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Summit Agenda

Location: The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Registration | 11:00 - 7:00pm ET

Location: Sphinx Gallery (main level)

Workshop: Keeping audits accurate as curriculum changes | 1 - 2:30pm ET

Location: Upper Baugh (upper level) & Rainey Auditorium (lower level). This workshop will run as two concurrent sessions.

Curriculum changes fast, and audits don't always keep up on their own. We'll cover refreshing audits with new constraints and handling complex or non-course requirements, with time to work through your own audit challenges.

Designed for audit builders and curriculum owners in the Registrar’s Office who are past initial launch and in a maintenance stage with audits.

Nicole Nagy, Product Delivery Lead - Progress
Nicole Nagy, Product Delivery Lead - ProgressStellic
Jon Grist, Product Lead - Progress
Jon Grist, Product Lead - ProgressStellic
Workshop: Expanding Care beyond the fundamentals | 1 - 2:30pm ET

Location: Classroom L1 (lower level)

Sending messages, booking appointments, and logging notes are just the starting point in Care. This workshop covers the next level of features that help advisors meet students where they are, including reviews, appointment campaigns, queues, and note templates.

Designed for institutions using Care, this workshop is ideal for advisors, student success staff, and Care administrators.

Harsha Prakki, Product Delivery Lead - Care
Harsha Prakki, Product Delivery Lead - CareStellic
Caleb Ren, Product Lead - Care
Caleb Ren, Product Lead - CareStellic
Break | 2:30 - 3pm ET

Location: Mosaic Hall (lower level)

Workshop: Launching registration in Stellic | 3 - 4:30pm ET

Location: Classroom L2 (lower level)

It's hard to know what registration implementation in a new system will take until you've gone through it yourself. We'll cover the implementation steps and what to expect from testing and go-live, along with lessons learned from schools that have already launched and time to identify where your own institution stands on readiness.

Designed for institutions that have committed to registration or are actively scoping it.

Jamie List, Product Delivery Lead - Plan
Jamie List, Product Delivery Lead - PlanStellic
Workshop: Building better workflows | 3 - 4:30pm ET

Location: Rainey Auditorium (lower level)

This session is ideal for those who understand the basics of workflows and are looking to go deeper. We'll cover utilizing custom workflows for real scenarios, with time to draft a plan for your own campus.

Designed for process owners in the Registrar's Office and administrative teams.

Kambria Butler, Product Delivery Lead - Progress
Kambria Butler, Product Delivery Lead - ProgressStellic
Workshop: Designing pathways that scale | 3 - 4:30pm ET

Location: Upper Baugh (upper level)

Pathways that work fine for a simple program can fall apart once you add sequential requirements or a major and minor combination. We'll cover building for those complex scenarios, with time to sketch out your own complex pathway.

Designed for pathway owners in the Registrar's Office, Advising, and related teams.

Joshua Causey, Product Delivery Lead - Plan
Joshua Causey, Product Delivery Lead - PlanStellic
Opening Reception | 6pm ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

We'll kick things off in the Penn Museum's Asia Gallery, with food and drinks among the exhibits.

Location: The Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Registration & Breakfast | 7:30 - 8:30am ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

Opening Keynote | 8:30 - 9:30am ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

Kick off Summit with a reflection on the last year and how Stellic is building alongside you to meet the future of higher ed.

Sabih Bin Wasi, Co-founder
Sabih Bin Wasi, Co-founderStellic
X-Factor Session | 9:30 - 10:15am ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

Sabih Bin Wasi, Co-founder
Sabih Bin Wasi, Co-founderStellic
Dan Levin
Dan LevinStellic Advisor
Break | 10:40 - 11:10am ET

Location: Pepper Hall (upper level)

Partner Breakout: Delivering value in your first semester | 10:40 - 11:30am ET

Location: Widener Lecture Hall (main level)

How do you set your team up to move fast without sacrificing quality? NYU will share the story of their implementation, several deliberate structural choices, from how they made decisions to how they built internal expertise and brought others along. You'll hear the reasoning behind their approach, what it took to build systems that scaled across their schools, and see that a fast, high-quality launch is within reach for your team too.

Kasey Smith, Initiative Delivery Team Lead
Kasey Smith, Initiative Delivery Team LeadStellic
Emily Caldwell, Assistant Registrar
Emily Caldwell, Assistant RegistrarNew York University
K.R. Drake, Deputy Registrar
K.R. Drake, Deputy RegistrarNew York University
Patricia Lavelle, SIS Business Analyst
Patricia Lavelle, SIS Business AnalystNew York University
Partner Breakout: Rebuilding graduation clearance in Stellic | 10:40 - 11:30am ET

Location: Rainey Auditorium (lower level)

Graduation clearance is often treated as a term-end fire drill. Columbia and UW-Milwaukee rebuilt the process from the ground up to make it something staff could rely on instead of scramble through. Hear the decisions that shaped their approach and how they tested before rolling it out to their teams. You'll leave with practical steps for testing and launching grad clearance workflows on your own campus.

