Paul Schantz

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Digital Transformation: Critical for Higher Ed, or Just Hype?

Digital Transformation: Critical for Higher Ed, or Just Hype?

Presenters

Vince Kellen, CIO, UCSD

Orlando Leon, CIO, CSU Fresno

Helen Norris, VP & CIO, Chapman University

Phillip Ventimiglia, CIO, Georgia State University

Intros and definitions of digital transformation

VK: growth…lots of construction! Replacing ancient mainframe systems (found out about that in his interview, haha). I HATE the phrase, personally. I was a consultant in the Web 1.0 days,…

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AVAILABILITY ON THE SPOT: THE USE OF AWS SPOT INSTANCES TO ACHIEVE COST EFFECTIVE AVAILABILITY

AVAILABILITY ON THE SPOT: THE USE OF AWS SPOT INSTANCES TO ACHIEVE COST EFFECTIVE AVAILABILITY

Presenters

Lisa Smith, Infrastructure Engineer, CSUN

Steven Fitzgerald, Professor & Director of META+LAB, CSUN

Jorge Ruiz, Infrastructure Engineer, CSUN

META-LAB experience: provide real-world experience to CSUN students

New-project = new problem

Create a new environment that is highly available and highly scalable for the lowest cost possible

When hosting a new app an IT team needs to…

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NOMI: a tool to secure professor-student connection

Presenters

Whitney Scott (WS), Director of Faculty Development, CSUN

Tiffany Navales (TN), UI/UX Designer & Front-End Developer, CSUN

What is it like when someone addresses you by your name? When someone, you don’t expect to know you, says your name, what is your reaction?

“Nobody cares what you know until…they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Why is this important?

Higher…

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Compass crm Program year 2: completing the 360 degree view of the student (how we did it, benefits, and how much it cost)

Compass crm Program year 2: completing the 360 degree view of the student (how we did it, benefits, and how much it cost)

Presenter

Jake Hornsby, CIO, CSU East Bay

Been on this journey for a year and a half, but the mission is the same: make students successful

Academic prep

Enrollment mgmt

Financial aid

Student engagement & well-being

Data driven decision making

administrative barriers

Roadmap: 2017: Kickoff, build team, select vendor and base tools > 2018 Quick wins > 2019 Branch out > 2020+ endless innovation

Going…

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api web services: data sharing in the service of your campus

api web services: data sharing in the service of your campus

Presenter

Nerces Kazandjian, Mentor/Product Owner, CSUN

Agenda

Genesis & first steps

Current META_LAB API Web Servies Suites

Usage examples across campus

Q&A

Genesis & first steps

API: clearly defined methods of communicating among verious components

Abstracts underlying implementation, only exposing reqd objest or actions

Web services: communication via wWW between multiple…

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CSU/Unisys dev-ops automation roadmap

CSU/Unisys dev-ops automation roadmap

Presenters

Milten Garia (MG), Manager of Integration and Web Services, CSU Office of the Chancellor

Anand Deshpande (AD), Cloud Architect, Unisys, CSU/Unisys Dev-Ops Automation Roadmap

Rajeev Singh (RS), Executive Transformation Architect, Unisys, CSU/Unisys Dev-Ops Automation Roadmap

Agenda

CMS History

Business Drivers, Challenges and Target Areas

Vision & Strategy

Automation Roadmap &…

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Leveraging blackboard A11y and campus "allies" to support a culture of inclusion

Leveraging blackboard A11y and campus “allies” to support a culture of inclusion

Presenters

Shelli Wynants, Director, Online Education and Training, CSUF

Willie Peng, AVP, Academic Technology Support Services, CSUF

WP: Started this conversation in early Spring 2018, when we signed the MOU, began testing and deployment, developed a rollout plan, etc. In Summer 2018, we rolled out to about 40 faculty during our Summer “B” session. In 2018 Fall, we added CourseMatch, DSS…

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NASPA Needs a Technology Core Data Service, and Why This Matters to You

NASPA Needs a Technology Core Data Service, and Why This Matters to You

Who You Gonna Call?

