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Keynote: Improving Personal Agility

  • Title: Improving Personal Agility
  • Speaker: Vince Kellen, Chief Information Office, UC San Diego
  • Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
  • Location: UC San Diego Price Center Theater
  • Cost: Included as part of the Process Palooza registration

DESCRIPTION:

Continuous iteration is at the heart of Lean Six Sigma. Continuous iteration and developing concrete outputs are at the core of agile methods. Both of these methodologies are “team-level” methodologies and describe in detail how teams ought to work. Very little, if anything at all, is prescriptive for how an individual can improve their own personal agility, how they can improve their own thoughts. This presentation blends ideas from LSS, agile methodologies and the martial arts and describes methods for improving the speed and fidelity of what minds produce.

Speaker

vince kellen.pngVince Kellen, PhD

Vince Kellen is the Chief Information Officer for the University of California, San Diego, as well as a member of the Chancellor's Cabinet, and vice chancellor and chief financial officer's senior management team. UC San Diego is recognized as a top 15 university world-wide and 7th best public university in the world, with over $1.1 billion in annual research funding, 36,000 students, 16 Nobel laureates who have taught on its campus and 161 faculty with national Academy memberships.

Vince's recent work has been in the areas of student success and learning analytics and application of advanced technology in higher education. Vince is a recipient of the CIO Magazine “Top 100” award in 2007 and 2014, was one of InformationWeek’s “Chiefs of the Year” in 2013, received the Computerworld “Honors Laureate” award in 2013, and was one of four recipients selected globally for Dell’s 2012 “Transformational CIO” award. Vince has authored more than 220 articles, four books and more than 150 presentation on IT topics and is a Fellow with Cutter Consortium, a leading IT industry think tank, where writes on digital transformation and data and analytics topics.

Vince is a Board of Director member for IMS Global and has served on advisory boards for Apple, Microsoft, Dell, SAP, AT&T and Blackboard. He was previously CIO and Senior Vice Provost at University of Kentucky and CIO at DePaul University. Before his tenure in higher education, Dr. Kellen was an IT strategy consultant working with Fortune 500 firms on marketing and CRM digital transformations. Vince has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on IT strategy, information strategy, and enterprise systems at DePaul University and University of Kentucky. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science, an M.S. degree in information systems, and a B.A. degree in communications all from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.

Reference

  1. Vince Kellen, "EDUCAUSE Review: Improving Personal Agility" We need more than agile methodologies in the higher education IT field. We need personal agile methods.