2021 Schedule & Agenda

The first-ever Cal State Tech e(Xr)po in Extended Reality or CSU Cafe invites attendees to join immersive a virtual social & fun gathering and to experience XR interactions developed by the CSU community.

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CSU Chancellor Joseph I. Castro and Michael Berman, CIO at the Chancellor’s Office, will chat about many topics, including the role of technology in the CSU.

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After analyzing our student communications, we changed some of our approaches to communicating with students to entice and engage for greater student success. Come ready to share your successes too.

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Academic technology leaders and faculty discuss development of an academic technology strategy, illustrating how to align campus expectations of academic technology implementation with teaching and learning missions.

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The EAB Smart Guidance project is nearing completion. Learn about this collaborative and innovative project, the functionality, and a campus perspective on how these student-facing tools are supporting GI2025.

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Come learn how the New Normal is shifting Technology Innovation at Fresno State to support the next generation of successful graduates that will lead digital transformation in the Central Valley and beyond.

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SDSU Instructional Technology Services, in collaboration with Biology Department faculty, created a library of 3D virtual anatomy models using photogrammetry that served as powerful remote learning tools during the pandemic.

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Panel Discussion reflects on the decisions made, challenges faced, and lessons learned from SDSU’s Flexible Course Design Institute (Flex-CDI). Discussants offer their unique perspectives on the training.

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Learn how Cal Poly set out to optimize Zoom license management by developing an automated deprovisioning process, leveraging AWS serverless engine technologies, campus systems, and Zoom API.

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US legislation requirments for those who dial 911 for your campus. Come hear about your obligation to conform to these laws and the tools in which you can use.

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Coronavirus pandemic response requires quick implementation of accessible and efficient solutions. CSUN’s IT Digital Transformation team used OnBase and Adobe Sign’s GigaSign application to reach and support thousands of students.

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Optional Lunch and Learn:

Is your campus overwhelmed with Zoom recordings? Learn how to easily capture and retain recordings while also reducing costs. We will demo how to create and start Zoom meetings that are automatically uploaded to ShareStream, as well as how to import preexisting cloud recordings.

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The presentation will cover how SDSU is adapting our learning environments to facilitate instruction by equipping classrooms with capture and streaming technology, as well as the use of natural language processing/artificial intelligence.

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How do you let users know where they are in your training program? Come see how Canvas can be leveraged as a self-serve dashboard to train and track your users.

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Get the knowledge to build great things in AWS. We will build learning pathways, tour the available training resources, and map the certifications you will be ready to achieve.

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Optional Lunch and Learn:

Is your campus overwhelmed with Zoom recordings? Learn how to easily capture and retain recordings while also reducing costs. We will demo how to create and start Zoom meetings that are automatically uploaded to ShareStream, as well as how to import preexisting cloud recordings.

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The Empathy Lens serves as an incubator for research on empathy-building XR technologies that can enable experiences that would be impossible or out of reach in a traditional learning environment.

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This session will explore why the term “soft skills” is problematic and gender-biased, and consider alternatives to recognizing, valuing, and rewarding skills such as communications, teamwork, and problem-solving.

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This interactive session will introduce the Purposeful Learning Framework and how it serves to inform course design and delivery that creates effective learning experiences for the greatest number and diversity of learners. Discussion will begin by establishing that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive efforts do not belong to one office or entity on campus, but rather are something critical to be mobilized through creating more inclusive learning experiences where all students see themselves as belonging, represented, and destined to succeed. 

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The presentation will provide an overview of the experience of working inside the CSU’s most impactful security incident to date. Kevin Morningstar (CIO) and John Humes (ISO) will share the first-hand account and lessons learned from this event.

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Please join us to learn more about how Sac State’s “ICT” workflow can help your campus streamline Secure and Accessible IT procurement!

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The increase in the number and complexity of attacks on higher education has been unprecedented over the last year. Attendees will discuss and learn about the latest attacks, threat actors, and efforts to combat these challenges in the CSU.

