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CSG Workshops and Business Meeting Agenda

Stanford University
15-17 January, 2025


Wednesday:  CSG Short Workshops
Justines&Oak Rooms, The Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
Sequoia Room 
9:00Welcome & Conference Introduction (Steve Gallagher, Charles Antonelli)
Justines&Oak Rooms
9:05 CSG Short Workshop:  Reimagining information security
Coordinators:  Kelly Doney (UVA); Sarah Braun (CU-Boulder), David Raymond (VT), Patti Pate (UVa), Matt Bidlingmeyer (UMich), Mark Dieterich (Brown), William Deigaard or Adam Mikeal (TAMU), John Bailey or someone else (WashU), Rick Haugerud or Casey Nugent (UNL)
Please see Addendum A for the detailed agenda.
10:45 Break
12:30Adjourn

 
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Sequoia Room

 
1:30 CSG Short Workshop: The future of Identity and its role within the University + Identity Proofing
Coordinators: Damian Doyle (UVa) & Lec Maj (NYU); Bobby Sprinkle (FSU), Nate Wilken (ASU), Kevin Rooney (VT), Sarah Christen (Cornell), Tom Jordan (UW-Madison), Michele Decker or Lauren Ajamie (ND), Michael Mays(UD), Tim Gleason (Harvard), Rick Haugerud or Casey Nugent (UNL), Kevin Morooney (Internet2), Albert Wu (Internet2), Gretchen Gingo (Harvard), Martin Sager or someone else (UMich), Mark Dieterich (Brown)
Please see Addendum B for the detailed agenda.
Justines&Oak Rooms
3:15
Break
5:00 Adjourn

Wednesday: CSG Group Dinner
Faculty Club

5:30
5:45
6:00
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


Thursday:  CSG Short Workshop
Justines&Oak Rooms, The Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
Sequoia Room
8:00 - 9:00
Steering Committee Breakfast
Maple Room
9:00 CSG Short Workshop:  Accessibility: tools, policies and implementation
Coordinators: Carrie Shumaker (UMich); Dave Strite (UVa), Tamara Walker (UW-Madison), someone (UCB), Kosta Tovstiadi (CU-Boulder), John Mulhern III (Penn), Ayham Boucher (Cornell), Tom Marentette (ND)
Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.
Justines&Oak Rooms
10:45 Break
12:30 Adjourn

 
12:30 - 1:45 Lunch
Sequoia Room


12:45 - 1:30
Walking tour, led by Lucrecia
Stanford Mausoleum, Cactus Garden, 2 Art Museums & Rodin Sculpture Garden & Gates of Hell, Engineering Center & Computer Museum

Tour departs from and returns to the The Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

Thursday:  CSG Business Meeting
Justines&Oak Rooms, The Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

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)
2:15III. Short Discussion 1: AI Enablement: What are our new year resolutions for 2025?
Coordinators: Brandon Rich or Tracy Weber (ND); Ayham Boucher (Cornell), William Deigaard (TAMU), Mark McCahill (Duke), John Bailey (WashU), Jennifer (NYU), Walter Wong or Bo Powers (CMU), Martin Sager or someone else (UMich)
3:15
Break
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
St Michael's Alley

6:00
7:00
Cocktails
Dinner


Friday: CSG Business Meeting
Justines&Oak Rooms, The Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
Sequoia Room
9:00 VI. Organizational Issues (CSG Coordinator)
  1. CSG Treasurer 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:  Aligning IT Goal setting processes with University and Organizational Goals
Coordinators:  Becky Joffrey and Ben Maddox (Cornell); Sharon Pitt or Kyle Johnson (VT), Carrie Shumaker (UMich), Tracy Weber or Charlotte Souffront García (ND), Todd Shechter (UW-Madison), Tracy Smith (Illinois), Ajay Wanchoo (NYU), John Mulhern III (Penn)
10:15Break
10:45 VIII. Short Discussion 3:   Communications and Change Management: The Secret Sauce for Success
Coordinators:  Kelly Doney or Patti Pate (UVA); Becky Joffrey (Cornell), Tracy Weber or someone else (ND), Amy Shultz (UD), John Mulhern III (Penn), Bobby Jo Morse (UW-Madison), Rebekah Dorn (FSU)
11:45 Adjourn

 
11:45 Lunch (box lunches available at 10:30)
Outside Justines&Oak Rooms


Addendum A:
Short Workshop:  Reimagining information security
Detailed Agenda

Overview of Device Security and Workshop Objectives
UVA's DSI Journey
Creating a Culture of Security
  • Community Engagement
  • Assessment of Security
  • Measurement of Risk Tolerance
  • Funding Models to Support
Risk Reduction Activities
  • Inventory Management
  • EndPoint Management
  • Network Segmentation
  • Enforcement of Policies and Exception Management

Addendum B: Short Workshop:  The future of Identity and its role within the University + Identity Proofing
Detailed Agenda

1:30pm (25 minutes) - Results from the recent CSG Survey on Identity and an overview of the changing compliance requirements from different agencies.
1:55pm (70 minutes) - Identity Provisioning Discussion
  • A brief overview of some common issues schools are facing with identity provisioning and matching
  • Presentation of different approaches around the identity lifecycle from ingestion to provisioning.
    • What is your source of truth (IGA tool, ERP/SIS)
    • Moderator lead audience discussion
  • Challenges around identity matching processes
    • What problems affect matching
    • Impact of where you ingest identities within your processes
    • Discussion of how/if tooling can help with matching
3:05 (break)
3:35 (45 minutes) - Identity Proofing
  • Demonstration of how this is being done in the EU currently
  • Level setting the current landscape
  • Where should this be used
  • Different levels of assurance
  • Possible pushback and challenges
  • Baseline recommendations
4:20 (40 minutes) - Building an Identity System of Systems
  • How do we think about blending commercial, homegrown, and open-source offerings to create a robust identity management platform
  • How can these tools interoperate with each other but also with larger federations and interinstitutional access for research


Addendum C: Short Workshop:  Accessibility: tools, policies and implementation
Detailed Agenda

(10 min)
1. Level setting - Timeline, Scope and Legal Aspects - (Suzanne Harrison)

(20 min)
2. UC Berkeley - Myths vs Reality (Suzanne Harrison)

(20 min)
3. CU Boulder - (Kosta Tovstiadi)
Multi campus / system office interactions and challenges
Technical expertise vs authority 
Contracts & compliance

(20 min)
4. UVA - Sample project framework & what do we need CIOs to do (Dave Strite)

(10 min)
5. Discussion -  What pieces are of the most concern at your institution? What barriers exist?

BREAK

(20 min)
6. Notre Dame / Penn - Procurement, Policy & Tools (Tom Marentette & John Mulhern)

(20 min)
7. Michigan / Penn - Work & Communication - central vs distributed (Stephanie Rosen, Kellie Grasman & John Mulhern)
	Tool RFPs
	Proritization

(20 min)
8. UW Madison / Penn - Remediation, Sustainability & Culture Change (Tamara Walker & John Mulhern)

(20 min)
9. Cornell / Notre Dame - AI tools & captioning (Ayham Boucher & Tom Marentette)

(5 min)
10. Recap of the main points we want CIOs to take away with

(10 min)
11. Discussion - What are areas we can collaborate? How can we press on vendors? (Dave Strite)