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KANE Demo Lab

Practical technology demonstrations and candid conversations for higher education leaders. Explore real-world scenarios, compare approaches, and hear what implementation looks like from peers.

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01 Live demonstrations
02 Candid questions
03 Peer perspective

Upcoming Events

October 30, 2026
Gartner Demo Lab — Higher Education Trends and Technology
A KANE Demo Lab conversation with Gartner about higher education trends and technology.

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November 20, 2026
Workday + Avaap Demo Lab
Confirmed: Workday + Avaap joint Demo Lab on November 20, 2026, 10–11 AM Central. Final agenda, speakers, and registration details forthcoming.

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November 20, 2026
Salesforce Demo Lab — Data Foundations
Confirmed: Salesforce Demo Lab on November 20, 2026, 11 AM–noon Central, featuring Salesforce Field CTO David Egts. Topic and registration details forthcoming.

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November 20, 2026
Demo Lab — Open Noon Session
Noon–1 PM Central. Available Demo Lab partner session; presenter and topic to be announced.

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December 18, 2026
OTG Demo Lab
Confirmed KANE Demo Lab with OTG on December 18, 2026. Session details are being finalized.

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January 15, 2027
Lightcast Demo Lab
Confirmed KANE Demo Lab with Lightcast on January 15, 2027. Potential topics include Workforce Pell and education-to-workforce outcomes.

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2027 KANE Summit
March 23, 2027
2027 KANE Summit
Save the date for the 2027 KANE Summit, March 23–25 in Omaha, bringing higher education technology leaders together for collaboration, shared problem-solving, partnerships, and practical work across the KANE community.

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Past Events

2026 KANE Service Desk Summit
October 6, 2026
2026 KANE Service Desk Summit
KANE service desk leaders will gather in Grand Island for focused peer collaboration, shared problem-solving, and practical work on service delivery and ServiceNow.
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2026 KANE Summit
March 24, 2026
2026 KANE Summit
KANE members and partners spent three days in Grand Island working side by side on shared technology challenges, strengthening peer relationships, and turning conversations into practical progress.
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2025 KANE Summit
March 11, 2025
2025 KANE Summit
KANE members came together for three days of hands-on collaboration, candid peer conversations, emerging technology, and the kind of practical problem-solving that happens when higher education technology teams work side by side.
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2024 KANE Service Desk Summit
November 6, 2024
2024 KANE Service Desk Summit
KANE service desk leaders came together to compare practices, sharpen their ServiceNow work, and turn a year of cross-institution collaboration into an even stronger shared support community.
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2024 KANE Summit
March 27, 2024
2024 KANE Summit
The 2024 KANE Summit brought CIOs, technology leaders, and campus teams together for focused collaboration, relationship-building, and conversations that helped turn shared challenges into shared opportunities.
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2023 KANE Summit
October 23, 2023
2023 KANE Summit
KANE members gathered at Doane University in Crete for a full day of hands-on collaboration, shared learning, and practical work across institutions.
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2022 KANE Summit
October 11, 2022
2022 KANE Summit
KANE technology leaders gathered in Wichita to compare ideas, strengthen relationships, and work through shared priorities together, reinforcing the consortium's long-standing culture of practical peer collaboration.
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2021 KANE Summit
October 20, 2021
2021 KANE Summit
The 2021 KANE Summit brought higher education technology leaders together in person to reconnect, compare strategies, and turn shared challenges into opportunities to collaborate across institutions.
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KANE is a higher education technology consortium rooted in Kansas and Nebraska and open to broader collaboration. We connect institutions and technology leaders to share expertise, strengthen cybersecurity, develop people, and create more value together.

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