Registration / Morning Refreshments / Exhibit Area

Welcome

Anne Margulies, Vice President, University Chief Information Officer, Harvard University

Keynote Presentation

Iris Bohnet, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Public Policy / Director of Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School

Keynote Presentation

Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Networking Break

Concurrent Sessions 1

Migrating to the Cloud – One Size Does Not Fit All!

The best way to achieve success as you migrate to the cloud might just depend on the size and needs of your organization. This presentation looks at three groups at Harvard that represent small, medium, and large migrations and analyzes what they did, how it worked, and what they learned. There will be a panel discussion about migration challenges – both shared and those unique to each group.

Deane Eastwood, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Kenneth Griffin, Senior Director, IT Operations, Harvard Business Publishing

Mike Landino, Director of Administrative Systems, Enterprise Applications, Harvard University Information Technology

Eric Ordoukhanian, IT Systems and Cloud Architect, Harvard Medical School

Ben Rota, Associate Director, Technology Engagement, Harvard University Information Technology

Kathleen Stuart, Senior Technical Project Manager, Harvard University Information Technology

Get the Full Download on APIs – Developer Perspectives

Explore the world of API development! Listen as developers explain how they’ve built new APIs to improve data exchange across Harvard. Find answers to questions such as: What approaches and tools are being used to create an API? Which APIs have been built and how can they help your team? What’s the developers’ best advice that will enable their peers to be as successful? How do you get started?

Sam Dowd, Senior Technical Product Owner, Data Management Services, Harvard University Information Technology

JaZahn Clevenger, Senior Developer, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Tiffany Downing, Data Warehouse Architect and Reporting Lead, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Mike Thomas, Senior Technical Architect, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Jinesh Mehta, Associate Developer, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Going Vertical – How the IT Academy Will Support Technical, Role Training

In the IT Academy’s third year, we focused on building out the vertical of the T-Shaped Professional. The IT Academy has aggregated training recommendations for every IT job function within Harvard. Recommendations include:

Learn more about the IT job functions identified Harvard-wide, and all the training options currently available and how to take advantage of them. You will also learn how you can contribute any thoughts or expertise you have to further develop IT learning opportunities to benefit IT professionals across Harvard.

Deirdre Schreiber, Senior IT Academy Training Program Manager, Harvard University Information Technology

Melissa Lucius, Senior Human Resources Program Manager, Office of Human Resources, Harvard University

Dorian Freeman, User Experience Lead, Harvard Web Publishing, Harvard University Information Technology

Luke Sullivan, Manager, Infrastructure Controls and Instrumentation, Harvard University Information Technology

Kevin Ball, Training and Program Administrator, Harvard University Information Technology

Learning Asset Reuse with DART

DART (https://dart.harvard.edu) is a Harvard-built software for enabling learning content reuse in Canvas. Through collaboration between HUIT and VPAL, DART allows HarvardX and Harvard Youtube content to be imported into Canvas with just a few clicks. As a small agile team with big ambitions, we will discuss our current features from the perspective of learning technologists, researchers, and our technology stack (Python microservices, Docker, and AWS).

David House, Software Engineer, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Daniel Seaton, Product Owner, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Elliott Yates, Software Engineer, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Andrew Ang, Research Data Engineer, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University

Sustaining a Connected Campus

For over ten years, Harvard Business School has used a centralized routing system to deliver audio and video signals to and from classrooms across campus. The capability of a fully matrixed system connecting the teaching spaces has been critical in providing faculty with new and innovative ways to deliver content using HBS’s case-based method. This presentation will focus on a recently completed project that spanned over four years to replace the AV routing infrastructure.

Benjamin Frey, Associate Director, Audiovisual Engineering and Productions, Harvard Business School

Justin Fowler, Audiovisual Design Engineer, Media Services, Harvard Business School

Davis Pasquariello, Audiovisual Engineer, Media Services, Harvard Business School

Say “Yes” to the Test: The Test Distribution Reality Show

Assuring quality has become a “whole team job,” but testing is still a mindset and, ultimately, a fruitful area of collaboration between developers and testers. In this live “reality show,” we’ll “stop being polite and start getting real” about how testers and developers can work together to distribute tests efficiently to accelerate the feedback process and provide more value to software teams.

Thomas Naughton, CSM, Quality Assurance Analyst, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School

Sophia K. Cheng, Principal Software Engineer, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School

Christine Sloane, Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School

Building Canvas Apps and the SEAS Canvas App Store

A crash course in building Canvas LTI apps from the ground up. Learn how easy it is to create new apps or integrate existing tools with Canvas, and hear how six Harvard courses leveraged homemade Canvas apps to measure grader harshness, promoting consistent grading; to intelligently seat students upon swipe-in, encouraging peer network building; and to enable new ways to grade, like self grading and horizontal grading.

Gabriel Abrams, Instructional Technology Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

EcoLearn: Supporting Ecosystem Science Understanding Using Immersive Technologies

Understanding relationships within ecosystems requires reasoning about complex causal dynamics – a form of reasoning shown to be challenging for learners. EcoLearn research uses immersive virtual ecosystems to help make the unseen visible by modeling ecosystems dynamics that are impossible to represent in the real world. We present our work with EcoXPT: inquiry and complex causal reasoning in middle school and EcoMOD: computational thinking and ecosystem science learning in elementary grades.

Amanda Dickes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Amy Kamarainen, Senior Research Manager, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Shari Metcalf, Project Director, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Herding Cats: Engaging with Stakeholders in a Complex Environment

Harvard University is a dynamic, complex environment . . . and so are its IT systems and stakeholder management! This panel session will feature a number of HUIT professionals all tasked with stakeholder management and engagement. The panelists will share their experiences working with diverse stakeholder groups across the University, including such topics as governance, decision-making, and managing user groups. Join us to learn from the panelists about what worked, what didn’t work, and learn about unique partnership techniques.

Simone Alpen, Associate Director, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Isabelle Modiano, Associate Director, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Andrew Sonnenschein, Manager of Client Relations and Product Management, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Annie Rota, Director of Academic Technology for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences , Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Kim Edelman, Director, Academic Platform Support, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Alisa Jahns, Senior Product Manager, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Gretchen Gingo, Director, Aurora Project, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Tom Mayhew, Admissions and Campus Community Lead, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Evolving Learning at HBX through Data Collection and Analytics

The HBX online learning initiative has built platforms to expand the reach of Harvard Business School’s case-based education to tens of thousands of students around the world. We are a data-driven organization, having built our systems to allow cloud-based enterprise-wide cross-platform querying and analysis to better understand our students and their successes and challenges. We will discuss our tools, techniques, findings, and lessons learned.

Brent Benson, Enterprise Architect, Harvard Business School

Ryan Frazier, Director, Systems and Production Engineering, Harvard Business School

Gildas Bah, Data Analyst Engineer, Harvard Business School

Battling the Blah-Blah-Blahs: Seven Tips for Making Websites Readable

Nearly all universities commit the deadly sin of too much text on their websites. Lengthy (and numerous) paragraphs of complex sentences cause eyeballs to glaze over and users to miss critical information. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a professional writer to battle text bloat. In this talk, a website designer and a journalist team up to offer simple tools for making your website pithy, lively, and genuinely informative. The battle can be won, even when faced with the worst case of the blah-blah-blahs.

Jen Kramer, Lecturer, Digital Media Program, Harvard University Division of Continuing Education

Martha Nichols, Instructor, Journalism Program, Harvard University Division of Continuing Education

Digital Transformation – Building a Framework for Change in Higher Ed (Exhibitor Session)

Much has been written about change in higher education. Much has been written about strategic planning. This session combines the two, providing a framework for universities to create new digital learning environments and digitalize their campuses. Universities know that they have to change, but are often challenged by the convergence of technology and pedagogy. Where to begin? What technologies can affect learning and the campus experience? How can we get faculty on board? How to create a vision for the future? This session will present a framework and highlight how one university was able to effectively drive change across campus.

