Category: conferences

CASE Summit 2013: Let the disruption begin

The 2013 CASE Summit for leaders in advancement begins today (Sunday, July 14) and continues through Tuesday, July 16. I’m here in San Francisco for the Summit, but probably will do more tweeting than blogging during the event. (A post-summit blog post in this space is almost certain.) So if you want to know what topics, speakers and sessions are piquing the interest of Summit attendees, your best bet is to follow the Twitter feed: #CASESummit.

This promises to be a terrific conference. The lineup of speakers, presenters and panelists is amazing. (I get to introduce one of them: Francis Flynn, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford, who speaks twice on Monday on “Communication and the Art of Persuasion.”) And the conference’s overarching theme of disruption is more relevant now than when I wrote a preview of this conference back in May.

If you’re here in person, I hope we get to meet. I’ll be the guy tweeting on what appears to be an Etch-A-Sketch.

Disrupt your summer; attend the 2013 CASE Summit

The CASE 2013 Summit for Leaders in Advancement is all about disruption.
The CASE 2013 Summit for Leaders in Advancement is all about disruption.

If there’s one topic that causes great consternation and hand-wringing in the halls of academia these days, it’s the topic of disruption in higher education. We read blog posts about it. We watch videos about it. We even read entire books about it.

This summer, you’ll have a chance to learn from some of the leading disrupters and chroniclers of disruption around. So disrupt your summer, find out what’s next in the world of disruptive education, and join me in San Francisco July 14-16 for the CASE 2013 Summit for Leaders in Advancement.

I was privileged to be part of the advisory team that worked with CASE staff to develop the conference program. I think we came up with a winning event. We have a great lineup of keynote presenters, including:

In addition to leading speakers on disruptive innovation, we’ve also disrupted the typical CASE Summit format. We’ve taken a page from the TEDx playbook and mixed in some fast-paced TED-style presentations. We’re calling them CASEx sessions.

I hope you’ll have a chance to join us for the summit. If not, you can always follow along with the #casesummit hashtag.