Mon Apr 21
3:00 PM
New to the Ed-Fi Community? Need a refresher on the Ed-Fi Technology and Data Standards? Join this session to get up to speed and comfortable with all things Ed-Fi technology.
Rostering Steering Committee members are invited to join this pre-conference session to share feedback and input on the revised roster coordination documents developed by 1EdTech and the Ed-Fi Alliance technical teams.
5:30 PM
We're so glad you're here! Join us for an informal welcome reception.
Tue Apr 22
6:30 AM
Early riser? Join members of the Ed-Fi Alliance community for a morning stroll. No promises of seeing the local Mouse!
8:00 AM
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Get a good start and enjoy great conversation by starting your morning off right. If you have signed up for our mentoring program, please look for more details on connecting with your mentor in your email.
9:15 AM
The Technical Congress is a vital community convening where you, the Ed-Fi Community, gather to discuss, share, and engage and shape the future of our shared efforts. In this first town hall, we will open the Congress with the progress we've made since last year and provide an overview of the technology roadmap.
10:30 AM
As an Education Service Agency or LEA, your implementation shares common use cases and needs and encounters similar challenges. ESAs and LEAs understand local needs and provide collaborative support services that drive local data use, including demand coordination, governance, and setting API requirements. This Community Conversation will work to create recommendations for the Ed-Fi Technical Roadmap to meet the needs of the growing Ed-Fi Community from a local data use perspective.
The MSP Community Conversation will be a moderated discussion on scaling the reach of interoperable data through "Ed-Fi as a service." In this session we will explore the market and discuss how to leverage the Ed-Fi standard as a service for customers, focusing on enabling data hubs. Engage with peer MSPs, share your experiences with the Ed-Fi Alliance, and collaborate to create recommendations for the Ed-Fi Technical Roadmap, ensuring it meets the needs of the growing Ed-Fi Community from an MSP perspective.
You are in the position of providing data over the Ed-Fi API to meet the needs of your customers in states, districts, and anything in between. Your work is essential to the Ed-Fi community and to the success of students across the country. Join this community conversation to engage with peer product companies and share your experiences with each other and the Ed-Fi Alliance. This Community Conversation will work to create recommendations for the Ed-Fi Technical Roadmap to meet the needs of the growing Ed-Fi Community from the perspective of the vendors.
As a State Education Agency, your implementation follows certain patterns and shares common opportunities and challenges. This SEA Community Conversation will be a moderated discussion session where we will set the context for statewide transformation and explore the levers of compliance to unlock vendor support for local use cases. Engage with peers and share your experiences with each other and the Ed-Fi Alliance as we dive into CEDS, governance, change management, policy levers, and vendor burden reduction, aiming to create recommendations for the Ed-Fi Technical Roadmap to meet the needs of the growing Ed-Fi Community from a state perspective.
As an Implementation Partner, you work across the Ed-Fi Alliance community in support of implementations of all shapes and sizes. Join this community conversation to engage with peer integrators and support parttners to share your experience with each other and the Alliance. We'll dive into vendor burden reduction efforts, badging, and how to guide change management for successful implementations.
12:00 PM
Join us back in the Serenity Garden for a bit of a break, some fresh air, and of course lunch!
1:15 PM
Project Tanager has been an effort over the last couple of years to modernize architecture and meet the evolving needs of the community. In this session we will provide an overview of the work to date and introduce the release candidate of the new Data Management Services platform. We'll demonstrate functionality, review timelines, and field your questions as we look into the future of our work.
This session will provide an overview of the most common implementations that are currently in the ecosystem for deployment of the Ed-Fi platform. We'll talk about the benefits and challenges to each approach and how to scale your work to support better student outcomes.
When students move, their information can lag, causing issues staying on track. For military students, this has a compounding impact. Join this session to hear more about an effort to support seamless IEP data transfer for military connected students and how the Ed-Fi Data Standard is supporting this work.
Assessment data is essential to understanding how students are progressing through their learning journey. Join this working session to engage in defining common use cases for assessment certification.
Cyber security on your mind? Ours too. Join this session to share and hear about security best practices and discuss what's next and what's needed for the Ed-Fi Alliance community.
2:15 PM
This session will highlight how edtech companies can work together to unlock assessment data and serve their customers.
Engaging with vendors as partners in this work is a key to long-term success. This session will provide essential information on how to engage education technology vendors. We'll discuss building relationships, communicating initiatives, and the dos and don'ts of data requirements.
Is your business logic logical? This session will address best practice around business logic. Separating your business logic from the Data Standard significantly reduces burden on vendor integrations and supports implementation success.
Change comes fast, and we want to keep on top of it. Join this session to discuss emerging technologies and the impact on the Ed-Fi Roadmap. How do data lakes, AI, and more change the Ed-Fi tech roadmap? Let's decide together.
