Session/Event Location Speaker(s) Track Skill Level

6:15am - 7:30am

Morning Yoga

 

UCSB Commencement Green

 

 

7:30am - 8:30am

Breakfast

 

Corwin Pavilion

 

 

7:30am - 4:00pm

Registration & Swag Grab

 

Corwin Pavilion Lobby

 

 

8:45am - 10:15am

Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Joe Incandela, Pass the Buck Ceremony

 

Campbell Hall

 

 

10:15am - 1:45pm

Refreshments

 

University Center Main Lobby

 

 

10:30am - 12:45pm

Carnival Fun

 

Corwin Pavilion

 

 

11:00am - 11:45am

Campus Tour

 

Meet in front of Corwin Pavilion

 

 

CIO Panel: Ask me anything!

 

Hatlen Theater

 

 

AWS: Infrastructure as Code using AWS Cloud Development Kit

 

North Hall - Room 1109

 

Carol Brothers

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Breaking Bad: Breaking Down Large, Complex Processes and Implementations

 

HSSB - McCune Conference Room 6020

 

Ahren Crickard, Katie Frehafer, Kevin Waldrop

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Beginner

 

Contracts and managing cyber-risk – UC’s new Data Security Appendix

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2123

 

Robert Smith, Thomas Trappler, Ian Crew

 

Securing Information, Assets and Systems

 

Beginner

 

Getting Started with Accessibility

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2127

 

Emily Young

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Gold Sponsor: Google Presentation - Google Cloud - Your Enterprise Cloud Platform

 

MCC - Theater

 

Edward Doan

 

Sponsor

 

Beginner

 

Gold Sponsor: Nutanix Presentation - Building Automation to Control Cloud Costs at UC San Diego

 

Mosher Alumni Hall

 

Declan Fleming, Sahil Bansal

 

Sponsor

 

Beginner

 

Grading Infrastructure for Large Data Science Courses

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 1119

 

Anthony Suen

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Information Commons - all clinical data in one place

 

UCEN - Flying A Studios

 

Gundolf Schenk, Boris Oskotsky, Eugenia Rutenberg

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Beginner

 

Lean Bench: The 'Go Team' for Process Improvement

 

MCC - Lounge

 

Mojgan Amini, Shawn Munro, Prachi Raheja, Mark Hersberger

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Beginner

 

Learn to Use the Siteimprove Web Accessibility Review Tools

 

 

SSMS - Room 1301/1302

 

Jill Wolters, Nick Dalman

 

Diversifying IT Culture

 

Beginner

 

Mistakes Were Made

 

UCEN - SB Harbor Room

 

Seth Roby

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Splitting the team to sharpen focus: Redesigning a working environment to promote IT success

 

SRB - Multipurpose Room

 

Ray Vadnais, Briandy Walden

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Telehealth with Zoom

 

Library - Room 1312

 

John McWalter

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Intermediate

 

The future of Classroom Response Systems in the UC System - Cross-campus panel and discussion

 

Theater & Dance Auditorium - Room 1701

 

Judy Stern, David P, LESLIE KERN, Samantha Eastman, Michelle Lew

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Web Development Mini Talks

 

MCC - GSA Lounge

 

Jon Johnson, Scott Gruber, Anthony Horn, Mark Miller, Anna Gazdowicz, Olivier Rosset, Jun Wan

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Working Together- UC System Solutions for Clouds and Data Centers

 

North Hall - Room 1006

 

Mike Kilpatrick, Kevin Cornish, Matt Aguilar

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Yes, We Kanban!

