Data & Analytics 🎙️ Episodes

197
March 13, 2025

#197: LSU's $7.5M Student-Powered SOC + NJIT's Life-Saving Analytics + Illinois' Creative Data Applications Powered by Splunk [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring:

Craig Woolley, Chief Information Officer at Louisiana State University (LSU)


Kim Milford, Chief Information Security Officer at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


Ed Wozencroft, VP for Digital Strategy and CIO at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)


Mary Lou Prevost, Group Vice President | US | State, Local Government and Education at Splunk




Episode Highlights:


Student-Powered SOC: A Revolutionary Education & Security Model

How LSU created a scalable "stu...
196
Feb. 27, 2025

#196: Building Cyber Warriors: UTSA's SOC & Elastic's AI Secret Sauce [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring:

Kendra Ketchum, Vice President for Information Management and Technology and CIO at the University of Texas, San Antonio


Jared Pane, Director of Solutions Architecture at Elastic



Episode Highlights:

Leadership Philosophy & Team Building

Discover Kendra's transformative "humble, hungry, and kind" leadership philosophy that's reshaping technical teams at UTSA


Why Kendra actively avoids hiring "brilliant jerks" who might be technically strong but ultimately damage team cultu...
195
Feb. 20, 2025

#195: Purdue's Enterprise AI Challenge + Montana's State-Wide Cyber Hub [EDUCAUSE 2024]

Featuring:

Timothy Winders, AVP and Deputy CIO at Purdue University


Zach Rossmiller, CIO, University of Montana


Mani Keerthi Nagothu, Americas Field CISO & Associate Director at SentinelOne



In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Purdue navigates the unprecedented challenge of scaling AI access across their university system - balancing million-dollar licensing costs against student equity


Inside the University of Montana's innovative state-wide cybersecurity hub that transforms studen...
192
Jan. 30, 2025

#192: From Forms to Freedom: Building Digital Services That Citizens Actually Want

Featuring:

Soumam Debgupta, CTO, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services


Rob Lloyd, CTO, City of Seattle
Chris Chirgwin, CIO, County of Santa Barbara


In this episode, you’ll learn:

How Washington State DSHS reduced benefit application times from 50 minutes to 25 minutes by reimagining service delivery through a customer-first lens


Why setting an ambitious 85% customer satisfaction goal is driving cultural transformation and transparency in government services


The ...