Join IT professionals from throughout the university to share information and discuss relevant topics.
All events will be held online via Zoom with no registration required except for the in-person IT Community Awards Luncheon, Celebration and Closing Session at Duke Energy Hall in Hunt Library on Thursday, Nov. 17 at noon. RSVPs for the luncheon are closed, however, others are invited to join the program that will begin at approximately 12:45 either in person or via Zoom.
Zoom Recording Passcode: ?121*@tr | Chancellor Woodson's video remarks
Special guest speaker Dr. Melissa Woo, CIO and executive vice president for administration at Michigan State University, will join us to kick off the eighth annual IT Community Event. Dr. Woo has been active in and is a well-known speaker within the higher education IT community. Among her many accolades, she won the inaugural EDUCAUSE DEI Leadership Award for her actions leading to improved diversity, equity and inclusion in the higher education IT community.
NC State CIO Marc Hoit will kick off the session and we'll hear a special address from Chancellor Randy Woodson.
After the session, attendees will be invited to join breakout rooms for informal conversation, providing a chance to "mingle" with colleagues in the NC State IT community.
Zoom Recording Passcode: Hl3DZ4a# | Session Slides
Presenter: Nicolette Price
Streamline and Simplify the user experience with Jamf Connect. Jamf Connect utilizes SSO and allows for zero touch deployment. Let’s talk about the how and why Jamf Connect should be incorporated into your Mac environment!
Zoom Recoding Passcode: mw4fKG&Y | Session slides
Presenters: Alex Nicholos, Scott Leonard
Poole College of Management, DELTA and several other campus units are using Joan to manage the scheduling of conference rooms or desk spaces, particularly as hoteling space becomes more prevalent. The service also has a wayfinding option available for building navigation.
Zoom Recording Passcode: !!^6gRmh | Session slides
Presenters: Susan Ivey, Andy Kurth
NC State’s Research Facilitation Service (RFS), a joint endeavor on the part of University Libraries, OIT and ORI, is available to help researchers navigate a broad range of possible research solutions to conduct efficient and secure research. The RFS partners with existing research computing and data providers on campus to meet NC State’s research needs, maintains knowledge about available community resources, and monitors emerging technologies to advocate for areas of potential growth at the university.
The RFS is currently piloting with the College of Sciences (COS) to build its internal workflows, refine processes with OIT and COS IT members, learn more about campus needs, and understand how to scale and scope the RFS. During this presentation, we’ll provide background and context for the creation of the service, as well as details about our pilot process with COS. We’ll also talk about the next steps for the RFS.
Zoom Recording Passcode: C1V4*k5& | Session slides | NEW! #tooling Slack channel
Presenters: Patrick Nethery, Kirk Main
Integration and Automation are two buzzwords in our industry that get thrown around frequently. Many times, it can appear to be more costly to automate a process rather than complete it manually. In this presentation we will cover our approach to automation, organically embedding automation in our team, and discuss some open source and some paid solutions that keep costs down and impacts high. Among others, we'll be discussing Reclaim.AI, TypeBot, NodeRED and Slack.
Zoom Recording Passcode: 2VrfWK%! | Session slides
Presenter: Anthony Santucci
The Office of Information Technology transitioned their IT change management application to ServiceNow and with that transition came a new process for managing changes to the campus IT services and systems.
This presentation will describe the purpose of the IT change management process and who are the participants in the creation, approval and implementation of the change activity.
Zoom Recording Passcode: *y3LVckK | Session slides (coming soon)
Presenter: Joey Jenkins
The Libraries' IT department has come out of the pandemic with an infrastructure built around a "remote first" mindset. One of our biggest challenges was keeping up with inventory during the pandemic response. What came out of that need was an automated inventory system built around data from our two configuration management systems. Come see where the Libraries' collaboration with OIT resulted in an automated inventory system for device location and ownership tracking, as well as a software inventory that uses disparate reporting tools to consolidate into a unified reporting tool. We'll discuss successes, where we had learning opportunities, and where we expect to go next.
Zoom Recording Passcode: G#5P#W5? | Session slides
Presenters: Jackie Sullivan, Rick Johnson
College of Sciences staff were asked to provide a hybrid on-site/mobile computing environment to support the Science House Catalyst program for high school students with disabilities who are learning to pilot drones professionally. Tough assignment? Yes. Here's what we did.
