Impact Stories:
Blockchain + Salesforce = Digital Transformation! --Phil Long (Georgetown U), Phil Komarny (Salesforce)
The amazing Higher Ed Open Source App Stack! --Kathy Lueckeman (Maryville U), Kyle Schmid (Huron)
Interactions in Action! --Danielle Henriquez (Rutgers U), Buyan Thyagarajan (EigenX)
Documenting the Higher Ed Open Source Stack! --Ian Gotts (Elements.Cloud)
Enterprise Communication Platforms - CRM + Marketing Cloud --Jen Mick (Harvard Business School), Venkat Reddy (Yale U)
This event is followed by the Salesforce.org Campfire Stories Reception at Hudson Terrace starting at 5:30pm - register here: https://bit.ly/2Szu466
Community-sourced learning brought to you by the Northeast Region Higher Ed Trailblazer Community Group in partnership with the New York Higher Ed Trailblazer Community Group and made possible by the generous support of Computer Futures and Salesforce.org
Salesforce
Vice President of Innovation
Georgetown University
Senior Scholar
Maryville University
Chief Innovation Officer
Huron Consulting Group
Senior Salesforce Developer
Rutgers University
Business Intelligence Architect
Eigen X
Director
University of Maryland
Program Director for CRM
Yale University
Senior Software Engineer
Salesforce.org
Director: Education Industry Solutions Integrations & Architecture
New York Higher Ed Community Group Leader
Assistant Director, Administrative Technology, NYU
Elements.cloud
Founder & CEO
Phil Komarny is the Vice President, Innovation for Salesforce.com. Phil has held multiple leadership roles both inside of higher education as the Chief Digital Officer for The University of Texas System, as well as outside as the CEO of Robots and Pencils. He is a highly social, entrepreneurial, award winning senior executive with a 20+ year track record of delivering innovative, high value solutions by aligning existing problems with emerging technologies. For instance, Phil was the first technology leader to introduce the Apple iPad as a platform for business transformation. He is an experienced c-level executive that has leveraged entrepreneurial instincts, a broad technical skillset, and a very strong reputation for developing and motivating teams at all levels to integrate new technologies that create value for the organization. Phil is comfortable serving as the voice of the business and building a strong rapport with management, colleagues, vendors, stakeholders and technical specialists. He has won the CIO100 for his work are Seton Hill University, grew Robots and Pencils to the 34th fastest growing technology company in 2015, and is a member of Constellation’s Business Transformation 150 (BT-150), an elite list that recognizes the top global executives leading business transformation efforts in their organizations. Phil has also won multiple Apple Distinguished Program Award for the ‘iPad for Everyone’ initiative at Seton Hill University.
Kathleen Lueckeman is chief innovation officer at Maryville University, where she leads its enterprise-wide implementation of Service Cloud, Communities, Pardot, Einstein Analytics and Social Studio. Maryville, a pioneer in the system-wide implementation of Salesforce for the complete student lifecycle, uses the platform to improve communications, enhance service, and automate processes to improve the constituent experience. Prior to working at Maryville, she worked at Salesforce.org as director of Higher Education Industry Strategy, and she formerly worked at Wayne State University, leading its CRM initiative. While at Wayne State, she was named the first higher education Salesforce MVP, and she held the first Higher Ed Summit before Salesforce.org officially adopted it. Kathy serves as the PI for the Enterprise Application Solution for Yield, a free application for admission that was open-sourced by Maryville through the generosity of a Salesforce.org Force for Change Grant. Active in the community, Kathy is as past chair of the Salesforce.org Higher Education Advisory Council, moderates Higher Ed Office Hours each month and serves as user group leader for the Higher Education User Group.
Kyle has been using Salesforce for the past five years, starting as a student worker involved in a pilot project at the UT Austin McCombs School of Business. Kyle became the lead admin and developer for the McCombs Salesforce implementation as a student and continued in that role full-time after graduating with a degree in Computer Science. Since then, Kyle has moved to Huron Consulting Group where he works on the higher-education Salesforce implementation team. He has contributed towards and led multiple open-source projects throughout his time at both McCombs and Huron.
Salesforce MVP (Summer 2015-17)| Specializing in Higher Education and Manufacturing | Blogger|Passionate in Helping people start a Salesforce career|
Corey Snow,
Former Salesforce MVP, Salesforce.org Higher Ed Advisory Council, Northeast Region Higher Ed Community Group Leader
Corey serves as CRM Strategist & Solution Architect at Harvard University. He partners with 40+ trailblazing teams spanning 7 Schools to foster cross-campus collaboration and promote shared success with the Salesforce platform and ecosystem. Corey is grateful to have been immersed in technology for his entire career, acting as a technologist in diverse sectors including healthcare, marketing systems, data storage, pharmaceuticals, publishing, and non-profit. His current mission is to enable Higher Ed Institutions to thrive into an era of renewed relevancy by courageously embracing the power of CRM technology.
Ian has been a Salesforce Customer from 2002 and was a speaker at the first UK "Dreamforce" which was Marc, 3 customers and 120 delegates!! Since then he has spoken at Dreamforce and World Tour multiple times and has written 11 books on Salesforce, business analysis, change management and compliance. He is an entertaining speaker and will challenge your current thinking.
