Unconference Schedule 2016

TIME BA 2135 BA 2139 BA 2145
2:00

UNCONFERENCE
KICKOFF
MEETING

2:30 User Experience (UX) Design
Cheryl Ziegler
Technology and Pedagogy
Dr. Bill Ju
Malware Prevention Strategies
Jim Prall
2:50 Web Accessibility
Mariana Jardim
VR: Is Virtual Reality a Useful Teaching Tool or Hype?
Barriers, pitfalls and gains
Diane Michaud
Information Risk Assessment
Sue McGlashan
3:10 Web and Mobile Applications
Michael Moncada
Skype and Slack for Distributed Teams / Business Continuity / Telecommuting / Telepresence
Mohammad Durrani
So you’ve been hacked. Now what?
Sufei Xu
3:30 Authorizations and how to manage them
Pablo Duenas
Zen and the art of Writing Policy
Marden Paul
Multi-Factor Authentication with eTokens
Mike Wiseman
3:50 Writing for the Web
Alan Rosenthal
Configuration Management
Steven Butterfield
Keeping your website your own
Joe Bate
4:10 The Unix/Linux command line, shell programming, Unix topics
Alan Rosenthal
Hands-On Drones
Terry Jones
“Should breach reporting
be mandatory, and what
form should it take?”
Allan Stojanovic

Building on last year’s session, this year’s TKF 2016 Unconference will take place on the second day of TKF. The Unconference focuses on discussion and dialog rather than presentation, getting people together to talk about topics of common interest or importance.
There will be two tracks this year, 10 minute lightning rounds and 20 minute longer discussions. [Update: Thanks everyone! — The response has been tremendous, and we have three tracks of 20 minute sessions! Thanks to everyone who proposed topics and everyone who agreed to facilitate sessions]
We are soliciting areas of interest — topics, questions, or even problems you would like to see someone speak to — as well as people interested in these areas to join the discussion. Topics will go up on the Techknowfile website in the next couple of days.
We are also looking for six people to help facilitate Unconference tracks, introducing the sessions and ensuring that talks being and end on time.
To suggest a topic, or speak to a topic, or to help facilitate, please email unconference.tkf@utoronto.ca.
The kick off meeting for this year’s Unconference will be on the second day of the conference (May 5th) at 2 pm in BA 2135, with the sessions running from 2:30-4:30 in the schedule below.


Topics So Far…
Some sessions have proponents who have come forward and are in the schedule below; those remaining have no facilitators and if there is interest we can take 1 more session (those below or others). Please contact unconference.tkf@utoronto.ca if you want to facilitate a topic.

  • Bootstrapping Windows Servers
  • Content Management Systems (CMS)
  • Disaster Preparation: Why it’s not just backup
  • Distributed Computing
  • IPV6
  • Managing the IT Function when you’re not an IT person
  • Privileged Account Management
  • RFPs, RFIs, and Procurement Oh My!
  • Social Media and How to do it right
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Server Service (VSS)
  • Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
  • Writing for the Web