On May 16th, 2018 N2N’s CEO and Founder Kiran Kodithala headed to Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma for The Blockchain Essentials for Education Conference. Kiran was a featured speaker at the event where he presented “Blockchains and their Impact on Higher Education.” Kiran discussed his vision on Blockchain’s impact on education and participated in the closing panel discussion of Short-term and Long-term views of Blockchain technologies.
The Blockchain in Education Conference enabled education professionals to understand how blockchain technology such as cryptocurrency, smart contracts, distributed databases, and public ledgers are, and will continue to transform higher education.
According to Oral Roberts AVP of Innovation and Technology, Michael L. Mathews, “We predict along with many other national thought leaders that Blockchain will have the greatest impact on campus operations and SIS/ERP systems over the next five years, and have little to on the transcript itself. The true value of Blockchain will come from the streamlining of all the processes that formerly produced the academic steps necessary to get transcripts and a diploma/degree. This will include the freedom of people from anywhere in the world the ability to digitally unlock academic content, in order to operate in a newly created ‘trusted’ ecosystem of academic and competency access. The Blockchain for education will ultimately become the Digital Vending Machine in the Cloud. The question will be … which institution was ahead of the curve to capture the digital credits assigned through a trusted Blockchain world.”
The collaboration within the conference included 30 Universities, the Oklahoma Board of Regents CIO, the President of TouchNet, Blockchain companies, and executive leaders from N2N, Carousel Industries, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, Ellucian, JobZology, OneNet, TrustedKey, 3Dream Studios, and many more.
DIG SOUTH, located in Charleston, South Carolina was held April 25-27, 2018 at the Charleston Gaillard Center. DIG SOUTH connects leading global brands like Oracle, IBM and Salesforce to the top tech leaders and entrepreneurs in the South. DIG Focuses on 3 core tracks: Technology, Business and Marketing. Attendees include, the top 500 tech companies in the South plus leading C-level innovators and disruptors, entrepreneurs, startups, and virtually every level of technologist who get together to share the latest digital trends and build relationships.
On Thursday April 26, N2N Founder and CEO Kiran Kodithala was featured in a fireside chat sponsored by Oracle entitled From Startup to Enterprise: the Path to Rapid Growth and moderated by Loren Feldman, Senior Editor for Entrepreneurship, Forbes. In this discussion Kiran recounted how he started N2N with a mission to create an interoperable enterprise that would support customers, vendors, administrators, and other staff. Kiran also discussed his decision to switch from Amazon to Oracle as a technology partner and how this decision helped N2N significantly cut costs and build a better business foundation that gives the company the upper hand while supporting an aggressive growth strategy.
Five members of the N2N team headed out west for Ellucian Live 2018 in sunny San Diego, California. The conference was expected to host 8,000 attendees from 43 countries representing 1,300 higher education institutions and is billed as the largest user event in higher education technology. We were thrilled to join the conference this year as an Ellucian Alliance partner.
The Networking
The N2N team connected with hundreds of existing customers and prospects over the course of 3 days. We demoed the new Illuminate 2.0 platform from our exhibit hall booth and offered attendees a 3 month free trial subscription. If you missed us at the conference don’t worry, we’d be happy to schedule a demo or provide you a free trial account, just let us know: sales@n2nservices.com. On Monday evening N2N hosted a reception to celebrate our Ellucian Partnership and the launch of Illuminate 2.0 and we want to thank all who joined us for a fun evening.
The Platform
N2N recently launched Illuminate 2.0, our API integration and management platform. Illuminate 2.0 expands upon existing features in 1.0 with an upgraded user experience. The Illuminate infrastructure has also been upgraded and moved to the Oracle Cloud. Existing customers still using Illuminate 1.0 were excited to see the new platform and eager to upgrade.
The Swag
Because everyone at a conference loves good swag! N2N sponsored this year’s exhibit hall tote bag, over 5000 bags were handed out to conference attendees. We were thrilled with the sea of teal bags that could be seen walking through the hall each day.
Those who stopped by the booth for a visit were able to snag an Illuminate light bulb (stress ball) or other assorted items.
And the Winner is….
At the booth visitors were able to enter for a chance to win a 1 year subscription to Illuminate Spectrum, valued at $60K. We had well over a hundred entries for the random drawing and the lucky winner is …..
Lenell Hahn of Southeast Missouri State University
Congratulations Lenell!
We’d like to thank everyone who joined us at the conference and we’ll see you all next year!
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