Pioneering Productivity: MIT Sloan's Journey with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Dan Alexander and Saul Horowitz (MIT Sloan)

We’ll provide a high-level overview and comparison of Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences with demos that showcase the features of both Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, a tool available to the community at no cost, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, a paid subscription product. We’ll also share our experience from running a 6-month early adopter program for the paid product, discussing how we managed the project, the metrics we tracked, key findings, and our next steps.

Data Access in the Current Environment

Amy Nurnberger (MIT Libraries)

Persistent access to data collected and hosted by the US government is important, as data can potentially disappear because of government shutdowns, broken links, and policy shifts. This session will address what’s happening with federal data resources, why it matters, who is working in this space and what are they doing, plus resources and opportunities for contributing.

MIT Libraries Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform and AWS

Christopher Butler (MIT Libraries)

Part journey and part destination, Christopher will share a summary of MIT Libraries’ journey into AWS, reflecting on decisions made (both good and bad), opportunities gained, our current footprint, and future decisions as we continue to aim at an always out-of-reach destination.

Security

Jessica Murray (IS&T)

Hear updates from the IS&T Security team. 

Business and Digital Transformation Update

Renaud Fournier (BDTO)

Renaud Fournier, Chief Officer for Business and Digital Transformation, will provide an update on MIT’s multi-year initiative to modernize our business processes and systems to align with the excellence of the Institute. This work includes modernizing MIT’s solutions and technology and making business data more accessible and understandable – all while ensuring community engagement every step of the way.

Endpoints

Tim Yager (IS&T)

The IS&T End User Computing team will provide updates on upcoming projects including Microsoft Intune (with updated timeline), Jamf/macOS updates, and other project updates.

Teaching and Learning with AI

Jason Alvarez (MIT Sloan)

Learn how the Teaching and Learning Technology team at Sloan is supporting faculty and student use of AI as part of the academic curriculum.

What can you do with Gartner? And what can Gartner do for you?

Chaz Bjernestad (Gartner)

Learn about the resources available to all MIT staff via Gartner.com as well as services provided by Gartner.

AI²: Artificial Intelligence and the App Inventor

Jeff Schiller (CSAIL)

Learn how MIT is making AI available to App Inventor users. The use of proxy servers that interact with several providers and models provides a flexible and extensible base for future development.

IS&T’s VMware to Nutanix Migration

Claudia Rugeles-Vaccaro (IS&T)

In this session we will explore the reason for the migration away from VMware, the process of choosing a new vendor, and the implementation process with Nutanix. We'll also talk about what virtualization at MIT looks like post-migration.