Registration

Register today. This event is open to all Cornell-affiliated community members including Ithaca, Weill, and Cornell Tech campus staff, faculty, students, and researchers.

Event Details

Ithaca Campus: Statler Hall, and online via Zoom

Tuesday, Oct. 15

9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Summary

The technology landscape is constantly and rapidly changing. Join us in exploring how we adapt culturally, personally, institutionally, and academically with a slate of dynamic speakers who will share their experiences leading change at Cornell.

Agenda

Morning: 9-11:30am

• 9-9:30am Coffee in the Atrium and registration outside the auditorium.
• 9:45am Opening Remarks, Ben Maddox, Statler auditorium.
• 10-10:45am Keynote Speakers: Curt Cole, Lisa Nishii, Andrew Karolyi, Statler auditorium.
• 10:45-11:30am Panel Discussion and Q&A with Lisa and Andrew, moderated by Ben Maddox, Statler auditorium.

Lunch: 11:45am-12:45pm

• Lunch is available in the Atrium for on-site attendees.

Afternoon: 1pm-3:30pm

• 1-1:45pm, Breakout Session #1 
  • Phil Robinson, with co-presenters “Avoiding App-ocalypse: Strategies for Application Change Management at Cornell” in Room 196
    • Jay Hulslander, Kuali Application Developer / DevOps Engineer, CIT - Community Applications
    • Seth Brahler, Executive Director of HR Administration & Technology, HR
    • Amy Parmley, Associate Director for HR Administration and Technology, HR
  • Tanya Grove, "Prosci: Managing the People Side of Change" in Room 198
  • Devaki Ginde, "Cornell Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI) Project" in Room 165
• 2-2:45pm, Breakout Session #2
  • Ayham Boucher, "Navigating Change: Catalyzing Innovation through AI at Cornell" in Room 196
  • Ari Mack, "Coherence: Optimizing our Mental, Emotional, and Physical Response to Change" in Room 198
• 3-4pm, Coffee and informal gathering in the Atrium.

Breakout Session Details

Ayham Boucher, "Navigating Change: Catalyzing Innovation through AI at Cornell" 

• Learn how embracing change and leveraging AI technologies are driving transformative innovation at Cornell University. 
• Ayham will share experiences from the AI Innovation Lab, where collaborations between IT professionals, graduate students, and researchers are breaking traditional boundaries and creating new opportunities.
• Discover practical strategies for proactively engaging with AI to add tangible value to your work and become a leader of change in your own context.

Phil Robinson, with co-presenters “Avoiding App-ocalypse: Strategies for Application Change Management at Cornell”

• Explore the best practices and strategies leveraged by the teams supporting the mission-critical Kuali Financial System and Workday at the University.
• Topics will include communicating effectively with stakeholders, minimizing downtime, ensuring a seamless user experience, leveraging automation for efficient updates, and approaches to prepare individuals and organizations for change.
• Gain insights and practical tips to enhance your change management processes and keep your applications running smoothly!

Tanya Grove, "Prosci: Managing the People Side of Change"

• Explore the critical importance of integrating change management practices into projects.
• Learn about the Prosci framework and why focusing on the people side of change creates better outcomes for teams and organizations.

Ari Mack, "Coherence: Optimizing our Mental, Emotional, and Physical Response to Change"

• Learn skills and techniques that allow for greater self-awareness and the capacity for self-regulation.
• Explore how 30 years of evidence-based science and research can provide you with a more optimal mindset while maximizing emotional states and reactions, especially in challenging and stressful situations brought about by change.

Host and Keynote Presenter Backgrounds

• Ben Maddox - Chief Information Officer for Cornell's Ithaca campus and Cornell Tech, Maddox earned his doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.A. in education and cognitive science from New York University, and his B.A. in political science from Baylor University. In addition to his role at Cornell, he is also an adjunct instructor and doctoral advisor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. His academic work focuses on intersections of systems: people, organizations, and technology --particularly how technology, innovation, leadership, and learning fuel change. Prior to his role at Cornell, Maddox was serving as NYU's chief academic technology officer, capping off his 13 years in leadership roles for NYU's New York and Abu Dhabi campuses.

