Spring 2010 Management Symposium

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Keynote Speakers

 

Opening Keynote: Richard N. Katz

Tuesday Morning Keynote: Jacqueline Brown

 

Opening Keynote

Keynote Speaker: Richard N. Katz

Title: EDU@2020: School of Athens or Mr. Ford's Factory

The Digital Age is progressing and information technologies are maturing. They are so good in fact, that they make it possible for us to reconsider fundamental things about how we are delivering the higher education mission. Some technologies are becoming disruptive and the shape and nature of some industries like the recording industry, newspapers, and others are undergoing profound change.

This session will look at how future IT leaders will begin to rely less on technical prowess and will be utilized in much more daring ways to assist the institution's leadership. The successful IT leader will need to be part of the team that develops a compelling vision for the institution, develops a delivery system and infrastructure to bring that vision to life, develops the policies and incentives that get people aligned with that vision, and deploys flexible systems that will make it possible to extend the institute's footprint across the community, or across the globe.

Biography

RICHARD N. KATZ has been vice president of EDUCAUSE since 1996. From 1996 to 2001, Katz managed the EDUCAUSE professional development program, IT, publications, and member relations. In 2001, he founded the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), considered by many the preeminent source of research and analysis on IT issues in higher education. Before joining EDUCAUSE, Katz held a variety of management and executive positions spanning 14 years at the University of California (UC). There he won numerous awards and was the 2nd recipient of that university's award for innovative management and leadership.

Katz is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, four research studies, and more than 50 articles and monographs on a variety of management and technology topics. His book Dancing with the Devil was deemed one of the 10 most important education-related books of 1999 by Lingua Franca. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and his MBA from UCLA.

Tuesday Morning Keynote

Keynote Speaker: Mark Roman

Title: Everything I Needed to Know about I.T. Leadership I Learned from Star Trek

"Everything I needed to know about life I learned from Star Trek" is a simple list of key themes from the original Star Trek TV series. These themes provide an unusual, but useful perspective on life. But what if we were to apply those themes to leadership and management of information systems? This presentation is a humorous and non-prescriptive look at the leadership skills needed to run an information systems organization. The speaker looks at how these rules apply to creating digital technology solutions at in the higher education environment and how to manage the implementation of those solutions.