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Engage 2022

Memorial Union Outdoors

Discover these exciting sessions at Engage!

Session 1 | 11:15 a.m.

 Accessibility at ASU
Find out what accessibility is, how people with disabilities access the web and some things you can start doing today to be more digitally inclusive!

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 Let’s Play a Game! Backdoors & Breaches

How do you best respond to a cybersecurity incident? At this session, you will play the game
Backdoor and Breaches to better prepare you for a security incident response and learn attack tactics, tools and methods. Log in here

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 Dashing to Decision-Making

Have you heard about the UTO Resource & Capacity Planning Dashboards? Do you know if your work is represented on those dashboards? Come to this session to learn how the data from these dashboards led to an additional $6 million for UTO!

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  Data Touchdown! Explore ASU Football Performance Dashboards

The ASU Football Sports Performance coaches get data from different wearables and devices used for training. Their problem was that each device had its own portal for viewing results. Athletics reached out to UTO, and UTO helped aggregate the data and show results in a meaningful dashboard to help with performance, training and injury prevention. Come and get an insider’s look at ASU Football performance data used by your Sun Devils!

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 Digital Credentials Wallet in your 'Pocket'

Find out how ASU is reimagining the learner record. Contribute to this exciting initiative by being part of the exclusive Alpha testers group of Pocket, the app that’s being developed to help lifelong learners better navigate pathways from education to employment.

 LX Escape Room: Who Are You Going to Call? 

Ghoulish things are occurring at every turn of your course! As you log on to Canvas, links are not working! Your reliable and trustworthy captions and transcripts have suddenly disappeared! Gradebooks have taken a life of their own! Who are you going to call?

Join ASU’s Learning Experience Design team as they dispel every ghoul and ghost in your course. In this Escape Room-styled workshop, you will learn about: the Learning Experience Design team and how they can help address technological creatures of the night; the suite of digital technologies that can help address every ghoul and ghost that haunt your students; and how LX Design Thinking reduces the challenges that lurk within the shadows of educational technology. 
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Session 2 | 1:15 p.m.

 Adopting a Non-Profit: Digital Transformation for Arizona Border Collie Rescue

Arizona Border Collie Rescue (AZBCR) is an Arizona-founded and run non-profit group of volunteers who have fostered and housed more than 4,000 Border Collies from shelters and owner turn-ins from across the southwest. 

Attend this session to explore the presenters’ intention to adopt the AZBCR and build a Non-Profit Salesforce instance for them. This will allow AZBCR to spend less money on maintenance of a fragile system and modernize and future proof their digital infrastructure. By using the Salesforce Non-Profit Cloud, the team can give the AZBCR a new foundation to continue their great work.

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 Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Empowering Girls who Code

Guided by the Girls Who Code curriculum, you can teach young women how to code! No coding experience needed —  with your creativity and professional experience, you can give back to the ASU Community by empowering the next generation of young girls.

If you have daughters, nieces, neighbors or granddaughters, this is a great opportunity to learn more about the program!

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  Get to Know UTO By Playing “How We Work: The Game”

How we work is a card game about ASU’s University Technology Office, in which communication and teamwork is key. In this session, we will divide into teams of seven players, complete initiatives, align talent and adapt to whatever the workplace throws at you. Earn points as you compete against other teams and prove that your team is the best!

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 How Guitar Makes You a Better Planner

Playing guitar and jamming with a band is no different than scrumming with a team! Learn how to play guitar and how the skills of playing guitar impacts planning cycles, parallel work, multi-skill development and improvisation in the workplace. Learn about chords, strumming, picking and scales and how each applies to working in an agile environment. You will get to practice playing guitar (up to five people at a time) while learning how creating music is just like working on a project. Doing something new and exciting opens up your neurons to learn more new things.

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 UX Writing for Non-Writers: Best Practices & Practical Applications
Dive into UX Writing and learn what and how it helps. Find new ways to engage with peers and audiences using UX best practices, journey mapping and content strategy tools. Explore new ideas and gain expertise with real-world application and connection. This is your chance to grow with the phenomenon of agile IT comms using stories, big idea curation and talk tech.

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UTO World Fair

Stop by the UTO World Fair, an in-person expo hall, to meet with a variety of teams, check out projects and more! This highly interactive World Fair will give you the unique opportunity to travel from booth to booth to learn from fellow UTO teams and subject matter experts. This is your chance to ask questions and get to know all the different departments, teams, guilds and projects that the world of UTO offers.

