Modernize Campus IT and Hands-on Labs with Microsoft Azure

Overview

Higher education leaders everywhere are facing growing challenges in ensuring the continuity of teaching and learning with their existing on-premises and physical infrastructure. Educational IT architects are often required to make data-informed decisions to improve student success and retention while ensuring operations remain secure, scalable, and cost-effective.

In this session, learn how Microsoft Azure-based solutions and tools can help address the challenges of delivering modern education and enable impactful hands-on experiences for students.

Featuring real-world experiences and insights from Nancy Teodoro, Education Partner Lead at Microsoft Canada; David Trinh, Academic Program Manager at Seneca College; and Amit Malik, COO at Spektra Systems, this session explores practical approaches to modernizing higher education environments.

Key Topics Covered

• Discover the inherent issues and complexities commonly faced by higher education Campus-IT teams
• Identify hardware and software challenges associated with delivering hands-on experiences as part of the curriculum
• Learn approaches to accelerate innovation, reduce risk, and modernize Campus-IT
• Explore ways to equip students with on-demand, hands-on skills for the future workforce

Outcomes

• Learn how to plan the migration of Campus-IT workloads to Microsoft Azure while delivering digital safety and security for students and faculty
• Offer impactful hands-on experiences to students anytime, anywhere, and at any scale while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Deliver advanced technology courses and research scenarios using Microsoft Azure and CloudLabs
• Understand strategic approaches for a successful, non-disruptive Campus-IT-to-cloud transformation with Azure

Who Should Watch

• IT Administrators and Architects in Higher Education Institutions
• Deans and Professors