We have a terrific collection of seminars, discussion sessions and tours
for this year. Below is the complete listing. You may also want to download our handy quick reference seminar
grid PDF for a birds-eye view of the day.
Location: Clark Lounge
Colleges are seeking to provide innovative methods for students and academic staff to communicate, improve student retention, increase institutional accountability, meet student and academic staff demand for technology, and optimize student services - among many other priorities. This seminar will present a number of opportunities to learn how future enhancements to Blackboard solutions can help to further the strategic vision for technology and education at your institution. Presented by Blackboard, Inc.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
IMPACT Management, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, will present SharePoint – The Magna Cum Laude of Collaboration Platforms. Find out how Microsoft SharePoint can be implemented across your campus to enable easy connections, communications and automated processes amongst students, professors and administrators. You’ll hear about how St. John's University streamlined its faculty tenure process using SharePoint – saving hours of time and mountains of paperwork for tenure-track professors. We’ll also cover portals and ePortfolios and how they’re being used to help students and faculty create personal histories of their development and proudly publish their greatest accomplishments. And that’s just for starters! Join us and you’ll agree that SharePoint is the Magna cum Laude of Collaboration Platform. Presented by Microsoft/Impact.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
Virtual desktop solutions enable users to enjoy the benefits and functionality of traditional desktops such as personalization, local printing and access to audio and video. The big positive is the reduction of IT challenges such as the management of large desktop environments, security from internal and external threats, patch management, software upgrades, and downtime. This session is a primer plus on the upside of thin client computing. Presented by ServerWare Corporation.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
Building reliability in the wireless environment to support daily VOIP, video and data applications across a shared medium can be nearly impossible. The presentation will highlight the design considerations used to build a wireless networks that support the day to day voice, data and video applications of enterprise, education, government and public safety needs across New York State. Various physical and logical models will be explored, along with the technologies in the licensed and unlicensed radio spectrums that support them. Inherent issues with different models will be highlighted, along with RF engineering designs that work. A close look at the destructive effects of rogue energy and its effect on the WAN's reliability and bandwidth support will be highlighted. Every day examples will be included from real world experience and WANs and MANs. Presented by Integrated Systems.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
The focus of this workshop will be to explore best practices for better managing your information throughout its entire lifecycle, from creation to retirement. By leveraging classification of information, it will allow you to address the different needs of information as it moves its way through the data lifecycle, putting this data in a position to be easily accessed in time of need whether it is from a pure disaster recovery perspective or something more finite like litigation support while maintaining compliance with the ever growing number of regulations around data management and access. Presented by Iron Mountain Digital.
Location: McDonald Lounge
The Discuss…IT sessions provide an opportunity to chat with others who are interested in the same topic to share ideas, frustrations, and solutions. The sessions will be facilitated by someone from Ithaca College who is familiar with the issue, but the content will come from you. The topic for this session is: Sustainable Computing.
Location: Clark Lounge
Presidium is the leading Education Services Management (ESM) company and we partner with education institutions to provide unified service desk solutions. Through a unique co-managed 24/7/365 support framework, Presidium helps educational institutions with routine support interactions for IT and student services such as financial aid, admissions and registration. We offer live support via multiple modes of contact, including phone, live chat, email and web-based ticket submissions that are all privately branded and fundamental components of ESM. Learn how over 650 organizations partner with Presidium to cost-effectively handle the seasonality of the academic calendar, thus improving retention, graduation rates, and overall student/faculty/teacher/parent and administration satisfaction. Presented by Presidium Inc.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
Virtualization puts even more demand on your data center fabric and IT infrastructure—as your organization now has physical and virtualized access points and connections that need to be effectively managed. In fact, industry analysts have used the term “virtualization management gap” to describe the deficiency in managing virtualized environments compared with the maturity of tools to manage physical server environments. Microsoft is addressing this gap with the release of Hyper-V, enabling more and more customers to readily evaluate and adopt Windows as its server virtualization technology of choice. The most common way to reduce costs is by virtualizing hardware and consolidating servers. This lowers equipment,electrical and space costs. On the desktop side, you can use presentation and application virtualization to save money on deploying and supporting new and legacy applications, and migrating to new operating systems. And by implementing a comprehensive management strategy, you can dramatically cut the costs of managing both virtual and physical assets. Presented by Microsoft.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
How to use wireless data to create efficiencies, asset management with very quick ROI. Presented by Verizon Wireless.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
Today's Network threats have one purpose--to evade traditional security and inflict as much damage as possible on a company's IT infrastructure, revenue and reputation. To ensure total security, you need a solution that's dynamic, scalable and open standards-based, in short, a solution that is greater than the sum of its parts. You need Adaptive Threat Management. Join us to learn how to recognize early warning signs that can help you detect and mitigate network attacks and breaches--before they cause damage, why traditional stand-alone security products cannot address today's threats, and how a "cooperative system" approach composed of comprehensive real-time security solutions can mitigate the most complex attacks. Presented by Juniper Networks.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
Over 80% of businesses in the United States lease equipment, and the higher education sector is no different. This session will detail the benefits of leasing, explore the strategic differences between leasing and buying, outline the basic lease process, and spend time on which terms and conditions will affect the logistics and economics of the lease. Lease contracts are highly customizable; the better you understand lease contracts, the better they will serve the objectives of your school. Presented by First American Equipment Finance.
Location: McDonald Lounge
The Discuss…IT sessions provide an opportunity to chat with others who are interested in the same topic to share ideas, frustrations, and solutions. The sessions will be facilitated by someone familiar with the issue, but the content will come from you. The topic for this session is: Technology in K-12.
Location: Depart from the Registration Table – Free Ticket Required
Join us for a tour of Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications. The Park School houses specialty labs and studios that support television, video, film and photography production. These studios and labs offer students real world production facilities. The studios contain control rooms and production studios with advanced lighting, sound and computer equipment to meet production and cable access requirements. Tour will depart from the registration desk in the North Foyer promptly at 10:00 a.m. and is limited to 20 people. Please pickup a free tour ticket at the registration table prior to the departure time.
Location: Clark Lounge
Apple will give a presentation on the features and new capabilities of iLife 09. Presented by Apple, Inc.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
As Higher Education has embraced technology to manage and support virtually every aspect of classroom learning, so has it also begun to use technology to support extra-curricular student life. A small but important part of extra-curricular student life concerns the management of student misconduct. Deans of Students and Housing staff are at the forefront of responding to and making meaning from student misbehavior. Ithaca College has partnered with Pave Systems Inc. to deploy a web-based application to aid in this process. This presentation will present both vendor and institutional perspectives on the use of technology to manage student conduct concerns. The presentation will focus on the deployment, use, and implications for a web-based student conduct system. Presented by Pave Systems Inc. and Ithaca College Judicial Affairs.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
Learn how VMware View3 can help you take control over your desktops and applications, provide increased agility, flexibility, and cost reduction. Presented by one of the first VMware Certified Professionals worldwide, attendees will learn how to centrally and securely manage hundreds of users with just a few mouse clicks. We will discuss technologies that allow you to dramatically improve service levels, provision new users automatically, deploy upgrades to hundreds of users in moments, and provide your users with access to their systems from anywhere that they can access the web. Finally all of this is accomplished while dramatically reducing carbon footprint and reducing power consumption by up to 80%. Presented by Systems Management and Planning, Inc.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
Software as a Service, or SaaS, is an increasingly attractive solution to the needs of all types of organizations - regardless of size, industry type, or location. Cited in the January 2009 issue of CRN magazine, SaaS was listed as one of the "Top Ten Real Cost Cutting Technologies for 2009." Cavalry Companies uses our web-based platform, The Cavalry Compass, to deliver a customizable SaaS to each of our clients. The Cavalry Compass allows each of its users to simply, efficiently, and cost-effectively address a wide variety of compliance and controls needs. Presented by Cavalry Companies.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
Backup and restore has, is, and will continue to be one of the most expensive, challenging and frustrating activities that IT departments need to cope with. However, there is a better way. Come find out how utilizing feature and function rich centralized storage with your existing software can virtually eliminate backup windows, make the process more frequent, predictable, and reliable while at the same time reducing backup related line items from your overall budget. Presented by Dell, Inc.
Location: McDonald Lounge
The Discuss…IT sessions provide an opportunity to chat with others who are interested in the same topic to share ideas, frustrations, and solutions. The sessions will be facilitated by someone from Ithaca College who is familiar with the issue, but the content will come from you. The topic for this session is: Supporting / Services for Mobile Devices.
Location: Depart from the Registration Table – Free Ticket Required
Join us for a tour of Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications. The Park School houses specialty labs and studios that support television, video, film and photography production. These studios and labs offer students real world production facilities. The studios contain control rooms and production studios with advanced lighting, sound and computer equipment to meet production and cable access requirements. Tour will depart from the registration desk in the North Foyer promptly at 11:00 a.m. and is limited to 20 people. Please pickup a free tour ticket at the registration table prior to the departure time.
