Higher education institutions are at an inflection point. Rising infrastructure costs, VMware licensing changes, growing technical debt, and the demand for agility are forcing IT leaders to rethink their approach to enterprise workloads. The institutions that move decisively toward a cloud-first operating model will differentiate themselves — attracting talent, accelerating research, and delivering on their mission in ways that on-premises infrastructure simply cannot support. 

This session brings together IT leaders from across higher education for a day of peer learning, practical frameworks, and honest conversation about what it really takes to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. 

In this forum your peers share what's working, what's not, and what they wish they started sooner — supported by AWS expertise and a prescriptive change management methodology you can take back to your institution. 

This event is designed for: CIOs, CTOs, Directors of Infrastructure, Directors of Cloud Operations, and their leadership teams at institutions operating at scale and complexity.

Whether your institution operates with centralized or distributed Research IT and IT decision-making. If you've begun your cloud journey but still have significant mission-critical and business-critical workloads running on premises, this day is for you.