Unicon Technologists Present Fifteen Sessions at Premier Open Source Event for Higher Education - JASIG Spring 2008

Unicon Presents with John’s Hopkins University, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Pearson Education, and Oracle Corporation

Phoenix, AZ – March 24, 2008 -- Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, will be presenting and participating in a total of fifteen technical seminars at the upcoming 17th Annual JASIG Spring 2008 Conference being held in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 27-30, 2008. Several of Unicon’s seminars will be presented with customers: Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin; and commercial partners Pearson Education and Oracle Corporation. This year’s conference, themed as “Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!”, promises to be the premier open source event for higher education in 2008 with participation by leading open source communities such as CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2 Middleware, Kuali, Sakai, and uPortal. Six Unicon associates, including Vice President Adam Rybicki and Chief Software Architect John Lewis, will deliver presentations on a variety of subjects pertaining to open source application deployment, development, and support for the online campus.

Unicon Presentations at JASIG Spring 2008 Conference
Note - the following presentations have abstracts and descriptions available on the JASIG Web site at:
http://www.ja-sig.org/jasigconf/program.jsp

Sunday, April 27, 2008

8:30AM-12:00PM: Half-Day Seminar
Title: Implementing CAS: From Download to Deployment
Presenter: Adam Rybicki, Vice President of Technology, Unicon, Inc.

Title: Spring Portlet MVC - Intro
Presenter: Cris Holdorph, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.

1:00PM-4:30PM: Half-Day Seminar
Title: Spring Portlet MVC - Advanced
Presenter: John Lewis, Chief Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.

Title: uPortal Migration - Juggling Environments and Software Upgrades
Presenter: Andrew Wills, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Presenter: Eric Dalquist, IS/IT Portal Specialist, University of Wisconsin

Monday, April 28, 2008

11:30AM-12:30PM
Track: Integration and Deployment
Title: Sakai and uPortal Integration Options
Presenter: Cris Holdorph, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.

Track: Design and Development
Title: Java Portlet 2.0 (JSR 286)
Presenter: John Lewis, Chief Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.

Track: Multiple Audiences/General Information
Title: JASIG CAS Overview
Presenter: Adam Rybicki, Vice President of Technology, Unicon, Inc.

2:00PM-3:00PM
Track: Design and Development
Title: Securing Portlets with Spring Security
Presenter: John Lewis, Chief Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.

3:30PM-4:30PM
Track: Design and Development
Title: Upgrading uPortal: My.JohnsHopkins
Presenter: Andrew Wills, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Presenter: Chris Doyle, Technical Lead, Johns Hopkins University

4:45PM-5:45PM
Track: Birds of a Feather
Title: Managing Diverse & Complex uPortal Deployments with Cernunnos
Presenter: Andrew Wills, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Presenter: Andy Gherna, Developer, University of Illinois

Tuesday April 29, 2008

10:15AM-11:15 AM
Track: Design and Development
Title: uPortal3 Theme and Skin: An Overview
Presenter: Gary Thompson, User Experience Leader, Unicon, Inc.

Track: Integration and Deployment
Title: Integrating Peoplesoft Enterprise Campus Solutions with Sakai
Presenter: Cris Holdorph, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.
Presenter: Michael Feldstein, Principal Product Manager, Academic Enterprise Solutions, Oracle Corporation

11:30AM-12:30 PM
Track: Design and Development
Title: uPortal 3 Theme and Skin: Advanced/technical
Presenter: Gary Thompson, User Experience Leader, Unicon, Inc.

2:00PM-3:00 PM
Track: Design and Development
Title: Developing with the JCR (JSR 170, JSR 283)
Presenter: Lennard Fuller, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc.

4:45PM-5:45 PM
Track: Integration and Deployment
Title: How Pearson is Using uPortal to Support Global Online Learning and Communities
Presenter: Mary Ann Perry, SVP/Dir. Pearson XL/Mastering Media, Pearson Education
Presenter: Peter Chiang, Portal Architect, Pearson Education
Presenter: Lennard Fuller, Software Architect, Unicon, Inc

Wednesday April 30, 2008

1:30PM-5:00PM: Half-Day Seminar
Title: Installing, Configuring, and Customizing uPortal
Presenter: Andrew Petro, uPortal Support Lead, Unicon, Inc

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