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Conference Program

Reflective of the conference's theme, "uPortal Success: Charting the Course," the program has three main tracks: New Concepts, Getting Established and Enterprise Deployment. The content will be delivered in a variety of formats including: half-day seminars, one-hour lecture style presentations, roundtable discussions, informal "birds of a feather" discussions and show-and-tell style kiosk demonstrations. For more details on the individual sessions included in the JA-SIG Program Schedule, click on the title of the presentation.

NOTE: Sunday pre-conference seminars require registration and additional fees. See registration form for details.

Tracks for Breakout Sessions:

Sunday, June 12, 2005
7:00AM-7:00PM Registration

8:30AM-12:00PM Pre-Conference Seminar

Pre-Conference Seminar
CAS 3 In Action
Andrew Petro
Yale University
Susan Bramhall
Yale University
Howard Gilbert
Yale University
Andrew Newman
Yale University
Drew Mazurek
Yale University

Pre-Conference Seminar
uPortal 2.4 Implementation & Configuration
Adam Rybicki
UNICON, Inc.

8:30AM-4:30PM Pre-Conference Seminar
Custom Java Channel Development
Mark Boyd
SunGard SCT Corp
Mike Zackrison
SunGard SCT Corp

1:00PM-4:30PM Pre-Conference Seminar

Pre-Conference Seminar
Portlet Development
Eric Dalquist
UNICON, Inc.

Pre-Conference Seminar
Web Content Management with HyperContent 2.0
Alex Vigdor
Columbia University

5:30PM-6:00PM Panel Discussion
JA-SIG: The Organization and the Conference
Sarah Arnott
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jonathan Markow
Columbia University
Jennifer Cummings
CONCENTRA Conference Mgmt Services
Steve Barrett
Cornell University
Paul Zablosky
University of British Columbia
Darren Hunt
Georgia Tech
Tom Moyer
University of Alaska
Todd Trann
University of Saskatchewan

6:00PM-8:00PM Reception

 
Monday, June 13, 2005
7:00AM-7:00PM Registration

7:30AM-8:30AM Breakfast

8:30AM-9:30AM General Session Keynote Address

8:30AM-9:45AM Keynote Presentation
Deeper Waters Ahead: Choices and Consequences Confronting Open Source
Brad Wheeler
Indiana University

9:45AM-10:15AM Refreshment Break

Kiosk
CSU Chico CASified
Freddy Lopez
UNICON, Inc

Kiosk
uPortal Usage Statistics
Steve Barrett
Cornell University

10:15AM-11:15AM Track Presentations

New Concepts Track
uPortal Extreme Makeover: My VT 3.0
B. Collier Jones
Virginia Tech

Enterprise Deployment Track
Portal-based Enterprise Architecture: Why? When? uPortal?
Jim Farmer
University of Michigan

Getting Established Track
CAS as An Institution-wide Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
Shoji Kajita
Nagoya University
Hisashi Naito
Nagoya University

11:30AM-12:30PM Getting Established Track
uPortal Roadmap
Eric Dalquist
UNICON, Inc.
Andrew Petro
Yale University

Enterprise Deployment Track
Integrating PeopleSoft and Oracle Collaboration Suite into uPortal
Ken Sperow
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Darren Kraker
Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo

New Concepts Track
myRutgers Alerts
William G. Thompson, Jr.
Rutgers University
Terry Wooding
Rutgers University

Track Presentations

12:30PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:00PM Track Presentations

Getting Established Track
Configuring Groups and Permissions
Dan Ellentuck
Columbia University

New Concepts Track
Branding uPortal - Customizing Look and Feel
Jason Shao
Rutgers University

3:00PM-3:30PM Kiosk
UW-Madison uPortal Modifications, Enhancements, Add-ons and Portlets
Jim Helwig
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Eric Dalquist
UNICON, Inc.

Refreshment Break

Kiosk
VTSurvey Tool
Ken McCrery
Virginia Tech

3:30PM-4:30PM Enterprise Deployment Track
Identity Management and uPortal
Stuart Sim
Sun Microsystems

Track Presentations

Getting Established Track
HyperContent - An Institutional Deployment
Robert Sherratt
University of Hull

New Concepts Track
Integrating Drag and Drop and HTML Editing into Channels
Pete Boysen
Iowa State University

4:45PM-5:45PM Birds of a Feather
SCT Luminis Users
Mike Zackrison
SunGard SCT

Birds of a Feather
Portlet Development Strategies
Freddy Lopez
UNICON, Inc

Birds of a Feather
Groups and Permissions Implementation
Dan Ellentuck
Columbia University

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather
Identity Managament
Stuart Sim
Sun Microsystems

Birds of a Feather
Refining the uPortal User Experience
Jason Shao
Rutgers University

6:00PM-7:00PM Reception

7:00PM-9:00PM Dinner

 
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
7:00AM-3:00PM Registration

7:30AM-8:30AM Breakfast

8:30AM-9:30AM General Session Keynote Address

8:30AM-9:45AM Keynote Presentation
The Future of JA-SIG and uPortal
Jonathan Markow
Columbia University
Patty Gertz
Princeton University
Bill Thompson
Rutgers University

9:45AM-10:15AM Kiosk
my.mun.ca
Sarah Arnott
Memorial University of Newfoundland

9:45AM-10:45AM Refreshment Break

10:15AM-11:15AM Enterprise Deployment Track
Taming the Beast: Managing an Enterprise Portal
Jim Helwig
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Track Presentations

Getting Established Track
New and Improved Announcements Channel
David Grimwood
UNICON, Inc.
Marius Constantin
University of Southern California

New Concepts Track
Portlet Development in uPortal
Cris Holdorph
UNICON, Inc.

11:30AM-12:30PM Enterprise Deployment Track
Management Roundtable
Ted Dodds
University of British Columbia

New Concepts Track
Ask the Experts--uPortal Implementation Best Practices
Adam Rybicki
UNICON, Inc.
Steve Barrett
Cornell University
Mark Boyd
SunGard SCT
Freddy Lopez
UNICON, Inc.
Andrew Petro
Yale University
Bill Thompson
Rutgers University
Paul Zablosky
University of British Columbia

Track Presentations

Getting Established Track
Portal Services / Stakeholder Alignment - A Matrix Approach
Darren Hunt
Georgia Tech

12:30PM-2:00PM Lunch

2:00PM-3:00PM Enterprise Deployment Track
Horizontal Scaling and Reliability - Planning and Testing for Heavy Load
Steven Goeke
Georgia Tech
Bill Frikken
University of Western Michigan

Track Presentations

Getting Established Track
Introducing JA-SIG Central Authentication Service 3.0
Scott Battaglia
Rutgers University

New Concepts Track
uPortal Documentation Roadmap
John Fereira
Cornell University
Andrew Petro
Yale University

3:30PM-4:30PM New Concepts Track
ALM? DLM? How Do You Manage Portal Layouts?
Marlin Benson
SunGard SCT
Todd Trann
University of Saskatchewan

Getting Established Track
UWCal2: An Institute-Wide Open Source Java Events Calendar
Arlen Johnson
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Enterprise Deployment Track
Maximize Java Performance by Using YourKit with uPortal Development
Faizan Ahmed
Rutgers University

Track Presentations

4:30PM-5:00PM Closing Session

 

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