The University of Virginia scaled Airtable rapidly across schools and departments—without a top-down mandate. Join this fireside chat to learn how UVA built a grassroots, strategically-governed Airtable ecosystem that balances trust with flexibility.
At this Airtable EDUser Group meeting, you’ll walk away with practical tips for how you can build a center of excellence culture, and a framework for scaling Airtable at your organization.Â
How to scale access and licensing thoughtfully
How UVA decides who gets an account, manages editor requests, and avoids license sprawl.How governance and community enable growth
How a small, cross-school Center of Excellence supports peer-to-peer trust, coordination, and adoption.How the technical foundation supports real work
Why Airtable’s no-code capabilities replaced legacy tools, and how the people behind them make the difference.
Johann leads cybersecurity, end user support, enterprise analytics and web application initiatives that enhance academic operations for over 1200 faculty and staff. With more than two decades of higher‑education IT leadership, he has driven complex projects across reporting, governance, and distributed development.
Most recently, Johann co-led the initiative to establish an enterprise Airtable governance process and a Center of Excellence, coordinating stakeholders and standards to scale Airtable responsibly across 5 schools, 4 central units and one foundation. His work also serves to bridge the gap with central offices on data stewardship to ensure alignment with institutional governance and University policies. During this process, Johann also served as the primary developer for custom SCIM and data integration workflows to support connectivity with institutional systems of record.
A hands-on technology leader, Johann’s toolkit spans agile delivery, business intelligence, web development, and technical integrations. He holds an M.S. in Management of IT from UVA’s McIntire School and a B.S. in Business Administration (Information Systems) from Old Dominion University.
Jack has worked in higher education for a little over 5 years now, first for UVA Health and now for the Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office. Before that, he worked for a startup making GIS safety plans for schools while partnering with first responders. He has been
in IT for over 15 years, wearing a variety of hats on his journey, from basic desktop support to system architecting to presenting at user conferences, board meetings, and customer events.
Jack has lived in various parts of the country: Boston, Chicago, Spokane, and now has resided in Charlottesville for 20 years (his favorite place so far) with his wife Amanda and their two dogs. He is a graduate of Old Dominion University’s Computer Science program.
When he’s not geeking out about the latest tech or buried in Airtable formulas, you can find Jack playing with his dogs, Moxie and Nebet, playing table tennis, video gaming, or out on a hiking trail identifying local birds and plants.
With over two decades of higher education IT leadership across private liberal arts, Ivy League, and R1 public research institutions, Josh leads technology strategy, operations, and analytics for UVA Engineering, serving approximately 270 faculty and supporting over $100 million in annual research expenditures. Before joining UVA, he served for nearly 10 years as Director of IT for University Services at Princeton University.
At UVA, Josh partnered with central IT and administrative units on a data governance pilot project that ultimately led to the adoption of a modern cloud-based data platform—an important foundation for the Airtable project. Recognizing Airtable's AI innovation trajectory and support challenges with existing campus low-code services, he partnered with Johann Reinicke and Jack Doherty to launch the Airtable CoE and governance structure. His Engineering IT team has already achieved success with citizen development of IT ticketing and asset management systems.
Outside of work, Josh leads the Charlottesville Project Management Institute chapter and enjoys the outdoors, running, Schnauzers, Auburn sports, and tinkering with AI. He holds a bachelor's degree in MIS from Auburn University and an MBA from Samford University.
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Matt Logan works with colleges and universities at Airtable, where he partners with teams to bring more clarity, coordination, and flexibility to complex, cross-departmental work. He focuses on helping institutions adopt practical systems that support planning, collaboration, and execution across a wide range of initiatives.
Before Airtable, Matt spent five years at EAB working closely with senior university leaders on strategy and operations. Earlier in his career, he served as an Education Specialist with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, working alongside teachers and community leaders in resource-constrained public-sector environments. Those experiences continue to shape how he listens, problem-solves, and builds long-term partnerships.
At Airtable, Matt brings these perspectives together to help institutions navigate governance, compliance, and limited resources while implementing tools that enable teams to work more effectively and stay focused on their mission.