Zoom Recording Passcode: AejrN7#Q | Session slides
Presenters: Chavis Crawford, Darrell Cooley
Airtame is an alternative for digital signage and screen management with some special features. One of those features includes the potential to allow for selling ad space on classroom screens before and between classes. Hear how Poole College of Management is implementing the service.
Session slides | Notes from the seven breakout groups
Presenter: Marc Hoit, along with breakout group facilitators
In this workshop, we will collectively review and generate ideas to update the goals from the original campus-wide IT strategic plan. In smaller breakout groups, we'll discuss potential strategies to achieve those goals. Join us to help update the path forward for NC State's IT environment.
Session slides (coming soon) | (This session was not recorded.)
Presenters: Kirk Main, Sasha Challgren
Join the presenters as they share creative ways they have found to utilize the current environment to recruit students for IT employment. Share your challenges and solutions.
Zoom Recording Passcode: 0%J?k5%c | Session slides
Presenter: Sasha Challgren
In 2015 the bathroom-sign lady with the triangle dress received a serious makeover. I will share how an agile project management software company, Axosoft, launched a campaign that challenged people to be conscious and collaborative and to be aware of what’s going on in the world of technology and other spaces that women occupy. How can something so small make such a positive impact? Discuss what it is we can do to recognize the challenges women face in their roles in IT programs. How can we support a mission for collaboration, which enhances excellence through positive leadership and inclusion?
Zoom Recording Passcode: GL*0J4KJ | Session slides
Presenters: Ralph Castanza, Tony Copeland, Tom Karches, Ceasar Ambayon, John Constantelos
The university is in the process of inventorying multi-user systems and applications throughout campus, gathering that information into the ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB). While the process is required to be in regulatory compliance, it also helps campus units improve change management processes by connecting assets (Configuration Items or CIs) to change requests and providing an enterprise-level asset tracking system. OIT has processes to help with getting assets into the CMDB through Discovery.
This session will:
1) Describe the Discovery process and how to get started with it.
2) Explain how users can interact with their CIs after Discovery.
3) Provide an introduction to hardware asset tracking.
4) Share the next steps after initial Discovery.
Zoom Recording Passcode: +aamd5Z% | Session slides
Presenters: Adria Snead, Damon Armour
As the level of cyber threats and regulatory compliance obligations continues to increase, Security & Compliance – Information Security, Risk & Assurance (ISRA) is revamping the NC State Cybersecurity Liaison Program. To help plan for the new Cybersecurity Liaison Program, ISRA would like to use this open-forum session to reintroduce the program's mission and goals and solicit feedback and suggestions from future participants and stakeholders on what they would like to see incorporated as part of this revitalized campus program.
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Google Workspace Hacks You Should Know
Zoom Recording Passcode: 8P1i.LZ9 | Session slides
Presenters: Katie McInerney, Gabriella Ferguson
Save time with Google Workspace hacks! We’ll count down the 10 best underutilized tips and tricks to help you and your end-users increase efficiency at work. Topics include Building Blocks, @menu, Approvals, add-to Calendar event links, Sheets split text to columns, and more!
1:00 - 1:25 p.m. Data Security Training for Advancement
Zoom Recording Passcode: $7BeZBV. | Session slides
Presenters: Tara Watterson
Hear how University Advancement implemented a new annual data security training initiative designed to supplement and reinforce OIT's annual Data Security Training.
The team worked with the newly formed University Advancement Data Governance Committee to solicit feedback prior to and after developing the training. The resulting training video incorporated messaging specific to security concerns regarding working with Advancement-related data.
2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Pandemic Review: Things We Learned and Saw Moving to DE
Zoom Recording Passcode: 3Am5@eLt | Session slides
Presenter: Andy Click
Working in online and hybrid education put us in the perfect position to help our instructors pivot to the new environment in the early days of the pandemic. Now, years later, we have a chance to look back on that initial, frantic adjustment and the long tail of support involved in moving so many courses online so quickly as we move many of them back to a largely hybrid environment. What lessons did we learn and how we can we apply them to the future of online and hybrid education?
Zoom Recording Passcode: J+*4X5K1 | Session slides (coming soon)
Presenters: Kirk Main, Sasha Challgren, Supriya Krishna
Our IT staff in the Wilson College of Textiles and Poole College of Management use this open source database to track all sorts of assets and consumables. Implementing some web hooks has allowed us to utilize portions of the Snipe-IT database to create ServiceNow tickets for requests.