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Check out what other CSU campuses are doing with VR technology! Socialize and interact with showrooms and displays highlighting VR technology across the CSU system.
Visit the CSU Cafe for more information.​​

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Unisys invites you to a fun, interactive evening of magic with International Champion of Magic, John George, in his breathtaking virtual theater,The Harrington. Get your head out of the cloud, security and technology mode and be entertained and amazed by John George’s award winning magic show - guaranteed to blow your mind to bits and bytes! NOTE! He will be teaching a trick you can learn real-time - bring 2 rubber bands. He will also answer questions at the end of the show. Limited to the first 100 attendees! Don’t miss out! ​​​​

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The first-ever Cal State Tech e(Xr)po in Extended Reality or CSU Cafe invites attendees to join immersive a virtual social & fun gathering to experience XR interactions developed by the CSU community.

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Join us to hear from Rana el Kaliouby, the author of Girl Decoded, who is a pioneer and visionary in the technology industry. Rana works to promote the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence, to enhance how technology interacts with us and how we interact with the world.

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Share how CSU Chico, in partnership with the Chancellor’s Office Learning & Development team, leveraged CSU Learn to “fill the gap” in student compliance-related training during COVID-19 and beyond.

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The Flexible Learning Environments eXchange & LSRS help teams prioritize, design, assess learning space projects. Explore LSRSv3 & FLEXspace features, example spaces and resources, and a model for integrated planning.

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San Francisco State’s ITS team will discuss how staff recognition, acknowledgment, and engagement delivers success in a virtual environment.

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HyFlex (Hybrid-Flexible) courses provide multiple participation paths through a course that encourages students to choose which path – in-class or online – works best for them for a given class.

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Presenting the latest implementation of the student success tool for CSU East Bay featuring the matriculating student portal using the SalesForce platform.

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Faculty Student Success Dashboard is a One-Stop toolset to increase faculty awareness of the role they play in Student Success and empower them to proactively engage their students.

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CSUCI’s IT department implemented TeamDynamix’s ticketing application and hated it. They sought out help from a pro to completely renovate it before deciding to love it or leave it.

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Can a virtual software lab replace the need for traditional on-campus computer stations? Come see how a virtual computer lab can help provide the academic software requirements of your students.

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New perspective of the role of IT and important actionable steps that can be taken to build a data integration environment that can easily unify everything across the campus ecosystem.

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Cloud this and cloud that! The “Cloud” is an over-generalized term that’s thrown around abruptly when talking a diversity of ways to deliver services and applications. Everyone has a perspective on what it means to them. Cloud isn’t a place or a company; it has more to do with how universities can deliver services to their students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and other constituents. Today we will level set and discuss why higher education embrace a cloud operating model and purchasing solutions, “As-a-Service.” What are the benefits to your institution, and how can Dell APEX offerings and the Dell APEX Console accelerate service and workload delivery!
PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE

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Becoming a FinOps Tagging Super-Hero: The power of tagging to accurately track cloud spend.

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Learn how to set up effective dashboards and reports for Out-Of-The-Box IT Service Management in ServiceNow to achieve strategic digital transformation objectives.

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With the COVID 19 pandemic restricting in-person operations, Cal State San Bernardino and Fullerton were required to transition their University OneCard distribution and redemption to an online-only model. We will discuss our process in implementing our new solutions, best practices for running a primarily remote ID card program, and lessons learned throughout the process.​

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Optional Lunch and Learn:​

Cloud this and cloud that! The “Cloud” is an over-generalized term that’s thrown around abruptly when talking a diversity of ways to deliver services and applications. Everyone has a perspective on what it means to them. Cloud isn’t a place or a company; it has more to do with how universities can deliver services to their students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and other constituents. Today we will level set and discuss why higher education embrace a cloud operating model and purchasing solutions, “As-a-Service.” What are the benefits to your institution, and how can Dell APEX offerings and the Dell APEX Console accelerate service and workload delivery!
PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE

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Learn (at least) eight practical ways to share the workload and support the advancement of Women in IT.