Renee Patton, Cisco Education Director, Public Sector, Cisco

Tracy Schroeder, Vice President, Information Services and Technology, Boston University

User Behavior Analytics – The User Side of Security (Exhibitor Session)

Where there is a keyboard, there’s an attack vector. Humans are the weakest point in any security architecture. It’s not just the physical being, it will be the (in)actions of people that lead to threats. Come learn how entity behavior analytics help to “Know Good . . . Find Evil.”

Darren W. Carroll, Practice Director, Security & Risk Management, SHI

Lunch and Exhibit Area

Box lunches include sandwich, Mediterranean salad, chips, and cookie.

Sandwich Options

Vegetarian / Vegan / Gluten-Free Option

Concurrent Sessions 2

CIO Council UX Initiative: Leading Harvard to Better User Experiences

This year, the CIO Council launched a UX strategic initiative that includes usability, accessibility, and mobility. Come and learn about how we will be working to improve the user experience across teams and services. We’ll introduce the initiative, share a few case studies from our work so far, and discuss what the future might hold and how you can get involved.

Andrew Malone, Senior Product Manager, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Vittorio Bucchieri, Senior User Experience Lead, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Dorian Freeman, User Experience Lead, Harvard Web Publishing, Harvard University Information Technology

The Future of Data Exchange – There’s an API for That!

Imagine a future in which data is easier to discover, simpler to understand, and more readily accessible. Consider utilizing innovative data exchange technology to solve your most challenging problems. The Common API Platform Project (CAPP) team will share its future state vision and map the path that we are following to do just that. We’ll also introduce you to the pioneers who’ve embarked on the journey to become API consumers.

Alison Wellman Smith, Senior Manager, Business Engagement Services, Data Management Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Georgina Prager, Senior Product Manager, Strategy and Service Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Skip Russell, Senior Sharepoint Architect, Campus Services Information Technology, Harvard University Information Technology

Jonathan Seitz, Application Developer, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

HarvardKey, Wiki, and OpenScholar Use Group Services for Authorized Access

HarvardKey, Wiki, and OpenScholar utilize IAM’s new Group Services to provide authorized access. Learn how applications using HarvardKey easily limit access to only those in a specific authorized group. Similarly, Wiki and OpenScholar admins control access by selecting IAM reference groups, which auto-update daily based on a person’s Harvard affiliation, or custom groups managed locally by a school or department. Find out more and ask questions to the panel from all three applications.

Terry Connolly, Group Services Service Owner, Identity and Access Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Mahbub Rahman, Group Services Architect, Identity and Access Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Kenton Doyle, Director, Harvard Web Publishing, Harvard University Information Technology

Kim Edelman, Director, Academic Platform Support, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Colin Murtaugh, Senior Manager, Academic Platform Technology, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Masha Shoykhet, Deputy Product Manager, Identity and Access Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Client Side: Successful Strategies for Working with Consultants and Designers

A year ago, the Graduate School of Design completed an award-winning redesign of its main website, backed by a powerful API that funnels content from multiple source systems through a single gateway. This talk will focus on the challenges of working with external consultants and vendors, and share learnings from our successful partnership with a local design firm.

Ronee Saroff, Assistant Director of Digital Content and Strategy, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Susan Boland, Senior Web Administrator, Harvard Graduate School of Design

How People Learn: A “One Harvard” Partnership Approach to Personalized Online Learning

The How People Learn project, a new collaboration between HGSE’s Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) and the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) Research group, aims to create a personalized and adaptive online course for incoming HGSE Masters students via the Open edX platform and LTI. Come learn the story of how this partnership is leveraging “One Harvard” synergies to develop an innovative approach to online learning.

