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2026 CoHEsion Summit - St Louis
Oct 12, 2026 - Oct 14, 2026 • Hilton St Louis at the Ballpark
PROGRAM SESSIONS
TRACK KICKOFF SESSIONS
Monday 10/12/26, 10:00am - 10:30am
Finance/Human Resources Kickoff
Grand Suites II
Lora Turpin
Financial Aid Kickoff
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Jennifer Williams
Student/AR/DegreeWorks/Slate Kickoff
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Nikita Hutchings, Carol Laney, Christi Noyes, Joe Trimble
Technical/Integration/Cyber Security/AI Kickoff
Ballpark 1
Rob Pierce, April Sims
CONCURRENT SESSION #1.1
Monday 10/12/26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Are "Bad Actors" Ruining Your Admissions/Enrollment Screenplay?
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Christi Noyes
Automating SLATE & Banner synchronization with Appworx/UC4 processes
Grand Ballroom Salon F
John Goerke
Beyond Go-Live: The Human Side of Higher Ed Transformation (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Bernice Green
Beyond the Paycheck: Designing a Comprehensive Employee Compensation Statement
Grand Suites II
Chris Samuel-Maynard
On-Premise - Technical/Integration/Cyber Security BOF
Ballpark 1
April Sims
Strategy Before Platform: Choosing your ERP and SIS Future (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
David Kent
The Future of Student Accounts Collections in a Regulatory Environment (National Credit Mangement)
Grand Suites III
Karen Reddick
What’s new with MAPS? (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Dave Crosser
CONCURRENT SESSION #1.2
Monday 10/12/26, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Argos X: Customer Success in Action (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Mike Ruzek
Axiom Cracks Ellucian SaaS Integration Code (Axiom)
Ballpark 1
Jeff Leisse
Customize Banner Self Service with Extensibility (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Becky Benya
Do More With Less: AI-Powered HR Offboarding in Minutes
Grand Suites III
Genoba Parker, Charles White
Ellucian Degree Works in Action: New Features, Future Plans, and Product Insights (Ellucian)
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Jennifer Vangolen
Implementing SLATE: How We Built It, Launched It, and Survived Without Consultants
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Kassy Swain
Property Inventory System - Enhanced Processes
Grand Suites II
Shiza Abdullah
The Knowledge Behind the KnowledgeBase - Making Information Work for Everyone
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Alice Seaton, Nikita Hutchings
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.1
Tuesday 10/13/26, 9:00am - 10:00am
Argos Capabilities - More than Reporting Pt 1 (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Missy Adkison
Assigning Advisors: From Custom to Baseline
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Pauline Evans
Building a SaaS Roadmap
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Gabriel Williams
Financial Aid BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Jennifer Williams
From Fear to Fluency: Building AI Confidence Across the Higher Ed Workforce
Grand Suites III
Genoba Parker, Charles White
Leveling-up with Slate CRM Reports
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Brian Myers, Lucas Hahn
OB3: Loan Limits and Schedule of Reductions in Banner (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Linda Blakely
SaaS Migration and Preparing your Campus for Change - Roundtable Discussion
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Terri Pecora
Salary Planner Unlocked – Excel Skills and Shortcuts to Save You Time
Grand Suites II
Amber McElhaney
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.2
Tuesday 10/13/26, 10:20am - 11:20am
Argos Capabilities - More than Reporting Pt 2 (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Missy Adkison
Beyond the FA File: Connecting Financial Aid to Course Materials in Real Time (Trimdata)
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Charles Hullett
But Make It Fun: Data Literacy Training & Engagement That Won't Put People to Sleep
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Kristen Corey
Constituo - Are your Banner integrations SaaS ready? (Constituo)
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Michael Karman, Joe Kirkland
Ellucian Student: From System of Record to System of Intelligence (Ellucian)
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Neche Dwyer
From Paper to Progress: Our Journey to Self-Service Requisitions
Grand Suites II
Kim Cox, Jennifer Stroud
Implementing SLATE Student Success with Banner integrations
Grand Suites III
John Goerke
Making Degree Works Make Sense: Messaging, Structure, and Intentional Design (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Nicole Parker
Student/Accounts Receivable BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Nikita Hutchings, Christi Noyes
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.3
Tuesday 10/13/26, 11:30am - 12:30pm
AI in the Bursar's Office: What's Actually Working (Meadow)
Grand Suites III
Elizabeth Stacey
Argos X: Recap of Last Year & Why You Need to Move (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Brian Renaldo
From Banner to Slate and Back Again: Building an Integration Ecosystem That Works
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Elodie Hardt
From Expiration Panic to Automation: Operationalizing Certificate Management in Banner Ecosystems (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Robert Landsparger
FVT/GE Reporting - a custom solution
Grand Ballroom Salon D
John Goerke
Getting Ahead of Ghost Student Fraud with Sentinel 360 (Student Clearinghouse)
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Joe Carlson
Know Before You Go: Planning Your SaaS Mock Migration Strategy (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Lauraly DuBois
PostgreSQL DBA 101
Grand Ballroom Salon C
April Sims
Simplifying Employee Data Access and Beyond: Expansion Update
Grand Suites II
Chris Samuel-Maynard
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.4
Tuesday 10/13/26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Argos X: Dashboard Designer Deep Dive (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Mike Ruzek
Artificial Intelligence (AI) BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Rob Pierce
Degree Works BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Joe Trimble
Finance BOF
Grand Suites II
Lora Turpin
Financial Aid Starts Before the Financial Aid Office (Ellucian)
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Steve Backer
Fraud Roundtable: Part 1 (Student Records)
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Christi Noyes
Rethinking the Payment Experience: A Facilitated Conversation on Student Financial Wellness (Nelnet)
Grand Suites III
Ryan Perry
SaaS Go-Live Preparation: Planning Your Day in the Life Sessions (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Lauraly DuBois
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.5
Tuesday 10/13/26, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Argos with Invoke (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Shain Johnson
Degree Works Isn’t Broken: How to Debug Data, Scribing, and Configuration Issues (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Nicole Parker
Enhanced EDMS platform: low code forms and workflow, unlimited digital signatures integrated with Banner (TEAM ia)
Grand Suites II
Lane Yarborough Jones, Lorri Yarborough
FA Roundtable: AI & Financial Aid: Friend, Foe, or Just Another Tool in the Toolbox
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Jennifer Williams
From Implementation to Ownership: A Training Approach to Empowering Slate End Users
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Britt Young
Let Your Data Tell a Story (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Deirdre Mahan
Page Builder: What Can It Do?