Zoom Recording Passcode: CiXdm2j* | Session slide folder
Presenters: Chris Allen, Darrell Cooley, Chris Eichman, Billy Beaudoin
Are you curious about cloud platform services on campus? Several IT teams on campus are building infrastructure in the cloud. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Computing Services will be discussed in a round table format. In this session, each team on the round table will talk about their implementation and then we will have a Q&A so the IT community can ask questions of the presenters.
Session slides (This session was not recorded.)
Presenters: Lynda Mottershead, Todd Kosmerick
REG 01.25.12 sets forth NC State’s records retention policy and procedures in compliance with North Carolina law, and it applies to both paper and electronic records. University units are responsible for establishing appropriate records retention management practices that are consistent with this regulation. Lynda and Todd will provide an overview of the records retention and disposition schedules and other general information regarding records.
Zoom Recording Passcode: P5juz!W9 | Session slides
Presenters: Katie McInerney, Sarah Noell, Matt Deal
Bring your questions to this informal Q&A session. Members of the Google Service Team will provide a recap, along with any available updates, on Google Storage changes for campus while opening the floor to questions and feedback.
Session slides (coming soon)
Presenters: Anthony Luzzi
Working with different types of employees in our dynamic environment can be challenging. From scheduling to training and ticket management, there is always a lot going on. Our team in the Wilson College of Textiles has progressed through this evolution and learned a lot along the way. In this presentation we will uncover some of the pitfalls, strengths and strategies employed to ensure our team is successful at delivering the next generation of customer experience today.
Zoom Recording Passcode: 3u3kP2t*| Session slides
Presenters: Ron Bradley, Anthony Buckner
The global pandemic forced us all to pivot in order to conduct the business of teaching and learning, but it also created the conditions and expectations that will shape the future of A/V on our campus. Our presentation will touch on how our technology needs have evolved to keep pace with faculty and student needs through the COVID era and how the design and teaching demands have permanently shifted. Adding these new technologies has changed the game, and the benefits of hybrid learning are here to stay.
Session Recording Passcode: 4e8v*.wt | Session slides
Presenters: Chavis Crawford, Darrell Cooley, Alex Nicholos
There are a variety of remote access tools in use throughout NC State. Poole College of Management has been using ConnectWise to remotely manage and support devices to provide exceptional service to users.
Zoom Recording Passcode: %at$03!j | Session slides
Presenters: Jennifer Domnick, Mike Donathan, John Constantelos, IT Service Management Process Owners
Join ITSM process owners and the ServiceNow tech team to review the new Tokyo features and capabilities, the timeline and what it means to you.
Zoom Recording | Session slides
Presenters: Elizabeth Cole-Walker, Jodie Lanning, Adria Snead
Join members from the Cybersecurity Awareness Team as they share the CSAT’s newly developed roadmap to promote cyber skills to NC State’s students, faculty and staff. Attendees will have an opportunity to share:
Ways their departments are encouraging employees to be cyber aware.
Ideas they would like to see implemented for campus users.
Awareness resources that might be helpful when educating campus users.
Zoom Recording Passcode: 5gZ0XAc. | Essential Project Management Takeaways (PDF) | Session slides (PDF)
Presenters: Lavanya Sridiran, Merranie Zellweger, Dan Grigg
Join project managers from OIT and DELTA to discuss the top five project challenges and a variety of solutions. In addition to sharing tips and tools, the presenters will participate in a panel discussion with time for Q&A from attendees.
James B. Hunt Jr. Library, Duke Energy Hall | Vimeo recording of the awards celebration
Members of the NC State IT community are invited to this buffet lunch and celebration of the nominees for the 2022 IT Community Awards. Nominations were due by Oct. 7. This is also the closing session of this year's IT Community Event.
Join your colleagues, catch up with each other in person, and celebrate the terrific work the IT community does every day to support the mission of NC State.
Reservations for the luncheon are closed, but please feel free to join us either in person or via Zoom for the program that will begin at approximately 12:45.
Sessions and Zoom links are listed on the IT Community Events calendar. You can add each event to your calendar or subscribe to the itcommunity@ncsu.edu calendar from your calendar.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, NC State will honor requests for reasonable accommodations made by individuals with disabilities. Requests can be served more effectively if notice is provided at least seven days before the event. Direct accommodation requests to itcommunity@ncsu.edu.
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