AGENDA: 2026 Oklahoma Higher Ed IT Summit

Monday, May 18, 2026
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM	Breakfast & Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Opening Keynote: Chancellor Burrage, OSRHE
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Featured Speaker: Tai Phan, Oklahoma Chief AI Officer
9:40 AM - 10:15 AM	Track 1: Resilient The Rural Smart Campus: Navigating Modernization and the Digital Divide at the Edge Jerome Ortiz (OK Panhandle State)	Track 2: Intelligent Managing Varying Device Types with Microsoft Intune Justin Tate (SWOSU) & Stephen Breedwell (Ferrilli)	Track 3: HX Employee recognition and engagement programs Dana Saliba (OU Tulsa)	Track 4: Value-Driven Synchronized IT: Balancing Operations and Projects with Lean Kanban Michael Manning (UCO)
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Morning Break Sponsored by Arctic Wolf
10:45 AM - 11:20 AM	Track 1: Resilient Hardening your Campus Security Eberechukwu Mbam & Caleb Hulsey (ORU)	Track 2: Intelligent Navigating an Intelligent Transfer Journey: Turning Student Data into Retention Strategy Hoda Soltani (OUHSC)	Track 3: HX From Fragile Integrations to Institutional Resilience: Modernizing Banner–LMS Data Exchange with ILP Michelle Meazell & Kevin Boydstun (OU Norman)	Track 4: Value-Driven Tanium Session
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM	Featured Session: InfoTech - Top 5 CIO Priorities 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch Presentation Presentation by Palo Alto 12:25-12:50
1:10 PM - 1:45 PM	Track 1: Resilient Operational Resilience: Detect–Repair–Validate Kong Thao (NSU) Van Porter, UCO Cristy Martin, UCO Dylan Schechtel, Carnegie	Track 2: Intelligent Numbers You Can Trust: Documenting Analytics in Higher Education Mark Gunter (OU HSC)	Track 3: HX Clear Winds Session	Track 4: Value-Driven Transforming IT Teams by Rethinking Leadership: A Case Study Tim Whitley (OSU-Stillwater)
1:50 PM - 2:25 PM	Track 1: Resilient GLBA in a Box: Compliance Without Budget Jonathan Kimmitt (SWOSU)	Track 1: Resilient From AI Adoption to Institutional Trust: Designing Fair, Data-Informed Policies for the Intelligent Institution Alisha Ridenour (SE)	Track 3: HX Reducing Rework: Integrating Governance and Data Services Emily Vittitow & Jeremy Langston (OU Norman)	Track 4: Value-Driven Power and Leadership for Project Managers Kevin Fitzgerald (OU HSC)
2:25 PM - 2:55 PM	Afternoon Break
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Featured Panel: InfoTech Facilitated Panel with CoIT Executive Committee
4:15 PM - 4:50 PM	Track 1: Resilient Stopping Impersonation at the Source: Strengthening Service Desk Identity Verification with OUIDPIN JEB Sheriff (OUHSC)	Track 2: Intelligent OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative AI Consultants Program Henry Neeman (OU Norman)	Track 3: HX IT Media Services & Athletics: A High-Impact Campus Partnership Julio Mata & Caleb Howard (UCO)	Track 4: Value-Driven Beyond INFO Tables: Banner Table Documentation Gabriel Berres (NSU)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Evening Reception Sponsored by Howard Technologies
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
8:00 AM - 8:25 AM	Breakfast & Registration
8:25 AM - 9:00 AM	Keynote: Gideon DiMeglio
9:10 AM - 9:45 AM	Track 1: Resilient Go Security Pro with OBU	Track 2: Intelligent AI 3: A New Path Adam Rubin (UCO)	Track 3: HX Visualizing ZIP Code Data with Power BI Joseph Cole (OUHSC)	Track 4: Value-Driven Crisis-Ready Leadership: Are you ready for the next pandemic? Dr. Victor Ekwere Jnr (ORU)
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM	Morning Break
10:25 AM - 11:00 AM	Track 1: Resilient The Policy Playbook (Practical Implementation) April Dickson & JEB Sheriff (OUHSC)	Track 2: Intelligent Google	Track 3: HX “It’s Fine. Everything’s Fine.” –Upgrading Colleague Servers Shamus Moore & Dian Ray (SWOSU)	Track 4: Value-Driven Let's Talk about IT: IT Communication in Higher Ed Katie Couch (OU Norman)
11:05 AM - 12:05 PM	Hot Topics Lightning Round OMES / OK-ISAC UCO Managed Cloud Migration UCO AI Executive in Residence Madeline Mitchell Redlands Community College - Troy Milligan
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch & Prize Drawing