See also Technical Training for IT Support Staff
Introduction
University Information Services (UIS) organises seminars and workshops exclusively for the IT community. These events cover IT topics to support you in your role and provide the opportunity to network with IT professionals across the University, Colleges and affiliated institutions.
A brief email invitation about new seminars will be sent to uis-annouce@list.cam.ac.uk and ucam-itsupport@lists.cam.ac.uk mailing list.
Topics: Feel free to email suggestions for topics you think would be valuable to techlink-admin@uis.cam.ac.uk.
Workshops and seminars 2019
| Date | Topic | Presenter(s) |
Location |
Info & booking link |
| 30 January |
The Digital Architecture of Future Cities |
Ian Lewis |
Computer Lab LT1
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Wednesday 27 February |
So Long and thanks for all the Phish: Dealing with email security |
Kate Jeary from CERT and Joe Irvin from UIS Service Desk |
Faculty of Law LG17 |
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Fri 29 March |
IT Forum: Infrastructure update, Dell and more |
Ronald Haynes, Steve Hoensch, Abraham Martin |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
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Thurs 4 April |
introducing a new release MATLAB Parallel Server |
Jos Martin from MATLAB & Russell Thompson from MRC |
Judge Business School LT4 |
Recording |
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Wed 1 May |
Introducing a Research Cloud Computing Platform |
Wojciech Turek, UIS RCS |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
Recording |
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Wed 29 May |
Tableau and how it can help you |
Constanza Arias-Aldana, Academic and Financial Planning |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
Presentation |
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Wed 24 July |
IT Forum: Accessibility, IT portfolios, Communities of Practice |
Ian Cooper, Mark Rowland, James Honnor, Rich Wareham Ronald Haynes |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
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Past workshops and seminars 2018
- 14 December: Using Technology to Unlock History. Advances in 2D/3D imaging. H. Jones, Andy Corrigan, University Library
- 28 November: IT Forum An update on UIS projects and services, case studies from the IT Community and an intro to Amazon Web Services and Pheonix. View the recording on the SMS.
- 28 November: IT Induction: for new IT staff, IT Community Managers Ronald Haynes and Richard Hey.
- 17 October: The year ahead: UIS update to the IT Community. Ian Leslie, UIS Director. View the recording on the SMS. Download PDF.
- 25 July: Managing Apple Devices in 2018: Where we're going, we need no Apple IDs, James Nairn, UIS, Apple support. Video presentation on the SMS.
- 18 July: LinkedIn Learning Launch for the IT Community, Richard Hey, Head of UIS Institutional Services. Rinku Raina, Career Development Adviser, Monica Gonzalez, Training Services Manager. Video presentation on the SMS.
- 27 June: Threat Protection & Prevention Service: using McAfee, Chris Quy, Endpoint Protection Manager.
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9 May: Service Status System: expansion and benefits, Jon Holgate and Nigel Thornton. Video presentation on SMS
- 21 March: Making IT Agile: Control v Collaboration, Dr Sibel Allinson, Simon Redhead, Dr Nick Mattin - slides - (Cam only / PDF)
- 28 February: WiFi and Beyond: Wireless Systems Update, Alexander Cox, Service Manager University Wireless Infrastructure PDF
- 14 February 2018: Update on the implications of GDPR within UIS: Madeleine Taylor, UIS Information Compliance Officer Video presentation on SMS
- 7 February 2018:
PoP update, what you need to know!: Bob Franklin, UIS Networks presentation