In just one year, our campus-wide generative AI initiative has tripled its user base, serving 15,000 students, faculty, and staff.

The cybersecurity landscape is rapidly evolving, with new threats emerging at an alarming pace. This panel of UC CISOs will explore the most pressing cybersecurity challenges facing higher education, including AI-powered attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, and the increasing sophistication of ransomware. The session will delve into strategic defense mechanisms, proactive threat mitigation, and the importance of collaboration across the UC system. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the panelists during an extended Q&A session.

Our researchers need the ability for an uninterrupted workflow. Many times, IT creates a roadblock for the ability to install and update research software. Researchers then need to reach out to IT with administrative rights to install or update research software creating delays for timely deadlines like grant writing or after-hours support. Privilege Access Manager (PAM) allows researchers temporary elevated access to install and update software on their own time, saving time and resources.

An opportunity for womxn to come together and eat lunch and learn more about UC WIT. We will have a guest speaker (last year was LeShelle May).

This session will showcase how our department identifies, explores, and evaluates emerging technologies that support effective teaching and learning. Our department regularly pilots academic technology tools hosted by third-party vendors, so we developed a comprehensive guide to streamline and navigate through the piloting process. Join us as we walk through the guide, covering key aspects such as establishing scope, developing timelines and milestones, identifying risks and mitigations, creating a communications plan, conducting assessments, and defining success metrics.

In today's fast-paced software landscape, IT professionals and their training counterparts face a daunting challenge: the constant demand for high-quality learning content coupled with limited bandwidth and resources. For many teams, the process of creating and sustaining comprehensive resource documents, especially those requiring screenshots, can be a time-consuming and tedious endeavor. Our experienced Change Management + Media Innovation team will share their success story of leveraging Scribe to create over 200 how-to guides and resource pages with over 20,000 views in less than a year.

Recognizing that participation and engagement are indispensable components of successful teaching and learning, this project endeavors to enhance engagement while encouraging participation. To achieve this, I have woven gamification into the fabric of my library instructional research sessions, which assists students with comprehending the learning outcomes for the session. In my gamified library session, students are encouraged to download a digital BINGO card that encapsulates the content requested to be covered by the instructor during the presentation.

Active learning in makerspaces extends beyond the process and product of making. Encouraging students to document the process of making and showcase the product of making offers an opportunity to reinforce active learning.

Librarians in the UC Davis Library’s Student Services Department dedicate a significant portion of their work to classroom-based information literacy and research instruction. Because of the limited face-time and interaction allowed in the one-shot instruction format, it is crucial to assess our instruction's content and efficacy to ensure we support student learning without placing an undue burden on undergraduates through overly complicated assessment mechanisms.

This presentation provide an introductory overview to new AI 'Deep Research' Tools and Reasoning Models (OpenAI Deep Research, Anthropic 3.7, Grok Deep Research, Deep Seek R1, Gemini Deep Research and Perplexity Deep Research). The session will benchmarking models and providing best in class use cases across different academic disciplines for suitability and use value from STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) to Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines.