Schedule

Day 1

	AI	Supporting Students	Digital Trust	Technical Wizardry	Institutional Collaboration	Wildcard	Sponsor
08:00 - 09:00	Pick up name badges at Myhal Centre
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote Presentation	Keynote Presentation #1 – Abdi Aidid: Building tomorrow: Moving at the speed of responsibility Convocation Hall 31 King’s College Cir. Toronto ON M5S 1A1
10:10 - 10:30	Refreshment Break in Myhal Centre
10:30 - 11:15 Block 1	Stream: AI Closing the gaps: Using agentic AI to strengthen documentation and automated testing in small IT teams The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9		Stream: Digital Trust Beyond the toolbox: Building digital trust when faculty adopt emerging technologies BA 1130 Bahen Centre	Stream: Technical Wizardry From the Dark Ages to modern endpoint management: Temerty Medicine’s endpoint modernization journey BA 1210 Bahen Centre	Stream: Institutional Collaboration Future-proofing institutional analytics: Migrating machine learning to Microsoft Fabric BA 1190 Bahen Centre IRDG data warehouse BA B024 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Wildcard Transforming employee onboarding at UTSC BA 1200 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Sponsor Fortinet – Anticipating and preventing data risk in Higher Education in the age of AI BA B026 (Bahen Centre)
11:15 - 11:25	Break
11:25 - 12:10 Block 2	Stream: AI Force multiplier: How AI pair-programming helped a small IT team build an enterprise security toolkit BA 1190 Bahen Centre	Stream: Supporting Students Building a smarter student account ecosystem: Apps, automation and AI in action BA 1130 Bahen Centre	Stream: Digital Trust Prompt to peril: A tabletop exercise on AI and digital trust BA 1210 Bahen Centre	Stream: Technical Wizardry Building an integrated makerspace portal at the Centre for Entrepreneurship using Microsoft 365 BA 2159 Bahen Centre	Stream: Institutional Collaboration Building trust across units: From requests to results through transparent agile delivery BA 1200 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Wildcard It’s not enterprise IT: Why research computing is different, and why that matters BA 1220 Bahen Centre	Stream: Sponsor Dell – Join Dell as we help transform U of T’s AI vision into reality BA 2185 Bahen Centre
12:10 - 13:10	Lunch in Myhal Centre
13:10 - 13:55 Block 3	Stream: AI Mastering GitHub Copilot: Accelerating delivery across the full software development lifecycle BA 1160 Bahen Centre	Stream: Supporting Students Student engagement and piloting Augmented Reality-enhanced classrooms BA 2145 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Digital Trust Building digital trust in campus healthcare: U of T’s centralized HIC model in action BA 1190 Bahen Centre Security, trust and the future of AI at U of T The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9		Stream: Institutional Collaboration Eliminating silos: Co-creating a future-proof A&S Co-op Data infrastructure in Azure Data Factories BA 1210 Bahen Centre	Stream: Wildcard U of T IT Jeopardy! challenge BA 1220 Bahen Centre	Stream: Sponsor AWS/TekSystems – Hands-on with Amazon Kiro BA B026 (Bahen Centre)
13:55 - 14:05	Break
14:05 - 14:50 Block 4	Stream: AI AI at the library: Exploration and experimentation BA 1160 Bahen Centre	Stream: Supporting Students Conversational AI: Generative AI agents that you (or your students) can interact with verbally BA 1170 Bahen Centre	Stream: Digital Trust Creating impact, mitigating risk: The strategic value of user research BA B026 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Technical Wizardry From firefighting to future-ready: Transforming student experience through strategic IT leadership BA B024 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Institutional Collaboration Centralized? Decentralized? It’s all about alignment! The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9	Stream: Wildcard University identity minting architecture: Proof of concept BA 1220 Bahen Centre	Stream: Sponsor CrowdStrike – Mythos is a wake-up call: Modern strategies to prepare higher education for frontier AI BA 2185 Bahen Centre
14:50 - 15:10	Refreshment Break in Myhal Centre
15:10 - 15:55 Block 5	Stream: AI Build your second brain: Atomic note-taking with Obsidian and AI BA 1130 Bahen Centre Enforcing digital trust: Why AI observability is the technical engine for U of T’s AI-ready future BA 1190 Bahen Centre	Stream: Supporting Students Delivering student success: ServiceNow stories BA 1210 Bahen Centre	Stream: Digital Trust Streamlining the start with Sailpoint and SSPR BA 2159 Bahen Centre		Stream: Institutional Collaboration IT governance and Strategic Portfolio Management BA 1220 Bahen Centre	Stream: Wildcard From concept to course: Managing online module development with Microsoft 365 BA 1230 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Sponsor A conversation with Kate Giovacchini on digital transformation and AI BA 1160 Bahen Centre