 

Hatlen Studio Theater

 

John Ruzicka, Wendy Rager, Marc Weisbrod, Emily Weaver

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

11:45am - 12:45pm

Lunch

 

Corwin Pavilion

 

 

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Lightning Talks

 

Multicultural Center (MCC) Lounge

 

 

12:30pm - 12:45pm

Sponsor Bingo and Other Drawings

 

Corwin Pavilion

 

 

1:00pm - 1:45pm

UC Santa Barbara Library Tour

 

Meet at the Library Reference Desk

 

 

"It Will Cost HOW Much?" How to Have Constructive Conversations about Estimates

 

SRB - Multipurpose Room

 

John Lynch

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Beginner

 

Building a campus-wide platform for Data Science / Machine Learning coursework

 

UCEN - Lobero Room

 

Adam Tilghman

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Building Strategic Innovation Capability - Service Operations

 

SSMS - Room 1301/1302

 

Kent Carpenter

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Creating a Diverse Geospatial Rich Campus

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2127

 

Carlos Barahona, Michael Stuart, Amy Work

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Intermediate

 

Creating interactive high - fidelity mock websites using Sketch and Invision

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2123

 

Samuel Payne, Zhen Gu

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Gold Sponsor: IBM Presentation -A Recipe for Success: The Practical Application of AI in Higher Education and Beyond

 

MCC - Theater

 

Brian Kuhn

 

Sponsor

 

Beginner

 

Gold Sponsor: World Wide Technology and Intel Presentation - Seamless Security in Higher Education

 

Mosher Alumni Hall

 

Barry Jones

 

Sponsor

 

Beginner

 

How to grow a Tableau service that empowers analysts, reaches broad audiences and consolidates costs

 

HSSB - Room 1174

 

Danny Grieb, Aswan Movva, Kari Peterson

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Modernizing and Improving the Editorial Experience of the Flagship Campus Website

 

UCEN - State Street Room

 

Eric Guerin

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Partnering for DevOps Success

 

North Hall - Room 1109

 

Fel Bautista, Victor Vargas Reyes, Svetlana Milter

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Beginner

 

Streamlining access to healthcare data for the UCLA Health Sciences

 

UCEN - Flying A Studios

 

Yael Berkovich

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Switching to Agile: Observations from a Development Team

 

Library - Room 1312

 

Jeffrey Rosczyk, Henry Heikkinen

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Beginner

 

The AI-driven University: Dream or Hallucination?

 

HSSB - McCune Conference Room 6020

 

Amin Qazi

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Transform Data projects with Data Virtualization solution

 

North Hall - Room 1006

 

Carolin Mathew, Jerome McEvoy, Amit Prayag

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Transformational Strategies to Diversify, Retain, and Grow Workforce by Advancing the Most Junior Talent

 

UCEN - SB Mission Room

 

Shohreh Bozorgmehri

 

Promoting Growth and Retention in IT

 

Beginner

 

1:00pm - 2:00pm

AD&A Museum Self-Guided Tours

 

UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum

 

 

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Enhancing Informal & Social Learning through IT

 

MCC - GSA Lounge

 

Shirley Giraldo

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Finishing faster and happier: individualized physician training to improve efficiency with the electronic health record

 

Mosher - Henley Board Room

 

Scott MacDonald, Melissa Jost

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Intermediate

 

Mindsets, Skillsets, Toolsets: Levers for Organizational Culture Change and Sense-making

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 1119

 

Danna Gianforte, Ann Kovalchick

 

Diversifying IT Culture

 

Beginner

 

Pop-up Palooza: So You Think You Can Improve a Process? Come Find Out!

 

Hatlen Theater

 

Mojgan Amini, Shawn Munro, Prachi Raheja, Lynn Underwood

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Intermediate

 

Web Accessibility beyond Testing Tools

 

 

UCEN - SB Harbor Room

 

Chris Patterson, Kevin Rydberg

 

Diversifying IT Culture

 

Intermediate

 

1:45pm - 5:00pm

Gelato Bar by Tondi Gelato of Santa Barbara

 

University Center Patio

 

 

Refreshments

 

University Center Main Lobby

 

 

2:00pm - 2:45pm

UC Santa Barbara Library Tour

 

Meet at the Library Reference Desk

 

 

Data Warehouse to Data Lake

 

North Hall - Room 1006

 

Jerome McEvoy

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Eliminate Waste and Be Awesome - DocuSign in Action Across UC

 

HSSB - Room 1174

 

