Presentations – 2018

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2018 Keynote Speaker

Keynote Address

Are we unique? A study in Higher Education IT

Wallace Chase
Executive Director Networking and Telecommunications at Clemson University

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Live Sessions

What it Means to be an IT Professional at UW-Madison – Continuing the Discussion

Sara Tate-Pederson, Laura Grady, Jason Erdmann, Gary De Clute, Sue Weier, Crague Cook

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Don’t Panic! Success is a bigger target than you think

Robert Merrill, Shannon Larson, Tamra Dagnon

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Eyes on the Prize‚ Building & Steering Your Team Towards Project Success

Patrick Hare, Brian Goff, Jeanette School

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A Collaboration Story: Cross-departmental school-wide development project

Jim Thompson, Justin Knupp, Don McDermott

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Leveraging Campus API’s with Vue JS

Al Nemec

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Git 101

Paul Erickson

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How to manage your Windows 10 desktop upgrades with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

Charlie Maurice

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Mountains Back To Molehills: Reducing Complexity & Confusion In Our Systems

Bob Plankers

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Quick and Practical Web Accessibility Testing for First Impressions

Todd Schwanke

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Low-Effort, and effective UX techniques for busy technologists

Jim Helwig, Maria Dahman, Jess Jones

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Partly Cloudy – Design and Development of a Hybrid Cloud System

Brian Hill

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DevOps, Diving, or Death….Choose 2!

Matt Blasinski

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Email Trust Issues? Find out why and what you can do to help.

Jesse Thompson

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What Your Network Looks Like to the Bad Guys

Dave De Coster

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Better external relations with CRM: A Wisconsin School of Business Story

Xiujuan Jane Zhang, Dean McInerney
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Canvas Transition: Successes and Lessons Learned in the College of Engineering

Sara Hagen
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TAG! You’re IT! (IT governance)

Alan Silver, Nick Tincher, Lyn Van Swol
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The IT Project Intake Process – Enabling Collaboration Across Campus

Alan Silver, Steve Devoti, Dawn McCauley, Sabrina Messer
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How to make the UW Theme sing

Kyle Henderson
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The Struggle is Real: Developing WordPress plugins

Daniel Simanek
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Automating Database Changes and Migrations with Liquibase

Matthew Trefilek, Nuwan Kumarasiri
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Continuous Delivery and automation with Jenkins – A Use Case

Nuwan Kumarasiri, Matthew Trefilek
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IT Staff Hiring and Talent Retention at the UW/Public Sector

Daniel Nicolalde, Michelle Craft, Derek Cooper, Paul Kronberger, Vickie Arneson
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Augmented and Mixed Reality Development with the Microsoft HoloLens

Mark Field, Mike Tessmer, Will Kraus
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Advanced Analytics for Emergency Response

Laura Albert
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Inbox Zero – How to stay on top of an overwhelming email inbox

David M Sibley
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IT Isn’t Wrong #2

Phil Jochimsen
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Communication Tips for New Project Managers

Tim Doyle

Pass the Paper

Robert Merrill

Fast 5 Project Management Tips for Non-project Managers

Tony Johnson

The SIPOC tool: How to create a visual model of a high-level process

Tamra Dagnon
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WordPress Users Community of Practice using the UW-Theme

Rich Gassen
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