UC Tech 2026 would not be possible without the support of our sponsors! Select a sponsor below to jump directly to their profile and learn more about their services, solutions, and mission.

Platinum Sponsor

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, enables customers to build anything they can imagine—by offering the greatest choice of innovative cloud capabilities and expertise, on the most extensive global infrastructure with industry-leading security, reliability, and performance. Learn more about AWS.

Gold Sponsors

Google Cloud

Google Cloud is leading a new era of Academic Innovation, bringing the best of AI, compute, and security to pedagogy, campus operations, and research. We are committed to empowering campuses with our full-stack, AI-optimized ecosystem. Learn more about Google Cloud.

Huron

Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with organizations to help solve their most complex challenges and achieve their most ambitious goals. Working across the private and public sectors, we partner closely with clients to improve performance, accelerate transformation, and unlock new opportunities for growth.

Our clients choose us because of our deep industry and technical expertise and proven track record of turning sound strategies into action. By combining practical experience, innovative thinking, and advanced analytics and technology, Huron helps organizations translate today’s ideas into tangible results and long-term value. Learn more about Huron.

IBM

IBM provides hybrid cloud, AI, and consulting to clients in 175+ countries—helping turn data into insights, streamline operations, reduce costs, and stay competitive. Organizations rely on IBM and Red Hat OpenShift for secure, flexible digital transformation. Learn more about IBM.

Silver Sponsors

Atlassian & Clovity

Atlassian and Clovity, an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, help higher education institutions modernize teamwork with a unified system of work powered by AI—streamlining collaboration, service management, and agile delivery across campus. Learn more about Atlassian.

Datadog

Datadog for Government provides unified observability and security for higher education IT teams. FedRAMP-certified and GovRAMP in process, it helps institutions modernize campus systems and operate securely at scale. Learn more about Datadog.

Zscaler

Act Fast. Stay Secure. Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is a pioneer and global leader in zero trust security. The world’s largest businesses, critical infrastructure organizations, and government agencies rely on Zscaler to secure users, branches, applications, data & devices, and to accelerate digital transformation initiatives. Distributed across more than 160 data centers globally, the Zscaler Zero Trust ExchangeTM platform combined with advanced AI combats billions of cyber threats and policy violations every day and unlocks productivity gains for modern enterprises by reducing costs and complexity. Learn more about Zscaler.

Bronze Sponsors

CDW

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. CDW helps its customers to navigate an increasingly complex IT market and maximize return on their technology investments. Our broad array of products and services range from hardware and software to integrated IT solutions such as security, cloud, hybrid infrastructure and digital experience. Everything we do resolves around meeting the needs of our customers. Learn more about CDW.

ePlus & Cisco

ePlus moves beyond merely implementing IT solutions to harnessing technology and driving transformation. We help accelerate and reignite growth, enabling organizations to stay ahead of change, unlock new opportunities, accelerate progress, and achieve more than they ever imagined. Our offerings are comprised of a large portfolio of possibilities — spanning the technology lifecycle — developed to help position customer organizations to tap into unimagined opportunity and potential. Behind every solution, every service, and every success story is a team of exceptional people — skilled, dedicated, and relentlessly driven to deliver extraordinary results. Some services are delivered by great technology. Some services are delivered by great people. By working with ePlus, customers get the best of both worlds. Learn more about ePlus.

Epson

Designed for the classroom and beyond, enhance every student’s learning experience with dynamic, user-friendly imaging technology that invites participation and engages viewers in practically any environment—whether it’s a classroom, study space, lecture hall, lab, athletic facility or gymnasium. From advanced displays and projectors to printers and scanners, Epson’s comprehensive suite of education solutions will meet virtually any need. Learn more about Epson.

Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) shortens the path to boundless connectivity anywhere in the world. Its digital infrastructure, data center footprint and interconnected ecosystems empower innovations that enhance our work, life and planet. Learn more about Equinix.

Halcyon

Halcyon defeats ransomware and stops data extortion attacks. Our solution takes an end-to-end approach to disrupt threats at every attack lifecycle stage, while our 24/7 team of experts ensures no ransom is paid and no downtime is tolerated. Learn more about Halcyon.

Modo Labs

Modo Labs provides a low-code campus experience platform that unifies systems, tools, and apps into one mobile and desktop experience. Trusted by leading institutions, Modo helps schools create personalized portals and apps powered by AI. Learn more about Modo Labs.

