SUNDAY, 10 May 2015 MONDAY, 11 May 2015

THETA 2015
Conference Agenda
Correct as at 28/04/2015
SUNDAY, 10 May 2015
13:00 – 16:00
Registration open
13:00 – 16:00
Meeting space available
17:00 –18:30
Conference Welcome Reception
MONDAY, 11 May 2015
Registration open
8:00 – 18:30
8:00
– 8:45
Arrival Tea and Coffee
8:45
– 9:30
Opening Ceremonies Bruce Callow, CTO, Griffith University and THETA 2015 Conference Chair
Cultural Welcome
Uncle Graham Dillon, OAM DUniv,
Griffith University Council of Elders,
Elder of the Kombumerri Ngarang-Wal
Professor Ian O’Connor, Vice Chancellor, Griffith University
Introducing the Mascot (and why the survival of the earth depends on frogs)
Jean-Marc Hero, Professor, School of Environment, Griffith University
Keynote: Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education
Bryan Alexander, Educator, futurist, speaker, writer bryanalexander.org
Room A
10:10 – 10: 40
Featured speaker: Changing times, emerging generations: a snapshot of the megatrends affecting higher education
Mark McCrindle, McCrindle Research
Room A
10:40 – 10: 45
Announcements
10:45 – 11: 15
Morning Tea
TRACKS
Learning and
Teaching
Library
Cloud’s
IT
Organisations
eResearch
Teaching
Support
Vendor
Solution
Room A
Room C
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Room 8
Room B
Expert in my
Pocket: Creating
First Person POV
Videos
Perception and
Reality: Student IT
and Digital Literacy
Skills in the Digital
Age
Why Brett Looney
hates the word –
Cloud
Innovating Business
Process
Integrating user
support for
eResearch services
within institutions.
Lessons learned
from AeRO Stage 2
User Support
Project
Forging productive
partnerships
between learning,
teaching and IT
ICT strategies to
outperform and
succeed
11:15 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:15
Exhibits Open
9:30 – 10:10
Peter Bright, Bill
Lord, Helen
Forbes, Florin
Oprescu, Nigel
Barr, Terri
Downer, Nicole M
Phillips, Lauren
McTier, Vilma
Simbag and Kristel
Alla
Chemistry
Gamification:
Students teaching
students through
gaming
Heather Gray,
Leigh-Ellen Potter
and Peter Healy
Jarrod Sharp
Brett Looney
Lisa Cluett and Jill
Benn
Paul Cooney
Caroline Steel and
Elizabeth Coulter
Hamish Holewa
and Loretta Davis
Rethinking staff
learning through
collaborative online
technology
Megan Saville and
Julia Philips
‘I Just Want Milk
that Tastes Like
Milk’ – QUT’s
Migration of Staff
email to the Cloud
Michael Boyle
and Nathan
Howard
Making your
message matter –
how to inspire,
connect and
engage to share
your organisation’s
activities and
outcomes
The HWMD
maturity model: A
foundational
framework to
measure
effectiveness of
institutional
research
e-infrastructures
264 students, eight
courses, 792 High
Definition video
streams, no walls.
