Carmen Jordan works for the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) where she has managed the Statewide Student Information System for the last 20 years. Carmen has been very involved with planning conferences and events at the ADE having chaired the state’s Data and Reporting conference since its inception more than 5 years ago. When the agency decided to host its first all-encompassing event (the ADE Summit) in 2019, Carmen was selected to lead the planning efforts. Thanks to the hard work of Carmen and her team, the ADE Summit grew to over 6,000 participants in 2020.