Panel discussion and Q & A focused on current technology trends, issues, and priorities within education.

To start off the WiFi block, get caught up on where we stand with security, speeds, and standards. Luke will also go over ten common Wi-Fi mistakes and how to avoid them.

FERPA and other federal law that applies to Public Education and technology. Including additional legal requirements for education in the state of Utah. In essence, everything that Jeremy Cox thinks you ought to know about it. All that will be presented will be my personal opinion, mostly due to the fact that I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

Connector Maintenance/OTDR Setup

Choosing types of Connectors

Inspection and Cleaning of Connectors

Levels of Acceptance for Types of Connectors

Connector use in Conjunction with OTDR

Settings for OTDR/iOLM

Rehab by Amy Winehouse - They tried to make me go to rehab
I said, "no, no, no"
The man said, "why do you think you here?"
I said, "I got no idea."
Digital Detox - Finding Balance in Our Lives As We Live in This Digital World.

With unprecedented speed, the new generation of Wi-Fi-802.11ac Wave 2 offers very high levels of capacity that will power tomorrow's classrooms, and drive digital transformation in Education but will a simple WAP replacement be all that's needed? How will your network respond? Will existing cable plants be sufficient? How will you deliver next generation wireless and the right student experiences in a cost effective and scalable way? Along with 802.11ac Wave 2 WAP's, Educators must consider the impact of higher performance wireless on their networks holistically. This session covers key considerations to deliver a future-ready wireless network that enables up to 5.2 Gbps wireless speeds today and even faster speeds tomorrow needed to deliver the right experiences.

The purpose of this presentation is to:
Inspire and excite district/school/university IT staff about the Maker movement and how they can help their schools build a successful one.

Learn about fun hands on activities that work with k-12 youth.

Overview of the successful Cache Makers maker space and club that served 400 youth last year.

What works

What does not

Equipment

Technical Expertise and opportunities for Techies to get involved

Getting volunteers involved.

Inspiring the next generation of Science, Technology, and Engineering experts

Go Beyond Managing Devices and Engage Your Users
Since 1992, FileWave has lead the marketplace providing education, enterprise, and government institutions around the world with enterprise level multi-platform systems and mobile endpoint management software to assist IT teams throughout the lifecycle process of imaging, deployment, management, tracking and maintenance. FileWave’s all-inclusive, highly scalable software solves the many challenges of managing a diverse and growing population of users, devices, and content by ensuring IT teams have a comprehensive solution that supports both client (desktop) and mobile devices across Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

With FileWave, IT teams can efficiently secure and support their organizations from one easy-to-use console, making even the most daunting projects, such as BYOD or large 1:1 initiatives, manageable and highly effective.

Key Components:

Enterprise level cross-platform systems and mobile device management

Integrated inventory and license management - complete asset management

Patented deployment - fast, reliable, and efficient deployments

Booster technology - maximum scalability with minimal network traffic

Location Tracking - Track all Windows, Mac, iOS & Android natively

Engage - modern classroom management and collaboration

Possible topics:
802.11AC
802.11AC Wave 2
Wireless Security

This presentation will talk about specific Intel products and technologies and how they can be utilized in the classroom to improve student engagement and learning. It will include discussions and possibly demo's of technologies such as digital inking, voice, facial login/recognition, 3D capture/print, immersive collaboration, gesture motion/control, and more.

The presentation will cover the following topics 1. Gaining Internal Support, 2. Planning Your Awareness Program, and 3.Measuring Results

Give an overview of Docker and how it works to add efficiency beyond VMs. Advantages and issues with Docker. How it helps with changing personnel and different programming preferences, the desire to use the latest and greatest software, the ability to help create stable environments.

The only solution guaranteed to improve student performance is great teaching.

Come learn how Aerohive Network's scalable, simple, and secure wireless networking and mobility solutions can give your teachers a new platform to engage and inspire their students. From dozens of schools in your state to some of the largest school districts in the country, Aerohive provides the Wi-Fi network infrastructure for the next generation of 1:1 programs and on-line learning, with gradual deployment and easy operations that leaves more budget for what really matters. Learn about peers who are using the solution today, then see a demonstration of our unique application that allows teachers to manage the classroom experience, easy to use management console, and reporting to track the impact of your technology investment.

Aerohive Networks enables our customers to simply and confidently connect to the information, applications, and insights they need to deliver a superior learning experience."

Do you like reading about the history of personal computing? Join me in this presentation as we formally and informally discuss books that are interesting and great reads. We won't be talking about programming or how-to books, but will instead direct our attention to books that delve deeper into the fascinating history of our industry and take us back to explore our hobbyist roots. We'll cover a little bit of everything, including early hardware, forgotten architectures, user groups, video games, the home computer wars, famous figures, networking and the open source movement.  

A discussion of the current issues and hot topics with WiFi in education. Representatives from public and higher education and the WiFi industry will dazzle you with their brilliant knowledge.

Do you love your users and wrap them in the warm, loving arms of forward-secrecy cipher suites? Or do you uncaringly send their fragile, unencrypted data out across the cold tubes, shivering and naked as they wander through a hostile Internet?

