Fall 2012 Schedule

• 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.: Registration, North Entrance of Conference Center
• 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
  • Keynote Speaker – IT: A Platform for Agility
    Andrea S. Ballinger Associate Vice President for Administrative Technologies Illinois State University
    For a few years now our industry (IT) has been debating the value and merits of being more agile while our customers demand stability and predictability for the IT products and services we create and offer. The sheer nature of being agile – having the ability to rapidly respond to change – demands a different set of core competencies and out-of-box approaches that often collide with the idea of stability and predictability. It is that contradiction that creates an opportunity for IT Super Heroes to come out of their shells and save the day. In this keynote address, I will walk through the questions I would encourage you to answer about yourself – what are your natural abilities, what drives you, what inspires you, what is your intellectual strength, and what are your key technical and business core competencies – to identify your special powers and define which type of a Super Hero you are. I will also provoke you into thinking about how can an IT Super Hero today continue to be seen as a Super Hero in the future by taking the time to develop and nurture strategic partnerships with the academic and business side of the house.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
• 10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
  • Developing a Campus IT Strategic Plan
    Paul Hixson Office of the CIO Greg Gulick CITES
    Provost Adesida recently requested a campus IT strategic plan be created to outline how to inform other campus planning efforts. This discussion will present an overview of the campus IT strategic planning initiative, who is participating, and how campus stakeholders will be involved.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: The Avengers
  • The SharePoint Saga: What is Your Kryptonite?
    Tyler Rubach Graduate College Lynn Min CITES Solution Services Serge Krasavin Graduate College Dan Strole Graduate College
    What can SharePoint do beyond internal collaboration? That is the question we will try to answer in our presentation. We will show specific examples of how the Graduate College is leveraging SharePoint technologies to develop a cross-campus paperless process. No previous SharePoint experience knowledge is necessary.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Superman
  • Three Specialists Walk Into a Bar; The Developer Says Ouch!
    Joe Barnes CITES Security Ed Delaporte CITES Software Development Group Cordelia Geiken CITES User Experience Design – Usability Keith Hays CITES User Experience Design – Accessibility
    Caught in a bind between security, accessibility, usability, legal requirements, and deadlines? We can’t help with the deadlines, but this panel of campus security, usability, and accessibility experts can help you resolve the conflicts that arise when a project needs to become more accessible AND more secure.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Commissioner Gordon
  • University Housing’s Mobile Dining App: A Mortal’s Story of Teamwork and Persistence
    Jim Caputo AITS Marla McKinney AITS Kathryn Courtney University Housing Erin Ciciora University Housing
    Quick! What’s for lunch? University Housing residents needed a mobile application to view dining menus. AITS was exploring mobile application technologies. Join us for a discussion of the design process, the tools, and the lessons learned on this journey!
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: The Avengers
  • WORKSHOP: Work Smarter, Not Harder: Identify and Eliminate Wasteful Activities
    Marc Carlton Office of the Executive CIO Amy Glenn Office of the Executive CIO
    Join this interactive presentation! Participants will be taken through a simulation designed to expose wastes, learn a common language for identifying wastes, and discuss similarities between the simulation and their own work environment.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: The Avengers
• 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
  • Engineering IT’s Quest for a Unified Ticket System
    Kathleen Booth Engineering IT
    Engineering IT launched a unified ticket system in March. This session will discuss the workflow design and planning process, and demonstrate how an RT instance is set up to support successfully the needs of one of the larger IT organizations on campus.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Professor X
  • Not just Imposing: How CITES Security can help you
    Cynthia Thackeray CITES Joe Barnes CITES Warren Raquel CITES
    Are you used to hearing from Security after an incident? Learn more about how to use tools and services which can help prevent incidents from ever occurring and hear from Security less.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Superman
  • Research and Structure: Providing Fun and Function
    Solomon Roberts-Lieb College of Fine and Applied Arts
    From varied backgrounds the Avengers come. Powers and strengths forged by their homelands, now together for a common good. To ensure that more than Hulk Smash happens, as Nick Fury you must allow for both experimentation (new suits are cool) and time to solve world problems
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: The Avengers
  • Stand Back FACTS … Advance Illinois is Here!
    Susan Restad University of Illinois Foundation
    It’s time FACTS got a real upgrade ‘ to be faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and just work a lot better. The Advancement Technology Upgrade Initiative ‘ Advance Illinois (AI) will take our advancement systems into the 21st century. We’ll need many men and women of steel to help with the transition!
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Superman
  • UI Dining iOS and Android App: The Nuts and Bolts
    Alessandro Bellina Administration Information Technology Services William Seemann Administration Information Technology Services Clint Stearns University Housing Vikas Kala University Housing
    AITS and University Housing developers will share their experiences on what it took to create UI Dining, a native iOS and Android mobile app, powered by University Housing web services. This will be an in- depth technical discussion.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Superman
• 11:45 – 1:00 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch, Illinois Ballroom
• 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
  • Five Active Directory Tips and Tricks
    Erik Coleman CITES Devin Gengelbach CITES Brent Tuggle CITES
    As a follow-up to last Spring’s presentation on the ‘ABC’s of AD’ , this session is geared toward the intermediate-level admin and will share 5 useful tips and tricks on how to best leverage the UOFI Active Directory!