Jim Cook and
Warren French
The
Transformative
Classroom:
Guiding the
Mobile Learning
Evolution
Rob Roe
Loretta Davis
Hamish Holewa,
Malcolm Wolski
and
Kathy Dallest
12:15 - 12:45
Creating
institutional
connections and a
sense of belonging
through cultural
awareness and
competence
Dominique Parrish
Just-In-Time
Learning for Library
Research Skills
Data Centre
Community of
Practice
Kickstarting
Innovation in Higher
Education (HE)
Linda Stern, Peta
Humphreys and
Craig Patterson
Don Caruana,
Laurence
Rietberg, and
Peter Vanheck
Room B
Neil Thelander
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NCI InfiniCloud:
Extending high
performance
InfiniBand
capabilities in the
NCI OpenStack
Clouds
Andrew Howard
and Jakub
Chrzeszczyk
How to set up and
run an on-line
educational video
production service
Julie Beesley
Vendor
Presentation
NetApp
12:45 – 13:40
Lunch Break
Digital Poster 13:00
Designing Academic Posters: an online resource to develop
communication skills of doctoral candidates
Digital Poster 13:15
Elizabeth Hardiman
Vendor Hall Stage
Digital Poster 13:30
Investing in Innovation: The Learning and Teaching Development
Fund at AUT
Stanley Frielick, Neil Smith, Emily Whitehead and Pam Wyse
Vendor Hall Stage
Sparking true imagination in a Digital Environment
Sarah Mccormick and Shawna Sadler
Vendor Hall Stage
TRACKS
13:40 – 14:10
eResearch
Library
Learning and
Teaching
IT
Organisation
eResearch
User Support
Vendor
Solution
Room A
Room C
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Room 8
Room B
RDSI: changing the
face of research
data storage in
Australia
A Framework for
Increasing Staff
Capability for
Teaching and
Learning Across
Multiple Sectors
Where does
Campus Learning
become Online
Learning?
Emerging trends
in learning space
and design usage
Unified
Collaboration : The
Future of
Organisation
Clusters to Clouds:
Pedagogy and
Research Training
Environment
Advance Threat
Application
Bruce Callow
Richard Sinnott
A brave new world:
libraries innovating
to improve the
student IT support
experience at the
University of
Western Australia
Viviani Paz
Iain Doherty,
Christina Del
Medico and Ann
Wilson
Australian
eResearch
Organisations
(AeRO) – Towards
joined-up digital
infrastructure for
research excellence
14:10 - 14:40
Loretta Davis
Exhibits Open
14:40 – 15:10
A moving target:
Assessing the
process and
progress of learning
(50 minutes)
David Gunsberg,
Lori Bowe,
Richard Kerr and
Merv Connell
Real-time Journey
into Space
Kim Tairi and
Shane Skidmore
Shane Sutherland,
Yangama Jokwiro,
Kath Fisher,
Christine Slade,
Terri Downer,
Richard Bostwick,
Michael MonisseRedman, Michael
Finn, Jacqueline
Patten and Alison
Poot
Quality over
quantity: building an
online resource for
researchers
Cameron Barrie
and Patrick Guay
Jill Benn, Dawn
McLoughlin, Roz
Howard and
Merrilee Albatis
What’s
Collaborative
Infrastructure Ever
Done for You? Twenty-Five Years
of Network Effect
applied to Research
and Teaching
Improving data
management
practices of
researchers using
behavioural models
Malcolm Wolski
and Joanna
Richardson
Peter Elford
Videoconferencing and
teaching – From
outback
Queensland to
Ireland and back
again.
Kerwin Lu
The Next
Generation IT
Workforce
The Australian
National Medical
Research Data
Storage Facility
Nick Tate
David Wilson
and Tim Gentile
Dr Ian Gibson, Dr
Derek Van Dyk
and Leonie
Hellmers
Seeing the Big
Picture: A Digital
Desktop for
Researchers
Bernard Meade,
Christopher Fluke,
Richard Sinnott
Steven Manos,
Neil Killeen, Paul
Mignone and
Michael Wang
Dell
University of
Sydney
Software Tools
Compared To User
Education in High
Performance
Computing
Next generation
data centre
networks – a
platform for
innovation
Lev Lafayette
Chris
Gascoigne
15:10 – 15:35
Afternoon Tea
15:35 – 15:40
Welcome and announcements
15:40 – 15:50
Address from Michael Kirby-Lewis, UNSW, President of CAUDIT
15:50 – 16:20
Featured speaker:
Cathy Cavanaugh, Director of Teaching and Learning, Microsoft Corporation
Room A
16:20 – 16:50
Featured speaker: Innovations in publishing; giving control back to authors
Virginia Barbour, Executive Officer, Australian Open Access Support Group
Room A
16:50 – 17:30
Keynote: Government as a platform: enabling innovation and digital citizenship with open data, online services and public engagement
Pia Waugh, Director Coordination and Gov 2.0, Australian Department of Finance
Room A
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Dell Private
Cloud Services
and University
of Sydney case
study.
TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Cisco Sponsor Breakfast
8:00 – 17:00
Registration open
8:30 – 9:00
Arrival Tea and Coffee
9:00 – 9:30
Range of activities, including vendor events
9:30 – 9:35
Welcome and announcements
9:35 – 10:15
Keynote: Learning Sciences & the Impact on Learning Technologies and Learning Activities
Phil Long, Associate Vice Provost for Learning Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
10:15 – 10:45
Exhibits Open
7:00 – 9:15
Room A
Featured speaker: How will digital humanities in the future use cultural data?
Ingrid Mason, eResearch Analyst, Intersect Australia
Room A
10:45 – 11:15
Morning Tea
TR AC K S
MOOC’s
Social Media
eResearch
Data
Library
QUESTnet
User Support
Vendor
Solution
Room A
Room C
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Room 8
Room B
Going massive:
Learner
engagement in a
MOOC environment
Social media as a
learning community:
the good the bad
and the ugly.
Supporting
Research Storage
at UNSW.
Collaboration
through
Governance
B(uild)YO skilled
Data Librarian
Grokking Wireless
Mobility means never
standing still
Integrating IT
Vendor
Presentation
11:15 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:15
12:15 - 12:45
Stephanie Cook,
Stephanie Reid,
Tricia Bingham
and Li Wang
Heather Gray,
Jarrod Trevathan
and Kiran Madisa
Innovating today’s
learning and
teaching to engage
tomorrow’s learners
and teachers
"If it doesn't spread,
it's dead":
Scholarship, social
media and popular
digital platforms.
Daniela Signor,
Kulari Lokuge
Dona and AnneMarie Chase
Julie Blakey
Vendor
Presentation
ICT Staff
Development
Community of
Practice
DropBox
Stephen Whiteside
HP
Mark Krischer
Luc Betbeder
Behind the Cloud
- The challenges
and solutions in
developing a
nationwide world
class support for
NeCTAR
services.
Hamish Holewa
and Nick
Golovachenko
Paul Nielsen
Karen Visser,
Natasha Simons
and Kathryn
Unsworth
Maintaining the
balance:
managing the
changing
dynamics of the
cloud
Jenny Leonard
'Let's be brief(ed)':
Library design,
education
pedagogy and
service delivery
Eduroam AU :
Current Status and
directions
The move to
Collaboration 2.0,
and why v1.0 is
failing
Neil Witheridge
The Software
Defined
Institution
Leigh Bollen
Nigel Prior
Karen Kealy,
Blair Gardiner,
Naomi Mullumby
and Sarah
Charing
Evolving customer
engagement:
Using mobile
technology and
gamification to
improve
awareness of and
access to library
services
Network Future:
AARNet 4, Science
DMZ and SDN
Implementing a
university wide IT
Service
Management Tool
David Wilde
Ashton Mossop
Scaling for the
Education
Sector: How We
Built Australia's
Largest NextGeneration
Multi-Tenant
Solution
Simon Sigrè
David Honeyman
and Daniel
Walker
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch Break
Digital Poster 13:00
Collaboration-on-Demand: the Unified Collaboration Project at Griffith
Digital Poster 13:15
Introducing intensive mode in business - Building capacity
Michael Deayton, Peter Ross, David Tuffley and Malcolm Wolski
Vendor Hall Stage
Digital Poster 13:30
Scarlet An and Deidre Seeto
Vendor Hall Stage
Fusion: from repo to expo
Bernadette Houghton
Vendor Hall Stage
TRACKS
13:45 - 14:15
Student
Engagement
Social Media
eResearch
Collaboration
Repository
Tools
QUESTnet
User Support
Vendor
Solution
Room A
Room C
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Room 8
Room B
How Should We
Quantify Student
Engagement?
