Roundtable
When Everything Is a Priority: How Are Higher-Ed CIOs Governing IT Demand in 2026?
Learn how higher-education CIOs decide what gets built, what waits, and what never starts, when every request arrives marked urgent
The panel will cover:
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What actually sets the order of work when every request is urgent
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Who gets to say no, and how that decision lands with a dean or a provost
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Where AI demand went on the roadmap, and what it pushed off
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What governed intake looks like when no new headcount is coming
September 23, 2026
1:00PM ET, 60 min
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Join an invite-only virtual roundtable of higher-education technology leaders for a candid, practical conversation about IT demand. Every request that reaches central IT has a sponsor who believes it is urgent. The queue keeps growing. The team does not. EDUCAUSE reports that technology workloads exceed capacity and teams are understaffed, while institutions still expect service levels to hold. This session is about how CIOs decide.
This is the second session in the series. The first covered the gap between AI pilots and AI production. It ended on how generative AI is shifting resource allocation and budget priorities. That is where this one begins.
Moderated by Nandhini Kumanan of Kissflow. Panelists to be announced.
Every request is urgent. Only some get built. Hear how CIOs decide
