UIS Engagement Events 2018-2019
(Wed 12 Sep 2018 - Tue 10 Sep 2019)
September 2018
Wed 12 |
A presentation and Q&A session to discuss the development of Falcon-on-Drupal – a new version of the Falcon website content management system (CMS) service based on the Drupal platform – and the migration of sites to the new service. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development, service features and how the migration may affect their current Falcon site. |
Wed 26 |
TechLink Community Seminar: Adobe Licensing and the future of software sales for the University
CANCELLED
UIS is changing how it deals with software sales, the first change has involved Academia who gained the contract for purchasing and renewing adobe licensing agreements following a competitive tender conducted by University Procurement Services. This seminar will cover two areas: 1. Adobe Licensing using Academia: Daniel Hodson, representative from Academia will demonstrate how to use the dedicated University Academia portal for purchasing and renewing adobe licenses. He will highlight the benefits available for University Departments and Collages and it's staff and students. There will also be the opportunity to raise any queries IT or administrative staff have had during the transition to using Academia as a software provider. 2. UIS's future plans for software sales: Stephen Hoensch, UIS Head of Front Line Services will be presenting an update on the future plans for all software sales. Presenters
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November 2018
Wed 28 |
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TechLink Community: IT Forum
Finished
University Information Services (UIS) is hosting an IT forum afternoon. The event will cover brief updates on UIS projects and services. Industry briefing sessions from Amazon Web Services (including merchandise giveaways) and Phoenix and a representative from Dell. There will also be shared projects from the IT community (Physics and the Healthcare Improvement Studies Insitute) . |
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Thu 29 |
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December 2018
Thu 13 |
Room Booker System Roadshow
Finished
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January 2019
Wed 30 |
Our Buildings, Universities and Cities are becoming more digital. After the autonomous car we'll inevitably have the autonomous campus and city. IoT and building-computer interfacing and integration is already a part of many Computer Officers' responsibilities, which will continue to grow. This University has hundreds of people actively engaged in related research, from Chemistry, Land Economy, most Divisions of Engineering, The Institute of Public Health, The Judge Business School, Geography and Computer Science. We'll review the work going on, including the radio network and sensor arrays already in use around Cambridge, as well as the direction technology is taking us, and consider how across the university the whole becomes more than the sum of the parts. Presented by Dr Ian Lewis, Director of Infrastructure Investment and Dr Qiuchen Lu, Research Associate at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (Engineering Department). |
February 2019
Wed 27 |
TechLink Community Seminar: So Long and Thanks for all the Phish: Dealing with email security
Finished
Handling the large volume of spam, ransomware and other malware delivered via email to often indignant users has become quite a large part of standard IT duties over the past few years. Along with the increasing complexity of the tricks and techniques used by hacker groups for spearphishing and delivering malware, it is clearly apparent that there is only so much that professional IT staff can expect from their users in terms of determining what is, and is not, malware or phishing. Yet the pressure on often relatively junior administrative and financial staff has not decreased and the time taken to try and work out what is genuine and what is not does not make for smooth time management. Most important of all, IT practitioners must not indulge in the blame culture when an incident happens, simply because the person blamed will probably never "own up" to making a possible mistake again. A positive culture - even admitting "Yes, it has happened to me" - is essential to encourage users to be open about mistakes. This seminar will attempt to show some of the more common of the latest spammer tricks, and introduce some tools which (hopefully) will make your life easier. |
March 2019
Thu 7 |
Our mentoring scheme needs you! We facilitate this supportive initiative exclusively for the IT community and UIS staff. Since the launch in 2017, we have adapted the scheme to improve its effectiveness as the number of participants has grown. We'll provide guidance workshops and reference materials to help support you, so you can gain the most out of being a mentor or mentee. This briefing session will give you an idea on what you can expect to get out of the scheme, you'll hear from others already involved and understand what it means to be a mentor or mentee. |
Tue 12 |
Our mentoring scheme needs you! We facilitate this supportive initiative exclusively for the IT community and UIS staff. Since the launch in 2017, we have adapted the scheme to improve its effectiveness as the number of participants has grown. We'll provide guidance workshops and reference materials to help support you, so you can gain the most out of being a mentor or mentee. This briefing session will give you an idea on what you can expect to get out of the scheme, you'll hear from others already involved and understand what it means to be a mentor or mentee. |
