The 2022 Student Technology Conference will take place June 21 – 23.

The conference will start at 1:00pm EDT/10:00am PDT daily.

The conference schedule is still subject to change. We plan to have short breaks between some of the sessions.

Tuesday, June 21

• Welcome
• Keynote: Keith Fowlkes, Executive Director of The HESS Consortium, “Virtual Learning Environments: How the metaverse could profoundly affect higher education.”
• Where am I now, and how did ResNet help me get here?
  • 60 minute panel presentation
  • Chester Andrews – from Client support analyst and RCC Coordinator 
    to Director of Client Services (Retired) at Oberlin College. Currently System Administrator for Zones LLC.
  • Melody (Dee) Childs – from Manager, Residential IT Services at Indiana University to Vice President for Information Technology & CIO at Texas A&M University (Retired).
  • Gayleen Gray – from Systems Analyst III at Computing and Communications Services at the University of Guelph to Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, University Technology Services at McMaster University.
  • Tim Marconi – from Lead Student Computing Tech at University of San Diego (and inaugural Senti-Merriman Award winner in 2002) to Director of Technology and Digital Experience at UC San Diego Library.
• Where are the student workers?
  • 60 minute structured discussion

Wednesday, June 22

• Build-Your-Own Access Point Mount
  • 30 minute presentation
  • Andy Voelker, Davidson College
  • At Davidson College we have struggled to find wireless access point mounts for some niche cases that still met our needs in terms of flexibility, sustainability, cost, and aesthetic. After lamenting the high prices of flawed 3rd party solutions, we set out to design our own. In this presentation we will take you through the challenge, design, cost goals, working with a fabricator and our Maker-space, and arriving at an end product. The final design (being fabricated right now) came in at more than $10 lower than our closest off-the-shelf option, is more generic and sustainable for the indefinite future, is customized with the college logo, and is modular and upgradable. This session may be useful for network administrators, but also for others searching for maker-space type alternatives to off-the shelf products.
• Burnout: Is there is light on the horizon?
  • 60 minute structured discussion
• Town Hall
  • 15 minutes
  • ResNet. Inc. Board of Directors
• Utilizing Jamf and DEPNotify to Simplify Loaner Reimaging
  • 30 minute presentation
  • Loriann Seluga, Yale University
  • Demonstrate the use of DEPNotify and Jamf to reimage loaner macs – the process can be done by anyone without the need for administrator credentials.  Will show the configuration, discuss the benefits, and do a Q/A.

Thursday, June 23

• CARES Laptop Distribution: You get a laptop! You get a Laptop! and You get a Laptop!
  • 60 minute presentation
  • Marian Holiday-White, Quebbie Brinson, and Pablo Moya, North Carolina Central University
  • Discussion on how we are able to provide our first-time, full-time students a completely free laptop without it affecting their tuition or departmental budgets. Our university will show what it takes to make learning accessible and transformative in today’s society. This conversation can spark ideas on how you can provide the similar valuable learning tools for your students.
• Tech Tips for Productivity and Working from Home
  • 60 minute structured discussion
• ResNet Snack Break
  • 60 minute open discussion
  • Join a casual conversation with other ResNet STC attendees for further discussion on any of the topics covered during the conference or bring up your own topic you wish to discuss with your peers.