Great Lakes Regional CIOs and senior IT leaders are facing a broad range of challenges requiring innovative thinking and visionary leadership. Ellucian is committed to transparency regarding the technology roadmap and how it impacts our institutions. Senior IT leaders and CIOs are invited to spend the day in a small group setting with an executive from Ellucian. This track typically focuses on Ellucian's technology roadmap, CIO concerns, shared service models, customer support, community source, cloud computing, and training opportunities.
Each year GLUG hosts the CIO Forum, which provides IT leadership an opportunity to interact with Ellucian executives and leaders from peer institutions. Listed below is the tentative agenda for the GLUG CIO Forum.

CIO Agenda:
- Q & A with Ellucian's Jackie Cygelman (Data Connect, Intelligent Processes and Forms)
- New Ellucian Modules with Jim Rogers, Ellucian Account Executive
- Where are you in your SaaS journey? Lessons learned?
- Use of IT consultants at your institution
- AI products used or pilots
- Current biggest challenges round robin, group discussion on solutions
- Any other hot topics