The IT Partners Conference is BACK, and in E51 again!
The 2025 IT Partners conference will be held from 8:30am to 4pm on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Bldg E51 and livestreamed on Zoom.
The conference will feature presentations on a variety of IT topics, from infrastructure to code to programs that help build tech skills.
If you have any questions for conference speakers, or have specific suggestions for topics you would like to see at future IT Partners events, please contact the IT Partners Planning Team at itpartners-plan@mit.edu or on Slack #ask-it-partners-planning-team.
Remote attendees will receive Zoom links no later than the morning of the conference.
We hope to see you on June 4th!
Register
Tentative Schedule (sessions and timing are subject to change)
| Time | Wolk Lobby (Registration) | Wong Auditorium | E51-149 | E51-151 | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8:30am-9:00am | Registration + Breakfast + Vendors | 8:30am-9:00am | |||
| 9:00am-10:00am | Registration + Vendors | WelcomeMike Sherman (IT Partners Planning Team) and Keynote: TBD | 9:00am-10:00am | ||
| 10:00am-10:15am | break | 10:00am-10:15am | |||
| 10:15am-11:00am | Pioneering Productivity: MIT Sloan's Journey with Microsoft 365 Copilot Dan Alexander and Saul Horowitz (MIT Sloan) | Data Access in the Current Environment Amy Nurnberger (MIT Libraries) | 10:15am-11:00am | ||
| 11:00am-11:15am | break | 11:00am-11:15am | |||
| 11:15am-12:00pm | Infrastructure in the Cloud Using AWS and Terraform Christopher Butler (MIT Libraries) | Security Jessica Murray (IS&T) | 11:15am-12:00pm | ||
| 12:00pm-1:00pm | Registration + Lunch + Vendors | lunch break | 12:00pm-1:00pm | ||
| 1:00pm-1:50pm | Registration + Vendors + Name Badge Return | ERP System Update Renaud Fournier (BDTO) | Endpoints Tim Yager (IS&T) | 1:00pm-1:50pm | |
| 1:50pm-2:00pm | break | 1:50pm-2:00pm | |||
| 2:00pm-2:50pm | AI in the Classroom Jason Alvarez (MIT Sloan) | What can you do with Gartner? And what can Gartner do for you? Chaz Bjernestad (Gartner) | 2:00pm-2:50pm | ||
| 2:50pm-3:10pm | break + snacks | 2:50pm-3:10pm | |||
| 3:10pm-4:00pm | AI2: ArtificiaI Intelligence and the App Inventor Jeff Schiller (CSAIL) | 3:10pm-4:00pm | |||
Vendors Attending
- Fenway Communications - Larry Giuffra, lgiuffra@fenway-group.com
- QRSTs - Peter Rinn, info@qrsts.com
- Spry International - Hilary Gallagher, hgallagher@spryinternational.com
- Giro - Felicia DiBiase, felicia@girostudio.com
- Apple - Mark Tashian, m.tashian@apple.com and Kevin Black, kblack@apple.com
- Lenovo - Jill Dixon, jdixon1@lenovo.com
- Women in IT - Olimpia Caceres Brown, olimpia@mit.edu
- HP - Jeff McCrea, jeff.mccrea@hp.com
- CDW - Joe Masulli, joemasu@cdwg.com and/or Bryan Nasznic, bryanas@cdw.com
- NCS Global - Scott Stevens, scott@ncsglobal.com
Have feedback or questions?
Contact the IT Partners Planning Team:
- Slack: #ask-it-partners-planning-team
- Email: itpartners@mit.edu