Brian Baute
Higher Education Advisor,
Amazon Web Services
Tuesday, December 02, 2025 | 1:00PM–2:00PM ET | Online
Webinar | Supporting Financial Resilience on Campus: A CIO's Blueprint for Operational Excellence with AWS
This webinar is a part of the EDUCAUSE Industry Insights series.
Join us for an essential webinar designed specifically for higher education CIOs navigating today's unprecedented budget challenges. As institutions face uncertain enrollments, reduced federal funding, and rising operational costs, technology leaders must become strategic partners in driving financial sustainability.
In this session, you'll discover a comprehensive six-pillar framework for leveraging cloud technology to optimize costs while enhancing institutional capabilities. You'll hear how institutions like The Ohio State University, Emory University, and California State University have achieved significant cost savings and operational improvements through strategic technology investments.
Whether you're looking to capture immediate cost savings, optimize and automate existing processes, or invest strategically for growth, this webinar will provide actionable insights to help your institution thrive in an era of financial uncertainty.
Perfect for CIOs, IT directors, and senior technology leaders seeking to align technology strategy with institutional financial resilience.
Upon completing this webinar, you will have learned the following:
- How to scale digital foundations that reduce infrastructure costs by up to 50% while improving security and agility
- Strategies for building sustainable campus operations through data-driven space utilization and administrative system optimization
- Best practices for managing vendor relationships and procurement to drive economies of scale
- Approaches to deliver quality education and student services at scale while reducing administrative burden
- Methods to empower world-class research with cost-efficient, AI-ready infrastructure
- Techniques for cultivating thriving communities through data and AI-powered advancement and athletics programs
Presenters
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Patrick Frontiera
Higher Education Strategy Lead, Campus and IT Operations, Amazon Web Services -
Danielle Rowdy
Leader, US Higher Education Strategy, Amazon Web Services -
Anna Vakulick
Deputy CIO, The George Washington University
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