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Cathy Thompson
Conference Chair

Alliance Conferences Attended: 8

Favorite part of the Alliance conference? Networking and meeting new friends. The sharing of experiences, the good and the bad. Attending presentations that relate to what I do at my institution that have helped me when it comes to day-to-day tasks or participation in upgrades. Learning new ways to use the software.

Goals for Alliance 2018? Delivering a conference filled with information, activities, and ideas that will inspire all.

Jason Koziara
Program Chair

Alliance Conferences Attended: 10+

Favorite part of the Alliance conference? The spirit of collaboration that you see among all of the attendees. We are all in the same boat and trying to figure out how to get it to shore together. I also have made so many good friends through the years – it’s so much fun to catch up with everyone at least once a year at the conference.

Goals for Alliance 2018? To take the institutional knowledge from all of the people on the Conference team as well as the feedback from the passionate members of the community to try to make the best conference possible for the attendees. While some have attended every Alliance, some are attending for the first time and I want to make sure that the experience is great for everyone in between.

Bob Greene
Assistant Program Chair

Alliance Conferences Attended: 10

Favorite part of the Alliance conference? Networking with peers, finding out what other schools are doing and how they are doing it. I also love the sessions where experts from PeopleSoft offer timely solutions.

Goals for Alliance 2018? Become the proverbial sponge and absorb all the knowledge that I can about what makes the conference work.

Jane Baratta
Past Conference Chair

Alliance Conferences Attended: 11

Favorite part of the Alliance conference? I love the networking and all the learning opportunities – from attending sessions and informal chats with colleagues old and new.

Goals for Alliance 2018? To help the Conference Team make the event as great a success as possible.