Name: CUNY IT Conference 2024
Start: 2024-12-05T08:00
Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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

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. 