Fall 2010 Schedule

• 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.: Registration, North Entrance of Conference Center
• 8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
  • New IT Professional Orientation
     
    This session is designed for IT Professionals who are new to campus or those interested in an overview of IT on the Urbana campus. We’ll cover IT structures, processes, training, and available resources. This orientation is a great way to begin to network with your campus colleagues.
    
    Location: Technology Room
• 8:45-8:55 a.m.: Welcome, Chancellor Ballroom
• 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
  • A Collaboration with Low Overhead and High Rewards
    Mona Heath, Office of the CIO; Sue Johnson, Beckman Institute; Jenn La Montagne, Computer Science; Tom Moone, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Phil Pochrzast, ATLAS; Judy Tolliver, Illinois Informatics Institute
    Eleven volunteers from different units and different sides of Green Street came together to produce www.it.illinois.edu to showcase Illinois technological excellence to prospective students, faculty, funders, and donors. In doing so, they produced something that none could have accomplished alone. They’ll discuss what made their collaboration work, and invite attendees to consider implications for their own future collaborations.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Roof
  • Collaborating for Better Decisions Through Business Intelligence
    Michael Wonderlich AITS; Aaron Walz AITS
    This session will review the new Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) products and services from AITS-Decision Support. New BI products include OLAP cubes, which are a new way to analyze data for patterns and trends. Additional products include dashboards to provide easy-to-ready graphical presentations of data for quick understanding and instant assessment. Additional database environment improvements and an upcoming Business Objects upgrade will continue to enhance the existing products and services. We will provide a focus on the information IT Professionals require to support their users as they utilize these new products, but also describe how many of the techniques and development efforts from AITS-Decision Support may be used within the local units to incorporate local data with enterprise data.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Foundations
  • Exchange 2010: A Behind the Scenes Look
    Erik Coleman CITES; Devin Gengelbach CITES; Brent Tuggle CITES
    This session provides a “down to the rivets” view of Exchange 2010 as it is implemented so far at the university. We will look at storage architecture, server roles, database replication, mail flow, user provisioning, and take a peek at the new user experience.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Foundations
  • Illinois Online Network: Teaching Online
    Scott Johnson, Illinois Online Network – U of I Online
    Illinois Online Network and the MVCR online faculty development program is an award winning university resource that has reached over 5,000 individuals, awarded the Master Online Teacher certificate to almost 500 educators, and had an impact on at least one million online learners. Presentation will summarize the ION/MVCR program.
    
    Location: Knowledge
    Track: Windows
  • The Blueprint for Illinois Compass
    Tracy Tolliver CITES; Alfred Weiss CITES
    Where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going with Illinois Compass.
    
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Foundations
• 10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
  • A Collaboration with Low Overhead and High Rewards
    Mona Heath, Office of the CIO; Sue Johnson, Beckman Institute; Jenn La Montagne, Computer Science; Tom Moone, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Phil Pochrzast, ATLAS; Judy Tolliver, Illinois Informatics Institute
    Eleven volunteers from different units and different sides of Green Street came together to produce www.it.illinois.edu to showcase Illinois technological excellence to prospective students, faculty, funders, and donors. In doing so, they produced something that none could have accomplished alone. They’ll discuss what made their collaboration work, and invite attendees to consider implications for their own future collaborations.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Roof
  • Collaborating for Better Decisions Through Business Intelligence
    Michael Wonderlich AITS; Aaron Walz AITS
    This session will review the new Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) products and services from AITS-Decision Support. New BI products include OLAP cubes, which are a new way to analyze data for patterns and trends. Additional products include dashboards to provide easy-to-ready graphical presentations of data for quick understanding and instant assessment. Additional database environment improvements and an upcoming Business Objects upgrade will continue to enhance the existing products and services. We will provide a focus on the information IT Professionals require to support their users as they utilize these new products, but also describe how many of the techniques and development efforts from AITS-Decision Support may be used within the local units to incorporate local data with enterprise data.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Foundations
  • Exchange 2010: A Behind the Scenes Look
    Erik Coleman CITES; Devin Gengelbach CITES; Brent Tuggle CITES
    This session provides a “down to the rivets” view of Exchange 2010 as it is implemented so far at the university. We will look at storage architecture, server roles, database replication, mail flow, user provisioning, and take a peek at the new user experience.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Foundations
  • Illinois Online Network: Teaching Online
    Scott Johnson, Illinois Online Network – U of I Online
    Illinois Online Network and the MVCR online faculty development program is an award winning university resource that has reached over 5,000 individuals, awarded the Master Online Teacher certificate to almost 500 educators, and had an impact on at least one million online learners. Presentation will summarize the ION/MVCR program.
    
