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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
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Kickoff
Rob Pierce
Degree Works Kickoff
Joe Trimble
Finance/Human Resources Kickoff
Lora Turpin
Financial Aid Kickoff
Jennifer Williams
Slate Kickoff
Carol Laney
Student/Accounts Receivable Kickoff
Nikita Hutchings, Christi Noyes
Technical/Integration/Cyber Security Kickoff
April Sims
CONCURRENT SESSION #1.1
Monday 10/12/26, 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Artificial Intelligence (AI) BOF
Rob Pierce
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.2
Tuesday 10/13/26, 10:30am - 11:20am
Student/Accounts Receivable BOF
Nikita Hutchings, Christi Noyes
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.4
Tuesday 10/13/26, 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Degree Works BOF
Joe Trimble
Finance BOF
Lora t
Technical/Integration/Cyber Security BOF
April Sims
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.2
Wednesday 10/14/26, 10:30am - 11:20am
Financial Aid BOF
Jennifer Williams
Human Resources BOF
Lora Turpin
Slate BOF
Carol Laney
TBA
5 C's of CPOS - Compliance, Configuration, Curriculum, Coursework and Communication (David Kent Consulting)
Are "Bad Actors" Ruining Your Admissions/Enrollment Screenplay?
Christi Noyes
Assigning Advisors: From Custom to Baseline
Beyond Go-Live: The Human Side of Higher Ed Transformation (Ferrilli)
Bernice Green
Beyond the Paycheck: Designing a Comprehensive Employee Compensation Statement
Building a SaaS Roadmap
Customize Banner Self Service with Extensibility (David Kent Consulting)
Degree Works Isn’t Broken: How to Debug Data, Scribing, and Configuration Issues (David Kent Consulting)
Do More With Less: AI-Powered HR Offboarding in Minutes
From Expiration Panic to Automation: Operationalizing Certificate Management in Banner Ecosystems (David Kent Consulting)
From Fear to Fluency: Building AI Confidence Across the Higher Ed Workforce
From Hunches to Hard Data: Stopping Bias-Driven Mistakes Before They Disrupt Campus Operations (David Kent Consulting)
From Paper to Progress: Our Journey to Self-Service Requisitions
Implementing Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (David Kent Consulting)
ISE in Action: Lessons Learned from Implementation
Let Your Data Tell a Story (Ferrilli)
Deirdre Mahan
Leveling-up with Slate CRM Reports
Making Degree Works Make Sense: Messaging, Structure, and Intentional Design (David Kent Consulting)
Mastering DegreeWorks Upgrades: A DBA’s Phased Approach to Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Stability (David Kent Consulting)
Monitoring Oracle Databases with Python
April Sims
NL2SQL With Oracle Select AI
OB3: Loan Limits and Schedule of Reductions in Banner (David Kent Consulting)
Optimizing Banner Financial Aid Self-Service: Strategies, Tips, and Hidden Opportunities (David Kent Consulting)
Page Builder: What Can It Do?
PostgreSQL DBA 101: From Zero to Production-Ready
April Sims
Preparing to move to SaaS-Lessons Learned and Avoiding Pitfalls (Ferrilli)
Chris Giger
Preparing your Campus for a SaaS Implementation
Colette Williams
SaaS Ready? Banner Security: Using Distributed Groups and Cleaning Up
Standing Up AI for a Banner Development Team
April Sims
Stop Relocating, Start Modernizing (David Kent Consulting)
David Kent
The Great Re-Sorting (David Kent Consulting)
David Kent
Vertical Integration in Argos Training & Development (Ferrilli)
Deirdre Mahan