2026 Committees

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
*David Berg, SMPH – IIT
*Jason Erdmann, School of Education – MERIT

Communications:
*Brianna Kuhn, DoIT – Communications

Event Management:
*Laurel Belman, DoIT – Communications

Website Committee:
*Mandy Morrow (co-chair), UW-Libraries – DesignLab
*Hannah Carter (co-chair), Office of Human Resources
Spencer Bailey
David Berg
Melissa Chan
Javier Fernandez
Nate Finch
Dave Perez
Advait Rajan
Drew Rushmer
Viktoria Sakman
Rishik Vishwakarma

Platform Committee:
*Mehrnaz Ahmadi Joobaneh (co-chair), DoIT – AIS-EI
*Eddie Gnewuch (co-chair), L&S – Technology College Services
Spencer Bailey
Melissa Chan
Javier Fernandez
Dave Perez
Advait Rajan
Viktoria Sakman
Anirudha Ugile
Rishik Vishwakarma

Program Committee:
*Jason D Robinson (co-chair), DoIT – PPM
*Tomomi Imamura (co-chair), DoIT – Office of the CTO
Shay Adams
Jason Erdmann
Ken Fager
Nafsaniath Fathema
Javier Fernandez
Eddie Gnewuch
Tom Jordan
Rob Kohlhepp

Presenter Support Committee:
*Elisabeth Trenta (co-chair), DoIT – WPS
Jason Erdmann (co-chair), School of Education – MERIT
Shay Adams
Nate Finch
Parker Harding
Jason D Robinson

Analytics and Finance Committee:
*Spencer Bailey (co-chair), UW Extension
*Elizabeth Kraege-Soechting (co-chair), School of Education – MERIT
David Berg
Javier Fernandez
Eddie Gnewuch
Rob Kohlhepp
Michael Raffanti

*Denotes that this member served on the Steering Committee