Spring 2012 Schedule

• 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.: Registration and Continental Breakfast, North Entrance of Conference Center
• 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.: Welcome Message, Illinois Ballroom
• 10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
  • Is Innovation in Your Budget?
    Pamela Williams ATLAS
    Innovation is a critical resource that is often overlooked. With limited finances, a great place to start is to inventory existing systems and processes that are working efficiently. This presentation will discuss a case study of how innovation has impacted placement testing here at the University.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Meeting the Needs of Today’s Users
  • Monkeys, Currency and the Balcony: Leading From Where You Are Today
    2011 – 2012 UI IT Leaders Program (ITLP) Cohort
    What would Illinois look like if we could reframe how we approach our work, to lead from where we are? The Illinois 2011-2012 ITLP group will present 3 (or 4) ways you can go back to work tomorrow and immediately impact your organization and co-workers. Come and learn about the balcony, passing the monkey, balancing work, and more!
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
  • SCCM as an Enterprise Endpoint Management Service
    Keith Sumlar Illini Union
    In the past few years, endpoint management has always been a topic of discussion around the IT community. This presentation is to inform EPM administrators about System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) which is part of a current endeavor to bring a limited deployment of two endpoint management tools, Tivoli EndPoint Management (TEM) and SCCM, at an enterprise level.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Shaping the Campus Core
• 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
  • Dude, Where?s My Data?: Developing a Robust Information Management Architecture
    Colleen Cook OCE-ATLAS Digital Media Robyn Bianconi OCE-ATLAS Digital Media Leighton Christiansen OCE-ATLAS Digital Media
    One of the challenges facing instructors, departments, and IT professionals at R1 institutions is the management of research data and course content, especially information in multimedia formats. Our campus requires a robust information management architecture that makes it possible to locate data and content easily and efficiently. We have now begun developing workflows designed to utilize metadata to improve efficiency.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Shaping the Campus Core
  • Give Me Some REST and I?ll Give You the World??er, iPhone Apps!
    Richard Wolf ACCC @ UIC
    How should the university?s IT community respond to today?s mobile challenge? I argue that if we focus less on a formal strategy and more on delivering data as a service via REST, the university will respond by creating lots and lots of awesome mobile apps. But talk is cheap?come see how easily a spiffy iPhone app can be created from an existing UIUC REST API.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Transformational Technology
  • Leadership on the Level: Be Influential Right Where You Are
    Stephan Seyfert
    True leadership isn’t a matter of having a certain job or title; it’s about gaining influence. In this session, determine your current leadership level and discover the actions needed to grow higher. Learn simple, insightful ways to interact more positively with others and watch your personal and organizational success skyrocket.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
  • Tivoli Endpoint Manager as an Enterprise Endpoint Management Service
    Brad Mahaffey Engineering IT Shared Services
    In the past few years, endpoint management has always been a topic of discussion around the IT community. This presentation is to inform EPM administrators about Tivoli EndPoint Management (TEM) which is part of a current endeavor to bring a limited deployment of two endpoint management tools, TEM and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), at an enterprise level.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Shaping the Campus Core
  • Transparency: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    Chuck Thompson Engineering IT Shared Services
    Change events alter more than just items such as organizations and services: they change expectations. Previous service levels may no longer be acceptable; cost of services may suddenly be challenged. Transparency can be a key strategy for managing both change events and expectations. This session will discuss the advantages and challenges of being transparent as an IT service provider.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
• 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch
• 1:30 – 2:15 p.m.
  • Identity and Access Management – Spring 2012
    Amin Kassem AITS Daryl Fritchey AITS Sheheryar Muftee AITS Michael Keck AITS Susan Flanagin AITS
    The IAM project is well underway. In this discussion we will provide updates related to planning and timelines, project phases/deliverables, relevant implementation topics, as well as ways you can be involved.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Reflecting Tomorrow
  • Integrated DNS and DHCP with the new IP Address Management (IPAM) Appliance
    Amy Colaluca CITES David Zych CITES Subhan Malick CITES
    Join the CITES Network Services team for a hands-on session to get a look at DNS and DHCP self-management with the integrated IP Address Management (IPAM) appliance. Be sure to bring your laptop so you can participate in hands-on exercises.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Shaping the Campus Core
  • Leveraging Leadership Learned with CIC Colleagues
    David Gerstenecker College of ACES Josh Henry College of ACES
    Come gain insight into what is learned when cohorts from different CIC school participate in the IT Leaders Program (ITLP). This session is intended to be interactive so you will learn some of the practices that have been put in place to be a more effective leader. ‘You can’t make up in tactics that which you lack in strategy.’
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
  • Multimedia at Illinois Townhall, What Should the Future Look Like?