Eric Taggart

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Ensuring security for research data delivery

 

UCEN - SB Mission Room

 

Martha Michel

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Beginner

 

Enterprise Health Data Provisioning

 

Library - Room 1312

 

Kent Anderson

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Intermediate

 

Enterprise System Integration: Save Money and Get Up-to-date Info with Graph Database

 

SSMS - Room 1301/1302

 

Susil Rayamajhi, Bijay Tuladhar

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Gold Sponsor: ePlus Presentation - GPU-Accelerated AI and HPC: Still breaking Moore’s Law

 

Mosher Alumni Hall

 

Justin Emerson

 

Sponsor

 

Beginner

 

Gold Sponsor: Sherlock @ San Diego Supercomputer Center Presentation - Sherlock: Insights from a decade long evolution of a successful academic startup

 

MCC - Theater

 

Sandeep Chandra, Paul Norton, Anthony Boyd

 

Sponsor

 

Beginner

 

Handling Complicated Tasks with a Chatbot

 

UCEN - Lobero Room

 

Jon Johnson

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Herding Cats: Lessons Learned in Clinical Collaboration

 

North Hall - Room 1109

 

Christina Bronsky, Marc Kohli

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Beginner

 

I’ve Got a Secret

 

UCEN - Flying A Studios

 

Carol Brothers

 

Securing Information, Assets and Systems

 

Beginner

 

Partners in Reducing Risk and Cost: Collaboration Between IT and Procurement

 

Theater & Dance Auditorium - Room 1701

 

Tom Andriola, Thomas Trappler, David Willson

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Intermediate

 

Research Enablement Initiative- Unburdening Researchers

 

UCEN - State Street Room

 

Sherly Mosessian

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Beginner

 

Unlock the super cool features in IS-3 to reduce cyber risk

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2127

 

Robert Smith

 

Securing Information, Assets and Systems

 

Beginner

 

We can all be better: better relationships means better IT

 

SRB - Multipurpose Room

 

Patricia Honda-Nations

 

Promoting Growth and Retention in IT

 

Beginner

 

2:00pm - 3:00pm

AD&A Museum Self-Guided Tours

 

UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum

 

 

3:00pm - 3:45pm

Campus REEF Tour and Bluff Walk

 

UCSB REEF Aquarium

 

 

Cognitive Diversity: Invisible Differences

 

UCEN - Flying A Studios

 

Jennifer Wilson

 

Diversifying IT Culture

 

Beginner

 

Collaborate with your campus constituents: How to apply design thinking to facilitate successful projects

 

UCEN - SB Harbor Room

 

Briandy Walden, Ray Vadnais

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Commodity Research Storage

 

UCEN - State Street Room

 

Ted Cabeen, John Echeveste

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Intermediate

 

Creating Effective Workshops Using the Carpentries Inclusive pedagogy

 

MCC - Lounge

 

Kristian Allen, Tim Dennis

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Engaging our High Profile Patients

 

UCEN - Lobero Room

 

Michael Wong, Sriram Bharadwaj

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Beginner

 

From the open range to the corral: taming the wild Internet

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2123

 

Sam Horowitz, Libby Whitt

 

Securing Information, Assets and Systems

 

Beginner

 

How to Build (and Scale) your Team using Bots

 

UCEN - SB Mission Room

 

Christopher Ranglas

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Intermediate

 

Introducing UCLA's Modern Messaging Strategy and SaaS Platform

 

 

North Hall - Room 1006

 

Rose Rocchio, Keith Rozett

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Rock your rock stars! How We Built and Sustain a Development & Mentorship Program

 

Hatlen Studio Theater

 

Winnie Wat, Armanda Edwards-Newman, Tom Chen

 

Promoting Growth and Retention in IT

 

Beginner

 

Securing International Student & Scholar Success

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2127

 

Nahid Youssefi, Angela Han

 

Securing Information, Assets and Systems

 

Intermediate

 

The CCD's on FHIR with Blockchain - OH MY!

