall product direction. Prior to joining Workday, Michael worked 16 years at Peoplesoft and Oracle in support of the Campus Solutions product in Product Management, Development, and Support. Michael has committed his professional career to the improvement of higher education management through the design and development of Student Information Systems.

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