Time | Event Title | Location |
8:00am-9:00am | Breakfast and Topic Tables
| Frangipani |
9:00am-9:45am | Leveraging Accessibility Features in Microsoft Teams presented by Shreeya Vinayak Rokade
As remote collaboration becomes increasingly central to work environments, ensuring the digital platforms we use are accessible to all users is essential. Teams contains powerful accessibility features that are designed to create an inclusive experience for all users. Teams provides real-time transcription, screen reader support, and customizable display settings. Learn about these features and how you can maximize their use in your collaboration efforts to foster a more inclusive workspace. | Dogwood |
9:00am-9:45am | Web Community of Practice | Distinguished Alumni |
9:00am-9:45am | Scaling out your AI Clusters - What Nvidia Won't Tell You presented by Louie Mattucci
In this talk, we will start with the context of the AI arms race underway. We will discuss some of the recently built AI clusters and others that are in the planning stages. We will then discuss options that you could pursue as you scale out your AI clusters as well as some of the pros and cons of these option | Frangipani |
9:00am-9:45am | Workforce in Networking at SC (WINS) at Indiana University presented by Brenna Meade
Diverse perspectives drive innovation, enhancing productivity, revenue, and workplace health. The tech sector lacks diversity, but solutions like funding, mentorship, and workforce development can help. This talk highlights the successes and lessons learned from the Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program, which annually funds 5–8 mid-career women to join SCinet. In 2024, WINS moved its management to Indiana University, allowing for a broader reach by opening applications to international participants, further strengthening the program’s impact. | Georgian |
9:00am-9:45am | Leveraging containers for reproducible development presented by James Bennett
Dev Containers are a powerful tool which allows a group of people to share a versioned set of dependencies to use for developing software or other use cases. This eliminates the setup and context switching time so developers can spend more time working on their goals and less time fighting inconsistencies. Come learn about this emerging technology and how it can assist you with maintaining your projects. | Maple |
9:00am-9:45am | Practical Strategies for Incorporating Gen AI into Your Classroom
Participants in this training will explore practical strategies for incorporating generative AI into their classrooms, assignments, and course design. The key is to train students to think critically about AI as they find creative ways to use it to meet their learning outcomes. Focusing primarily on incorporating GenAI into writing assessments, we will also explore innovative applications of AI such as generating case studies, creating escape rooms, and expanding Canvas quiz bank questions. | Oak |
9:00am-9:45am | Big changes offer opportunities for collaboration presented by Kris Nicola
The adoption of Stellic student success software offers IU a chance to evaluate and improve our current software solutions, aiming to create a more seamless experience for both students and staff. Some features of this vendor solution are being considered as potential replacements for widely-used tools. In this session, a UITS team will share their experience building strong relationships with stakeholders, end users, and the vendor to deliver tools that support the university's strategic goals. | Persimmon |
9:00am-9:45am | Centralize Data for Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program Requirements and Evaluations presented by Meagan Overgaard
Learn the process of evaluating the GME program requirements and see how we developed a custom app that replaced an 18-page program form built with Microsoft Word. Learn best practices with user role management and benefits to centralizing evaluations for review. We will demo our newly built application designed to collect data evaluations to meet the annual program requirement. Deliverables of this project include improving data analysis that the program admin user will analyze year after year. | Redbud |
9:00am-9:45am | Using IU’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) to accelerate Research and Scholarship presented by Robert Henschel
IU faculty and students will present how they leverage IU’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in their curriculum or to shorten time to science and innovation. After brief presentations, the audience can ask questions and the panel will discuss how IU’s ACI can be used to accelerate research and support teaching. | Sassafras |
9:00am-9:45am | Authenticating and Authorizing External Users presented by Mark Fyffe
Technical overview of the architecture supporting Apply IU Online Admissions and Third Party Authorization, developed in collaborative effort with the SIS team. Topics include authenticated session management, delegated authorization, SAML, OpenID Connect, and application models. | State Room East |
9:00am-9:45am | Intelligent Infrastructure (II) Technology Overview presented by Troy Williams
Service Overview Technology review Business Continuity Cost structure What's new with II? | State Room West |
9:00am-9:45am | Collaborating to Enhance Digital Accessibility presented by Caitlin Malone
This presentation describes how we used interdepartmental collaboration to create a network of accessibility resources to support faculty, students and staff, including: training sessions, on-demand job aids, digital tools, and procurement processes. We’ll outline our most recent effort in leveraging the vast repositories of the IU Libraries to reduce costs and time required for making documents accessible, and discuss our collaboration, project management, and resources produced. | Walnut |
