Join us in Philadelphia!

• Darren Catalano, HelioCampus CEO
• Pete Vermeer, Principal Data Analyst

Get under the hood of program-level costing — how to model the true cost of instruction, why most institutions get this wrong, and what changes when leaders can see academic, financial, and labor data side by side. Bring your hardest questions about program economics; this session is built for the tough challenges teams are making in 2026.

• JP Connolly, Assessment Product Management

A focused session for Assessment clients on the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) — what it is, what it enables for accreditation and continuous improvement, and how teams are using it to move from reporting on what students did to documenting what they actually learned.

• Craig Rudick, Senior Director of Product Management

A practical, no-hype look at how AI is changing decision support in higher ed. Craig walks through where the technology genuinely opens new doors, where it falls short, and the governance, data quality, and semantic-layer fundamentals it takes to trust an AI-supported answer when it lands on your desk.

• JP Connolly, Assessment Product Management

A working session on data collections — the connective tissue that turns scattered source data into something institutions can actually report against. Hear how HelioCampus can help in streamlining collection workflows, reducing rework, and getting closer to a single, trusted view of institutional data.

• Pete Vermeer, Principal Data Analyst

Tap into Labor Cost Analytics insights that help you better understand how institutions frame their labor investments. You'll see real examples from peer institutions, get a look at data science approaches for multi-factor cost modeling, and pick up fresh thinking from Dr. Kelchen's research on the factors that influence administrative spending.

• Randy Oswald, Director of Data Engineering, University of Delaware

Hear directly from the University of Delaware on the move off Cognos and onto a modern reporting stack — Tableau on top of Redshift, with HelioCampus extracts feeding the work. Randy Oswald will walk through the case for the move, the tradeoffs along the way, and what the team has learned about building reporting infrastructure that scales.

• Haley Bergsten, Strategic Initiatives Analyst, University of Wisconsin

Hear how the University of Wisconsin is putting Labor Cost Analytics to work across a multi-campus institution — from framing the right questions to translating cost insight into conversations leaders can act on. Haley shares what's working, where the friction sits, and what the team has learned about scaling this kind of work.

• Mark Speicher, Senior VP for Research, Learning and Innovation, AACOM

Mark Speicher walks through how AACOM is turning its survey data on osteopathic medical student wellness into insight member institutions can actually use. See how the data moves from raw responses to actionable signals, and what it takes to translate cross-institutional research into something program leaders can put to work on their campuses.