HEIBO History Timeline
| April 2014 | Emily Weers (Texas A&M) & Missy Peterson (Univ of MN) connected while looking for peers interested in networking with other professionals in the field |
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| March 2015 | Started Google Group |
| March 2015 | Group of 5-6 met at the Forum |
| October 2015 | 12 members met at NACUBO Global Ops |
| February 2016 | 1st Conference at Arizona State University (13 registered participants) |
| Summer 2016 | Officially named ourselves HEIBO |
| October 2016 | 2nd Conference at the University of Minnesota (26 registered participants) |
| October 2016 | Voted on a HEIBO Logo |
| October 2016 | Members volunteered to serve on committees |
| Summer 2017 | Rotating Steering Committee & Conference Planning Committees started meeting |
| October 2017 | 3rd Conference at Rutgers University (43 registered participants) |
| October 2017 | Developed HEIBO Mission/Vision |
| October 2017 | Discovered HEIBO in Chinese = Black Wave |
| January 2018 | Rolled out the HEIBO Website |
| January 2018 | Best Practices Small Working Groups (SWGs) started working on their area of interest |
| October 2018 | 4th HEIBO Conference hosted by UT Austin, in collaboration with Texas A&M and Baylor (74 registered participants) |
| October 2019 | 5th HEIBO Conference hosted by Boise State University (69 registered participants) |
| October 2019 | Developed HEIBO Bylaws |
| September 2020 | 6th HEIBO Conference virtually hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (263 registered participants) |
| September 2021 | 7th HEIBO Conference hosted virtually via Gatherly—no host institution (133 registered participants) |
| September 2022 | 8th HEIBO Conference hosted by the University of Maryland (49 registered participants) |
| September 2022 | Voted on updated Bylaws |
| October 2023 | 9th HEIBO Conference hosted by the University of Colorado Denver (49 registered participants) |
| October 2024 | 10th HEIBO Conference hosted by the University of Utah (73 registered participants) |
| October 2024 | HEIBO's first white paper about reserves was presented at the conference |
| October 2025 | HEIBO 10th Anniversary Conference hosted by THE Ohio State University (76 registered participants) |
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