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Winter 2026 CSG Workshop and Meeting (PRELIMINARY Outline)
Texas A&M University
28-30 January, 2026


Wednesday
28 January
  9:00 - 12:30 Short Workshop: AI & Automation in Administrative Systems
Tracy Weber (Notre Dame), Anand Vangipuram (UW-Madison), Becky Joffrey (Cornell), Jennifer Sparrow (NYU), Mark McCahill (Duke), John Mulhern III (Penn), Conor Waladay (CU-Boulder), Frank Mathew (Yale), Jen Swain (FSU), Bob Jones (UMich)
  1:30 -   5:00  Short Workshop: Future state of SIS: Real Options
Patti Pate (UVA), Tracy Weber/someone (ND), Tom Jordan & Kim Channpraseut (UW-Madison), Dwane Sterling (VT), Jack Suess (UMBC), Chris Keith/someone (Brown), Jen Stedelin (WashU--Workday), Alan Crosswell/someone (Columbia)
Thursday
29 January
  9:00 - 12:30 Short Workshop: Trust as a Strategic Asset: Building and Sustaining Confidence in IT
Orrie Gartner (CU-Boulder) & Becky Joffrey (Cornell), John Mulhern III (Penn), Todd Shechter (UW-Madison), Damian Doyle (UVA), Carrie Shumaker (UMich), Keith Donnelly (UVA), Ryan Wellar (VT); someone from distributed IT (UVA), Dale Henrickson (Yale), Michael Warden (NYU)
  2:15 -   3:15  Short Discussion: How do we upskill and reskill our technical teams to meet emerging needs?
Patti Pate & Damian Doyle (UVA), Ben Rota (Harvard), Lucrecia Kim-Boswell (Stanford), Frank Mathew (Yale), Martin Sager (UMich), Tom Flitter (UW-Madison)
Friday
30 January
  9:15 - 10:15 Short Discussion: Metrics for IT Success
Rebekah Dorn (FSU), John Mulhern III (Penn), Patti Pate (UVA), Patrick Johnson & Lauren Bruce (UW-Madison), Michael Worden (NYU)
10:45 - 11:45 Short Discussion: How to support the special needs of Medical Schools
Chris Shull (WashU) & Dima Tawakkol (UMich) & Heath Tuttle (UBuff) & Rick Haugerud (Nebraska) & Frank Mathew (Yale) & Jeff Latimer (FSU), Jeff Korab (UW-Madison), Lance Bolton and someone else (Iowa), someone from Michigan, Brett Bieber/someone from Nebraska