10:00am-10:45am | Empowering Users with AI-powered Resource Navigation - ΙD8
The ID8 product is an AI-powered virtual assistant designed to enhance information accessibility and navigation for various users by leveraging advanced AI techniques like semantic search and large language models. It is highly customizable and integrates seamlessly with existing systems, making it ideal for information-heavy organizations such as research centers and community service providers. To present the goals, product roadmap, technologies used, and the process behind the ID8 project. | Dogwood |
10:00am-10:45am | Power Platform Roundtable presented by Aaron Sudduth
Do you have questions about the Microsoft Power Platform Low-code/no-code solution? This is your time to ask those questions! Power Apps, Power Automate, Robotic Process Automation, Copilot Studio and more! Technical? Getting Started? best practice? | Distinguished Alumni |
10:00am-10:45am | From Point A to Point BI: Going from an Idea to a Hosted PowerBI Dashboard presented by Destin Hubble
There’s no one-stop shop for everything you’ll need to create an online PowerBI dashboard, but during our time together we’ll glimpse the landmarks you’ll pass along the way, like the mountain of data, the sea of code, the PowerBI plateau, the headwaters of hosting, the ancient caves of crontab, and, finally, those great SQL shores. We’ll start out with an aerial view of the big pieces any DIYer will need to consider and conclude with a few deep dives into software setup and example code. | Frangipani |
10:00am-10:45am | Exploring AR, VR, and 3D Solutions for Innovative Education presented by David Kloster
Presenters from IU3D and the AVL will share their workflows and results using 3D & VR in IU courses. David Kloster will discuss his use of 3D & VR data of the IMU in an Interior Design course. Mariam Lanthron will cover her creation of a virtual, blind-accessible classroom for a School of Education course. Michael Saari will present on innovative methods for human digitization and accessible 3D scanning in a fine arts figurative sculpture course. | Georgian |
10:00am-10:45am | Trust but verify: How to review a VPAT/ACR presented by Jason Holliday
You want to find the most accessible digital product or service, but the documentation can be intimidating. VPATs and ACRs don’t have to be scary. Learn about these accessibility documents vendors may provide and how to efficiently review them. Find out the top things to check in a quick review, the criteria to look at if you need to filter competing products with a medium-level review, and finally what to look for during a full review of the vendor’s document.
| Maple |
10:00am-10:45am | WCMS Site Builder - The Web Framework Reimagined presented by Scott Murray
WCMS Site Builder and Migration Tool information session with demonstrations. To include a discussion of the project's broader impact on the Digital Strategy Initiative and the university's digital landscape. | Oak |
10:00am-10:45am | A REALLM of Large Language Model Resources for the IU Community presented by Abhinav Thota
To facilitate the hosting and development of large language models, Research Technologies now offers the REALLM service to provide researchers an on-premise LLM chat interface and an OpenAI-compatible API, the HPC LLM platform to support LLM research tasks with IU's supercomputing resources, and a conversational assistant tuned to Research Technologies' Knowledge Base documentation to provide tailored support. We will discuss these new services and provide brief demonstrations of their usage. | Persimmon |
10:00am-10:45am | 25Live: A Scheduling Solution presented by Michelle Bright
25Live is the enterprise web-based software system that can be customized to your business needs. Outline: 1. Introduction 2. Academic Scheduling 3. Event Scheduling a. Customized event forms b. Workflow options d. Customized automatic emails e. Customized documents f. Embeddable content g. Other functionality 4. Integrations with other systems 5. Reporting options | Redbud |
10:00am-10:45am | Exploring the "Service Operations Workspace" in ServiceNow presented by Erica Seiffert
This breakout session explores the new "Service Operations Workspace," a new task focused interface for agents in ServiceNow. It provides the ability to work across multiple records within a single browser tab. The session will also cover how to navigate within this workspace, how it streamlines information on records, and provides a modern experience working in ServiceNow. | State Room East |
10:00am-10:45am | Managing Multi-Tenant Research Databases presented by Claudia Costa
The Research Database Complex (RDC) offers a managed database solution to researchers without the associated operational costs and risks. It has evolved into a collaborative partnership between Research Technologies (RT) and Enterprise Systems (ES) by leveraging their combined strengths and expertise. The RDC provides a cost-effective, reliable, and secure database as a service solution for research data across dozens of IU’s academic departments, supporting hundreds of projects over 20 years. | State Room West |
10:00am-10:45am | 2025 Higher Education Trends: A look at the challenges and opportunities shaping America’s higher education sector presented by Danylle Kunkel
Colleges and universities face a number of complex issues that require them to adapt and evolve. This session will examine the trends sculpting the landscape of higher education in America in 2025, regardless of geography, institutional type, or brand. We’ll discuss:
| Walnut |
11:00am | Closing Keynote, IT Leadership Awards & Raffle Watch the livestream here! | Alumni Hall |
