See also Technical Training for IT Professional Staff
Introduction
University Information Services (UIS) organises seminars and workshops especially for the IT community. These events cover IT and related topics to support you in your role, to offer continuing professional development (CPD), and to provide the opportunity to network and build the community with other IT professionals across the University, Colleges and affiliated institutions.
A brief e-mail invitation about new seminars will be sent to uis-announce@list.cam.ac.uk and ucam-itsupport@lists.cam.ac.uk mailing list.
Topics: Please do share suggestions for topics you think would be valuable, directly with the IT Community Development Manager, or feel free to send e-mail to techlink-admin@uis.cam.ac.uk.
Forthcoming workshops and seminars: Lent Term 2021
| Date | Topic | Presenter (s) | Location | Info/links |
| 27 Jan | Cloud & Hybrid Backup - Phoenix Software / Bridge Fibre | Ronald Haynes and external reps | Online | Book |
Past workshops and seminars 2020
Please note due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Techlink Seminar programme was postponed from March - September 2020.
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Location |
Info/links |
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26 Nov |
TechLink Community: IT Induction |
Ronald Haynes Richard Hey |
Online |
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25 Nov |
Clouds Ahead? Google, and More (University Cloud Strategy) |
External Google speaker Abraham Martin |
Online |
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17 Nov |
Digital Admissions Overview and Update on the Digital Presence Programme |
Kate Livingstone, Barney Brown, Basirat Afinowi and Dave Heart |
Online |
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04 Nov |
Clouds Ahead? AWS, Azure, and More |
External speakers |
Online |
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20 Oct |
The Year Ahead |
Ian Leslie - UIS Director |
Online |
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| 12 Feb |
Apple Accessibility Features (workshop) |
Paul Hutton (Academia/Apple Education) |
Roger Needham Building, Norwich Auditorium
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17 Jan |
Julian King |
Roger Needham Building, Norwich Auditorium |
Past workshops and seminars 2019
| Date | Topic | Presenter(s) |
Location |
Info/links |
| 11 Dec | Apple Tech Series for Higher Education - Lunch and Learn with Apple | James Nairn, Apple staff | Roger Needham Building, Norwich Auditorium | |
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22 Nov |
Ronald Haynes, Richard Hey, and UIS colleagues |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
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20 Nov |
Prof. Ian Leslie, Vijay Samtani, Neil King, Jon Holgate |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
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23 Oct |
Research Computing Services, Community Update |
Stuart Rankin, Matt Raso-Barnett, Paul Browne, M.C. Sharpley, Ronald Haynes |
Roger Needham Building |
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24 Jul
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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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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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1 May |
Introducing a Research Cloud Computing Platform |
Wojciech Turek, UIS RCS |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
Recording |
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4 Apr |
Introducing a new release MATLAB Parallel Server |
Jos Martin from MATLAB & Russell Thompson from MRC |
Judge Business School LT4 |
Recording |
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29 Mar |
IT Forum: Infrastructure update, Dell and more |
Ronald Haynes, Steve Hoensch, Abraham Martin |
Roger Needham Building Norwich Auditorium |
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27 Feb |
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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| 30 Jan |
The Digital Architecture of Future Cities |
Ian Lewis |
Computer Lab LT1
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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