Higher Ed Innovation Forum
Jan 
11
, 
10:00AM

9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Registration

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 chracters. This is a few lines to use as a mini bio.

9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

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Salesforce
Sep 
30
 – 
Oct 
1
Higher Ed Innovation Forum

Power the Connected Institution 

Powering the Future-Ready Institution

We are thrilled to announce the Salesforce Higher Ed Innovation Forum, an in-person event taking place on January 10, 2023 in Philadelphia. We look forward to reconnecting and innovating together to Power the Connected Institution.

 
The event kicks off Tuesday, January 10, with a breakfast keynote, followed by a series of breakout sessions led by your peers at institutions like The Wharton School and Georgetown University. We’ll end the day with a celebration starting at 4 p.m.

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Speakers

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

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Donald Tantalum

Creative Director

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Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 characters.

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 characters.

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 characters.

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 characters.

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 chracters. This is a few lines to use as a mini bio.

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 chracters. This is a few lines to use as a mini bio.

Vacinity Harryhausen

CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman

This is a few lines to use as a mini bio. Should be limited to around 150 chracters. This is a few lines to use as a mini bio.

Agenda

More details coming soon! 

9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Arrivals, Check-In, & Networking Breakfast

10:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.

Industry Keynote

11:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Breakout Sessions

12:30 P.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Lunch

1:30 P.M. – 4:30 P.M.

Breakout Sessions

4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Networking Reception

Agenda


9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M


Arrivals, Check-In, & Networking Cafe

 

 

10:00 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.


Kick-Off & Industry Panel with The Wharton School, Dartmouth, Penn State, and Lehigh University

Room G06
The Wharton School, Dartmouth, Penn State, & Lehigh University


11:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.


Room F45 

University of Maryland: TerpEngage (SSH + MC)

University of Maryland College Park

 

Room F50

Majoring In Data Protection & Security: How Top Colleges & Universities Protect Their Mission-Critical Data with OwnBackup

Jesse Peterson, Senior Director, Salesforce Alliances, OwnBackup

 

Room F55

Villanova University Advancement: Crawl, Walk, Run. Growing Your Digital Strategy with Marketing Cloud

Sandy Upton, Associate Director, Development Operations at Villanova University and Cheryl Morris, Solutions Engineer at Salesforce

 

11:35 A.M. – 12:05 P.M.

Room F45 

Design and Implementation Lessons Learned

Kathea Smith, Assistant Dean for Enrollment, Academic Affairs, and Student Services at the University of Baltimore

Learn about the design and implementation of Salesforce Advisor Link at the University of Baltimore. Hear about our story and (spoiler alert) successful implementation during a pandemic.


Room F50

 Wharton Project Rocket 

The Wharton School


Room F55

Slack From Here to There A Communication Migration

Mitch Davis, CIO at Dartmouth College

Join Dartmouth's CIO, Mitch Davis, as he shares the College's story of organically embracing Slack across campus. With scattered use of various disparate "chat tools," the virtual work-from-anywhere attitude in tech workers was accelerated by the pandemic and quickly illuminated a plethora of community-building happening across campus with Slack. Learn more about how Davis led Dartmouth's strategic enterprise rollout of Slack, along with the creative use cases supporting more meaningful engagement at Dartmouth.

12:10 P.M. – 12:55 P.M.

Networking Lunch

Room: Forum & F85, F95, F45, F50, F55

1:00 P.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Room F45

Creating a Unified Data Model to Optimize Data-Driven Decisions

 Roy Lee, Associate Dean, Analytics and Technology and Kelsey Guerin, Business Intelligence and Analytics Manager, NYU Stern School of Business

In this session, NYU Stern shares their data ops journey where they transformed their entire data pipeline, overcoming the obstacles of data silo’s by unifying their school’s faculty data to create a 360 view of the entire faculty lifecycle, providing self-service and on demand analytics for their constituents, helping move the school forward to becoming a decision centric organization. 


Room F50

Engaging Your University Community with Salesforce

Matt Frank, Technology Evangelist, Blackthorn.io

Your university community is not the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago, so why are you employing the same strategies and technology to track engagement metrics? Modernizing and centralizing your tech stack on Salesforce with ISV products is a growth-based strategy increase the connections between all of your stakeholders without sacrificing time to value. Oh, and our point-and-click tools can make it really easy for everyone from Admissions to Advancement to get involved and succeed!



Room F55

Journey to Marketing Automation

Kevin Barry, Senior Director of Web and Systems Communications, Wilmington University

Learn how Wilmington University evolved their marketing automation strategy and capabilities with Marketing Cloud through a sea of new, and sometimes competing, ERP solutions (CRM's, SIS, etc.). WilmU transformed from simple email marketing to automating lead collection and engagement at the top end of the enrollment funnel, navigating (sometimes) rough waters and narrow straits of human and technological challenges (and the journey's not over).

1:30 P.M. – 2:05 P.M.

Room G06 

Art of the Possible 

Greg Etling, Brad Beecher, Oscar Whiteman, Cheryl Morris, Salesforce

2:10 P.M. – 2:40 P.M.

Room F45

Building and Retaining Talent in Higher Education

Anupam Chakravarty, Senior Director, Advancement Digital Channel Strategy, Georgetown University

Join Anupam Chakravarty, the director of Georgetown University's Advancement digital channel strategy team, as he discusses his experiences building a successful and engaged team around Marketing Cloud use in alumni relations and fundraising. With insights from hands-on experience implementing key elements of Georgetown's newly-integrated email-CRM architecture, this presentation aims to provide valuable tips and real-world examples on how to scale up your team, keep your staff motivated, and make the most of Marketing Cloud resources to achieve business objectives in higher education.

