UTO Events

   Join ASU’s University Technology Office and Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law in the second installment of Technology in the Public Interest: Future of Governing the Internet. The Technology in Public Interest series provides a deep dive into how modern advancements can serve our society through personal stories shared by some of today’s most influential authors of technology. The environment will be intentionally small-scale for a more intimate experience.

Celebrate the holidays with UTO! Come by the San Tan Ford Club at Sun Devil Stadium on December 12 from 2:30 to 5:30 PM for an evening of drinks, light refreshments, and activities. 

You are cordially invited to join us for the Culture Weavers Community of Practice. This group meets bi-weekly and inclusivity is key. Anyone at UTO who wants to contribute to generating a conscious, collaborative culture at UTO  is welcome to join. If you are interested or just want more information, please attend a meeting. Please contact our Chief Culture Officer, Christine Whitney Sanchez with any questions. We look forward to connecting with you!

Innovation, economics, and community health are intrinsically linked, but the chain reaction is not always visible. Join the University Technology Office and the ASU School of Public Affairs as we present the next installment of Technology in the Public Interest: An Author Series: “Innovation and the Community Impact." Caroline Tolbert, author of the forthcoming book Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities, will present engaging research and offer practical, research-backed solutions to economic issues facing our communities. Registration will be free and open to the public.    

Cybersecurity is about proactive protection. Being proactive means understanding emergent trends and challenges -- and strategizing accordingly. The 2020 ASU Partner to Protect Arizona Unconference will convene and engage a community of cybersecurity professionals, practitioners, partners, and champions, in partnership with Crowdstrike, to work together to build upon the themes we surfaced in on October 2nd Threat Hunting event. This momentum is designed to bring a panoramic view of the top incoming threats and opportunities each one of us has in front of us to reduce risk. And, this is our opportunity to step out of our day-to-day to collaborate across sectors on strategies and solutions. 

Join ASU's University Technology Office and EdPlus for the inaugural gathering of the Trusted Learner Network (TLN) Community to explore the key parameters of trust when it comes to emerging approaches for recognizing lifelong learning. The TLN is an effort ASU has undertaken, through a technical collaboration with Salesforce, to build a secure, open-source approach to recording —> curating —> sharing data on abilities + skills across the learner’s lifespan. While new technologies like blockchain are sparking new possibilities, it will take human capacity (read: community) to advance significant, learner-centered innovation. There has been a fundamental shift in what is possible to digitally capture, represent, and record about a learner’s formal and informal learning. Decentralization, digital identity, and privacy and encryption are at the heart of it. The 2020 Trusted Learner Network Unconference will convene an imaginative, diverse group of stakeholders -- across higher education, industry, and government -- to explore and describe the possibilities and applications (read: use cases) that the TLN will serve.  

 The 2020 ShapingEDU Unconference will convene education leaders, educators, students, technologists, and others to view learning in the digital age through the lens of human-centered everything. As learning-focused institutions embrace artificial intelligence and extended reality (XR) technologies (virtual, augmented, and mixed reality), for example, how are we ensuring that the design, standards, regulations, and applications reflect our values? Further, if education is truly for the learner, how is the learner being factored in, every step of the way? If these kinds of questions are keeping you awake at night, please spend a few exploratory and solution-oriented days with us in Tempe.