EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2027 Orlando

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the yearly meeting run by EDUCAUSE for people who work on technology in colleges and universities. The organiser presents it as the place where leading thinkers in campus technology meet, and calls it the biggest gathering of peers in the field. Each edition is planned by an Advisory Committee made up of EDUCAUSE members, and the 2027 committee is credited on the event page. The 2027 edition has two parts. The in-person conference takes place in Orlando, Florida, from 18 to 21 October 2027, and an online portion follows on 9 and 10 November. The 2027 page names the city but not a venue yet. Later hosts are already fixed: Seattle for 2028, from 30 October to 2 November, and New Orleans for 2029, from 23 to 26 October. The 2026 edition was held in Denver from 29 September to 2 October, with online sessions on 14 and 15 October. According to the organiser, the audience is higher-education technology staff together with the companies that supply them. Its outline for 2027 rests on three headings: Learn, about current trends in university technology; Connect, about building contacts within the community; and Explore, about new products and solutions on show. No tracks, sessions or speakers for Orlando have been announced. In 2026 the conference offered preconference programming that needed its own registration, and its partner list included Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, OpenAI and Workday, but neither the 2027 format nor its sponsors are confirmed. Registration details, ticket types and prices for 2027 have not been published. Readers planning a trip should check the official 2027 page closer to the date. For affiliates and media buyers the fit is indirect. EDUCAUSE serves university IT departments and the vendors selling to them, and nothing in its published material covers affiliate marketing, paid traffic or lead generation. It is most relevant to edtech publishers, software review and comparison sites, and SaaS brands that sell to campuses, who can use it to see what institutions buy and which suppliers they rely on. Affiliates promoting essay or study-help offers should bear in mind that the people attending are campus staff and vendors rather than students, so a visit is market research, not a source of traffic.