Tech Congress 2020 - Proposed Sessions
- Eric Jansson
- Chris Moffatt (Deactivated)
Owned by Eric Jansson
Goal
- The Tech Congress is not designed to be presentation-centric, but discussion-centric. It is designed for the community to identify, prioritize and strategize about the greatest challenges facing the community.
Plenary Sessions
- Community issues and prioritization - similar to last year
- Community showcase (Wednesday) - features new core Ed-Fi releases, Exchange contributions and badged products
- Hackathon (pre-event) - teams develop innovative products
Individual Sessions
| Title | Category | Description |
| 2020 Ed-Fi Technology Roadmap | General | Highlights of the 2020 Ed-Fi Technology Roadmap, with Q&A and community discussion. |
| Taking the Long View on Ed-Fi | General | Join a presentation and discussion about long-term technology trends and what they might mean for Ed-Fi. |
| Ed-Fi LEA Collaboratives - Progress Reports | User Group | Join us for updates on the recent progress of LEA collaboratives. LEA collaboratives are school districts who have pooled their resources and share common Ed-Fi technology infrastructure. These report outs will cover recent accomplishments and challenges. |
| Ed-Fi LEA Collaboratives - Sharing Opportunities | User Group | A continuation of the "LEA Collaboratives - Progress Reports" session, but we wil turn to the opportunities for collaboratives to share resources and learn from each other. |
| Ed-Fi LEA Collaboratives - Breakouts | User Group | Breakout sessions coming out of the LEA Collaboratives - Sharing Opportunities session. |
| Dogs and cats living together: responsibilities of our ecosystem stakeholders | General | The Ed-Fi community is composed of various stakeholders, including SEAs, LEAs and technology providers. What is "good behavior" and "bad behavior" for each of these parties? Come join a discussion on how dogs and cats can live together. |
| Internationalization Work Group | Governance | This open session will cover the recent work of and current projects of the Internationalization Work Group. Membership in the work group is not required to attend and participate. |
| Assessment Work Group | Governance | Meeting of the Assessment Work Group - discussion and updated oncurrent work group agenda items. Some overview of past progress wil be provided. Open to anyone to attend - membership in the Work Group not required. |
| Finance Work Group | Governance | This open session will cover the recent work of and current projects of the Internationalization Work Group. Membership in the work group is not required to attend and participate. |
| Teacher Prep Data Model Work Group | Governance | This open session will cover the recent work and current projects of the Teacher Prep Data Model (TPDM) Work Group. Membership in the work group is not required to attend and participate. |
| Reporting and Visualization Work Group | Governance | |
| Special Education Work Group | Governance | |
| Partner Program, Certification and Badges | General | Open overview and discussion of the Ed-Fi Partner Program, Ed-Fi Certification, and Ed-Fi Badge Program. Will include recent changes to these programs, and include Q&A and community feedback. |
| Is the Ed-Fi platform a data warehouse? | General | Open discussion on if and how the community should invest in a common structure for multi-year data persistence and analytics. Some presentation of the history of historical multi-year data schema work in the Ed-Fi community will be presented. |
| ODS to ODS Sync | General | |
| How to grow a community of sharing | General | At the Tech Congress 2019, the community voted that a top priority was to create a community that shared technical resources and know how. While we have made progress, there is still much to do. Join an open forum on new ideas and directions for advancing the Ed-Fi community's ability to work together. |
| Ed-Fi Newbie? Start Here | General | |
| Data Out SIG and Data Out Roadmap | Governance/SIG | |
| The Cycles of the Ed-Fi Community | General | Everyone wants new features and wants them ASAP, but no one wants the expense of frequent platform updates! How often should Ed-Fi release new platform versions? Should our community hold breaking releases for major versions, or is it better to make many smaller breaks along the way? Join a discussion about the periodicity of and strategies for community and platform evolution. |
| Successful Agency-Vendor Relationships | General | |
| Requirements for Ed-Fi Platform as a Service | General | |
| Docker for the Ed-Fi Platform | Governance/SIG | |
| Ed-Fi Admin Tools 2020 Roadmap | General | Presentation with community feedback on the roadmap for administrative tooling for the Ed-Fi ODS platform |
| Analytics Middle Tier Roadmap | General | Presentation on the recent progress with the Analytics Middle Tier and community discussion on where it should be headed! |
| Edu Standards Alphabet Soup | General | |
| Rostering with Ed-Fi | General |