Social Media in
Higher Education:
Strategy and
Support for Staff
and Students
DSpace-CRIS: an
Open Source
solution for
Research
Towards a New
Library of
Resources for
Higher Education
Learning and
Teaching
Learning about User
behaviour and needs
from 4 years of
Cloudstor Usage
Talk Nerdy to me
Closing the
Loop –
unstructured
data and
learning
analytics in
higher
education
Perry Samson
14:15 - 14:45
Exhibits Open
Megan Pozzi and
Sue Hutley
ICT as a catalyst for
Curriculum reform,
or how we paint
with our brains.
Social Media as a
professional tool:
Gimmick, Godsend
or Risk? (50 mins)
Michele
Mennielli,
Susanna Mornati
and Andrea
Bollini
ERAI - Eunis
Research and
Analysis Initiative
Sandra Lammas
Alex Reid
Philip Hider,
Barbara Spiller,
Pru Mitchell,
Robert Parkes
and Raylee
Macaulay
Elements
Integration - lets
chat about
Research
Rob Reed
Awesome ELK:
Solving (some of)
The University of
Queensland’s issues
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Knowledge as a
tool for change
Beth Coleman
Southern Cross
University and
Huawei – A
partnership for
Jim Cook and Jai
HoneybrookCarter
David Gunsberg
and Kim Tairi
Johan
Bergström
Repository and
populating
Researcher
Profiles
with real-time log
analysis
growth
Matt Smith
David Stockdale
Leonie Hayes
and Anne Harvey
14:45 - 15:15
Is There Any Point
in Live-streaming
Large First-Year
Lectures
Vendor
Presentation
Bearena
Lyndsay
Ainsworth and
Andrew Frapwell
Semi-Permeable
Boundaries:
Cross University
Collaboration for
Innovation
Research
Curtin Library
Rocking the
(meta)data
SELinux
administration
through Puppet
Peter Green
Christian Unger
Mark Krischer
Afternoon tea
15:45 – 15:50
Welcome and announcements
15:50 – 16:00
Address from Helen Carter, Macquarie University, President of ACODE
16:00 – 16:40
Keynote: KISS Goodbye to roadblocks in scholarly infrastructure
Martin Fenner, Technical Lead, Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Room A
Keynote: Big Data Analytics
Paul Muller HP Software VP
Room A
Knowledge Centred
Support within SMF
Paul Jay
Room C
Debate: Reimaging
the University
Helpdesk for the
Next Generation of
Digital Research
Skills
Dr. Steven Manos,
David F. Flanders
and Dr. Fiona
Tweedie
Room C
18:30 – 22:00
Living in a
Programmable
World: The
Network is the
Classroom
Avril Grant
Howard Errey
15:15 – 15:45
16:40 – 17:10
Adapting and
Adopting IT Service
Management at
QUT
Conference Dinner
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WEDNESDAY, 13 May 2015
Registration open
8:30 – 9:00
Arrival Tea and Coffee
9:00 – 9:30
Range of activities, including vendor events
9:30 – 9:35
Welcome and announcements
9:35– 9:45
9:45 – 10:30
Exhibits Open
8:00 – 16:00
Address from Heather Gordon JCU, President of CAUL
Keynote: From Information to Meta Knowledge: Embracing the Digitally and Computable Open Knowledge Future
Dr. Xiaolin Zhang Director, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Science
Room A
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea
TRACKS
Learning and
Teaching
Learning and
Teaching
IT
Library
Identity
Management
eResearch
Support
Vendor
Solution
Room A
Room C
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Room 8
Room B
Creating
Connections in
Complexity:
discussions at the
intersection of big
data & learning
Smart and
Connected Campus
and how it delivers
an improved
student experience.
Reshaping
Applications and
Business
Intelligence at
UTS
Experiences from
the Research
Outputs Team,
UQ Library
Are we all just staff,
students or affiliates?
