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Electronic Signatures and Forms Automation - DocuSign Across UC

Eric Taggart

Want to learn more about how electronic signature and forms automation are being used to streamline processes across UC?

DocuSign has been vetted UC-wide and is being used in one way or another at all UC locations.  The broad range of current and potential use cases is fascinating and reflects the diverse challenges we all face.

Web Development and Applications
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Hiring and Mentoring Student IT Employees for Today’s Tech Industry

Su Wang / Alissa Powers

For students to be able to succeed in today’s tech industry, relevant experience is often required even at entry level positions. As members of the university IT department, we have the unique ability to not only provide a job opportunity for students to gain this experience, but also to provide valuable mentorship along the way. This presentation will cover how our web development team at UC Irvine hires and mentors student IT employees so that they are ready for the next step in their career.

Professional Development
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Accelerate Innovation in Your Organization

Jane Harrington / Shohreh Bozorgmehri / Eric Taggart

Joint session with UCD and UCI presenting/discussing their innovation initiatives.  More details to be updated here soon.

Do you want to help grow your organization's cultural values of innovation, experimentation, creativity and “success thru failure”?

Do you want to create a scalable and sustainable innovation initiative to enable broader innovation across your organization?

Well so do we!

Professional Development
Web Development and Applications
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Changing The Cybersecurity Culture: UC Cyber Champion Program

Monte Ratzlaff

General security awareness training, phishing simulation and education, posters, contests…all are important aspects of a security awareness program; but are these efforts changing the culture of our organization toward a more secure minded organization?  One aspect that is making a difference in moving an organization to a secure culture is a security ambassador or cyber champion program.  The Cyber-Risk Coordination Center (C3) at University of California established the Cyber Champion Program to support UC locations with existing ambassador/cyber champion programs as wel

Security and Privacy
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Empowering Women: from history to practical change

Patricia Honda-Nations

I wish to discuss the history of women in STEM fields (focusing on the computer industry), including the challenges and the lessons learned. That history has a bearing on current workplace issues, and gives us a context. I would like to conclude with some practical tips and ideas for promoting change, fostering professional growth, and mentoring.

Women in Technology
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Can Airtable improve your department's operational efficiency? It seems like its magic, but is it really that incredible?

Steve Miley

At the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management we have lots of spreadsheets.   We also have lots of duplicated data.   We have sheets for people, offices,  groupings of people, management of our space.  We have simulated databases in our web site.    We've started a journey to improve operational efficiency of our procedures and to make our data easier to access.   We are using Airtable, a company that offers a SAAS product that can magically turn spreadsheets into databases.   Data that has been locked in an excel spreadsheet on our file server, can now serve all or parts of

Web Development and Applications
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Making Web Accessibility Work at Your Campus

Anna Gazdowicz / Lucy Greco

For technology to be truly sustainable, it must also be accessible. Thankfully, the UC has a web accessibility policy. But what can individual UC campuses do to promote accessibility and build it into their processes? At this session, learn about what UC Berkeley’s Web Access team has done to foster a culture of web accessibility, influence third-party products and services, and provide a platform for campus departments to build accessible websites. Learn about how it all started, where we are now, and where we want to go from here.

Web Development and Applications
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What? So What? Now What?

John Ruzicka

We all write email, give presentations, and/or answer lots of questions from our teams and managers. The "What? So What? Now What?" method lets you quickly and concisely frame and address any topic in any of these formats. In this session, we'll explain the method and show how easy it is to use. We'll apply it to conversation, email, and longer form material. You'll learn how the method saves time and provides clarity. We'll do demos in real time. If you write a lot of email, do presentations, or even just answer lots of questions, this is the session for you!

Professional Development
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The Compass Project: Comprehensive Analytics for Student Success

Briandy Walden / Ray Vadnais

When UC Irvine realized that advisors had access to the right data in the wrong way, we harnessed business intelligence tools to provide richer and more timely reporting through a new self-service application called Compass. In this presentation we will explore how business analysis, advisor interviews, and user experience design were employed to bring about student data reporting tools that met the real needs of campus advising units.

Teaching, Learning, and Research
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UC Irvine's Community Provider Database

Josh Lien / Wayne Fields

UCI's Community Provider Database, a resource for Wellness, Health & Counseling Services was created in collaboration with the Student Health Center, Counseling Center, Campus Social Workers, and CARE (Campus Assault Resources & Education).

The database filters mental health professionals in the surrounding geographic area based on very specific criteria. Upon request, staff will search the database and provide a list of referrals to students. Upcoming enhancements will open access to this application directly to the community.

Web Development and Applications
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