Spring 2014 Schedule

• 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.: Registration, North Entrance of Conference Center
• 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
  • Philosophy of Information Technology
    Dave Mussulman, Engineering IT
    Inspired by scholarly rambling faculty (and George Carlin), Dave will speak frankly about how we perceive IT. Dropping more knowledge than a Texas school board, he will encourage you to challenge your assumptions about our field and by doing so, find ways to improve it.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Upload
  • START myResearch; Supporting Research by Leveraging Kuali Coeus Open Source Software and PI Portal
    Youngwook Song, AITS; Chris Bland, AITS; Sean Ireland, AITS
    START (Systemwide Tools for Administration of Research and Training) is the implementation of Kuali Coeus (KC) open source software for grants management and myResearch is the Principal Investigator (PI) portal that will integrate and display information from a number of different university systems, giving faculty access to the information they need to prepare, submit, route, and manage their grants.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Upload
• 9:00 – 10:45 a.m.
  • Building Database-Driven Applications (When You’re Not a Programmer)
    Ashley Hetrick, CITES
    This session shows would-be programmers how to get started building a database-driven application, the component parts needed, (free!) resources available to help you from start to finish, and things to plan for. CITES CCME will use its own scheduling tool as an example of an in-house database-driven application that anyone could make, regardless of how novice a programmer.
    
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Plug-In
  • IBM Endpoint Management – How to Get Up and Running
    Mathew Jones, Endpoint Management; Bradley Mahaffey, Engineering IT Shared Services; Thomas Webb, Engineering IT Shared Services
    Calling all current users of the IEM EPM service and anyone who is thinking about using the service. We will be hosting a session full of information explaining the tips and tricks of using the IEM service as well as have a IBM representative on hand to help answer questions.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Plug-In
  • Strategy for Every Level
    Mike Bohlman, College of Media; Alice Jones, AITS
    A wise man once said, ‘You can’t make up in tactics what you lack in strategy.’ This proverb goes for whether you are planning your day or planning the next five years of an institution of higher education. We’ll define strategy and strategic thinking and provide techniques to help you get on the balcony to see the big picture.
    
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Plug-In
• 10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
  • Functional Accessibility Assessment of Web Sites
    Keith Hays, CITES
    Have your heard a lot about the need for web sites to be accessible, but you don’t know where to begin? Think you need an accessibility professional to figure it out? Come learn ten things to check for in a website that will let you get a handle on accessibility, even if you don’t write html!
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Plug-In
  • Proactive Application Security: Thinking Secure
    Douglas Phillips, Center for Innovation in Technology and Learning
    Security in most applications is reactive. Reactive security is time-consuming and expensive. This presentation discusses architecture planning and thought processes which facilitate proactive security processes.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Network
  • Talking IT to Non-Technical Audiences
    Brian Mertz, CITES
    IT Pros frequently must explain technical topics to non-technical people. Whether announcing maintenance, training customers, or marketing services, there are ways to make technology more understandable. CITES CCO Brian Mertz will share strategies and techniques to communicate technical topics to non-technical audiences. Participants are invited to bring technical topics or projects that they would like help explaining to non-technical audiences.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Plug-In
• 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
  • Death by 1000 PaperCuts: Our Multi-College Print Management Service Endeavor
    Meghan Smith, Media IT; Jake Rundall, FAA Admin; Stuart Turner, Engineering IT Shared Services
    A high level presentation on the shared print service being put together by several colleges at UIUC. We will discuss lessons learned along the way as well as features and the future of the service.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Upload
  • Event Registration, Online Payment, and Workflow Through FormBuilder
    Adam LeGrande, AITS; Buddy Strube, ATLAS; Michelle Rome, ATLAS; Brian Walsh, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics
    FormBuilder is an enterprise application supported jointly by AITS and ATLAS. This presentation will give a high level general overview of the application and a description of its functionality as a lightweight workflow tool and event registration/online payment application. There will also be discussion from client(s) as to how FormBuilder has helped them automate their business processes.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Upload
  • Explore Web Accessibility
    Keith Hays, CITES; Tim Offenstein; CITES; Michael McKelvey, MSTE
    Do you have a web accessibility question you’ve always wanted to ask? Or maybe you’d like to dig into a design pattern you’ve seen in the wild to find out if it is accessible or not? Bring your questions to this accessibility Q&A session!
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Network
  • Facilitating Meetings and Stimulating Debate Using the Six Thinking Hats Method
    Gale Stafford, CITES
    We have all struggled with poorly facilitated meetings and discussions, where one person dominates discussion. Or people argue over trivial things, losing sight of the need to debate central, critical issues. Having a framework for facilitation allows us to facilitate meetings more effectively. Frameworks like de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats provides a good way to facilitate and guide discussion.
    
