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CSG Workshops and Business Meeting Agenda

University of Wisconsin, Madison
15-17 May, 2024


Wednesday:  CSG Short Workshops
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center

7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
Oros Executive Dining Room 
9:00Welcome & Conference Introduction (Lois Brooks, Charles Antonelli)
Howard Auditorium
9:05 CSG Short Workshop:  Next-generation Data Services: warehousing, analytics, integration
Coordinators:  Tom Jordan (UW-Madison), Tracy Weber (ND), Brandon Rich (ND), Sarah/someone (Cornell), Andy/someone (FSU), Robin Pappas (Berkeley), Orrie/someone (Colorado), John Mulhern/someone (Penn), Bryan Martyn (UMich)
Please see Addendum A for the detailed agenda.
10:45 Break
Atrium 
12:30Adjourn

 
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Oros Executive Dining Room

 
1:30 CSG Short Workshop: Resource, Capacity, and Talent Management: How are we managing our capacity, feeding our talent pipelines, and keeping up with work?
Coordinators: Michael Warden (NYU) & Orrie Gartner (CU-Boulder), Lucrecia Kim-Boswell (Stanford), Katie Rose (ND), Ben Rota (Harvard), Bobby Jo Morse (UW-Madison), Holly Weber (UW-Madison), Adam Fermanich (UW-Madison), Brett Bieber (Nebraska)
Please see Addendum B for the detailed agenda.
Howard Auditorium
3:15
Break
Atrium 
5:00 Adjourn

Wednesday: CSG Group Dinner
Tripp Commons, Memorial Union

5:30
7:00
Cocktails
Dinner


Thursday:  CSG Short Workshop
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center

7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
Oros Executive Dining Room
8:00 - 9:00
Steering Committee Breakfast
Room 212&214
9:00 CSG Short Workshop:  Lightning Talks: State of the Union
Coordinators: Mark McCahill (Duke), Carrie Shumaker (UMich), John Mulhern (Penn), Todd Shechter (UW-Madison), Heath Tuttle (Nebraska), Orrie Gartner (CU-Boulder)
Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.
Howard Auditorium
10:45 Break
Atrium 
12:30 Adjourn

 
12:30 - 1:45 Lunch
Oros Executive Dining Room


12:45 - 1:30
Two tours: Chazen Museum of Art, and a campus walking tour
Both tours depart from and return to the Fluno Center

Thursday:  CSG Business Meeting
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center

1:45             I. Introductory Remarks and Roll Call (CSG Coordinator)
1:50
II. Short Slots and Breaking News (CSG Coordinator)
Steering/Membership Committee Issues (:05)
Workshop Summaries (:05)
Consortial Updates (:15)
2:15 III. Short Discussion 1: Research Data Governance
Coordinators: Lisa Johnston (UW-Madison), Heather Coates (Indiana University), Jim Taylor (ASU), Mary Murphy (UW-Madison), Peter Boguszewski (UW-Madison), Heidi Imker (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
3:15
Break
Atrium 
3:45
IV. Timely Topics and Gossip (Christen)
Topics TBA
4:45 V. Topic Selection for Next Meeting (Christen)
5:00 Adjourn

Thursday: CSG Group Dinner
Naples 15

5:30
5:45
5:30
7:00
8:30
First bus leaves hotel for dinner venue
Last bus leaves hotel for dinner venue
Cocktails
Dinner
Buses leave dinner venue for hotel


Friday: CSG Business Meeting
Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center

7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
Oros Executive Dining Room
9:00 VI. Organizational Issues (CSG Coordinator)
  1. CSG Secretariat Renewal (Christen)
  2. Treasurer's Report (Fleagle)
  3. Logistics for Next Meeting (Antonelli)
  4. Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings (Antonelli)
    Please see http://www.stonesoup.org/future.html
    for the current list.
9:15 VII. Short Discussion 2:  CISO's discuss what we need to do now to survive in 5 years
Coordinators:  Andy Weisskopf (UDel), Mark Dieterich (Brown), Marc Scarborough (Rice), Donna Kidwell (ASU), Noah Abrahamson + CISO? (Stanford), Leilani Lauger (ND), Jeffrey Savoy (UW-Madison), Rick Haugerud (Nebraska), Kim Milford (UIUC)
10:15 Break
Atrium 
10:45 VIII. Short Discussion 3:   Make them past-words / Ending use of passwords on campus
Coordinators:  Lauren Ajamie (Notre Dame), Steve Devoti (UW-Madison), Tomomi Imamura (UW-Madison), Tim Gleason(Harvard), Noah Abrahamson (Stanford), Sarah Christen (Cornell), John Board (Duke), Nate Wilken (ASU)
11:45 Adjourn

