Session Descriptions and Speaker Bios
Monday, August 15, 2022
11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Community of practice for storage and backup solutions
Let's get together and start a Community of Practice across the UCs, dedicated to discussing and sharing ideas on storage and backup solutions, including Researchers. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t on the Storage and Backup teams. Everyone uses storage somehow. And backups, with IS-12, are sooooo important. This is for anyone interested in this area. If you have any questions, please contact me, Laurie Graham, and my email is laurieg@berkeley.edu.
UC Software and Services Group (SSG)
Monthly SSG meeting. We can add to program but note it's for SSG members only.
UC UX
A friendly community of practice for user experience research and design. Mission: Improve the usefulness and usability of projects within the UC system. Methods: Provide expertise to projects in need. Offer professional development opportunities to staff in UX-adjacent roles. Grow UX community via skill and knowledge sharing, meetups, presentations and other events. Presentation from recent event.
For more information, contact UCUX Steering at ucux-steering-committee@googlegroups.com
UC Drupal collaboration
All 10 UC campuses use Drupal to publish web sites. Drupal is an Open Source Content Management System for empowering ambitious site builders to create ambitious digital experiences.
Over the years, this collaboration has gathered at UCTech to share resources, best practices, code, and expertise to the benefit of all. If you work with Drupal in any capacity, please join us!
Over the years, this collaboration has gathered at UCTech to share resources, best practices, code, and expertise to the benefit of all. If you work with Drupal in any capacity, please join us!
Siteimprove user group
Siteimprove is an automated web accessibility testing and web analytics tool. UC has a systemwide site license. This meetup will be an opportunity to discuss use of the tool.
Contact: Chris Patterson, chris@oarc.ucla.edu
Contact: Chris Patterson, chris@oarc.ucla.edu
Virtual welcome reception
Get your virtual experience at UC Tech 2022 kicked off in style. Join our hosts for a fun-filled hour of trivia, games, virtual campus tours and more hilarity.
Campus welcome reception
Welcome to UC Tech 2022! After two years apart we're looking forward to reconvening in person on the UC San Diego campus. Festivities kick off with the welcome reception at Dirty Birds (Price Center). It's like the Baskin Robbins of wings with 31 flavors (give or take) of wings sauces and rubs.
Before arriving please check in at the registration desk outside the Price Center West Ballroom for conference attendee badge and wrist band.
Before arriving please check in at the registration desk outside the Price Center West Ballroom for conference attendee badge and wrist band.
Tuesday, August 16, 2023
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Opening session: 40 years of connections
UC Tech Opening and Welcome
Miguel Rodriguez, Committee Chair, UC Tech 2023 Planning Committee
CIO Welcome
Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, UC San Diego
Keynote: Language as Cognitive Technology: How the languages we speak shape the ways we think
Lera Boroditsky, Professor of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Language is one of the oldest human technologies. Humans communicate using around 7000 different languages, each one different from the next in innumerable ways. Do languages simply express our thoughts or do they shape the very thoughts we wish to express? Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages shape the way you think? I’ll describe how the languages we speak shape the fundamentals of human cognition, from the ways we perceive color to how we think about time, space, mathematics, objects and events.
Miguel Rodriguez, Committee Chair, UC Tech 2023 Planning Committee
CIO Welcome
Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer, UC San Diego
Keynote: Language as Cognitive Technology: How the languages we speak shape the ways we think
Lera Boroditsky, Professor of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Language is one of the oldest human technologies. Humans communicate using around 7000 different languages, each one different from the next in innumerable ways. Do languages simply express our thoughts or do they shape the very thoughts we wish to express? Do speakers of different languages think differently? Does learning new languages shape the way you think? I’ll describe how the languages we speak shape the fundamentals of human cognition, from the ways we perceive color to how we think about time, space, mathematics, objects and events.
Vendor showcase
Vendor showcase
Automagic deployment with Github Actions
Track: Engineering
Description
Deploying can be a huge hassle for any application and any team. We've tried a bunch of ways to get it right, scripts, chatbots, tags, and manual pushes. We never found a one size fits all solution until we moved to Github Actions. By standardizing on the concept of a workflow, but being flexible about how any specific app was setup we were able to move to a state of one click amazing so anyone on our team can deploy.
Speaker Bios
Jon Johnson, UC San Francisco
Jon is the Manager for EdTech Development and Operations in the UCSF Library where we run and support the Moodle LMS, and build and host the Ilios open source curriculum management platform. He's been at UCSF for 17 years in a variety of roles with a passion for building community around open source tools that advance education worldwide. Jon is a founding member of the UCTech Slack team and UCSF's ambassador to the UCTech conference. When he's not reading code and managing this incredible team, you'll most often find him at home with his wife Jen and their two chihuahua mutts, at the SPCA where he helps other volunteers level up their dog training skills, or on the golf course.
Creating a multi-year tracking system for graduate student funding
Track: Engineering
Description
Student financial support plays an essential role in attracting a promising and diverse graduate student body, yet UC Berkeley lacked a centralized system to administer a multi-year financial commitment to a student. We created a bolt-on to our student information system to reduce the administrative load of awarding and tracking these financial commitments. We will explore the process of creating this new product and take a quick look at some of the features.
Speaker Bios
Jessica Longhurst, UC Berkeley
Jessica is a Senior Business Systems Analyst in the Student Information Systems (SIS) department at UC Berkeley. She has worked in higher education for over 15 years, primarily focusing on Financial Aid and student systems. Jessica holds a master's degree in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University.
Implementation of a pre visit risk assessment tool to optimize video visit experience in a large tertiary care health system
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
Over the past two years the use of telehealth has exploded. Although this has improved access on some levels, technical failure with video visit platform and access to the technology has been a challenge. Our session would describe the development, validation and early implementation of a risk assessment tool for video visit failure that is performed prior to the visit thereby creating an opportunity to intervene
Speaker Bios
Daniel Stein, UC Davis
Building a natural language processing (NLP) pipeline for clinical research
Track: Health IT
Description
A wealth of information is collected in the process of health care delivery, and critical information such as disease diagnosis, labs, and procedures, which exist in EHR records as structured data, are routinely used to power research, quality improvement, and AI/ML model development. However, 80% of the data in EHR records is in unstructured clinical documents, which is an untapped rich source of additional data. Annotating this rich source of information using clinical natural language processing (cNLP) provides important additional data points for these activities. Clinical NLP uses specialized content and techniques to extract valuable data from unstructured narrative clinical documents such as clinical notes, history and physicals, discharge summaries, pathology reports, and more.
Speaker Bios
Mike Hogarth, MD Clinical Research Officer, UC San Diego Health
Implementation of patient engagement tools in electronic health records to enhance patient-centered communication
Track: Research Computing and Data (RCD)
Description
Patient-physician communication during clinical encounters is essential to ensure quality of care. Incorporating patient priorities into agenda setting and medical decision-making are fundamental to patient-centered communication. Efficient and scalable approaches are needed to empower patients to speak up and prepare physicians to respond. Leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) in engaging patients and health care teams has the potential to enhance the integration of patient priorities in clinical encounters. A systematic approach to eliciting and documenting patient priorities before encounters could facilitate effective communication in such encounters. This session will describe the development and implementation of a set of EHR-based tools to facilitate joint agenda setting between patients and physicians and to ease the burden of documenting patients’ priorities by physicians in the EHRs.
Speaker Bios
Ming Tai-Seale, Professor and Vice Chair of Research, UC San Diego School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine, UC San Diego HealthMing Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH, studies the practice of medicine, with a focus on synchronous (during clinical visits) and asynchronous (electronic) patient-physician communication. Joint publications on patient-physician communication and addressing mental health concerns in primary care encounters earned the Article-of-the-Year award from AcademyHealth. She is a Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Professor in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego. She also serves as the Director for Outcomes Analysis and Scholarship at UC San Diego Health and the Director of Research and Learning at UC San Diego Health Population Health Services.
Marlene Millen, UC San Diego Health
Rebecca Rosen, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, UC San Diego Health
Rebecca Rosen, M.D., a board-certified Family Medicine doctor, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UC San Diego Health. She is an Assistant Program Director at the UCSD Family Medicine Residency where she is in charge of resident recruitment. For the last 20 years, she has been involved in resident and medical student education and has held residency positions in both community based and university-based settings. Dr. Rosen has been with UC San Diego Health since May 2013. She is a full spectrum Family Medicine physician with a passion for patient care, patient stories and patient continuity thereby fostering long lasting physician-patient relationships. Dr. Rosen cares for patients of all ages - in Family Medicine we like to say from the “womb to the tomb.” Her youngest patient, whom she delivered, is just over a week old and her oldest patient is 88 years old. She also has a strong interest in reproductive health and justice. Dr. Rosen earned her medical degree at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and did her Family Medicine Residency at Natvidad Medical Center in Salinas, California.
Behind every great woman…is a woman: building the UC Women in Tech network
Track: Women in Tech
Description
The annual UC Women in Tech Committee feature session: Perhaps now more than ever, women only benefit from having a support network as they meet the challenges of adapting to the post pandemic world: Remote and hybrid work, high-pressure work demands, and continued disruptions in professional and personal lives. In this spirit, a panel of UC women comes together to discuss strategies, opportunities, and ways to build meaningful networks that empower women to speak up, strive for success, support others, and be true to who they are. Join this special session, moderated by Ellen Pollack, UCLA Health Sciences Chief Information Officer and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer.
Speaker Bios
Allison Flick, UC San Diego
Allison Flick is the Service Operations Manager at the UC San Diego Library. She is an IT professional who has over two decades experience within higher education. After spending 10 years as a programmer and database designer focusing on public health initiatives, she has shifted her focus to systems administration and user support. She is a mentor to many student employees and sysadmins in their early careers. Allison is passionate about helping women establish and progress in their careers in the technology sector. She is vice-chair of the Women in Technology group spanning across the University of California school system that helps women with career development and advancement.
When she's not working, you're most likely to find Allison exploring new music, reading fantasy novels, or trying not to kill her latest houseplant.
Data management in AWS: a UC collaboration success story
Track: Health IT
Description
We will share with the audience how a systemwide group successfully delivered a complex, well-architected, cross-functional team solution, on time, and within budget. In 18 months, we re-architected and migrated the UCOP Risk Services Data Management System (RDMS 1.0) from an on-premise, Hadoop-based platform to a serverless, data lake platform in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud (RDMS 2.0)
Speaker Bios
Eric Odell, UC San Diego
Krishna Katikaneni, Kwartile Inc
I can't drive 55: fastlane to Lived Name Gender Marker (LNGM) policy compliance
Track: Culture
Description
Come join us as we take you through our journey to Lived Name Gender Marker (LNGM) policy compliance. Learn about UC Davis Health’s best practice-based approach and being accountable to the Office of the President. At the end of our session, you’ll be able to use your choice of reporting visualization tools to create a framework for success and engage your organization.
Speaker Bios
Susana D Lee, UC Davis
Is it really worth it? Calculating ROI
Track: Culture
Description
We're all resource constrained, so we're all trying different ways to relieve the burden of repeatable tasks from ourselves and our customers. But how do you figure out whether that automation project, enhancement, or new application is worth the time and effort to implement? Building on value improvement efforts at our campus, our team has implemented an automation review process to help calculate the return on investment. We'll show you how simple it can be to remove waste from your processes and make your customers happier and your staff more fulfilled. Use data to sell your solution!
Speaker Bios
DeJon Lewis, Cloud Content Applications Analyst, UC San Francisco Medical Center
DeJon Lewis is a UCSF Cloud Analyst working on the Cloud Content Applications team. He has been with the university for 5 years, first as a contractor with the service desk before moving to his current role. DeJon cares deeply about the customer experience and enjoys creating processes and procedures that directly impact his customers in a positive way.
Erik Wieland, Associate Director, IT Content Management & Communications, UC San Francisco
Erik Wieland is the Associate Director for Content Management & Communications in UCSF IT. Since joining UCSF in 1997 he has been a field services and helpdesk technician, server administrator, web developer, operations supervisor, director, customer engagement manager, and application service manager. Erik cares passionately about staff development, product management, and digital transformation.
