10 - 11 AM

Description

Join us to learn how to help your employees thrive with Microsoft Viva. Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced through Microsoft Teams, Viva fosters a culture that empowers people and teams to be their best from anywhere. Accelerate learning: Viva helps employees make learning a natural part of the day by bringing learning into the flow of work with the tools they already use. Balance productivity and wellbeing: Viva helps people and business thrive with recommendations to improve productivity and wellbeing. Discover knowledge and expertise:  Viva lets you automatically organize content and expertise across your organization, making it easy to find. The gateway to your employee experience: Viva is designed to empower every employee to contribute their best. 

Target Audience

IT, HR, Recruiting and Retention Leads, Staff and Faculty Learning Leads

Presenter

Erdina Francillon - Modern Workplace Specialist

Renata Ruiz - Modern Workplace Specialist

Keynote Address
Vendors
Sessions

10:00 am to 11:00 am

Description

VSGi’s view of current and future technology usage for the higher Ed. and medical space.

Target Audience
MEEC members 

Presenters

Richard Stanley (director of sales)
Stephen Jesu (MEEC contract specialist)
Joe Cavucci (Crestron representative

Description

Adobe Sign partnership and integration with O365 (Teams, Sharepoint, Power Automate)

 Audience

Departments Campus Wide, IT, CIO, Registrar Office, HR, Finance

The University of Maryland ​is conducting the Learning Management System (LMS) Request for Proposal on behalf of MEEC.  The intent is to secure providers of LMS for MEEC member institutions.  The RFP (ID BPM027972) is posted to eMaryland Marketplace Advantage.

Proposals are due by March 1, 2022, by 3PM

Description

 A key element to any change initiative is stakeholder engagement to mitigate risk and improve the likelihood of success. While transformations in higher education often focus on faculty and staff, students are also impacted and often overlooked as part of the change management process.

Now more than ever, today’s students are diverse digital natives. Some may be first generation college students and others may not fit the traditional student mold, but they are all digitally savvy and experience change differently. Expectations are evolving around remote learning, mobile accessibility, and an increased focus on student success, and there is a need for institutions to actively engage students in the change process.

In this session, led by Avaap higher education change management experts Melissa Parinello and Elena Rae Schultz, attendees will discuss techniques for managing change and increasing student engagement, and explore the generational differences to consider when working with students as stakeholders.

 Target Audience

All

 Presenters

Elena Rae Schultz, Principal Consultant, Change Management
Tim Atkinson, Vice President, Advisory Services
Lee Buchness, Vice President, Advisory Services
Melissa Parinello, Practice Director, Change Management

Description

 Alliance Technology Group will discuss what funding is available, and how to best leverage federal funding for your school’s security and compliance requirements. Unfortunately, educational institutions have become a target of attacks, and often lack the resources to defend against them. We will discuss some of the key regulations and impacts affecting schools.

 Target Audience

K-12 and Higher Education--IT professionals and Finance

Presenters

Brooks Gearhart--Alliance Technology Group--Account Executive
Jeff Jennings--Fortinet--Senior SLED Practice Director

Join us to learn how to build an educator and student technology skilling program with Microsoft Learn offers, and better leverage your current Microsoft licenses in the classroom. We'll dive deep into learning with interactive lessons, how to earn Maryland professional development hours, acquire certifications and find programs that help meet your goals. This session will review the paths to becoming a Microsoft Innovative Educator and MIE Trainer. We'll also detail how to develop learning paths and certification opportunities for your students, including leveraging your current Microsoft agreement that includes Minecraft for Education. With Microsoft's Learn program, students can earn certifications in multiple Microsoft technology areas, including AI, Data, Azure, M365, Cybersecurity, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform. 

 Target Audience

 Instruction Tech Leads, Educators, CTE leads, Minecraft Enthusiasts, STEM Leads

Presenters

 Mary Villaume - Microsoft Learning Expert;

Tiffany Thompson - Microsoft Learning Expert;

Jennifer Simms - Microsoft Learning Expert

Microsoft Teams Phone, PBX, PSTN, VOIP

1.19.2022, 10:00 am to 11:00 am

Description

 Please join us to learn about how to save money and modernize your Telephony strategy by leveraging the Microsoft Voice capabilities in your M365 A5 licenses. We’ll review Audio Conferencing, Phone System to replace legacy PBX systems, PSTN options, and VoIP. We will also discuss Teams certified phone devices, and how to extend your current M365 investment with Teams Room systems and calling plans.

Target Audience

Communications and Telephony Leads, End User Experience Leads. 

Presenters

 Andres Avendano - Phone and Voice Technical Engineer