 
11:45 Lunch (box lunches available at 10:30)
Outside Howard Auditorium

Addendum A: Short Workshop:  Next-generation Data Services: warehousing, analytics, integration
Detailed Agenda

 9:05 -  9:50 Enterprise Data Warehousing
Coordinators: Jessica Langager (Notre Dame), Brent Kremer (Virginia Tech)

10:00 - 10:45 Data Integration Services (APIs, etc)
Coordinators: Brandon Rich (Notre Dame), Tom Jordan (UW-Madison)

11:00 - 11:45 Visualization, Dashboards and Advanced Analytics (including data science, AI and ML)
Coordinators: John Mulhern (Penn), Jess Keating (CU Boulder)

11:50 - 12:30 Governance, Security and Cross-Topic Issues
Coordinators: Tom Jordan (UW-Madison)


Addendum B: Short Workshop:  Resource, Capacity, and Talent Management: How are we managing our capacity, feeding our talent pipelines, and keeping up with work?
Detailed Agenda

1:30 - 1:40 Why Talk about Resource, Capacity, and Talent Management Now? (Orrie Gartner - CU Boulder)
1:40 - 1:50 Review of Survey Results for Resource/Capacity Management Section (Jennie Brucker - CU Boulder)
1:50 - 2:05 Making work visible for internal service teams (Ben Rota and Mark Bond - Harvard)
2:05 - 2:25 What is our capacity? How do we create capacity? (i.e. open the release valve so more can flow in) (Jennie Brucker & Orrie Gartner - CU Boulder)
2:25 - 2:45 Leveraging managed services to support creating capacity and working within constrained resources (Michael Warden- NYU)
2:45 - 2:55 How do we measure capacity for general IT support (Brett Bieber - Nebraska)
2:55 - 3:10 Evolve the skill sets of employees (Adam Fermanich and Holly Weber - UW Madison)
3:10 - 3:25 Cross-training across the IT Organization (John Grover - Notre Dame)
3:25 - 3:45 BREAK
3:45 - 4:15 Mentoring/Development/Internship Programs (Dani Aivazian & Lucrecia Kim-Boswell - Stanford and Brett Bieber - Nebraska)
4:15 - 4:25 Review of Survey Results for Talent Management Section (Jennie Brucker - CU Boulder)
4:25 - 5:00 Discussion (Lucrecia Kim-Boswell - Stanford)


Addendum C: Short Workshop:  Lightning Talks: State of the Union
Detailed Agenda

9:00 - 9:05 Introduction Mark McCahill Lightning talk ground rules
       
9:05 - 9:12 UW-Madison Lois Brooks Enterprise zero trust cybersecurity
initiative
9:12 - 9:19 Notre Dame Jane Livingston TBD
9:19 - 9:26 ASU Donna Kidwell Digital Trust
9:26 - 9:33 Cornell Ben Maddox One Cornell
9:33 - 9:40 Duke Charley Kneifel Sharing GPUs - What Should We Be
Doing?
9:40 - 9:47 Harvard Ben Rota TBD
9:47 - 9:54 CU Boulder Marin Stanek CUI policy doesn’t change the culture
in the research enterprise (neither does
stellar tech)
9:54 - 10:01 NYU Jennifer Sparrow LaGuardia Studio 3D Scanning and 3D
Printing
10:01 - 10:08 Penn State Dave Gindhart TBD
10:08 - 10:15 TAMU William Deigaard Network overlays, network automation,
AI Governance
10:15 - 10:22 The Ohio State University Cindy Leavitt Scarlett Button POC and AI strategy
10:22 - 10:29 Yale Frank Mathew IT job Family Redesign
10:30 - 10:57
        break

   
10:57 - 11:04 UVA Kelly Doney Device Security Initiative or the Fate of
UVA Chat+
11:04 - 11:11 UC Berkeley Bill Allison AI: Community, Governance and
Innovation at Berkeley
11:11 - 11:18 University of Chicago Kemal Badur TBD
11:18 - 11:25 University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
Tracy Smith Timing is Everything: Building a
campus-wide technology strategy
11:25 - 11:32 University of Iowa Steve Fleagle TBD
11:32 - 11:39 University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Jack Suess IT Staffing Approach and/or Research
Computing Task Force
11:39 - 11:46 University of Michigan Andrew Palms “Wireless” strategy
11:46 - 11:53 University of Minnesota Neha Bansal Enterprise Data Platform : Tools and
Practices modernization
11:53 - 12:00 University of
Pennsylvania
John Mulhern
III
HHS Web Accessibility Updates
12:00 - 12:07 Virginia Tech Sharon Pitt TBD
12:07 - 12:14 Washington University in
St. Louis
Jen Stedelin TBD
12:14 - 12:30
        discussion

   
12:30 end of workshop