Join us next Wednesday for our first completely-online OneIT symposium. This event will contain both live content and flipped sessions (with pre-recorded video presentations to watch prior to the symposium). During the conference, you’ll have an opportunity to engage with presenters of each pre-recorded presentation during live Q&A sessions. Agenda, session links, pre-recorded presentation links, and other details are below.

• Pre-recorded presentations: Start watching as early as 9 AM Monday
• Symposium: Wednesday 12 PM – 5 PM

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Please save the date! The OneIT Fall Symposium will be held November 6, 2019 from 9am-4pm in the Global Learning Center. We’ll share signup information and detail about topics and presentations in the coming weeks. We also intend to schedule more professional networking time between sessions — previous symposium participants have indicated that this time is highly valued. Lunch will be included. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

• If you have suggestions of session topics you’d like to see, or if you have a topic you’d like to present to your colleagues in the IT community, please submit your idea by 10/1/19 with a note to oneit@gatech.edu — please include topic/theme and brief description, suggested presenters, and any other relevant information.
• We are also looking for volunteers to assist with this event. If you are interested, please send a message to oneit@gatech.edu indicating your willingness to assist.

Thank you!

(Posted on behalf of OneIT Committee)

The OneIT Steering Committee invites you to attend the Second Annual OneIT Symposium on Wednesday, April 24 from 8:30a.m – 4:30p.m at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

This year’s theme is “Thriving on Change” — particularly apropos this year! The schedule includes:

• 
Keynote speaker on “The Challenges of Leading Change”
• GT CIO Mark Hoeting on The State of IT at GT
• Discussion panel: What We Learned from the CAR
• FireEye Discusses The Changing Security Landscape
• ERP/EDM: What Should IT Folks Know About Upcoming Business Systems Transformation

We are finalizing the agenda, but if you have ideas, please send them to oneit@gatech.edu

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Hello…

Some news items, circulated on behalf of the OneIT organizing committee:


1) IT@GT 101 Course Offered April 4

Those new to IT support roles on campus have few ways of learning about the various services available to them. IT@GT 101 can help.

This introductory course provides an overview of IT services on campus. The course is four hours with a 30-minute break. It is intended for people serving in a technology support role on campus. IT employees and IT student employees relatively new or of longer tenure welcome.

Location: Engineered Biosystem Building (EBB) Krone – Room 1005
Date: April 4th
Time: 1:00 – 4:30pm

Please sign up https://b.gatech.edu/2ECQWwC

2) Azure Workshop Offered March 28

This will be a one-day “intro” course conducted by Microsoft representatives. Topics will be items that the general IT community would want to know — e.g., how to access Azure, provisioning, networking, storage, etc. Agenda still being finalized.

Date: March 28, 9am-4pm
Location: TBD, likely in CODA

Signup to be circulated soon.

3) Peer Coaching Program

This spring, a small group of IT professionals (and MOR program alumni) is piloting a peer coaching program at GT. With lessons learned from this pilot, the group anticipates opening the program more broadly this fall. More information about peer coaching as a practice and about the pilot here:

https://www.oneit.gatech.edu/peer-coaching/

4) 2019 MOR IT Leadership Participants (GT Digital Leaders Program)

The MOR IT Leadership Program (now known here as the GT Digital Leaders Program) draws participation from many respected higher education institutions and seeks to enhance the professional development of individuals who will play management and leadership roles within higher ed information technology. More information here:

http://www.morassociates.com/itlp/itlp-readings/ITLP-Overview.pdf

This year’s program consists of 33 IT professionals from both central and campus IT groups:

• Mike Anderson, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Dina Archer, Resource Management
• Sherry Belom, ITS
• Christian Birk, AV Services
• Victor Bolet, Instructional Technologies
• Jeremy Bowden, GTRI-CIPHER
• Nan Deeprasert, A&I
• Malynda Dorsey, Communications
• Justin Filoseta, College of Sciences
• Stephen Garrett, Digital Business
• Warren Goetzel, Instructional Technologies
• JulieBeth Golden, Resource Management
• Troy Hilley, College of Sciences
• Ruben Lara, PACE
• Garth Milford, ITS
• Thomas Miller, Networking
• Schantel Mitchell, College of Business
• Eric Mungai, Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Natalie Palmer, EIS
• Angelica Remolina, College of Engineering
• Jennifer Rhodes, PPMO
• Mark Robinson, EIS
• Vicki Rogers, ITS
• Larry Rowe, PPMO
• Mark Sanders, Office of Development
• Eric Sembrat, College of Engineering
• Jessica Shaffer, Networking
• Adam Smith, A&I
• Uwanna Smith, College of Computing
• Gabe Vannice, Engineered Biosystems
• Bobby Wellman, GTPE
• Christopher Wright, College of Sciences
• Joe Zima, Ivan Allen College

Congratulations to these participants!

