MDM at Duke!

PRESENTERS: Dan Cantrell, Kevin Caves, Jeremy Cook DEPARTMENTS: Casper Administrators at Duke FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: Directed toward IT admins, JAMF Casper is a centrally funded service at Duke available to all IT groups and departments. Casper is used to manage mobile devices (iOS and Android) in addition to OS X […]

Live Hack

PRESENTERS: Kendall Lewis, Nick Tripp DEPARTMENTS: Duke Medicine Information Security Office; Duke University Information Technology Security Office FORMAT: Lab (Bring your own laptop with someone to lead on topic or instruction) ABSTRACT: Attackers today have an ever-increasing number of web application weaknesses at their disposal, which may be exploited to accomplish a countless number of […]

Let’s discuss your Professional Development

PRESENTERS: Christine L. Vucinich DEPARTMENTS: OIT Training FORMAT: Birds of a Feather ABSTRACT: Are you thinking about your professional development for the upcoming year? Let’s have a discussion around what types of training opportunities are available to IT staff throughout Duke as well as what your future needs are.

IT Security Highest Risk

PRESENTERS: Richard Biever and Rosemary Herhold DEPARTMENTS: Duke Medicine Information Security Office, Duke University Information Technology Security Office FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: Duke leadership has identified IT security as one of the highest areas of institutional risk in the coming years. During this session, we will provide background information and case […]

Internet of Things (IoT) Higher Ed and Healthcare

PRESENTERS: Jim Haskins, IoT Specialist, Cisco DEPARTMENTS: Vendor FORMAT: Presentation ABSTRACT: IoE is the networked connection of people, process, data and things. IoE brings together people, processes, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before, turning information into actions that create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity […]

Innovation and Inspiration through Cognitive Computing: IBM Watson in the Age of Discovery

PRESENTERS: Swami Chandrasekaran, IBM DEPARTMENTS: Vendor FORMAT: Presentation ABSTRACT: IBM Watson’s cognitive capabilities are transforming industries like healthcare, higher education, retail and consumer products, to name a few. Imagine if you could take the skills and experience of your organization’s top experts and scale that insight across your entire organization. Imagine if you could find new, […]

High Performance Computing – Explored

PRESENTERS: Doug Beary, Lenovo Inc. DEPARTMENTS: Vendor FORMAT: Presentation ABSTRACT: What is HPC? How is it used? Where did it come from? How can I use it! This discussion will touch on the basics of HPC and how it evolved to where it is today. We will see what kind of use cases are typical […]

Good Karma and Web Accessibility

PRESENTERS: Joel H Crawford-Smith DEPARTMENTS: Duke Web Services FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: Become part of making the web better for all people everywhere, and reap the benefits! The web is fundamentally designed to work for all people, whatever their hardware, software, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability. When the […]

Global IT for a Global Campus: Tips & Lessons Learned from Supporting Duke’s International Operations

PRESENTERS: Kevin Davis (moderator), Richard Biever, Joe Lopez, Daniel Fredrick, Tim Searles, Patrick Daniels DEPARTMENTS: OIT, University IT Security Office, Fuqua, Trinity Technology Services, Global Health FORMAT: Panel Discussion (Moderator and panel members discussing a topic and/or taking questions from the audience.) ABSTRACT: From Duke Kunshan University, to research sites in Africa, to work on […]