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Navigating the Ambiguity

"Navigating the Ambiguity" Executive Retreat

August 5–6, 2025
New York, NY

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Attention Higher Education Executives

Are you prepared to steer your institution through the complex waters of higher education’s rapidly shifting landscape? Join us on August 5th and 6th, at Convene 360 Madison Avenue in New York City, for an unparalleled opportunity at the “Navigating the Ambiguity” executive retreat, specifically curated for top-tier education leaders.

Why Attend? In a climate of rapid policy shifts and mounting pressures, adapt and lead effectively with insights and tools from specialized sessions crafted just for you. Our retreat is designed to stimulate groundbreaking discussions, foster innovative thinking, and nurture connections within the higher education community.

Key Retreat Objectives:

  • Navigate Political & Economic Uncertainty: Understand the influence of shifting political landscapes on higher education and build strategic resilience through executive scenario planning and engaging tabletop exercises.
  • Harness Technology as a Strategic Lever: Discover how AI, data, and digital infrastructure can drive agility and revolutionize your institution.
  • Recharge & Refocus: Amidst the noise and disruption, find the clarity and confidence required to lead with renewed purpose.


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Best Practices for Institutional Resilience

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Sessions

Gain insight into proactive measures to strengthen your institution’s agility and resilience as you engage with fellow higher education leaders and industry experts. Focused sessions, panels, and workshops will equip you with strategies and connections to illuminate your institution’s path forward.

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Tech Showcase

Connect with leading-edge technology vendors to dive into their innovations for enhancing institutional efficiency, agility, and decision-making across academic and administrative operations.

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Award

The Future Campus AwardTM spotlights the trailblazers in higher ed, celebrating those who integrate technology to redefine academic and operational excellence. Join us to honor these visionaries shaping the future of education.

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Executive Scenario Planning

Learn how to realize radical efficiency and agility in operations through agile enterprise scenario planning. Elevate your strategic planning to simulate a wide range of potential outcomes arising from current and future policy changes and market conditions.

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Sessions

Focused sessions, panels, and workshops will equip you with strategies and connections to illuminate your institution’s path forward.

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Tech Showcase

Connect with leading-edge technology providers to explore their innovations for enhancing institutional efficiency, agility, and decision-making across academic and administrative operations.

Take Advantage of Early Bird Pricing. Register by May 16 for $2,250 including meals and hotel.

Hear from Past Attendees

Who Should Attend

Administrative and Academic Stakeholders

Summit sessions are curated for innovators across your institution, including those from academic affairs, IT, business operations, enrollment management, student success, advancement, and more. 

Who Attends the Future Campus Summit

Why You Can't Afford to Miss this Summit

The Future Campus Summit is not like any other leadership retreat. The intimate, collaborative nature of the event offers a strategic platform for leaders committed to strengthening institutional agility and resilience. By attending, you will:

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Join a Community

Share insights and strategies with forward-thinking peers facing similar challenges and opportunities

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Gain Actionable Insights

Explore proactive measures to strengthen organizational adaptability and alignment for impactful decision-making and action.

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Leave with Tools to Lead

Equip yourself with the knowledge to lead your institution through the shifting policy landscape.

A Retreat Like No Other

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This executive retreat stands apart as a unique convergence of visionary higher education leadership, cutting-edge technology, and strategic collaboration.

  • Curated Sessions & Networking
  • 1:1 Discussions with Solution Provider Executives
  • Diverse Viewpoints Tackling Shared Challenges
  • Accelerated Learning & Strategizing
  • Future Campus Awards

Visionary Voices

Gain insights and engage with Tambellini Group analysts and advisors, industry executives, and institution leaders.

Arne Duncan

Former Secretary of Education
US Department of Education
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Tom Andriola

Chief Digital Officer
UC Irvine
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Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim, PhD

Vice President, Data, Analytics, and AI
Tambellini Group
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Charles Elliott

Field CTO for Education
Google Public Sector
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Sam Burgio

Chief Operating Officer
Jenzabar
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Scott Campbell

University Registrar
The University of Chicago
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Katelyn Ilkani

President and COO; Principal Analyst
Tambellini Group
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Dave Kieffer

Principal Analyst
Tambellini Group
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Serena Malhotra

Junior Analyst
Tambellini Group
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Hampton Shive

Vice President, Research
Tambellini Group
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Trevor Skelton

Analyst; Junior Data Scientist
Tambellini Group
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Vicki Tambellini

CEO and Founder; Principal Analyst
Tambellini Group
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Matt Winn, PhD

Senior Analyst
Tambellini Group
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Matt Winn, PhD

Senior Analyst
Tambellini Group
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Susan Miltenberger

Associate Vice President and CIO
Towson University
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Chandler C. Morse

Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Workday
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Jack Neill

Vice President, Product
HelioCampus
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Simran Nirh

President
East Point Consulting
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Hampton Shive

Vice President, Research
Tambellini Group
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Nalyn Siripong

Senior Data Scientist
University of Pittsburgh
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Melissa Smurdon

Executive Director of Financial Aid
Butler University
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Our Institutional Sponsor

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Our Vendor Sponsors

Pinnacle

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Premier

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Diamond

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Platinum

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Our Tech Showcase Sponsors

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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

About University of California, Irvine

Founded in 1965, UCI is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and is ranked among the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. The campus has produced five Nobel laureates and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by Chancellor Howard Gillman, UCI has more than 36,000 students and offers 224 degree programs. It’s Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $7 billion annually to the local economy and $8 billion statewide. For more on UCI, visit www.uci.edu.

Take Advantage of Early Bird Pricing

Higher Education Institutions

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Solution Providers & Investors

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Keynote

Keynote June 17

Katie Drummond, Global Editorial Director, WIRED
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Opening Remarks

Ben Nelson, Founder and Board Member, Minerva University
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Disrupt or Build? The Innovation Ecology

Dr. Laura Huang, Distinguished Professor, Faculty Director of Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, Northeastern University; Author, Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
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Navigational Leadership in the Era of Augmented Intelligence

Tom Andriola, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Data, Chief Digital Officer, University of California, Irvine
Matt Winn
Matt Winn
Senior Analyst
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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.

Bala Subramanian
VP and GM, Education
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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.

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.

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.

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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