Accelerating the pathway to success
Network with like-minded senior leaders, inspirational speakers and innovative solution providers as they address the most relevant and emerging challenges in the sector today.
Discover invaluable insights
Join your peers for three days of targeted learning, best practice exchange and meaningful networking. The program has been especially curated with your pain points in mind, providing you with solutions that truly make an impact.
Key themes for this year include:
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- AI in Teaching and Learning: This encompasses a wide range of applications, including personalized learning, adaptive assessments, automated feedback, and AI-powered tutoring systems.
- AI in Administration: Institutions are exploring AI to streamline administrative tasks, improve data analysis, enhance decision-making, and optimize resource allocation.
- AI and the Workforce: Preparing students for an AI-driven workforce through relevant curriculum, skills development, and ethical considerations is crucial.
- AI Ethics: Addressing the ethical implications of AI in education, including bias detection, data privacy, and responsible use, is a growing concern.
Enrollment
- Enrollment Growth: Institutions are actively seeking strategies to increase student enrollment, including targeted marketing campaigns, program diversification, and improved student experiences.
- Enrollment Challenges: Factors like demographic changes, increased competition, and evolving student needs pose challenges to enrollment management.
- Retention: Improving student retention rates through academic support, personalized interventions, and enhanced student engagement is critical.
Student Success
- Holistic Support: Providing comprehensive student support services, including academic advising, mental health counseling, career services, and financial aid assistance, is essential.
- Mental Health: Addressing student mental health concerns through counseling services, support programs, and proactive interventions is a growing priority.
- Engagement: Creating engaging learning experiences that foster active learning, collaboration, and student motivation is crucial for student success.
Technology
- Digital Transformation: Modernizing infrastructure, integrating systems, and enhancing cybersecurity are key aspects of digital transformation in higher education.
- Learning Management Systems (LMS): Institutions are seeking modern LMS platforms with features like AI integration, personalized learning paths, and advanced analytics to enhance teaching and learning.
- Cybersecurity: Protecting sensitive data, ensuring online system security, and educating the campus community about cyber threats are critical priorities.
Finance and Budget
- Budget Constraints: Operating within limited budgets, seeking cost-effective solutions, and exploring alternative funding models are ongoing challenges for many institutions.
- Financial Sustainability: Ensuring long-term financial health through strategies like enrollment growth, efficient resource allocation, and fundraising is essential.
- Return on Investment (ROI): Demonstrating the value of higher education to students, parents, and stakeholders is crucial in a competitive market.
Faculty
- Faculty Development: Providing professional development opportunities to enhance teaching skills, particularly in online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced learning environments, is essential.
- Faculty Retention: Attracting and retaining qualified faculty, especially in high-demand fields, is crucial for institutional success.
- Faculty Engagement: Ensuring faculty feel valued, supported, and engaged in institutional initiatives is important for morale and productivity.
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What you will gain from attending?
- Real-time answers to your challenges: world-class speakers, industry visionaries and innovative technology suppliers will be on hand to give you inspiration and advice you won’t get anywhere else.
- Peer-to-peer knowledge exchange: over 150 senior executives like you will be in the room ready to share their challenges and how they have overcome them.
- Transformative solutions: meet innovative suppliers ready to revolutionize your patient outcomes.
- Expand your network meaningfully: forge relationships with senior leaders and build lasting relationships beyond the event.
If you want to make a real difference and play a part in the future of education, you need to be here.
Make lifelong connections
Looking to build meaningful connections with your peers? HEPN gives you the chance to forge relationships with like-minded senior leaders in higher education, including:
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Digital Officer
- Chief Digital Information Officer
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Executive Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice Presidents
- Presidents
- Provosts/Chancellor/Warden
- Vice Chancellors
Listen to inspirational leaders
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Kathi Kern Ph.D
Senior Vice Provost of Education
University of Miami -
Geordie Hyland
President
American College of Education -
Vince Kellen Ph.D.
CIO
University of California & San Diego -
John Rathje
Vice President, Information Technology and CIO
Kent State University -
David Jones
Chief Diversity Officer
New Jersey Institute of Technology -
Kevin Massey Ph.D.
COO
Purdue Applied Research Institute -
Zach DeBruine Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, College of Computing
Grand Valley State university -
Eric Klein Ph.D.
Assistant Provost, Doctoral Research and Student Success
American College of Education
Complimentary passes for education senior leaders
Our complimentary delegate pass includes:
Unique networking opportunities
One-on-one business meetings
Keynote theater and breakout room presentations
Breakfast, lunch and drinks reception
A perfect opportunity to think and learn together
We hand-pick our venues and curate our agenda with networking and collaboration in mind – AAA Four Diamond, Loews Miami Beach hotel is one of the prime spots on South Beach. Their oceanfront luxury hotel in Miami Beach offers an unbeatable location combined with world-class amenities including spa & fitness center, to ensure that your stay will be an exceptional one.
We are also offering preferential rates on accommodation post-event, so make a weekend of it!
HEPN USA 2025 Registration
September 10 – 12, Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Miami
Please note that all registrations are subject to approval by our delegate team.
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