The Summit Program

The Campus Technology Summit program has been meticulously woven together to address recent technology challenges at the forefront of university planning.  The sessions are designed to build on one another, providing IT leadership with the opportunity to discuss the meta-trends playing out across the industry, including delivery of digital curriculum to mobile devices, cloud computing, data driven decision-making, and the overall convergence of information and instructional technology.

  • Successfully Redirecting Resources for Innovation and Strategic Engagement

  • Integrating Institutional Effectiveness into Everyday IT

  • Effective Strategies for Managing Disruptive Change

  • Redesigning Wireless Networks for the Proliferation of Multimedia-Enabled Mobile Devices

  • Keeping Pace with Student Demand for Online Learning Resources

  • An Updated Look at Desktop Virtualization: Challenges and Opportunities

  • New Models for Course Material Distribution: Improving Access and Reducing Costs

  • Evaluating the Next Generation of Learning Management Systems

  • Leveraging Information Technology for Data Sharing, Openness and Collaboration

  • The Changing Landscape of ERP in Higher Education

  • A Crowdsourcing Approach to Mobile App Development

  • Optimally Balancing Personal Privacy and Information Security

Successfully Redirecting Resources for Innovation and Strategic Engagement

  • Outsourcing services: success stories and lessons learned
  • Rethinking organizational structure to create additional organizational capacity
  • Focusing on core, mission critical services
  • Managing the shift towards an entrepreneurial environment

Integrating Institutional Effectiveness into Everyday IT

  • Establishing a shared IT governance model
  • Aligning IT project priorities with institutional strategic planning
  • Demonstrating the need for staff growth to accommodate new projects
  • Obtaining administrative support to manage new projects with existing resources

Effective Strategies for Managing Disruptive Change

  • Coping with increasing demand for consumer technologies and services
  • Structuring the organization for maximum agility
  • Enabling staff to anticipate and respond to trends through professional development
  • Creatively generating solutions through collaboration and crowdsourcing

Redesigning Wireless Networks for the Proliferation of Multimedia-Enabled Mobile Devices

  • Scaling access points to deliver an end-to-end user experience
  • Mobile security and bandwidth management via access provisioning
  • Considering support staff and network concerns
    - Accurately forecasting the number of devices per person
  • The university as a wireless provider: cost models for recovery

Keeping Pace with Student Demand for Online Learning Resources

  • The strategic importance of online learning to institutional growth
  • Driving enrollment growth and student retention without additional facilities
  • Understanding changing student behaviors in response to higher tuitions and fees
    • Higher enrollment
    • High-demand classes
    • More non-resident classes
  • Staying competitive with for-profit online universities

An Updated Look at Desktop Virtualization: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Continually scaling desktop access for additional students and faculty
  • Providing anytime access to university owned and personal devices
  • Desktop Virtualization ROI and funding models
  • Discussing implementation and licensing challenges

New Models for Course Material Distribution: Improving Access and Reducing Costs

  • Laying the groundwork for improved availability of etexts
  • Moving away from broad-based licensing and arriving at a per-section fee model
  • Enabling instructors to customize learning materials and introduce proprietary content
  • IT as the bookstore: ordering textbooks online and commission opportunities

Evaluating the Next Generation of Learning Management Systems

  • Considering the merit of cloud-based solutions
  • Leveraging open source code to customize student experience and stay abreast with trends
  • Integrating notification systems with email, social media and text messaging
  • Implementing robust video-conferencing and collaboration features

Leveraging Information Technology for Data Sharing, Openness and Collaboration

  • Complying with federal granting agency policies for intellectual property
  • Making research data discoverable and accessible
  • Database management for education and research
  • Long-term data storage funding challenges

The Changing Landscape of ERP in Higher Education

  • Redefining ERP: from information to intelligence
    - Business intelligence
    - Decision support tools
  • Examining the viability of maturing SaaS solutions
  • Reevaluating hosted Open Source solutions
  • Identity management during the student life cycle
  • Mergers and vendor longevity: long term impact on service levels

A Crowdsourcing Approach to Mobile App Development

  • Forming a plan for integration with enterprise systems
  • Creating easy-to-follow specifications for staff and student contests
  • Considering native app development versus  mobile web
  • Framework and supporting architecture

Optimally Balancing Personal Privacy and Information Security

  • Involving leadership from across the institution
  • Information security challenges in the age of cloud computing
  • Aligning institutional privacy policy with legal compliance
  • Ensuring research can be conducted with anonymity