 

Room F50

Wharton Interactive

The Wharton School


Room F55

Why Not Us? How the Rutgers University Foundation is reimagining through technology

Dr. Mark Antonucci, Vice President of Operations and Strategy, Rutgers University Foundation

Join Dr. Mark Antonucci, Vice President of Operations and Strategy for the Rutgers University Foundation, as he discusses how the Foundation is beginning the organization’s transformation of its identity, approach, and ultimately the donor experience through technology. Public higher education is no different than any other major industry, so why not adapt, adopt, and implement the same best practices and workflows in how we re-designthe donor experience to be more customer-focused, market compatible, and dare we say “Amazon-like.” From major gifts to donor relations, join us for a discussion on why should we not re-design the organization’s strategic posture to work with technology instead of traditionally around it.

2:45 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.

Fireside Chat: Personalization and Engagement

Julia Nowels, CRM Manager, Philadelphia Eagles in Conversation with Salesforce

3:30 P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

Closing Remarks & Thanks

 Kevin Francis, SVP Sales, Salesforce

4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Reception & Light Snacks & Libations

Off-Site

Sessions


Building and Retaining Talent in Higher Education
Anupam Chakravarty, Senior Director, Advancement Digital Channel Strategy, Georgetown University.

Join Anupam Chakravarty, the director of Georgetown University's Advancement digital channel strategy team, as he discusses his experiences building a successful and engaged team around Marketing Cloud use in alumni relations and fundraising. With insights from hands-on experience implementing key elements of Georgetown's newly-integrated email-CRM architecture, this presentation aims to provide valuable tips and real-world examples on how to scale up your team, keep your staff motivated, and make the most of Marketing Cloud resources to achieve business objectives in higher education.


Villanova University Advancement: Crawl, Walk, Run. Growing Your Digital Strategy with Marketing Cloud
Sandy Upton, Associate Director, Development Operations at Villanova University and Cheryl Morris, Solutions Engineer at Salesforce.

 

Creating a Unified Data Model to Optimize Data-Driven Decisions
Roy Lee, Associate Dean, Analytics and Technology and Kelsey Guerin, Business Intelligence and Analytics Manager, NYU Stern school of Business.

In this session, NYU Stern shares their data ops journey where they transformed their entire data pipeline, overcoming the obstacles of data silo’s by unifying their school’s faculty data to create a 360 view of the entire faculty lifecycle, providing self-service and on demand analytics for their constituents, helping move the school forward to becoming a decision centric organization.

 

Why Not us? How the Rutgers University Foundation is reimagining through technology
Dr. Mark Antonucci, Vice President of Operations and Strategy, Rutgers University Foundation

Join Dr. Mark Antonucci, Vice President of Operations and Strategy for the Rutgers University Foundation, as he discusses how the Foundation is beginning the organization’s transformation of its identity, approach, and ultimately the donor experience through technology. Public higher education is no different than any other major industry, so why not adapt, adopt, and implement the same best practices and workflows in how we re-design the donor experience to be more customer-focused, market compatible, and dare we say “Amazon-like.” From major gifts to donor relations, join us for a discussion on why should we not re-design the organization’s strategic posture to work with technology instead of traditionally around it.


Diving Deeper for the Truth with Salesforce Analytics

Eric Greenberg, Senior Director, Marketing Strategy and Operations and Michael Fraker, Senior Associate Director of CRM and Marketing Technology, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania


Design and Implementation Lessons Learned

Kathea Smith, Assistant Dean for Enrollment, Academic Affairs, and Student Services at the University of Baltimore

Learn about the design and implementation of Salesforce Advisor Link at the University of Baltimore. Hear about our story and (spoiler alert) successful implementation during a pandemic.


Slack from Here to There a Communication Migration

Mitch Davis, CIO at Dartmouth College

Join Dartmouth's CIO, Mitch Davis, as he shares the College's story of organically embracing Slack across campus. With scattered use of various disparate "chat tools," the virtual work-from-anywhere attitude in tech workers was accelerated by the pandemic and quickly illuminated a plethora of community-building happening across campus with Slack. Learn more about how Davis led Dartmouth's strategic enterprise rollout of Slack, along with the creative use cases supporting more meaningful engagement at Dartmouth.


Engaging Your University Community with Salesforce

Matt Frank, Technology Evangelist

Your university community is not the same as it was 10 or 20 years ago, so why are you employing the same strategies and technology to track engagement metrics? Modernizing and centralizing your tech stack on Salesforce with ISV products is a growth-based strategy increase the connections between all of your stakeholders without sacrificing time to value. Oh, and our point-and-click tools can make it really easy for everyone from Admissions to Advancement to get involved and succeed!


Journey to Marketing Automation

Kevin Barry, Senior Director of Web and Systems Communications, Wilmington University

Learn how Wilmington University evolved their marketing automation strategy and capabilities with Marketing Cloud through a sea of new, and sometimes competing, ERP solutions (CRM's, SIS, etc.). WilmU transformed from simple email marketing to automating lead collection and engagement at the top end of the enrollment funnel, navigating (sometimes) rough waters and narrow straits of human and technological challenges (and the journey's not over).

Location

Jon M. Huntsman Hall

3730 Walnut St

Philadelphia, PA 19104

 


Parking Information:

Lot - Walnut 38

N.E. corner of 38th and Walnut St.

 


Hourly Parking 6 a.m. - 11 p.m. 

Daily Rate: $17

Penn & UPHS 5-hour rate: $13 (Must show ID to attendant)

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