Thank you to our Sponsors!
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Acer’s Commitment to Education Has Set the Standard in Device Lifecycle Management. Acer understands the importance of device lifecycle management and offers a robust set of education-focused programs to help support our customers every step of the way.
Aruba Networks provides wireless, wired, and network security solutions to customers world-wide and is recognized as an industry leader. Aruba also offers best of breed network management and security tools optimized for the K-12 market.
Connection® Public Sector Solutions can help you seamlessly integrate all the latest technology into your classrooms and schools to create productive learning experiences for all students. We can also help you become comfortable and familiar with these new technologies. Advance your students’ learning with 21st century classroom technology through Connection!
ENA delivers transformative connectivity, communication, cloud, cybersecurity, and technology services. Our 99% customer satisfaction rating and world class net promoter score (NPS) demonstrates our commitment to delivering exceptional customer care.
Since 1978, The Vermont School Boards Insurance Trust has served Vermont school districts by offering cost effective and innovative risk management services.
WHO: Tech Pizza is for school technology administrators and support specialists.
WHAT: We focus on technology management and implementation challenges—technical hands-on workshops, informational presentations, and policy discussions.
WHERE: This year, we will host the same (as best we can) agenda twice on consecutive days. On Tuesday, July 26, we’ll meet at the Black River Innovation Campus in Springfield, and then at Pizza 44/Queen City Brewery in Burlington on Wednesday, July 27.
Schedule - Subject to Change
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:25 AM
9:35-10:30 AM
10:40-12:00 PM
12:00-12:30 PM
12:30-1:40 PM
1:45-2:30 PM
2:40-3:25 Breakout Sessions
3:30 PM Closing
8:00-8:30
Registration and Coffee
Click the times to the left for more details for that block!
8:30-9:25 AM
Writing a Data Breach Response Plan
You’ve been asked to write a data breach response plan. What’s next? In this interactive session, participants will be guided through a basic approach to writing a data breach response plan. Topics covered include getting organized to write a plan; selecting the best approach to writing a plan and getting feedback from key stakeholders; major elements of a plan; and pitfalls to avoid. Bring your plan approaches and best practices to the session to share with everyone.
Presenter: Lisa Helme is the State Coordinator of Education Technology for the Vermont Agency of Education. She has a
diverse background in communication, education and government service. She has more than 15-years of experience working as a public-school teacher and adult financial literacy educator, developing curriculum and working with diverse groups of people. Prior to joining AOE, she worked as an outreach manager at the Department of Public Safety coordinating Vermont’s participation with the ongoing development of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network, FirstNet. Within all of these positions, Lisa has developed experience in using a range of software and web-based platforms and understands the challenges of modifying educational and communication approaches to accommodate emerging technology.
9:35-10:30 AM
Leveraging the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Tools and Services to Create K-12 Cyber-Resilient Schools
Presenter: Cheri Ayoub Cybersecurity Advisor for Vermont for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency/Region 1-Vermont
Prior to joining CISA in August of 2021, she worked at The Federal Reserve Bank of NY within Wholesale Product Office contributing to the management, strategic direction and operational oversight of Fedwire™ which is the nation’s real time gross settlement service and the backbone of other systemically critical financial market infrastructures around the world. The suite of services collectively settle over $6 trillion worth of transactions daily. She successful contributed to the successful migrations of legacy systems to distributed platforms >$300 million multi-year modernization effort. She served as a lead for 6000 depository institutions’ emerging adaptation requirement of ISO 20022 SWIFT messaging format and OFAC automation enhancement. She Co-Authored the first Crisis Management Handbook, SLA, Problem Communication Protocol, Risk and Cyber Incident Response Framework, and Cyber Incident Response Protocol for Fedwire™ as well as many initiatives that are ongoing and transformative in the payments arena.
Resource Referenced:
10:40-12:00 PM
Sponsor Speed Meetings
Lightning round sessions with each of our sponsors! Learn about the products and services they offer, and how they can support you and your work!
12:00-12:30 PM
Pizza!
12:30-1:40 PM
Let’s Discuss Interactive Boards
Once-Over will provide a sample of a Once-Over focused on Interactive Touch Screen followed by some Q&A and reflection.
Facilitator: Bjorn Behrendt, Director of Technology, Mill River Unified Union School District
1:45-2:30 PM
Sustainability & Equity
1:1 technologies are ubiquitous, now more than ever in our schools. But, did you arrive at your 1:1 deployment with careful planning or emergency actions to support remote learning? We’re entering the 3rd full school year since the pandemic began, and many of those devices are nearing replacement age. Are you ready? Is your public ready to support that type of budgetary expense?
