ITS Presents at Salesforce.org’s Education Summit
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 29, 2021) — University of Kentucky Information Technology Services (ITS) employees, Tyler Gayheart and Jordan Adler, presented at the ninth annual Salesforce.org Education Summit which took place virtually on June 16.
The global event, co-hosted by the University of Colorado, highlighted Salesforce.org customer stories and recognized “community-driven innovation” while celebrating institutional success. It is also utilized to demonstrate and announce Education Cloud products.
ITS was featured in two of the 40-plus sessions and roundtables alongside headlining speakers such as Michelle Obama, bestselling author and historian Yuval Noah Harari, and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson.
Gayheart presented “How technology helped the University of Kentucky re-open its Campus,” while Adler participated in the roundtable discussion, “Goldilocks and Marketing Cloud: Making User Access Fit 'Just Right'” along with a panel from other institutions.
Sessions from the Education Summit are now available on-demand on the 2021 Education Summit website. From there you can see highlights and presentations, including Gayheart’s full presentation (watch via YouTube). You can also view the PowerPoint presentation from Adler’s roundtable discussion here.
In addition to participating in the summit, UK was also recognized as a 2021 nominee for the Excellence in Institutional Efficiency Summit Award along with Ivy Tech Community College and Florida State University. This was one of six awards presented at the Salesforce.org Education Summit.
UK’s partnership with Salesforce.org dates back to 2016, where a lifecycle enterprise approach to digital and constituency relationship management (CRM) with Salesforce.org started with the intention to deploy Salesforce for prospect, current, alumni and donor operations.
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