Unfortunately, the practice of serving non-sensitive and non-financial websites over HTTPS has long been viewed as unnecessary, costly, and a waste of cycles. Now, the once-plausible criticisms have been challenged and removed. There are compelling reasons to fully embrace HTTPS as the default transfer method for all web traffic, and there is an abundance of resources for devs and admins that want to serve their entire website over TLS.

After this session, the listener will:

Understand what HTTPS does and does not protect against

Understand the important role that encryption plays in today's Internet

Have a list of technical resources they can use for further learning and for deploying HTTPS

Know how their browsers handle HTTPS errors

Know how to test the HTTPS configurations of websites

Be motivated to advocate on their own for HTTPS

This presentation was first given at Utah's SAINTCON in October 2015. Since then it has been refined to:

Include more recent developments about the role of encryption

Involve the listener more

Tighten up and reduce some of the tangential material

Demo the HTTPS advocacy website, SecureUtah.org

An overview of the SIP trial underway with Higher Ed.

A detailed discussion on what Ransomware is, how ransomware is infiltrating networks and how we can detect and prevent these advanced threats from causing harm. Demonstrate the how attacks happen and how they can be resolved.

This presentation will be a high level talk track that discussing market trends pushing more IT departments into the cloud, and how that affects the traditional IT department. It will discuss why the change is happening, the evolution of the term "hybrid-cloud" and considerations for choosing the right providers.

The presentation will be in the style of a Ted talk, and consist of at most 15 slides. The slides will be predominately pictures representing a theme. There will be limited text and little talk of specific vendors or technologies - except as to talk about general product types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS etc), trends, and what's next.

This session will provide an overview of the network monitoring and performance management tool Observium and how UEN makes use of this powerful tool. We will cover basic installation, setup and configuration steps as well as a demonstration of how UEN makes use of this powerful tool.

Report from Brent Legg, Connected Nation and Kevin Dutt, UEN on the SB222 Digital Learning statewide K12 technology inventory.

Intel will be presenting their latest 3D scanning and Maker offerings that highlight a modern day user experience with state of the art technology. Attendees will gain knowledge about building analog circuits and manipulating them digitally. We will have working demo/products at our exhibit following.

"Additional Capacity" What it is and What it isn’t
With the implementation of more and more "Additional Capacity" circuits it is important to understand the realities of what these circuits can and cannot do for your network. We will discuss best practice designs, advantages and disadvantages, as well as set realistic expectations for an additional capacity circuits can provide.

An overview of the Engineering Study performed by Sanity Solutions as part of SB222

Join me for an introduction to the free and open source operating system known as Haiku. In this presentation we'll delve into the history of BeOS, and see how that influenced this sleek and modern operating system that is specifically focused on personal computing. We'll demo the latest release and try out the newest features. If you are interested in something different then come check out this free OS that is not related to Dos, Unix or MacOS in any way.

UEN Videoconferencing Services is excited to announce the addition of two new Video Collaboration tools, WebEx and Acano, now available to the Utah education community. These products can be used from any computer and are perfect for administrative meetings, collaborations, professional development, trainings, and can be integrated into the existing IVC classrooms. This workshop will provide an introduction and discussion of each application’s strengths and uses, along with hands-on training for both of these powerful tools.

Cisco security will be explored including details around the ASA with Firepower services that include: Intrusion Protection System (IPS), Anti-Malware Protection (AMP), and URL Filtering. Discussion will center around each option and how they work together to harden your perimeter and internal network. The second half of the session will center around Meraki's MX cloud managed firewall's and their ability to utilize filtering and L7 visibility to tune your perimeter as required. We will wrap up with a demo of the Meraki interface to demonstrate it's simplicity and robustness.

Technology leaders discus and answer questions about Software Defined Networking. Find out where the field of SDN is going.

Panel Members:

VMware: Suresh Thiru, Senior Director of Product Management, VMware Network and Security
Suresh Thiru has 20 years of experience in product management, product marketing, DC solution, and IT operations. At VMware, he leads product management for network virtualization and security platform (NSX). Prior to VMware, Suresh has held product management position at Cisco and brought award-winning cloud and enterprise products and solutions to market. He built multiple lines of business from zero to +$250M in revenue. Suresh holds a Bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from IETE, India.

Avi Networks: Ashish Shah, Director of Product Management Avi Networks, Inc.
Ashish Shah has over 15 years of experience in product management, product marketing, business development, and engineering. He has been part of many large Bay Area companies such as Cisco Systems, Velo Systems, and Infineta. Ashish earned a MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Ashish focuses on the following technology fields, Data Center, Networking, Software Defined Networking, Load Balancing/ADC, Analytics, OpenStack, Storage, SAN, Systems Architecture, Software Development, and WAN Optimization

Arista: Jason Patterson
20 years of networking industry experience. Spending time at Brocade, Cisco, Aruba, HP, and most recently as a Sr Datacenter Architect at Arista Networks. Jason has represented all disciplines and solution sets provided by each of the afore mentioned companies, including solutions that address Mobile, Campus, and Datacenter. In the last decade however, his primary discipline has gravitated toward the next generation "Cloud" Datacenter and all technological paradigms that support such an environment.

