IT Learning & Development’s Café IT and Tech Talks - Nov. 2023

IT Learning & Development’s Café IT and Tech Talks series continues this fall with the following events.

Please check your email to RSVP and receive the Zoom links for each session, or reach out to itlearning@yale.edu for more information.

Date: Thurs. Nov. 16, noon - 1 pm
Tech Talk: DevOps and Software Engineering Collaboration in Library IT
Presenter(s): Michael Appleby and Bob Rice
Audience: All IT Staff

Come join us for a talk on how the collaboration between Library IT’s DevOps and Software Engineering teams has been crucial in developing and maintaining custom applications that are core to the Library’s mission. The presentation will highlight case studies of custom applications related to digital collections, discovery, and metadata transformation for the LUX project, with a focus on the move from local to AWS hosting. Additionally, the talk will provide an overview of Library IT’s practices for agile development, automation, continuous integration, and cloud deployments.

Date: Thurs., Nov 30, 3-4 pm
Title: Café IT: The Year in Review/Looking Ahead
Presenter(s): Dale Hendrickson, Frank Mathew, Chuck Thompson
Audience: All IT Staff

Join us for our final Café IT of the calendar year for short presentations and a panel discussion with three IT leaders from across campus, Dale Hendrickson (Library IT), Frank Mathew (Central IT), and Chuck Thompson (FAS-SEAS). Together we will take stock of projects tackled over the past year, lessons learned, surprises and wins, as well as what we can as an organization look forward to in the year ahead. There will be time for Q&A, so bring your questions about the future of One IT at Yale with you.