This year's conference, "Higher Education IT in Today's World: Making the Most of the Economic Reality," provided a rich agenda to address issues across our portfolios, from teaching and learning to managing the enterprise to developing new leadership for the profession. Using real-world examples, insights, and discussions, we looked at making the most of the financially difficult situation in which we were working and discussed how to move forward with the many changes for the good that we'd implemented to date and the many more to come.