Fri 29 |
TechLink Community: IT Forum
Finished
University Information Services (UIS) and the TechLink coordinators are hosting a second IT forum event. The afternoon event will cover UIS updates from the Infrastructure and DevOps Divisions and a representative from Dell. |
April 2019
Thu 4 |
Using the Parallel Computing capabilities in MATLAB allows you to take advantage of additional hardware resources that may be available either locally on your desktop or on clusters and clouds. By using more hardware, you can reduce the cycle time for your workflow and solve computationally- and data-intensive problems faster. In this seminar, we will discuss a range of workflows available to scale MATLAB applications with minimal changes to your MATLAB code and without needing to learn any shell or scheduler programming syntax. |
Tue 30 |
UIS staff will share what worked well and what could have been done better or differently to deliver work within the programme. Topics will range from system testing to user engagement. |
May 2019
Wed 1 |
The Research Computing Services division has recently launched a new service which provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS) capability. The service provides instant high-performance compute, storage, network resources and other functionality. It helps to avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other data centre infrastructure. It enables IT practitioners and research groups to build their own scalable platforms that fit their exact needs and requirements. More information can be found here https://www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/research-computing-cloud-services The research Computing Services team will present Research Computing Cloud service capabilities and details about the platform that the service is built on. There also will be a live demo of the platform and a Q&A session. |
Thu 9 |
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Thu 23 |
An informative and social event to celebrate the launch of a new University Developer Hub. University Information Services with support from developers across the University have been working on customising a University Developer Hub. The Hub is hosted using a GitLab application, with the aim to provide a useful collaboration resource for developers and code users. There will be short presentations from the alpha testers who will share their experience and involvement in testing the hub. You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions about the service and meet with like-minded professionals involved with developing and coding. To celebrate the launch of the University Developer Hub, all attendees are welcome to stay for drinks and light refreshments served after the presentation. |
Wed 29 |
TechLink Community Seminar: Tableau Server - Business Intelligence and Collaborative Analytics
Finished
The Business Information Team within Academic and Financial Planning and Analysis (AFPA) - formerly Planning Resource Allocation Office makes data for reporting and analysis for different parts of the University. They are currently using a Tableau Server for publishing and sharing their reports and data sources, to enable their data users to access the information, interact with the data, and create their own analysis in a safe environment. In this presentation, the Business Information Team will show you how the Tableau Server operates and some of the work they are doing. They will present the structure of their Tableau site, the active directory groups, and the people and projects that are live and using Tableau across the University Administrative Services. The Tableau Server core license is available to all members of the University. AFPA has implemented the administrative site, while UIS are developing a strategy to implement the Teaching and Research sites. |
June 2019
Tue 11 |
University Information Services (UIS) facilitate a mentoring scheme across UIS and the IT Community, providing career development support for individuals and organisations. This session is for mentees to understand how to approach your mentor, plan your objectives and general guidelines to gain the most helpful and relevant advice from your mentor. You'll also have the opportunity to meet with other mentees enrolled on the scheme. |
An informative and social event to celebrate the launch of a new University Developer Hub. University Information Services with support from developers across the University has been working on customising a University Developer Hub. The Hub is hosted using a GitLab application, with the aim to provide a valuable collaboration resource for developers and code users. There will be short presentations from the alpha testers who will share their experience and involvement in testing the Hub. You’ll have the opportunity to ask informal questions about the service and meet with like-minded professionals involved with developing. To celebrate the launch of the University Developer Hub, all attendees are welcome to stay for drinks and light refreshments served after the presentation. |
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Wed 12 |
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July 2019
Fri 19 |
Room Booker System Roadshow
Finished
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Wed 24 |
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September 2019
Tue 10 |
This is an opportunity for Cambridge’s teaching staff to see guest speaker, Dale Munday from Lancaster University, showcase how Lancaster University are using MS Teams in higher education.
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