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Institutional Effectiveness Summit 2018
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Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, Chicago, IL
This invitation-only event explores trends around affordability, access, and employability in higher education.
Thank you for joining us in Chicago for this one-day event on exploring trends in higher education and engaging with industry experts, thought leaders, and fellow academic leaders.
Agenda
Tuesday, April 10 |
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7:30-9:00 a.m. |
Registration & Information |
7:45-8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:30-8:45 a.m. |
Welcome |
8:45-9:45 a.m. |
Keynote |
9:45-10:00a.m. |
BREAK |
10:00-10:45a.m. |
Start with the end in mind: Aligning academic success with career preparation and development |
10:45-11:45a.m. |
Future of skills research — Employment in 2030: What does it mean for higher education? |
12:00-1:15 p.m. |
Lunch and panel: Student perspectives on impact and success |
1:30-2:15 p.m. |
Professional skills: Translating data on skills into evidence that employers can depend on |
2:15-3:15 p.m. |
Employer panel: The Employer Perspective on Candidates and Skills |
3:15-3:30 p.m. |
BREAK |
3:30-4:30 p.m. |
Closing Keynote |
6:00-9:00 p.m. |
Closing reception and dinner will be held at the historical Chicago landmark, The Builders Building Entertainment provided by Second City Improv
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Speakers
Mitch Lowe
CEO MoviePass, Co-Founder of Netflix, Former President of Redbox
Mr. J. Mitchell Lowe, also known as Mitch, has been the Chief Executive Officer of MoviePass, Inc. since June 28, 2016. Mr. Lowe is a Partner at Crestlight Venture Partners, LLC. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Quarterly, Inc. since June 18, 2013. Since late 2011, he has been an Independent Consultant for entrepreneurs and startups. He has more than 25 years in the video and rental industry, including executive positions at two of the most groundbreaking and influential companies in the home entertainment business since the 1980’s.
Mr. Lowe’s career in the video business started in the 1980’s with Video Droid. He opened a successful chain of video rental stores, further increasing his knowledge about the video rental customer experience. Leveraging that experience, he created a business that built websites for video rental stores. Mr. Lowe served as the President of Redbox Automated Retail, LLC of Outerwall Inc. from April 2009 to October 2011 and served as its Chief Operating Officer since May 2005. He helped to build a strong management team at Redbox and was instrumental in developing the concept of $1 per night new release DVD rentals. Mr. Lowe also consulted for McDonald’s business development group, focusing on automated vending machines.
Mr. Lowe was a Founding Executive of Netflix, Inc. since 1998, and also served as its Entertainment Domain Expert and Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Alliances from 1998 to 2003. He has been head of The Content Advisory Board of NanoTech Entertainment, Inc. since February 2014. He serves as a Director of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. He is a Board Advisor to Alchemy Entertainment, Fandor, Moviepass, Spray, GoWatchit, and SkywriterRX. He has been a Director of Our Alchemy, LLC since August 2015. He has been an Independent Director at Notis Global, Inc. (formerly Medbox, Inc.) since March 3, 2014. He has been a member of The Content Advisory Board of NanoTech Entertainment, Inc. since February 2014. Mr. Lowe was Chairman of the Video Software Dealers Association since 1996 and was its Director from 1991 to 1996.
Deena Zenyk
Director, Center of of Excellence, Influitive
Deena is a strategist who, with more than 12 years of hands-on experience in advocate marketing and as one of Influitive's earliest customers, is often referred to as a world-leading expert and pioneer in advocate marketing theory and practice.
After running a best-in-class advocacy portfolio at an education technology company for eight years, in 2015 Deena extended the scope of her experience by moving into consulting with enterprise-level clients, including IBM, VMware, Salesforce, Oracle and Cisco.
Deena is a former journalist (Bachelor of Journalism, Hons. 2003) and academic (MA Comms, 2007) who spent several years researching one of the cornerstones of advocate marketing: social capital theory. Her guiding professional principle is to make leading-edge marketing philosophies and practices accessible and actionable for the everyday marketer. Today, Deena continues her relentless pursuit of this goal in her role as the Director of the Advocacy Center of Excellence at Influitive, where she defines, validates, evangelizes and educates on advocate marketing best practices and strategies.
Deena is based in the outdoor recreation capital of Canada, Squamish, BC, where she can be found balancing her work-life by exploring the endless hiking and mountain biking trails in the area with her husband, James, and their young daughter, Bowen.
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