All University Information Services - Staff Learning & Development courses

Getech are bringing their partners from Lenovo and Lego Education for a hybrid event:

• Lego Education will share some of their smart learning tech (e.g. AI/ML & IoT options)
• Lenovo showcasing some of their XR (AR/VR) tech - e.g. ThinkReality smart glasses
• this is a hybrid event - online for those who cannot attend - in-person with hands-on with the Lenovo & Lego tech
• the venue is kindly provided by our colleagues in the Judge Business School

Agenda (TBC)

• 14:05 – Vendor/Solutions Overview
• 14:30 – Lego Education tech
• 14:50 – Q&A
• 15:00 – Lenovo XR (AR/VR) tech
• 15:30 – Q&A
• 15:45 – Hands-on with the tech

Hope you will join us!

• 14:15-14:55 – Microsoft Defender – Overview of environment, followed by Q&A
• 14:55-15:05 – Brief Break
• 15:05-15:45 – Internal and external collaboration on Teams, following by Q&A
  • Federated Collaboration vs Guest Collaboration (communications & file sharing)
  • Shared Channels
  • External and Guest collaboration governance
  • Q & A

Phoenix are happy to follow up and engage individually as well, to discuss specific requirements as appropriate.

Given the plan to decommission the Managed Web Service (MWS) later this calendar year, we will hear from and can engage with the Cambridge-based Mythic Beasts who have extensive understanding of our University systems and challenges, and local/international hosting options.

In addition, following the successful Network+ training pilot, the four Universities comprising the COGEnT (Cambridge, Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh) consortium have agreed with CompTIA to follow up with some Cloud training. CompTIA will introduce their Cloud Essentials and Cloud+ courses, and next steps for a mixed cloud training pilot (with a few sponsored places, and favourable academic pricing).

Presentations from Dr. Philip Hazel on Perl Compatible Regular Expressions PCRE & Deloitte - Robotic process automation RPA

Philip Hazel (retired UCS staff, developer of exim) will provide an overview of the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) library, used by many high-profile open source (e.g. Apache, exim, KDE, PHP, Postfix, Nmap) and commercial (e.g. Apple Safari) projects.

Deloitte presenters will introduce and share examples of their use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Matthew Spaul (Robotics and Intelligent Automation Consultant) and David Adams (Risk Advisory) will show evolving use cases for RPA "to capture and interpret existing IT applications to enable transaction processing, data manipulation and communication across multiple IT systems."

Updates on UIS's Relationship Management and Portfolio Management

• User Needs, Project Priorities, and Portfolio Developments
• Relationship Management overview
  • interactions, processes, examples
  • Schools, Colleges, NSIs, UAS, et al
• IT Portfolios overview
  • purpose, governance, processes
  • Education, Research, Business Systems, Infrastructure

The Next Generation of IP Register at Cambridge

This seminar kicks off the consultation on the future of DDI (DNS, DHCP and IP address management) at the University of Cambridge.

You'll learn how these services currently work, and how they are managed. Then we'll describe the challenges we're facing with the current systems, and some of the opportunities we have to make improvements. Finally, we'll introduce our proposal for future development of these services.

Presented by Rob Bricheno of the UIS Network Systems group

• 14:15: Web Accessibility

Web accessibility has become essential for better and more inclusive interaction, helping address barriers to effective communication.

• 15:00: TLS Certificate Service

UIS' TLS Certificate Service is changing, to offer a more comprehensive range at no cost, a faster self-service model, in many cases automatic renewal.

The Aspiring Managers Programme provides a structured pathway for colleagues preparing for their first supervisory/line management roles. It fosters the development of crucial skills, including effective feedback, handling challenging conversations, and utilizing leadership styles. The programme incorporates facilitators' input; opportunities for discussion, case studies, reflection, and sharing good practice with others moving into similar roles. It also includes curated e-learning resources to support colleagues' ongoing learning and development.

Participants are required to attend both half-day sessions.

