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Overview

The 23rd annual CUNY IT Conference will take place on December 5 – 6 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

We are delighted to unveil the 2024 CUNY IT Conference theme Advancing CUNY: Intentional Connections & Smart Collaborations. Which collaborative tools are you supporting and promoting to make connections across offices, departments, and campuses? Are you looking at solutions to streamline the student journey from admission to financial aid to navigating to their classrooms? What platforms do you utilize for connecting and collaborating with colleagues on research or special initiatives? How are you leveraging AI to enhance your day-to-day work activities? How do you encourage students’ collaborations with AI to deepen their learning? What are your favorite tools to foster intentional and engaging collaborations in and outside the in person or virtual classroom? Have you discovered a particularly ingenious way to use a tool that has made collaboration not just effective but also more enjoyable?

If you are advancing teaching, learning and working at CUNY through intentional connections and smart collaborations, this 2024 CUNY IT Conference is for you! Join us in shaping the future of education and technology at CUNY!

A message from our Keynote Speaker

Higher education’s ability to embrace new technologies and prepare the workforce of tomorrow lies largely at the intersection of intentional connections and smart collaborations. At the 2024 CUNY IT Conference, we invite you to explore innovative approaches that start at this intersection and evolve into new ways to deliver academic instruction, engage with students and colleagues, encourage learning, conduct research, and improve operational efficiency. Join us as we shape a future where enabling collaboration tools and AI technologies amplify collaboration to better prepare our university and students for the future.

- Seb Formoso, CUNY Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and CIO

Speakers

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Aleks Berditchevskaia

Principal Researcher, Nesta’s Center for Collective Intelligence Design

Aleks is the Principal Researcher at Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design. Over the past 6 years she has shaped the research agenda for the Centre, in particular leading the team's pioneering work on AI. In 2020, she published The Future of Minds and Machines, which described how AI can help to enhance human collective intelligence and collaboration. Since then she has developed the Participatory AI approach - a methodology that uses participatory design and collective intelligence to create more responsible, effective and trustworthy AI tools. Drawing on a combination of expertise in design, futures and collective intelligence, Aleks has led projects with organisations such as the Red Cross and the UK's Met Office to help them develop and use public interest technology. She is passionate about designing processes and systems that combine the best of people and machines to achieve better outcomes for the public good.
Aleks is also the co-author of the 'Playbook for Collective Intelligence Design', the Centre's flagship toolkit on how to design for collective intelligence. She has trained teams from the UN Development Programme, local government, and many more, to apply collective intelligence methods in their work. Aleks has published widely on the value of collective intelligence for addressing societal challenges from crisis response and climate adaptation to sustainable development. 
Prior to her role at Nesta, Aleks worked in science policy with a focus on the societal impacts of emerging technology. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Imperial College London. 

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John Jay College of Criminal Justice

524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019

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Advisory Board

Education Representatives

Robert Aboulafia
Executive Director, CIS Business Office
CIS
CUNY

Tripti Batra
Assistant Director of Web, Communications, and Marketing
CIS
CUNY

Robert Berlinger
Chief Information Security Officer
CIS
CUNY

Tim Carney
Senior Director, Systems Management Control Office
CIS
CUNY

Seb Formoso
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology & University Chief Information Officer
CUNY

Jon Frost
Director
CIS
CUNY

Ramesh Ganeshram
Assistant Director
CIS
CUNY

Kym Gashi
Director of Business Operations
CIS
CUNY

Dan Gilday
Chief Technology Officer
CIS
CUNY

Kristie-Anna Hernandez
Chief of Staff
CIS
CUNY

Sadia Ismat
Chief IT Risk Officer
CIS
CUNY

Zev Jeremias
Chief Enterprise Applications Officer - Executive Director of Technology
CIS
CUNY

Aleks Mazo
Deputy Chief Technology Officer
CIS
CUNY

Edi Ruiz
Conference Co-Chair
Information Technology Division
Lehman College

Krafins Valcin
Senior Director, Academic Collaborations Technology
CIS
CUNY

Greet Van Belle
Conference Co-Chair
Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies
York College

Tatiana Zarmehrbakhsh
Senior Director, Project Management Office
CIS
CUNY

Industry Representatives

Brian Baute
Senior Account Executive
Higher Education
RingCentral Inc.

Tim Edwards
Account Executive
Pathify

Hunter Ely
Strategy Director
Higher Education
Armis

Chase Foster
Account Executive
Google Cloud

Stephen Kunzler
Strategic Client Sales Executive
D2L / Brightspace

Mark Murray
Cloud Platform Manager
Oracle

John O'Brien
Regional Vice President, Sales
Apogee

Jay Singh
Senior Named Account Executive
Cloudflare

Christy Toma
Senior Manager
Deloitte

Jim Van Orden
Named Account Manager
Palo Alto Networks

Justin Washington
Enterprise Account Manager
Amazon

Registration Information / Contact Us

Event Dates: December December 5 and 6, 2024

Contact Information

This is an invitation-only event, open to Public Sector only. For more information or to request an invitation, please contact Timiko Watkins.

If you represent a Private Sector organization and are interested in Sponsorship Opportunities, please contact Heather Earney.

To RSVP and for general assistance contact:

Timiko Watkins
Center for Digital Education
Phone:  (916) 932-1402
E-mail:  twatkins@erepublic.com

For assistance or questions concerning Sponsor Logos or Logistics please contact:

Mireya Gaton
Government Technology
Phone: (916) 296-2617
E-Mail: mgaton@govtech.com

Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, contact:

Heather Earney
Center for Digital Education
Phone: (916) 932-1339
E-mail: heather.earney@erepublic.com

Venue

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019

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Hotels

There is no room block set up for this event. We recommend making room reservations as soon as possible, as this is a busy and expensive time in New York. The closer you get to the event, the more expensive hotels will be and the more hotels will be sold out.


Directions

http://www.jjay.cuny.edu
Scroll to the bottom of the page for a map.


Parking

There is no parking available on campus.

There are several pay parking garages along 59th Street between 9th and 11th Avenues.


Attire

Business casual.