Engage Summit 2025
Session Recordings

Generative AI is shifting from tool to teammate, revolutionizing higher-ed workflows in admissions, marketing, tech, and student success.

Element451’s Bolt Agents debut as a plug-and-play AI workforce that tirelessly provides 24 × 7 outreach, campaign planning, and risk alerts across admissions, marcom, and student success.

College presidents share how AI is fortifying institutional resilience and discuss the need to embrace the yet-to-be-written future of AI and education.

Drawing on Disney’s legendary queue-optimization tactics, this keynote reveals how AI-powered, hyper-personalized, omnichannel engagement can create a friction-free admissions journey.

Exclusive Tambellini Group market research shows how AI, shifting digital infrastructure, and rising student expectations are redefining higher-education technology priorities.

Discover how Bolt Agents, autonomous AI assistants, create a scalable digital workforce by understanding context, orchestrating workflows, and automating high-impact tasks across admissions, marketing and student success.

IT leaders reveal hard-won strategies for breaking silos, overcoming data friction, and building a truly integrated higher-ed tech stack.

AI-powered Bolt Agents instantly score applications against institutional rubrics and detect fraud in real time, delivering faster, fairer admissions decisions at scale.

HAIRO is Element451’s step-by-step framework for measuring AI readiness, and mapping pilot-to-campus-wide adoption for maximum institutional impact.

A roadmap on how to adopt AI ethically and strategically—building trust, centering equity, and guiding campus teams from pilot projects to scalable change.

Students gravitate toward AI chat and voice agents for candid, 24 × 7 support and institutions are turning that preference into higher engagement and freed-up staff time.

Master the art of translating complex AI and platform rollouts into outcome-focused stories that win cross-campus buy-in, bridge IT with non-technical teams, and ensure every launch lands.

See how quickly you can prototype new ideas, automate routine student-support processes, and create interactive experiences that delight students, all by simply talking to AI.

Connect AI to CRMs like Element451, SIS, and marketing tools with no-code Zapier workflows that automate recruiting pipelines, event registrations, and everyday operations.

Learn how Johnston Community College blends AI assistants, proactive nudges, and real-time insights to build a one-stop support hub that delivers instant answers, frees staff for high-value conversations, and elevates student success.

Explore how advances in voice enabled AI answers calls around the clock, in multiple languages, to streamline recruiting and student support.

Create an AI assistant that schedules meetings, drafts emails, researches topics, and links to your apps—eliminating everyday busywork.

AI-driven Bolt Agents turn real-time student data into perfectly timed, one-to-one messages that replace traditional, generic marketing campaigns.

AI tools speed up message drafting, adapt to fast-moving situations, and keep campus updates clear and student-centric when crisis strikes.

Watch Bolt Agents transform scattered LMS and SIS data into real-time, one-to-one guidance that keeps every student on track.

Combine AI segmentation with emotion-driven storytelling to create higher-ed marketing that feels personal, relevant, and truly cuts through the noise.

See how ASU turns responsible-AI principles into practice with structured evaluations, live monitoring, and fairness-first safeguards that any campus can copy.

Showcases an AI-powered storefront that matches adult learners to the right courses in real time and turns browsing, enrollment, and payment into one seamless flow.

Discover UC Irvine’s ZotGPT playbook for taking AI campus-wide—empowering 35,000 users and delivering practical lessons for rapid, responsible adoption at any institution.

Examine how near-future AGI could outpace human intellect, upend knowledge work, and push higher ed to reinvent its purpose.

AI-driven agents translate campus data into instant, plain-English insights on enrollment, marketing, and student behavior—no reports required.

Learn how College of Western Idaho rebooted its Element451 rollout with an agile, student-first playbook that accelerated adoption, improved outcomes, and unleashed the power of AI.

See how the Model Context Protocol and Zapier plugins let Bolt Agents reach any campus system, unify data, and automate complex workflows without limits.

Get a step-by-step roadmap—planning, training, and data migration—for rolling out Element451’s AI-powered CRM fast and delivering value from day one.

See how Chowan University broke down departmental silos with Element451, unifying data and teams to deliver a seamless, student-first experience.

Harness ChatGPT, Gemini, and NotebookLM to instantly surface insights and synthesize research for market strategy, program planning, and SEO.

Hear candid answers from Element451’s designers, engineers, and product leaders as they field audience questions on features, AI capabilities, and the roadmap ahead.

Happy students don’t just apply—they enroll. Learn how UX research and design are driving better website experiences for students yield breakthroughs for schools.

Get your AI toolbox in shape. We’ll break down the best tools higher ed leaders are actually using—and why they matter now.

You’re only scratching the surface. Discover the hidden power of ChatGPT’s latest features and how they apply to higher ed.

Marketing moves fast—but AI moves faster. In this dynamic session, discover how to tap into the power of AI to create marketing that doesn’t just keep up—it sets the pace.

Master content governance and AI-friendly formatting to keep your knowledge base clean, current, and ready to power smarter engagement.

Ardis Kadiu, Dr. JC Bonilla, and President Tracy Brundage wrap up Engage 2025 by distilling the summit’s breakthrough ideas and charting a bold, AI-driven vision for the future of higher-education engagement.