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# Stop Testing Your Recovery for Success — University of Wyoming, Grand Valley State & Commvault
- URL: https://www.techtables.com/episodes/stop-testing-your-recovery-for-success-university-of-wyoming-grand-valley-state-commvault/
- Published: 2026-10-22T12:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T12:14:59.000Z
- Description: Amy McLaughlin, Miloš Topić, and Jared Whitehurst on telling campus AI was coming before picking a tool, earning trust before asking for it, and proving your backups are clean before you need them.
- Author: Joe Toste
- Tags: EDUCAUSE 2026, Commvault, Cybersecurity, AI Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Leadership
A recovery test that only checks for success can’t prove much. Neither can a leader who only says “trust me.”
The University of Wyoming is rolling out an AI platform for faculty, staff, and students, and owned up when one of the trainings went too fast. Grand Valley State’s IT team runs on values that spell ACT, and Miloš Topić is now on record to finish his leadership book sometime in 2027\. And Commvault’s Jared Whitehurst thinks a lot of recovery tests are checking for the wrong thing.
I sat down with Amy McLaughlin, Miloš, and Jared at EDUCAUSE 2026 in Denver to talk about all of it. And yes, we also get into ResOps, the minimal viable campus, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, why the network comes first, and my first time wearing a cowboy hat on camera (courtesy of Jared).
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- Amy McLaughlin, Vice President of IT & CIO, University of Wyoming: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/amymcl/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amymcl/?ref=techtables.com)
- Miloš Topić, Vice President for IT & Chief Digital Officer, Grand Valley State: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/topicm/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/topicm/?ref=techtables.com)
- Jared Whitehurst, Director of Sales, Commvault: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-whitehurst/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-whitehurst/?ref=techtables.com)
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