Alexis Moore, Director of Enrollment Services
Alexis Moore, Director of Enrollment ServicesColumbia University
Kristy Sprung, Senior Associate Registrar
Kristy Sprung, Senior Associate RegistrarUniversity of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Nicole Nagy, Product Delivery Lead - Progress
Nicole Nagy, Product Delivery Lead - ProgressStellic
Partner Breakout: Preparing for AI in student success | 10:40 - 11:30am ET

Location: Upper Baugh (upper level)

AI creates an opportunity to rethink work that campuses have accepted for decades. This panel explores where institutional leaders see real opportunities for AI, what they're choosing to rethink first, and where they're moving more cautiously. You'll leave with fresh perspectives to bring back to your own team.

Dan Vande Yacht, Registrar
Dan Vande Yacht, RegistrarUniversity of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Lisa Neal, University Registrar
Lisa Neal, University RegistrarUniversity of Nebraska - Kearney
Matthew Rust, AVP of Academic and Career Success
Matthew Rust, AVP of Academic and Career SuccessIndiana University
Joe Jolesch, Director of Partnerships
Joe Jolesch, Director of PartnershipsStellic
Break | 11:30 - 11:45am ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

Roundtable: Tenure with Stellic | 11:45 - 12:30pm ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

Connect with schools at a similar point in their tenure with Stellic, from first-year partners to those several years in. We'll group you by tenure to compare approaches and talk through the decisions ahead.

Lunch | 12:30 - 1:30pm ET

Location: Stoner Courtyard (lower level)

Partner Breakout: Reflecting on years of advising with Care | 1:30 - 2:20pm ET

Location: Widener Lecture Hall (main level)

University of Delaware and Texas Christian University have both built their advising model around Care for the last few years. They'll share the strategy behind that transition: how to avoid just recreating your old system, what you can do to start small and scale, and how to design adoption so it actually sticks. You'll leave with a framework you can apply no matter where your own advising model stands today.

Angela Thompson, Executive Director of Academic Advising
Angela Thompson, Executive Director of Academic AdvisingTexas Christian University
Naomi Nash, Executive Director for Student Success
Naomi Nash, Executive Director for Student SuccessUniversity of Delaware
Harsha Prakki, Product Delivery Lead - Care
Harsha Prakki, Product Delivery Lead - CareStellic
Partner Breakout: Building for life after go-live | 1:30 - 2:20pm ET

Location: Rainey Auditorium (lower level)

Go-live is a milestone, not the destination. Hear from Indiana University on how they continued evolving their use of Stellic through three lenses: enrollment management, advising, and IT. You'll leave with practical strategies for turning a successful implementation into long-term institutional impact.

Eric Westfall, AVP of Enterprise Applications
Eric Westfall, AVP of Enterprise ApplicationsIndiana University
Matthew Rust, AVP of Academic and Career Success
Matthew Rust, AVP of Academic and Career SuccessIndiana University
Sean Kilpatrick, AVP of University Enrollment Services
Sean Kilpatrick, AVP of University Enrollment ServicesIndiana University
Dixie Williams, Partner Strategy Lead
Dixie Williams, Partner Strategy LeadStellic
Partner Breakout: Balancing alignment and autonomy on campus | 1:30 - 2:20pm ET

Location: Upper Baugh (upper level)

How consistent should departments and schools actually be? Cornell worked through that question by looking at where shared workflows and technology could create alignment across campus, and where differences across schools served a purpose. You'll leave with a framework for deciding what to standardize and what to leave flexible on your own campus.

K Miller, Assistant University Registrar
K Miller, Assistant University RegistrarCornell University
Lisa Clark, Deputy University Registrar
Lisa Clark, Deputy University RegistrarCornell University
Rhonda Kitch, University Registrar
Rhonda Kitch, University RegistrarCornell University
Joshua Causey, Product Delivery Lead - Plan
Joshua Causey, Product Delivery Lead - PlanStellic
Break | 2:20 - 2:40pm ET

Location: Pepper Hall (upper level)

Roundtable: Role | 2:40 - 3:20pm ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

Connect with peers who share your role, from registrars to advisors to systems and student success staff. We'll group you by function to compare workflows and trade practical ideas you can use on your own campus.

