7:30am - 9:00am  Registration & Coffee

9:00am - 9:10am  Welcome and Introductions

9:15am – 10:00am  Implementing Slate & Application Creation
Speakers:
Lindsay Atkinson, Operations Coordinator, MIT Sloan School of Management
Saul Horowitz, Project Manager/Business Analyst, MIT Sloan School of Management
Amy Sison, Director of Graduate Studies, Merrimack College

In this session a panel will be asked questions around their experience implementing Slate and also around how they tackled creating their first application in Slate.

10:15am – 11:00am  Deliver and Campaigns
Speakers: 
Kristy Behan, Associate Director of Admissions Operations, Rhode Island School of Design
Santiago Gomez, Admissions Coordinator, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

How do you use communications?  What types of communications do you send?  Have you leveraged populations and campaigns?  This session will explore how schools are targeting audiences with deliver messages and campaigns.  

11:15am – 12:00pm  Integrations
Speakers:  
Jess Meers, Lead Applications Specialist, Rhode Island School of Design 
Chris Holsten, Senior Institutional Research Analyst at Brandeis University

Does your university use additional tools with Slate?  Have you wondered which tools can be integrated and compliment the functionality of Slate.  This session will talk about integrations that have been done with Slate and how to go about getting tools to work with Slate.

12:00pm – 1:00pm  Lunch

1:00pm – 2:00pm  Portals
Speakers:  
Jacob Daly, Middlebury College
Louis Hung, Senior Business Information Analyst, IT Portfolio Services, Brandeis University

Want to learn about portals?  Come see what a couple schools have done with the new tool and how they applied the new portal editor in Slate for Alumni Engagements, Summer School Course offerings and more.

2:15pm – 3:00pm  Innovative Uses of Slate / Application of New(er) Feature Releases
Speakers:   
Santiago Gomez, Admissions Coordinator, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Sherri Drisdelle, Director-IT Portfolio Services, Brandeis University
Louis Hung,  Senior Business Information Analyst, IT Portfolio Services, Brandeis University
Chris Holsten, Senior Institutional Research Analyst, Brandeis University 

Have you ever thought of using Slate for something other than admissions?  This session will explore other ways schools have used Slate outside of admissions.  We will also talk about some of the new features that have recently been added to Slate and how we have used them.

3:00pm – 3:15pm  Wrap Up