   

• Curtis L. Cole is currently the Chief Global Information Officer for Cornell University where he is responsible for institutional strategic direction and leadership of the university’s technology functions across campuses, applications, operations, and architecture as well as furthering the University’s digital technology capabilities. Until 2023, he was the Chief Information Officer at Weill Cornell, where he was responsible for the core information services that support the research, clinical, education, and administrative functions of the medical college. Previously, as Chief Medical Information Officer he led the implementation of a new electronic medical record system. He remains actively involved in the development of computer systems that support clinical research and terminology services.

  Dr. Cole has been actively involved in medical informatics research especially relating to EHR optimization, terminology services, and the ethical use of clinical data for research and innovation. He is currently expanding that work in the area of artificial intelligence. He led several key innovations in the EHR such as the use of terminologies to improve usability, decision support, and analytics. He was very involved in the national VIVO consortium. VIVO is a semantic web based system to help researchers find one another though a national network and is the system which powers this profile.

  For two decades he practiced at Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates (WCIMA) where he provided primary care for adults, with clinical expertise in primary care for psychiatric patients, and gay and lesbian health issues. He supervises students in the Weill Cornell Community Clinic.

  Dr. Curtis L. Cole is a graduate of Bowdoin College and received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College (currently known as Weill Cornell Medical College) in 1994. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency program at The New York Hospital [currently known as NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell Campus)] in 1997. After residency Dr. Cole continued at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell as a Clinical Investigator in Medical Informatics. He also completed a course in Leadership Development of Physicians in Academic Health Centers in 1999 at Harvard University. In 2002, Dr. Cole participated in the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, Executive Development Program.

   

• Lisa Nishii is a Professor in the Human Resource Studies department in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). She joined the faculty at Cornell after earning her Ph.D. and M.A. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park and B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College. After serving as the director of ILR's International Programs for five years, Lisa moved into her current role as the university's Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) in 2018. As VPUE, Lisa oversees the Intergroup Dialogue Project, Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, Faculty-led living/learning communities, Learning Strategies Center, Student Veterans Initiative, Health Professions Advising, the university’s professional academic advising community, and Salesforce Advising Platform. She also serves as a nexus of collaboration across Cornell's nine undergraduate colleges and schools on issues related to academic policies, curricula, advising, pedagogy, and student engagement.

  Since May of 2023, Lisa has also been serving as the university's Vice Provost for Enrollment, overseeing university admissions, financial aid, registrar, and compliance. In this capacity, Lisa has been leading the implementation of recommendations from the 2023 Presidential Task Force on Undergraduate Admissions – including the expansion of strategic partnerships for recruiting prospective students, data-informed decision making, and process refinements – as well as transformations necessitated by the 2023 Supreme Court ban on race-conscious admissions and Department of Education’s FAFSA Simplification Act. 

  Nishii is an expert on inclusion in organizations. Her research focuses on the confluence of organizational practices, leadership behaviors, and climate for inclusion on individual- and group-level outcomes. In 2022, she became the inaugural director of ILR WIDE, a center focused on Workplace Inclusion and Diversity Education at the ILR School.

   

• Andrew Karolyi is the Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Also the Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, he is a scholar of investment finance with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. Karolyi received his BA (honors) in economics from McGill University and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Karolyi has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books, including International Capital Markets (2003) and Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma (2015). His research has been featured in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and many others. 

  He is a recipient of the Michael Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations (2017), the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001), and the Johnson School's Prize for Excellence in Research (2010) and is a three-time winner of the School's Global Award for Excellence in EMBA teaching.

Parking

The public bus service, TCAT, stops in front of Statler Hall. If you are driving and don't have a campus parking permit, you can purchase parking through the ParkMobile app. Locations can be found on the PDF.