Date and Location

In person at Statler Hall on the Ithaca Campus or virtually via Zoom on April 1, 2026, from 9am to 4pm. For onsite attendees, registration and coffee will start at 8:30. 

Register

In-person registration closes on March 23.

Register to attend this free event. Lunch is included for in-person attendees. Virtual attendees will receive a Zoom link separately.

Keynote

Susan Youngblood

Susan Youngblood is an advisor to C-suite leaders and boards on AI strategy, specializing in helping organizations accelerate the adoption of GenAI and other disruptive technologies. She is an Operating Advisor to Bessemer Venture Partners, where she advises their portfolio companies on AI and workforce strategy.

Susan has served as Chief Human Resources Officer of two tech companies and held senior executive roles at IBM, Bank of New York Mellon, and the London Stock Exchange Group, where she embedded AI and robotic process automation into global operations. She is a keynote speaker and lecturer at Columbia and Cornell Universities on AI and the future of work.

Susan holds a Master of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell’s ILR School, serves on the ILRAA Alumni Board of Directors, PCCW, and Cornell Council, and was the assistant coach of Cornell’s women’s tennis team.

Breakout Sessions

How to prepare your application for a major change. 

Jay Hulslander: Kuali Engineer – CIT Infrastructure 

When there is a major change affecting your application, there are many items to consider. In this presentation we will share some high-level items for you to think about. If you are just starting to think about how to change your system to prepare for a change, you will walk away with items to consider. If you already have a plan, please come and share your ideas. Perhaps you will find some new items to think about. 

Practical Strategies for Managing Constant Change 

Tanya Grove: Interim Director of Organizational Development and Effectiveness
Doug Cohen: Director, Educational Computing, Weill Cornell Medicine, Adjunct Lecturer, Suny Polytechnic Institute 

Change today is continuous, overlapping and often unpredictable. This session will focus on practical strategies for navigating ongoing change. Together we will explore how constant change affects individuals and teams. This session focuses on simple, practical ways individuals can stay grounded and effective in this fast‑moving environment. We will discuss strategies to manage stress, stay flexible, when everything around you is shifting. By the end, participants will leave with concrete takeaways participants can apply immediately to support resilience, alignment, and adaptability in their work. 

Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me? The Future of Work Announcements 

Laurie Hemmings: CIT Communications & Documentation, Assistant Director 
Carlyn Chatfield: CIT Communications & Documentation, IT Technical Communicator 
Shelley Stuart: CIT Communications & Documentation, Communications 

For anyone who missed an important update, this breakout session provides the opportunity to brainstorm gaps in sending and receiving work announcements. This interactive discussion immediately engages the participants in sharing their most memorable work announcements and imagining how favorite newsletters, cartoons, and other channels can inspire ideas to improve Cornell’s internal communications.

Participants may see the group’s most effective ideas show up in the IT News, CIT Spotlights & Transitions, and the CEMI Quarterly Report. 

Reboot Required: Stories from Repeat Career Reinventors 

Jason Woodward (Facilitator): IT Business Analyst IV, SC Johnson College of Business
Carlyn Chatfield: CIT Communications & Documentation, IT Technical Communicator 
Will Olson: Applications System Analyst, SC Johnson College of Business
Bob Talda: Systems Engineer, CIT Infrastructure
Aviana Cooper: Assistant General Counsel, Weill Cornell Medicine

This breakout session explores what prompts a career reboot and what it takes to launch one successfully. Facilitated by Jason Woodward, the discussion brings together a panel of Cornell colleagues who have each rebooted their professional lives multiple times. Through candid stories and practical insights, the panelists describe what it means to shut down an old path, power up a new one, and debug the uncertainty that often appears during major transitions. Expect audience participants to contribute additional strategies, lessons learned, and creative ideas for managing reinvention in a constantly changing landscape. 

Cross Campus Collaboration 

Erica Ellis: Project Manager, CIT Information Technology

What if we could design a better model for cross-campus collaboration — together, in real time? In this interactive session, participants will participate in a live Business Enablement workshop focused on designing the Team Up Accelerator — a structured, new approach to improving how teams collaborate across silos and manage cross-campus communications and processes. This accelerator design workshop will: 

• Surface communication and collaboration challenges and pain points 
• Identify cross-campus use cases
• Map where friction occurs across roles and functions
• Co-design a lightweight, testable model for Team Up using Microsoft Teams 

The outputs of this session will help us all figure out how to use Teams to support work and collaboration across Cornell.