EdgeCon Autumn 2024: A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors
Edge would like to extend our heartfelt thank you to all the sponsors who made EdgeCon Autumn 2024 a resounding success. Hosted in partnership with Kean University, EdgeCon Autumn brought together thought leaders, professionals, and attendees from universities and community colleges. The conference focused on achieving sustained success by uniting strategy and innovation through enterprise architecture. The support of these sponsors have been instrumental in making this event possible.
Platinum Sponsor
Extron is Committed to Education. Every day, primary schools, colleges, and universities around the world use Extron audio and video products to harness the power of multimedia to enrich educational experiences. Extron’s AV systems for education provide sharp images, clear sound, simple control, and solid reliability. We constantly seek feedback from educators in order to engineer AV tools that help instructors present more engaging lessons, help students absorb and retain what they learn, and allow administrators to run institutions more efficiently at lower cost.
Exhibitor Sponsors
Automate Your Processes, Integrate Your Applications, Accelerate with Expert Guidance
Anthology delivers EdTech solutions that empower students to reach their full potential and learning institutions to thrive. Millions of students around the world are supported via Anthology’s ecosystem of flagship SaaS solutions and supporting services, including the award-winning Blackboard® (LMS), Anthology® Student (SIS/ERP), and Anthology® Reach (CRM).
At Aspire we believe in the power of collaboration to drive digital transformation in education. Our SLED Team provides essential solutions that help colleges, K-12 districts, and other entities meet desired business needs and thrive in today’s digital landscape. Let’s connect and explore how we can partner for a brighter, more connected and secure future in education!
Info@AspireTransforms.com • Kbuff@AspireTransforms.com • AspireTransforms.com
Cisco empowers higher education institutions to create secure, flexible, and innovative learning environments. By leveraging advanced collaboration tools, wireless solutions, seamless connectivity, and robust security measures, Cisco helps universities and colleges enhance student experiences, streamline administrative processes, and fuel cutting-edge research. With a focus on future-proofing networks and supporting digital transformation, Cisco ensures that educational institutions can adapt and thrive in an evolving technological landscape.
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet by improving security, resilience, and performance. We do this by reducing your attack surface, vendor count, and tool sprawl, while also helping you regain visibility and control of IT and security across on-prem, public cloud, SaaS, and the Internet.
jsingh@cloudflare.com • jennifer.tavella@cloudflare.com • www.cloudflare.com
Delivering the best cybersecurity services comes with a responsibility to always operate in a way that is true to our core values. Be human. Be hungry. Be humble. Be honest. And lead with your heart.
Founded more than 20 years ago in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet continues to be a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Fortinet’s portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products is the largest integrated offering available, delivering proven cybersecurity everywhere you need it.
Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education. With powerful technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, and security offerings, decision makers can streamline processes and improve student, faculty and staff services delivered by public sector organizations across all domains
Joseph W Hendrickson, LLC. provides high quality professional consulting enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) project management and full project lifecycle implementation services for Higher Education, Public Sector, Healthcare industry clients.
Dfhllc@josephwhendricksonllc.com • www.josephwhendricksonllc.com
Identity Automation provides identity and access management (IAM) solutions for Higher Education. Our flagship platform, RapidIdentity, safeguards learning environments, maximizes instructional time, and minimizes the load on Information & Educational Technology teams. Technology leaders turn to RapidIdentity for its best-in-class security capabilities, time-saving automations, and flexible approach to managing digital identities.
At NICE, we are passionate about empowering colleges, universities, and organizations of all sizes to deliver amazing student, administrative and customer experiences on our award winning digital-first cloud native contact center platform with purpose-built CX AI. With over 30 years of experience, NICE has pioneered customer service innovations while demonstrating equal effectiveness for colleges, universities, and government entities. We are known for our innovation and comprehensive interaction-centric approach with specialized AI to boost student and customer satisfaction. Our unified open cloud platform, CXone, manages interactions from voice to next-gen digital and AI chatbots—enabling organizations to orchestrate the complexity of modern customer experiences on one platform. A comprehensive best-in-class unified combination of CX applications, from AI self-service to routing to workforce engagement and quality management. Meet your students and customers where they truly begin their journeys, supporting 30+ digital channels, self-help, messaging, proactive outreach, and knowledge management. Together, we can drive innovation, elevate the CX experience to new heights, and embark on a journey of, collaboration, and limitless potential.
With Nile, higher education institutions not only consume their entire wired and wireless access network with a performance guarantee for coverage, capacity and availability but also free up capital and resources, ensuring superior total cost of ownership. To meet the demands of modern education, institutions need resilient wired and wireless networks that provide extensive coverage, high speed, and unwavering reliability. Nile converges campus network into a next-generation architecture that integrates traditional local area network (LAN) technology stack and day -1 to day N lifecycle services into a single solution. This unique solution, named Nile Access Service, delivers the industry’s first performance guarantee on a per-building basis. Nile Access Service enables flexible per-user or per square footage consumption, eliminating the need for any upfront capital investment.
PKA Technologies is a leading IT solutions provider based in Montvale, NJ. With over 25 years of experience, PKA Technologies offers a comprehensive range of services, including cloud computing, data backup and recovery, and IT consulting. We specialize in providing customized solutions tailored to the unique needs of each client, ensuring that businesses of all sizes can benefit from our expertise. PKA Technologies’ commitment to delivering exceptional service and innovative solutions has earned us a reputation as a trusted partner for businesses looking to leverage technology to drive growth and success.
SailPoint is a leading provider of identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions. It helps organizations manage and secure least-privilege access to critical data and applications for their employees, contractors, and other users. SailPoint has the highest level of customer satisfaction and retention within the industry with a 95% customer retention rate across over 2,800 customers. Every single analyst report ever produced on IGA points to SailPoint as the leader – Gartner, Forrester, IDC, KuppingerCole. These accolades are largely due to our heritage in identity governance, our research & development, and our passion and focus to make every customer successful.
Splunk provides an industry-leading Data Analytics Platform recognized by Gartner as a leader in both Cybersecurity and Observability. Splunk is also powering a new Student-Led SOC initiative that was launched at NJIT and is expanding to other higher education institutions in New Jersey. Let us help you deliver on your School’s mission by leveraging unmatched visibility to your data.
White Rock Cybersecurity is committed to strengthening security postures of our schools with best-in-class cybersecurity solutions, ensuring robust protection and peace of mind.
Thank you to these Sponsors for their support of EdgeCon Autumn 2024
About Edge: Edge serves as a member-owned, nonprofit provider of high performance optical fiber networking and internetworking, Internet2, and a vast array of best-in-class technology solutions for cybersecurity, educational technologies, cloud computing, and professional managed services. Edge provides these solutions to colleges and universities, K-12 school districts, government entities, hospital networks and nonprofit business entities as part of a membership-based consortium. Edge’s membership spans the northeast, along with a growing list of EdgeMarket participants nationwide. Edge’s common good mission ensures success by empowering members for digital transformation with affordable, reliable and thought-leading purpose-built, advanced connectivity, technologies and services.
