Spring 2015 Schedule

• 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast – Oustide of Chancellor Room
• 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
  • Keynote – IT Vision & Strategy
    Mark Henderson, CIO
    Mark Henderson will present his vision for supporting the campus research, educational, and public engagement missions.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
• 10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
  • Data visualization for IT Pros: Grilling up the perfect charts and graphs.
    Jacob Vann, AITS; Dimuthu Tilakaratne, AITS
    Is your fridge full of raw data, but you don’t know how to grill up the perfect meal with it? Learn the recipes and secret sauces to take your raw data and grill it to perfection, using tools like Tableau and Excel. Take what you learn and collaborate to take real data and make more meaningful charts.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • From Backyard BBQ to Taste of Champaign
    Julia Hart, Graduate College; Tom Kunka, Technology Services at Illinois
    This session focuses on finding the right level of collaboration, knowing when to take your backyard conversation and turn it into something more. From understanding the roots of a collaborative community to sharing how to get involved, this session provides insight into successful collaborations. It is based on an article co-authored by the speakers,’Just Show Up: Creating Collaborative Communities.’
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Neighborhood Block Party
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) – It’s really coming!
    Mark Pollard, AITS; Brian Mertz,_Technology Services at Illinois
    The One ID and Password (OIDPW) phase of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) is now scheduled to go-live on the Urbana campus in October of 2015. Come learn what’s going live, what you need to do to prepare and see a demo of the product.
    
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • Service Desk Management Front-End – A Case Study in Project Management
    Noni Ledford, AITS; John Cowsert, AITS; Vince Wiley, AITS
    Service Desk Management application gets a face lift. We will show you an example of running a real project, the challenges we encountered along the way and how we’ve resolved the issues and came up with a ‘great’ product.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: The Grill Master
  • So You Want To Be A Manager?
    Brad Mahaffey, Engineering IT Shared Services
    Focusing on IT professionals who want to advance their career track into management, this presentation will discuss the challenges new managers often face in this transition, and ways to overcome and be successful in their new role. This session is being sponsored by IT Manager Development Program.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: The Grill Master
  • Web APIs as a Platform for Enabling Application and Service Development
    Andy Gherna, _Technology Services at Illinois; Jeff Dimpsey, Technology Services at Illinois
    CITES has been hard at work developing new Web-based APIs to enable developers across campus. We will discuss the principles behind web APIs, show some of what’s available, and how to apply it to your own applications.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
• 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
  • 2-Step Authentication
    Chris Barton, AITS; Joe Barnes, Technology Services at Illinois; Jared Ross, AITS; Jeff Heckel, AITS
    2-Step Authentication provides identification of users with the combination of two different components. Something you know (password) with something you have (phone/portable device). It adds an extra layer of protection to the standard password method being used. 2-Step Authentication is currently installed at the University of Illinois and is being looked at to be installed in front of Banner Forms.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Neighborhood Block Party
  • Grilling Up Governance: Bringing your Ingredients to the IT BBQ
    Sol Roberts-Lieb, College of Fine & Applied Arts; James Quisenberry, University Housing
    What is IT Governance? What does it mean to you? How Do you get involved? Learn about recent changes to IT Governance and how to participate. This session will be a brief presentation on Governance with the majority of time spent gathering of ideas from you on how to both improve the process and how to drive success.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: The Grill Master
  • Mobile Computing on Campus
    Jim Caputo, AITS; Robert Baird, CITL; Amy Hovious, Technology Services at Illinois; RJ Kunde, CITL
    Last IT pro forum, our team presented its plan to improve mobile computing at the University of Illinois. This time around, we bring to you the results and progress in identifying those areas which will cause the greatest impact, obtained directly from students and staff. Some of the findings may surprise you!
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • Yoking the Clients
    Liam Moran, CITL _ ATLAS Instructional Media Resources
    Modern web browsers are powerful pieces of software: websockets, webRTC, new HTML5 capabilities are largely going under-exploited. Combined with a client-side web application framework, there’s potential for delivering highly interactive web experiences supported by minimalist backends. Let’s demonstrate some new browser capabilities while exploring the advantages of moving work from server to client.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
• 11:45 – 1:00 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch, Illinois Ballroom
• 1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
  • Feedback 101: Understanding and Creating a Feedback Culture
    Dave Mussulman; Mike Bohlmann; Jim HurstIrene Sakellarakis
    Giving or receiving feedback can be an uncomfortable exchange, but the benefits to yourself and organization far outweigh the negatives. Join us to explore terms, mechanics and methods used to build a feedback culture.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Neighborhood Block Party
  • How do I use these tongs? Getting the most out of IEM.
    Thomas Webb, Engineering IT Shared Services; Gavin Flure, Engineering IT Shared Services
    Do you manage Windows endpoints? Are you looking for ways to automate and simplify? Are you new to IEM and looking for ways to make it work for you? We’ll talk about our experience using IEM in the College of Engineering, along with tips and tricks to get the most bang for your buck.
    
