The conference kicked off with a great opening keynote by Jim Collins talking about Leadership in High Ed IT.  Here were my take aways from the keynote:

• Signature of a level 5 (best) leader is humility and ambition for the cause of the company
• Great CIO are effective leaders who have IT backgrounds
• Jim described tenured faculty as 1,000 points of "No", CIO of university does not have executive power, instead they have legislative power which is much harder to use.

To be continued...