2025 IN CTO Clinic

Dive deep into how your organization can extract maximum value from your CrowdStrike Falcon Complete investment through strategic integration with Discovery and Spotlight tools. This comprehensive session will demonstrate how these powerful capabilities work together to create a more robust security posture while reducing operational complexity.

Juniper has led the networking industry by creating a paradigm shift. Infusing AI-Operations with a focus on the experience of each individual student, faculty member, and administrator has significantly improved the quality of the network experience., Juniper Networks is dedicated to dramatically simplifying network operations and driving superior experiences for end users. Our solutions deliver industry-leading insight, automation, security, and AI to drive real business results. We believe that powering connections will bring us closer together while empowering us all to solve the world’s greatest challenges of well-being, sustainability, and equality in Education.

We're mixing up a recipe for tech excellence in this interactive session! Using the "Easy Bake Oven" theme, we'll "bake" together practical strategies and tools for CTOs and tech leaders to enhance team collaboration, improve communication, and bolster cybersecurity. We'll "cook up" innovative approaches to knowledge sharing, data reporting, and staff appreciation, creating a "delicious" and resilient tech environment.

AI is revolutionizing education, but how can schools ensure it aligns with their unique priorities and expectations? With MagicSchool AI, districts can customize AI to support their vision—whether it’s streamlining administrative tasks, enhancing personalized learning, or maintaining ethical AI use. This session will explore how MagicSchool AI empowers schools to tailor AI features, ensuring alignment with curriculum goals, district policies, and student safety standards. Join us to discover practical strategies and real-world examples of how schools are leveraging AI to save time, support educators, and keep human connection at the heart of learning.

Technical or instructional skills will get you to the table, but your brand and network determine your reach as a leader. This session empowers current and aspiring leaders to explore how personal branding, professional visibility, and strategic networking can elevate their leadership journey. Through facilitated round table discussion and shared insights, attendees will learn how to identify and articulate their leadership identity, grow influence beyond their district, and strengthen peer connections that foster collaboration and innovation. Whether you’re aiming to step into a higher role or just want to be more intentional about how you lead, this session provides actionable guidance and reflection tools to help you lead out loud—with authenticity and impact.

Through the Driving K-12 Innovation series, CoSN continues its commitment to sharing high-quality trend reports that support the use of emerging technology in K-12 education to transform learning. In this initiative, a global advisory board of K-12 leaders, practitioners, and changemakers engages in discourse about the major themes driving, hindering, and enabling teaching and learning innovation at schools.

This work is divided into three steps: an initial survey to select the topics for discussion; discussion; and a concluding survey to capture the final thoughts from advisory board members and discern the top topics to feature in each publication.