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Saturday Workshops

MSIM faculty, staff, alumni, and affiliate partners have worked to create a series of workshops that will expose you to new aspects of information management that you may not get in your classes. The morning sessions are primarily academic, and the afternoon sessions are a mixture of academic and student support workshops. MGH 258 is your home base. If you need a break, want to play a cybersecurity board game, or just chat with your program staff, feel free to drop by. 

  Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3

8:30-9:00 a.m.

Check-in & Light Breakfast 

Location: MGH 258 

Session 1

9:00-10:30 a.m.

Effective Agile Product Management Response to Work Interrupts in The Software Development Life Cycle ★

Location: MGH 058

Election Hacking ♦ ♣

Location: MGH 334

Introduction to Low-Code Development with Microsoft Power Platform (Part 1) ★

Location: MGH 430 

10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break

Location: MGH 258

Session 2

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

How to Set up a Data, Analytics, & AI Strategy ★

Location: MGH 058

The Life and Value of a Controlled Vocabulary ♥

Location: MGH 076 

Introduction to Low-Code Development with Microsoft Power Platform (Part 2) ★

Location: MGH 430

12:15-1:45 p.m.

Lunch with Faculty, Alumni, and Affiliates 

Location: Kane Hall 225, Walker Ames Room

Session 3

1:45-3:00 p.m.

Misinformation Escape Room ♦ ♣

Location: MGH 076 

UW Indigenous Walking Tour ♣

Location: MGH 258 

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome ♣

Location: MGH 430 

Workshop 4: Machine Systematic Differences in Graders in Automated Hiring Solutions: A Machine Learning Fairness Approach ♣

Location: MGH 334

3:00-3:15 p.m.

Break 

Location: MGH 258 

Session 4

3:15-4:30 p.m.

Misinformation Escape Room ♦ ♣

Location: MGH 076 

UW Indigenous Walking Tour ♣

Location: MGH 258 

Career Workshop: Creating & Sharing your Brand on LinkedIn ♣

Location: MGH 430

5:00 p.m. 

Happy hour with AIMS

Location: Earls on the Ave

♦ = Focused on democracy and an informed public
★ = Industry partner affiliated with the iSchool
♣ = iSchool faculty or staff member
♥ = iSchool alumni

Workshop Details

Session 1

 

Effective Agile Product Management Response to Work Interrupts in the Software Development Life Cycle

With Chris Bailey-Smith, Senior Manager, Agile Practices, Disney

Students will gain and understanding of the impact of disruption priorities like regulatory data privacy activities on product strategy and roadmaps impact project strategy and how the scrum process can ensure continuous focus on the prioritized business outcome that deliver the highest value. The hands-on example of how the team can leverage the roles of the team to ensure the product minimum product outcomes can continue to be delivered regardless of what external interruptions impact a team through appropriate application of the scrum technique and management of a team’s velocity should reinforce the concepts and help them apply in real-world applications.

Location: MGH 058

Election Hacking

With Andrew Reifers, MSIM Program Chair, Associate Teaching Professor, The Information School

In this workshop, we will engage in hands-on exercises to explore the various techniques adversaries have used to manipulate the democratic process through election hacking.

Location: MGH 334

Introduction to Low-Code Development with Microsoft Power Platform

With Leslie Folsom, Senior Director, Slalom Consulting, Microsoft Center of Excellence Business Applications and Mandar Zope, Senior Principal, Slalom Consulting, Microsoft Center of Excellence Business Applications

(Session 1 and Session 2 with a break)

Modern businesses run on data. Users interact with data daily from entering their time for payroll, seeking guidance on existing processes, and analyzing data to make decisions. In our technology driven world, users can be empowered to gain insights from and interact with data all while automating those menial responsibilities that seem to be more burden than job task. In this session, you will not only learn all the components that comprise the Microsoft Power Platform but also put hands to keyboard to build solutions.

Location: MGH 430

Session 2

 

How to set up a Data, Analytics & AI Strategy

With Richard Starnes, Global Tableau and Salesforce Analytics Leader, Deloitte

Threading the needle between a case study and practical and pragmatic experience, this session will look at why enterprises need an Analytics and Data strategy, how to approach and organize for this type of project, what a strategy should include, and how to execute... with plenty of real-world anecdotes and a sense of humor.

Location: MGH 058

The Life and Value of a Controlled Vocabulary

With Richard Kozel, Freelance Taxonomist and SEO Specialist and Heather Champion, Technical SEO Manager, Nordstrom

Using the example of a website focused on cooking and recipes, we will focus on the development and proliferation of a controlled vocabulary from conception through application as different user and business needs are identified. We will discuss how a vocabulary can support a content strategy, aid in the development of a site architecture, drive various digital marketing strategies, curate website analytics, support monetization efforts, and even look forward to future industry trends.

