Tech Pros

Imagine a personal assistant that works seamlessly within your favorite Microsoft 365 applications, helping you draft emails, create documents, analyze data, and even summarize meetings. Microsoft Copilot is transforming how we work by combining the power of artificial intelligence with the tools we already use. This presentation will provide an introduction to Copilot, its capabilities, and its potential to simplify tasks, foster creativity, and enhance productivity. Learn how this cutting-edge tool can help you focus on what matters most.

Service Owner and Manager will provide updates on Service Feature roadmap and also the device management tool roadmap.

Following the Shared Courses Playbook, Penn State Lehigh Valley designed and installed 4 hybrid-focused classrooms over the summer of 2024. This session will show the general build of the rooms, the technologies installed, and feedback from faculty who have used the space for instruction.

In order to keep up with the speed of technological advances and accommodate the needs of diverse audiences, a one-size-fits-all approach to technology training is not a viable strategy. For these reasons, IT Learning & Development (ITLD) has spent the past year expanding its range of training methods, focusing on eLearning and asynchronous resources, in addition to live instruction, to better meet the needs of Penn State faculty and staff.

This project involves establishing and managing a secure Public Server DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) for hosting public-facing services while ensuring isolation from internal systems. The goal is to provide a robust, secure environment for external users while protecting sensitive internal infrastructure.  The outcomes of this presentation are to review the project details, describe who may be impacted by this project, and answer any questions.

Discover how Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) is pushing the boundaries of education with AI. This session will delve into TLT’s initiatives, including the AI-Enhanced Pedagogy Provost Endorsement, a program designed to help faculty explore and integrate generative AI technologies into their teaching practices. Additionally, we'll discuss the Teaching with Technology (TwT) series, offering virtual workshops that showcase University-approved educational technologies, with a focus on AI tools to enhance course content and student engagement.

Join Benjy Romig and Gretchen Paules, members of the University IT Executive Advisory Committee in a Listening session! We are on the committee to help represent the UIT employees, so we need to know how you are feeling. What is happening in your areas? What are your concerns? What is going well? Since all of our jobs are so different depending on location / unit / title etc. help us to better provide context to university leadership during discussions around possible changes.

Remediating an inaccessible PDF within Adobe Acrobat is time consuming and finicky process, partly because PDFs are meant to be shared as a "finished product." But if you start with an accessible source file, creating a tagged PDF or other accessible format can be streamlined to a click of a button. This session will explore different options for using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, InDesign or an HTML editor to transition your workflows which output accessible content. The session will include demos and links to different templates and tutorials.

Session Description: 
How do your project teams define success? Are meeting deadlines enough to say a project was successful? The world today is face-paced and full of change, but high-quality, successful deliveries that satisfy customers’ needs are still the goal. Quality Assurance (QA) can play a pivotal role in enhancing the overall performance and outcomes of project teams. In this session, attendees will hear about what Quality Assurance Analysts can (and cannot) do to add value at every stage of the project lifecycle.

This session will discuss key AI technologies used to help both users with disabilities and those responsible for providing accessible content. The IT Accessibility team will showcase tools which uses AI for image recognition, automatic speech recognition (ASR), PDF remediation and others from both a AT user’s and editor’s perspective.  As with other areas of AI, some tools show great promise for streamlining accessibility, but also come with the need to ensure quality control.