Calling All Speakers for the 2025 Cascade CMS User Conference

Are you ready to amplify your impact and drive the future of higher-ed web and marketing?

The 2025 Cascade CMS User Conference is just around the corner, and we're looking for thought leaders like you to take the stage. 

SUBMIT A SPEAKER PROPOSAL

Why Speak at CUC25?

Establish Yourself as a Thought Leader: This is your chance to showcase your expertise on a prominent platform, demonstrating your knowledge and insights to a captivated audience of higher-ed professionals. By presenting at CUC25, you solidify your status as a leader who is shaping the future of our industry.

Influence the Industry's Future: As a speaker, you have the unique opportunity to not just participate, but actively shape the conversation within higher-ed web and marketing. By sharing your forward-thinking insights and pioneering strategies, you position yourself as a catalyst for change, sparking new ideas and trends that others will follow.

Expand Your Professional Network: Connect with a dynamic community of like-minded professionals. Speaking at the conference is not just about presenting; it's about forging meaningful relationships that can lead to collaborations, new opportunities, and the expansion of your professional influence.

Receive Valuable Feedback: Engage with an audience that values constructive dialogue. The Cascade CMS community is known for its thoughtful feedback, which can help you refine your ideas and enhance your future projects.

Boost Your Brand's Visibility: Speaking at CUC25 offers unparalleled exposure for you and your organization. This is a prime opportunity to elevate your personal brand, your institution's reputation, or your company's profile within the higher-ed community.

Topics we’d love to hear about:

We are particularly interested in sessions on:

Strategic:

• Building a robust web governance framework
• Recruiting for your continuing education programs
• How to appeal to an increasingly diverse audience
• Training your content authors on writing for the web
• Clive personalization success stories and strategies
• Examples of how to utilize AI in higher-ed marketing
• Content audits: best practices, success stories, tips, and tricks
• How to prepare your web content for the demographic enrollment cliff
• How Enrollment and Marketing can work together toward common goals
• Building a Personalized User Journey from first interaction to conversion

Technical:

• Productivity Hacks in Cascade
• Implementing Pathways in Cascade
• Managing your course catalog in Cascade
• Leveraging reporting and governance tools
• Examples of effectively using the web services API
• Integrating Cascade with other tools and databases
• Publishing content from Cascade to platforms other than the website
• Content Migration Best Practices: Lessons learned from large-scale content migrations to Cascade CMS, including planning, execution, and post-migration optimization
• Maximizing Content Reusability: Best practices for creating modular content blocks and templates that can be easily reused across different pages and sites within Cascade CMS
• Designing for User Experience: Case studies on how institutions have used Cascade CMS to create user-friendly and visually appealing websites that improve navigation and overall user experience 

Hybrid:

• Helping your end users contribute to the accessibility of your website
• Opportunities for using AI to deliver a better web experience
• Implementing an Expert Search/Media Search in Cascade
• Conducting a website redesign 

Event details:

• When: February 18-20, 2025
• Where: Online
• Who: Cascade CMS users
• Format: One day of technical workshops (optional), followed by two days of traditional conference sessions 

SUBMIT A SPEAKER PROPOSAL

The Cascade CMS User Conference is where innovation meets leadership.

We want to hear from you if you're pioneering the future of higher-ed web and marketing. 

This is your moment to make a difference—submit your speaker proposal today and join us in shaping the future of our industry!

We look forward to your contribution and to seeing everyone in February!

Last Updated: Aug 29, 2024 11:00 AM

Chris Rapozo
Marketing Specialist

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