- The conference of several decades returns to the beautiful shore in Biloxi.
The first conference on Mississippi technology will bring together hundreds of technological partners from March 5 to 7 at the beautiful shore of Biloxi.
The Created Futures Through Technology conference (Future Creation 2025) will cover a range of subjects, including the internal functioning of the Mississippi Artificial Network (Main), AI, cybersecurity, development of labor, learning Online and innovative teaching tools. Speakers represent higher education establishments, data managers, industry suppliers, etc.
“This is a precious opportunity for networking and collaboration,” said Dr. Kollin Napier, executive director, who will discuss “the conduct of the future of AI and prepare for labor ‘artwork”.
Caleb W. Ramey, Director of Systems for Telecommunications and Information Services for Itawamba Community College and coordinator of the creation of future 2025, said that the event is among the most important technological conferences in Mississippi.
“The conference allows sellers of all types to meet and work closely with educators from the whole state to which they would not have access,” he said.
Information Technology Services (ITS), Mississippi Community College Board (MCCB) and Mississippi Community College Connectium Consortium (MC4) established the conference in the 1990s.
Based in Jackson, it provides a myriad of technological services to various state agencies. The MCCB is the organization of the State which helps community colleges to communicate with state legislators and to determine how the financing of the state is allocated. The function of MC4 is to allow all technological directors of the state colleges of the State to collaborate on projects and to have a lever effect in collective negotiation for contracts on the state scale.
“Originally, in the 1990s, the objective of the conference was that all community colleges had access to high speed Internet,” said Ramey. “This objective was achieved several years ago. The objective has now passed to work with companies like Microsoft to ensure that all colleges have an adequate license structure and to ensure that community colleges can be more agile in the way they develop their communication systems . »»
The preparation of this year’s conference was “difficult and bitter-bitter,” said Ramey. Tina Bradley, a long -standing planner of the conference, died last year. At the same time, Ray Smith, one of the original founders of the conference, retired.
“The MC4 group has assumed the task of planning the conference because we understand the importance of what it brings to the state,” said Ramey, which is part of MC4.
“The 2025 conference will be a brand new event. We have maintained the name, place and basic format of past years. We hope it will be a new company for the MC4 group and an excellent opportunity for the state of growing. »»
The sessions include:
- “Quick Wins with AI: Improve students’ commitment” and “Design dynamic learning journals with pages on iPad” by Carlena Benjamin du Northeast Mississippi Community College.
- “Improve online discussions: integrate structured debates in online courses” by Scott Tollison, provost, and executive vice-president for the academic affairs professor for management information systems for the University of Mississippi for women.
- “Give your students an advantage with the references recognized by the Industry” of Connie Benee, director of the territory for higher education, the development of labor and correctional education at CertiPort, which will lead a discussion On best practices to identify funding sources, administrative support, collaboration of implementation partners and strategies.
- “Interactive teaching tools for a substantial interaction” and “Podcasting in the Classroom” by Carley Dear, director of academic technology and innovation for the School of Nursing at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
- “Take advantage of the Cisa cyber-service to build the resilience of cybersecurity in higher education” by Greg Mallette, coordinator of the Cybersecurity State for the Mississippi agency, cybersecurity and infrastructure safety (Cisa ).
- “Nearpod in High Education” by Amy Pate with Nearpod.
- Mike Styve, a Darktrace account manager, will be addressed to “the state of AI in cybersecurity”, and Bayless Parsley, an account manager with Pathify, will share “transforming student experience”.
- “Integration and exploitation of neurodiversity in the training and design of courses: Urin Richardson’s Finding Dory” lessons, which will run a discussion inspired by Disney’s film, “Finding Dory”.
- “Directing in technological culture: how the personality, strategy and success of services” by Kelly Gonzales, vice-president associated with technology of the Meridian Community College.
- “WiFi 7: Is your campus ready?” by cisco.
C Spire, Howard Technology Solutions, Sanford Moore and Pileum Corporation are among the sponsors of the event.