{"id":57,"date":"2016-12-15T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=57"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:43","slug":"symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/15\/symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan IT Symposium creates connections and showcases innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-image-107 \" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Two women standing near a poster display.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Christopher Gardner, ITS)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 500 IT professionals, administrators, and other community members gathered to create<\/p>\n<div class=\"photoright width-360\">\n<p>connections and showcase innovation occurring across all <span class=\"nobr\">U-M<\/span> campuses by participating in the third annual <a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/michigan-it-symposium.php\">Michigan IT Symposium<\/a>, held at the Michigan League November 21-22.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the event showcased 59 posters categorized by how they advance <a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/it-strategy\/strategic-plan\/\"><span class=\"nobr\">U-M<\/span> IT Strategic Plan<\/a> goals: Easily leveraged information, minimal administrative overhead, learning health system, learning laboratory, and unified research ecosystem. It also offered several new features:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/michigan-it-symposium\/2016#photos\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/images\/symposium2016\/MichiganITSymposium2016-18.jpg\" alt=\"Man and woman seated at table, smiling and talking.\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Christopher Gardner, ITS)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Hands-on training session topics including\u00a0Hadoop, Docker, Amazon Web Services, and Getting the Most Out of the Symposium.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Birds of a Feather&#8221; sessions were designed to encourage facilitated discussions around ideas like safeguarding research, communicating IT changes, and preparing for future student technology needs.<\/li>\n<li>We screened our first-ever feature film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedoc.co\/about\/\">CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap<\/a>, which was followed by a panel discussion with DEI representatives from the College of Engineering, LSA, and the Office of the Provost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keynote panel<\/h2>\n<p>The morning keynote was a panel discussion moderated by Professor Tim McKay (LSA physics and astronomy and School of Education) and included faculty members Aaron Ridley (College of Engineering, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering), Brenda Gunderson (LSA statistics), C. Alberto Figueroa (Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering), and Richard Tolman (School of Social Work). Each shared information about their work and the resources they use from Michigan IT. They also provided a wish list of the future of IT in their areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-center-640\">\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BuxJhQfHqEc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><em>Video: Mike Stork, ITS<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Closing remarks<\/h2>\n<p>For the closing session, Cathy Curley, executive director of strategy &amp; planning for the Office of the CIO, facilitated a chat with Kelli Trosvig, <span class=\"nobr\">U-M&#8217;s<\/span> new vice president for information technology and chief information officer. Trosvig shared some of her background story, why she made the move to <span class=\"nobr\">U-M,<\/span> and gave an overview of her approach to IT management. After answering a few pre-submitted questions, Trosvig participated in a short Q&amp;A session with the audience.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-center-640\">\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K32-QTLa8sE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><em>Video: Mike Stork, ITS<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Behind the scenes<\/h2>\n<p>The IT Symposium was made possible due to the efforts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cio.umich.edu\/michigan-it\/michigan-it-symposium\/2016#planning\">2016 Michigan IT Symposium Planning Committee and many volunteers<\/a>, from set-up and wayfinding, room hosts, graphic design, social media, and video and photography.<\/p>\n<h2>Get involved<\/h2>\n<p>The IT Symposium is one of several activities organized by the Michigan IT Steering Committee to build community and encourage collaboration among <span class=\"nobr\">U-M&#8217;s<\/span> 2,400 IT professionals. Planning for next year&#8217;s event has already begun. If you&#8217;d like to participate on the planning committee for the 2017 Michigan IT Symposium, email <a href=\"mailto:michigan-it-symposium@umich.edu\">michigan-it-symposium@umich.edu<\/a>. Come help frame and take part in our future conversations!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/nancy-herlocher-665x666.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-thumbnailwp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-thumbnail photo ' width='400'\/>\u00a0<img data-del=\"avatar\" src='https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ssterken.jpg' class='avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-thumbnailwp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-thumbnail photo ' width='400'\/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Nancy Herlocher (LSA IT) and Stefanie Horvath (ITS Communications) contributed to this story.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 500 IT professionals, administrators, and other community members from across all U-M campuses gathered at the third annual Michigan IT Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,20],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-innovation","tag-symposium"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",1280,853,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",200,133,false],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",60,40,false],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",450,300,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",665,443,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MichiganITSymposium2016-05.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Josh Simon, LSA Technology Services","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/jss\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Over 500 IT professionals, administrators, and other community members from across all U-M campuses gathered at the third annual Michigan IT Symposium.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}