Conference Agenda

Check In

8:00 am to 9:00 am

COFFEE! Light breakfast, pickup name tag and SWAG, Networking, Meet Our Sponsors

BSU Alumni Center Atrium

Welcome

9:00 am to 9:15 am

Kirsten Smith, Associate Director, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, BSU

Assembly Hall

Opening Keynote Session

9:15 am to 10:00 am

Gail Farnsley, Senior Executive Partner at Gartner

Diversity & Analytics: How Can We Avoid Creating "Bias at Scale"?

Assembly Hall

2 Ignite Talks- 20 slides, automatically advance every 15 seconds

10:00 am to 10:30 am

Mini-Break and make your way to the Breakout Session #1

Assembly Hall

Breakout Sessions

10:30 am to 11:30 am

#1:Creating Spaces Where Ideas Flourish

Stephanie Wilson, Director, Graduate Recruiting, BSU, and Rob Matthews, Director and Operations Manager of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State University
#2 Agile For Everyone
#3 Getting Past Your Limiting Beliefs

Diana Williams and Emily Harshman
#4 Artificial Intelligence and Why It Matters to You

Rooms TBA at the conferences

Lunch

11:30 am to 11:45 am

Break & move to lunch buffet

Lunch Keynote:

11:45 am to 12:45 pm

Tracy Galloway, Regional VP, Great Lakes, Microsoft

Are you Leadership “X” Ready?

Assembly Hall

2 Ignite Talks- 20 slides, automatically advance every 15 seconds

12:45 pm to 1:30 pm

Break, networking, and raffles. Move to 2nd breakout

Assembly Hall

Breakout Sessions #2

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

#1: Stephanie Wilson, Director, Graduate Recruiting, BSU, and Rob Matthews, Director and Operations Manager of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State University

Creating Spaces Where Ideas Flourish

#2 Agile For Everyone

#3 Getting Past Your Limiting Beliefs

Diana Williams and Emily Harshman

#4 Artificial Intelligence and Why It Matters to You.

Rooms TBA at the conference

Closing Session

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Final Ignite Talks

Closing Remarks

Final Raffles

Assembly Hall

Optional After Event

3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Fishbowl Activity - a chance to reflect on your own experience, share your top takeaways and discuss with others plans for your continuous improvement

Atrium