Who do you call when you have a burning question about technology? Chances are good you have a picture of “that one techie” in your mind right now. You know their name, and you probably have their extension memorized. Beyond that, your knowledge of who does what with technology on your campus likely gets hazy. If you’re part of a system of universities, you may rely on…

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Telling the Student Affairs Story: Answering Big Questions with Big Data

Telling the Student Affairs Story: Answering Big Questions with Big Data

Adam Cebulski, Assistant Vice President and Chief of Staff, Southern Methodist University

Sara Ousby, Director, Student Affairs Assessment, University of North Texas

Goals

To discuss trends in big data and the implications for higher ed

ID strategies for building data warehouses & analyzing data sets

Share successes and challenges

Story telling

Strategies

Landscape of Big Data

3Vs: variety…

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Emerging Approaches to acquire and best leverage student feedback

Emerging Approaches to acquire and best leverage student feedback

Presenter

Jill Marchick, Vice President, Consumer Insights, Aramark

Malinda Sanna, Founder and President, Spark Ideas, LLC

We developed a platform to provide “just in time” communications with students that we share with Aramark to improve customer support.

Agenda

What is LookLook?

Why traditional methods of research fail with GenZ

The methodology in action: case studey

In Sum

What is…

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Collegiate Esports: The Biggest World You've Never Heard Of

Collegiate Esports: The Biggest World You’ve Never Heard Of

Presenters

Eugene Frier, Texas Wesleyan University

Kathy Chiang, Arena Coordinator, University of California, Irvine

“Esports have grown WAY beyond “kids playing video games in the basement while drinking Mountain Dew and eating Cheetos.” The events are geeing bigger and bigger; the industry is becoming more professional; and audience and revenue growth are big and growing fast. Brand are…

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Next Gen vpsa

Presenters

Josie Ahlquist, Research Associate and Instructor, Florida State University, @josieahlquist, josieahlquist.com

Dr. Ed Cabellon, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment Management, Bristol Community College, @dredcabellon, edcabellon.com

Mordecai Brownlee, Vice President of Student Success, St. Philip’s College, @ItsDrMordecai

Angela Batista, Vice President of Student Affairs…

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Reimagining IT: Transforming IT in Service to the 21st-Century University

Reimagining IT: Transforming IT in Service to the 21st-Century University

Presenters

Michael Kubit, VP and CIO, The Pennsylvania State University

Jennifer Stedelin, Senior Director for Strategic Operations, The Pennsylvania State University

  Resources

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The Case(s) for Change

Changing Landscape: students of the future, financial trends (reduction/elimination of state funding), faculty trends (retirements), research funding trends, future of learning.

Penn State…

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UC San Diego's Process Palooza: Leaning Toward Success

UC San Diego’s Process Palooza: Leaning Toward Success

This is the first session of the last day of the conference at 8:00 AM, so if anything below is unclear or muddled, it was NOT the presenter, but me!

Presenter

Mojgan Amini, Director Process Management & Continuous Improvement, IT Services, University of California, San Diego

Resources

http://becop.ucsd.edu

http://leanbench.ucsd.edu

Process Improvement Movement Engulfs UCSD

Backstory: Goal #5…

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A Collaborative IT-IR Model to Enhance Data-Informed Decision Making

A Collaborative IT-IR Model to Enhance Data-Informed Decision Making

I attended this session because I knew it would include a lot of useful and practical information, and the presenters are really good at what they do 🙂 As I type this, people are filtering into the session…it doesn’t look like it’ll be a standing room only session, but it will be well-attended. The speakers moved through their materials quickly, and conversation was pretty lively…any errors or…

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The Bias Truth of AI Models

The Bias Truth of AI Models

Arrived about 20 minutes early to Thursday’s keynote. The Bellco theater is filling up more slowly than yesterday…maybe folk were out late last night? It’s about 7:59 to the presentation as I type these words, so I guess it’s just gonna be fewer people in the hall, which will make leaving a little easier. I’m keen to hear this presentation, as the technology we use is NOT a neutral force in the…

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Building Your Digital Transformation Ecosystem with LTI Advantage

Building Your Digital Transformation Ecosystem with LTI Advantage

Presenters

Rob Abel, CEO, IMS Global Learning Consortium

Michael Berman, Chief Innovation Officer and Deputy CIO, California State University, Office of the Chancellor

Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, University of California San Diego

Jennifer Sparrow, Senior Director of Teaching and Learning Technology, The Pennsylvania State University

Resources

https://www.imsglobal.org/

What is LTI…

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