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Digital Credentials Wallet in Your 'Pocket'
Find out how ASU is reimagining the learner record. Contribute to this exciting initiative by being part of the exclusive Alpha testers group of Pocket, the app that’s being developed to help lifelong learners better navigate pathways from education to employment.
Get Your Professional Headshot Taken!
Professional headshots allow you to express your personality and tell your story. Need a new one for your Linkedin, Slack or iSearch? Sign up for a professional headshot with UTO's photographer Mike Sanchez. Choose from a white or a black background.
Our Physical ASU Network
Ever wondered how ASU’s technology networks are built to be able to support more than 80,000 students across the University’s campuses and other locations? Take a look at what is underground and in the floors, walls and ceilings to make the network…work.
Discover Experience Center Bot Technology
Want to know how Bot Technology can help to expand your business and services while taking some workload off of your workers to help utilize their resources elsewhere? The Bot Technology from the Experience Center can help with that.
Help Us Help You
Representatives from UTO’s IT Operations Center are eager to talk to Product & Service Owners about Incident Runbooks and how to onboard people into Splunk On-Call: a hub for centralizing the flow of information throughout an incident lifecycle.
Splunk Search for All
Visit this booth to meet UTO’s Splunk Team, get an introduction to Splunk search platforms and see what’s possible when you can effectively search data sets.
Engage with the Engagement Advising Team
Come and Engage with the team as we demonstrate how connections are built within the ASU community in a brand new game called Connecting the Dots. Not into being a part of the demonstration? Just swing by to say hi and pick up your Bingo style Scavenger hunt card to win prizes! There is an opportunity to be drawn for a Grand Prize, if you can collect all the dots before the end of the expo!
How Natural Language Processing Benefits ASU Students & Staff

Much of university data is unstructured text, analyzing this text data provides important insights that we can’t get elsewhere. 

 

Delve into two text mining projects where Natural Language Processing (NLP) is used to better understand students’ common financial aid questions and UTO employee sentiment. You’ll walk away with a basic understanding of NLP and its applications.

Trusted Learner Network: A Data-Centric Credential Ecosystem
The Trusted Learner Network initiative is creating the relationships and technology to make learner-centric data a reality. Join Kate Giovacchini and Brooke Lipsitz to learn more about the TLN, its underlying technologies and the way something as small as a credential can have a massive impact on learners.
Enterprise Salesforce: The Key to ASU's Student Success

Come see Salesforce's impact on the University and its support of the University’s Charter and values to help students succeed. We will have product team information, and interactive games to win prizes, and see how Salesforce gives back to our local communities. Bring your innovative, experimental, or futuristic ideas to collaborate with us and expand the use of Salesforce university-wide. 

Interactive Privacy by Design
Bring your novel product, process, service or idea to the booth, and walk through a short interactive Privacy by Design session to identify potential privacy risks and ideas to mitigate them. You can also sign up for a more in-depth Privacy by Design session at a later date.

Take the DeepRacer Challenge!
Check out an AWS DeepRacer track and witness how machine learning can move simple cars around a track. Want to participate in the Challenge and race others against the clock?  All skill levels are welcome and no prior experience is necessary. Attend a pre-event workshop (recommended), or, if you’re already knowledgeable,, bring your game to the track.
Exploring Analytics
Stop by the booth for a demonstration of the analytics.asu.edu portal that helps thousands of faculty/staff find the data and reporting they need to do their jobs. Connect with members of the Data Success chapter to find out how to use their suite of analytics tools to automate novel data solutions for your team.
Learning Futures’ Flagship XR Learning Platforms
Learn, play and explore the future of education with ASU's Learning Futures! This creative studio imagines and builds the future of learning three-to-five years in the future through a human-centered design Collaboratory; a set of student creative development and production Studios; and a series of community and partner engagements, events and activities through our Emporium. Check out a roster of extended-reality (XR) products and platforms to support learning that is immersive, collaborative, and built by learners as the creators, makers, producers and inventors.
UTO Budget & Finance - Everything You Need To Know

Have questions about UTO's budget, finances and procurement procedures? Curious how decisions are made, who makes them, how much is allocated to certain initiatives and programs, etc.? Let’s remove any mystery about UTO's finances — no question is too simple or too complex. 

 

Also, enjoy our Budget and Finance Jeopardy games for a chance at some fabulous prizes!

Explore Technology That's Breaking Down Barriers
Discover the assistive technology that people with disabilities use every day. Visit the booth to try out a screen reader, check out voice control on a phone or computer, use a computer with eye tracking and other assistive technologies. 
LX Escape Room: Who Are You Going to Call?
Join ASU’s Learning Experience Design team as they dispel every ghoul and ghost in your course. In this Escape Room-styled workshop, you will learn about: the Learning Experience Design team and how they can help address technological creatures of the night; the suite of digital technologies that can help address every ghoul and ghost that haunt your students; and how LX Design Thinking reduces the challenges that lurk within the shadows of educational technology.