Identity services for
community and
collaboration
BCCVL – improving
user experience: a
road less travelled
Vendor
Presentation
David Gibson
David O'Connor
and Susan
Gibson
Design Develop
Implement - A
team-based
approach to
learning design
Connecting through
integration:
blending Pacific
approaches with
online technologies
Making a
Difference Using
IT Analytics
Deidre Seeto and
Panos
Vlachopoulos
Judy Taligalu
Mcfall-Mccaffery
and Stephanie
Cook
11:00 - 11:30
Theresa Anderson
and Simon
Buckingham
Shum
11:30 - 12:00
Doug Brown,
Adam Rigby and
Michael Boyle
Helen Morgan,
Andrew Heath,
Fei Yu, Sharon
Bruce and Sarah
Evans
A Devolved
Leadership
Approach to
Change
Management in
Systems Projects
Meredith Mooi
and Beth
Crawter
NetApp
Kelly Lennon and
Hamish Holewa
Ric Phillips
The rapidly changing
face of identity
management for
Higher Education and
Research
Elleina Andrews,
Maria Corpuz, Ric
Phillips, Terry Smith
and Neil Witheridge
Dancing to the
same tune: how can
local and central IT
teams work
together effectively
to enable and
transform teaching,
learning and
research?
Vendor
Presentation
Juniper
Rim El Kadi
12:00 - 12:30
Copyright and
compliance when
the law can't keep
up: Issues with
innovation in online
classrooms
Alison Makins
Partnerships and
collaboration:
connecting areas of
expertise and
experience
Strategic Torque:
Enterprise
Architecture &
Portfolio
Management
Karin Barac and
Lynda Davies
Matthew Harvey
and Naveen
Sharma
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break
Digital Poster 12:30
What we discovered when we implemented Discovery
Implementing an
Electronic
Research
Notebook (ERN)
system: A QUT
Library project
Chat with AAF
Towards 2020:
Preparing to
support the future
university from the
IT front line.
Take Back
Control: OEM
Maintenance
and Life Cycle
Myths Exposed
Mark McCormack
Jason Ogden
Curvature
Philippa
Broadley
Digital Poster 12:45
Michelle Watson and Kayne Richens
Vendor Hall Stage
Digital Poster 13:00
Identity
management
challenges?
Expert in my Pocket: Creating First Person POV Videos To
Enhance Mobile Learning
Peter Bright, Bill Lord, Helen Forbes, Florin Oprescu, Nigel
Barr, Terri Downer, Nicole M Phillips, Lauren McTier, Vilma
Simbag and Kristel Alla
Vendor Hall Stage
Trends in online Learning
Liam Stewart and Maria Cervantes
Vendor Hall Stage
TRACKS
13:30 - 14:00
Learning and
Teaching
Learning and
Teaching
IT
Library
Identity
Management
User Support
Vendor
Solution
Room A
Room C
Room 5
Room 6
Room 7
Room 8
Room B
Griffith University,
IT Security
response to the
2014 G20 Summit
Lessons from
Griffith - assessing
our assessment
technology.
Strategic
Collaborative
Procurement
Flexible, Secure and
Sharable Storage for
Researchers
Greg Vickers
Giuseppe
Poli
Borderless
Computing –
Catalyst for IT
Change and
Innovation via the
relocation of the
ACU Data Centre
How to mechanize
the process of an IT
Audit and complete
an individual
service/application
risk assessment
using ServiceView
How to drive
down costs in
one of the most
expensive areas
of your
datacenter
Steve Johnston
Andrew Nielson and
Stephen McGregor
Anthony Davis
Iupati Tumaalii
14:10 – 14: 15
Welcome and announcements
14:15 – 14: 55
Keynote: Better connected education – The future classroom & campus
14:55 – 15: 05
Prizes announced
15:05 – 15: 25
Closing Matters and Conference Close
15:30 – 16: 00
Afternoon Tea
Sue Bryant, Regional Director South Pacific ICT Solutions – Huawei Technologies
Room A
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Alisha Pham and
Chris Parker
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