Built to Last: Looking Back to Lead Forward | A Pre-EDUCAUSE Leadership Dinner

Higher education has navigated transformational change before. From the rise of the internet and cloud computing to cybersecurity, digital learning, and enterprise modernization, institutional leaders have repeatedly adapted to new realities while preserving their core mission. 

Today, CIOs and senior technology leaders face another period of consequential choices. Institutions are balancing rapid advances in AI, growing expectations for student and employee experience, fragmented data, cybersecurity risk, financial pressure, and limited workforce capacity. The challenge is deciding where to move boldly, where to proceed carefully, and which enduring principles should guide both. 

Join Attain Partners for an invitation-only executive dinner bringing together higher education CIOs and senior technology leaders. Over a three-course dinner, participants will work through an unfolding institutional case, with new facts and leadership challenges revealed throughout the evening. 

The case is designed to spark candid conversation, not produce a single correct answer. Working in small, facilitated groups, leaders will compare approaches, test assumptions, share lessons from their own institutions, and explore what it takes to make today’s technology decisions trusted, measurable, and built to last. 

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