Emily Shoemaker, Learning Technologist, The Teaching and Learning Lab, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Andrew Ang, Research Data Engineer, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University

Building the Right Thing and Building the Thing Right @ Harvard Library

Agile may be nothing new to the IT community, but in adopting agile principles in the creation of the new Harvard Library website, we broadened the approach to guide not just the development phase, but all the work we do together as a team. This presentation will highlight lessons learned during our pre-beta work, including our focus on user research, personas, and testing. It will also outline our path forward as we wrap up our initial development phase, recognizing that the website will never be “done.”

Claire DeMarco, Assistant Director of Digital Strategies, Harvard Library

Corinna Baksik, Senior Systems Librarian, Harvard Library

Christine Boehler, Communication Specialist, Harvard Library

Kerry Conley, Director of Communications, Harvard Library

Abby Conway, Writer/Digital Content Producer, Harvard Library

Amy Deschenes, Senior User Experience Consultant, Harvard Library

Enrique Diaz, Designer/Multimedia Specialist, Harvard Library

Lindsay Whitacre, Production Systems Librarian, Harvard Library

Suzanne Wones, Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Innovation, Harvard Library

Ask a Coach: Coordinated by HarvardWIT

(formerly titled Ask a Coach with Harvard WIT)

Have you ever wished you could have ten to fifteen minutes for advice or conversation with an IT professional at Harvard, someone outside your immediate circle of co-workers? The “Ask a Coach” drop-in session allows those seeking guidance to connect with an IT coaching manager and peers from other parts of Harvard for fresh perspectives and to expand their network of colleagues.

Members of HarvardWIT

Alumni of MOR IT Leadership Program

Operational Metrics Using QlikView Dashboards

HUIT Support Services defined, developed, and implemented operational metrics in order to make well-informed business decisions. Metrics have evolved from excel spreadsheets to balanced scorecards to more sophisticated real-time QlikView dashboards. Learn about HUIT’s metrics model journey, lessons learned, and how dashboards are being used across HUIT and with IT partners.

Chris Nadeau, Service Desk Manager, Harvard University Information Technology

Todd Sears, Associate Director, Walk In Support Center, Harvard University Information Technology

Mike Cummings, Service Desk Team Lead, Harvard University Information Technology

The Price Is Right! Winning Strategies for Cloud Cost Management

How does moving to the cloud impact how you manage servers and applications? What does that mean for business and budget owners? Learn which kinds of tools and services can help you and your organization realize the benefits of cloud computing. Hear how HBX and HUIT are using different approaches to drive towards effective cost optimization.

Attendees will learn:

Ben Rota, Associate Director, Technology Engagement, Harvard University Information Technology

Ryan Frazier, Director, Systems and Production Engineering, Harvard Business School

Matthew Zeller, Assistant Director of Business Operations, Infrastructure Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

21st Century Cyber Security: Securing the Cloud

In this discussion, we will talk about how our information security team addresses the whole lifecycle of security for the cloud, specifically:

Christian Hamer, Chief Information Security Officer, Harvard University

Harry Hoffman, Director of Information Security Architecture & Engineering, Harvard University Information Technology

Nathan Hall, Director of Information Security Operations, Harvard University Information Technology

Joe Gallagher, Information Security Risk & Consulting Specialist, Harvard University Information Technology

Unlock the Truth in Your Information (Exhibitor Session)

An enterprise approach to data management can help universities modernize their IT environments and enable a real digital transformation. True digital transformation produces an IT architecture that is focused on information rather than technology. This lets universities take full advantage of the economy, flexibility, and scalability of modern cloud and hybrid IT environments. Attend this session to find out how a 360-degree data management approach leads to better protection, availability, and insight into your information – wherever it may reside – unlocking the Veritas or “truth” in your information.

Jonathan Alboum, Chief Technology Officer, Public Sector, Veritas

Warren Beckles, Principal Systems Engineer, Government & Healthcare – Florida, Veritas

Data Analytics and Smart Campus Initiatives (Exhibitor Session)

Today’s higher education institutions are faced with numerous technology and data-related challenges and opportunities. Smart campus/IoT systems, preparing students for today’s workplace, and data and learning analytics are just a few of the many topics that institutions are seeking collaborative partnerships with which to help strategize solutions. Through examination of case study examples and other success stories, hear about thought-leading initiatives at campuses across the country that are helping lead innovation for higher education.

