Webinars are a great way to “stay connected between conferences” and experience some of the professional development opportunities that are provided through the SIGUCCS conferences. Our webinars are offered quarterly. Use this as an opportunity to participate as a team or individually. You will be able to connect to the audio portion using VoIP or a telephone.

Forging a Global IT Community

Our first fall webinar is Tuesday, October 7 at 12:00pm EST. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/836239712

How do you improve the IT experience of 50,000 students, 3,100 faculty, and 16,000 employees across 18 schools and colleges, 25 study away sites, and three campuses in New York City, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai? Find out how New York University developed a more holistic and coordinated approach to IT across all of NYU’s schools and locations by creating TorchTech, a volunteer-led IT community for NYU’s IT professionals. The community is self-organized, based on the needs of the community, and cuts across hierarchy and administrative departments and schools.

Evan Silberman is the 2014 Campus Technology Innovator of the Year in Leadership, Governance, and Policy, and the Assistant Director of Information Technology at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. At NYU, Evan founded TorchTech, a first-of-its-kind volunteer-led membership organization for IT professionals at NYU (with over 900 members across NYU’s global networked university). He is also chair of the NYU Chief Information Officers Council. Evan was recently awarded the prestigious NYU Give-A-Violet Award, and nominated for the NYU Team Achievement Award. Prior to his work at NYU, Evan was responsible for all Academic Technology at Yeshiva University; he was also a technical consultant to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), is a certified Project Management Professional and a candidate for a M.A. in Educational Technology at the NYU, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

This webinar is available to SIGUCCS members only; it’s only $25 to join, go to http://www.siguccs.org/join.shtml