ICTF Conference

July 7th 2015

This years ICTF Conference will be held at

Mathematical Institute (Andrew Wiles Building, ROQ)

Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG


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Todays Speakers

  • Getting Real with Mixed Reality: Multi-technology Enhanced Visitor Experience

    Timothy Jung
    Timothy Jung is the Director of Creative Augmented Realities Hub (CARH), at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and he leads a team who run various mobile and wearable Augmented Reality (AR) projects in the museums, art galleries and other visitor attractions in UK and abroad. He is a member of MMU’s Digital Innovation Group and also the director of AquaTravellers, social enterprise aims to raise funds for WaterAid using an affiliate marketing system focusing on travel and tourism. His current research focuses on the application of mobile and wearable Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 3D printing, multi-sensory visitor experience in the context of cultural heritage tourism. Other research interests include Cittaslow & Slow Food Movement.

  • Machine learning in biomedical imaging

    Alison Noble
    Professor Alison Noble OBE FREng is the Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Oxford University Department of Engineering Science, Director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IBME), and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the MICCAI Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. She is also the current President of the MICCAI Society. She was awarded an OBE for services to Science and Engineering in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2013. Professor Noble is a founding director of the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA) Laboratory based at the IBME; a multi-disciplinary research group working in the area of biomedical imaging and image analysis, an important sub-discipline of modern biomedical engineering. She heads a large research activity in cardiovascular image analysis, women's health imaging (obstetrics and perinatal care) and microscopy image analysis. She is also Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Ultrasound Ltd, a spin-out company from her laboratory."

  • Bloodhound

    Richard Noble
    Against a background of today's low risk culture, Richard Noble specialises in developing high risk ventures. Obviously not all of them can be successful, but the Thrust2 programme which brought the World Land Speed Record back to Britain in 1983 and the Thrust SSC first ever supersonic land speed record programme are the best known. Richard Noble's other projects include the ARV Super2 light aircraft, the Atlantic Sprinter Blue Riband contender, Programme Funding, an original television funding company, Farnborough Aircraft, the first distributed travel air taxi aircraft and currently the Mach 1.4 Bloodhound SSC project the latest in the long line of Land Speed Record cars now being run through 3600UK schools . "

Schedule

Schedule

Lecture Hall Guide

L1 = Lecture Hall 1

Full Schedule

Registration Exhibition Area

Introduction - ICTF Chair L1

Sarah LawsonICTF Chairman

Welcome from CIO L1

Anne Trefethen

Medical imaging plenary L1

Alison Noble

Getting Real with Mixed Reality: Multi-technology Enhanced Visitor Experience" L1

Timothy Jung

Coffee Break

Workshop A

IT Leaders' question time

Anne Trefethen & Martin Bellamy

Buffet Lunch

TBC

Workshop B

Conference Photo Penrose paving

Workshop C

Tea and Cakes

Bloodhound Plenary

Election results

Boat trip from Folly Bridge

Second Day

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Full Schedule

Typography

John Doe Design Association

Web Fonts

Jane Roe Turbo Fonts

One-Page Websites

Richard Miles

Break Sponsored by Sphere Labs

Project Presentation: Facepage App

John Stiles Facepage

Lunch Sponsored by Gravity

Mobile Platforms

John Doe

Project Presentation: Handsome Fonts Website

John Smith GBVFD Design Firm

Training Sessions: jQuery

Carla Coe Developers Camp

Third Day

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Full Schedule

HTML5

Paula Poe

Q&A with Quintin Qoe

Break Sponsored by Sphere Labs

Project Presentation: Web Audio

Lunch Sponsored by Gravity

Vector Illustrations

Marta Moe

Closing Remarks

After-Party Sponsored by Dévan

Workshops


  • 11:40 WORKSHOPS A1-7

    1st Workshops

    Raspberry Flavoured Radios, Chris Flux

    A1 - Room: L2 (210)

    Discover how the tiny Raspberry Pi is making a big impact in the field of radio communications. Plus, it's not just us radio hams having all the fun. Find out how you too can use the Pi to listen to and even 'see' the radio signals all around you using just an internet connection or some inexpensive equipment combined with free software.