Location: MGH 334

Introduction to Low-Code Development with Microsoft Power Platform

With Leslie Folsom, Senior Director, Slalom Consulting, Microsoft Center of Excellence Business Applications and Mandar Zope, Senior Principal, Slalom Consulting, Microsoft Center of Excellence Business Applications

(Session 1 and Session 2 with a break)

*If you did not attend the first session of this workshop, you cannot attend the second session.

Modern businesses run on data. Users interact with data daily from entering their time for payroll, seeking guidance on existing processes, and analyzing data to make decisions. In our technology driven world, users can be empowered to gain insights from and interact with data all while automating those menial responsibilities that seem to be more burden than job task. In this session, you will not only learn all the components that comprise the Microsoft Power Platform but also put hands to keyboard to build solutions.

Location: MGH 430

Session 3

 

Misinformation Escape Room

With Cameron Cramer, MSIM Academic Advisor and HeeJae Chun CIP Outreach and Education

Loki’s Loop is a project of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. Its first game, "The Euphorigen Investigation," is an escape room. Escape rooms are live-action adventure games where teams of players work cooperatively to solve a series of puzzles. The immersive nature of the medium serves as an engaging way to interact with various deceptive tactics such as manipulated charts, bot accounts, and deep fakes. It’s an experiential rather than skills-based approach for people to think more critically about the information they encounter online.

Location: MGH 076

Indigenous Walking Tour

With Lauren Van Fossen

Location: meet at MGH 258

This tour starts with a testament of knowledge, specifically Indigenous Knowledge Systems and how they are grounded in place on the University of Washington campus. These knowledge systems are rooted in the natural landscape and are all encompassing, not isolated and sprinkled around as many guests may view them. For the first peoples, Place has been continuously and intentionally entangled with colonial assimilation and destruction, but what few people recognize is the resiliency of these Indigenous knowledge systems. As the tour showcase works across campus, we encourage all people to take responsibility and action to prune out historical disenfranchisements.

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Utilize Resources to Achieve Academic Success

With Adrienne Berry, MSIM Student Support Coach

The first quarter of a graduate program is filled with lots of new: new people, new content, new routines, etc. It’s understandable to feel overwhelmed during. These factors can often cause students to experience imposter syndrome during their first quarter. In this session, we will discuss imposter syndrome, how to overcome it, and the multiple resources available to help you be successful in your first quarter and beyond.

Location: MGH 430

Machine Systematic Differences in Graders in Automated Hiring Solutions: A Machine Learning Fairness Approach

With Mike Teodorescu, iSchool assistant professor

Firms routinely utilize natural language processing combined with other machine learning (ML) tools to assess prospective employees through automated resume classification based on pre-codified skill databases. The rush to automation can however backfire by encoding unintentional bias against groups of candidates. We run two experiments with human evaluators from two different countries to determine how cultural differences may affect hiring decisions. We use hiring materials provided by an international skill testing firm which runs hiring assessments for Fortune 500 companies. The company conducts a video-based interview assessment using machine learning, which grades job applicants automatically based on verbal and visual cues. We find that systematic differences can exist across human graders and that some can be reversed by algorithms if accounted for at training time.

Location: MGH 334

Session 4

 

Misinformation Escape Room

With Cameron Cramer, MSIM Academic Advisor and HeeJae Chun CIP Outreach and Education

Loki’s Loop is a project of the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. Its first game, "The Euphorigen Investigation," is an escape room. Escape rooms are live-action adventure games where teams of players work cooperatively to solve a series of puzzles. The immersive nature of the medium serves as an engaging way to interact with various deceptive tactics such as manipulated charts, bot accounts, and deep fakes. It’s an experiential rather than skills-based approach for people to think more critically about the information they encounter online.

Location: MGH 076

Indigenous Walking Tour

With Lauren Van Fossen

Location: meet at MGH 258

This tour starts with a testament of knowledge, specifically Indigenous Knowledge Systems and how they are grounded in place on the University of Washington campus. These knowledge systems are rooted in the natural landscape and are all encompassing, not isolated and sprinkled around as many guests may view them. For the first peoples, Place has been continuously and intentionally entangled with colonial assimilation and destruction, but what few people recognize is the resiliency of these Indigenous knowledge systems. As the tour showcase works across campus, we encourage all people to take responsibility and action to prune out historical disenfranchisements.

Career Workshop: Creating & Sharing your Brand on LinkedIn

With Sarijana Clark, Career Services Advisor

With 750M+ users, LinkedIn is the largest professional network to find internship/employment opportunities, connect and strengthen professional relationships, and learn the skills you need to succeed in your career! All employment materials you create are about you but not for you. This Build a Profile workshop will walk you through creating your LinkedIn profile, optimizing your LinkedIn profile, and effectively using your LinkedIn profile to network with prospective professional connections.

Location: MGH 430

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