Presidio

Presidio is the premier Digital Services and Solutions provider for State and Local Government and Education. With decades of dedicated SLED experience, we commit to transforming public entities and education institutions through tailored digital services and innovative solutions by fostering efficiency, transparency, compliance and frictionless engagement. Presidio paves the way to seamless digital experiences for progress and community impact locally, nationally and globally. Learn more about Presidio.

Proofpoint

Proofpoint, Inc. is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity, securing how people, data and AI agents connect across email, cloud and collaboration tools. Proofpoint is a trusted partner to over 80 of the Fortune 100, over 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations in stopping threats, preventing data loss, and building resilience across people and AI workflows. Proofpoint’s collaboration and data security platform helps organizations of all sizes protect and empower their people while embracing AI securely and confidently. Learn more about Proofpoint.

Red Hat

Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future. Learn more about Red Hat.

Rubrik

Rubrik, the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Learn more about Rubrik.

SHI

Think of SHI Public Sector as your personal technology concierge, helping you solve what’s next. We connect state and local government, K-12, higher education, and U.S. federal entities with the IT solutions and services required to remain agile and meet the public sector’s unique procurement and compliance demands.

Our dedicated public sector team blends seamless selection, delivery, and financing to simplify hard decisions for public sector leaders and IT procurement. The result: effective, innovative, and scalable solutions our customers love.

SHI is proud to be the largest Minority/Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the United States. Learn more about SHI.

Softdocs

Softdocs provides a SaaS-based document management and process automation platform for higher education. Founded in 1998, we partner with nearly 1,000 organizations to provide secure and compliant eForms, workflows, eSignatures and document management to enable the public sector to do more with less. Learn more at Softdocs.

Tanium

Tanium delivers real-time visibility and control across every endpoint in your environment — helping IT and security teams in higher education manage risk, ensure compliance, and respond to threats at scale. Learn more about Tanium.

WWT & Cisco

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider helping organizations make a new world happen by turning ambition into real-world outcomes. Founded in 1990, WWT combines strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class technology partnerships to design, build and scale AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC), clients can conceptualize, test and validate innovative solutions before deploying at scale. Through Softchoice, a WWT company, WWT supports U.S. commercial and SMB clients and the entire Canadian market. Learn more about WWT.

Our partnership with Cisco is rooted in our shared goal of driving value for our customers while helping them solve complex IT and business problems. The WWT and Cisco partnership began more than 30 years ago. Since then, we have become Cisco's largest and most strategic global partner with more than $6B in Cisco sales and gold certifications in the US, Singapore, India and the UK. Learn more about Cisco.

Supporter Sponsors

Abnormal AI

Abnormal AI is the leading behavioral AI security platform. Our anomaly detection engine analyzes identity and behavioral signals to detect sophisticated attacks and compromised accounts across email and connected applications. Abnormal deploys in minutes via API integration with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, with additional protection available for Slack, Workday, ServiceNow, Zoom, and other cloud applications. Abnormal is trusted by thousands of organizations, including more than 25% of the Fortune 500. Learn more about Abnormal AI.

Arista Networks

Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) is the fastest-growing major networking company in the world and a leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for AI, data center, campus, and routing environments. That growth reflects a simple truth: when organizations need networks built for the AI era, they're choosing Arista. Built on our flagship Extensible Operating System (EOS), Arista delivers a single, unified operating model across every network domain — giving research institutions and universities one consistent platform from the campus edge to the AI cluster. As AI transforms research and education, the network must keep pace. Arista is at the forefront, powering some of the world's largest AI and cloud networks with innovations like 800G Ethernet switching, lossless AI fabric architectures, and our next-generation R4 Series platforms.

On campus, our Cognitive Campus solution delivers scalable Wi-Fi 7, agentic AI-driven network operations through Arista AVA, and seamless mobility for hundreds of thousands of connected users and devices — proven at scale with leading research universities. For the UC system and broader higher education community, Arista is a strategic partner in building the high-performance infrastructure that enables breakthrough research, world-class patient care at academic medical centers, and next-generation learning experiences across every campus domain. Learn more about Arista Networks.

Crowdstrike

CrowdStrike delivers AI-powered cybersecurity built to stop breaches. We help universities secure endpoints, identity, and cloud with the speed and clarity today’s threats demand. Learn more about Crowdstrike.