Workshop Series

The Center for Technology Innovation sponsors a series of day-long workshops on cutting-edge technology issues with nationally-known speakers.

Workshops are open to the public and offered in-person or online. Workshop pricing are as follows (unless otherwise noted):

A full day, online workshop costs $125.00 (or a discounted rate of $105.00 for UWM MIS/ITM alumni).
A full day, in-person workshop costs $165.00 (or a discounted rate of $145.00 for UWM MIS/ITM alumni).
A half-day workshop costs $65.00 (or a discounted rate of $55.00 for UWM MIS/ITM alumni).

All prices include handouts.

Topics include:

• A survey of what resides in a typical Git repository
• Understanding blobs, trees and commits, and the constitution of Git’s DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)
• Branches and Tags
• What is HEAD?
• Understanding the reflog
• Using stashes
• Undo with reset and revert
• Merging, and rebasing
• Guidelines for good commit messages and branch names

Recent workshops have included:

• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Gleaning Insights from Operational Time Series Data
• WebAssembly
• Architecting Cloud Native Applications
• Refactoring to Modern JavaScript
• Kubernetes Cloud Native Training
• Enterprise Blockchain
• Cognitive Services & Deep Learning
• Software Architecture Fundamentals
• Build Once, Run Anywhere – with Docker and Dockerfiles
• Hands-On Machine Learning
• Blockchain

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Panels

The Center also sponsors panel discussions with IT leaders who present their thoughts on topics of interest to the local IT community. Audience participation follows the presentation.