7:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee

9:00am - 9:15am   Overview and Introduction
Speaker: Patty Patria, CIO, Becker College

9:15am - 10:15am   Leveraging Office 365 for Next Generation Portals and Intranets-Bringing Your Next Generation Portal to Life with Microsoft SharePoint
Speakers:  
Harold Brenneman, Consulting Manager, Lighthouse Computer Services
Suresh Ural, Practice Lead – Office 365, Microsoft P-TSP, Lighthouse Computer Services

Discover new tools and tips to help you plan and execute your next generation portal.  This presentation will start by discussing the key components of next generation intranets and the future of work. Then, explore the tools Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint provide to achieve these goals.  Finally, learn from our experience at leading educational organizations as to how they achieved success and best practices for implementing your next generation portal.

10:15am - 11:15am Leveraging LiveTiles for Rapid Portal & Intranet Deployment-The digital workplace: Ease of use, mobility & agility
Speakers: 
David Salter, Innovation & Experience Expert,  LiveTiles 
Vanessa Ferguson, Innovation Executive, LiveTiles

During this presentation, we will touch on how the evolution of touch and mobile technology has raised UX expectations from business users, and how this has been a wake-up call for our industry. Design can no longer be an after-thought.

LiveTiles aims to empower non-technical employees and reduce the pressure on over-burdened IT teams. We will demonstrate how beautiful user experiences need not be associated with custom coding and lengthy project timelines, and how to make complex user interfaces simple and intuitive.

We will also discuss the future of the digital workplace and touch on elements relating to analytics and artificial intelligence.

11:15am - 12:15pm Deploying a Student and Employee Portal in 60 Days
Speaker:  Patty Patria, CIO, Becker College

Are you looking for an innovative portal solution that can be deployed rapidly and changed easily? Do you want a solution with lots of dynamic content? Are you looking to integrate your intranet with your employee portal? This session will cover all of these items and show you how you can rapidly deploy a dynamic portal in a short window of time.

12:15pm - 1:15pm Lunch

1:15pm - 2:15pm   Leveraging O365 for Intranets-Website & SharePoint Architecture for Multiple Audiences
Speaker:  Amy Donovan, CIO, Lesley College

This portion of the panel will focus on the transition from file shares and an internet/intranet architecture to the combination of a new website for all audiences and SharePoint for internal users.  The university developed a consolidated information architecture for the website and eliminated the intranet site as part of an university website redesign. Additionally, SharePoint Sites are in place for departmental use as well as access to password protected files. The university also supports the use of other Office 365 applications.

2:15pm - 3:15pm     Providence College Portal: From Concept to Launch 
Speakers: 
Karl Steiner, Executive Director, Enterprise Systems and Services, Providence College
Dan Demmons, Director of Web Design, Architecture and Services, Providence College
John Matteson, Senior Programmer/Analyst & Project Manager, Providence College

Over the course of 5 years, Providence College developed and implemented an internal portal using the Office365/Sharepoint platform. We will discuss the initial and ongoing challenges surrounding creation and ongoing maintenance, the importance of project management, forming a portal committee, training, implementing security and ongoing support. 

Three Takeaways
·   Project Plan
·   Formation of an effective team
·   Education regarding the Office365 platform 

3:15pm   End