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

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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 Kirk’s side, Copilot brings logic and clarity to the bridge—empowering users to ask natural language questions about dashboards and receive instant insights, no advanced technical knowledge required. We’ll demonstrate practical […]

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November 5, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

    Boldly Accessible: Charting our Course in Digital Accessibility

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    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 voyage through uncharted territory in accessibility. We’ll begin by scanning “where we’ve been,” mapping the development of quick reference resources on the Make Your Course Accessible website and the Quick […]

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    November 5, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

      Apple’s 2025 Fall Update

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      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 event: Presenters: Track: I Thought This Was a Star Wars Convention – Don’t think your topic fits into any of the previous categories? This is the place for you! […]

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      November 5, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

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

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        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, but not so stoked about running all of your potentially-sensitive prompts through the cloud? Well, it’s 2025… sheesh, who can really blame you? This introductory session is intended for those […]

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        November 6, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

          IAM Mission Briefing: SailPoint IGA Tool

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          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 academic starbases. This operation is critical to fortifying our Identity & Access Management (IAM) infrastructure. By integrating SailPoint into our systems, we aim to boldly go where no IAM framework […]

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          November 6, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

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

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            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 initiate first contact with Accredible, the free, campus-wide digital credentialing tool. Learn how these platforms can enhance your online education offerings, or those of your unit. About this event: Presenters: […]

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            November 6, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

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

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              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 warp speed with Microsoft Power Automate. That analogy might not make sense, but in this presentation, we’ll give an overview of what FormBuilder is and how it can streamline workflows, […]

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              November 5, 2025 from 3:30 pm to 4:15 pm

                MECM – What Works for Us

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                Join us to go over the successes (and failures) we’ve encountered in leveraging MECM as Unit IT Pros. Topics will include: Leveraging Task Sequences Collection Management Deployment Settings & Behaviors Maintenance Windows End-user Experience About this event: Presenters: Chad Hankins, Desktop Support Lead, Prairie Research Institute Melba Goliday, Instructional Lab Software Specialist, Information Technology Partners […]

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                June 12, 2025 from 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

                  Apple at Illinois Spring Update

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                  Spring update on macOS, iOS and AppleTV at Illinois. Mike Kimmel, our campus Apple System Engineer, will be on hand to answer questions. About this event: Presenters: Paul Roberts, Senior Endpoint Services Specialist, Technology Services Mike Kimmel, Systems Engineer, Apple Track: Software/Endpoint Management Experience Needed: All Levels Learning Outcome: The last Apple best practices for […]

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                  June 11, 2025 from 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm

                    GA Classroom AV update

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                    We will discuss Technology Services updated Classroom AV Cores and the change in vendor for AV over IP solution. We will also be looking for feedback on areas to provide AV training to campus and vendor campus visits. About this event: Presenters: Matthew Drain, Project Manager, Technology Services Scott Cimarusti, Manager, Enterprise Teaching and Learning […]

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                    June 11, 2025 from 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm