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Schedule

Welcome

Time Event
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Registration, breakfast and socializing
9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Welcome remarks by Brian Lesser, chief information officer and Saeed Zolfaghari, vice-president, administration and operations, Toronto Metropolitan University

Keynote address

Time Event
9:40 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Keynote address on the work to date in developing TMU’s inaugural digital strategy.

  • Brian Lesser
    Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Laurie Stewart
    Executive Program Director, Digital Strategy atToronto Metropolitan University
  • Cameron Sielski
    Manager, Technology Strategy and Transformation at Deloitte

Breakout sessions

Time Concurrent session 1 Concurrent session 2 Concurrent session 3
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Quick coffee break
10:45 a.m.
- 11:30 a.m.

SimSnap: A Cross-device Toolkit to Develop Ad Hoc and Collaborative Applications

Ali Mazalek , Afroza Slutana, May Yu, Rishabh Seth, Yves Al-sharifi  - The Creative School/Synaesthetic Media Lab

Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

Technical staff, General audience

Location: DCC 208

Institutional Stewardship: Securing Staff Accounts Lifecycle from Provisioning (Onboarding) to Deprovisioning (Offboarding)

Restiani Andriati, Franco Chiocchio - CCS

Track: IT in administration

Technical staff, General audience

Location: DCC 204

Developments in Financial Systems

Naveed Ali Rao, CCS

Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

Technical staff, General audience

Location: DCC 350

11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Quick coffee break
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Untangling Organizational Complexity by Utilizing Systems Thinking

Dianne Nubla, School of Professional Communication

Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

General audience

Location: DCC 208

The AI Advantage: Faster, Better Course Development

Ian Ackerman, Senior Courseware Developer, D2L

Track: IT in administration, IT in teaching and learning, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

Technical staff, General audience

Location: DCC 204

CCS Managed Laptop Program

Kevin Davies - CCS

Track: IT in administration

Technical staff, General audience

Location: DCC 350

12:30 p.m.
- 1:30 p.m.
Lunch break at Upper Kerr Hall
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.

Trusting the Machine? A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Student Experiences with GenAI and Human Feedback

Lin Dong, Nancy Yang, Armita Sadeghian Barzoki - Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management

Track: IT in teaching and learning

General audience

Location: DCC 208

Automating User Deprovisioning: How It Works and Why It Matters

Jonathan Sammy, Hongyan Song, CCS

Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

Technical staff

Location: DCC 204

Resuscitating Data from Flatline to Baseline: the IV for Your Spreadsheets

Justin van Lieshout, The School of Medicine

Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

General audience

Location: DCC 350

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Afternoon coffee break
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Generating Game Based Deep Narrative Cinematic Course Design

David Chandross, Computational Public Safety Lab

Track: IT in teaching and learning

Technical staff, General audience

Location: DCC 208

Safe Practices Using Google Workspace

Restiani Andritai, Jassika Ledwani, CCS

Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

General audience

Location: DCC 204

 
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. In-person day: Closing remarks and prizes
Location: DCC 208

Opening remarks

Time Event
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. Welcome remarks by Brian Lesser, chief information officer and Saeed Zolfaghari, vice-president, administration and operations, Toronto Metropolitan University

Keynote address

Time Event
9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Keynote address: Cybersecurity Risk Management in Higher Education: Are We Making Decisions and Are They the Right Ones?

  • Tracy Dallaire
    Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Director of Information Security Services and Client Services at McMaster University
  • Art Exner
    Associate Vice-President (Information Services) at the University of Regina
  • Nathan Corwin
    Chief Information Security and Digital Trust Officer at the University of Toronto

Breakout sessions

Time Concurrent Session 1 Concurrent Session 2 Concurrent Session 3
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.  

From Heuristics to Intelligence: Using On-Device AI for Detecting Mixed-Language Accessibility Issues

Adam Chaboryk - CCS/DMP

Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

Technical staff, General audience

Building a Proactive Early Alert System to Support Student Success

Bilal Khan, Valerie Deacon, Madelyn Steed -  CCS, ARTS, TRSM

Track: Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

Technical staff

11:05 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.

Zero Trust or Bust for Today's Connected Campus

Brandon Murray, HPE

Track: Cybersecurity

Technical staff

UPS' Get No Respect

David Lester - CCS

Track: IT in administration

Technical staff

 
12:05 p.m.
- 1:00 p.m.
Lunch break
1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.  

Safe Practices Using Google Workspace

Note: This is a repeat of the session hosted in-person on May 13, Day 1 of the IT Conference

Restiani Andritai, Jassika Ledwani, CCS

Track: IT in administration, Projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

General audience

 
1:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Break
2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

CISOs on a Shoestring: Doing More With Less

Priya Mouli, CISO, University of Alberta

Track: Cybersecurity

Technical staff, General audience

TMU Network/Security Overview

Jacob Trautman, Dmitry Flichakov - TMU CCS

Track: IT in administration, Cybersecurity

Technical staff, General audience

GenAI Tools at TMU

Jassika Ledwani, Restiani Andriati, Stephanie Goetz - CCS / DMP

Track: IT in administration, projects, workshops, demonstrations or tutorials

General audience

2:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Beyond the Lecture Hall: Evolving Cyber Threats in Academia

A special presentation by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)

Tea Lalatovic, Technical Advisor, CCCS

Track: Cybersecurity

Technical staff, General audience

   
3:50 p.m. -
4 p.m.
Break
4 p.m. -
4:15 p.m.
Closing remarks and prizes with Brian Lesser, chief information officer