    Extending federated authentication beyond the web with Jisc Assent, Stefan Paetow

    A2 - Room: L4 (60)

    In 2013, Dr Rhys Smith spoke about Moonshot and how it worked. Since then, Janet beavered away at it, and in March this year, Jisc launched its Assent service based on it. In this talk I will speak about embracing federated authentication of non-web services with Assent and what this could mean for colleges and faculties and their researchers.

    Free Public WiFi Update, Anjanesh Babu, Jessican Suess and Gerrard Barker

    A3 - Room: L5 (60)

    A brand new, completely free, Wi-Fi service is now available throughout the Oxford University Museums thanks to Super Connected Oxford . Visitors to the Ashmolean Museum, Museum of Natural History, Museum of the History of Science and Pitt Rivers Museum will now be able to access free public Wi-Fi when visiting the museum - a solution designed and deployed in house with funding from Super Connected Oxford.

    VIPR, Ashley Woltering and team

    A4 - Room: L1 (360)

    VIPR: A next generation private cloud computing platform for the University. A collaborative, flexible, extensible, adaptable infrastructure based on the best design principles available to us and using all the best vendor practices. Project VIPR is the result of a collaboration between the Bodleian Library and IT Services

    Low cost firewall – Using pfsense with SNORT for a firewall with intrusion prevention, Diggory Gray

    A5 - Room: L3 (110)

    A rough guide on using the open source pfSense firewall system with SNORT to create a cheap firewall with intrusion prevention (as seen on commercial firewalls), using commodity hardware.

    Isis Innovation

    A6 - Room: C1 (24)

    Gurinder & Rakesh will be on hand to help you with your questions on subjects such as: * Isis Innovation: Who is Isis Innovation/What is its role in the wider knowledge transfer activity of the University/How does it work with Research Services and the Departments within the University?*Consultancy: What is academic consultancy?/How do I get started?/How does it help my research?/How do I handle all the paperwork? /Am I covered by insurance?/What fees I can charge….and many more questions.*Commercialising IP:/What is University IP/How to I start to commercialise my research?/Why patent the IP and does it stop me publishing my research/How does Isis market the IP to the outside world?/What’s involved in setting up a spin-out company and why do it…..and many more questions*

    AD management & 3rd party apps, Richard Jessett and Niall Hedderley

    A7 - Room: C2 (24)

    AD management, structure and third party applications. A talk on the NSMS Windows Team’s experience of managing a Microsoft Active Directory using Dell’s ActiveRoles Server. NSMS’s experience of simplifying the security and protection of an Active Directory (AD) in order to solve security issues and address delegation requirements with the help of ActiveRoles Server, which helps to overcome some of AD’s native limitations. For the purpose of this talk we will be demonstrating our experience against the CONNECT AD, which is used across UAS and the Bodleian (some 3,200 users).


  • 14:20 WORKSHOPS B1-7

    2nd Workshops

    Frontline Incident Response, Paul D Hood

    B1 - Room: L1 (360)

    Increasingly, IT units are faced with the unfamiliar challenges of gathering forensically-sound data. In this workshop, you can learn real-world network and digital forensics principles for frontline security, evidence gathering and incident response.

    A Future Following the Cloud?, Lyn Waddingtoon

    B2 - Room: L4 (60)

    "This workshop will provide an update on the C3E project recommendations which were that SharePoint remain on site and that email migrate to Office 365. By the time of the conference, in July, we will have explored, solutions to provide integration between SharePoint on premise and O365 and the anticipated technical issues regarding email migration. The road map and final architecture for the Nexus services will depend on the outcomes of this 'deeper dive' phase, so come, join in the discussion and discover plans for the future. "

    Odin: Oxford’s Network Evolution, Alistair James and Andy Saunders

    B3 - Room: C3 (24)

    Odin is the new University backbone service, delivering a modern infrastructure that meets our requirements for bandwidth and resilience. Odin also introduces a new service model, where individual units can choose the features they require. In this workshop, we will provide a design overview of Odin and an update on the progress of the deployment across the University.

    Chorus in Action, Alan Williamson

    B4 - Room: L5 (60)

    Chorus is the University’s new unified communications service, being delivered by the Integrated Communications Project. This workshop will present a live demo of the new functionality of Chorus; we’ll also be detailing the deployment of Chorus across the University from Michaelmas 2015 onwards.

