Roundtables

Facilitating Consensus

Thursday, June 28, 2001
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. RT04

J. Reid Christenberry, Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Georgia Perimeter College

In today's higher education arena, decision making is not unilateral. An institution's strategic priorities and operational actions are typically based on functional imperatives that link back to the institution's plans and priorities. Essential skills of today's CIOs and other IT leaders must include the ability to listen effectively and relate to functional needs. This session will be a sharing of how IT leaders have been able to achieve participative consensus building on campuses. Bring your successes and share them with others!

PKI

Thursday, June 28, 2001
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. RT02

Arthur Vandenberg, Strategic Alignment, Function Research, Georgia State University

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) includes a number of components that together can provide the services of confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. These components include certificate authorities and registration authorities, certificate policies and certificate practice statements, trust models that enable interoperability, as well as directories, software, and PKI enabled applications. Deploying PKI is a challenge for any generation of leaders. The roundtable participants will share their collective insights about deploying PKI.

Postconference Resource

State-of-the-Art on Deployment of Directories

Thursday, June 28, 2001
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. RT03

Larry D. Conrad, Vice Chancellor and CIO, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Directories are a crucial piece of the middleware picture and something that seems to be doable in the short term. This session will focus on sharing the status of directory implementations at various institutions, including discussions of directory structures, the eduPerson standard, and Shibboleth initiative.

Postconference Resource

Wireless Networking

Thursday, June 28, 2001
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. RT01

Joel L. Hartman, Vice Provost, Information Technologies and Resources and CIO, University of Central Florida

The appeal of anytime-anywhere computing has led many institutions to deploy wireless networking. Does wireless supplement or replace wired networks? What are the costs and operational requirements, and are the costs justified? What new applications does untethered computing enable? Participants in the wireless networking roundtable will share perspectives and results.