Creating meaningful digital products by utilizing effective design-to-development workflows
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
This session will examine how to design websites and apps that create meaningful experiences and connect people in powerful ways. A case study will be presented regarding the design process, with a discussion of tools and approaches for effective design-to-development workflows. Specifically, there will be an exciting view into how Adobe software can be used to create dynamic user interface designs, interactive prototypes, and design systems. A close look will be provided into the details of how we can create an impactful digital product that delivers a positive user experience.
Speaker Bios
Lauren Cullen, Product and Visual Designer, Advanced Research Computing, UCLA
Lauren Cullen leads the product and visual design in UCLA's Office of Advanced Research Computing. She designs mobile and web applications, platforms, websites, and advanced data visualization tools that are used by UCLA's academic communities and for research projects with NIH, NSF, and VA grants. Her specialties include UI/UX design, interactive prototypes, branding, illustration, advertising, and marketing. As an instructor at UCLA Extension, Lauren enjoys teaching Illustrator I in the Design Communication Arts program. Also, she writes on design and technology, including contributing the introduction to legendary artist John Van Hamersveld's Drawing Attention book, writing a cover story for LA POP arts magazine, and contributing approximately 200 technology and design related articles for multiple online publications. Lauren holds a B.A. in Psychology from Wesleyan University and completed the Advanced Web and Interaction Design Certificate from UCLA Extension.
Designing a chatbot for symptom reporting during chemotherapy
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
Collection of electronic patient reported outcomes has been shown to improve care for chemotherapy patients, but there are many technical challenges to widespread implementation of ePROs. We describe our design and implementation of an ePRO tool that includes integration with Epic Inbasket messaging and flowsheets.
Speaker Bios
Timothy Judson, MD, MPH, UC San Francisco
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
Research as a catalyst for change: the impact of EHR InBasket spring cleaning and compassion team practice on reducing burnout
Track: Health IT
Description
A growing literature has documented physician burnout as a critical challenge facing most healthcare organizations. Organizational contributors to physician burnout include lacking control of workload, work burden related to electronic health records (EHR), and suboptimal team functioning. This presentation will discuss the impact of EHR work reduction and compassion team practice on physician and staff well-being. The goals of the EHR intervention were to: (a) reduce automated InBasket messages (e.g., cc chart), and (b) provide tools and training to increase EHR proficiency and delegation of appropriate work to staff at their scope of practice. The Compassion Team Practice was designed to promote a positive work environment through the performance of a daily, 30-second compassion practice between a physician and their staff partner.
Speaker Bios
Marlene Millen, UC San Diego Health
Secrets to successful employee recruitment and onboarding
Track: Culture
Description
Our engineering team has developed a set of best practices that have resulted in several student and career staff employee recruitments with a 100% success rate in on-site, hybrid, and fully remote environments. What are our secrets? In this session we'll share with you our highly effective recruiting and onboarding process from creating the job posting and interview questions all the way through the end of the new employee's first six months on the job.
Speaker Bios
Mike Walton, UC Irvine
Mike Walton is the manager of the Student Success Technologies team at UC Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, Mike spent 15 years working in IT in roles such as Software Engineer, Professional Services Consultant, and Scrum Leader at companies ranging from tiny startups to giant Fortune 500 corporations. Mike joined UCI in 2018 as a .NET engineer for the OVPTL IT team. In 2020, he was promoted to Assistant Manager of OVPTL IT, and in 2022 became the Manager of the new Student Success Technologies team, which is responsible for building data analytics tools to help identify opportunities to improve student success outcomes.
UX connects developers to users, creating great service experiences
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
Do you find it challenging to identify user needs for your services? Feel like you're struggling to keep up with a stream of similar kinds of support requests?
Learn how to take a human-focused approach by enlisting user experience (UX) design practices to gain insights from service users, build team consensus, and make informed, effective data-driven business decisions.
Reduce risk by incorporating user feedback into your decision-making:
- Make decisions based on user input – rather than assumptions
- Focus on the right problems
- Build features users care about
A UX approach ensures teams make the best use of time and resources, and service users experience continuously improved, useful – and even delightful – digital experiences which better enable campus constituents to work, play and connect.
Speaker Bios
Angela Thalls, User Experience Researcher, UC Santa Cruz
Angela Thalls is a certified User Experience Researcher, and a member of the ITS Experience Strategy and Design team at UC Santa Cruz. As a campus partner she provides UX research and design strategy on a range of academic and administrative initiatives. Possessing over two decades experience in higher education, Angela has previously held faculty positions at Emerson College and Rhode Island School of Design, as well as design positions in product, web and software development. She holds a Master of Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Washington.
Jessica Dowd, IT Product Manager (ServiceNow), UC Santa Cruz
Jessica is the ServiceNow Product Manager at UC Santa Cruz, a role she has been in for almost 4 years. She began her UC journey after a successful 20 year career in Silicon Valley working for Intel Corporation and Oracle. She currently manages the ServiceNow platform, focusing on IT Service Management (ITSM) for ITS and campus departments. She enjoys partaking in all that Santa Cruz has to offer in living her full life on and off campus.
She holds a MA and BA in Industrial Technology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Connect with her on linkedin
The journey that developed a national, UC led community of practice
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
When assigned a new stretch assignment, one of the hardest questions is where to begin? Where can you find answers to your questions? Do you know where to locate the people who have solved similar challenges before? This talk will encourage you to look beyond your local teams to find your people and helpful resources in a broader landscape.
This talk will share the 5 year journey of developing a successful Community of Practice. This example will serve to illustrate what can accomplished from small steps to find your people. Attendees will learn how the landscape can make opportunities for collaboration and learn what makes some communities thrive more than others.
Speaker Bios
Carolyn Ellis, UC San Diego
Carolyn Ellis is the CMMC Program Manager at the UC, San Diego, where she builds and leads sustainable regulated research programs. Carolyn has significant experience in grants, research, and security DoD contract experience and is the principal investigator for NSF award 2201028, Building a Community of Practice for Supporting Regulated Research. Carolyn is passionate about growing future leaders within the research compliance community, and is active in mentoring with both EDUCAUSE Women in IT and WiCys (Women in Cybersecurity). She is part of the leadership of EDUCAUSE Women in IT Community group and co-lead of UCSD Women in Tech.
This -ish is bananas! Using a banana to defeat MailChimp
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
It’s a jungle out there when it comes to mass email marketing platforms and internal communications. For communicators, email remains a bastion of how we connect students, faculty, researchers, and staff. Communicators rely on mass mailing platforms for their splashy visuals and easy to interpret metrics. Security can’t block them fast enough for their spam and phishing risks. Join me on a journey through the murky landscape of these mass mailers. You will discover how we were able to navigate the marsh and offer a swinging vine to communicators mired in quicksand. Our implementation path was paved with unintended consequences, both technical and political, but ultimately, we defeated a chimp with a banana.
Speaker Bios
Tanya Jansen, UC San Francisco
Tanya Jansen is a UC Berkeley graduate and an award-winning communications and outreach professional, with 20 years in communications including managing strategic communications, events, public relations, and more to meet the needs of various stakeholders and their audiences, ranging from employees to students and the public. Her background includes IT communications at UC Berkeley, managing communications and marketing for the Bay Area’s 511 program, as well as leading communications and outreach campaigns at UCSF. She has the technical, yet charismatic business demeanor to connect with stakeholders and to effectively drive change in audiences.
Next generation tele immersion systems
Track: Culture
Description
The next generation of tele immersion systems enable users to have a better sense of participant's presence, even when remote. This is accomplished through the use of multiple webcams and microphones, head tracking, and creative conference room setups that enable remote participants to appear physically present. Just like the Jedi Council meetings in star wars, sometimes people are present and sometimes it's a hologram.
Speaker Bios
Bill Hackenberg, Project Manager, UCLA
Bill is a certified Project Manager at the UCLA Library. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Scrum Master. Bill has authored several PM courses for UCLA Extension and is currently teaching courses in PM Capstone, Leadership and Earned Value Management. Bill also teaches PMP prep classes for PMI-LA. He has performed in a project manager role for over forty projects in his career. Most recently he was the Project Manager for the new UCLA Library Digital Collections website using Samvera, the new Travel & Entertainment Requests & Reports Application (TERRA) for Library Business Services (LBS), Digital Signage, Digital Preservation Service (DPS), the Occuspace CLICC Pilot, and the Library Website Redesign.
CANCELLED: the California COVID-19 exposure notification system, CA notify: putting the public in digital public health
Track: Health IT
Description
Digital exposure notification systems present a glimpse into the future of public health. They also present an opportunity for new thinking, new chances to design for ethical sustainability, new closed loop public health interventions to fight pandemics, but also new moral hazards and unintended consequences. This session addresses these issues in the context of CA Notify, Californias digital contact tracing solution developed in collaboration with UC San Diego, the California Department of public health, Apple and Google. We will discuss our experience employing people centered design in the midst of a public health crisis, both bright spots and barriers, as part of the largest digital public health intervention in California history.
Speaker Bios
Eliah Aronoff Spencer, UC San Diego Health
Effective, Inclusive Meetings
Track: Culture
Description
Too many meetings, "Zoom fatigue," wasting your time in meetings, no chance to talk and no one listens anyway... is this you, or do you hear this from your staff? Whether you run meetings or just attend too many, this class will improve your meeting-handling skills, including how to choose the best form of communication, handling hybrid meetings deftly, helping staff & peers feel respected and included, relieving Zoom fatigue, and making meetings feel valuable to attendees. You'll learn when a meeting alternative might be a better choice. We'll cover both making the meetings you DO have effective -- making all members feel their input is heard in a way that is comfortable for them. We'll also make sure you hold a meeting that is accessible by all, no matter their disability status -- or Internet connection quality -- and we have hints for meeting attendees to help make these improvements happen, too.
Speaker Bios
Valerie Polichar, UC San Diego
Valerie Polichar is the Senior Director of Academic Technology Services and Senior Academic Technology Officer at UC San Diego. She holds a B.A. in cognitive psychology and a Ph.D. in psychology, and her publishing background includes articles and chapters on online communication, effective online teaching, focus and creativity. She is also a credentialed mediator. Valerie has published research in such varied fields as visual perception and the affordances and use of cell phones. After working for more than twenty years in computer networking, she formed UC San Diego’s first research IT support group, and now manages both instructional and research IT. The pandemic has led her to investigate approaches to improving employee welfare, including mitigating Zoom and meeting fatigue. Valerie has worked for the University of California for 35 years.
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
How long until the robots are teaching?
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
With the rise of large scale machine learning models that use deep learning to produce human-like text and ai voiceover technology, we'll look at the technologies already available and think about the future of them and what that means for higher education.
Speaker Bios
Jeffrey Williams, UC Berkeley
Putting manual practices to REST, how three IT teams partnered to save our HR Document team hours per day.
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
Previously, documents were converted and uploaded to the content management system by records custodians, a laborious process that took many hours a day. By using the MuleSoft platform to orchestrate REST APIs, the project team integrated PeopleConnect (SalesForce CRM) to the Perceptive Content (Content Management System) allowing the process to be completely automated.
Speaker Bios
Brett Gerstenberger, UC San Francisco - Health
Classroom Response Systems relaunch: where are we now with polling tools? A cross-campus panel and discussion
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
A panel of staff experts gathered at UC Tech 2019 to discuss "the future of Classroom Response Systems," popular tools for student engagement and assessment. Now, three years later, we reconvene to assess changes, welcome new members, and share how each campus adapted their delivery and support of these polling tools to meet new and different circumstances.
The panel will discuss the impact of hybrid/remote teaching, recent successes and challenges, and how perspectives and needs have changed since 2019. How were these tools used during the pandemic? Where are we now? What is our strategy moving forward?
The first part of this presentation will include status updates from individual campuses, and the second part will be an interactive discussion. Audience participation is encouraged!
Speaker Bios
Seyon Wind, UC Berkeley
Seyon is an educational technologist, trainer, and visual storyteller passionate about digital innovation to enhance teaching and learning. He has over ten years of experience designing and delivering instructional experiences to a range of learners, from K-12 to Higher Ed. He holds bachelor's degrees from UC Santa Cruz in Visual Art, Film, and Digital Media, a single-subject teaching credential, and is pursuing a master's degree in Instructional Science and Technology from CSU Monterey Bay.
