About 285 IT Professionals attended the second virtual and multi-day UW IT Professionals Conference on June 3rd and 4th to make connections among campus IT colleagues and learn what is going on around campus as we prepare to head back to campus.

In its fifth year, we had live presentations, panels, workshops, and networking events as well as many pre-recorded presentations, most with live Q&As.

Some notable event highlights include:

• Keynote, Dr. Mar Hicks talked about the history of women in computing and how that can help us make decisions in the future
• The 2nd Annual IT Recognition Awards Ceremony
• Live Workshops: Map It! and Learn CSS Grid and Flexbox in 1 Hour!
• IT Talk Technical Live Panel to kick off the discussion about inclusivity in technology
• Networking events including IT CommuniTea, CoP Drop-In Session, and Virtual Happy Hour

Many campus IT Professionals spoke at this year’s event. See their full presentations here.
This event was sponsored and organized by UW-Madison IT professionals for the campus IT community. The UW IT Professionals Conference provides opportunities to talk shop and brainstorm solutions that affect the daily IT experience of higher education pros and ultimately, their stakeholders.
Contact itproconf@wisc.edu to get involved!

Over 300(!) IT Professionals attended the first ever virtual and multi-day UW IT Professionals Conference on June 4th and 5th to network, make connections among campus IT colleagues, and learn what others are doing on campus and from home during this pandemic.
In its fourth year, the event brought UW-Madison IT colleagues together to learn and discuss with their peers in a variety of formats. We had both live presentations and live panels, as well as pre-recorded presentations with conversations on Slack and in Live Q&As.
Some notable event highlights include:

• Keynote, Mary Poppendieck, talked about the history of IT and asked us to think about the future of IT at UW-Madison and beyond
• A Message from Chancellor Rebecca Blank to the IT Professionals at UW-Madison
• A Kaltura Channel of Pre-Recorded Content (with some live sessions added)
• Live Q&A sessions on pre-recorded content, including a joint Live Q&A: Cloud Data Strategy and Interoperability Initiative
• Live Sessions, such as Telling Your IT Story to Non-IT Audiences
• Lots of activities, including IT CommuniTea, Virtual Lounge, Online Games, Lunchtime Yoga

Many campus IT Professionals spoke at this year’s event. See their full presentations here.
This event was sponsored and organized by UW-Madison IT professionals for the campus IT community. The UW IT Professionals Conference provides opportunities to talk shop and brainstorm solutions that affect the daily IT experience of higher education pros and ultimately, their stakeholders.
Contact itproconf@wisc.edu to get involved.

Over 200 IT Professionals attended the UW IT Professionals Conference at the Wisconsin School of Business on May 31st to network, make connections among campus IT colleagues, and learn what others are doing on campus.
In its second year, the event brought UW-Madison IT colleagues to learn and discuss with their peers who presented in a variety of formats—five-minute speed rounds to 30-minute presentations to panel discussions—to have open dialogue on IT-related processes and deliverables that have worked, what can be improved and what issues we need to address in higher education IT.
Some notable event highlights include:

• Keynote, Wallace Chase, executive director for networking and telecommunications at Clemson University, challenged us to broaden our idea of what we consider unique contributions to IT.
• UW IT Professionals steering team led an interactive session of the audience breaking up into small groups to brainstorm actionable items for the Guidelines, Best Practices and Advice for IT Professionals that was originally created in November 2016.
• Industry guru on all things IT virtualization and system design and fellow DoITer, Bob Plankers, made a compelling case for making small improvements in our IT systems, despite our innate need for complexity.
• DoIT team of Jess Jones, Maria Dahman, and Jim Helwig gave great tips on how to get qualitative data via interviews to really improve the user experience of products and services

Many campus IT Professionals spoke at this year’s event. See their full presentations here.
This event was sponsored and organized by UW-Madison IT professionals for the campus IT community. The UW IT Professionals Conference provides opportunities to talk shop and brainstorm solutions that affect the daily IT experience of higher education pros and ultimately, their stakeholders.
Contact itproconf@wisc.edu to get involved.