House-made breakfast breads, scones, and muffins with a beautiful array of seasonal fresh fruit. Includes fresh orange juice, coffee, and hot tea.

8:30 - 9:30

CSE Dean Mos Kaveh

9:30 - 10:30

College Updates - (5 Minutes/College; no slides)

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 12:30 pm

Breaking the "grad student IT" chain - Some schools have far too many research groups that do their own IT... poorly. This poses issues regarding security and sustainability of support among other challenges. How can we address some of these issues in a sustainable way?

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch (Hosted)

1:30 - 2:40

VR Hardware/Software - First steps of integration into curricula.

2:40 - 3:00

Professional Development - What is useful and why?

IoT: How is the Internet of Things being handled for you? This may have been answered in previous discussions.

3:00 - 4:30

Working with faculty - Customer service and coordination between groups and services

6:00

House-made breakfast breads, scones, and muffins with a beautiful array of seasonal fresh fruit. Includes fresh orange juice, coffee, and hot tea.

All times are approximate

9:00 - 9:45

Help Desk of Future? - What are schools and colleges doing to move Help Desk activities to the next level? Concierge service? Remote or on-site consulting? Equipment check-out?

9:45 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 11:00

U of MN VP/CIO; Bernard (Bernie) Gulachek

11:00 - 12:00 pm

Automation and Orchestration - Automation vs. orchestration (and the tools used in devops): Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Forman etc. Lessons learned

12:00

Lunch (Hosted)