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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Hello UCR IT Professionals!</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This year’s UC Tech Conference, <b>
UC Tech 2023: Resilient, Rising & Reinspired,</b> will be held on the UC Berkeley campus on
<b>July 17-19</b>. </span>Please help us spread the word by sharing this message with your IT colleagues across UCR.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As UC Riverside’s UC Tech Ambassador, I’ll be working with the programming committee in order to provide more information on the various components in the coming months. Questions can be emailed to <a href="mailto:uctech@berkeley.edu">uctech@berkeley.edu</a>
or feel free to reach out to me directly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Azra Ayers</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">UC Tech Ambassador, UCR<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Technical Project Manager, ITS</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">University of California, Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Uctech Departmental <uctech@berkeley.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 10, 2023 5:19 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Happy 2023! UC Tech July 17-19 & Call for Volunteers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear UC Colleagues,</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hoping you had a restful holiday season and are ready to continue<b> rocking IT in 2023</b>! Mark your calendars:
<b>July 17-19</b> for <b>UC Tech 2023: Resilient, Rising & Reinspired </b>on the UC Berkeley campus. This will be a hybrid event, with sessions available both in-person and online. UC Berkeley is honored to be co-hosting this year’s conference with UC San Francisco. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#003262">About our Theme</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Resilient, Rising & Reinspired</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, this theme seemed to fit as a timely reminder that technology professionals
have worked diligently over the recent years and remained <b>resilient</b>, agile, and responsive to the changing higher ed landscape. The conference is an opportunity to acknowledge this hard work and to recognize this as an inflection point. Looking forward,
we are <b>reinspired </b>to bring together our UC Tech community to share ways in which we are
<b>rising</b> to meet old and new challenges to build, connect, and grow our IT support, services, and collaboration.
</span><a href="https://uctech.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Visit the UC Tech website</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#003262">Volunteer Opportunities</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Each year it takes a lot of great people to make UC Tech a success, and we need you! Joining</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202124"> our team
of volunteers allows you to bring your special talents to the planning and execution of UC Tech.
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#202124">We need volunteers now and leading up to the event, to help behind the scenes as well as during the conference.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202124">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you would like to volunteer, please
</span><a href="https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/d8206e8bf35c4b94aee0696767b42d5d" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">fill out this short</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<b>form</b></span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202124">
<b>by Jan. 20</b>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#003262">Program & Tracks</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our program is coming together and being planned around elements of our theme. Session tracks are being finalized on topics such as Community Building; Cultural Strategies; Health IT;
The Future of IT; Research Computing & Data; Security & Privacy; Teaching & Learning. It’s not too early to start thinking about what session proposals you and your teams may want to submit that would sync up with these areas!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#003262">Get Connected</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">There are several ways to stay informed or ask questions about UC Tech:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Be sure to <a href="https://cio.ucop.edu/subscribe/" target="_blank">
<b>subscribe to the UC IT Blog</b></a> where we will share announcements. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Email questions to the UC Tech Programming Committee at
<a href="mailto:uctech@berkeley.edu" target="_blank"><b>uctech@berkeley.edu</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Join the conversation on Slack
<a href="https://uctech.slack.com/archives/C4KM6NJ78" target="_blank"><b>#uctech-conference</b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We will continue to post updates to the
</span><a href="https://uctech.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">conference website</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> as plans solidify and
communicate through our </span><a href="https://uctech.berkeley.edu/ambassadors" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UC Tech Ambassador</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
channels at each campus location. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><img border="0" width="714" height="126" style="width:7.4375in;height:1.3125in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/zkZZxvcbszmy-hylEL_WUVTbnyn_QMHYVUy2ENPjyVu-JnmiRi5W8MJKf0xlP1kd0hXQuBlbAqTTJQAQ_cL986sg1us4LT7oiqEgN-ojC_Le7ZS5dLI7BSq3uAh3kNe-B-C02WXcioVwhmFYhgMefiT_bliFiTG8_HuI4NeJ8PslbSvcdmqRxeg94aqcFQ" alt="Colorful mosaic background with birds in flight with words:
Warm regards,
UC Tech 2023 Programming Committee"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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