2025 HESS Consortium National Conference Early Registration is NOW OPEN!

Conference Hotel Map – The 2025 Galt House Hotel Meeting Spaces
THE BEST NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR SPECIFICALLY PRIVATE, NON-PROFIT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES IN TECHNOLOGY

The 2025 HESS Consortium National Conference on November 12-14, 2025 is the best and most affordable conference in the nation for private, non-profit member institutions! We have technology leaders and professionals from many functional departments this year!

Early bird member registration is $200 per attendee and will close JUNE 1, 2025. Registration fee includes all sessions, workshops and demonstrations AND all meals for all three days of the conferences. This is the best time of the year to gather together with other private college and university technology and financial leaders from around the country to share ideas, innovations and meet new people!

The HESS Consortium Community is specifically focused on the needs of private, non-profit colleges and universities. Our conference is no different in that our workshop sessions and software demonstration sessions are all tailored to the needs of our member institutions. This year’s sessions will include tracks including, policy/planning and compliance, ERP/SIS implementation/operations, security and identity management, equipment and hardware management and artificial intelligence.

Day ONE will feature presentations from professionals within our own member institutions as well as presentations from our Elite and Platinum sponsor companies on specific session tracks including:

Executive strategy & management, IT governance & policy, administrative enterprise software, cybersecurity, data analytics, A.I. and other emerging technologies & more – all tailored for private, non-profit colleges and universities.

Day TWO will feature detailed demonstration and product update sessions on software from our foundational enterprise systems partners – Anthology, Ellucian, Jenzabar, Oracle and Workday. These sessions will not only show the functionality of the software for potential customers but also updates for companies’ current customers. Day TWO will also include meetings between our HESS Enterprise Systems Cohort members and executives from those major companies to voice praise, feature additions and concerns.

Day THREE will be 1/2 day workshops and presentations from our 2025 Elite Sponsor Partners . Topics will be announced soon!

Last 40 Registrations by Institution listed below.
Member Registrations to date: 9
HESS Member Institutions & Associations
The Principia
Illinois Wesleyan University
AICUP
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Allegheny College
Clarke University
Wofford College
The HESS Consortium
LOW COSTS TO OUR MEMBER INSTITUTIONS

We have kept our conference fee low for our private college and university members. This year, the conference registration is only $200 per attendee and includes all Day 1 and Day 2 sessions as well as all Day 3 post conference workshops/seminars and all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner). The conference standard room rates at the beautiful Galt House Hotel are only $196 per night. Please be aware that an additional night will be needed on the hotel reservation form to attend the post-conference workshops / seminars at the same rates. Please make sure that your reservations reflect this additional night stay.