    Location: Knowledge
    Track: Windows
  • The Blueprint for Illinois Compass
    Tracy Tolliver CITES; Alfred Weiss CITES
    Where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going with Illinois Compass.
    
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Foundations
• 10:45 – 12:45 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch
• 12:45 – 1:30 p.m.
  • Data Feeds and the Library: What we’ve learned
    Jonathan Gorman Library IT
    The Library consumes and produces a variety of information to serve the campus and our partners. This presentation will cover the sources of information, authorizing users for services, charging fines and for services, and how we purchase materials with our datafeeds. The talk will also describe the Library’s evolution from awkward kludges to a more cohesive system of perl scripts.
    
    Location: Knowledge
    Track: Foundations
  • Illinois Web Accessibility: Where We Stand and Where We Need To Go
    Jon Gunderson DRES
    This presentation will provide information on the status of web accessibility of campus web sites including information about the accessibility of Adobe PDF documents. The presentation will highlight the campus improvements in accessibility that have been made over the past two years as part of the Provost IT Accessibility initiative and the accessibility challenges that still need to be addressed.
    
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Roof
  • Integration Competency Center – Providing Efficient and Effective Access to Enterprise Data
    Marc Carlton AITS; Suzanne Zelle AITS
    The Integration Competency Center (ICC) provides assistance to University IT organizations and project teams seeking to integrate their systems with one of the many University Enterprise Data Systems (i.e. Banner, EAS, etc.). ICC can provide assistance with design, development, coordination and testing of integrations. This presentation will provide an overview of the ICC and what it has to offer.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Windows
  • Introducing the Illinois Center for Multimedia Excellence
    Drew MacGregor, Jack Brighton, Colleen Cook, & John Tubbs
    Rich media collaboration has taken many forms at Illinois over the years, and we are now formalizing this collaboration with the creation of the Center for Multimedia Excellence. With the goal of ‘less talk, more action’ we are collaborating on Content Creation, Distribution, Archiving, Accessibility and Standards. The CME is open to anyone interested in making Illinois multimedia more efficient.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Windows
  • University Identity and Access Management Solutions – Current Vision and Status
    Charley Kline CITES; Amin Kassem AITS; Erik Hege Library and Information Science
    The UTMT has chartered a major effort to reimagine, reunify, and reimplement identity and access management solutions across the entire university. Charley, Amin, and Erik have done most of the early project development and architectural envisioning for this unified solution, and will discuss the current problem space, requirements gathering, and vision for the final product.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Foundations
• 1:45 – 2:30 p.m.
  • AITS EAI Enterprise Services – Providing Infrastructure to Support Enterprise System Integrations
    Russell Chalfant AITS
    Enterprise data integrations provide new and updated Enterprise data in a near real-time manner, as well as, the ability to query data with minimal interdependencies between systems. AITS has adopted various methods for integration including OpenEAI methodology, Web Services, and batch processing. In this presentation, we review the components that provide a stable, efficient and available infrastructure for deploying and maintaining the data integrations.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Foundations
  • Creating Innovative Work Groups Through Developing a Climate and Culture for Innovation
    Gale Stafford CITES
    Managers and other group leaders could encourage the right kinds of innovation in campus IT through creating a group work climate that supports innovation. We’ll review recent research on innovative work groups. And we’ll consider a meta-analysis of 42 studies showing 3 climate factors critical for innovation. Our discussion will center on: what can managers do to change the climate?
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Roof
  • Digital Signage as a Campus-Level Service
    Thomas Kunka CITES; Brian Damm Housing; Brock Umland Housing
    Even as mobile computing grows in ubiquity, use of digital signage for campus communication is fast becoming a topic of importance for IT professionals. Representatives from CITES will discuss their campus-wide digital signage service including participants, benefits, service architecture, financial model, security, and other key issues. University Housing will be present to provide a brief overview of their deployment experiences and future plans.
    
