Discuss the recent increased interest in municipal fiber projects around the country and how they might effect education. Describe the current state of UTOPIA and it's recent involvement with education and UEN in particular.

Seems that 'Follow Your Passion' might actually be "bad" advice. ...why?

Why clean and inspect fiber before you connect it and how to get the best results.

Get hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks' security platforms. You will learn to navigate the GUI, create policies, control evasive applications, filter URLs, and protect against known and unknown threats. Bring your own laptop.

FileWave's National Director (Stephen Mirante) will take you through an overview of how FileWave has been able to assist Districts throughout the Country manage their devices. Since 1992, FileWave has understood in most all organization, multi-platform support is highly desired and often a requirement. We allow IT, Curriculum, and other Administrators to take full control of the technology (Windows PC's, Mac OS X, Android, & iOS Devices) within a single interface. When it comes a having a complete systems management software, FileWave makes it easy! Image, Deploy, Manage, Maintain, Inventory. Also introducing Engage Classroom Management with SIS Integration.

Your Utah Systems Engineer (Jorge Hurtado) will take you through an "IN-DEPTH" look of how the FileWave Interface makes managing all types of devices seamless and easy for all to use. Since 1992, FileWave has understood in most all organization, multi-platform support is highly desired and often a requirement. We allow IT, Curriculum, and other Administrators to take full control of the technology (Windows PC's, Mac OS X, Android, & iOS Devices) within a single interface. When it comes a having a complete systems management software, FileWave makes it easy! Image, Deploy, Manage, Maintain, Inventory. Also introducing Engage Classroom Management with SIS Integration.

This session will offer real world examples of how a research-based process can improve engagement and communication outcomes. Subjects will include planning, implementation, evaluation and the opportunities they provide to improve job satisfaction and relief stress.

I will be discussing UEN's VOIP solution, Switchvox and Asterisk. From customizable IVR's to personal dashboards, and CDR reporting/call logs. As well as the ease of setting up the new Digium phones compared to the older Linksys/Cisco phones.

Much like in iceberg, complexities and costs of a Virtual or Cloud Desktop project can lie just under the surface yet be deep and dangerous. We can help you understand the TRUE cost of a VDI deployment while helping you navigate the frigid waters of desktop management.

YouTube, Google, SSL, state testing, proxies, authentication…The promise of mobile devices for learning is high, but the challenges can be, too. Lightspeed Systems can help—with solutions to filter device access on and off campus, monitor student activity, control devices policies, push apps, and a lot more. And since these devices are being used in the classroom, a Teacher Dashboard lets IT manage district policies while teachers can easily manage classroom use. Whether you're 1:1 or BYOD, iOS or Chromebook or Windows or Android, or some mix of it all, we'll share tips and tools for getting your mobile learning program managed.

Why should we be virtualizing hardware? Virtualization is the future. If you're not doing it, you are living in the past. Come share your tips and tricks.

With proven Next Generation Firewall solutions, Fortinet is consistently protecting students, teachers, and administrators at every point throughout a school network. Multiple integrated features from Web Content Filtering to Intrusion Prevention ensures students access only the safe and appropriate websites to enhance learning in an ever increasing technical classroom.

US Ignite is a national program encouraging new uses of networks such as UEN for national priorities in education, healthcare, public safety, the environment, and e-government.

Come and participate in this valuable discussion on BYOD. Come and hear how others educational institutions and schools are implementing BYOD and come prepared to share your best practices in this area.

Wireshark can be intimidating for novice users. Learn to analyze packet captures so you know what clients and servers are doing on the network.

Whether you have a single network device or tens of thousands, the tools covered in this presentation will provide more information about your network than you ever thought possible. You can now have a performance baseline of every component, in every network device, in your entire network.

More and more districts and institutes of higher education are looking to hire people with education technology leadership expertise/knowledge. The CoSN's Certified Education Technology Leader (CETL) program will help you develop the skills to lead a technology team and/or department. Come learn how to become a Certified Education Technology Leader.

Legacy solutions are architected the same: a server at every location, protected by a firewall and anti-virus software. Large organizations – universities, schools, hospitals, state agencies – have 100s or 1000s of relay servers, which are a nightmare to manage and protect. In order to bring security out of the middle age, we must use modern tools: threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, and enable each endpoint that gathers that knowledge to share it with the rest of the network to disarm the threat.

Have you ever wondered why UEN follows an atypical project life cycle and the project phases that don’t always seem to make sense? Join us for a discussion on how UEN projects are managed, the unique challenges as we navigate the process and what we can do together to ensure they are successful.

Bridgerland Applied Technology Center, in conjunction with the STEM action committee will be broad casting to all northern Utah high schools. This will start September 2015. We will be teaching classes that have to do with robotics and automation.

To deal with today's biggest security challenges, organizations need a simpler, scalable, threat-centric approach that addresses security across the entire attack continuum – before, during, and after an attack.

Learn the basics of docker and see what the buzz is all about.

An introduction to the web development tools that are built in to major browsers, and how you can use them to inspect, edit and debug web sites. We'll start with an overview of the tools, move on to specific examples from real code and leave you with resources that will help grow your knowledge of these very handy tools!

This presentation presents ideas on how to provision and deploy end user accounts to multiple systems. Yes, no more manual entry :)

You may know what is happening on Layers 1-7 as a packet traverses across the network, but do you know what is going on in the classroom? In this session we will be exploring a variety of cross-platform projects that teachers may be doing with their classes to help you better understand Layer 8.

We'll discuss the theory and the processes for good network monitoring. Ways to make monitoring easy, while maintaining effectiveness. When and how to implement an alerting system, how those should be managed and tuning out false positives.

The future of UAV/Drone technology and how we can/should use them