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Eric DenBraber, Assistant Director - Housing IT, University of Colorado BoulderRobert Dixon, Director of Information Technology - Housing & Dining Services, University of Colorado BoulderAlfred Roberts, Assistant Director of IT, University of Colorado Boulder

Learn about the details of a successful virtual desktop deployment at CU-Boulder's Housing & Dining department with dozens of critical business database systems across 500 staff workstations. VDI can now change the future of business computing , offering the benefits of sustainability, IT administration, security, mobility, and ROI on hardware, software, and labor.

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Kyle Bowen,  Director of Informatics, Purdue UniversityEvery student makes the choice for how and where learning will take place. Increasingly, students are turning to mobile devices for accessing their learning content. To enable faculty to build mobile-ready content from a variety of different media, Purdue developed Jetpack, a mobile learning application that offers an alternative to texts, course packs, and class handouts.

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Melissa Woo, Vice Provost for IS and CIO, University of Oregon

Mentoring has evolved beyond the traditional long-term, one-on-one style. There are many different mentoring styles, and each can be leveraged effectively to assist in one's professional development. This session will cover different mentoring styles that can be used during the different steps in the journey toward that first CIO position.

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Robert Bramucci, Vice Chancellor, Technology and Learning Services, South Orange County Community College DistrictJim Gaston, Director of IT - Academic Systems, South Orange County Community College DistrictStudents flock to online services like Amazon, Pandora, and Netflix that offer personalized recommendations, a stark contrast from the "one size fits all" services in higher education. In this session, we will present Sherpa, a recommendation engine for courses, information, and services that utilizes both human and machine intelligence.

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Speaker: Clay Shirky, Faculty, New York University

For half a millennium, paper has been at the center of the academic enterprise, not just conceptually but architecturally, with many campuses arranged with the library at their center. Now, though, the core academic functions of collaboration, publication, dissemination, and argument are being virtualized. This change challenges many organizational and cultural assumptions, and moves the role of information and communication technology from a support function into the center of the academic enterprise.

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Joanne M. Kossuth, Vice President for Operations and CIO, Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringAnn Kovalchick, Chief Information Officer, Drake UniversityBruce Maas, CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology, University of Wisconsin-MadisonBrian D. Voss, Vice President & CIO, University of MarylandWhether you're a new or seasoned CIO, the first year on campus is spent figuring out buildings, systems, and people. Every first year presents a balancing act between maintaining the status quo and implementing significant change. Building a strategy, a team, and an IT environment of the future is often pitted against resolving (quickly!) age-old challenges and dealing with the ever-present crises that arise—all establish the credibility and trust needed to achieve strategic change. So how does a CIO survive this first year? By being flexible, adaptable, and responsive—and by keeping an eye on the strategic goals from Day 1.

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