Some top organizations of interest to campus information technology (IT) staff are:

• University of California Computer Services Conference (UCCSC).
  • Also see UC Berkeley at UCCSC.
• EDUCAUSE is a consortium of interest to planners and managers of information technologies in higher education.
• USENIX (Advanced Computing Systems Association) holds a variety of conferences for "the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world."

Some interesting upcoming conferences on IT-related topics, both general and specific, include:

ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (ACM SIGUCCS) annual Fall Conference
September 21-24, 2003, San Antonio, TX

LISA '03 — 17^th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference
October 26-31, 2003, San Diego, CA

EDUCAUSE 2003
November 4-7, 2003, Anaheim, California

SANS 9th Annual Network Security Conference
November 13-19, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana