2025 UEN Tech Summit

For UEN's Network Engineering team, we are using a distributed Kubernetes cluster to run our Network Performance measurement software. We'll discuss the reasoning behind our design, the implications a statewide cluster has on applications & performance, and some insights on what can be run on this kind of platform.

This presentation will be a technical discussion about some of our network monitoring & performance infrastructure. Some highlights that will be touched on: - The need to set up a distributed cluster - Pitfalls and caveats with distributed computing, as well as solutions & workarounds to these problems - Results on two years of production use - Future applications and possible strategies.

Oracle APEX is the world's most popular enterprise low-code application platform that enables you to build scalable, secure web and mobile apps

Oracle APEX is the world's most popular enterprise low-code application platform that enables you to build scalable, secure web and mobile apps. We will demonstrate how to build and app and how it can be used to integrate with district systems.

We are providing families with a number of customizable options within filtering and access. Discussion will include challenges, and successes.

In this presentation we'll be showing Salt Lake City School District is using OpenSearch to mine logs, and make them easily accessible to our team from a log viewer's standpoint. We'll also talk about the different methods of getting logs into OpenSearch, the basics of OpenSearch's architecture, how data is analyzed in OpenSearch, and more.

Our goal is for you to leave the presentation aware of some of the hurdles you can encounter if you choose to use OpenSearch for logging, and that you will feel more confident in how to overcome them.

Discover Graylog's features and learn how to efficiently collect logs, filter out noise, and forward them to Adlumin for analysis.

Join us for a compelling demonstration of Graylog’s powerful capabilities in this session. We’ll provide a brief overview of its core components—sidecars, pipelines, extractors, streams, dashboards, and queries—showcasing how these tools enable effective log management and analysis. Through this guided exploration, you’ll see practical examples of how Graylog collects, processes, and visualizes log data, alongside archiving strategies using the Graylog Community Edition. Additionally, we’ll demonstrate how to seamlessly forward filtered logs from Graylog to Adlumin for advanced security analysis, highlighting the integration of Graylog’s robust log management with Adlumin’s cutting-edge cybersecurity platform to enhance threat detection and response. Please note, this is a demonstration, not a hands-on workshop; it’s designed to equip you with a clear understanding of how to optimize operational efficiency and security workflows.

Static roles and hardcoded permissions don’t meet the needs of modern education systems. This session explores how authorization engines enable dynamic, policy-based access control—improving security, flexibility, and scalability across diverse user contexts.

Access control in educational environments is more complex than ever—students, faculty, staff, and systems all interact with sensitive resources under shifting contexts and roles. Traditional models based on static roles and baked-in permissions struggle to keep up. This presentation makes the case for using an authorization engine—a dynamic, policy-based system that externalizes access decisions from your application logic. We’ll focus on Cedar, an open-source language and engine developed by AWS, designed to express fine-grained, context-aware authorization policies. Yes, your LMS comes with its own access controls—but what about the rest of your ecosystem? Authorization engines excel at unifying access policies across diverse systems, APIs, and services, ensuring consistent, auditable, and adaptable permissions. Through real-world examples and live policy demonstrations, we’ll explore how policy-based access control helps IT systems become more secure, scalable, and future-ready.

VMware licensing has been challenging over the past year. Proxmox, an open source hypervisor, has proven itself a viable alternative. In this presentation we will build a three-node hyperconverged cluster and migrate a VM from VMware to it.

We will do the following Install Proxmox on three servers Setup a Proxmox cluster Build setup a ceph cluster Install a Windows VM on the cluster Migrate a VM from VMware to the Proxmox cluster.

Step into the future of learning. Explore how an intelligent, unified educational ecosystem transforms instruction, assessment, communication, and student success. With AI-driven insights and seamless integration, education evolves into a personalized, empowering experience for every learner — and frees educators to do what they do best: inspire.

What if education wasn’t just improved — but transformed? Imagine a future where every student’s path is illuminated by insight, every teacher’s work is magnified by meaningful time, and every system speaks to each other in harmony. In this session, discover how AI-powered integration weaves instruction, assessment, communication, and student growth into a living, unified ecosystem — creating not just smarter schools, but brighter futures. The next chapter of learning isn’t ahead of us; it’s already beginning.