Conference on Business, Operations & Technology (CBOT) 2024
Connecticut Association of Independent Schools
Details
When : Thursday, November 7 - Friday, November 8, 2024
Where : Mohegan Sun
Topics : business, technology, human resources, generations, risk management
Cost : $450 first registrant // $340 second registrant // $255 3rd and subsequent registrants
Description
WHAT: 2024 Conference on Business, Operations & Technology: A conference for Business Managers, Technology Professionals, HR Directors, Facilities Directors, Risk Management Professionals, Heads, and Senior-Level School Administrators
WHEN: Thursday – Friday, November 7 – 8, 2024
WHERE: Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT
Learn from industry experts and connect with colleagues at the CAIS Conference for Business, Operations & Technology, November 7-8.
This event is open to school employees. Interested Exhibitors may register HERE.
**Register by October 17 to receive the discounted room rate at Mohegan Sun!**
Keynotes & Topic Sessions announced,
and Registration is open!
Topic sessions:
- Positioning Your Risk Management Program For Lasting Impact
- Having Productive, Tough Conversations
- Evolving Compensation and Total Rewards: Strategies for Success in Independent Schools
- How AI can Transform Cybersecurity
- A Sustainable Path: Reimagining the Campus Master Plan
- Empowering Independent Schools with AI: Practical Solutions for Leadership
- What’s New? Employment Trends and Updates for Independent Schools
- New State of the Independent School Financing Market
- The Evolving Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
- Climate Risks and Opportunities for Independent Schools
- Legal Implications of AI Integration
- Panic Now and Beat the Rush – Incident Response as a Team Effort
As well as opportunities to connect through structured and informal conversations, such as:
- An unconference for tech professionals
- A roundtable with the keynote speaker, Tim Elmore, for boarding school participants
- A facilitated roundtable for HR professionals
- Two opportunities for Tech Crunch
- A Drop-in learning session about the four CAIS consortiums
Bring your team and join colleagues from across the business, operations, HR and technology fields for a 2-day event. Leave with valuable strategies and a network of peers and experts to serve you and your school in the year ahead.
Thursday, November 7
12: 00 Tech Munch | Welcome Wagon Lunch (for business officers new to CAIS)
1:00 Tech Crunch | General Session with Lindsay Holmes: People Operations & Education: Bringing your HR function into the 21st Century
2:00 Concurrent sessions, including:
- Wisdom of the Crowd: A WISP Workshop (Tech professionals)
- A Sustainable Path: Reimagining the Campus Master Plan (SLAM Collaborative)
- Follow up to General Session (Lindsay Holmes)
- Having Productive, Tough Conversations, Danny
- How AI Can Transform Cybersecurity
2:50 BREAK
3:10 Concurrent sessions, including:
- Panic Now and Beat the Rush – Incident Response as a Team Effort (Vancord)
- Evolving Compensation and Total Rewards: Strategies for Success in Independent Schools (NFP)
- Empowering Independent Schools with AI: Practical Solutions for Leadership
- New State of the Independent School Financing Market (Stifel)
4:00 Extended break
5:45 Happy Hour Reception with Corporate Guests
7:15 Dinner
Friday, November 8
7:45 Breakfast opens
8:00 Breakfast & Consortiums Panel
8:45 General Session with Dr. Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders: A New Kind of Diversity: Bridging the Gap Between Five Generations on Campus Today
9:55 Concurrent sessions, including:
- The Evolving Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
- Follow up to General Session (Tim Elmore)
- Facilitated Roundtable Discussion for HR professionals (CAIS)
- Legal Implications of AI Use in Education (UKS)
10:45 BREAK
11:00 Concurrent sessions, including:
- Tech Unconference on AI usage (CAIS commissioners)
- Positioning Your Risk Management Program For Lasting Impact (United Educators)
- What’s New? Employment Trends and Updates for Independent Schools (Shipman)
- Climate Risks and Opportunities for Independent Schools (Robert Klee, Yale Center for Business & Environment)
11:50 Boxed lunch available, or stick around to join either:
Consortiums Roundtable & Q&A (MEP, CSHP, Nutmeg, Electricity)
Roundtable for Boarding School professionals with Tim Elmore
CAIS Member Pricing:
$450 first registrant
$340 second registrant
$255 third registrant or single day pass
Please note that the conference is limited to school employees. Interested Exhibitors may register HERE.
Location Details:
Mohegan Sun,
Uncasville, CT
Accommodations must be booked separately through Mohegan Sun.
Book by Oct. 9 for reduced rate!
