It's happening! We're hosting a virtual conference this year!
The IT Partners virtual conference will feature presentations on a variety of IT topics. The sessions will take place on Zoom. We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, who will speak about the supply chain.
The conference will run from 9:30am to 3:30pm, including an hour for lunch and networking (Zoom breakout rooms).
- The first 200 people to register will have the opportunity to receive IT Partners swag delivered to their campus address.
To register, go to: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsc-uprjkoEtMt0qz_KauInbmvMU9Ay8jy.
If you have any questions for conference speakers, or have specific suggestions for topics you would like to see at future IT Partners events, please email the IT Partners Planning Team at itpartners-plan@mit.edu.
We hope to see you virtually on June 14th!
Schedule
Time *All times are tentative | Session |
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9:30am-9:40am | Welcome to the 2022 IT Partners Virtual Conference Mike Sherman (IT Partners Planning Team) |
9:40am-10:35am | Keynote on the supply chain by Yossi Sheffi |
10:35am-10:40am | break |
10:40am-11:25am | Nest Boards: A Zoom Room Alternative Tom Brand (VPF) Hybrid meetings are here to stay, and we all need technology to make them work. Tom will demo a couple of solutions, Neat Board and Neat Bars, that have been deployed at VPF, TLO, and a few other DLCs across campus. |
11:25am-11:30am | break |
11:30am-12:15pm | Cloud Computing at MIT Rikus Goosen (IS&T) and Rajiv Shridhar (Sloan) Rikus will tell us about the cloud services MIT/IS&T provides, including the discount programs and how to get an account on AWS, GCP or Azure. Rajiv will talk about Research Computing in the Cloud at MIT. |
12:15pm-1:05pm | Lunch/Networking in Breakout Rooms |
1:05pm-1:50pm | O365 - It's more than just email! Dave Blum (IS&T), Dan Alexander (Sloan), and Kurt Buehlmaier (Microsoft)
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1:50pm-1:55pm | break |
1:55pm-2:40pm | Free accessibility checking tools Katherine Wahl, Rich Caloggero, and Jen Dee (DSL)
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2:40pm-2:45pm | break |
2:45pm-3:30pm | Security topics (TBD) Jessica Murray (IS&T)
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