Jeanne Weber, Senior Higher Education Strategist, Dell EMC

Networking Break

Concurrent Sessions 3

Digital Signage Everywhere, Not a Drop of Content

Digital signage is all around us, but, more often than not, the technology and the displays are installed before content, audience, or purpose is considered. This presentation is about the importance of engaging stakeholders and challenging the community to think about content before technology. The technology cannot drive success of digital signage, but dynamic and strategic content can.

Kate Targett, Director, Media Services, Harvard Business School

Simon Janusis, Audiovisual Engineer, Media Services, Harvard Business School

Justin Fowler, Audiovisual Design Engineer, Media Services, Harvard Business School

Teachly: Using Data to Improve Pedagogy, Diversity, and Inclusion

Not a day goes by at Harvard and other college campuses across the nation without pleas for improving diversity and inclusion. While the great majority of faculty members identify with this goal, very few feel empowered to do something concrete about it. Teachly aims to change that. Teachly is a web application developed at the Harvard Kennedy School that provides faculty with critical data regarding students, faculty behavior, and in-class interactions. Based on results from a pilot at HKS with more than 30 faculty members, we firmly believe that faculty can improve their pedagogy by getting to know their students and teaching practices better through the use of data.

Dr. Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Theodore Svoronos, Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Evan Abramsky, Faculty/Program Assistant, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

What Happens to Electronic Waste at Harvard and Beyond?

A moderated panel of representatives from Harvard’s preferred vendors and other innovators in the electronic waste industry will be discussing what happens once discarded electronics leave Harvard’s campus. Do they get repaired or recycled? Where do they get shipped to? Are there potential health impacts on workers and communities further down the process? The panel will be moderated by Dr. Diana Ceballos and David Havelick.

Dr. Diana Ceballos, Research Scientist, Exposure, Epidemiology, & Risk Program, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

David Havelick, Sustainability Manager, Office for Sustainability, Harvard University

Rob Gogan, Associate Manager, Recycling Services, Harvard University

Keith Boyea, Complete Recycling Solutions

Kimberly Henning, Smart Metals Recycling

David Hirschler, ERI Direct

Tommy McGuire, Echo Environmental

Towards Coordinated Research Data Management at Harvard

Collaboration is essential to develop sustainable data management services to the Harvard community. This panel presentation highlights groups who are coordinating efforts to provide services, resources, and support in the area of research data management. Collaborations include the launch of a Harvard-wide research data management site and the development of a cross-organizational Dataverse data curation service.

Julie Goldman, Research Data Services Librarian, Harvard Library

Jessica Pierce, Research Data Manager, Research IT Solutions, Harvard Medical School

Mason Miranda, Director, Research IT Solutions, Harvard Medical School

Robert M. Freeman, Jr., Director, Research Technology Operations, Research Computing Services, Harvard Business School

Katherine McNeill, Research Data and Collections Librarian, Harvard Business School

Ceilyn Boyd, Research Data Program Manager, Harvard Library

Sonia Barbosa, Manager of Data Curation, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Mercè Crosas, Chief Data Science and Technology Officer, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Running with the Unicorns: Automating Environment Build and Deployment Processes

HBX, the digital education initiative of HBS, has developed a custom learning environment which is run entirely in AWS. Building environments and provisioning systems required many manual steps. Deployments were checklists and manually performed. The stacks felt monolithic. In this session, we will discuss our efforts to migrate system provisioning processes from Puppet to Ansible and embracing “Infrastructure as Code” to improve environment consistency, align with and empower development teams, and increase automation. We will also showcase a live demonstration of how HBX uses Ansible to spin up entire environments at the push of a button and perform a scripted deployment. HBX developers will walk us through how they provision vagrant instances with the same playbooks that build the QA systems in AWS.