Location: Clark Lounge
Apple will discuss the uses of these mobile education devices in Higher Education. Presented by Apple, Inc.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
If you are thinking of upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 or have already upgraded and are having trouble finding things, this session is for you. Join us to learn about the new Microsoft Office environment including the Ribbon and Contextual Tabs, and some of the new enhancements, such as Tables and SmartArt in Word and Charting and PivotTables in Excel. Presented by Microsoft/New Horizons.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
What if, instead of producing dozens of 4th grade math textbooks, a community of educators could get together to produce one single electronic 4th grade textbook? Presented by WebPath.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
Ithaca College has been researching student engagement and learning through students' use of wikis. Come to this workshop to learn more about this study and its initial findings. This study is a collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science and History and has interesting implications for both high school and college curricula. Presented by Ithaca College Assistant Professor Ali Erkan, Computer Science and Assistant Professor Michael Smith, History.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
Organizations struggle with IT complexity. Dell is forging a new path to simplify IT by building a low-touch uniform infrastructure spanning the desktop to the data center. Dell is building a methodology by which an IT organization can measure its operational efficiency, manageability, and flexibility to pinpoint ways to streamline how IT is acquired, maintained, and scaled. Dell IT simplification helps reduce the cost and complexity of maintaining systems, enabling organizations to reclaim time, money, and personnel needed to drive true innovation into daily business processes. Presented by Dell, Inc.
Location: McDonald Lounge
The Discuss…IT sessions provide an opportunity to chat with others who are interested in the same topic to share ideas, frustrations, and solutions. The sessions will be facilitated by someone from Ithaca College who is familiar with the issue, but the content will come from you. The topic for this session is: Virtualization.
Location: Depart from the Registration Table
Tour several of our eclassrooms and gain an in-depth understanding of our eclassroom models and our classroom management, support and renewal program. Tour departs promptly at 12:10 pm from the registration desk. Presented by Ithaca College.
Location: Depart from the Registration Table
From talking computers to pens that read, advances in assistive technology are revolutionizing how individuals with disabilities work, play, communicate and learn. Come visit Ithaca College's Assistive Technology lab and you can type with your eyes, speak without using your voice, and use a handheld scanner that's the size of a pen to decode complicated vocabulary. You can also explore software options for students with learning disabilities that make both reading and writing more accessible. Tour will depart from the registration desk in the North Foyer promptly at 12:10 p.m. Presented by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Department and the Office Of Academic Support Services For Students With Disabilities.
Location: Clark Lounge
With shrinking budgets in every facet of education, every dollar saved can make a big difference. Ithaca Free Software Association members will provide some information about how everyone can save money by using free/open source software. Presented by Ithaca Free Software Association and NY State Ubuntu LoCo.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
How to make investments in your I.T. infrastructure that will improve system performance, reduce costs and increase flexibility. Presented by Lynx Technologies, Inc.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
E-mail is no longer an ancillary form of communication. It has become the primary way that business is done. Because of this evolution, an e-mail archive is now a critical business tool. Whether it is installed to improve the efficiency of e-mail servers or to improve the effectiveness of the e-mail user, you'll learn why an e-mail archive is a critical component of your IT infrastructure. We will explain how and why customers are using e-mail archives to improve business processes and ensure compliance with relevant business and privacy regulations. Presented by Mirapoint Software, Inc.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
Starting in the summer of 2007 Ithaca College embarked on a project to build a lightweight Web portal infrastructure for the campus community from scratch. The result is a “Web 2.0” portal environment that bridges a person’s on-campus and off-campus worlds, provides for one-click access to campus resources and information, and allows for the community to create portlets and publish portlet collections. Join us to learn why Ithaca decided to go this route, and see what one campus came up with for a next-generation Web portal when they were not constrained by an out-of-the-box solution. Presented by Ithaca College Information Technology Services.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
How can you save on datacenter transport costs? The development of FCoE is going to be the next great shift in datacenter technologies. Saving capital finances on equipment and cabling and combining that with savings on the recurring costs of power utilization and cooling. This seminar will discuss what it is all about and how you can get there. Come on in and lend your thoughts and see where the industry is headed. Presented by Brocade.
Location: McDonald Lounge
The Discuss…IT sessions provide an opportunity to chat with others who are interested in the same topic to share ideas, frustrations, and solutions. The sessions will be facilitated by someone from Ithaca College who is familiar with the issue, but the content will come from you. The topic for this session is: Tough Times.
Location: Depart from the Registration Table
Join us for a tour of several of Ithaca College’s computer labs. Learn how we support and maintain our facilities. Tour will depart from the registration desk in the North Foyer promptly at 1:10 p.m. Presented by Ithaca College.
