2009 Merit Member Conference Agenda Information

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Thursday, June 11 Time: Room: Topic: Presenter: Presentation 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Michigan I&II and Foyer Registration and breakfast   9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Michigan I&II "The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing" Richard N. Katz, Vice President, EDUCAUSE   10:00 - 10:15 a.m.   Break     10:15 - 11:00 a.m. Grande I "WiMax and LTE: National Wide-Area Broadband and Local Applications" Patrick J. Gossman, Deputy CIO, Wayne State University     Grande II "Medianet for Education - Are You Ready?" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Jeff Day, Cisco Systems   Grande III "NJVid: A Statewide Video-on-Demand Repository" Sheri Lynn Prupis, Assistant Director, Educational Technologies & Administration, NJEDge.Net   Petit II Merit Network R&D Projects (Merit Services Track Presentation) Rob Golden, Vice President, Research & Development, Merit Network   Michigan III "Making Enterprise Computing Green: Energy-Efficiency Challenges in Enterprise Data Centers" Thomas F. Wenisch, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan College of Engineering   11:00 - 11:15 a.m.   Break     11:15 a.m. - Noon Grande I "Campus Clouds: Effectively Utilizing Central Storage and Compute Clusters" Dan deBeaubien, Director of Information Technology Services and Security, Michigan Technological University     Grand II "Saving Time and Money with the ShoreTel IP Phone System on an Extreme Networks Infrastructure" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Tim Ganun, Director of Services, AmeriNet   Grande III "Open Source, Evergreen, and What's Possible If You'd Just Stop Sleeping" Bill Ott, Information Systems Manager, Grand Rapids Public Library     Petit II "MeritVideo and IPTV" (Merit Services Track Presentation) Jim Moran, Services Manager, and Laurence Kirchmeier, Video Services Manager, Merit Network     Michigan III "That's Very Cool, But Does It Really Help? Technological Innovation and Undergraduate Student Learning Outcomes" Eric Dey, Associate Professor; Mary Antonaros, Graduate Student Research Assistant; Molly Ott, Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan School of Education   Noon - 12:50 p.m. Michigan I&II Lunch     12:50 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Michigan I&II "The Merit Advisory Council" Pete Hoffswell, Network Manager, Davenport University and Chair, Merit Advisory Council   1:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. Michigan I&II Special Announcements - Internet2 Don Welch, President and CEO, Merit Network   1:10 - 2:00 p.m. Michigan I&II "The Joy of Making" Dale Dougherty, Editor and Publisher of MAKE Magazine and General Manager of the Maker Media Division of O'Reilly Media, Inc.   2:00 - 2:10 p.m.   Break     2:10 - 2:55 p.m. Grande I "Mobile Device Security" Dr. Charles Antonelli, Assistant Research Scientist and Lecturer, School of Information, University of Michigan     Grande II "A Technical Crash Course in Storage Virtualization" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer   Grande III "Gaming, Learning and Libraries: Just Like Storytime, only Louder and Smellier" Eli Neiburger, Associate Director for IT and Production, Ann Arbor District Library   Petit II "MeritMail: Features, Planning & Migration" (Merit Services Track Presentation) Daren Hubbard, Senior Director, Academic & Core Applications, Wayne State University; Leslie Williamson, Member Relations Manager, Merit Network; and Andy Pflaum, VP Business Development and Channels, Zimbra 2:55 - 3:15 p.m.   Break     3:15 - 4:00 p.m. Grande I "Emergency Notification: A Real World Example" Bob Eluskie, Director of Enterprise Infrastructure, Grand Rapids CC     Grand II "Collapsed Core for Universities" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Matt Albers, Solutions Architect/Lead Technical Engineer, Juniper Networks   Grand III "The Michigan Virtual University" Jamey Fitzpatrick, President and CEO, Michigan Virtual University     Petit II "Streaming Instructional Video: From Configuration to Delivery" (Merit Services Track Presentation) Gary Hollingsworth, Alpena Community College, and Laurence Kirchmeier, Video Services Manager, Merit Network   4:00 - 4:15 p.m.   