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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
Choosing Your ERP Future: Strategy Before Vendor Urgency (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
David Kent
Technical/Integration/Cyber Security BOF
Ballpark 1
April Sims
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
Building a SaaS Roadmap
Ballpark 1
Gabriel Williams
Do More With Less: AI-Powered HR Offboarding in Minutes
Grand Suites II
Implementing SLATE: How We Built It, Launched It, and Survived Without Consultants
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Kassy Swain
Making Degree Works Make Sense: Messaging, Structure, and Intentional Design (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
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
Financial Aid BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Jennifer Williams
From Fear to Fluency: Building AI Confidence Across the Higher Ed Workforce
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Leveling-up with Slate CRM Reports
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Monitoring Oracle Databases with Python
Grand Ballroom Salon C
April Sims
OB3: Loan Limits and Schedule of Reductions in Banner (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
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
Customize Banner Self Service with Extensibility (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
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 Ballroom Salon F
John Goerke
NL2SQL With Oracle Select AI
Grand Ballroom Salon D
Page Builder: What Can It Do?
Grand Ballroom Salon C
John Leever
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 Ballroom Salon D
Elizabeth Stacey
Argos X: Recap of Last Year & Why You Need to Move (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Brian Renaldo
From Expiration Panic to Automation: Operationalizing Certificate Management in Banner Ecosystems (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
PostgreSQL DBA 101: From Zero to Production-Ready
Grand Ballroom Salon C
April Sims
Simplifying Employee Data Access and Beyond: Expansion Update
Grand Suites II
Chris Samuel-Maynard
The Path to SaaS (SIG)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Adam Travis
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
Degree Works Isn’t Broken: How to Debug Data, Scribing, and Configuration Issues (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Finance BOF
Grand Suites II
Lora Turpin
CONCURRENT SESSION #2.5
Tuesday 10/13/26, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Argos with Invoke (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Shain Johnson
Let Your Data Tell a Story (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Deirdre Mahan
SaaS Ready? Banner Security: Using Distributed Groups and Cleaning Up
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Ivy Walker
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.1
Wednesday 10/14/26, 9:00am - 10:00am
Avoiding Report Sprawl in Argos: Building Reusable DataBlocks and Writing Maintainable SQL (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Vicki Wayne
Building Security and Resilience into the Cloud: Why Architecture Matters (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
SaaS Integration Strategy (SIG)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Adam Travis
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
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
Slate BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon F
Carol Laney
sql-autotune: An AI Agent That Rewrites and Tunes Your Slow Banner Queries
Grand Ballroom Salon G
April Sims
Streamline Banner Upgrades with Custom ESM Scripts
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Earl Borah
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
Increase Retention With The Accelerator (Evisions)
Grand Ballroom Salon A
Shaine Johnson
Managing Non-Student Receivables at the University of Illinois: From Account Setup to Successful Collections
Nikita Hutchings
Technical/Integration/Cyber Security BOF
Grand Ballroom Salon C
April Sims
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
Optimizing Banner Financial Aid Self-Service: Strategies, Tips, and Hidden Opportunities (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
Preparing to move to SaaS-Lessons Learned and Avoiding Pitfalls (Ferrilli)
Grand Ballroom Salon G
Chris Giger
CONCURRENT SESSION #3.5
Wednesday 10/14/26, 3:20pm - 4:20pm
ISE in Action: Lessons Learned from Implementation
Grand Ballroom Salon C
Stop Relocating, Start Modernizing (David Kent Consulting)
Grand Ballroom Salon B
David Kent
TBA
From Banner to Slate and Back Again: Building an Integration Ecosystem That Works
From Slate to Stipend: Automating Summer Fellowship Payments in Banner
Retrieval Augmented Generation with Oracle Vector Search
The Spider Portal: Weaving Together the Student Experience