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • Marketing Yourself and Your Tools to Faculty: Insignts From A Year of Cyberinfrastructure
    Rob Watson, Technology Services at Illinois
    The Year of Cyberinfrastructure effort has spent months meeting with faculty and graduate students in an attempt to understand their problems, needs, and concerns. In this session we’ll discuss those findings as they relate to what faculty and graduate students want from IT Pros, including local IT, CITES, and AITS.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Neighborhood Block Party
  • State of Web Accessibility at University of Illinois
    Jon Gunderson, Disability Resources and Education Services
    Data will be presented on the current state of web accessibility at the University of Illinois using the Functional Accessibility Evaluator 2.0 technology. The session will engage the audience in a discussion of what IT professionals need to learn about and improve the implementation of the Level A and AA requirements of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: The Grill Master
  • Using Tableau to Tell the Story
    Kathryn Courtney, University Housing Technology Services; Nate Britton,University Housing Technology Services
    Want to make your data sizzle? Need to ignite interest your reports? Tableau is here! University Housing has adopted Tableau for interactive data visualization. We’ll share what we have done so far and what we have learned in the process.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
• 2:00 – 2:45 p.m.
  • How to maintain one of the largest supercomputers in the world!
    Sharif Islam, NCSA
    In this talk I will provide a technical overview of Blue Waters _ one of the most powerful and largest supercomputers in the world. In addition to the common issues involved in administering any *NIX systems, I will highlight additional challenges related to large-scale system management and usage.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • Personality Types: Who are you?
    Jay Guelfi, Engineering IT Shared Services; Thomas Webb, Engineering IT Shared Services
    Are you an INFP? ESTJ? How about Blue? Yellow? What do these even mean? They’re personality types! Come learn how aspects of your personality affect how you relate to those around you, and how they relate to you! Learn to use this knowledge to be more effective at your job and happier in your life!
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: Neighborhood Block Party
  • State/Future of Technology Services Virtual Hosting
    Brent Tuggle, Technology Services at Illinois
    An overview of updates to the CITES Virtual Hosting service. Looking at costs, business models, updated service offerings and infrastructure.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • Toward an Information and Data Governance Program at the University
    Charles Gibson, AITS; Julia Hart, Graduate College; Dimuthu Tilakaratne, AITS; Rich Gegg, AITS
    The presentation will be a panel discussion by members of the Data Solutions Group committee of the Data Council and others who are working toward an information and data governance strategy across the University. The discussion will cover basic concepts, organizational value, best practices, current efforts and a vision for what could be accomplished at the University.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: The Grill Master
  • Well Done Operating Systems Deployment (OSD)
    Carl Stephens, UIF; Keith Sumlar, Illini Union; Scott Clemens, Library
    Intro to SCCM Replacing BIOS With a UEFI Operating Systems Deployment-SCCM Secure Boot Windows to Go
    Location: Humanities
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
• 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Break
• 3:15 – 4:0 p.m.
  • Classy Data Management
    Larry Dunham, Office of Privacy and Information Assurance
    The University is charged with storing all sorts of data, some of which has special handling requirements based on legal, regulatory and/or policy requirements. This session is designed to be a primer on understanding the basic types, and how the requirements could affect projects.
    Location: Lincoln Room
    Track: The Grill Master
  • New Business Intelligence Technologies for the University of Illinois
    Mike Wonderlich, AITS; Amanda Bodine, AITS; Jennifer Selk, AITS; Jim Clennon, AITS
    The recent upgrade of Business Intelligence has provided new functionality in reports and data visualization. Also, the recent announcement of Tableau Server provides even more data visualization options. This poster session is an opportunity for people to learn more about these technologies available to everyone.
    Location: Technology Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
  • Observations from ‘A Year of Cyberinfrastructure at Illinois’
    Chuck Thompson; David Gerstenecker; Heidi Imker
    Since the Fall 2014 IT Pro Forum, the Year of Cyberinfrastructure initiative (‘Year of CI’, http://cyberinfrastructure.illinois.edu/) conducted over 30 focus group sessions with faculty from around campus and also broadly surveyed faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. This session will provide an overview of what has been learned plus give an update on the development of the Campus CI Master Plan.
    Location: Alma Mater Room
    Track: Higher Education Special Sauce
  • Online Training Available Through Illinois Compass 2g
    Rick Hazelwood, Technology Services at Illinois
    Need to train people and want to do it online with records kept for you? You can join the departments that have moved their training using Illinois Compass 2g as its platform. Come learn how you can get your training started using third party training materials, videos, tests, etc.
    Location: Humanities
    Track: The Grill Master
  • Philosophy of Information Technology, the Remix
    Dave Mussulman, Engineering IT Shared Services
    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. Revisited from a spring 2014 talk, this time we throw managers and your stalled career path on the barbie.
    Location: Chancellor Ballroom
    Track: The Grill Master
  • Streaming Applications with Citrix
    Chris Hendricksen, Technology Services at Illinois; Manu Pulikkan, Engineering IT; Thomas Webb, Engineering IT
    With Citrix XenDesktop, we can provide Windows applications to OSX, Linux, and Windows devices as well as iOS and Android mobile devices. Technology Services @ Illinois is partnering with Engineering to provide access to ICS lab applications on a pilot basis to courses across campus. Engineering is hosting a pilot on their current Citrix instance across several Engineering research groups. We’ll be sharing what we’ve learned about application virtualization and where we are headed in the future.
    Location: Quad Room
    Track: Fire Up The Grill
• 4:00 – 4:30 p.m.: Closing & Prize Giveaways (must be present to win)
• 4:30 p.m.: ITPF Connect Event – Illinois Ballroom