Fernando Socorro, UC Davis
Kelsey Hollis Layos, UC Irvine
Kelsey Layos is a Classroom Tech Liaison & Application Support Specialist who manages and supports the campus audience response systems (iClicker, Poll Everywhere) and provides support for services including lecture capture (YuJa), Zoom, and other technologies under the purview of the UCI Office of Information Technology’s Classroom Technologies group, and manages the group’s website for comprehensive classroom information, rental equipment services, et cetera at https://classrooms.uci.edu/. Kelsey joined OIT as a UCI student in 2004 and transitioned to a ful-ltime role on graduating with a B.A. in Classics in 2007.
Caroline Kong, UCLA
As a UCLA staff member, Caroline is the Instructional Designer and Technologist at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. She works collaboratively with faculty and TA to assist them with course design, to identify the best uses for technology in instruction, and to provide support in implementing education technology in class – largely to help faculty and TAs looking to engage students with their learning. With more instructors wanting to incorporate technology in their teaching, Caroline finds the challenge exciting and is constantly on the hunt for inspiration among her colleagues, higher ed blogs and chat rooms.
Rachel Leigh Bellofatto, UC Merced
Samantha Eastman, UC Riverside
Treb Padula, UC San Diego
Mr. Treb Padula is a Senior Educational Technology Specialist at the University of California, San Diego. Mr. Padula has worked in higher education for over 18 years. He spent 10 years working for California State University, Stanislaus, where he did everything from classroom technology design and troubleshooting to instructor training. Mr. Padula joined UC San Diego in 2015 as an Instructional Technologist for their Educational Technology Services department. Mr. Padula and his team have worked on several educational technology pilots for the university and have been awarded a Sautter Gold Award for their Auto-Tracking Camera Podcast System and a Sautter Silver Award for the Studio U Self-Service Recording Studio."
Leslie Kern, UC Santa Cruz
Reduce hold times and improve sser experience with Cloud Contact Centers
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
Legacy contact center solutions are expensive, complex, and difficult to scale for demand that fluctuates, spiking at certain times and running low during others. Hear the benefits of moving your contact center to the Cloud. Amazon Connect is a simple, scalable contact center solution that can adjust to the changing needs of your customers in real-time and enables you to engage with them easily and naturally. In this session learn how to:- Build high-quality omnichannel voice and interactive chat experiences to provide support from anywhere
- Use a single intuitive user interface (UI) for contact routing, queuing, and analytics
- Use built-in AI and ML to personalize interactions
- Make it easy to automate interactions, understand customer sentiment, authenticate callers, and enable capabilities like interactive voice response (IVR) and chatbots
- Improve agent productivity
Speaker Bios
Chris Carter, Sr Sales Specialist, Amazon Connect and Pinpoint
Chris is a Senior Sales Specialist for the US State and Local Government / Education Public Sector team located in Denver, Colorado. He is passionate about helping his customers close the digital information gap with constituents by providing highly-scalable and low-cost voice, chat, and SMS solutions that can be deployed quickly to meet the ever changing demands of public sector customers. Chris has a 20+ year background as a Sales Specialist and Solutions Architect for both on-premises and cloud with a specialty in networking. Follow him on LinkedIn.
Capturing the essence of human behavior with data-driven AR
Track: Future of Higher Ed
Description
We make decisions every day, yet the mechanisms behind them are poorly understood. Human participants lose focus in typical non-stimulating laboratory behavior research environments, resulting in poor and noisy data. With an augmented reality approach, we demonstrate how to collect high-quality data to understand these decision-making mechanisms with methods that are naturalistic and carry greater engagement.
Speaker Bios
Valeria V. González, PhD, UCLA
Dr. Valeria González is a postdoctoral scholar working with prof. Aaron Blaisdell and prof. Alicia Izquierdo at the psychology department in UCLA. Dr. González received a B.S. in psychology from University of Chile in Santiago, Chile; and a Ph.D. in basic psychology from University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. She is active in various programs mentoring undergraduate students and Chair of the executive board of the Postdoctoral association in UCLA, focusing in promoting and advocating for diversity and inclusion in STEM. Dr. González research focus on understanding the behavior and neurobiological basis of decision-making and animal cognition.
Wren Reynolds, UCLA
Building a user experience improvement process for higher education
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
In the last couple of years I have been developing a UX Improvement process and I want to share my story; how the process was built, how it is implemented, what are the deliverables, and what it looks like to go through it with a client.
Speaker Bios
Anthony Horn, UX Designer, UC Davis
Anthony Horn is a UX Designer from UC Davis’ IET Enterprise Infrastructure Services. He has over 10 years of experience in web design and development, and serves on the team that manages and maintains the campus CMS, SiteFarm.
“I love being part of the UC family and I am so happy that we can come together to share the great work we are doing and recipes for success. I do a lot of process work and I am looking forward to sharing my UX Improvement process with the UC Tech community.”
Previous presentations: Design Systems: Baking in Accessibility - UC Tech 2021, You Gonna Build a Process for that Process - BAD Camp 2019, SVG Magic! - BAD Camp 2019.
Awards: Larry L. Sautter honorable mention 2019, Larry L. Sautter Silver 2019, People’s Choice Webby for Education/University website 2022.
Tech where you are: you win some, you lose some (literally)
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
Anticipating student computing needs is challenging. Delivering innovative, self-service technology is the ideal goal however the path to success can be risky and full of unexpected pitfalls. Join members of the UC San Diego Library community as we discuss several of our latest endeavors: Grab and Go Chromebooks, self-service batteries and virtual lab environments. We will discuss how we identified these projects/services, the road to implementation, and our current success (or failure) with the services.
Speaker Bios
Allison Flick, UC San Diego
Allison Flick is the Service Operations Manager at the UC San Diego Library. She is an IT professional who has over two decades experience within higher education. After spending 10 years as a programmer and database designer focusing on public health initiatives, she has shifted her focus to systems administration and user support. She is a mentor to many student employees and sysadmins in their early careers. Allison is passionate about helping women establish and progress in their careers in the technology sector. She is vice-chair of the Women in Technology group spanning across the University of California school system that helps women with career development and advancement.
When she's not working, you're most likely to find Allison exploring new music, reading fantasy novels, or trying not to kill her latest houseplant.
Colleen Garcia, UC San Diego
Billy Knorr, UC San Diego
Patient-generated data finally in my flowsheets
Track: Health IT
Description
Epic has recently made enhancements so that it is possible for an external system to write any kind of patient generated data into a patient entered flowsheet through AppOrchard. We can now provide a choice of experiences by integrating third party tools to collect diverse patient generated health data beyond MyChart. We have developed a virtual care integration pathway with Conversa Health (now part of Amwell) to capture and save patient reported outcomes into Epic. Patients and clinicians will be able to view these results in the patient's chart and clinicians can reference this data directly in clinical notes. Come to this session to learn about our technical implementation and the impact to date on the program.
Speaker Bios
Sondra Renly, UC San Francisco
Sondra Renly, Technical Architect working on the UCSF CDHI Digital Patient Experience initiative, is implementing integrated information technology solutions with a patient centered approach to delivering better collaboration, insights, and health outcomes in care delivery. Sondra is a passionate advocate for advancing health IT capabilities and is experienced in industry interoperability and coding standards, patient consent and privacy requirements, and solution architecture. Her past work includes implementation of Health Information Exchanges, building IHE healthcare interoperability profiles, and laboratory information systems. Sondra has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Technology, both from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
UC BEARS, or how the UC Berkeley library cobbled together an electronic course reserves platform in just three months
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
In March 2021, the UC Berkeley Library announced plans to re-open in the fall, cutting off access to the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service that had allowed us to provide electronic course reserves to students through the first full academic year of the pandemic. Knowing that not all students would return in-person, that we might have to pivot back to remote instruction at any time—and that the Library might not have the staff on-site or the space available to provide physical reserves—how could we ensure we’d still be able to get students the materials they needed?
Speaker Bios
David Moles, UC Berkeley
David Moles is head of applications for the UC Berkeley Library, managing a team of five developers whose work touches nearly every area of library operations.
Before Berkeley, David was a developer and team lead at the California Digital Library, working on the Dash data publication system (now Dryad) and the Merritt digital preservation system. David’s career as a software engineer and agile team lead spans industries from e-commerce and information security to aerospace manufacturing and biopharmaceutical research.
A graduate of the American School in Japan, David has lived in Greece, Iran, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, as well as several US states. David holds a BA in language studies from UC Santa Cruz and an MSc in economic and social history from the University of Oxford.
Better advising through DMV-inspired UX (yes, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Seriously.)
Track: Health IT
Description
You know you have a problem when waiting in line at the DMV is a better experience than trying to meet with University advising staff. In this talk we'll learn about how the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis turned this problem into an opportunity to build a new virtual front desk system to connect students to advising staff, streamline tasks, and deliver better outcomes to the students and staff at the end of our work. We'll cover user experience design, the tech to execute it, and how we're scaling the system to support multiple departments across all of UC Davis.
Speaker Bios
Fei Li, Application Development Lead, UC Davis
Fei is the application development lead for the College of Letters & Science at UC Davis, overseeing a portfolio of services benefitting nearly every student who comes through UC Davis.
He created the UC Davis Mobile app as a student and has spent 12 years in both public and private industry shipping software, proving that the user experience of enterprise systems doesn't have to be bad. He has contributed to Facebook's React Native mobile development framework, created audio visualization software used by PBS Digital Studios, and lectured at UC Davis on mobile application development and user experience design.
Fei earned his B.S. in Computer Science fom UC Davis.
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Jumping into deep work
Track: Culture
Description
The members of my team are hard to reach, they almost never answer emails right away, and you won't always find them hanging out in Slack. If you want to schedule a meeting with more than one of us you may need to wait days or weeks to find an available spot. In short we're busy doing Deep Work and freed from the demands of continuous communication our productivity is through the roof!**
Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there’s a better way. - Cal Newport
We've been prioritizing deep work on our team for the last few years and have found the tangible productivity gains to be phenomenal. We're delivering higher quality sustainably and it shows in our product and engagement. Making time for focus required changing expectations about communication and availability that can be challenging to implement and difficult to defend.
In this session we'll talk about how I set a communication policy for our team that freed them from constantly checking email, slack, teams, and every other open conduit into our brains that steals focus; we'll discuss how we framed that policy for our leadership to get buy-in right from the start and how we made adjustments to ensure everyone could be reached in a crisis; and finally we'll talk about how we implemented "communication holidays" during the pandemic to give everyone time to breath, handle life, and get caught up on work and personal goals.
Speaker Bios
Jon Johnson, UC San Francisco
Jon is the Manager for EdTech Development and Operations in the UCSF Library where we run and support the Moodle LMS, and build and host the Ilios open source curriculum management platform. He's been at UCSF for 17 years in a variety of roles with a passion for building community around open source tools that advance education worldwide. Jon is a founding member of the UCTech Slack team and UCSF's ambassador to the UCTech conference. When he's not reading code and managing this incredible team, you'll most often find him at home with his wife Jen and their two chihuahua mutts, at the SPCA where he helps other volunteers level up their dog training skills, or on the golf course.
Implementing system health assertions spanning multiple microservices - reinvigorating a decade old system
Track: Engineering
Description
Our team manages a decade old system consisting of 9 custom microservices. Due to a recently increased amount of time spent reacting to problem reports, we decided to articulate a common set of system health assertions spanning an end-to-end view of the system. Based on those assertions, the team developed an automated set of reports to validate system health on a daily basis.
These daily system health reports have created accountability and have focused team members on the most important operational issues to address. The reports have inspired the creation of several tools to resolve and prevent operational problems.
Our Product Manager, Technical Lead and Software Development Team Manager, will share the story of this transformational initiative from their individual perspectives.
Speaker Bios
Terry Brady, Senior Software Developer, UCOP
Terry Brady is a software developer for the California Digital Library - University of California Curation Center. Terry is the technical lead for the Merritt digital preservation repository. Terry is a former committer for the DSpace repository platform. Terry has built applications for higher education, government, non-profit, and corporate institutions including the Georgetown University Library, LexisNexis and the National Archives and Records Administration.
Terry has a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame.
https://github.com/terrywbrady
Marisa Strong, Application Program Manager, California Digital Library, UCOP
Marisa is the technical team manager at CDL’s UC Curation Center. Marisa supports the developers to design, implement, maintain and operate 4 key services for the UC system and beyond: Merritt (digital preservation repository), DMPTool (data management plan tool), Dryad (data publishing platform), and EZID (persistent identifier management system). Their processes rely upon principles of transparency, collaboration, iterative development, simplicity, and sustainability. Marisa enjoys supporting the dev teams as they have moved to AWS Cloud compute and storage services, containers, and continuous integration and delivery processes. Marisa has been with CDL since 2008. She is a wife, mother of 3, cyclist, volunteer, coach, and adventurer.
