Tracks

Real outcomes. Peer-to-peer collaboration. Practical solutions you can use right now.

At Alliance 2026, each track focuses on program themes addressing real-world challenges higher education professionals face. You’ll walk away with answers to real problems, ideas that are working at other institutions, and a powerful peer network that supports your success long after the conference ends.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Improving business processes and outcomes across the full higher education lifecycle via knowledge-sharing and best practice modeling between institutions, colleagues, and vendors.

Finance

With expertise in Grants, Contracts & Billing, Procurement to Pay, General Ledger and Budget, the sum is greater than the whole in the Finance track.

Gideon Taylor (GT)

Gideon Taylor is a trusted Oracle and PeopleSoft partner that helps organizations across industries transform complex enterprise systems into intuitive, human-centered experiences. Diverse educational sessions will span success stories, industry best practices, visionary thought leadership, and hands-on technical deep dives, as well as exclusive GT solution roadmaps and product updates.

Human Capital Management (HCM)

Helping build and manage your human resource services, workforce, payroll, and more with actionable insights and collaborative support on tools.

Leading Change

Topics that outline development throughout Higher Education. Tell us about how you are leading the change in our industry. Here are a few ideas to get the wheels spinning: remote work, diversity and inclusion, and career/professional development.

Project & Change Management (PCM)

Promoting the sharing of information, tools, and resources that highlight best practices from member institutions worldwide.

Student Information System (SIS)

We continually find a need to work collaboratively with our peers from other business areas. The Student Information System track focuses on a variety of topics related to Academic Advising, Admissions, Campus Community, Financial Aid, Student Financials, and Student Records.

Technical & Reporting

Bringing technologists and analysts together to share best practices and experiences of working with existing and emerging technologies in the higher education ecosystem.

Workshops

Working closely and hands-on with the users to improve products and take advantage of emerging technologies used by member institutions.