 

North Hall - Room 1109

 

Michael Marchant

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Intermediate

 

The Landscape of Regional and National Research IT organizations: Opportunities for Professional Development and Strategic Engagement

 

Library - Room 1312

 

Claire Mizumoto, Amy Neeser

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Beginner

 

Tides That Raise All Boats: Governance Improvements to Produce the Right Work

 

MCC - GSA Lounge

 

Kay Burke, Andrew Auerbach

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Beginner

 

Widget Applications: The architecture behind a modern class schedule

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 1119

 

Jeffrey Rosczyk

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

3:00pm - 4:00pm

AD&A Museum Self-Guided Tours

 

UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum

 

 

3:00pm - 4:30pm

A cloud-based innovative approach to data quality

 

HSSB - Room 1174

 

Koorosh Ghorashy

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Business Process Transformation – could it be this easy?

 

SRB - Multipurpose Room

 

Nick Endsley, Mike Cook

 

Planning and Managing IT Investments

 

Beginner

 

GIS for Everyone: Enabling spatial thinking using your campus license to ArcGIS

 

SSMS - Room 1301/1302

 

Carlos Barahona, Michael Stuart, Amy Work

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Let Agile Be Agile

 

MCC - Theater

 

Alissa Powers, Jeremy Thacker, Seth Roby, Su Wang

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

4:00pm - 4:45pm

Campus REEF Tour and Bluff Walk

 

UCSB REEF Aquarium

 

 

Architecture review: Cross-platform containerized computing

 

North Hall - Room 1109

 

Pavan Gupta, Victor Vargas Reyes

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Advanced

 

Change Management in a Rapidly Changing World

 

UCEN - State Street Room

 

Pamela Sampson-Smith

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

DevOps for accuracy, repeatability, and productivity at UC Davis Schools of Health.

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 1119

 

Matthew Mackenzie

 

Developing and Sustaining Health Technology

 

Intermediate

 

Digital Signage Made Simple: Turn any screen into an eye-catching and informative billboard to tell your story and get your message out.

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2123

 

Chuck Harris

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Enabling Active Learning

 

UCEN - Flying A Studios

 

Jason Rock, Zhen Gu, Katherine Wigan, Bill Holloway

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Enterprise Workload Automation - Transforming IT Services for Campus-Wide Benefit

 

UCEN - SB Harbor Room

 

Michael Story

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

GYO COP! (Grow Your Own Community of Practice)

 

MCC - GSA Lounge

 

Ahren Crickard, Mojgan Amini

 

Promoting Growth and Retention in IT

 

Beginner

 

Lecture Capture Uncorked - Enabling advanced and efficient video at the enterprise level with YuJa

 

UCEN - Lobero Room

 

David P, Caryn Neiswender

 

Enabling Teaching and Learning

 

Beginner

 

Providing Marvel-ous Customer Support with Limited Resources

 

MCC - Lounge

 

Anna Gazdowicz

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Beginner

 

Realigning the Wheel: Facilitating the Adoption of a Data-Informed Culture

 

North Hall - Room 1006

 

Linh Nguyen, Derek Olson

 

Innovating IT Solutions

 

Intermediate

 

Solo hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

 

Hatlen Theater

 

Diane Soini

 

Promoting Growth and Retention in IT

 

Beginner

 

Supporting Inclusive Teams: Tools and Practices

 

HSSB - McCune Conference Room 6020

 

Shohreh Bozorgmehri, Max Garrick

 

Promoting Growth and Retention in IT

 

Beginner

 

The Power of Campus Collaboration: Building an Interest Group to Create Positive Outcomes

 

UCEN - SB Mission Room

 

Molly Greek, Barbara Stanton, Emily Marwedel, Leslie Olsen

 

Diversifying IT Culture

 

Beginner

 

Working across the UC campuses to understand how researchers use virtual machine and container images

 

Girvetz Hall - Room 2127

 

Amy Neeser

 

Supporting Research and Researchers

 

Beginner

 

4:00pm - 5:00pm

AD&A Museum Self-Guided Tours

UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum