Check out preconference sessions
Preconference workshops and tutorials take place on Day 1 of the conference at the Indiana Memorial Union (with some exceptions). Find session descriptions and locations below.
Morning sessions
Presenter(s): Chris Anderson, Tina Jessee
Description: Do you have some data you'd like to share with end users or are you getting started with Denodo and unsure how to make your data available? We will cover how to secure your data for others using Apply Security with ACM groups. Then we will review how your data can be shared via Denodo or within the self service tool Data Catalog.
Presenter(s): Shereen Thor
Description: The workshop will begin with intention setting and housekeeping, followed by a session on authentic leadership that teaches the intelligence of being irrational, answers leadership questions, and determines what leadership styles need to change. The closing will focus on how to form healthier habits and how to identify and cement learning.
Presenter(s): Cathy Williams, Nick Ray, Momi Ford, Patrick Phillips
Description: This panel of leaders will provide insight about leading people through change and disruption and share how they have successfully moved forward through changes such as the alignment at IU. Topics will include: fielding difficult or employee relation questions;
incorporating the 2030 vision into forward progress, success, and employee engagement; and partnership with HR to support change and employee/leader development.
Presenter(s): Whitnie Powell, Carrie Hansel
Description: In the IU 2030 plan, President Whitten charged us to “increase online enrollment by 200 percent.” To deliver on the strategy, eLearning Design & Services (UITS LT) and IU Online began a rapid phase of growth. Learn how these teams partnered to approach recruitment, hiring, onboarding, training, and retention, and how they leveraged success to help IU meet this ambitious goal. Attendees will gain strategies and tactics for team cohesion that they can apply to their own context.
Presenter(s): Lynn Ward, Kevin Rogers
Description: DesignPlus from Cidilabs is a suite for creating and managing beautifully designed and engaging content in the Canvas learning management system. Most of this hands-on workshop will be devoted to the DesignPlus Sidebar, an advanced content editor for Canvas that provides point-and-click access to advanced page design and formatting features that would otherwise require extensive knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Attendees should bring their own laptop computers.
Presenter(s): Josh Linkenhoker
Description: Proofpoint discovery: hands-on lab is an interactive workshop designed to help organizations combat data loss and insider risk. Attendees will get an exclusive hands-on experience with Proofpoint products, hear best practices for protecting people and defending data, and learn how to detect, investigate, respond to, and stop potential insider threats and data loss incidents. All participants will need to bring their own laptop to take part.
Presenter(s): Susan Sons
Description: This time-flexible, lecture-free activity allows up to 10 technical, non-technical, and mixed participants to experience a simulated cybersecurity emergency and overcome it, all in the space of 90 minutes. Participants are assigned parts to play in a fictional organization, and given resources according to their role. For 60 minutes, we walk through a cybersecurity incident scenario, role playing our parts, to resolve the incident and protect our organization—followed by a 30-minute debrief.
Presenter(s): Brett Hanson, Luke Coady
Description: Workday and AWS will co-host a technical workshop to showcase how Workday’s enterprise platform is fundamentally unique, helping the world’s largest universities and organizations get better visibility into data, improve their organizational agility, and enhance their operational control. As Workday is deployed in the AWS public cloud, this session will highlight ways that artificial intelligence is securely driving more productivity and value from customer enterprise data.
Presenter(s): Chris Basham
Description: The words we use and how we use them in apps and websites should solve problems, not create them. Workshop participants will learn through practical exercises how to make content purposeful, concise, clear, and inclusive. Come away with strategies to integrate user experience writing principles and practices into your team's iterative process.
Presenter(s): Carrie Hansel, Justin Zemlyak, Bob Spoonmore, Michael Tani-Eshon
Description: eLearning Design & Services collaborated on a major data project across eight managers. The final product will combine data from the CRM, ServiceNow, SIS, the Unizin Data Warehouse, Canvas and more. Our dashboards meet our resource-management needs, tell the story of our unique work with faculty, and inform our primary client. Hear how we determined our big questions, identified sources of truth, narrowed scope and then actually pulled, pivoted and cleaned data.
Afternoon sessions
Presenter(s): Scott Birch, Michael Saari
Description: Are you a person who has ideas and media to share with the world? Are you tired of scrolling, swiping, and tapping through endless fields of text and non-selfies? Have you ever wanted to build a custom 3D world of your own from the comforts of your office and/or bed? Or do you want a place where you can add anything you want, as long as it is digital, and invite others to join in the fun? If you do, then we have the workshop for you! In just two hours, you will do just that! Join us!
Presenter(s): John Ng, Greg Girard
Description: Work with Oracles' latest tools and technologies for AI/Machine Learning. Unlock the power of generative AI models equipped with advanced language comprehension for building the next generation of enterprise applications. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI is a fully managed service available via API to seamlessly integrate these versatile language models into a wide range of use cases, including writing assistance, summarization, and chat.
Presenter(s): Charles McClary
Description: Globus fundamentals with timers and flows for data movement and synchronization.
Presenter(s): Olgun Sadik, Melis Dilek
Description: Generative AI pertains to models that produce human-like text, images, or content, yet it has limitations such as inaccuracies, sensitivity to input phrasing, and the potential for biased output. This talk offers a brief insight into understanding what generative AI is and utilizing generative AI for crafting personalized learning environments, aiding curriculum development, and generating assessments in higher education.
This will be a hands-on workshop. Attendees should bring a laptop computer.
Presenter(s): Brian Richwine
Description: Explore the advantages of digital math for accessibility, appearance, and flexibility in this interactive workshop. Practice creating accessible math content across HTML, LMSs, and Word, delving into LaTeX basics, GUI editors, and accessibility best practices. Learn about tools for converting images/PDFs into accessible formats and understand how assistive technologies process digital math. Essential for those keen on making math content accessible to all students.
Presenter(s): Meagan Eller, Tiana Deckard, Jason Holliday
Description: There's a new normal for evaluating your website accessibility, in addition to using Siteimprove. During the workshop, you will learn some of the next steps to take after fixing the accessibility issues Siteimprove identified on your website. We'll walk you through some high impact manual checks you should do on your site. Participants will be given opportunities for hands-on practice and individual coaching.
Presenter(s): Matt Kleine, Adam Sweeny, Mark Niswander, Morgan Menden
Description: IT Community Partnerships will host a two-hour pre-conference session to help reorient IT Partners with services that UITS provides. The session will showcase eight services in 10-minute round-table presentations with time for questions and answers. It will also allow for networking between IT Partners as they are organized into four groups for the duration of the session. Groups will rotate through four service owners, then after a short break, they will rotate through a second set of four presenters.
Seating is limited to 20 participants.
Presenter(s): Elizabeth Harris
Description: Constantly battling performance insecurities adds unproductive stress to an effective leader’s load. Leveraging these insecurities for growth a leader can move forward from an authentic position of strength. When a leader solicits feedback effectively they can also foster a culture of growth, transparency, communication, and authenticity. In this workshop participants will learn how to leverage processing tools and feedback to improve communication, performance, and confidence.
Presenter(s): Dan O’Day
Description: Join Unit 42 by Palo Alto Networks for a briefing on the threat landscape based on data derived from its incident response engagements, as well as an overview of the extortion threat landscape.