Janet Hill
Janet is the Director of Educational Technology Systems and Services for Tufts University. At Tufts, Janet works in close partnership with faculty and university leadership to evaluate, design, develop, and deploy smart technology in support of advancing the university’s teaching and learning mission. Her current portfolio includes instructional design and faculty consultation services, software development, service ownership of learning management systems and associated learning technologies, lecture capture, enterprise video management, course evaluation, and more. To this role she brings over 25 years of experience in academic libraries and university IT departments.

Prior to her role at Tufts, Janet spent 14 years at Brandeis University in various roles: directing teams providing access services and reference services to library patrons; product management and development of open source technologies; instructional technology services; and project management.

Janet has served on the NERCOMP Annual Conference Program committee proposal reader and a track chair. She has coordinated NERCOMP SIGs (PDOs), presented many times at NERCOMP PDOs and the annual conference, and taught Project Management at the EDUCAUSE/NERCOMP Workshop series for IT Managers. Janet has participated as a proposal reader for EDUCAUSE and is an alum of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technologies Leadership Program (2006), the EDUCAUSE/NERCOMP Workshops for IT Managers (2008, 2010), the Tufts Gordon Institute’s Learning to Lead Program (2011), and the EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program (2015).

Janet holds an MS in Information Technology Management from Brandeis University and studied Jazz as an undergraduate at Berklee College of Music.

Karen Warren
Karen is in her tenth year at Wesleyan University where she assumed the role of Deputy CIO in Nov 2016. Karen has oversight for the user services, technical services, and academic technology teams. Combined, they provide the foundational support for all other IT operations in the University, develops strategic input regarding systems and infrastructure, and provide support for teaching and learning through the use of technology.

Karen is currently chair of NERCOMP's Board (2016-2017) and served as NERCOMP Annual Conference chair in 2016. She has presented on numerous topics at the NERCOMP Annual Conference and other professional workshops. Karen is active in campus life and committed to crossing functional and departmental lines to bring solutions to the Wesleyan community. She served on the University's re-accreditation team in 2012. Karen also participates in events from the National Center for Women in Technology and the local Society for Information Management.

Selected projects include core network refresh, enterprise WLAN upgrade, ServiceNow implementation, and migration to Office 365.

Prior to coming to Wesleyan, Karen spent 15 years at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT where she was IT Director for 10 of those years. Karen focused much time on the importance of broadband access in K-12 education, forging a strong and lasting relationship with Connecticut Education Network. Having spoken at numerous conferences on the topic, Karen was invited to participate on a panel at the FCC on the importance of ERate to broadband in schools.