Eric Lopatin, Product Manager, Digital Preservation – California Digital Library, UCOP
Eric is Product Manager for CDL’s digital preservation initiatives, including the Merritt repository that preserves library special collection content from libraries across all ten UC campuses, as well as eScholarship publications, ETDs and Dryad datasets. Eric engages directly with archivists, librarians and department heads who are involved in digital preservation efforts. He assists with new and ongoing projects that result in preserving content in the Merritt system by providing guidance on content and collection organization and metadata. At the same time he works with Merritt’s technical lead and development team to help guide the repository’s feature development, focusing on sustainability, usability and service efficiency.
Before joining CDL Eric held roles in both product management and quality engineering at the Public Library of Science. This work, as well as a string of years spent at Adobe Systems enabling cross-application workflows and shared technology, have all contributed to his interests in the realm of preservation, OA publishing, and software development.
Eric holds a M.S. in Print and Graphic Media Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
What's wrong with IS-3? Good policy and security in 2022 and beyond
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
A modern campus requires at least three separate security programs: a classical control-based program for enterprise systems, a compliance program for highly regulated environments, and a flexible, context-aware program for research. The policy guiding these programs needs to be adaptable, self-auditing, and progressive, immune from changes in the threat landscape and technology. This talk will explore this theme contrasting what the UC needs with the existing IS-3.
Speaker Bios
Michael Corn, UC San Diego
Taking control of your RCD career...with national engagement!
Track: Research Computing and Data (RCD)
Description
Research Computing and Data (RCD) professionals are in a lane all their own and training and career development in research cyberinfrastructure/research IT is often hard to find. You can proactively develop your career with some simple engagement at the national level. Hear from panel members from 4 different UC campuses on their experiences in relevant national RCD communities. These are leaders in High Performance Computing (HPC), the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC), EDUCAUSE, Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Association, and more. Come to this session if you are: · An RCD professional looking for training, community, and leadership opportunities · Supervisors and managers looking for development opportunities for RCD staff · Campus leadership who want to grow their RCD programs and their national reputation
Speaker Bios
Claire Mizumoto, UC San Diego
Annelie Rugg, Director and Humanities CIO, Humanities Technology, UCLA
Integration platform as a service - rollout and optimization
Track: Engineering
Description
UCSD initiated the Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) program, which would transform and streamline core business and administrative processes. It is the largest technology improvement program ever undertaken at UC San Diego. ESR addresses key goals identified in UC San Diego’s Strategic Plan, including creating an agile, sustainable, and supportive infrastructure. The integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) was rolled out to support ESR program. It is a next generation integration platform that can support capabilities such as streaming, batch, APIs, events etc. This session describes the roll-out and optimization of the integration platform called iPaaS (integration platform as a service) for the execution of the UCSD’s ESR Enterprise System Renewal.
Speaker Bios
Ashish Pandit, UC San Diego
Ashish Pandit is working as an IT Architect at University of San Diego, California for last 9 years. His focus is API Architecture, Data Streaming, Application integration, Security and Governance. Ashish is also the chair of API working group under ITANA for API and Integration Architects in higher education. Ashish came to UCSD after 15 years of experience in public/ private industries such as Qualcomm and SDGE, focusing on API, Integration and SOA Strategy. Ashish received MS from the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Ashish has been responsible for the rollout of the API and messaging/streaming platforms and governance to support the ESR program at UCSD.
Nathalie Gholmieh, UC San Diego
John Gunvaldson, Integration Engineer, Data and Integration Services (DIS), UC San Diego
John Gunvaldson first joined the University of California (UC), San Diego in 2009 working for the Business Applications Development Group (BADG) at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Deans office. In 2013 John joined ITS Services Middleware team, soon to be the Data and Integration Services Team (DIS). Here, working with many other senior engineers, John has designed and developed many of the programming enhancements targeted to assist all developers with advanced automation frameworks, tools and solutions. In particular advancing development in Python, Airflow, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Artifactory, and many more technologies...
John is a retired US Navy Chief Petty Officer (SKC/SS) veteran, having served 24 years in the US Navy Submarine service.
Level up your siteimprove and web accessibility efforts
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
UC has a systemwide contract for the Siteimprove web accessibility testing tools, which are available to everyone at UC. In this session, you’ll hear from several members of UC’s Electronic Accessibility Committee on how they’ve found success with Siteimprove as a testing tool at each of their respective locations. We’ll also explore ways you can take your Siteimprove program to the next level; such as “deep linking” to your CMS, web analytics integrations, and performing manual tests of your pages with the help of Siteimprove’s experts.
Speaker Bios
Jill Wolters, UCSF
Jill Wolters is the Web Standards Program Manager in UCSF’s IT Web Services.
Systemwide, Jill actively participates in the University of California Electronic Accessibility Committee (EAC) mission, annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and UCTech presentation. She was part of the award-wining team for the 2019 Golden Sautter Award for the Systemwide Collaboration on Accessibility: The Siteimprove Implementation Project.
At UCSF Jill’s programming includes monthly Digital Accessibility Office Hours and Testing with Users with Disabilities sessions. The blog article “A Little Bird Told Me” provides insight to Jill’s approach to digital accessibility awareness and guidance at UCSF.
Thea Chhun, Campus Communication Access Specialist, UC Berkeley
Thea Chhun is the Campus Communication Access Specialist with UC Berkeley’s Office of Disability Access & Compliance (DAC).
Thea is an alum of UC Berkeley, and recently graduated with a Master’s degree at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, with a concentration in Strengthening Organizations and Communities. As part of the DAC team, Thea coordinates campus access programs across UC Berkeley, including increasing IT accessibility under the UCOP Information Technology Accessibility Policy, and is the newest member of the UC Electronic Accessibility Committee (EAC).
Chris Patterson, UCLA
Chris Patterson is the Technical Lead for the Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP) and the Web Team of the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC). Chris has 25 years of experience in full stack web development. Chris has served as an accessibility evangelist for UCLA since the 1990's. Chris serves as one of the UCLA representatives on the systemwide Electronic Accessibility Committee (EAC) and is the UC Tech Ambassador for UCLA.
Nick Dalman
Nick Dalman is a Principal Customer Success Manager at Siteimprove. He works with Siteimprove’s Higher Education customers to further their understanding of web accessibility, digital presence optimization (DPO), and knowledge of the Siteimprove suite of tools.
Kevin Rydberd, Managing Accessibility Consultant, Siteimprove
eMail: kry@siteimprove.com
Twitter: @rydbergk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinrydberg/
Kevin Rydberg is responsible for guiding and supporting businesses and organizations on their journeys to create accessible websites. With more than 20 years of experience in the multimedia and web development space, including enterprise redesign and accessibility overhauls, Kevin is a critical partner for Siteimprove customers when it comes to creating successful and sustainable accessibility programs.
Kevin has spoken and presented workshops at international conferences and events, including the Guelph Accessibility Conference at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, EDUCAUSE Higher Education IT Conference, and the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities), at the United Nations, New York, NY.
Away from the office, Kevin continues to work on his BBQ skills. His brisket has received high praise from native Texans. He also enjoys traveling with his family to different locations around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Creating a 'semester in the cloud': enhanced Support for remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic
Track Teaching & Instruction
Description
The Semester in the Cloud (SITC) was a program to help instructors improve the quality of remote instruction during the pandemic, focusing on high-impact undergraduate courses. A selected cohort of instructors and graduate student assistants teaching remote courses in 2020 and 2021 were offered a variety of technical and pedagogical workshops, a dedicated instructional design and media team, and a training site. In-person courses were (re)designed for remote instruction on Canvas in a modular pathway with recorded and synchronous lectures, asynchronous discussion forums, virtual office hours, and more. Instructional designers and media specialists who provided direct support to faculty as part of SITC will present how the program worked, lessons learned, and how it may impact future approaches to supporting online learning.
Speaker Bios
Sandra Annette Rogers, Instructional Designer, Digital Learning Services, UC Berkeley
Dr. Sandra Annette Rogers is an instructional designer at the University of California - Berkeley with Digital Learning Services. She is an author, content developer, instructional designer, researcher, and trainer. Additionally, Dr. Rogers has taught in a variety of educational settings from a rural hut in Honduras with the Peace Corps to the UCLA Lab School to distance education worldwide.
Robert Hold, Senior Visual Designer, Digital Learning Services, UC Berkeley
Robert Hold is a Senior Visual Designer with 20+ years of experience in both New York and San Francisco. Taking complex information and transforming it into compelling, easy to understand, and accessible visuals is a challenge. That challenge is what he enjoys about working and designing at Digital Learning Services at UC Berkeley. He has worked for a variety of major brands, companies, and institutions including Condé Nast, Gap Inc., SF Ballet, and UC Berkeley. His creativity is fueled by an addiction to tea, obsessive gardening, and listening to music. mrpeacock.com
Stephanie Mackley, Senior Editor and Producer, UC Berkeley
Stephanie Mackley has been directing, producing, editing, scriptwriting and working with creative professionals for 15 years. At UC Berkeley’s Digital Learning Services, she collaborates with instructional designers, media creatives and award-winning faculty to transform in-person classes into engaging online courses. Stephanie’s work as a Senior Editor and Producer is deeply informed by her service on the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Education Equity, Inclusion & Diversity (EID) Implementation Team.
Rebecca Farivar, Team Lead, Center for Teaching and Learning; Instructional Design Lead, Digital Learning Services, UC Berkeley
Rebecca Farivar is the Team Lead for the Center for Teaching and Learning and Instructional Design Lead for Digital Learning Services, two teams within UC Berkeley’s Research, Teaching, and Learning department. She began her journey in higher education by first teaching English and writing courses in the Bay Area and Germany and through that work discovered her passion for instructional design. Rebecca has worked at UC Berkeley for nearly half of her 14+ years in higher education and enjoys following the ever evolving landscape of teaching online.
Courtney Gomas, Instructional Designer and Digital Learning Specialist, UC Berkeley
Courtney Gomas, MLIS is an Instructional Designer and Digital Learning Specialist at UC Berkeley for Digital Learning Services. Courtney has been working with UC Berkeley’s online classes for over 12 years and is a co-founder of the campus’ Instructional Design Community of Practice. The online arena is a perfect place for Courtney to advocate for learning environments that make education accessible to all students. Courtney has always worked for students as both a teacher and a university librarian in the past.
Supporting research and digital innovation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Track: Research Computing and Data (RCD)
Description
Researchers and innovators are integral members of the health system. They should be encouraged to utilize the Electronic Health Record (EHR) for research and to improve health care delivery. Learn how our team connects researchers to the expertise and resources they need. We will share how our team supports research and digital innovation in the EHR with concrete examples of cutting-edge technical work:
- Patient-facing and/or provider-facing applications integrated into EHR workflows
- Implementation and validation of predictive algorithms
- Randomized control trials embedded in the EHR
- Clinical content to support research data capture
- Technical infrastructure to support study recruitment and execution
Speaker Bios
Jory Purvis
Enhancing the user experience with WalkMe
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
This session will cover the use of WalkMe in some of UCLA’s Academic Personnel systems to address specific support concerns. At UCLA the Academic Personnel Office is responsible for the training and support for several enterprise applications. Our support team is small and our end user base is constantly shifting. We needed to find ways to scale our services. Using a digital adoption platform like WalkMe is one option we’re exploring. This session will cover the use of WalkMe in some of UCLA’s Academic Personnel systems to address specific support concerns.
Speaker Bios
John Abbott, UCLA
John Abbott works in Business Analysis, Support, and Training for UCLA’s Academic Personnel Office. John has conducted trainings for faculty and staff on UC Recruit, UC Oats, UCLA’s Opus application, and Interfolio. John recently served as a subject matter expert for UC Recruit’s Viaduct Project, improving how applicants report their prior institutions and academic disciplines.
Prior to Academic Personnel, John worked at UCLA School of Law, in Academic Records, Financial Aid, and Admissions, where he led their conversion from reviewing applications on paper to using the online ACES2 system from LSAC.
Outside of work, John leads his son’s Cub Scout pack and performs in improvisational theater. The skills learned there sometimes come in handy when triaging support tickets and teaching training classes.