Grand Ballroom Salon C
John Leever
Second Year with Claude: From Chatbot to Team Member
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Leah Burstein
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.1
Wednesday 10/14/26, 9:00am - 10:00am
AI-powered Analytics and Fraud Detection (Voyatek)
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Emily Bonham, Casimiro Lovato-Winston
Avoiding Report Sprawl in Argos: Building Reusable DataBlocks and Writing Maintainable SQL (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Vicki Wayne
Banner Queries That Changed Our Office
Grand Suites III
Jennifer Williams
Building Security and Resilience into the Cloud: Why Architecture Matters (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Robert Landsparger
Fraud Roundtable: Part 2 (Technical)
Grand Ballroom Salon D
April Sims
Overview of the Property Inventory System
Grand Suites II
Benjamin Martin
SaaS Integration Strategy (SIG)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Adam Travis
Slate 101: Relational Databases for People Who Majored in Literally Anything Else
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Britt Young
Vertical Integration in Argos Training & Development (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Deirdre Mahan
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.2
Wednesday 10/14/26, 10:20am - 11:20am
Banner & Colleague SaaS Starter Pack (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Brian Renaldo
Element 451: PCC's Quest for Admissions Greatness
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Christi Noyes
Financial Aid BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Jennifer Williams
Human Resources BOF
Grand Suites II
Lora Turpin
Mastering DegreeWorks Upgrades: A DBA’s Phased Approach to Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Stability (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Jason Thomas, Nicole Parker
SaaS Ready? Banner Security: Using Distributed Groups and Cleaning Up
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Ivy Walker
Slate BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Carol Laney
sql-autotune: An AI Agent That Rewrites and Tunes Your Slow Banner Queries
Grand Ballroom Salon E
April Sims
The operation nobody wrote down: why campus IT runs on habit, and what that's hiding (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Barry Lambson
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.3
Wednesday 10/14/26, 11:30am - 12:30pm
5 C's of CPOS - Compliance, Configuration, Curriculum, Coursework and Communication (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Becky Benya
Best-of-Breed strategy for time and attendance (Tracy, Inc)
Grand Suites II
Scott Mowery
Beyond the Degree Audit: Smarter Planning and Credential Discovery (Ellucian)
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Steve Backer
Increase Retention With The Accelerator (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Shain Johnson
Managing Non-Student Receivables at the University of Illinois: From Account Setup to Successful Collections
Grand Suites III
Nikita Hutchings
NL2SQL With Oracle Select AI
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Sean Leahy
SaaS - Technical/Integration/Cyber Security BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Terri Pecora
The Path to SaaS (SIG)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Adam Travis
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.4
Wednesday 10/14/26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Argos Data Agent & Prompt Mastery (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Mike Ruzek, Dave Crosser
Fraud Roundtable: Part 3 (Financial Aid)
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Jennifer Williams
Optimizing Banner Financial Aid Self-Service: Strategies, Tips, and Hidden Opportunities (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Linda Blakely
Preparing to move to SaaS-Lessons Learned and Avoiding Pitfalls (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Chris Giger
Retrieval Augmented Generation with Oracle Vector Search
Grand Ballroom Salon E
Sean Leahy
Streamline Banner Upgrades with Custom ESM Scripts
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Earl Borah
The Spider Portal: Weaving Together the Student Experience
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Elodie Hardt
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.5
Wednesday 10/14/26, 3:20pm - 4:20pm
Breaking the Chains of On-Prem Banner (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
David Kent
Monitoring Oracle Databases with Python
Grand Ballroom Salon E
April Sims
Paying for it, not using it, can't name it: the unaudited state of campus software (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Barry Lambson
Smart IT Security Practices
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Tamya Stallings
You Have Scholarship Dollars. Connecting Them to Students Is the Hard Part (Ellucian)
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Steve Backer