Additionally, as classrooms have worked to adopt these technologies, are your students universally connected at home? Has the pandemic actually helped close the homework gap or widened it?
These questions and more!
Facilitators: Jeff Mao, Executive Director, Vita-Learn and Andra Daunhauer, Executive Director, Equal Access to Broadband
2:40-3:25 Breakout Sessions
TBD
3:30 PM Closing
Registration is free for any K12 technology professionals employed by member institutions or Vita-Learn individual members. Not a member? Join here!
Tech Pizza seeks 3 Plenary sessions (60 min) and up to 4 breakout sessions (45 min) led by Vermont K12 technology professionals. Topics may be anything of interest to the group, and may take the form of a presentation, round table discussion, panel discussion, hands-on tutorial, etc.
Plenary Sessions are included as part of the Gold sponsorship of Tech Pizza. Please do not submit a Plenary session until you have confirmed your Gold sponsorship.
Sponsorship Details
Presentations
- Plenary: 60 minute session to the full attendee group on a topic of your choosing. Each Gold sponsor provides a plenary session. Time slots chosen by sponsors, first come, first serve (see agenda above)
- Speed Meeting: Quick presentations to a small group of attendees. The attendees will be assigned to a group. Every 8 minutes, groups will rotate so that in the course of an hour, you will meet every attendee. All Silver sponsors will present simultaneously.
- Speed Meeting presentations will take place in the same room(s), and generally be at separate conference tables. Assume no projection (you can use your laptop if you like), no audio (it’ll be loud since there are multiple presentations happening), etc.
- Each speed meeting will be approximately 8 minutes assuming a maximum of 6 silver sponsors.
Gold Benefits
- One (1) Plenary Session at presented on both the July 26 and 27
- Company Name and Logo on event website
- Company Profile on event website (150 words)
- Popup banner (~3′ wide) in main room
- Two registrations for sponsor attendees
- Cost $1500
Silver Benefits
- Speed Meetings on both July 26 and July 27
- Company Name, Logo, and tagline (25 words) on event website
- Popup banner (~3′ wide) in main room
- One registration for sponsor attendee
- Cost $500
Door Prizes
- Door prizes are optional. We know that many of the companies that may come to this event are also E-Rate spin providers, and giving away a prize is problematic!
Duty of Care
COVID-19 Readiness: Keeping You Safe & Healthy
The leadership at Vita-Learn has developed the following Duty of Care for Tech Pizza which will help keep you safe when attending the event in person.
As of May 10, 2022
Vita-Learn is excited to continue to host in-person events this summer. Our concern for your health and safety is our top priority, and we want to make your experience at the meeting positive, and as professionally successful as in pre-COVID days. To that end, we are implementing the following guidelines that we hope will make you and your colleagues comfortable and safe. These guidelines are subject to change if new guidance is issued on, before, or during the conference by our host venues, State of Vermont, the city of Burlington, the city of Springfield, or the CDC.
Guidelines:
- All attendees must adhere to the following guidelines while participating in this event. Vita-Learn reserves the right to enforce these directives, including requiring individual attendees to leave the event for failure to comply with these rules.
- All attendees must be fully vaccinated and boosted to participate in the event. Attendees will be required to submit this information in advance of physical check-in at the conference. Organizers will notify registrants as soon as possible if such measures are adjusted or amended.
- You will be required to review and sign off on a waiver prior to attendance. The waiver will be included in the vaccination upload process.
- Submission of your documentation as well as an electronic waiver acceptance will be done through the secure site, WellCheck. You will receive email/text messages with specific instructions prior to the event.
- As of May 10, 2022, participants who have already completed their WellCheck submission for a previous Vita-Learn event will need to acknowledge the Waiver here, but will not need to resubmit any COVID-19 documentation.
- If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have tested positive for COVID-19 within 10 days of the event, you may not attend the conference.
- If you may have been exposed to the coronavirus 10 days prior to the Event must not attend the Event unless they provide a negative PCR test taken within 3 days of check-in.
- Masks are required in all indoor spaces. Masks may be removed while eating and drinking.
- Social distancing will be adhered to, when possible, in meeting spaces and in meal spaces.
- Attendees should self-monitor their health.
- If you begin to feel unwell during the event with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, out of an abundance of caution, we ask that you leave the conference, isolate yourself with others, notify Jeff Mao, and seek medical attention. If you test positive for COVID-19, please notify Jeff Mao so that Vita-Learn can follow up with contact tracing notifications to other attendees. Remember that many of our attendees teach and work with young students who may not have completed their vaccinations.
- Hand sanitizer and masks will be available at at the registration desk if needed.
The staff at the registration desk will have a list of locations in the Burlington and Springfield areas where attendees can get COVID tests, if necessary.
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