Cisco/ConvergedOne: Tige Phillips - Cisco Architect
Prior to joining Cisco, Tige worked as a Networking Consultant specializing in complex LAN and WAN solutions after he had spent 5 years serving in the United States Air Force. Much of his work before Cisco focused on the evaluation of applications and their effect (and mitigation) on corporate Wide Area Networks. Tige began his tenure with Cisco in Fall of 1999 when he joined the Service Provider (SP) division supporting the Northwest as well as the nation-wide Enron network. While in SP, he became the regional expert for optical networking (SONET and DWDM). In 2002, he began working on Cisco’s Channels team.

In his new role, Tige took on the MDS fibre-channel product line acquisition with the associated storage networking, and started building his knowledge of partners’ business models. This helped him to be very successful integrating partner engineers and Cisco engineers to develop the Cisco technical community in his assigned territory (Utah to Alaska). During the latter years of his time in Channels, Tige was responsible for the data center practices and technologies spanning the entire Western area from Arizona to Alaska.

In 2008, Tige had the opportunity to join the Public Sector SLED (State, Local Governments, and Education) team in the Pacific Northwest and become the lead Cisco engineer for the State of Washington and the State of Oregon. He spent the first two and a half years in Washington working to lay the foundation for a transformational Data Center whose services began in January, 2013. To further enable this Data Center, Tige worked with the State of Washington to build a high capacity 40 channel, 10Gbps DWDM network facilitating the consolidation of 42 Data Centers to almost half that in three cities within a few miles of the Olympia, WA area.

Tige was promoted to the role of Solutions Architect for the SLED Western Operation that covers the Mountain Time Zone and anything West. His current role puts him in direct contact with many of the large education, state organizations, cities, and county entities in the Western US. This broad coverage brings new ideas and solutions to customer that have been developed for a multitude of entities and needs. Tige firmly believes that every customer is unique, and building the right solutions for a customer’s requirements rather than pushing them into a form fitted, boxed solution is paramount.

In 2015, Tige came to work for ConvergeOne, a National Systems Integrator/Value Added Reseller that has deep roots in the Utah Marketplace. Tige is working with the largest State, Higher Education, and K-12 networks in Utah and beyond on Cisco DataCenter Solutions, including Cisco’s SDN offering - Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).

Big Switch: Venkataraman Tamilraj
In his two years at Big Switch Networks, Venkat Tamilraj has led a number of marketing initiatives, including the development of Big Switch Labs, an online product test drive portal. Prior to Big Switch, Venkat held roles in corporate strategy at SanDisk and business development at Intel. He started his career as an engineer at Juniper Networks. Venkat is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

iboss Engineer will go into detailed training on SSL decryption configuration. Options for off site filtering and a refresher on reporting. If time allows we will also do a brief presentation on our new Cloud solution.

Doing performance benchmarks of security devices does not have to be a black art. Data sheets can tell you what a device can do in the best case scenario, but what about your scenario? Learn some of the best practices in doing performance tests for security devices. Also including live testing of multiple vendors devices.

DDOS is ramping up to be one of the toughest things to deal with in today’s networks. DDOS’s this year have surpassed 600GB in bandwidth for long periods of time. In this Presentation we will go through some of the more common DDOS attacks and how easily they are deployed. (Maybe even show some real-time DDOS attacks). I will also show some cool new UEN tools to assist our customers with DDOS attacks and our ability to help prevent them from getting to your network.

Using a Laser Engraver to produce the Aztecan, Julian, Gregorian Calendar. Along with a Power Point Presentation.

K-12 curriculum is changing rapidly. New common core standards and related assessments have an impact on what and how we teach, as well as how we test. These changes have also created an opportunity to harness updated methods of instruction, classroom design, and technology. However, it is vitally important for instruction, design, and technology groups to work together, ensuring the most appropriate resources are available and actually used. This presentation will cover the latest AV technology strategies for a variety of learning environments, providing decision makers with valuable insight to support their specific standards and goals.

The CoSN CETL Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTO is comprised of three primary professional categories in the education technology field. Each of these categories includes 10 essential skill areas, outlining the responsibilities and knowledge needed to be a viable educational technology leader. Each of these skills and the related knowledge needed to demonstrate them are included in CoSN's Certified Education Technology Leader (CETL) certification exam.

1. Leadership & Vision
2. Strategic Planning
3. Ethics & Policies
4. Instructional Focus & Professional Development
5. Team Building & Staffing
6. Stakeholder Focus
7. Information Technology Management
8. Communication Systems Management
9. Business Management
10. Data Management

This session will focus on what is needed to become a CETL as well as discuss the next steps in developing a CETL Professional Development Community (PLC) for the following school year.

An examination of UEN's property inventory process. This is a look at how our inventory process has evolved from a single user interaction to multiple user functionality. It will look at our inventory process for acquiring information from across 1500 locations with over 9000 pieces of equipment. How we use iPads to remotely acquire information and sync our data back to the master database. This is a discussion about acquiring and managing data and why we chose to use leverage FileMaker.