Spring 2011 Schedule

• 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.: Registration, North Entrance of Conference Center
• 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
  • Building Relationships in a Rapidly Changing IT Environment
    Phil Nyman CITES; Ted Myhre CITES; Susan Flanagin AITS; Mark Pollard AITS-Decision Support
    In this session, the AITS and CITES Client Relationship Management (CRM) teams will provide an overview of how they have engaged with the IT Professionals community since the inception of the groups. They will engage the audience in a discussion on planned services and an evolving vision.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Vision
  • Campus-Wide Student Employee Training Program
    Candice Solomon-Strutz Social Work; Alex Breen CITES; David Ruby CITES; Nathan Carpenter CITES; Stephen Kemp Vet Med
    Student training is one of the most critical parts of utilizing student employees in IT. Multiple units and departments already have excellent training programs in place for student employees. During this session the panel will not only be sharing best practices and recommended methods for student training but looking to recruit volunteers to provide input from the beginning for a campus wide IT student training program.
    
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Results
  • Feeding the Loop: The LAS Online Continuous Improvement Process
    Jim Witte ATLAS; Pamela Williams ATLAS; Quentin Lawphu Student; Tanja Hodges Student
    This presentation describes the process by which ATLAS TLT conducts course evaluations and uses the results to inform future course development efforts.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Results
  • Lync 2010 Infrastructure
    Brent Tuggle CITES; Kevin Bird CITES; Devin Gengelbach CITES; Tom Dawson CITES
    Lync is one of the platforms that comprises Unified Communications. We’ll take a look at the back-end architecture as well as the available clients and features that make up Lync. Through demonstrations and a discussion with experts you will have a better understanding of how Lync will work in on the Urbana campus.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Action
  • SitePublish: Web Content Management System at the University of Illinois
    Todd Nelson AITS
    SitePublish is a Web Content Management System (WCMS) for creating and maintaining websites efficiently and consistently. SitePublish is developed by Intrafinity and supported by AITS at the University of Illinois and is increasingly being used for University Administration (UA) websites. This presentation will demonstrate the WCMS functionality and describe processes, governance, and next steps for SitePublish at the University of Illinois.
    