Have you seen what's new in ODS/API 7.3? Join this session to see a demonstration of new functionality, including new extensible authorization filtering and more.
3:30 PM
How do we use best practice to guide changes to certification? Join this session to dig into domain areas, best practice for use, and the upcoming changes to certification.
When you set out to implement Ed-Fi to support local use cases and needs you can unlock increasing value for students. Getting there requires change. In this session, you'll hear best practices for governance and change management and learn how to apply them to your own context.
A high school student in Wisconsin takes the ACT test and, like magic, the results are delivered back, illuminating a college and career readiness indicator. Come to this session to hear how ACT developed and put to use a pull API model to accelerate speed to value in assessment results.
So you've been following Project Tanager and want move to the Data Management Service platform – let's talk about how to get there. Join this session to plan for the use of and migration to the Data Management Service platform.
JW Marriott Anaheim, Arbor B
States are taking the lead in building and maintaining high-quality, interoperable data ecosystems to support economic mobility, student outcomes, workforce development, and citizen engagement. This session will explore how state-led efforts can sustain and expand CEDS through an open-source, standards-driven infrastructure. We will share insights from the Ed-Tech Collaboratory (ETC), which includes CIOs from multiple states working to develop interoperable, user-friendly data solutions.
4:30 PM
As a community we always strive for what's new and what's next – pushing for continuous improvement and collaborating to enable more impact. Join us for this plenary session to hear how we can take the next steps in enabling the data and technology ecosystems that will take us into the future.
5:30 PM
After a long and exciting day, please join us for a relaxing happy hour.
Wed Apr 23
6:30 AM
Early riser? Join members of the Ed-Fi Alliance community for a morning stroll. No promises of seeing the local Mouse!
8:00 AM
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day! Get a good start and enjoy great conversation by starting your morning off right.
9:15 AM
We're excited to share the release candidate for the Data Management Service. Join this session for a demonstration of potential uses cases for streaming data coming from this new architecture.
Learn how to leverage the Education Preparation Data Model as you support your teacher candidates and understand your educator pipeline.
Last year, you told us loud and clear that coordination on the assessment use case was needed across existing standards. Join this session to hear from the Ed-Fi Alliance and 1EdTech teams about the efforts around this coordination and provide feedback to help guide that emerging development.
From flat files to automation, learn how open specifications are revolutionizing the data validation and state reporting processes in the real world.
10:15 AM
Discover how the Ed-Fi Data Standard can help districts validate CALPADS data daily. This session will demonstrate how to identify and resolve data errors and warnings directly in the source system, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
What is in a credential? Come to this session to hear an overview of the Ed-Fi Alliance Badges and Credential offerings, how to use them, how to earn them, and what else you need out of them.
Project Tanager has been an effort over the couple of years to modernize architecture and meet the evolving needs of the community. In this session we will provide an overview of the work to date and introduce the release candidate of the new Data Management Services platform. We'll demonstrate functionality, review timelines, and field your questions as we look into the future of our work.
This session will provide an overview of the most common implementations that are currently in the ecosystem for deployment of the Ed-Fi platform. We'll talk about the benefits and challenges to each approach and how to scale your work to support better student outcomes.
Is your business logic logical? This session will address best practice around business logic. Separating your business logic from the Data Standard significantly reduces burden on vendor integrations and supports implementation success.
11:15 AM
How do we use best practice to guide changes to certification? Join this session to dig into domain areas, best practice for use, and the upcoming changes to certification.
When you set out to implement Ed-Fi to support local use cases and needs you can unlock increasing value for students. Getting there requires change. In this session, you'll hear best practices for governance and change management and learn how to apply them to your own context.
Your voice and experience is what drives our collective work. In this session we will have a discussion on the respective roles of the community and the Ed-Fi Alliance in shaping and delivering the future of the Ed-Fi technology suite.
So you've been following Project Tanager and want move to the Data Management Service platform – let's talk about how to get there. Join this session to plan for the use of and migration to the Data Management Service platform.
12:00 PM
Join us back in the Serenity Garden for a bit of a break, some fresh air, and of course lunch!
Members of the Governance Advisory Team and the Technical Advisory Group are requested to join a working leadership lunch.
1:15 PM
Rejoin your colleagues from the ESA+LEA community to debrief your learnings and next steps in advancing our collective work.
Rejoin your colleagues from the MSP community to debrief your learnings and next steps in advancing our collective work.
Rejoin your colleagues from the Student Information and Assessment system vendors community to debrief your learnings and next steps in advancing our collective work.
Rejoin your colleagues from the SEA community to debrief your learnings and next steps in advancing our collective work.