Heather Small, UCLA
Heather Small joined UCLA in 2010 and is currently the Manager of Faculty Information Systems for UCLA’s Academic Personnel Office. In this role, Heather is responsible for implementing and supporting APO’s enterprise applications, including UC OATS, Opus, and Interfolio’s Faculty Activity Reporting and Review, Promotion, and Tenure modules. Heather also continues to perform business analysis, and helps out with support and training. Heather recently led the effort to implement WalkMe on UC OATS.
Improving patient care with clinician diagnostic performance feedback: building a novel repository of diagnostic performance feedback tools for healthcare organization discovery and implementation
Track: Engineering
Description
Safe and effective patient care relies on accurate and timely diagnosis. However, diagnostic error affects 12 million Americans annually, leading to 40,000 – 80,000 potentially avoidable deaths. Performance feedback is used in many industries to provide individuals with information to reduce the gaps between current and desired performance. However, the very measurement of diagnostic accuracy in healthcare is uniquely challenging, and operationalizing diagnostic performance feedback remains rare. Nevertheless, for organizations interested in doing so, there is no centralized source of existing diagnostic performance feedback tools. With a panel of national thought leaders, informaticists, designers, and engineers, we carried out the first comprehensive discovery of diagnostic performance feedback tools, cataloged them by important features and functions, and designed an online, publicly available, searchable repository of these resources.
Speaker Bios
Benjamin Rosner, Associate Professor, Medicine, UC San Francisco - Health
Ben Rosner is an Associate Professor, a Hospital Medicine physician, a digital health researcher, and an informaticist at the University of California, San Francisco. He is affiliated with the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR), the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), and the Bakar Computational Sciences Institute.
Dr. Rosner’s work focuses on patient generated health data (PGHD), patient and provider engagement, using the audit logs of the electronic health record to understand clinical behavior, and digital health policy. Between 2011-2018, he was the founding Chief Medical Information Officer of HealthLoop, a digital patient engagement company, where he created automated remote patient guidance and monitoring technologies, working with C-suite health system leaders throughout the country, and top leadership at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He was the lead author of CMS' Merit Based Incentive Payment System's Improvement Activity IA-BE-14, Engage Patients and Families to Guide Improvement in the System of Care. Dr. Rosner also led the Patient Engagement and Empowerment Reporting national consortium to move the industry towards quality metrics associated with engaging and empowering the patient.
Dr. Rosner serves as a digital health medical advisor to several national digital health not-for-profit organizations, and continues to work in policy related to digital health. Dr. Rosner holds an MD and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/benjamin.rosner
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benrosnermdphd/
Twitter @BenRosnerMD_PhD
Lecture recordings aren't accessible times 5.69 million
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
In 2020, the UC System recorded over 5.69 million hours of instructional videos. Long form lecture recordings aren’t accessible or engaging. Accessibility needs for videos include supporting those who are visually impaired, hard of hearing, have ADHD, and other needs. Long form videos aren’t engaging, research from UCSD Professor Philip Guo found that to maximize engagement the video duration should be less than 6 minutes long. Traditional means of post production doesn’t scale to curate the UC system’s millions of hours of content. Artificial Intelligence provides a means to automate content curation to provide accessible, efficient, and engaging learning. Experience how a visually impaired learner navigates video and learn how we developed an AI enabled automated video editing and content curation system endorsed by UCSD's Office for Students with Disabilities and Chancellor Pradeep Khosla.
Speaker Bios
Monal Parmar, Founder, CEO, CTO, Educational Vision Technology
Monal Parmar (Founder, CEO, CTO) started Educational Vision Technology (EVT.ai) which provides automated video editing and content curation services using A.I. to make online learning accessible, efficient, and engaging. Monal started EVT based on problems he encountered as a first generation college student in STEM with a disability while attending junior college and later UC San Diego for his BS in ECE. Monal has a background in computer vision and is an innovator with two patents in automated content generation. As a UCSD student Monal took the company from an idea to a revenue generating product that students and instructors rave about. Monal leads sales to major universities and corporations, fundraises with over $700K raised, and manages product, UI/UX, and engineering for EVT’s impactful edtech innovations. Monal believes that improving support and access to education is the rising tide that lifts all boats to improve a broad array of problems in society.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Surf’s up! Get ready to ride your next career wave
Track: Culture
Description
Are you asking yourself how do I get to the next level? Or what am I doing today that will help me get there? To answer these questions for your own career journey, it can be helpful to hear how others did it before you. This is the opportunity to do just that – learn from a panel of UC leaders, the lessons (even the hard ones!) that they learned along their way to “shore” up their career and catch that next wave of opportunity. We will discuss how to make the most out of networking throughout your career within the UC system, tips for navigating the UC culture, hiring and developing exceptional UC people and more. There will be opportunities to ask your questions, we will answer as many as we can in the time available.
Speaker Bios
Molly Greek, CIO, University of California, Office of the President, UCOP
Molly Greek is the CIO for University of California, Office of the President and leads Technology Delivery Services (TDS). TDS is primarily responsible for the 200+ applications and systemwide services which include UCPath (HR and Payroll for the entire UC) and Apply UC (undergraduate admissions for UC). Molly formerly worked at UC Davis Health, Hewlett Packard, and EDFUND (student loan guarantor). Molly was also a lecturer at CSU, Sacramento for six years and UC Davis extension. Molly has an MBA from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor’s of Science from UC Davis. Molly’s areas of professional interest are promoting diversity and inclusion, the UC mission and cloud technology.
How to give a boring presentation
Track: Culture
Description
A tongue-in-cheek presentation of all the things that will make your PowerPoint presentations much much worse, and how to avoid those things with a bit of humor but also some hints and tricks.
Speaker Bios
Paul Krueger, UC San Diego
Paul is a technical project manager at UC San Diego IT Services and project operations for the Project Portfolio Management Office. Prior to coming to UC San Diego, Paul served five years in the U.S. Navy including one year in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as an Assistant Operations Officer and successfully planned and executed over two hundred air and ground combat and civil affairs missions. Following military service, Paul completed his BA in history at San Diego State University and was Veterans Coordinator at Southwestern College before ultimately joining us here at UC San Diego.
Gender inclusivity: one nonbinary person's perspective
Track: Culture
Description
If you’ve ever wondered about how to be supportive of nonbinary people but unsure where to look or afraid to ask, then this is the session for you! It will cover basic terminology, best practices for being an ally, and resources for learning more. It will also go further into what you can do to be inclusive of nonbinary/trans coworkers (or others in your life) and how to be gender inclusive in applications or projects. Bring your questions! You’re encouraged to ask them in the time for Q&A.
Speaker Bios
Emily Young, UC Irvine
Emily Young is the Support Specialist for the OVPTL IT team at UCI, transitioning from part-time to full-time employment after graduating with their Bachelors in Cognitive Sciences in 2017. They wear a variety of hats including QA Lead, Support Lead, Scrum Leader, & IT Accessibility Workgroup member in addition to supervising a student and assisting with project management and third-party software procurement management. Outside of work they play roller derby and make art.
Be a better dragon: Creating and sharing effective documentation
Track: Future of Higher Ed
Description
This talk covers the importance of creating effective documentation and guides, with considerations for a different audience (internal, technical, faculty-facing) and a variety of media (text, gifs, videos). Also covered: strategies for repository setup and sharing for assets and guides that are easily accessible.
Speaker Bios
Dana Conard, UC Santa Cruz
Hacking healthcare: Where bits and bytes meet flesh and blood
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
Healthcare delivery across the globe is critically and increasingly dependent on computerized hardware and software including electronic health records and connected medical devices. Healthcare cyber attacks have resulted in technology failure, compromised data integrity, and breaches of sensitive patient information. Though the proliferation of cyber attacks in healthcare has raised serious concerns about patient privacy violations through healthcare data theft, the impacts of cyber attacks on patient safety and clinical outcomes are poorly understood. Come learn more about how all of us can build a better and more cyber attack resilient healthcare system for all.
Speaker Bios
Christian Dameff, Assistant Professor - Medicine, UC San Diego Health
Dr. Christian Dameff is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and Computer Science (affiliate) at the University of California San Diego. At UCSD Health he was hired as the nation’s first Medical Director of Cyber Security. Dr. Dameff is also a hacker and security researcher interested in the intersection of healthcare, patient safety, and cybersecurity.
Jeffrey Tully, Associate Physician, Dept. of Anesthesiology, UC San Diego Health
Dr. Jeffrey Tully is an Associate Physician in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of California San Diego. He is a practicing board eligible anesthesiologist as well as a board-certified pediatrician. Prior to his recruitment to UCSD to help establish a Division of Perioperative Informatics, he was an Assistant Professor at UC Davis Medical Center. Working alongside research partner Dr. Christian Dameff, he has acquired an international reputation for his work in healthcare cybersecurity, particularly the patient safety considerations that arise from the use of connected medical devices and technologies. He has spoken at the most prominent security conferences in the world, including RSA-C, DEF CON, and Black Hat, as well as an invited contributor to cybersecurity events run by the US and Netherlands governments. His research on novel clinical simulations and table top exercises for healthcare cyber-disaster preparedness has been published in peer reviewed journals including Academic Medicine and he is the co-founder of CyberMed Summit, the world’s first clinically oriented healthcare cybersecurity conference.
Take advantage of the UC San Diego Data Activity Hubs
Track: Future of Higher Ed
Description
UC San Diego has built data "Activity Hubs" under the Student, Employee, Research, and Finance domains. Centralization of employee and payroll data with UC Path enforces common data structures across UC schools. This common data model can be leveraged to support economies of scale through shared analytics. Many of us are, or will be running the same systems for Student, Finance, and Research data sets. The activity hub model provides flexibility in getting the data out of source systems and transformed into models curated for the analyst in mind. Using common Tableau data sources and Cognos packages, any UC location can take advantage of what’s been developed. In this presentation, we will review the architecture, showcase use cases fulfilled, and discuss some current collaborations.
Speaker Bios
Brett Pollak, Executive Director Workplace Technology Services, IT Services, UC San Diego
My experience is developing enterprise strategies, platforms, and teams to support a wide variety of IT Services. Groups I currently direct include Datawarehouse, Analytics and Predictive Technologies, Email, Service Desk, Field Support, Endpoint Management, Enterprise Content Management, Web Technologies, and Integrated Collaboration Services.
Vince Kellen, CIO, UC San Diego
Vince Kellen is the Chief Information Officer for the University of California, San Diego, as well as a member of the Chancellor's Cabinet, and vice chancellor and chief financial officer's senior management team. UC San Diego is recognized as a top 15 university world-wide and 7th best public university in the world, with over $1.1 billion in annual research funding, 36,000 students, 16 Nobel laureates who have taught on its campus and 161 faculty with national Academy memberships.
Vince's recent work has been in the areas of student success and learning analytics and application of advanced technology in higher education. Vince is a recipient of the CIO Magazine “Top 100” award in 2007 and 2014, was one of InformationWeek’s “Chiefs of the Year” in 2013, received the Computerworld “Honors Laureate” award in 2013, and was one of four recipients selected globally for Dell’s 2012 “Transformational CIO” award. Vince has authored more than 220 articles, four books and more than 150 presentation on IT topics and is a Fellow with Cutter Consortium, a leading IT industry think tank, where writes on digital transformation and data and analytics topics.
Vince is a Board of Director member for IMS Global and has served on advisory boards for Apple, Microsoft, Dell, SAP, AT&T and Blackboard. He was previously CIO and Senior Vice Provost at University of Kentucky and CIO at DePaul University. Before his tenure in higher education, Dr. Kellen was an IT strategy consultant working with Fortune 500 firms on marketing and CRM digital transformations. Vince has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on IT strategy, information strategy, and enterprise systems at DePaul University and University of Kentucky. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science, an M.S. degree in information systems, and a B.A. degree in communications all from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.
Judy White, Director Business Intelligence and Analytics, UC San Diego
Kevin Chou, Executive Director Business Technology Services, IT Services, UC San Diego
Kevin Chou joined the University of California (UC), San Diego in 2006 and now oversees all enterprise systems supporting the University’s educational and research mission as an Executive Director at IT Services, as well as serving as the Director of the Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) Program. As Director of ESR, the largest single process and technology improvement initiative ever undertaken at UC San Diego, Kevin led the concurrent implementation of multiple ERPs including, but not limited to, Budget/Finance, Human Capital Management, Research Administration and Capital/Asset Management, and will wrap up this multi-year initiative with the selection and implementation of a new Student System.
