ACUTA Seeking Presenters for Winter Seminar in Tampa, Florida January 13-16, 2013

August 22, 2012 // Conference & Exhibition, Education, Industry News, Market News, Press Releases

ACUTA is looking for ideas and proposals for educational sessions for its 2013 Winter Seminar. We welcome proposals from representatives of higher education institutions and consulting firms. Applicants are not required to be members of ACUTA.

Please submit your application by September 5, 2012. Sessions should cover university projects and/or trends in the industry. Presentations should not promote the products or solutions of individual companies.

We urge members and other information communications technology professionals to take advantage of the opportunity to share experiences, innovations, and successes.  Presentations may offer a case study, help members develop new skills, address a policy issue, or demonstrate a lesson learned.  In-depth technical content is welcome.

Educational sessions are 60 – 75 minutes in length.  We encourage individuals submitting proposals to consider ways to keep the audience engaged by breaking up presentations with time for small group discussion.  Proposals for panel discussions and more interactive discussion sessions are welcome.

We encourage members who haven’t spoken a great deal to consider presenting at ACUTA where the audience is very supportive.  Novice presenters may be more comfortable pairing with a colleague and sharing a speaking opportunity.

Download the ACUTA Speaker Proposal Form and submit your proposal via e-mail to dhall@acuta.org by September 5, 2012.

Please phone Donna Hall, ACUTA Director of Professional Development, at (859) 278-3338 if you have any questions.

 

For this seminar the Program/Content Committee is especially interested in proposals that address the following priority areas:

 
Track 1:  Next-Generation Data Networks

 

Data networks remain the critical infrastructure needed to deliver leading-edge ICT services. The Next-Generation Data Network track will explore best practices in wired and wireless network technology and tools, emerging trends in network design and support, and strategies to prepare for delivering or accessing next generation ICT services over the network.

 

Topics we want to cover:

  1. Campus case studies about how members use diagnostic tools and appliances to configure and manage switches, DNS, DCHP, radius, etc., for wired and/or wireless networks.
  2. Campus case studies about how members are managing video on the network.
  3. Campus experiences with network-authentication methods and services for wired and wireless networks.
  4. Stories about successful collaborations, partnerships, and funding methods for campus network infrastructure.
  5. Stories about overcoming challenges involved in providing network access to remote sites.
  6. Campus case studies about Sandbox or isolated networks designed to support research or special instructional needs.
  7. Descriptions of accommodations made to campus physical plants to support networking.
  8. Descriptions of campus network management processes and procedures to comply with PCI-DSS.
  9. Network-security and -compliance case studies, tools, and policies.
  10. Campus case studies about meeting the challenges of implementing IDS or IPS firewalls.
  11. Stories about progress and plans involved with moving to IPv6 and managing the depletion of the IPv4 addresses.
  12. Descriptions of campus uses of session-border gateways.
  13. Campus case studies about providing network support for Web 2.0 resources housed outside of the institution such as CRM, salesforce.com, Dropbox, Box.net, or Facebook.
 

 

Track 2: ICT Disaster Preparedness: Plan, Prepare, Practice, and Protect
Information technology and communications infrastructure play a critical and strategic role at our colleges and universities, so it is critical that plans are in place in the event of a disaster, both to recover disrupted ICT services and to provide technology assistance to the broader business-continuity and disaster-response effort. This track will explore effective processes for planning, preparing, and practicing for ICT disasters, as well as mitigating the effects of disruption, and to explore the role that technology can play in facilitating effective emergency-response efforts.

 

Topics we want to cover:

  1. Case studies about how campuses are implementing, testing, and updating their disaster-mitigation and recovery plans.
  2. Descriptions of collaborations between campus IT and other administrative departments, as well as local, state, and regional groups for disaster planning.
  3. Descriptions of technology integration being implemented in emergency operation centers and/or mobile command centers.
  4. Lessons learned from campus uses of emergency communications and notification systems.
  5. Campus uses of cloud services that support emergency communications and/or disaster recovery and business continuity.
  6. Stories about interdepartmental collaborations on emergency-communications policies and practices.
  7. What should ACUTA members understand about updates to E-911 regulations and their applicability to university campuses?
  8. How have campuses updated alarm and surveillance systems and integrated them with notification and mapping systems?

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