Please save the date! The OneIT Spring 2019 Symposium will be held April 24, 9am-4pm in the Global Learning Center. We’ll share signup information and detail about topics and presentations in the coming weeks. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

OneIT invites you to attend Immersion Day focusing on AWS cloud solutions for the research community. Join us for this Immersion Day and learn about HPC, containers, and Data Analytics with emphasis on AI and Deep Learning from AWS experts in HPC, genomics, big data and healthcare. Participate in hands on training sessions on cutting-edge data analytics techniques and learn about how to optimize your workflow to use spot instances and maximize your ROI using cloud. Registration for Immersion Day is free and lunch is provided by AWS. Use the RSVP link below to register.

Date: October 29, 2018 — 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Bill Moore Student Success Center, Press Room B
Registration: RSVP – Registration is FREE – Lunch provided by AWS
Hosted by OneIT and Presented by AWS

Program Highlights

• 8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Introductions
• 9:00 – 10:00 AWS Fundamentals Recap
• 10:00 – 11:00 High Performance Computing (HPC)
• 11:00 – 11:15 Break
• 11:15 – 12:15 Research Computing with Containers
• 12:15 – 1:30 Lunch and Hands on Computing Lab
• 1:30 – 2:30 Big Data and Analytics
• 2:30 – 2:45 Break
• 2:45 – 3:45 AI and Deep Learning
• 3:45 – 4:45 Hands on ML Lab
• 4:45 – 5:00 Wrap up and Questions

Important Notes:

This is a hands-on workshop, so please bring a laptop and come prepared with AWS access — if you don’t already have it, please sign up for a free AWS account at https://aws.amazon.com/

This workshop is open to researchers beyond the IT community — if you know researchers interested in the topics being presented, please feel free to forward the invitation to them.

One emphasis of Georgia Tech’s OneIT program is to promote professional development of IT staff across Georgia Tech, through activities like IT@GT 101 and other peer-to-peer learning; on-campus training opportunities; interest groups, book club, speaker series, and other activities.

Through OneIT, the Office of Information Technology will again make available an additional professional development opportunity: the MOR IT Leaders Program. This established program, which draws participation from many respected higher education institutions, seeks to enhance the professional development of individuals who will play management and leadership roles within higher education information technology. More information here:

http://www.morassociates.com/itlp/itlp-readings/ITLP-Overview.pdf

GT’s planned participation in this program in 2019 will consist of two cohorts of approximately six members each, drawing from both within OIT and campus units.

The program involves a significant commitment of time and resources on an individual and institutional level, including:

• Time commitment, including four 3-day in-person instructional meetings in various cities, as well as significant time reading and preparing for these meetings
• Monetary commitment: the program costs approximately $7k per participant as well as travel expenses (estimated $6k). For the campus cohort, OIT will cover the $7k program cost, with the home unit of the individual contributing the travel costs
• Administrative agreement: the leadership of the campus participant’s unit (e.g., Dean, School Chair, Director) must agree to allow the necessary time for participation in the program, as well as to fund travel cost mentioned above

Note that this program is available only to IT staff currently serving in a management role (i.e., with direct reports).

The OneIT steering committee will evaluate and make recommendations for campus IT community nominees. OIT has a separate process in place to identify participants. All recommendations will ultimately be presented to GT leadership for approval.

The nomination process for campus nominees will require:

• A brief nomination letter supporting the nomination (600 words maximum). Either a self-nomination or nomination by a colleague is acceptable. This should address how the candidate and GT could be expected to benefit from the individual’s participation in the program; factors suggesting the candidate’s prospects for success in the program; and any other supporting reasons for the nomination.
• Confirmation that the candidate’s unit leadership agrees to the potential commitment of time and money. (The OneIT steering committee will solicit this agreement on behalf of nominees while evaluating nominations.)

Those with potential interest who want to talk to past participants may contact one or more of the graduates of the most recent program listed below.

Campus nominations should be made through

https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dhFWHSaW3m8Ph2d

by end of day on October 24 2018.

2018 MOR ITLP Graduates:
Joe Blount
Alana DeAngelis
Steve Goeke
Jeff Fischer
Stephen Fuller
Steve Hodges
Charles Leggett
Paul Manno
Kevin McVay
Noel Moreno
Ed Nelsen
Diego Remolina
Lawrence Sharp
Shannon Thomas
Angi Whatley
Charlie Wright

The OneIT Steering Committee invites you to attend the OneIT Fall 2018 “Half Symposium” on Monday October 8 from noon – 4:30p.m at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.

Similar to the “Full Symposium” earlier this year, content will be organized into three tracks focusing on ITIL, Products and Services, and IT Community — and time before and between sessions for professional networking and connecting with colleagues. Full schedule below.

Capacity is limited – Please register now!

We hope you can make it!

Cheers,
OneIT