Shifting left: empowering customers and creating value with our IT website
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
The goal of our our new IT website was to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. Using a combination of design thinking, Lean startup, and Agile development, we've been able to measure the impact of our efforts and calculate the value of our investment. Our data governance and content strategy efforts have helped improve the utility and relevance of the content. Customers are using the IT website to answer their questions and solve their own problems. More importantly, they're engaging with IT service providers to improve products and processes. We've taken what we learned and are applying those lessons to improve other administrative websites like Human Resources and Campus Life Services. Shift left and give the gift of time.
Speaker Bios
Erik Wieland, Associate Director, IT Content Management & Communications, UC San Francisco
Erik Wieland is the Associate Director for Content Management & Communications in UCSF IT. Since joining UCSF in 1997 he has been a field services and helpdesk technician, server administrator, web developer, operations supervisor, director, customer engagement manager, and application service manager. Erik cares passionately about staff development, product management, and digital transformation.
John von Eichhorn, Associate Director, IT Service Desk, UC San Francisco
John von Eichhorn is the Associate Director leading the IT Service Desk for UCSF, supporting both the Campus and Health organizations. John started at UCSF 5 years ago, bringing with him a dedication to the IT customer experience and applying Lean principles to drive improvement and value. John sees engaged people as the key to success and focuses on working across teams to build a culture of improvement that welcomes and values all voices.
Judy Daniel, Content Program Manager, UC San Francisco
Judy Lewenthal Daniel is the Content Program Manager in UCSF's Web Services team (IT Content Management and Communications).
Judy was a news, business, and technology magazine writer and editor until the Internet created space for content. She brings a dozen years of B2B and B2C tech and healthcare client services experience to her role at UCSF. In her tenure at UCSF she drives content program, strategy, governance, and editorial expertise for the Jumpstarts consulting practice as well as large, strategic initiatives including the IT and HR website redesigns.
Judy is a make-stuff-happen pro, who’s committed to making UCSF a great place to work through building a strong, diverse network of peers: she’s a member of the Committee on the Status of Women, and has completed the UCSF DEI Champion training.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/judylewenthaldaniel/
Dana Adams, Web Services Product Manager, UC San Francisco
Dana Adams is a Product Manager for Web Services at UCSF, overseeing agency services and coordinating technical and production efforts on a broad array of university websites. Since joining UCSF in 2017, he has worked on projects for ucsf.edu, campaign.ucsf.edu, medicine.ucsf.edu, hr.ucsf.edu and it.ucsf.edu. With an emphasis on customer value and utility, Dana applies Agile and commitment-based management techniques to deliver projects efficiently.
Trace me - requirements through the project lifecycle
Track: Future of Higher Ed
Description
This hands-on course will provide you with tools, tips and time to practice tracking requirements throughout a project's lifecycle. Accessible tools, tips and practice materials shall be provided during the course. The course shall be hosted by Business System Analyst Professionals with over 50 years of combined experience and will conclude with a Q & A session.
Speaker Bios
Julie Steele, Business Systems Analyst, IT Services, UC San Diego
Julie is a Project Manager, Business Analyst, Operations Analyst, Cross-functional Team Lead, and Senior Business Systems Analyst, currently working for UC San Diego’s IT Services team.
Julie has worked within the project space, primarily acting as a Business Operations and Systems Analyst, for over twenty years. She also has experience being: A Project Strategy Consultant, An Operations Manager, a QA Test Lead, and a QA Tester. She holds certifications in Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid project management methodologies, is a Six Sigma Green Belt and holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Washington, all of which she draws upon to support a project team’s success.
Julie is currently supporting UC San Diego’s Enterprise Systems Renewal (ESR) program, actively supporting several ESR projects including: Enterprise Identity Management, Student Information System and Event Management Production Management.
Michael McGrath, UC San Diego
Stewart McMaken, UC San Diego
Accelerating human rights: how changing the way we connect with our researchers is changing the world
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
At a time of unprecedented climate and forced migration, asylum seekers and others leave their homes to seek legal protection in a safe country. One of the best ways to enhance the likelihood of legal protection is by corroborating the client’s claim of persecution using medicolegal evidence from trained clinicians. In this talk, we introduce a groundbreaking platform we developed to digitize medical evaluations for asylum seekers. This technology has been made possible by connections between researchers, legal scholars, and technologists at multiple UC campuses. The solution developed by these teams is revolutionizing the way forensic medical evaluations are performed at UC and beyond, but it has also changed the way our technology teams think about serving as facilitators for the research community.
Speaker Bios
Remi Frazier, UC San Francisco
Remi Frazier, MS is the UCSF IT Research Tools principal architect and team lead. His team is responsible for the UCSF Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) platforms, which host thousands of active data capture and management systems within the UCSF research enterprise. Prior to this role, he served as the senior data scientist and architect for two NIH/HRSA Special Projects of National Significance, as well as other regional public health projects in the SF Bay Area. He is passionate about leveraging lessons learned as both a researcher and a technologist to evangelize for research reproducibility and the creation of scalable digital experiences.
Coleen Kivlahan
Coleen Kivlahan MD, MSPH is a family medicine physician and an experienced international expert and trainer in forensic medical evaluations of torture, ill-treatment and human rights violations. She serves as Chair of the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative and Co-Medical Director of the Human Rights Collaborative, providing pro-bono asylum evaluations with our medical school and legal partners.
Using human centered design to define a virtual care vision and opportunities for development
Track: Health IT
Description
The existing health experience system was not built for the speed of innovation that is occurring in healthcare. As healthcare continues to evolve, we need a foundational system and supporting processes that aren't focused on a single tool, rather an "operating system of care". The virtual care team at CDHI sought to identify commercialization opportunities for more intelligent and integrated services that could solve the challenges identified by our clinicians, staff and patients. By involving end users in participatory design sessions and other user research methodologies, we not only identified where technology might help clinicians, staff, and patients along the journey, but also developed a 3 year end-to-end vision anchored around clinical care orchestration.
Speaker Bios
Ali Maiorano, UC San Francisco
Ali Maiorano is a designer with expertise in the convergence of digital and physical experiences. She is a lead product designer at the Center for Digital Health Innovation who supports the Receiving Care team in developing products that extend care beyond the hospital and clinic. Her work centers around innovation projects improving patient experience while reducing burden on the clinic care team. She has experience in the social sector space designing legal aid, foster youth and 24 hour child care services for underserved populations. Her work is also informed by her time consulting in the education, entertainment and healthcare spaces with clients such as Thinkwell, Universal Parks, Chase, Disney, Agilent Technologies, and Aerovironment. Ali’s passion for design centers around improving human health, well-being and livelihood.
Olivia Bigazzi
Olivia Bigazzi is a product manager at UCSF’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), working to improve the digital patient experience, from access and finding care to ongoing care management.
Over the course of her career she has developed a wide skill set in lean product development, user research and design. Prior to CDHI, Olivia was a product manager in the health technology industry where she successfully launched a healthcare portal addressing health education and preventive care for the Medicare population.
She holds a Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Tulane University and a Masters in Translational Medicine, a professional master’s degree offered by UC Berkeley and UCSF.
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 17, 2023
8:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Vendor showcase
Vendor showcase
Opening remarks and keynote from Pegah Parsi
Speaker Bios
Pegah Parsi, Chief Privacy Officer, UC San Diego
Pegah Parsi is the UC San Diego chief privacy officer. She manages privacy initiatives related to employees, students, applicants, alumni, and research participants and provides guidance on the GDPR, FERPA, HIPAA, California privacy laws, and research privacy/Common Rule. She enjoys the grey privacy issues surrounding learner analytics, big data, AI, and international collaborations. She has extensive experience in federal contracts, clinical trials, and research compliance. Pegah is an attorney and MBA. In her spare time, she advises clients on immigration and asylum matters. She is also a Veteran, who, among other things, was the Honor Grad of Army Truck Driver school!
Demonstrating a zero trust, confidential computing research platform to accelerate prospective Healthcare AI research & deployment
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
Gaining access to highly protected, prospective data required to achieve the generalizability standard within healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) research is a time-consuming endeavor and potentially an existential threat for the future of AI research and innovation. During this panel discussion and technical demonstration learn how a zero-trust AI research platform accelerates AI research by ensuring end-to-end encryption of the data and algorithm model, minimizing the risk of PHI exposure, enabling the data steward to maintain control of the data in their environment, and supporting multi-site collaborations utilizing the Azure confidential computing cloud environment. Learn how a zero trust, confidential computing platform is changing the paradigm of prospective AI research.
Speaker Bios
Mary Beth Chalk, UC San Francisco
The wonderful world of WIT (Women in Technology)
Track: Women in Tech
Description
WIT (Women in Technology) aims to promote a community for women technologists that will foster support and collaboration, increase retention and advancement, enhance innovation, and improve performance and quality of decisions in service to the University. WIT's goal is to engage individuals and leaders across the University and beyond to expand opportunities and eliminate barriers for technologists from underrepresented groups. WIT intends to develop a central hub for WIT-related resources to create awareness and transparency. This also allows for the establishment of a peer-to-peer network, mentorship, career pipeline and opportunities. WIT looks forward to being an advocate for continued professional development. WIT aims to align with the University’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. WIT is open to people of all genders.
Speaker Bios
Armanda Edwards-Newman, UC San Francisco
Armanda is a Technical Project Manager in the Information Technology Department at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a passionate advocate of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Anti-Racism. Armanda participates in and leads multiple efforts to encourage, educate and cultivate communities where differences can thrive.
Alyssa Tecklenburg
Alyssa is the Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco with a passion for continuous improvement and technology. She believes in the power of building community and supporting other women to achieve their potential. Prior to UCSF she was the Business Operations Director at a youth mentoring and college access organization.
Webforms for everyone
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
This session will be a practical how-to on creating forms for websites that meet accessibility compliance requirements. We will discuss inputs and labels, fieldsets and legends, and more. We will discuss popular survey tools as well.
Speaker Bios
Chris Patterson, UCLA
Chris Patterson is the Technical Lead for the Disabilities and Computing Program (DCP) and the Web Team of the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC). Chris has 25 years of experience in full stack web development. Chris has served as an accessibility evangelist for UCLA since the 1990's. Chris serves as one of the UCLA representatives on the systemwide Electronic Accessibility Committee (EAC) and is the UC Tech Ambassador for UCLA.
Hello out there
Track: Culture
Description
Communication lessons from a pivot to remote work. How to keep smaller teams together, keep those teams aware of what others were doing, and have fun in the process. Using remote and hybrid work to your advantage going forward and how the option of remote work can improve your ability to hire top talent. How to make new remote workers feel welcome.
Speaker Bios
John Ruzicka, UCOP
John Ruzicka is a Business Analyst at the University of California Office of the President. He works on various projects, including the UC IT Blog, IS-3 Security Policy Implementation, and putting together quarterly team meetings and manager’s meetings that are engaging and fun.
As a member of the Technology Delivery Systems (TDS) Engagement Team, John helps plan events to improve morale and offer networking opportunities for (mostly) remote staff. John frequently advises team members on presentation skills and helps them with their PowerPoint decks.
When not working, John enjoys bicycling, hiking with his dogs, music mixing and his weekly Gloomhaven gaming group with other UC staff.
Moving Disaster Recovery (DR) from on-premises to the AWS cloud
Track: Future of Higher Ed
Description
This presentation will outline how UCOP moved their DR from on-premises to AWS cloud - the what, who, why and how. What was accomplished including the desired and actual outcomes.
This project was a win in many ways:
- Cost Savings: elimination of periodic large capital expenditures transitioned to predictable annual AWS costs • Resource Efficiency Gains: a consolidated infrastructure footprint
- Cloud Experience Increased: excellent preparation for future AWS migrations
- DR testing: we tested all DR systems that had never been done before.
Speaker Bios
Louis Zeoli, UCOP
Louis Zeoli is a Systems Engineer and Analyst at the University of California Office of the President. He serves multiple roles including ITDR Coordinator, Cloud Services Administrator, and AWS Cost Advisor. Louis works closely with UCOP’s AWS Architects and AWS Account Owners to review charges and makes recommendations to improve security and lower costs. He strives to ensure a positive outcome in every interaction.
