Come to Emerging Tech Dialogues - The Future of Work and connect with others from across the university. It will be a day of sharing ideas and thinking together about where we’re headed and how current and upcoming tech can help us get there.

Register free and join the event live at Statler Hall or via Zoom on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, from 9am to 4pm.

There will be two keynotes, one by ILR Dean Alexander Colvin and one by Elizabeth Mannix from the SC Johnson College of Business. They will also join a panel discussion with Ithaca CIO Ben Maddox, Kathy Burkgren, AVP for Organizational Development and Effectiveness, and Nicholas Maggard, a Software Developer at eCornell who develops practical AI solutions to improve staff and student experiences. 

Breakout sessions will include:

• AI Implementation Across Campus
• Collaboration is the New Competition
• Cornell’s Educational Benefits
• Data-Driven, Human-Centered: A Strategy for Predictive Modeling Success
• People, Processes, and Platforms: A Look Inside Cornell's Tech Transformation
• Prioritizing Impact in a Changing Higher Ed Landscape
• What Does the Organization Look Like When One-Third of the Workforce Becomes AI Agents?
• Salesforce Academic Advising Community
• The Stellic Success Formula: Innovation through Collaboration

Poster sessions will include:

• Critical AI and Algorithmic Literacy for Tools Used in the Classroom
• Ideas to Impact Together: How We Decide Where to Invest in IT
• Microsoft Power BI and Fabric @Cornell

See the full schedule

There will also be themed lunch tables to talk about AI in the Workplace, Building Community in a Remote and Hybrid World, Process Innovation & Service Modernization, Upskilling & Career Resilience, and Blue Sky Futures: Rethinking Work at Cornell.

We hope you’ll join this conversation at a pivotal time for technology and Cornell. This event focusing on IT and the future of work is for all Cornell as we think about tech's broad impact across every part of the university. Regardless of your role and where you work, we hope to see and hear from you! If you have colleagues you'd like to include, please invite them. We're hoping for a conversation as varied and elevated as Cornell itself.