IT Conference 2006

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This is the final agenda for a conference of IT professionals providing support to units and agencies of Texas A&M Agriculture. The conference was held January 11, 2006, in Room 110, Koldus Building, as part of the Texas A&M Agriculture conference. Please note that items showing up in blue below are links to other pages or documents.


General Session

(Larry Lippke, Head-Information Technology)
  • 9:00 Information Technology in Texas A&M Agriculture: From Chaotic to Chaordic
(A. Gene Nelson, Executive Associate Dean)
  • 9:15 Information Security
Dimensions of Information Security: What is in ISAAC?
(Jeff McCabe or Kent Knudsen)
Results of Recent Security Audits
(Larry Lippke)
  • 10:00 Break
  • 10:15 Potential Responses to Audit Findings
EIT specialists will share current plans to address the audit findings outlined in the previous presentation (panel discussion)
  • Passwords
  • Backup procedures
  • Business continuity
  • IT Security training/acknowledgement
  • User accounts
  • Workstation security
  • 10:45 Information Security Breakouts
Round table discussion sessions for the following groups:
  • Off campus support
  • On campus departmental support
  • Agency wide support
Questions to be addressed:
  • How would you recommend these security issues be addressed?
  • What are the industry best management practices?
  • What should be done locally (i.e., at the unit level) and what should be done centrally?
Each round table will report its major ideas or conclusions. These will be captured on flip chart or computer and shared with all conference participants.


  • 12:00 Lunch on Your Own


  • 1:00 What's on the horizon?
(Lippke, Gerst, Segers)
  • Document Management System
  • Content Management System
  • BlackBerry/Treo Support
  • Email System
  • Backup Systems
  • Remote Control of PCs
  • 1:30 Demonstration of new applications
  • Blogs (Jeffrey SoRelle)
  • Wikis (Larry Lippke)
  • Grovesite (Larry Lippke)
  • GroupWise 7; incl. Outlook client (Jim Segers)
  • Surveys/WebData/Exam Web-based Applications (Fred Rodriguez)
  • Centra Symposium (Jennifer Jahedkar)
  • iFolder (Robert Jenson)
  • 3:00 Break
  • 3:15 Where should we be headed in the future?
Again, in round table discussions, respond to the following questions:
  • What other technologies or applications should Texas A&M Agriculture be exploring?
  • How can the Texas A&M Agriculture IT community better collaborate in evaluating, adopting, and implementing new information technologies?
  • What factors hinder this collaboration and what can be done to address those factors?
  • What respective roles do you see for unit vs centralized IT support; i.e., what should be centralized, what should be decentralized?
  • How can we foster enhanced collaboration to become less chaotic?
  • 4:45 Adjourn

List of Conference Participants


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