MTECH Connect 2025 View Other Sessions

Join us for a reimagined professional development event, sponsored by the Michigan Technology Community! Building on the tradition of previous symposia, this dynamic, future-focused gathering brings together technology professionals from across the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint and Michigan Medicine campuses for a full day dedicated to exploring, showcasing, and advancing opportunities for career growth, skill development, and the innovative use of technology in higher education.

Our 2025 symposium highlights U-M’s commitment to supporting staff and technology professionals at every stage of their careers. The agenda features interactive sessions, hands-on workshops, impactful presentations, and engaging networking opportunities, each designed to foster the meaningful sharing of knowledge, resources, and experiences.

Attendees will discover the many tools, programs, and platforms available at U-M—from mentorship and tuition benefits to on-demand learning and technology-focused career resources. Through sessions on digital and collaborative technologies, organizational learning, and campus success stories, participants will gain new insights into how the Michigan community nurtures professional growth and enables individuals to thrive in an evolving digital landscape.

Please ensure you register by December 2 to guarantee lunch will be provided for you.

Objectives:

Foster Dialogue: Bring together diverse U-M voices to discuss career growth, technology’s role in professional advancement, and the evolving needs of technology professionals.
Showcase Resources: Highlight university-sponsored tools and opportunities for development, such as LinkedIn Learning, mentorship programs, and tuition support.
Promote Community: Facilitate collaboration and networking among U-M individuals and units, and with external partners and vendors invested in staff development.
Champion Inclusive Growth: Support career advancement for all, with an emphasis on accessible and equitable opportunities for learning and participation.
Identify Opportunities & Challenges: Explore emerging trends in IT careers, discuss barriers, and share strategies for success.
Support Continuous Development: Empower staff and technology professionals to learn, grow, and excel at U-M.

It's a Moracle!

Session Is Over

December 9, 2025 - 1:00pm - 1:45pm

CCCB - Room 0420
Bill Horvath (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

Moracle is a Maizey project designed to serve as an "oracular muse" (i.e., in-house expert) on ICPSR's (i.e., Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) vast source code repositories for its engineers.

Moracle's purpose is to facilitate acquisition of knowledge about the group;s applications, and reduce the frequency and cost of context switching for the most senior engineers, whose deep institutional knowledge has resulted in being regularly pulled away from their own work to help others.

This presentation will cover the following:

Design, development, and deployment of Moracle
Construction of an application designed to expose the code to Maizey in a format it can consume
Economics of the project for the department

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