    Drew MacGregor College of Engineering IT John Tubbs CITES Academic Technology Services – Digital Media Group
    What multimedia services should Illinois provide in the future? What will our media infrastructure look like in 3-5 years? Come and participate in an open townhall on rich media at Illinois. Come to hear examples of how units are working together. Attend and help us envision what Illinois can accomplish in the next few years. All viewpoints needed and welcome.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Shaping the Campus Core
  • The Campus Cluster Program: A Consolidated HPC Service
    Chuck Thompson Engineering IT Shared Services
    The Campus Cluster Program (http://campuscluster.illinois.edu) was initiated to improve our research capacity and competitiveness while decreasing the total cost of research computing. Staffing and infrastructure is centrally provided with researchers responsible only for investing in compute nodes, storage, and specialized software licenses. This session will provide details about the program and its benefits and solicit feedback for future program development.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Transformational Technology
• 2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
  • Data Center Consolidation: Updates and Future Planning
    Sol Roberts-Lieb Fine and Applied Arts
    Curious as to what has been happening with Data Center Consolidation? Interested in how you can participate? Want to suggest ideas for improving the service? If you answered yes to any of these, please come to this presentation and group session on Data Center Consolidation. We will begin with a brief recap of what has happened in the past two years and where we are right now. Most of the time will be spent in a birds of a feather type session listening and learning on what we can do to improve the Data Center Service for the campus.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Reflecting Tomorrow
  • How to Make Meetings Enjoyable
    Nick Riordan Portfolio and Process Management Office (PPMO) Christina Vann Portfolio and Process Management Office (PPMO)
    How often have you gone to a meeting and then said that was a great meeting? After this session, you will have the knowledge to hold effective, productive, and enjoyable meetings. We will give you the steps to take before, during, and after a meeting to ensure the investment in time produces the results you are looking for.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
  • Making Space Count: The Future of Learning at Illinois
    Leslie Hammersmith
    This session will look at ways our campus is talking about learning spaces for our students and how our thinking compares to what our peers are doing. The presenter(s) will share examples from Illinois and other Big Ten schools and discuss how educators, administrators, space planners and students are working together to build learning spaces for the 21st century.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Meeting the Needs of Today’s Users
  • Records Information Management: Coordination in an Ever-changing Landscape
    Joanne Kaczmarek RIMS Program
    This presentation will provide an overview of the Records and Information Management (RIM) Task Force recommendations and the launch of a program to coordinate RIM services such as policy development, records identification, and data management. Participants will be asked to identify issues and pressure points related to records and information management and offer possible solutions, near-term and long-term. Participants are also encouraged to stop by the RIM poster session to leave comments or their contact information.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Reflecting Tomorrow
  • Workshop: Exercising Influence in the Workplace
    Jackie Kern Facilities and Services Charley Kline CITES James Quisenberry University Housing Jason Strutz Library
    An important skill for leaders is their ability to bring ideas to stakeholders and build support. This workshop will help you understand your skills with influencing others and illustrate why those skills are valuable. Participants will receive a questionnaire and asked to complete it during the first session; questionnaire results and what they can mean will be discussed during the second session. Note: This is a workshop led by the facilitators that includes discussion and materials; it will be held over two sessions from 2:30pm to 4:15pm and is limited to 48 participants.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
• 3:30 – 4:15 p.m.
  • Business Process Automation through the application of Workflow Tools and Document Imaging
    Adam LeGrande AITS Rich Gegg AITS Maureen Hoover AITS Kathryn Kleeman UIS Admissions
    Due to the challenges of providing leaner processing across the university, many units are seeking to improve business processes through the use of automated solutions. AITS newly formed team dedicated to Office Automation will provide an overview of Banner/Enterprise related workflow and document imaging projects and solutions available to university clients.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Meeting the Needs of Today’s Users
  • Communication Techniques to Strengthen Professional Relationships
    Nick Riordan Portfolio and Process Management Office (PPMO) Sue Stewart The Center for Training and Professional Development
    Do you ever wonder why you click with one person and not another? This session will provide insight to different styles of behavior, how to identify the styles, and small changes that can be made to significantly improve communication with your boss, staff, and others. Through improved communication, you will be more effective and thus more valuable to your organization.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Changing Visions of Leadership
  • Mythbusters: Are Macs exploding into your Enterprise
    Matt Childress Office of the Chancellor Gary Bernstein Fine and Applied Arts
    Are Apple products worming their way into your Windows enterprise? Wondering about Enterprise-level tools equivalent to Ghost, WSUS and SCCM/TEM on a mac and what’s available on campus? We’ll take a Mac from NIB to deployed to the desktop, actively managed, security assured and inventoried no matter where it is in the world – it’s cheap, easy, and NOT doing it is a major mythstake.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Meeting the Needs of Today’s Users
  • The ABCs of AD
    Erik Coleman CITES Devin Gengelbach CITES
    For IT Pros that are new or unfamiliar with Active Directory or for those just wanting a refresher, this session covers the basics: What is Active Directory? What is an Organizational Unit and how does one get one? Learn how to interact with AD and what it can do for you.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Shaping the Campus Core
• 4:15 – 4:30 p.m.: Prize Giveaways & Closing remarks
• 4:30 p.m.: Networking & social time, Houlihan’s (located in iHotel)