Tuesday 25 June 2024
WG5 Aston Webb
Mark Dunlop | SCHOMS Chair
Including introduction to the Executive Committee
An opportunity for all of SCHOMS partners to introduce themselves and share brief highlights of exhibition content
Welcome SCHOMS Partners.
Wednesday 26 June 2024
Caroline Pepper | Host and SCHOMS Executive Vice Chair
Diane Job | Director Library Services
Zoe Kleinman | BBC
Zoe Kleinman is the BBC’s first ever Technology Editor, appointed to the role in 2021. With over 20 years broadcasting experience, Zoe has spent most of her career as a specialist presenter and reporter covering all areas of the tech agenda. She has also presented BBC Radio 4’s PM Programme.
From gadgets and games to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, she makes tech news accessible to a mainstream audience of millions across national and international BBC Radio, TV and online outlets including Radio 4’s Today programme, BBC World TV and the UK’s most watched news shows.
Joe Way | Executive Director, Digital Spaces | University of California, Los Angeles
After a comprehensive assessment of the technology and cyber security posture at UCLA that included conducting more than 140 interviews, as well as focus groups and listening sessions with every college and unit, to evaluate our current IT environment, UCLA embarked on its revolutionary enterprise upgrade plan that aligns with the university’s new 5-Year Strategic Plan and playing host as Olympic Village for the 2028 Olympic Games. The findings from this study were the impetus for the creation of the Digital Campus Roadmap. The Digital Campus Roadmap provides the pathway—aligned with the strategic goals of the university—that enables an IT support model of excellence and enhances the teaching, learning, and research experience at UCLA. UCLA’s exceptional endeavors deserve comprehensive, forward-thinking technology solutions. To meet the needs of today’s campus and tomorrow’s leaders, we have identified a set of strategic priorities. Guided by these objectives, stakeholders throughout UCLA IT will collaboratively design and implement strategies that reinforce the university’s current standard of excellence while taking a proactive approach to future campus priorities. In this session, Dr. Joe Way will share their roadmap for success and how his Digital Spaces team is leveraging itself for success through emerging technologies, innovating customer service strategies, and corporate partnership in AI and enterprise AV/IT architecture.
Creating Solutions for Blended Speech and Music Content
Iker Ormazabel | King's College London
In this presentation, we will explore how to overcome key challenges in capturing speech, student participation, and music performance in a hybrid setting. Subject-specific requirements, such as critical listening, create a unique set of problems for HyFlex AV design. We will identify these problems and discuss possible solutions.
Hybrid Music Classroom at KCL
Emerson | Head of IT Support Services / Vice President AETM |
University of Otago (Dunedin/NZ) / AETM
As well as providing an overview of what is happening in the educational AV industry on the other side of the world this session will give opportunities for you to share the challenges you are facing, the technologies you are interested in and what keeps you awake at night (Free counselling provided) and to contrast that against your colleagues in both Oceania and North America.
Mark Dunlop | Head of Media Services | University of Aberdeen
Having spent 20 years at my previous employer I decided to take up a new challenge at the University of Aberdeen. When I got here it did not take me long to work out there were going to be significant challenges in managing an estate that was poorly documented and maintained.
This will highlight some of my findings and the journey we are now on to turn things around.
Beginning at the Old Gym the LRAT team (Shiji, Adam and James) will take 3 teams to visit the historical Domes lecture theatre in Aston Webb, a meeting room in A Block, a tour of the BIM Cave and train simulator in the New School of Engineering and University of Birmingham's largest lecture theatre in the Teaching and Learning Building.
The Executive Committee lead by Mark Dunlop | Chair
Understanding our complexity across space and time.
Tim Packwood | University of Birmingham
Rich Draper | Head of BIM and Digital Assets | University of Birmingham
Ian Knowles | Head of Teaching Technology, Media and Events | University of Sheffield
Ian has over 30 years of experience in Higher Education, overseeing the dramatic expansion of the teaching estate and the emergence of new technologies. Expertise in the provision and development of AV services and facilities supporting Learning and Teaching.
Email: i.knowles@sheffield.ac.uk
Thursday 27 June 2024
Rob Hyde | University of Bath | Schoms Executive member
Catherine Sharman | AV Operations Manager | King's College London
Adrian Brett | Anglia Ruskin University | Schoms Executive member
Training and development, what does AV look like and what do AV professionals look like looking forward. Inform training curriculum ideas. Matrix, Framework, feedback! Bursaries of the future ideas. An interactive session designed to provoke and inform of work completed and a strategic vision for the future.
Catherine Sharman | AV Operations Manager | King's College London
Kareem-Jamal Lewis | AV Apprentice | King's College London
Stephen Oluleye | AV Apprentice | King's College London
Based on the King’s College London experience of having 4 AV Apprentices, we’ll cover what the AV apprenticeship is, why you’d want an apprentice and how to go about getting one.
Karen Ethier | Senior Director of Support Services | Roger Williams University | incoming President of ETC
The aftermath of the pandemic, along with shifting demographics, have led to a sharp downturn in undergraduate enrollment numbers across the US. This has led to school closings, reorganizations, layoffs, and a need to rethink the future of the academy itself. Audio visual and IT departments find themselves needing to provide support with less funding, less people, and with a new urgency to assist in student retention.
This presentation will discuss not only the impact of the US higher education “demographic cliff”, but will highlight trends in technology models and support in US institutions.
Additionally, highlights and updates from ETC will be included.
Karen Ethier has 25 years of experience in IT and/or Audio Visual. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Support Services for Information Technology at Roger Williams University. Her areas of oversight include helpdesk, desktop support, and classroom/event support. Reporting to the CIO, Karen works collaboratively on departmental and University committees, manages technology installations and other projects, and is heavily involved in strategic planning efforts.
Karen also serves as the Search Advocacy Coordinator at Roger Williams University, training and supporting faculty and staff on issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, especially in regards to equitable hiring practices.
Additionally, Karen is the incoming President of Educational Technology Collaborative (ETC).
Karen has a BA in Sociology from the University of Rhode Island and a Master’s in Teaching from Roger Williams University.
Ryan Walker | Team Leader AV Support | University of Otago | AETM Bursary
The transformative potential of AI, particularly large language models like ChatGPT, is ushering in a new era of opportunities for integrators and developers, while at the same time causing disruption and concern across many industry sectors. In this presentation, we will consider applications of ChatGPT in an AV systems design, integration and testing context. We will delve into various use cases and examples where AI assistance excels in optimizing workflows, troubleshooting, and API integration, while also highlighting its limitations in areas requiring human touch, complexity, and understanding. We will consider different AV platforms, briefly evaluate their compatibility and integration capacities with large language models like ChatGPT. Furthermore, we will touch upon the value that we, as AV industry professionals, can bring to this changing world, and discuss our roles in the future of AI-assisted AV systems.
Mark Dunlop | Chair
