Fall 2025 Conference – Nov 5-6

“Red Alert! Passwords are Not Enough – Engage MFA”

Devin GengelbachErik ColemanJeremy Watson

Overview: This session will provide a status update on our current use of MFA providers—Duo and Microsoft—highlighting adoption progress, integration challenges, and user experience feedback …

“Can You Help Me?” to “Request Fulfilled!”: Building Service Request Management

Allison LappinTrish Curry

Every day, campus users ask IT for help: new software, account access, equipment, and more. How can we make those requests simple, consistent, and efficient …

A Comparison of AI Chatbots

Michael Cervone

A comparison of Chatbots that are available to campus users, including Copilot, Zoom AI Companion Panel, Google Gemini, and ChatGPT. We’ll indicate which ones can …

Agile Beyond Standups: Rethinking the Way Teams Work

Bradford Neavear

Agile isn’t just for IT development and it isn’t about sitting through yet another standup that feels like a status report. This session is about …

AInspector for WCAG Evaluation and Headings, Landmarks and Links Browser Extensions

Jon Gunderson

AInspector for WCAG Evaluation 4.0 is an open-source tool that has been redesigned to work on Chrome, Edge and Firefox browsers . The browser extension …

Apple’s 2025 Fall Update

Mike KimmelPaul Roberts

Fall update on macOS, iOS and AppleTV at Illinois. Mike Kimmel, our campus Apple System Engineer, will be on hand to answer questions. About this …

Axe-core My Components with The Next Generation Tooling

Bryan JonkerMikael Arvola

Join us in exploring automated browser testing with Playwright, a browser testing automation tool, and Vite, proclaimed as “The Next Generation Frontend Tooling.” We’ll investigate …

Boldly Accessible: Charting our Course in Digital Accessibility

Lindsey SharpMarc Thompson

Captain’s Log, Stardate 2025: The Education and Training Implementation Team of our campus Digital Accessibility and Excellence ADA Title II initiative invites you on a …

Boldly IT: Delivering a Strategic Vision for Campuswide Transformation

Jyotika SirohiMairéad Martin

The University of Illinois has launched Boldly IT—a strategic initiative designed to unify and elevate campuswide IT efforts in alignment with the Boldly Illinois 2030 …

Business Process Improvement Community of Practice

Ginger HundgenNick Vance

Join us for an open discussion about the Business Process Improvement Community of Practice at the University of Illinois. This session will begin with a …

Captain’s Log: Preparing for a Website Overhaul

Dena StrongHuaqi ZhangLiz ShallenbergerSydney Flowers

Captain’s Log: Preparing for a Website OverhaulEmbarking on a website redesign can feel like you’re the person in the Red Shirt in the landing party …

Coaching AI Fluency: Tools and Strategies to Empower Educators and Learners

Alex SparksDebra KorteElissa Thomann-MitchellJennifer BandaKasey Murphy

This session explores AI fluency as a foundational skill for faculty and students, emphasizing coaching strategies that translate AI concepts into ethical, practical applications. Through …

Configuration vetting and reporting with Martinet

J.B. Nicholson

Martinet (martinet.illinois.edu) is a configuration monitoring & reporting program for IT professionals. Martinet can help quickly identify configuration problems which may require immediate action. The …

Data transparency and automation with Airflow and OpenMetadata

Mikael Arvola

Find out how we’re transforming our data systems at the Graduate College with open-source tools. These tools help enable data governance, more automation, and add …

Digital Accessibility and Excellence Update

Keith Hays

Are you concerned about the ADA Title II compliance deadline that is rapidly approaching next spring? Would you like to know more about what the …

FormBuilder and Power Automate: can the dilithium crystals take the strain?

Keana GallowayMichael PainterTanya Wood

Take your processes and workflows to warp speed with the power of AITS FormBuilder, and learn how to beam people onto a starship moving at …

Framing Cybersecurity Concepts Through a Star Wars Lens

CIndy McKendallSteve Fletcher

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… the Empire was the victim of a data breach. Wait, what? Join members of the …

Giving it All She’s Got with LTI Advantage: Ed Tech’s Starboard Power Coupling

Liam Moran

LTI 1.3 and LTI Advantage are the long-term standards for adding functionality to campus’ Canvas Learning Management System. This presentation will cover the basics of …

IAM Mission Briefing: SailPoint IGA Tool

Chris BartonJeff DomeyerJody GroffJoe Barnes

Starfleet Command is initiating a new systems enhancement: the deployment of SailPoint, a SaaS-based Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) tool, across all Federation outposts and …

IAM Modernization Initiative: Charting the Course for the Future of Identity & Access Management

