Future CampusTM Summit
Resilience by Design: With AI, Data, and Engagement
Resilience, Operationalized
You can’t control the future, but you can build resilient operations that keep students progressing and your institution moving forward despite relentless external pressures. Join a select cohort of 100 institutional leaders on August 4–6 at Convene, 360 Madison Avenue, New York City, for the Tambellini Group’s 2026 Future Campus Summit, an executive retreat focused on Resilience By Design. Walk away aligned on AI, Data, and Engagement priorities that support student momentum, fiscal health, and campus efficiency.
Why Attend? Now is the time to set very clear priorities, embracing new opportunities while moving on from things that no longer serve your best interests. Resilience By Design is about adapting, not breaking, when pressure mounts or conditions change.
The Future Campus Summit is curated to facilitate cross-functional progress across:
Student Momentum: Build experiences and support systems that improve belonging, retention, and completion.
Decision Confidence: Use trusted data and practical AI to forecast risk, target resources, and measure outcomes.
Fiscal Health: Align practical, data-driven strategies to stabilize and strengthen campus finances.
Execution Rhythm: Develop operating habits that keep teams aligned, reduce burnout, and drive continuous optimization.
Commit to Your Institution’s Resilience.
Executive Scenario Planning
You’ll use Tambellini’s Future Campus Framework to work through scenarios that require aligning cross-functional teams, processes, data, and technology to deliver successful solutions.
Future Campus Award
Tambellini’s Future Campus Award™ honors higher education trailblazers who have demonstrated resilience by design, aligning AI, data, and engagement to support efficiency, fiscal health, and student momentum. The 2026 award winners will be announced at the Future Campus Summit on August 6.
Executive 1:1 Meetings
Meet the solution partners working alongside higher education leaders to turn AI, data, and engagement into institutional gains. Schedule executive 1:1 conversations to explore how leading platforms and services can strengthen student momentum, streamline services, and support confident decisions.
Take Advantage of Early Bird Pricing. Register by June 16 for $2,250, including meals and hotel.
Hear from Past Attendees
Who Should Attend
Higher Education Executives Turning Resilience into Results
Hands-on scenario planning sessions and strategic presentations are curated for senior leaders across academic affairs, IT, finance, operations, enrollment, and student success. You belong in this room if you’re actively prioritizing AI, data, and engagement decisions to strengthen fiscal health, improve campus efficiency, and accelerate student momentum. You’ll work side-by-side with executive colleagues, industry leaders, and Tambellini Group analysts and advisors to validate priorities and benchmark your action plans.
Build the Operating Model Your Strategy Depends On
The Future Campus Summit is unlike a traditional leadership retreat. Its focused, small-group environment brings together 100 campus executives to collaborate across functions and build meaningful peer relationships. Here’s what you can expect:
- Plan for the next disruption, not the last one, using executive scenario planning.
- Design your institution as a learning system with faster feedback loops and better decisions.
- Connect data, systems, and metrics so leaders can act faster as conditions change.
- Build relationships and partnerships grounded in shared challenges and clear goals.
Plug Into the Community
Share what’s working and what’s not with leaders in the same seat and benchmark your approach against proven practices.
Clarify What to Do Next
Use the retreat to clarify and focus on your action plan for forward progress. This is your community of support to refine your vision and lead with confidence.
Leave with Tools to Lead
Leave with a short list of campus-ready action items, clear metrics to track progress, and a simple cadence that builds momentum week over week.
A Retreat Like No Other
This executive retreat stands apart as a unique convergence of visionary higher education leadership, cutting-edge technology, and strategic collaboration.
- Hands-On Planning Sessions
- Diverse Viewpoints Tackling Shared Challenges
- 1:1 Discussions with Solution Partners
Visionary Voices
Gain insights and engage with Tambellini Group analysts and advisors, industry executives, and institution leaders.
Our Vendor Sponsors
Pinnacle
Premier
Diamond
Sapphire
About Tambellini Group
The Tambellini Group has been the leading provider of unbiased and proprietary research and advisory services to higher education since 2001. Our mission is to equip educational institutions with the impartial insights, tools, and market predictions needed to make informed technology decisions while maximizing return-on-investment and constituent experience. We empower institutions to overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and pave the way toward a brighter future for higher education.
About MGT
MGT is a national technology and advisory solutions leader serving state, local government, and education (SLED) clients. Our specialized solutions solve the most critical issues that live at the top of our clients’ leadership agenda. Our advisory and technology domains are foundational elements in our approach to helping state and local governments innovate, transform, and manage efficiently. We partner to help clients strengthen their foundations, implement systematic changes, and build resilience for the future