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Action
• 10:15 – 11:00 a.m.
  • Code Slam!
    Freeform
    Bring your Skunkworks projects and your lingering haven’t-had-time issues, and bang on them in a room full of fellow programmers where you can swap tips, advice, howls of frustration, and shouts of victory. Need more time? Come back during lunch and code slam some more.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Results
  • Discover the AITS Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
    Sheheryar Muftee AITS
    This session will present the AITS Configuration Management Database (CMDB). It would showcase the functionality of the CMDB, discuss the collection of data that makes up the CMDB and tabulate the advantages of using it to improve Enterprise Service delivery. The presentation will also discuss a real world example problem where a solution will be reached using the CMDB functionality.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Results
  • eText: Expanding a Locally Developed, Proven Online Textbook Service
    John Tubbs ACES-ITCS-WMS; Glenda Morgan Office of the CIO
    A variety of factors are applying pressure to reduce the cost burden of textbooks on students. In response the College of ACES has built eText, a delivery system for locally created digital textbooks used by over 1500 students. This session will highlight the successful development and implementation of eText and asks questions of how to expand it’s audience.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Action
  • From Idea to Implementation: Making Computer Labs Better for Students
    Kelly Bridgewater Office of the CIO; Mona Heath Office of the CIO; Glenda Morgan Office of the CIO; Craig Jackson LAS
    The session will show how a simple discussion about the state of campus computer labs spawned conversations, working groups and surveys that directly influenced a number of positive changes made to make campus computer labs better for students.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Results
  • Teaching IT – Spring 2011
    Dave Mussulman Computer Science
    IT Pros don’t typically think of themselves as educators, even if that encompasses a lot of what we do. How can we reframe our approach to IT as teaching/learning to improve user satisfaction, and save our time and effort too. Join our discussion for observations, tips, tools, and strategies.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Vision
• 11:15 – 12:00 p.m.
  • A Community Perspective On The Evolution Of Learning Technologies at Illinois
    Leslie Hammersmith Office of the CIO; Norma Scagnoli Office for Information Management – College of Business; Jim Witte ATLAS – College of LAS; Konstantinos Yfantis CITES
    This presentation provides insight into how our campus has negotiated the last ten years of rapid change in learning technologies, both in technology standards and as a mission critical part of teaching and learning today. The presenters, who are leaders in the field of educational technologies and represent multiple disciplines on campus, also discuss vision for the future.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Vision
  • Engineering Endpoints: One College’s Journey to Endpoint Management
    Jim Hurst Engineering IT; Brad Mahaffey Engineering IT; James Babiarz Engineering IT
    IT Professionals from Engineering discuss their path to unified Endpoint Management (configuration, patching, OS and software deployment, hardware and software inventory, power management, etc on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices) . Includes a technical demo of what we will be implementing over the summer. Come to learn about our solution and how you can join in.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Action
  • Illinois Digital Signage Service: Alive and Kicking
    Thomas Kunka CITES; Meghan Smith ACES
    Just a few short years ago, digital signage as a campus-level IT service was just an idea. Today, the service is a reality and is helping many campus units use the latest in digital signage technology to enhance their communications and the Illinois experience. ACES will talk about where the service is today, ways in which it is being handled and where it’s heading.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Results
  • Planning Campus IT Pro Training: What Do We Want From Us?
    Dena Strong CITES; Candice Solomon-Strutz School of Social Work; Ted Myhre CITES
    More technical information!’ is a perennial CCSP/ITPF request. 45 minutes at a general conference often isn’t enough to go deep into most technical topics — but focused workshops can be. This session will be used to gather ideas, identify topic experts, and work out needed timeframes in order to provide deeply technical training workshops for campus IT pros.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Action
  • publish.illinois.edu – Microsite Publishing
    Mike Bohlmann Office of Technology Management; Ryan Thomas College of Education; David Dashifen Kees Engineering IT; Anthony Benjamin Engineering IT
    Identified within the Immediate Needs team of Web@Illinois, a significant gap was identified in the capability of faculty, students and staff to publish web content about their research, their studies, their groups and more using on-campus resources. At Web@Illinois Working Day last December, a group of IT and web folks got together to discuss the feasibility of putting together a WordPress service for campus. Come hear about the project’s progress and lessons learned about organizing without organizations.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Action
• 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch
• 1:30 – 2:15 p.m.
  • Administrative Processes and Roles: There’s Got To Be A Better Way
    Dick Harris AITS; Sally Mikel Graduate College; Michelle Rome College of LAS – ATLAS; Ryan Thomas Education; Kris Williams Materials Research Lab
    The presentation proposes we dramatically rethink how the institution approaches administrative processes — an approach that must emphasize addressing needs we have in common, and leverage shared solutions more effectively. IT pros are uniquely positioned to help the University embrace such a vision and change in culture. The panel will discuss the benefits and challenges of moving to such a future from a college and department perspective.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Vision
  • Bare Bones Project Management
    Michele Raupp Public Affairs; Rick Getty AITS
    What You Can’t NOT Do – based on a book by Robert Lewis, this is for anyone who has been volunteered to lead a project despite having no training or experience in project management.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Vision
  • Herding Cats in the Cloud: Evaluating Security of Third Party Services for University Business
    Mike Corn Office of the CIO; Cynthia Yewdall-Thackeray Office of the CIO
    Institutions are increasingly relying on third party services for everything from user collaboration to infrastructure. Evaluating the ability of these third parties to secure University data is proving to be a challenge for all of higher education. This talk will focus on this issue and some of the strategies we’re deploying at the University of Illinois for addressing them.
    
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Action
  • Presenting CITES’ Usability Consulting Service
    Cordelia Geiken UXD/CITES
    CITES User Experience Design Group (UXD) is now offering a Usability Consulting Service to the campus. Cordelia Geiken will discuss what services are now avialable, how much they cost and how to take advantage of these new offerings.
    