Chris BartonJeff DomeyerJody GroffJoe Barnes

In the ever-evolving digital frontier, Identity and Access Management (IAM) serves as the command protocol for securing systems, planetary databases, and interstellar communications. IAM ensures …

It’s Life, Jim, But Not As We Know It… Detecting Anomalies with Splunk Enterprise Security

Bob Heren

Explaining and demonstrating how the CyberSecurity Operations Center (CSOC) uses Splunk Enterprise Security to monitor University logs and watch for anomalous and suspicious behavior that …

Keep It LLocal: Using LLMs on a Machine You Can Touch

Rob Bennett

Would you have gotten away with your prompt if not for that meddling cloud giant and their over-restrictive ToS? Interested in AI’s large language models, …

Keynote – Fireside Chat with John O’Brien, President & CEO of EDUCAUSE

John O’Brien

Join Mairéad Martin (U of I Vice Provost for IT and CIO) as she leads a conversation with John O’Brien, President and CEO of EDUCAUSE …

Let your Projects Prosper: Essential Project Management Templates

Jody Groff

In the pursuit of mission excellence across the quadrant, the deployment of standardized Project Management (PM) templates has been approved to streamline operations, reduce inefficiencies, …

Leveling-up your Digital Accessibility in MS Office

Julie BakerMatthew Childress

After consulting with a number of faculty, there are a few tips and tricks that keep surfacing as potential game-changers for our users. This workshop …

Lunch and Social

Mix and mingle online! Add to Calendar (.ics) Lunch Zoom Room …

Personal Log, Supplemental: Women in Technology Report Back on the Professional Development Fund Program

Allison (Al) PayneJessica WongLindsey SharpNikkole Duda

The WIT Leadership team will facilitate an informal, open discussion about the WIT (Women in Technology) Group, which provides a forum for discussion of IT …

Practical Accessibility Knowledge Workshop

Mark McCarthyMatthew MacomberRyan Harper

Come join members of the AITS QA Team as we go over common accessibility tools and practices. Attending this workshop will give you practical, hands-on …

Reroute Auxiliary Power: Switching from Duo to Microsoft MFA via NPS

Jon Gillen

Yellow Alert! Our fleet is facing a critical systems change. Power is being redirected away from Duo, and we’ll need climb into the Jeffries tubes …

The 7 Must Haves for Project Management

Ashton HarwoodRebecca McNaught

This session focuses on seven essential elements that support successful project outcomes. From establishing clear goals and defining scope, to preparing the organization for change …

The Prime Directory

Bryan JonkerGabe Przygoda

What does https://ahs.illinois.edu/directory/, https://education.illinois.edu/directory, and https://socialwork.illinois.edu/directory/ have in common? They are running off the same directory platform, run by Technology Services, promoted by the Web …

The United Federation of Professional Education: Accredible, Canvas Catalog, and You

Amy Merkley

We have a constellation of tools for online professional education endeavors that needs further exploration: come see what’s new with Canvas Catalog, as well as …

Turn Conversations into Action with Cross-Functional Collaboration and Copilot

Ashley HetrickGinger Hundgen

Join us for a dynamic two-part training series on leveraging Copilot with Data Protection as a powerful tool for process improvement. In the first session, …

Turning the Job You Have into the Job You Want with Job Crafting

Ashley HetrickMichael Cervone

It’s 2025, and we’re far from the days of the Great Resignation, when IT jobs were as plentiful as tribbles on Iota Geminorum. Times have …

Uncommon Common Sense: Privacy Edition

Mendi DraytonMichael WrobelSheena BishopStephen Collette

Privacy may seem like a maze of legal jargon and technical rules, but at its core, it’s about good old-fashioned common sense. In this session, …

Unlocking Campus Knowledge: Building a Smarter IT Community

Jackson MatlakTracy WhittakerTrish Curry

Ever feel like the answer you need is out there… but buried in someone’s inbox or locked in a colleague’s head? That’s where Knowledge Management …

USS (Research) Enterprise: The Research Lifecycle for IT Pros

Josh ErenbergJosh Henry

The conduct of groundbreaking research is a core mission of the University of Illinois. As IT Professionals, we have a limited view into the world …

Warp Speed Ahead: Accelerating Canvas Course Building with New DesignPLUS Features

Rachel Martiniak

Join us on a mission to explore the latest enhancements in the DesignPLUS integration within Canvas. This session will provide a guided tour of recent …

Warp Speed with Copilot AI for PowerBI: Navigating Insights in Business Intelligence

Dejan TrencevskiKrista DeLeeuw

In this session, we’ll boldly go where few dashboard consumers have gone before: using Microsoft Copilot directly within PowerBI reports. Much like Spock at Captain …

Web Accessibility Basics

Keith Hays

If you are a web developer, designer, or content creator, you need to know how to ensure that the site you work on is accessible …