Louis has had a passion for IT since he first set eyes on a computer. Prior to joining UCOP seven years ago, Louis worked for Oracle, Apple, State Street Corp., and volunteered for Voices Against Violence.
In his free time Louis enjoys dancing, fishing, playing games of all sorts, and painting gaming miniatures.
Lessons learned in improving patient engagement in digital health platforms
Track: Health IT
Description
High patient engagement in digital health platforms is critical for effective interventions, but is heavily influenced by socioeconomic, demographic, and clinical factors. We describe standardized definitions and an approach to measurement techniques to assess engagement by integrating vendor data with electronic health record data. We describe our strategies for continual program monitoring using automated data integration and dashboards. We describe an approach using both patient interviews and quantitative data to better identify causes for poor engagement and drive the product roadmap and future improvement. Our team has implemented digital health programs focused on remote patient monitoring and electronic patient reported outcomes, encompassing a broad set of patients, including programs in lung transplant, inflammatory bowel disease, hypertension, orthopedic surgery, and living organ donors.
Speaker Bios
Andrew Liu, UC San Francisco
How we won a 2022 Webby Award
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
This university won the 2022 People's Choice Webby Award for Best School/University website. We did it with cross-departmental collaboration, user-first design based on analytical deep dives, and pushing the envelope with ambitiously designed components. In this talk, we'll share our approach and implementation.
Speaker Bios
Tristan Peery, UC Davis
UC research facilitators: Birds of a Feather (BoF)
Track: Research Computing and Data (RCD)
Description
A gathering of Research Facilitator-types to discuss trending topics, common issues faced, program and professional development, and potential multi-campus collaborative activities.
Speaker Bios
Cyd, Burrows-Schlling Sr. Research Facilitator, UC San Diego
Cyd is the Sr. Research Facilitator at UC San Diego where she has been honing her Research Computing and Data profession for 6 years. She works closely with researchers in all disciplines to identify advanced cyber-infrastructure technologies, resources, applications and workflows needed to creatively and effectively achieve the goals of the project. Cyd supports research projects through all phases of the research lifecycle from ideation through publication, and advises on topics such as private and commercial cloud computing platform suitability, research data management (storage, backup, security, archival), high-speed networking, HPC, HTC, national computing resources, and more. In addition, she works with an extended team of Facilitators and Systems Integration Engineers to offer researchers hands-on integration support for demos and proofs of concepts (POC) that help strengthen proposals being submitted to funding agencies.
Cyd is starting her 20th year in higher education, having spent 13 of those years in instructional enterprise IT. She holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of San Diego, and a MS in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIST) from the University of Southern California.
linkedin.com/in/cydburrows
Risk Services Data Management System (RDMS) application migration in AWS
Track: Engineering
Description
We’d like to tell our story on how we successfully migrated RDMS system from on premise to AWS. This migration effort is a complex, well-architected, cross functional team solution, on time, and within budget. Re-architected and migrated the UCOP RDMS 1.0 from an on-premise, Hadoop-based platform to a serverless, data lake platform in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud (RDMS 2.0). The session will be about adoption and integration of new Cloud-based technologies and services that modernized the data platform, yield significant cost savings, enhanced security and improved scalability. Projects of this nature are complex and would not have been successful without the proper collaboration and technology expertise provided by Sherlock and UCOP teams. This was a true team effort from everyone involved, and an outcome of our long-standing partnership.
Speaker Bios
Satish Pasupuleti, UCOP
Emily Weaver, Director, UC Path Data Services, UCOP
The evolution of AI in security
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
"Augmented Intelligence’s impact to Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure The AI evolution into security and risk has been evolving. AI initially referred to as Artificial Intelligence is now better referred to as Augmented Intelligence. This session delivered solo (or as a panel with experts from Corporations, Universities and Law Enforcement) will briefly review where AI and Machine Learning has made it’s greatest impact to cybersecurity, related statistics from a recent Ponemon institute’s study, the future of IA, and how it’s growing pains are being addressed in bias and trust. Learning Objectives • Correlate the latest attack vectors and innovative security approaches to the recent Ponemon Institute’s “Cost of Data Breach 2021 Report” and Outline costs and cost savings attributed to security techniques in machine learning/cognitive security, behavioral anomaly detection and automated response, and differences in various industries/government. • Discuss cutting-edge advancements of AI and behavioral anomaly detection and response to combat and circumvent Cybersecurity attacks • How bad actors effectively mine information and gain access to infrastructure and records, how accessible, and low priced the tooling are • Trust and Bias aspects in AI"
Speaker Bios
Michael Melore, CISSP Senior Cyber Security Advisory, IBM
IBM Senior Cyber Security Advisor, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Founder/Moderator for “SecRT”, regional CISO/Security Leader Round Table groups across the US (1,300+ Security Executive Members).
Author, frequent National public speaker and moderator, FBI InfraGard committeeman, NASCIO committee member, and recognized subject matter expert in Security and Threat Intelligence, Identity Access Governance, and Authorization. Past Consulting roles include: Lead architect for many of the world’s largest authentication and authorization infrastructures, including two of the 1st Billion user authentication infrastructures.
Champion of regularly scheduled cybersecurity threat simulation exercises, training and education.
Keith Clement, CSU Fresno
White belt: starting a continuous improvement journey
Track: Culture
Description
Through an experiential hour of learning, led by UCSD's LSS champions, participants will:
• Learn about the foundations of LSS through a White Belt training
• Participate in an activity to quickly apply the tools
• Hear about the outcomes/impacts from projects in UCSD's health and campus LSS efforts
Speaker Bios
Tony Nava, Senior Strategic Programs Manager, UC San Diego
Antonio Nava "Tony" serves as the Senior Strategic Programs Manager in Operational Strategic Initiatives for UC San Diego.
Joining the team in 2018, he is the Program Manager for the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification and the lead trainer and administrator for Promapp. He was awarded the 2021 UC San Diego Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year.
Tony regularly facilitates cross-departmental and cross-institutional projects, Prosci Change Management, and LSS methodologies to support change initiatives, and delivers campus-wide efforts to support lean initiatives and business best practices through BECOP - the Business Excellence Community Of Practice.
Tony earned his Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts from UC San Diego and has completed Master's coursework in Organizational Management from Ashford University. Tony earned his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt from UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies in 2021.
Kevin Waldrop, UC San Diego
As the Assistant Director of the Academic Affairs Center for Operational Excellence (COE) and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Kevin is a collaborative leader forging partnerships with cross-Vice Chancellor teams for strategic resolution of complex issues. His portfolio includes process improvement initiatives, workflow development, best practices, identity management topics, and collaborations involving employee hiring & onboarding systems and processes.
His professional service and activities include: Chair of the Business Excellence Community of Practice (BECOP), Conference Chair for the 2023 Lean in Higher Education International Conference hosted by UC San Diego, Program Team for the Project Management Practical Training Program, volunteer staff for the UC Management Skills and Assessment Program (MSAP), and a mentor in the UC San Diego Staff Mentorship Program.
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Automated end-to-end website testing with cypress
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
Cypress is amazing and free! Use it to automatically test your website as though it is a real person clicking around to check that everything works as intended. Put your mind at ease knowing that the people visiting your websites are receiving the experience you designed, minus the bugs and frustrations. Best of all, it’s fast, reliable and actually fun to use. We’ll cover the major features available in Cypress from Time Travel Debugging to Automatic Retries and then dive into using it on a real website. You will leave knowing how to set up Cypress for your own site, write tests in JavaScript, confirm the site meets accessibility guidelines, and then automatically run with Continuous Integration.
Speaker Bios
Mark Miller, UC Davis
With nearly two decades of experience moving websites from concept to creation, Mark has leveraged his expertise to help the UC Davis IET Web Development team in creating SiteFarm, their hugely successful, campus-wide website publishing platform. Although considering himself a full-stack modern PHP and Drupal developer, he is especially focused on frontend development, scalable CSS and JavaScript, and component-based design.
A recipient of two Sautter Awards and a Webby, Mark is a regular presenter at UC Tech and other web technology conferences where he often introduces the audience to the latest best practices in software development.
Anthony Horn, UX Designer, UC Davis
Anthony Horn is a UX Designer from UC Davis’ IET Enterprise Infrastructure Services. He has over 10 years of experience in web design and development, and serves on the team that manages and maintains the campus CMS, SiteFarm.
“I love being part of the UC family and I am so happy that we can come together to share the great work we are doing and recipes for success. I do a lot of process work and I am looking forward to sharing my UX Improvement process with the UC Tech community.”
Previous presentations: Design Systems: Baking in Accessibility - UC Tech 2021, You Gonna Build a Process for that Process - BAD Camp 2019, SVG Magic! - BAD Camp 2019.
Awards: Larry L. Sautter honorable mention 2019, Larry L. Sautter Silver 2019, People’s Choice Webby for Education/University website 2022.
Feed me: a recipe for nourishing department culture
Track: Culture
Description
At the pandemic’s start, our department formed a culture committee to identify where improvement opportunities exist and plan ways to promote and nourish our desired culture. Connection is everything and we were hungry for it. This initiative is still thriving as we aspire to keep our team engaged and well, whether remote or on-site, and sustain connection to our team’s core values. Our culture programs include remote and return-to-work social activities; an onboarding process redesign; new buddy, mentoring, and volunteer programs; and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) training and knowledge sharing. Join us as we share what we have learned by making our people a priority.
Speaker Bios
Cynthia Milionis, UC San Francisco
Cynthia is a versatile designer with over a decade of experience in digital design and visual communications. She has helped realize numerous digital products to support research efforts, education, impactful enterprise applications, and promotional materials for the UCSF School of Medicine. The best part of her job is co-designing with users and empowering them to better their lives and their communities.
She leads her department’s culture committee with a user experience perspective and belief in the value of play.
Traci Farrell, UC San Francisco
Traci Farrell is communications lead, School of Medicine Dean's Office Technology Services, UC San Francisco.
Self-Service Analytics (SSA) success story
Track: Engineering
Description
Provides a blue-print to establish and sustain Self-Service Analytics (SSA) Program including keeping technology current, enhance developer skills from beginner to advanced and a governed process to sustain the program.
Speaker Bios
Ramesh P Doraivelu (PD), UC San Francisco
Ramesh P Doraivelu shortly known as PD is a Senior Global Executive driving strategy development and delivering value-added data and analytics programs that align with corporate’s operating goals with the demonstrated expertise in creating, enhancing, and supporting highly complex, large, and governed data & analytics platforms and solutions by leveraging in-house talents, 3rd party vendors, and offshore engagements while maintaining outstanding partnerships and collaboration with stakeholders of all functions and business units.
I am currently the Associate Director, Enterprise Information and Analytics at UCSF and have been at UCSF for 11 years.
A new department website: creating a collaborative, user-centric design process
Track: Digital/User/Customer Experience (DX, UX, CX, and XP)
Description
With recent shifts to remote/hybrid work, it's never been more important to provide your website's visitors a simple, streamlined, accessible user experience. We'll show you how we created and leveraged customer-centric goals and guiding principles, then enlisted an advisory committee of stakeholders to transform our departmental website. Every critical decision, from navigation to naming conventions and more, was guided by our advisory committee and arrived at by focusing exclusively on their needs, even when that meant going against convention and legacy practices. We'll give you the blueprint for using this unique design process to deliver a modern, appealing, and most importantly, super-functional site.
Speaker Bios
Sylvia Bass, Senior User Experience Designer , UC Irvine
Sylvia Bass is a Senior User Experience Designer with 26 years of experience working in web technology at the University of California, Irvine. Sylvia was instrumental in launching and continues to manage UCI Sites and Faculty Websites. These self-hosting web services use WordPress as a content management system. Sylvia’s primary motivation is helping others. She does her job with integrity and is always focused on the quality of service while being responsive to the client’s skill set. She is a 2022 recipient of the Applause Program for Women in Technology at UCI.
Meredith Ehrenberg, Information Architect, UC Irvine
Meredith Ehrenberg is an Information Architect at the University of California, Irvine. Her work involves organizing and labeling information and creating user interfaces that are easy and intuitive to navigate. She provides support and problem resolution to campus users of the Cascade Content Management System. A core focus for her is ensuring her projects and websites are accessible to all. Meredith is an active member of UCI's IT Accessibility Workgroup and champions both accessibility and wellness among her peers.