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A Business Briefing to present an update on recent activities relating to IT Portfolios

Meet UIS' User Experience and Business Analyst team members. Find out what they do and how they can help you

A Business Briefing which will mark the official launch of Microsoft Teams at UIS. There will be a quick demonstration of how it might transform the way you collaborate with your immediate colleagues, the UIS community, across the university and beyond

A Business Briefing to talk about the roadmap for the Raven authentication service and related IAM plans, including:

• transition of the current Raven service (i.e. WebAuth) into Raven as the umbrella brand for the next generation University authentication service that now includes SAML2 (Shibboleth), OAuth2 and, in future, ADFS.

• plans for retiring the current Raven WebAuth Service (which will become known as the "Raven Legacy Service")

• an update on the implementation plan for introducing two-step verification and the rationale behind selecting the chosen solution.

In collaboration with stakeholders around UIS, the Service Management Office has produced a new IT Incident Management process. This event is an introduction to the new process with time for questions and feedback.

An informal coffee morning catch-up for mentees enrolled in the Mentoring scheme.

An informal coffee morning catch-up for mentors enrolled in the Mentoring scheme.

An informal meeting to meet mentors enrolled on the Mentoring 2021-22 programme.

UIS facilitates a mentoring scheme exclusively for the University's IT community and UIS' internal staff.

Mentoring can be a handy tool in supporting colleagues to develop their professional lives and careers, in both roles as a mentor and mentee.

This is a welcome event (Unit 3) and part of the UIS' Mentoring learning journey, for all mentees and mentors enrolled in the 20223-24 programme. This interactive workshop is designed to give an overview and introduction to mentoring, practice some essential skills needed for mentors and mentees, mistakes to avoid, and become familiar with some simple models and tools to support the mentoring partnership and maximise its value and impact.

UIS is offering members of the IT community the chance to join a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved with the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Stephen Riley – Chief Operating Officer
• Kate Livingstone – Head of Digital Transformation
• Richard Hey – Head of Institution Liaison and Relationship Management
• Ron Chambers – Head of Enterprise solutions
• Abraham Martin – Head of DevOps Division

We are offering our new starters to be involved in a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved in the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Mark Rowland- Head of Delivery Management Office
• Simon Redhead- Systems Development Manager
• Beata Oxlade, Business Systems Team Lead
• Wojciech J. Turek, Head of Research Computing Platforms
• Bob Franklin, Infrastructure Operations Manager (Networks)

For the first time in UIS, we are offering our new starters the opportunity to be involved in a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved in the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Kate Livingstone - Head of User Research
• Ron Chambers - Head of Business Systems Assurance
• Simon Clarke - Head of Digital Workplace Programme
• Gabriela Ahmadi-Assalemi - Deputy Chief Information Security
• Abraham Martin - Head of Development and Operations

We are offering our new starters to be involved in a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved in the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• John Holgate- Head of Infrastructure
• Rachel Coleman- Head of Enterprise Database Application
• Jamie Thorogood- Application Architect
• Adam Deacon- Principal DevOps Engineer
• Chris Mitchell- Head of Product and Service Design

This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved in the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Carys Hayler - Lead Buiness Analyst
• Steve Riley, Chief Operating Officer
• Anna Langley, Service Manager
• Simon Clarke, Head of Digital Workplace
• Rich Wareham, Principal Software Developer

UIS is offering new members the chance to join a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved with the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Simon Redhead – Systems Development Manager
• Kate Livingstone – Head of Digital Transformation
• Hazel Johannessen – Portfolio Manager
• Alex Blandford – Lead Product Manager
• Rachel Coleman – Head of Enterprise Database Application

UIS is offering everyone the chance to join a virtual speed mentoring event. This dynamic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from diverse disciplines.

UIS mentors involved with the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Chris Russell – Chief Operating Officer
• Gabby Ahmadi Assalemi – Deputy Chief Information Security Officer
• David Marshall – User Research & Data Science Team Lead
• Annie Horner – Sr. Delivery Manager
• Simon Redhead - Systems Development manager