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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
- 8:30 Welcome; Individual Introductions
- (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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