Multimedia design principles: what cognitive psychology tells us about effective course videos
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
The Coronavirus pandemic compelled many instructors to shift the majority – if not all – of their instruction to video. Though many institutions have allowed their students to return to the classroom, video continues to be used more heavily than pre-2020. It’s essential that instructors understand how to make an effective course video. In this workshop, we’ll provide a foundation in understanding how the brain processes pictures and words and leverage that cognitive psychology research to provide evidence-based best practices on how to design and deliver effective videos.
Speaker Bios
Galen Davis, UC San Diego
UC available assistive technology
Track: Teaching & Instruction
Description
UCOP conducted a RFP for assistive technologies which can be used at all campuses. We'll discuss the options now available for UC campuses.
Speaker Bios
Joshua Hori, UC Davis
Michael Wegmann, Sr. Commodity Manager, IT Strategic Sourcing, UCOP
The extraordinary true story of hummingbird
Track: Culture
Description
Evolving from a cluster built on second-hand donations, Hummingbird has become an essential campus HPC resource focused on building a vibrant HPC community of practice, supporting underserved researchers and expanding the impact of research IT staff. This is the extraordinary true story of how a dedicated group of UCSC Information Technology Services volunteers grew the Hummingbird Cluster into an essential service for the campus. Presented as a case study, this talk will highlight how UCSC answered the need for an open-access, general purpose campus cluster to serve emerging and small-to-medium scale computational and instructional needs. This case study will provide a model to other campus efforts to pioneer new services and thrive without huge budgets or big teams.
Speaker Bios
Jeffrey Weekley, UC Santa Cruz
Reimagining conference rooms for the Hybrid World: Keeping our remote and in-person workforce collaborative, thriving, and equitable on a relative shoestring
Track: Culture
Description
Polycoms may already be gone, but the meeting experience, both remote and in-person, still suffers in post-pandemic hybrid conference rooms. Poor sound quality, integration challenges, expensive 3rd party support contracts, and more need our attention. These improvements may seem like “nice-to–haves”; but they’re not! They’re “must-haves” for an equitable hybrid workforce. At Berkeley, we're building hybrid meeting experiences using low-cost A/V technology, acoustic sound-deadening hacks, meeting initiation ease, and real-time support without expensive 3rd party contracts...for under $5k per conference room!
In this session, we'll share what we've learned reimagining the hybrid conference room experience and open the floor for a rich discussion of innovative solutions to keep our dispersed workforce collaborative, thriving, and equitable.
Speaker Bios
Michael Thompson, UC Berkeley
Russ Ballati
Allyship in research computing and data
Track: Research Computing and Data (RCD)
Description
We are passionate about diversifying the research computing and data profession to better represent the important work of women and other underrepresented groups. We welcome those who are experienced working in the field, early career professionals, students, and those who are curious to learn more about high performance computing and additional surrounding topics like data science, data storage and movement, web portals, skill-building, and any other topics of interest that are related to high performance computing but not always at the forefront of the discussion. Join this community through which participants can create meaningful connections, learn about opportunities, and access information and resources. We are determined to contribute to and make an impact in the research computing and data profession.
Speaker Bios
Amy Neeser, UC Berkeley
As the Consulting + Outreach Lead in Research IT at UC Berkeley, Amy coordinates the consulting efforts across the Data Management and Research Computing programs to offer a holistic approach to data and computation. Amy also facilitates Research IT's community, partnership, and outreach programs. Amy's professional and research interests include interdisciplinary and open digital scholarship, innovative uses of technologies in academic environments, and critical digital literacy.
Kelly Rowland, Computer Systems Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kelly L. Rowland is a Computer Systems Engineer in the Data Science Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she splits her time between supporting the work of the Joint Genome Institute and supporting other NERSC program efforts. Before joining NERSC, she obtained her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Nuclear Engineering with a Designated Emphasis on Computational Science and Engineering. Kelly is a co-founder of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC).
Birds of a feather: REDCap across the UC campuses
Track: Security & Privacy
Description
REDCap service owners at several UC campuses will lead this discussion for those interested in setting up a REDCap service at their campus or just learning more about what it entails. REDCap is a secure data collection tool used for research across a range of disciplines, most broadly in medicine and public health. Attendees with existing REDCap services will be encouraged to share how their service/infrastructure is set up, describe the user groups at their campuses, and talk about future directions. Those who are interested in setting up REDCap can share about campus demand and potential service development, and ask any questions they have! This space will also explore ideas about cross-campus collaborations and future development of REDCap across UCs.
Speaker Bios
Erin Foster, Service Lead, Research Data Management Program, UC Berkeley
Erin is the Service Lead for the Research Data Management Program at UC Berkeley, which is a partnership between the Library and Research IT. Erin supports researchers with services related to the management of research data. These services range from communicating best practices to advising on available technical solutions to offering a sympathetic, collaborative ear. Erin is a former medical librarian and holds a Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Glenda Sharp, UCSF REDCap Lead, Research Systems Analyst
Seven years providing support and managing the UCSF production REDCap system.
Fifty years working with various technologies including prior service at UCSF from 1979 till 1982. Software and hardware development and support including: z80 microcode; UNIX and LINUX OS; DB backend software developer for Sybase and Relational Technology; hardware design and testing software developer for Pixar Image computer; training and support for Carefusion Pyxis Systems and Phillips iSite PACS; programming experience: C, C++, SQL, Fortran, JCL, Basic, numerous scripting languages.
12:45 - 4:00 p.m.
Campus field trips
Take some time at the end of the conference on Wednesday, August 17, to join a field trip and visit some special campus sites before heading home. Choose a field trip to see art installations, theatres, and Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Or visit the television and maker studios where students create, our new Design and Innovation Building, and the Qualcomm Institute.
We have two field trips with shuttle transportation (20-person capacity each, with some walking) and three full walking field trips alternating among four locations (15-person capacity each).
Please note:
- All field trips will leave from the Price Center at 12:45 p.m. and return between 4-4:30 p.m.
- Separate signup required.
- If you need an accessibility accommodation please sign up by August 10 and respond to the relevant question on the signup form.
- Shuttle Field Trips A and B limited to 20 participants, conducted on UC San Diego transportation vehicles with masks required
- Walking Field Trip capacity limited to 15-20 people.
- All Field Trips subject to change or cancellation if required by venue(s); you'll be notified if that's the case.
Signup Form Links:
For any questions about field trips contact Ronise Zenon at cybersecurity@ucsd.edu.
Shuttle Field Trip A
This field trip starts with visiting the locations of seven art installations that are part of The Stuart Art Collection. The site-specific sculptures that comprise the Stuart Collection each have a unique story to tell. The collection is designed to enrich the cultural, intellectual, and scholarly life of the campus and community. A short walk from Price Center to the first two installations, then pick up the shuttle to ride to the remaining five:
[note, number is the location on map: https://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/map/index.html]
* Fallen Star (#18)
* Bear (#16)
* Sun God (#1)
* Red Shoe (#13)
* The Wind Garden (#19)
* La Jolla Vista View (#8)
* La Jolla Project (#3)
The next stop is the La Jolla Playhouse, where artists and audiences come together to create what’s new and next in American Theatre. From Tony Award-wining plays and musicals, to imaginative programs for young audiences, to interactive experiences outside our theatre walls, the Playhouse brings people together to inspire discussion and open pathways to new ways of thinking. A visit to the Playhouse is an invitation to harness the transformative power of theatre to explore the here and now – and together, expand our world’s compassion, understanding, and hope. (2910 La Jolla Village Drive – Google Maps Plus Code VQC5+HP La Jolla, San Diego, CA)
The field trip ends with a visit to Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) for a tour from their Scripps Community Outreach for Public Education (SCOPE) team. (8650 Kennel Way, La Jolla, CA 92037 – Google Maps Plus Code VP8W+G4 La Jolla, San Diego, CA)
* Tour of the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier
This is our most popular tour. Visitors will learn about the history of Scripps including uses of the pier over time and the importance of having a pier to conduct research. Depending on the expertise of the tour guide and requests of the visiting group, the focus might be biology, geology, chemistry, or physics of the oceans.
* Tour of the local beach geology
Participants will get their feet and ankles sandy (and maybe wet) while learning about the principles of erosion. This is a fun tour for all ages, including elementary students.
** Requesting accommodations for a disability: Since there are hills and steps on SIO's standard tour, please indicate below if you will require assistance or accommodations and submit the form no later than Wednesday, August 3. Every effort will be made to provide participants with reasonable and appropriate accommodations.
** Note: field trips are subject to change if required; you will be notified if that is the case.
Shuttle Field Trip A signup form
Shuttle Field Trip B
Field Trip B opens with a visit to Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) for tours from their Scripps Community Outreach for Public Education (SCOPE) team. (8650 Kennel Way, La Jolla, CA 92037 – Google Maps Plus Code VP8W+G4 La Jolla, San Diego, CA)
* Tour of the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier
This is our most popular tour. Visitors will learn about the history of Scripps including uses of the pier over time and the importance of having a pier to conduct research. Depending on the expertise of the tour guide and requests of the visiting group, the focus might be biology, geology, chemistry, or physics of the oceans.
* Tour of the local beach geology
Participants will get their feet and ankles sandy (and maybe wet) while learning about the principles of erosion. This is a fun tour for all ages, including elementary students.
** Requesting accommodations for a disability: Since there are hills and steps on SIO's standard tour, please indicate below if you will require assistance or accommodations and submit the form no later than Wednesday, August 3. Every effort will be made to provide participants with reasonable and appropriate accommodations.
Second on this field trip is The Stuart Art Collection. This will go in the opposite direction of Field Trip A and include an eighth art installation that puts you directly in front of the final stop, the Media Teaching Lab:
[note, number is the location on map: https://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/map/index.html]
* Red Shoe (#13)
* The Wind Garden (#19)
* La Jolla Vista View (#8)
* La Jolla Project (#3*)
* Bear (#16)
* Fallen Star (#18)
* Sun God (#1)
* Something Pacific (#5)
The Media Teaching Lab offers undergraduate and graduate students production studios, editing bays, a vast array of equipment for checkout, and provides technical workshops to the entire UCSD community. You’ll have an opportunity to visit these spaces and see how such an undertaking can be established on your campus if desired. (Media Center/Communication (MCC) Building, 251 – Google Maps Plus Code VQJ5+HV San Diego, California)
** Note: field trips are subject to change if required; you will be notified if that is the case.
Shuttle Field Trip B sigup form
Walking Field Trips
Taking a walking field trip sets you on a path to see one of our newest buildings (and the even newer trolley running overhead), places of innovation, engineering and creation.
The Media Teaching Lab offers undergraduate and graduate students production studios, editing bays, a vast array of equipment for checkout, and provides technical workshops to the entire UCSD community. You’ll have an opportunity to visit these spaces and see how such an undertaking can be established on your campus if desired. (Media Center/Communication (MCC) Building, 251 – Google Maps Plus Code VQJ5+HV San Diego, California)
The Qualcomm Institute offers state-of-the-art laboratory space and equipment, specializes in cutting-edge applications of technology and communication needs, and prototypes and builds enabling technologies. (3390 Voigt Dr – Google Maps Plus Code VQJ8+X2 San Diego, California)
The EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio in the Structural & Materials Engineering (SME) Building is an experiential teaching facility where both engineering and visual arts students are empowered to think, design, make, tinker, break, and build again. (Matthews Lane – Google Maps Plus Code VQJ8+2F La Jolla, San Diego, CA)
The new Design and Innovation Building houses not only classrooms and work spaces, but is also a space for students of all academic disciplines to test innovative ideas and apply theory to real-world experiences. We will visit The Basement which serves those who want to make a difference in the world by offering a place where students can take ideas and turn them into reality, creating startup companies. On the second floor is Maker Space UC San Diego where students are provided access to various creative modalities: 3D Print + Laser Cutter Studio, Wood + Foam Shop, Electronics Studio + CNC Machining Shop, (Matthews Lane – Google Maps Plus Code VQH9+Q3 La Jolla, San Diego, CA)
** Requesting accommodations for a disability: Please indicate below if you will require assistance or accommodations and submit the form no later than Wednesday, August 3. Every effort will be made to provide participants with reasonable and appropriate accommodations.
** Note: field trips are subject to change if required; you will be notified if that is the case.