Location: Clark Lounge
Using a SMART Board interactive whiteboard, inspire students with interactive lessons using SMART Notebook software while encouraging students to collaborate. Attendees will learn how SMART technologies can be seamlessly integrated into the classroom to capture student's attention and help develop their minds. Presented by Tequipment Inc.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
This session will highlight the environment and power of the Vista operating system. See how to make the new features work for us, such as the new Start Menu, the new Explorer, and the Sidebar. Presented by Microsoft/New Horizons.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
Data Center consolidation and system utilization have become two of the most important aspects of today's IT organizations. How can Sys Admins achieve these goals with shrinking budgets and less personnel? Is it with Virtualization? Is it with refining deployment procedures? ServerWare's staff addresses how IT departments can effectively combine both of these methods to obtain lower TCO and greater ROI. Presented by ServerWare Corporation.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
In the Spring of 2008, Ithaca College embarked on the implementation of Apple’s iTunes U service which gives colleges and universities the ability to deliver video and audio content to campus constituents free of charge. Moreover, iTunes U enables the distribution of portable content for education via the iPod, iTouch and iPhone. We will discuss the history and process of engaging Apple and the integration model we chose here at Ithaca College. We will also discuss various technical attributes, how we are engaging faculty and view some examples of how faculty are using iTunes U in the classroom. Presented by Ithaca College Information Technology Services.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
Finger Lakes Technologies Group (FLTG) has built a 400 mile fiber-optic network ring through the Central Finger Lakes Region from Rochester to Geneva, Ithaca, Auburn, Syracuse and back to Rochester. Please join us for this session that will show the fiber route and discuss the benefits that businesses, schools, and governments are already achieving from the services that FLTG is providing on the network. Services include: High-Speed Internet Access, Local and Long Distance Voice Access, Audio and Video Conferencing, Remote Backup of Data Storage, Diversity of routes for redundancy of service, and Unified Communications (one inbox for fax, voice mail and email). Presented by Finger Lakes Technologies Group, Inc.
Location: McDonald Lounge
The Discuss…IT sessions provide an opportunity to chat with others who are interested in the same topic to share ideas, frustrations, and solutions. The sessions will be facilitated by someone from Ithaca College who is familiar with the issue, but the content will come from you. The topic for this session is: Cloud Computing & Outsourcing Services.
Location: Depart from the Registration Table
Join us for a tour of several of Ithaca College’s computer labs. Learn how we support and maintain our facilities. Tour will depart from the registration desk in the North Foyer promptly at 2:10 p.m. Presented by Ithaca College.
Location: Clark Lounge
In this session we will demonstrate the new features of FileMaker Pro 10 and how they make it easy to manage data that has become too difficult to manage in Excel and other tools. Presented by FileMaker, Inc.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
Transform the way you conduct formative and summative assessments by using classroom response systems, document cameras, and interactive whiteboards. Presented by Troxell Communications.
Location: Ithaca Falls Meeting Room
With the recognition that email is a mission-critical application, it's no surprise that organizations are focusing on archiving solutions that address resource management, retention management and e-discovery management. This session addresses certain mandates, data protection policies and Symantec's Enterprise Vault product. The solution provides storage management, enables e-discovery of corporate data, email, IM's and file systems. A comprehensive overview by our staff. Presented by ServerWare Corporation.
Location: Taughannock Falls Meeting Room
Juniper Networks has designed a data center architecture based on new and innovative technologies that greatly simplifies data center security and network infrastructure. Presented by Juniper Networks.
Location: Six Mile Creek Meeting Room
The Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, Enterprise Edition (OBIEE+) is a comprehensive suite of enterprise BI products, delivering the full range of BI capabilities including interactive dashboards, full ad hoc, proactive intelligence and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, and more. In addition to providing the full gamut of BI functionality, the OBIEE+ platform is based on a proven, modern Web Services-Oriented Architecture that delivers true next-generation BI capabilities. Because of this unique architecture, institutions can connect to and wrap logic around ANY data source including non-Oracle database, Mainframes, flat files and Essbase or OLAPcubes. Presented by Oracle Corporation.
Location: McDonald Lounge
Be sure to stop by our “Birds of a Feather” session to talk with others about current issues and common areas of interest. Some possible topic ideas include: faculty support, residence hall support, helpdesk, instructional use of computers, networking, future trends, wireless…and the list goes on. This is your session to meet and talk with others from around the area. Hosted and facilitated by Ithaca College Information Technology Services, and NYCHES (New York Computing and Higher Education Symposium).