Break     4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Grande I "A Case Study in Productivity and Collaboration Tools in Academic Information Technology" Brett N. Miller, Programmer Analyst Supervisor; Vince Chmielewski, Applications Programmer/Analyst; Michael Warden, Business Process Analyst, University of Michigan Medical School     Grande II "Learning-Edge Solutions for Online Collaboration" (Sponsor Presentation) Darin Francis, Enterprise Sales Manager, Elluminate Inc.   Grande III "Developing and Delivering an Online Class" Greg Marks, Director of Product Development, Michigan Virtual University     Petit II "MeritNOC Services: Tools & Processes" (Merit Services Track Presentation) John Labbe, Network Operation Center Manager, and Jim Moran, Services Manager, Merit Network 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Michigan II-V Reception     Friday, June 12 Time: Room: Topic: Presenter: Presentation 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Michigan I&II and Foyer Registration and breakfast     Michigan V "Discuss the Stimulus"     8:30 - 9:20 a.m. Michigan I&II "Strategic IT Planning: LSU's Flagship IT Strategy - IT FITS!" Brian D. Voss, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, Louisiana State University     9:20 - 9:35 a.m.   Break     9:35 - 10:25 a.m. Grande I "Re-Designing Enterprise Backup and Recovery with True Disk Based Technologies" Benjamin Jellema, Systems Administrator; Brian Lagoe, Systems Administrator, Eastern Michigan University     Grande II "Wireless WAN: Practical Implementation Strategies and Real World Case Studies" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Gene Crusie, CEO, MapleNet Wireless   Grande III "Merit's Partnership with Internet2: What it Means for your Organization" Marianne Smith, Associate Director; Christian Todorov, Director, Services Management; Ann Doyle, Senior Program Manager, Internet2       Petit II "Hosted PBX: The Merit/TelNet Worldwide Solution at Advanced Technology Academy" (Merit Services Track Presentation) Elizabeth Rizza, Information Technology Coordinator, Advanced Technology Academy; Jim Moran, Services Manager, Merit Network; Gary Ameye, Product Manager, TelNet Worldwide   Michigan V MITE Forum roundtable MITE Forum 10:25 - 10:40 a.m.   Break     10:40 - 11:30 a.m. Grande I "Incident Response: Are You Ready for a Breach?" Karl B. Zager, Network Architect, and Sri Chalasani, Senior Network Engineer, Plante & Moran   Grande II "The Zimbra Collaboration Suite and Education" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Rocky Jenkins, Eastern Michigan University, and Andy Pflaum, VP Business Development and Channels, Zimbra   Grande III "Affordable and Effective Enterprise Unified Messaging Systems" Eric Grandstaff, Associate Dean, Administrative & Academic Technology;Chet Jessick, Professor of Business, Marketing, and Advertising; Glenn Cerny, Dean of Business Services, North Central Michigan College, and Bryan Berry, President, AllComm, Inc.       Petit II "How to Access Internet2: New Facts for Merit Members" (Merit Services Track Presentation) Jason Russell, Member Relations Director, and Pete Miller, Network Operations Director, Merit Network     Michigan V MITE Forum roundtable MITE Forum 11:30 - 11:45 a.m.   Break     11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Grande I "Enterprise E911" Ted Mallires, Manager, Plante & Moran, PLLC     Grande II "Does SAN Finally Go Ethernet? Peering Into Future Data Centers" (Featured Sponsor Presentation) Bruce Hollett, Regional Director, ADVA Optical Networking North America     Grande III "Thinking About Gmail for Your Organization? Come Hear the Story of our Transition" Randy Schapel, Director of Network and Computing Services, and Marc Smith, Network/Unix Specialist, Mott Community College   Michigan III "Preparing for the Data Deluge: Some Experiences in Networking for the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC" Shawn McKee, Research Scientist, Physics Department, University of Michigan     Petit II "Merit Services Brainstorming" (Merit Services Track Presentation) Rob Golden, Vice President, Research & Development, and Jim Moran, Services Manager, Merit Network   Michigan V MITE Forum roundtable MITE Forum 12:30 - 1:10 p.m. Michigan I&II Lunch     1:10 p.m. Michigan I&II Merit Awards Presentation Don Welch, President and CEO, Merit Network   1:50 p.m. Michigan I&II "Merit's Community: The Year Ahead" Don Welch, President and CEO, Merit Network