The Higher Education Information Technology Summit

The IT challenges facing the higher education sector are growing in their complexity, IT Directors face the ever present balancing act of consolidation and cost reduction whilst maintaining the speed and quality of delivery.

The Higher Education IT Summit is designed to provide a platform through which best practice can be shared on all of the key issues facing senior higher education IT executives.

The Summit also hopes to foster a greater understanding within the chain of command of individual institutions, clarifying the importance of IT in the future of higher education and helping it attain the resources it needs to deliver what the institution demands

Current confirmed speakers include:

• Allan Morris, Executive Director Information Technology Services, RMIT University
• Alan McMeekin, Executive Director Information Technology Services, Monash University
• Neil Thelander, Director Information Technology Services, Queensland University of Technology
• Peter Brusco, Director Information Technology Services, Deakin University
• Neil Thelander, Director Information Technology Services, Queensland University of Technology
• Harry Choi, Vice President, Managed Hosting Services, Blackboard
• Ann Borda, Executive Director, Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
• Gaby Bright, eResearch Communications, Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
• Ron Oliver, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), Edith Cowan University
• Professor Peter Goodyear, Co-Director, CoCo Research Centre, Senior Fellow, Australian Learning & Teaching Council, Faculty of Education & Social Work, University of Sydney
• Michael Kirby-Lewis, IT Director, University of New South Wales
• Dr Joan Richardson, Co-ordinator of Teaching Quality - School of Business Information Technology, Faculty of Business, RMIT
• Brian Kissell, Chief Technology Officer Division of Information and Communication Technology Services ICT Office
• Sendur Kathir, Director, Deputy Principal Information Services, Director Information Technology, University of Melbourne
  
  

All of the issues that are central to this critical issue including:

• Addressing the core challenges for higher education IT
• Creating a technology map for a higher education institution
• Future priorities for higher education IT development
• Implementing strategies to improve the value proposition of working in higher education IT
• Effective workforce planning for Higher Education IT
• Converting universities into an employer of choice
• Evaluating the role of outsourcing in higher education
• Understanding the emerging challenges associated with e-Research support
• IT supporting the face to face learning environment IT
• The role of technology in supporting off-campus education
• Identify and access management within higher education
• Implementing a secure access management system
• The evolution of service management within higher education
• Enhancing the online admissions process
• Catering for the Net Generation
• Designing a structured program for reducing the IT carbon footprint
• Dealing with data centre consolidation whilst catering for the data explosion
• Managing multi-site data centres - challenges and benefits
• Examining the introduction of the virtualised IT environment
• Addressing the increasingly complex issue of information management
• IT keeping pace with the evolving social trends

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Who will I meet?

Our speaking panel will consist of respected, senior representatives from within all areas of the IT industry who are at the forefront of developing and maintaining the IT strategy and capability for their (or others) Higher Education Institutions. The audience will comprise many of their peers, key personnel, and each all those interested in raising the profile of IT within Higher Education Institutions:

Network with representatives from the full industry value chain*

Meet those at the forefront of IT strategy development for their organisation*

*anticipated audience demographics