    Location: Knowledge
    Track: Curb Appeal
  • LAS Online: Reinventing the Academic Enterprise
    Jim Witte ATLAS; Deanna Raineri ATLAS
    How does online make sense for a residential institution like the U of I? Hear about the challenges and opportunities we’ve faced as the ATLAS has developed and carried out strategic initiatives to support changes in how teaching & learning is done in LAS.
    
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Windows
  • Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) Update
    Mike Smeltzer CITES; Tracy Smith CITES
    Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband (UC2B) seeks to vastly improve the residential and business connectivity options in the local community with a shared fiber infrastructure. Now that the $29.4 million project has been funded, what comes next and how will this project affect University students, faculty and staff?
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Curb Appeal
• 2:30-3:15 p.m.: Networking break
• 3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
  • Change and Configuration Management at AITS
    Sheheryar Muftee AITS
    Discuss and present the Change and Configuration Management process at AITS and the utilization of the Computer Associates (CA) Service Desk Manager and CA CMDB applications. The Change and Configuration Management process governs changes made to all AITS maintained Enterprise Services that include changes to Software Applications, Servers, Databases, Batch Processes, Storage and Infrastructure. Presentation will discuss the high level process and demonstrate the technology used to implement it at AITS.
    
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Foundations
  • Making Decisions About the Future of Learning Environments at Illinois
    Glenda Morgan Office of the CIO
    In the presentation we describe the process underway to gather input into and to make decisions about the future of learning environments at Illinois. these include but are not limited to Learning Management Systems such as Compass, Moodle and Lon-CAPA. We describe the process and seek additional IT Pro input on both the process and the outcome.
    Location: Knowledge
    Track: Windows
  • Opportunities in Developing Leadership Skills & Overcoming Challenges in Applying Them
    Kostas Yfantis CITES; Chris Kuehn CITES, Julia Stackler Creative Services; Kristin Cordova AITS; Craig Jackson LAS; Kathy Lyons CITES
    Panelists will share their experience participating in programs that focus on managing resources and cultivating leadership skills. Programs to be reviewed range from Educause Institute’s Management Program to the Mor IT Leadership Program to the Professional MBA degree offered by our University. The focus for the panelists will be in illustrating how they applied the skills gained to enhance the performance of their organizations and in engaging with the audience to discuss how to pursue these career-advancing opportunities.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Roof
  • Sharing SharePoint
    Serge Krasavin Watercampws
    The Sharepoint portal video capabilities are important at many educational organizations because they enable researches and instructors to reach large audiences and deliver important and relevant information at a very low cost. The presentation is about the Watercampws journey to a Sharepoint video portal on a tight budget.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Windows
  • Web@Illinois: Doing web better
    Mike Bohlmann Office of Technology Management
    During the last 15 years, society’s understanding of the web has expanded to the idea that people and not just organizations need to publish quickly and easily to the web. As we work to coordinate our organizational efforts, we must also improve how empower people to publish on the web. This session provides an update on the Web@Illinois project.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Curb Appeal
• 4:15 – 5:00 p.m.
  • Campus Unified Communications Theory and Practice
    Charley Kline CITES; Tony Rimovsky CITES
    The campus is about to embark on a large effort to replace existing email, telephone, and other communications systems with a single Unified Communications solution. Charley and Tony will recap the vision, architecture, and current plans for this program.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Foundations