Lee Lounge/109
The Low Code Solutions (LCS) team helps schools, colleges, and divisions modernize processes by creating custom applications–using your own IT staff or our dedicated developers. Discover how your area can leverage this fully-supported service, including integrations with PersonAPI, FinanceAPI and various Data Warehouses to pull in the data you need for powerful apps and workflows.
Alumni Lounge
Welcome 9:00-9:15am – IT Professionals Conference co-chairs David Berg and Elizabeth Kraege-Soechting will provide introductory remarks for the conference.
Keynote 9:15-10:15am – Lois Brooks, the the outgoing CIO at UW–Madison, will deliver the keynote address.
In “Change is the Only Constant,” Lois Brooks explores how transformation in higher education IT requires both resilience and intentional adaptation. Drawing from her 40-year career in technology, Brooks shares insights on understanding institutional resistance and navigating in times of change. This keynote offers a candid look at lessons learned through major transitions—from pandemic-driven pivots to strategic realignments— with emphasis on the human elements that ultimately determine whether initiatives succeed or fail.
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If you spend time in wooded areas, you probably know how important it is to check for ticks afterward. Join us to learn about the Tick App, a citizen science project developed by researchers at UW–Madison with collaborators across the U.S. In this informative talk, we’ll show how the Tick App enables users to submit pictures of ticks they’ve found and how researchers identify what kind they are. We’ll discuss the evolution of this identification system and how we’ve started integrating AI into it.
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This presentation will guide you through running a freely available large language model (LLM) locally on your own hardware. You’ll gain practical experience making your own data accessible to the model and explore various techniques to enhance its performance. The session is designed to provide a deeper understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations through hands-on demonstrations.
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Room 313
Join us to learn about UW–Madison’s Job Rotation Program and discover how you can get involved. This program provides early career professionals with focused career development in finance, human resources and information technology (new in 2023) through meaningful work experiences and exposure to various professional settings and job responsibilities.
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Room 325/326
In this session, UW–Madison Libraries staff will share their experience and lessons learned from a recent partnership that extended the Libraries’ digital collections infrastructure to meet the needs of the Chazen Museum of Art. Join us to learn valuable lessons from a successful cross-campus collaboration, and take away strategies to effectively engage in large, complex IT projects with external partners you can apply to your own work.
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Room 313
Note: Presenters will be virtual for this session.
Discover the latest enhancements to Cybersecurity Appscanner, the user-friendly web application vulnerability scanner developed by DoIT’s Web and Mobile Solutions (WaMS) team and the Office of Cybersecurity. Check out new features they developed based on community feedback, including API setup, GitLab integration, and Manifest groups access control. Learn best practices for secure web application development and see a real-time application portfolio management dashboard in action.
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Room 313
Low Code Solutions (LCS) is an important service available to campus IT professionals, which creates a user-centric experience while reducing the need for advanced technical knowledge and large time investments that come with traditional software development.
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Room 325/326
Explore the collaborative development of the Foundation Data Model (FDM) Mapping Solution, a vital component of the Administrative Transformation Program’s Financial Crosswalk. Learn how innovative tools and frameworks streamline data management processes through effective collaboration between development and data management teams.
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Room 313 (Overflow in Room 325/326)
Welcome 9:00-9:15am – IT Professionals Conference co-chairs Sarah Lien and Elizabeth Kraege-Soechting will provide introductory remarks for the conference.
Keynote 9:15-10:15am – Dr. Joe Sanfelippo, the nationally recognized superintendent of Wisconsin’s Fall Creek School District, will deliver the keynote address at this year’s IT Professionals Conference.
I’m just…It’s a phrase we hear all the time. I’m just a sysadmin, I’m just a security analyst, I’m just a instructional designer….the list is long and is often followed by reasons why something CAN’T happen. Leadership is an action and it starts with you. Leading with INTENTION creates purpose. Leading with CONNECTION creates momentum. Leading with DIRECTION creates collective efficacy. Leading with all three in mind will build your capacity and foster an environment where everyone in your organization has the best opportunity to lead from where they are.
