Tentative Agenda |
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| Wednesday, March 15th | |
| 11:00 AM | Registration / Lunch* / Sponsor Meet & Greet |
| 11:30 AM | Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introductions |
| 11:45 AM | LA Cyber Threat Analysis Center (CTAC) |
| Dustin Glover, Chief Cyber Officer, State of Louisiana Dustin will provide updates on one of the State’s newest initiatives – CTAC. |
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| 12:45 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 1:00 PM | LONI Updates |
| Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI Lance Neal, COO, LONI Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI LONI staff will cover today’s portfolio of services that are available to the community while also touching on future opportunities, updates on working groups, governance, and other LONI projects. |
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| 1:45 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 2:00 PM | USAC Rural Health Care Program |
| Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI Michael Wallace, Asst. Director, UAMS e-Link Martin Maize, Sr. Program Manager, UAMS e-Link Representatives from UAMS e-Link will provide updates and answer questions on the RHC program. |
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| 2:30 PM | LONI NOC Updates |
| Lance Neal, COO, LONI Shannon Dockter, Director of Client Relationship Management, GlobalNOC Eric Reed, Specialized Support Technician, GlobalNOC Representatives from the GlobalNOC will provide updates on LONI NOC operations and the new GlobalNOC Light service. |
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| 3:00 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 3:15 PM | Telephony Projects Updates |
| Craig Wooley, CIO, LSU A&M Ronald Rosson, Help Desk and Network Administrator, University of Holy Cross Slade Besson, Director of Telecommunications & Networking, Nicholls State University Stone Flemon, Telecom Communications Tech, Grambling State University Hear updates on various telephony projects form institutions deploying Avaya Cloud Office, MS Teams, Ring Central, and Zoom. |
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| 4:15 PM | Trending Topics |
| Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI Open Discussions |
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| 4:30 PM | Recess |
| Thursday, March 16th | |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast* / Sponsor Meet & Greet |
| 8:30 AM | LONI SOCaaS |
| Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI
Lonnie will provide updates regarding LONI’s Security Operations Center-as-a-Service (SOCaaS) offering. |
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| 9:30 AM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 9:45 AM | Practical Automation |
| Griffin Ellis, Network Engineer, LA Tech University
What if documenting your network took care of all your configuration, change control, and auditing/compliance requests? For good reason there is a lot of hype around network automation but many miss the mark on how that’s done effectively. We’ll talk at a high level about how to make network automation a valuable asset and not just a way to feel like you’re wielding a light saber while creating more work for yourself. |
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| 10:15 AM | Facilitated Discussion: Rising Costs of IT |
| Jay Ellis, CIO, Grambling State University Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI Jay and Lonnie will facilitate discussions around the rising costs of IT, supply chain issues, etc. to initiate crowd-sourcing strategies on mitigation efforts. |
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| 10:45 AM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 11:00 AM | LONI Research Cyberinfrastructure: Update and Call-to-Action |
| Le Yan, Asst. Director, LONI HPC Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI Le and Lonnie will provide updates on research being conducted in LONI’s HPC environment, as well as provide updates on the new AI supercomputer (QB4). |
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch* / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 12:45 PM | Facilitated Discussion: eduroam |
| Charles Broome, Security Officer, University of Louisiana Lafayette
This will be a facilitated discussion on campus eduroam deployments. |
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| 1:00 PM | Trending Topics |
| Gary Mumphrey, CTO, LONI
Open Discussions |
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| 1:30 PM | Break / Networking / Sponsor Visits |
| 1:45 PM | New Co-chair Elections / Open Discussions / Summit Wrap-up |
| 2:50 PM | Closing Remarks – Lonnie Leger, Executive Director, LONI |
| 3:00 PM | Dismiss |
*Lunch will be provided for both days, and breakfast on day 2. Please contact Gary Mumphrey at gary@loni.org if you have any special dietary restrictions and/or food allergies.