Day 2

	AI	Supporting Students	Digital Trust	Technical Wizardry	Institutional Collaboration	Wildcard	Sponsor
08:00 - 09:00	Pick up name badges at Myhal Centre
09:00 - 09:50 Keynote Presentation	Keynote Presentation #2 – Karina Vold: Extending cognition with artificial intelligence Convocation Hall 31 King’s College Cir. Toronto ON M5S 1A1
10:00 - 10:20	Refreshment Break in Myhal Centre
10:20 - 11:05 Block 6	Stream: AI An AI knowledge management framework: From domain experts to AI agents with anti-hallucination guardrails at MedIT BA 1170 Bahen Centre Empowering educators: AI as a feedback catalyst for MarkUs BA B026 (Bahen Centre)		Stream: Digital Trust Centralized login authorization using Shibboleth IdP and Grouper BA 1220 Bahen Centre	Stream: Technical Wizardry University Registrar’s Office API system: Proof of concept BA 2145 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Institutional Collaboration Building innovation together: IT’s collaborative approach to emerging technologies at UTSC BA 1210 Bahen Centre	Stream: Wildcard From 20 websites to one platform: Building a modern, unified library web presence BA 1240 Bahen Centre	Stream: Sponsor INSA Integra – Wi-Fi and the future of wireless location technologies BA 2155 (Bahen Centre)
11:05 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:00 Block 7	Stream: AI AI-agent-first development: Transforming developers into AI coders at MedIT The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9 Fine-tuning vs. RAG: The AI that actually worked BA 1170 Bahen Centre		Stream: Digital Trust Data you can trust: Transforming BI and automation at the UTSC Registrar’s Office BA 1240 Bahen Centre	Stream: Technical Wizardry Data centre infrastructure: Behind the scenes BA 1190 Bahen Centre Modernizing enterprise applications: From legacy AngularJS to a scalable, shared university platform BA 2145 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Institutional Collaboration Process Improvement Community of Practice BA 1210 Bahen Centre		Stream: Sponsor Compugen – Where data lives is not the same as who controls it — jurisdiction, not location, determines legal access BA 1160 Bahen Centre
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch in Myhal Centre
13:00 - 13:45 Block 8	Stream: AI AI or not AI? A decision framework for using AI effectively BA 1190 Bahen Centre Building collection intelligence: Using AI to connect research output, discovery behaviour and collection use BA 1200 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Supporting Students Teaching students to work critically with AI: Vibe coding as a model for AI-augmented learning BA 1210 Bahen Centre		Stream: Technical Wizardry Automated observability with Puppet in a zero-trust environment BA 2145 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Institutional Collaboration From classroom to campus impact: How a campus living lab sparked cross-institutional collaboration for sustainable IT BA 2155 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Wildcard A conversation with Nathan Corwin: Cyber security leadership and digital trust at U of T The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9	Stream: Sponsor Telus – Why Canada needs robust sovereign AI infrastructure BA B025 (Bahen Centre)
13:45 - 13:55	Break
13:55 - 14:40 Block 9	Stream: AI AI in action: Rapid insights from Claude Pilots supporting staff work The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9 When AI goes bad: the challenge of AI alignment, and why that matters BA 1160 Bahen Centre		Stream: Digital Trust Data stewardship for IT: Who owns the data? BA 1200 (Bahen Centre) Web Application Firewall: Advancing threat detection and alerts through shared data and responses BA 1240 Bahen Centre	Stream: Technical Wizardry UTM’s low-code path to a digital free store BA 2145 (Bahen Centre)	Stream: Institutional Collaboration Grouper: Authorization made simple, scalable and smarter BA 1210 Bahen Centre		Stream: Sponsor AVI-SPL – Experiential environments, artificial intelligence, extended/augmented reality…and how they can all work together! BA 1190 Bahen Centre
14:40 - 15:00	Refreshment Break in Myhal Centre
15:00 - 16:15 Closing Session	What’s cooking in the AI Kitchen? Building an institution-wide AI hub through partnership, strategy and trust The Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium (Myhal 150) 55 St. George St. Toronto ON M5S 0C9