Break | 3:20 - 3:40pm ET

Location: Pepper Hall (upper level)

Partner Breakout: Streamlining transfer credit with Explore | 3:40 - 4:30pm ET

Location: Rainey Auditorium (lower level)

Transfer credit can feel like a black box to students and a bottleneck to staff. Ohio State used Explore to bring clarity to the process, streamlining it for staff and improving the experience for incoming transfer students. You'll leave with strategies you can apply to your own transfer and articulation work.

Margo Thacker, Senior Systems Manager
Margo Thacker, Senior Systems ManagerThe Ohio State University
Jessica Windell, Product Delivery Lead - Explore
Jessica Windell, Product Delivery Lead - ExploreStellic
Partner Breakout: Making your impact impossible to miss | 3:40 - 4:30pm ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

The work happening across advising, registrar, and student success offices often stays invisible at the executive level. Hear how campus leaders communicate impact and align around metrics that matter. You'll leave with language and metrics you can use to make your own team's impact visible at every level.

Beth Kienle, University Registrar & AVP for Enrollment Technology
Beth Kienle, University Registrar & AVP for Enrollment TechnologyNew York University
Rachelle Hernandez, VP for Student Affairs
Rachelle Hernandez, VP for Student AffairsJohns Hopkins University
Sean Kilpatrick, AVP of Enrollment Services
Sean Kilpatrick, AVP of Enrollment ServicesIndiana University
Rukhsar Neyaz, Co-founder
Rukhsar Neyaz, Co-founderStellic
Dine-around dinners | 6pm ET onward

A Summit favorite makes a return with small group dinners at local spots around Philly.

Location: Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Breakfast | 7:30 - 8:30am ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

Product Updates & Roadmap | 8:30am - 9:30am ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

Learn about changes in the Stellic platform over the last year and about what's coming next.

Vishwa Ranjan, Head of Product
Vishwa Ranjan, Head of ProductStellic
Pathfinders Challenge Finals | 9:30 - 9:45am ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

Watch this year's Pathfinders Challenge finalists take the stage for one last round to pitch their ideas. You'll help crown the winner with your vote.

Break | 9:45 - 10am ET

Location: Pepper Hall (upper level)

Plan: Rebuilding academic planning for the modern student | 10 - 11:10am ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

Students expect planning to be personalized and adaptable, but many planning processes weren't designed for that reality. See how Stellic is helping institutions rethink academic planning from the ground up, with a faster setup experience and smarter plan and pathway generation.

Gordon Dean, Product Lead - Plan
Gordon Dean, Product Lead - PlanStellic
Care: Entering the next frontier for advising | 10 - 11:10am ET

Location: Widener Lecture Hall (main level)

See what’s next for Care, including self-service features that help students answer questions on their own and meeting prep that allows advisors to make the most of their limited time. We'll cover enhancements to notes and appointments, updates to reviews, and share what's next for the advisor experience.

Caleb Ren, Product Lead - Care
Caleb Ren, Product Lead - CareStellic
Break | 11:10 - 11:30am ET

Location: Pepper Hall (upper level)

Progress: Powering accurate, trusted audits | 11:30 - 12:40pm ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

See what’s new in degree audit, from easier-to-understand audits to the accuracy and reliability gains behind the scenes. We’ll cover proactive compliance and tools that make audits easier to build and maintain, plus a look at what’s coming for the Registrar’s Office in Stellic.

Jon Grist, Product Lead - Progress
Jon Grist, Product Lead - ProgressStellic
Explore: Clarity across the transfer journey | 11:30 - 12:40pm ET

Location: Widener Lecture Hall (main level)

Whether a student is deciding where to enroll or a transfer team is evaluating official credit, everyone is trying to answer the same question: What will transfer in? Join us for a look at the latest Explore capabilities, including reverse lookup, course description lookup, and equivalency intelligence, and what's coming next.

Rukhsar Neyaz, Co-founder and Product Lead - Explore
Rukhsar Neyaz, Co-founder and Product Lead - ExploreStellic
Lunch | 12:40 - 1:40pm ET

Location: Asia Gallery (upper level)

Platform: Harness the power of Stellic data to make decisions | 1:40 - 2:40pm ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

See what's new across the Stellic platform. We'll cover our new analytics product, smarter search, and the foundational updates underneath that make it all work.

Arjun Lohan, Product Lead - Platform
Arjun Lohan, Product Lead - PlatformStellic
Sabih Bin Wasi, Co-founder
Sabih Bin Wasi, Co-founderStellic
Break | 2:40-3pm ET

Location: Pepper Hall (upper level)

Founder Q&A and Closing | 3 - 3:45pm ET

Location: Harrison Auditorium (main level)

A better path to graduation starts here

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