Programme

The Changing face of infrastructure: Tin, Clouds and People

Day 1 Thursday 27 September

Chair: Joanna Radley, University of Huddersfield

0900		Registration and Exhibition opens
0945		Newcomers orientation session (Arnage Suite) Lynn McIntosh, Data Centre and Operations Manager Information Services, Edinburgh Napier University and Anna Mathews, Head of Policy and Projects, UCISA. If this is your first UCISA conference please join us for a session describing how to make the most of the Conference.
1000		Introduction Mat Flower, UCISA IG Chair and Consultant, IT Services, Academic Support, University of Wolverhampton
1005		Welcome from the UCISA chair David Telford, UCISA Executive Chair, Edinburgh Napier University
1015		An Infrastructure and Operations Vision for 2020 and Beyond Mark Cleary, Research Director, Gartner UK Ltd (This speaker did not give permission for his presentation to be recorded or shared)
1100		Refreshments in the Exhibition
1130		People, tin, clouds and People Drew Cook, Director of ICT Services, University of Lincoln Video available on the UCISA YouTube channel
1200		Rubrik and Cranfield University. Cloud Data Management and enabling the journey to the cloud Edward Poll, Head of IT Infrastructure, Cranfield University presentation
1230		Office365, the good, the bad and the ugly Jerry Niman, Consultant presentation
1300		Lunch in the exhibition
1400		Parallel sessions 1 Creating the foundation for a digital campus Martin Lomas, University of Leeds and Ed Knowles, ANS presentation Learning to Learn Rupert Ward, University of Huddersfield presentation
1430		Making the unmanaged managed, the journey into Windows 10 provisioning Lynne Newbitt, Gary Hale, Rob Gresswell and Chris Carter, Loughborough University presentation
1500		Refreshments in the Exhibition
1530		Benefits of a UCISA bursary Anna Mathews, Head of Policy and Projects, UCISA
1545		Roundtable session. These are IG's hot topics, what are yours?
1615		*Nutanix - The Reading Research Cloud* - How the University of Reading embraced the Nutanix Enterprise cloud Ryan Kennedy, Academic Computing Team Manager, University of Reading presentation**
1645		Social engineering – manipulation for information Jamie Woodruff, Ethical Hacker, MetrixCloud Ltd
1725		Close to day one and a taster of day two Joanna Radley, Head of Core IT Infrastructure, University of Huddersfield
1730		Networking Drinks reception in the Exhibition
1900		Drinks reception in the Hall of Pillars
2000		Dinner in the Long Library (sponsored by Nutanix Ltd)

Day 2 Friday 28 September

Chair: Joanna Radley, University of Huddersfield

0925		Introduction Mat Flower, UCISA IG Chair and Consultant, IT Services, Academic Support, University of Wolverhampton
0930		Is Cloud the great panacea? The Benefits of modernising on a HC platform – the best of both worlds. Tony Crewdson-Kennedy, Deputy Director IT Operations, London South Bank University (sponsored by DellEMC) presentation
1015		Softcat - VMware and AWS partnering in Higher Education with Softcat (Unifying Infrastructures with Hybrid Cloud) Dean Gardner, Cloud Chief Technologist, Softcat and Tim Hearn, Director, VMware Cloud on AWS presentation
1045		About IG Lynne Newbitt, Service Owner for End User Computing, Loughborough University and Dave Thornley, Head of Digital Architecture, Sheffield Hallam University presentation
1100		Refreshments in the Exhibition
1130		Why is Identity and Access Management so hard to do? Tim Purkiss, Senior Identity Management Analyst, University of London presentation
1200		Q Associates - Creative goes beyond the Arts at UCA: The university-wide implementation of HCI with a VSAN virtualisation technology platform James Davies, Director of IT Services, University for the Creative Arts presentation
1230		Lunch in the exhibition
1330		Adding Value with Values Alistair Reid-Pearson, IT Manager, University of Huddersfield presentation
1400		Data never sleeps Kate Russell, Tech and Gaming Journalist (This speaker did not give permission for his presentation to be recorded or shared)
1445		IG18 closing remarks Mat Flower, UCISA IG Chair and Consultant, IT Services, Academic Support, University of Wolverhampton
1500		*Close*


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