    3D, or Not To Be?, Ronald Haynes & Fabio Lahr

    B5 - Room: C2 (24)

    A 3D interest group (3DiG) and mailing list at Cambridge has brought together staff from IT, Biological Anthropology, Classical Archaeology, Computer Science, Material Science, a few Museums, and Neurology. 3DiG is developing as a place for all topics 3D related, so interested users can share ideas and questions, and keep each other up-to-date with developments in 3D - printing, scanning, visualising and modelling, displays and user interfaces. Will 3D add a missing dimension in our work? In this workshop we will review 3DiG and 3D technologies' progress, plans, and possibilities for collaboration - such as 3D faxing between universities!

    A day in the life of a CISO, James Smith

    B6 - Room: L2 (210)

    Issues, incidents and improvements – in this session James Smith will talk about his experiences as the University’s interim CISO, the challenges and opportunities of information security, and provide insight into what a CISO actually does.

    Disaster recovery after the Crowmarsh Fire, Simon Turner & Oliver Gorwits

    B7 - Room: C2 (24)

    This session will include insights, lessons learned and reflections on the recovery operation for the IT facilities and services for two Oxfordshire District Council following a major catastrophic fire in January of this year. The session will be a discussion as much as a presentation so pleae do come with your ideas, practice and advice to share with others in the session.


  • 15:10 WORKSHOPS

    3rd Workshops

    The Haiku Project: Aligning Medical Sciences Division Comms and Web Strategy, Anne Bowtell & Alison Brindle

    C1 - Room: L5 (60)

    Haiku is a website product - built specifically for the Medical Sciences Division (MSD) in collaboration with an external consultancy - available for MSD departments to buy. This talk will explain the thinking behind the project to develop Haiku, the very different approach to website provision this represents, and the positive impact Haiku has had on communications across the Division.

    Privacy post-Snowden, Ian Brown

    C2 - Room: L1 (360)

    Two years on from the first media stories based on NSA (and GCHQ) documents leaked by Edward Snowden, how has our understanding of Internet surveillance changed? And which of the various legal and technical changes mooted are likely to be most effective in protecting privacy in the digital era?

    Update on the Student Systems Programme, David White and Scott Cridland-Smith

    C3 - Room: C2 (24)

    The Student Systems Programme is responsible for the delivery of new student systems functionality. Its current focus is on the delivery of graduate and undergraduate admissions functionality in SITS:Vision and eVision, in support of the 2015/16 admissions cycle (for entry in 2016/17). In parallel to the admissions project the programme is working on a number of other areas, to include theSITS:Vision for colleges project. This feasibility study is initiated at the request of several colleges, to assess whether SITS:Vision can be developed to support colleges and permanent private halls (PPHs) in managing their local academic records. This presentation will cover information on the admissions project for IT support staff, as well as an update on SITS:Vision for colleges.

    The Power of Drupal, Finn Lewis

    C4 - Room: C1 (24)

    Drupal is a powerful open source Content Management System that is gaining popularity at Oxford University and beyond, for public facing websites, intranets and other more custom integrations. But what is it? How does it work? How secure is it? How easily can we customise and extend it to work with our internal systems? This talk will be a brief introduction to Drupal's capabilities, with some examples of exisiting integrations within the University, a look at the exciting futire of Drupal 8 and some time for questions from the audience.

    Computer Forensics, Chris Hargreaves

    C5 - Room: L2 (210)

    Digital Forensics involves the recovery of evidence from digital devices. This may be as part of a criminal or an internal investigation. If you manage IT systems, at some point you may become involved in supporting such an investigation. This talk will provide an overview the subject, including examples of evidence that can be recovered, the importance of the preservation stage during the process, and some specific examples of where mis-interpretation of the data can occur and incorrect conclusions reached.

    Service Desk Consolidation, John Ireland & Ian Teasdale

    C6 - Room: C3 (24)

    This workshop will give a briefing about the Service Desk Consolidation project, how the rollout has progressed within IT Services, what has gone well, what has needed some more work and how the rollout will start to work with colleges and departments around the collegiate University as the new system and new way of working beds in..

    Protecting VMware vSphere with Tivoli Storage Manager, James Thorne

    C7 - Room: L4 (60)

    The HFS team within IT Services has recently launched a new VMware backup service ("TSM for VE") that can perform image-level backups of virtual machines. This workshop covers how you can use TSM for VE to protect your vSphere infrastructure, how the it is implemented behind the scenes and future plans for the service.

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