Generative AI is often framed as a time-saver—but for senior leaders in higher education, the real opportunity lies in asking a deeper question: Can AI help us do our work better? This session explores the shift from viewing GenAI as a tool for operational efficiency to engaging with it as a catalyst for strategic thinking, institutional alignment, and thoughtful leadership. Through a series of reflective prompts and grounded examples, we’ll examines how AI adoption intersects with exi...

Stephanie Verkoeyen

Speaker

This keynote asks us to reconsider the position from where we lead, with particular attention to in-between spaces in systems that are experiencing mounting pressure from both external and internal forces. Together we will identify the conceptual tools necessary to re-wire the institutional circuitry that sits at the convergence of relational, structural, and the cultural to help us lead at a time of collapse and emergence.  &...

Dr. Jessica Riddell

Keynote speaker