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Plug-In
  • HeartBleed & Monlist: Proactive Campus Security Response
    Wayland Morgan, CITES; Chuck Geigner, CITES
    Discussion on anatomy and response for the latest big security vulnerabilities that affected you, in ways you may have realized or not.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Plug-In
• 11:45 – 1:00 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch, Illinois Ballroom
• 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
  • E-mail at Urbana-Champaign
    Eric Frahm, CITES; Josh Mickle, CITES; Lance Campbell, Office of Web Services; Thomas Dawson, AITS
    Presenting the many pieces in mail flow for the Urbana-Champaign campus, including campus-wide relay, mailbox, and mass mailing services.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Network
  • IT Student Training and Development Strategies: Sharing What Works in Your Organization
    Ashley Hetrick, CITES
    Student employee managers can greatly benefit their students, their organizations, and other employers by sharing strategies for student training and development. Participants in this networking session will discuss successful student training and development projects they are currently undertaking, as well as what kinds of skills they themselves, in their divergent fields, are looking for in employees.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Network
  • Making Collaboration Ubiquitous Through the Redesign of Underutilized Student Spaces
    Tracy Whittaker, CITES; David Reid, ATLAS
    The Student Collaboration Spaces project was created to identify 2 to 5 underutilized public spaces across campus and develop each space into comfortable and supportive collaboration spaces with appropriate seating, desktop space, decor, electricity and technology sufficient for study, homework, research or group activities. The presenters will discuss how the university is supporting the development of informal learning space transformations.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Upload
• 1:00 – 2:45 p.m.
  • Desktop Support, Software Programmer, Server Admin, CIO: It’s All About Customer Services
    Stephen Kemp, CITES; Danny Tang, Engineering; Allison Payne; ACES
    In our technology-driven world we often forget that HOW we provide service to the customer is often more important than simply providing the service itself. This interactive workshop will help you recognize why customer service skills are important to everyone, how you can set yourself up for successful customer interactions, and different ways to tackle typical situations that we all encounter.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Plug-In
  • Hands on Usability: Help Build an IT Pro Web Architecture
    Cordelia Geiken, CITES; Dena Strong, CITES
    You don’t need expensive tools to perform useful usability assessments! First, learn how a pack of index cards and a conference table can improve your site’s navigation. Then, practice what you’ve learned and put your own ideas into a potential design for the CITES IT Pro web architecture.
    
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Plug-In
  • Tricks of the Trade for Project Management
    Noni Ledford, AITS; Brad Neavear, CITES; Kandace Turner-Jones, NCSA; Gary Bernstein, Fine and Applied Arts; Christina Vann, AITS; Kelly Block; AITS
    This two-hour group-based course will uncover some of the secret tricks of project managers. You will gain insight into common challenges project managers face during each phase of the project and effective countermeasures. Participants will also work together to develop a top 10 ‘must do’ list of activities for managing projects at the edge.
    
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Plug-In
• 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.
  • Leading From Anywhere – ITLP/ITLW – The Leadership Revolution
    Gus Aldaba, Information Services, Hospital; Mike Lund, ACCC Kathy Lyons, CITES; Kim Nguyen-Jahiel, AITS; Cheryl Murphy, Information Services, Hospital; Allen Randall, ACCC; Lee Katman, UIC College of Medicine IR; Rich Chua, UIC College of Medicine IR; James Quisenberry, UIUC Housing; Brian Damm, UIUC Housing; Jennifer Selk, AITS; Barry White, UIC; Craig Jackson, LAS, UIC; Alice Jones, AITS
    In this panel interactive discussion, graduates and current participants of the University of Illinois IT Leadership Program (ITLP) will provide an overview of the ITLP and ITLW programs and engage the audience in a set of introductory topics essential for engaging in positive relationships with others: active listening, giving and accepting feedback, and presence.
    
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    Track: Network
  • SCCM 2012 – Automating Endpoint Management
    Gordon Yang, Crop Sciences/ACES Keith Sumlar, Illini Union/Student Affairs
    SCCM 2012 has now been fully deployed across all three UOFI campuses! Please join us as we give you current updates on the service and provide some high level demos of some of the management tasks you can do. No matter where you are in your level of adoption of SCCM, we trust you will find this session useful to understand how you can use SCCM to make your job easier! We’ll be hosting a short general Q&A session at the end
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    Track: Upload
  • The Big DMZ Model – How Can We Fix This?
    Charles Geigner, Office of Privacy and Information Assurance
    Discussion on the features and importance of segmented, private networks as opposed to addressing everything with a public IP.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Network
• 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Break
• 3:15 – 4:0 p.m.
  • Advance Illinois: Creating a Legacy and Foundation for World-Class Advancement Strategies and Practice
    Michael Hites, AITS and UA CIO; Mike Davis, U of I Foundation; Joe O’Neill, U of I Foundation
    During this upload session, presenters will talk about the initiative to modernize the University’s 20-year old advancement system and electronic document management system. A demonstration of Blackbaud CRM, the new alumni and donor advancement CRM solution will be given.
    
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Upload
  • Media-Rich Mania: Using Media to Engage Students
    Kara McElwrath, ITS; Jeff Sudduth, ITS
    Interactive images, Google Map-based class rosters, mobile devices in the classroom, effective online group interactions and projects, video-based learning and assessment. Join us as we showcase some of the best media-rich projects happening at UIS – and how you can implement them at your school.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Upload
  • Next Generation Backbone
    Debbie Fligor, CITES; Phil Winans, CITES; Chris Skaar, CITES
    CITES is deploying the hardware for the next campus backbone in the summer of 2014. Come find out what to expect from the new hardware and how the transition will happen.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Upload
  • Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
    Stephan Seyfert, AITS
    It’s a myth that one person can do something great. Strong leaders who changed our world dreamed big and were successful because they were always part of a team. In this interactive session, learn 10 steps that will help you become an effective team leader or teammate and work together toward dream achievement.
    
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Plug-In
• 4:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Closing by Charley Kline & Prize Giveaways (must be present to win)
• 4:45 p.m.: Networking at Houlihan’s (located in iHotel)