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This presentation will show how we propose to incorporate value-sensitive design informed by a culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) into the creation of a personalized, adaptive-learning homework system for chemistry education.

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​Using the right name creates a welcoming environment. There’s more to supporting our students than simply turning on a Peoplesoft feature. Join us as we share experiences implementing change campus-wide. ​

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Cal Poly uses Splunk Cloud, and following the University’s learning philosophy of “Learn by Doing,” we’ve empowered our student employees in our Security Operations Centers (SOC).​

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CSU has enabled data masking at all campuses to ensure optimum student data security and privacy. This presentation will help with steps on leveraging data masking capabilities in their environments.

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How much do you know about the CSU system? Answer questions to escape rooms and navigate through the maze, while visiting other CSU campuses along the way.
Visit the CSU Cafe for more information.​​

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It’s a battle of the brains! Choose your team of 3-4 colleagues and join us for an exciting trivia contest to see which CSU Team will take up the mantle of Quiz Bowl Champions!

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The first-ever Cal State Tech e(Xr)po in Extended Reality​ or CSU Cafe invites attendees to join immersive a virtual social & fun gathering and to experience XR interactions developed by the CSU community.

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An overview and demonstration of the maturity measurement model, built on the Capability Maturity Model, that can be used to measure department/organization maturity and identify opportunities for Continuous Improvement.

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The Sacramento State University Communications teamed up with the Information Resources & Technology Division to build a new unified news platform using the centralized campus content management system, Cascade CMS. The new site consolidated the campus newsroom, the “Made at Sac State” campaign blog, and the Sac State Magazine. The project kept the development in-house to ensure accessibility, security, and continuity in branding.

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East Bay and CMS Partnership for PeopleSoft Managed Services: Key success factors as well as lessons learned from the last 2.5 years (2019-present).

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This presentation will walk through some of the struggles and successes of trying to teach faculty through experience what it’s like to be a student in the virtual learning space.

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This session will share the findings of the EDUCAUSE student connectivity survey and discuss the strategies that campuses employed to support students to have reliable access to internet and devices.

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Several CSU campuses are preparing to offer different HyFlex modes/models for Fall 2021. This panel discussion will highlight 4 CSU campus approaches to HyFlex during COVID classroom max capacities.

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This presentation will provide a brief overview of the main OnBase processes we developed this year and will include a live demo of the two most advanced workflows.

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This presentation outlines how SDSU transitioned to a virtual help desk, including strategies for staffing and training, utilization of breakout rooms, and techniques to promote support resources to the campus.

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The presentation will be focused on using ESM systems and will include integrations and workflows we’ve built out for our campus’s enterprise service management solution. (Cherwell)

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San Francisco State will share their knowledge management transformation focused on improving service outcomes through process and technology enhancements.

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How Fresno State Data Operations Team went directly to providing data to campus stakeholders by leveraging the CMS Data Lake Service.

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COVID has disrupted the traditional way we use to communicate and the traditional PBX does not cut it for​ most any longer. Hear about Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS)

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How do women juggle everything: work/life/kids/career trajectory, in a pandemic while providing tech support and 50 snacks a day? Learn how women around the CSU have made things work.

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This presentation overviews different strategies to increase the accessibility of extended reality (XR) learning experiences, such as content metadata, accessible navigation panels, and machine learning algorithms for voice-activated controls.

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Cybersecurity is technical. Keep it simple and engaging with lessons from children’s books to unscramble the green eggs and scams. Learn how to create infographics, emails, and 2FA marketing campaign.

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How Cal Maritime used Microsoft Bookings, Excel, Adobe Acrobat forms, and Avery stickers to develop an appointment and tracking system and vaccine consent form workflow in less than 36 hours.

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Learn how to set up immersive environme​nts in Mozilla Hubs and practice your skills with live tutors in this XR DIY Lab Session! 
Visit the CSU Cafe for more information.​​

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Join this fun Jeopardy session to test your cybersecurity knowledge and engage with your peers! Fortinet will host a cyber-focused Jeopardy game at Cal State Tech Connect as a chance to network and learn. ​
PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE​

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