Ryan Frazier, Director, Systems and Production Engineering, Harvard Business School

Turlach MacDonagh, Infrastructure Engineer, Harvard Business School

Sainath Reddy Gaddam, Infrastructure Engineer, Harvard Business School

Kofi Bosque-Hamilton, Senior Software Engineer, Harvard Business School

John Furr, Principal Software Engineer, Harvard Business School

Myer Nore, Senior Software Engineer, Harvard Business School

Esmail Fadae, Senior Software Engineer, Harvard Business School

Smooth Landing – Moving From a Special Program to Operations

The move from a special program to operations can be turbulent – the team size is reduced, user expectations are high, and there is often work carried over from the project that still needs to be completed. Hear suggestions from my.harvard, Canvas, and IAM team members on what worked and didn’t work and how you can make the move to operations as smooth as possible.

Jane Hill, Director, Identity and Access Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Kim Edelman, Director, Academic Platform Support, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Craig Madore, Product Manager, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Accessible Procurement: Does Your Department Buy Products Usable by Everyone?

We all use vended products – whether software (PeopleSoft and Canvas) or hardware (copiers in offices and washers/dryers in dorms) – and they need to be usable by faculty, staff, and students. The business value of proactively addressing accessibility barriers during RFP and procurement processes is substantial in terms of time, cost, and perception. This presentation provides actionable information and actual experiences using best practices when acquiring vended products and services.

Kyle Shachmut, Manager of Digital Accessibility, Office of the President and Provost, Harvard University

Bradley Abruzzi, University Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, Harvard University

Kris Markman, Director of Digital Learning and User Experience, Harvard Library

Dan Hart, Strategic Sourcing Manager, Strategic Procurement, Office of the Vice President for Finance, Harvard University

Deploying Docker Applications for Education Research with Amazon Web Services

Docker is useful for streamlining the application development and deployment process. However, when it comes to running Docker applications on AWS, there are many options to choose between (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Fargate . . .). We will give an overview of Docker basics and share our experiences at VPAL Research utilizing various AWS services to run containerized data processing and web applications for education research.

Andrew Ang, Research Data Engineer, Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University

David House, Software Engineer, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Elliott Yates, Software Engineer, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Powering Up Your Harvard Mission with CRM Technology!

The Salesforce platform is scaffolding academic programs and research centers all across Harvard! Traditional point solution “systems of transaction” are being replaced by extensible “systems of engagement” throughout the education landscape. Trailblazers all across campus are leveraging the power of CRM technology to delight their constituents. Discover how the platform is being deployed, learn about available resources, and gain insights into emerging trends from our panel of thought leaders!

Corey Snow, CRM Strategist and Solution Architect, Strategy and Service Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Huntington Lambert, Dean of the Division of Continuing Education and University Extension, Harvard University

Michael Maguire, Director – Business Systems, Executive Education, Harvard Kennedy School

Jennifer Burgin, Senior Director, Executive Education Information Technology, Harvard

Standardization and Community

Does the IT Summit have you excited about collaborating with other IT practitioners? Join us as we talk about standardization through different lenses. There are official standardization efforts of the CTO’s office, the volunteer Champions Initiative for technologies to help guide us into common platforms, and there are more grassroots communities of practice like the Software Engineering Working Group that build more of an informal consensus on standards through discussion and collaboration. This will be a discussion where we talk about what we’re working on, the challenges we face, and the successes we’ve had.

JaZahn Clevenger, Senior Developer, Administrative Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology

Ann Lurie, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Harvard University Information Technology

Tim Vaverchak, Director of Technical Programs, Identity and Access Management, Harvard University Information Technology

Jefferson Burson, Managing Director of Infrastructure, Harvard University Information Technology

Networking Break

Keynote Presentation

Rakesh Khurana, Danoff Dean of Harvard College / Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School / Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences / Faculty Dean of Cabot House

Closing Reception

Adjourn

Conference times, agenda and speakers are subject to change.