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Superman
  • Have I Been Hacked? Tell-tale Signs of a Compromise.
    Warren Raquel CITES Security
    This presentation will go over some practical steps to determine if you’ve been compromised. Know what tools to use and what signs to look for.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Batman
  • iOS AirPlay Services in an Enterprise Network
    Kara McElwrath Information Technology Services Jeffrey Sudduth Information Technology Services Jamie Voyles Information Technology Services Kevin Zepp Information Technology Services
    As iOS devices become more prevalent across campus, users are demanding seamless integration. Our campus community has a need to wirelessly project their mobile devices. At UIS, we turned to AirServer to meet this need and successfully launched the service in August with rave reviews. In this session, we will describe the technical considerations/implications and showcase examples of implementation.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Batman
  • Media Commons at Illinois: Definitely Better Together
    Glenda Morgan CITES Lori Mestre Library Eric Kurt Undergraduate Library Heidi Gharst CITES
    This session will highlight the new facilities and services offered by the Media Commons in the Undergraduate Library, including those planned for the future, and the lessons learned from our collaboration.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: The Avengers
• 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.
  • Anticipating the Needs of Future Librarians in an Increasingly Tech-driven Profession
    Karla Lucht Graduate School of Library & Information Science Kelsey Bates Graduate School of Library & Information Science Kelsey Raasch Graduate School of Library & Information Science
    This session examines a series of workshops offered by GSLIS designed to help future librarians learn about and take advantage of Web 2.0 tools and techniques.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Professor X
  • Awesome Toys Brought Together! Echo360 Meets the iPhone… and Beyond!
    Maxwell Power ACCC
    Echo360 hardware does lecture capture … and iPhones? Come gain some insight into how mobile apps are developed and how they will shape our IT future at the university!
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Batman
  • Identity and Access Management – 2012 Fall
    Sheheryar Muftee AITS Susan Flanagin AITS
    In this presentation we will give an overview of the upcoming SiteMinder go-live, address functionality changes to the end user, and discuss which applications are transitioning from Bluestem to SiteMinder.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Superman
  • Strengthen Your Team by Leading through the Challenges
    Aaron Walz AITS Janetta Waterhouse UIS Brookens Library
    This presentation will give you some things to consider for building more openness and trust in your own teams and how to address the challenges you uncover.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Commissioner Gordon
  • WORKSHOP: Building an Interactive ‘Bat eBook’ with iBooks Author – Part 2
    Ava Wolf CITES Academic Technology Services Jamie Nelson CITES Academic Technology Services
    In this workshop you will create a sample ‘Bat eBook’ with several interactive features: photo galleries, videos, 3D objects, quizzes, and more. Required: Macbook preloaded with iBooks Author.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Batman
• 3:15 – 4:0 p.m.
  • Dude, Where’s My Lab? … Five Things That Are Going to Happen
    Richard Wolf ACCC
    Mobility is changing the way we do things … but have we really considered what those changes might mean for us within the university in years to come? Come and see at least five things that are going to happen as a result of the mobile revolution that is happening now.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Professor X
  • Facilitating Idea Generation: Tools for Divergence and Convergence
    Amy Glenn Office of Executive CIO Noni Ledford Office of Executive CIO
    Sometimes we get caught up in group think. This presentation will provide specific tools for avoiding the tunnel vision that can happen as a result of working in groups.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: The Avengers
  • UIUCnet: To Infinity and Beyond
    Debbie Fligor CITES Nick Buraglio CITES Chris Skaar CITES Mary Stevens CITES
    An overview of recent and upcoming changes to the network. Find out what is going on with CARNE, ICCN, UC2B and of course UIUCnet (wired and wireless). 100G Ethernet, IPv6, research computing, and Software Defined Networking are some of the topics you can expect to hear about in this update.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Superman
  • WORKSHOP: Building an Interactive ‘Bat eBook’ with iBooks Author – Part 1
    Ava Wolf CITES Academic Technology Services Jamie Nelson CITES Academic Technology Services
    iBooks Author is free Mac software (Lion and higher OS) that can help you build interactive manuals, user guides, training materials, reports, etc. In this workshop you’ll create a sample ‘Bat eBook’ with several interactive features: photo galleries, videos, 3D objects, quizzes, and more. Required: Macbook preloaded with iBooks Author. All other workshop materials provided, including limited number of iPad2s. Note: This is a workshop led by the presenters that includes discussion and participant interaction; it is limited to the first 30 registrants and will run across two concurrent session blocks from 2:00pm – 2:45pm and 3:15pm – 4:00pm. Maximum Participants: 30
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Batman
  • X-Ray Vision for Healthcare Superheroes
    Ilir Zenku Health Affairs
    Healthcare reforms are introducing new challenges for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. Many healthcare organizations are increasing their investments in this field and your Hospital is investing too. We need to develop the X-Ray Vision for our superheros to see through the piles of data and identify data patterns to predict the future. You will hear more about the overall healthcare challenges ahead, our current investments and how you can help us.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Superman
• 4:15 – 4:30 p.m.: Prize Giveaways & Closing remarks
• 4:30 p.m.: Networking & social time, Houlihan’s (located in iHotel)