All hours listed in Central Time – Illinois USA. Please use this time/date converter to determine your local time. Schedule subject to change.*
Friday, April 9, 2021
| 7:30 – 8:00am CT | Conference Kick-off / Morning Welcome Conference Co-Chairs: – Traci Carte, Ph.D. – Vaneetha L. Crampton, PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist, M.IS, – Debbie Seifert, Ph.D. |
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| 8:00 – 11:00am | — Invitation Only — AIS Software Innovation Challenge Competition EY Case Competition HP Design Thinking Competition |
| 8:30 – 11:30am | Product Management Workshop with State Farm |
| 10:15 am – 11: 15am | Competition Slam Session I – AIS Software Innovation Challenge |
| 11:15 – 11:30am | Break (15 Minutes) |
| 11:30am – 12:45pm | Industry Panel “What will Industry and the World look like in the New Normal?” Primary Moderator Tom Meservy, Brigham Young University Question Moderator Matt Nelson, Illinois State University |
| 12:45 – 1:25pm | Competition Slam Session II – EY Case Competition |
| 1:00 -1:30pm | Lunch Break (30 minutes) |
| 1:30 – 2:30pm | Small-Group Career Info Sessions – Conference registration AND session sign-up required. All about Blockchain! with State Farm |
| 2:30 – 2:45pm | Break (15 Minutes) |
| 2:45 – 4:45pm | Low Code Application Development with Mendix Workshop Automation Anywhere Workshop |
| 4:45 – 5:00pm | Break (15 Minutes) |
| 5:00 – 6:00pm | AIS Trivia Night! – Conference registration AND session sign-up required. |
Saturday, April 10, 2021
| 7:30 – 8:30pm | Competition Showcase III – HP Design Thinking |
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| 8:30 – 9am | Morning Welcome with Conference Co-Chairs |
| 9 – 9:45am | AIS Chapter-to-Chapter Discussions (Large Chapters) AIS Chapter-to-Chapter Discussions (Small Chapters) |
| 9:45 – 10am | Break (15 Minutes) |
| 10 – 10:55am | Managing non-profit IT Projects in an Agile Fashion Women in IS Workshop |
| 10:55 – 11am | COMPETITON AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT- 3rd Place Teams Announced |
| 11- 11:15am | Break (15 Minutes) |
| 11:15 am – 12:10 pm | Cyber Security Workshop Pre-IS Involvement Workshop |
| 12:10 – 12:15pm | COMPETITON AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT – 2nd Place Teams Announced |
| 12:15 – 12:30pm | Break (15 Minutes) |
| 12:30 – 1:25pm | Now You See Me: Open-Source Intelligence and Data Visualization for Career Enhancement Technical Development Workshop Web Scraping with Python Virtual Involvement Plan Workshop |
| 1:25 – 1:30pm | Break (5 Minutes) |
| 1:30 – 2pm | Final Awards Ceremony / Conference Closing Remarks |
*Schedule subject to change. Last revised: 04/07/21