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Action
  • Shared Data Center Services Consolidation on the Move!
    Alice Jones AITS; Sol Roberts-Lieb CITES; David Gerstenecker ACES
    Please join us as we update you on the milestones we have completed during the last six months and we sit back and let you interview one of the first early adopter tenants, Dave Gerstenecker, as we review the process and define future objectives.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Action
• 2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
  • Business Intelligence at the Graduate College
    Serge Krasavin Mechanical Science & Engineering
    The Graduate College of the University of Illinois processes over 4500 requests each year from over 20 categories submitted by over 10000 graduate students. Processing this annual mountain of paperwork is labor-intensive, time-consuming, prone to error and, as all content resides on hardcopy, tedious to search. In an effort to improve performance and reduce costs there was a strong desire to automate this process. The petition forms have a standardized format with a well-established review/approval process which made the system a good candidate for automation using the built-in features of SharePoint 2010 content management and InfoPath 2010 electronic forms. The business process has been redesigned and the petitions were re-drafted as digital InfoPath forms and published to SharePoint libraries. After students complete a petition, they receive an email response and workflows start to route the document to the appropriate departmental library and alert the appropriate department/college staff to begin the review/approval process. Attachments can be added, as needed, to the forms and at any point anyone involved in the review/approval process can check the progress of a particular form by viewing the workflow status page. This straightforward, no-code solution readily generalizes to any number of common paperwork scenarios and provides an easy means for a department business office to truly enter the digital, no paper, age.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Results
  • Multimedia at Illinois: An Update on the Center for Multimedia Excellence
    Drew MacGregor Engineering IT; Jack Brighton WILL Media; Colleen Cook ATLAS/Academic Outreach; John Tubbs ACES
    Building on the launch of the Center for Multimedia Excellence in October 2010, our presentation will update the IT community on the status of the Center for Multimedia Excellence (CME). The CME is a volunteer organization of IT staff, media specialists, communicators, librarians, ed-technicians, and others who wish to create a cohesive media strategy on campus.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Vision
  • Update on UC @ Illinois
    Tony Rimovsky CITES; Greg Gulick CITES
    Greg Gulick, UC @ Illinois Program Manager, and Tony Rimovsky, UC @ Illinois Executive Sponsor will provide the latest information about the campus transition to new email and calenaring (Microsoft Exchange 2010) and new voice services (Microsoft Lync-Windows and Microsoft Communicator-Mac).
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Action
  • Use Case to Object-Oriented Code Base
    Marilou Landes ACES Information Technology and Communication Services; Melissa Rubik Office of Business and Financial Services – Business Information Systems; Leslie Sherman Office of Business and Financial Services Business Information Systems
    We will provide a comparison of a highly structured application development process to a loosely structured one. We will show how use of common tools and code can leverage development to deliver a code base that is extensible.
    
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Action
  • Web Accessibility Update: WCAG 2.0, IITAA 2.0 and FAE 2.0
    Jon Gunderson DRES; Nicholas Hoyt DRES
    WCAG 2.0 is being used as an international standard for web accessibility and most of it’s success criteria are being adopted in the new Federal Section 508 web accessibility standard and the proposed revisions in the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA 2.0). Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) 2.0 is currently being developed to meet the new challenges of the WCAG 2.0 requirements using the OpenAjax Accessibility rules and ruleset. This session will provide an overview of the new WCAG 2.0 requirements and present the new features planned in FAE 2.0. The session will provide time for questions and discussion.
    
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Action
• 3:15 – 3:45 p.m.: Networking break
• 3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
  • Executive CIO: Q&A with Michael Hites
    Michael Hites AITS
    Michael Hites will do a short presentation on the new Executive CIO role at the University and how this can promote efficiencies and collaborative cross-campus projects. He will also discuss his vision for the role and how it relates to IT Professionals at the University and you will have an opportunity to ask questions and create discussion regarding this new role.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Vision
• 4:30 – 4:45 p.m.: Wrapup & Prize Giveaways
• 4:45 p.m.: Networking & Making Connections