Pitt Information Technology has developed the IT 10-Year Horizon and we want your feedback. The Horizon is a strategic roadmap to advance the University’s Plan for Pitt. Through it, we will help shape the University’s digital future and enable students, faculty, and staff to achieve their goals. The Horizon provides the agility we need to meet looming challenges and seize new opportunities in uncertain times. Key initiatives are already underway. Your voice is invaluable as we finalize this important plan.
Our Objectives
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Engage Stakeholders Engage a broad and diverse set of stakeholders across the institution to articulate student, academic, administrative, research, and community needs. | Develop Pillars Develop a set of IT Strategic Pillars and goals for the Horizon, aligned with Pitt’s student, academic, administrative, research, and community needs. | Identify Initiatives Identify a list of IT initiatives aligned to the IT Strategic Pillars and goals for the Horizon that Pitt can undertake over the next 10 years. | Align With Aspirations Define a vision for aligning the future of the University’s strategic vendor partnerships with the University’s aspirations. | Prioritize Resources Help prioritize future allocation of resources to secure the Horizon’s success. |
Health Sciences and Medical Innovation Hub
Pitt IT, in partnership with Dell technologies, is creating the IT infrastructure to establish Pittsburgh as the epicenter for computationally enabled health sciences. The Health Sciences and Medical Innovation Hub is a transformative collaboration of the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon University, and Dell to accelerate the translation of research into tangible benefits for humankind. The Hub uses technology to advance research on health initiatives that will contribute to Dell’s moonshot goal of positively impacting 1 billion people by 2030. Initial projects include research to combat breast cancer and support for the Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet).
Strategic Alignment
- IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Transform the Healthcare Industry
- Plan for Pitt Alignment: It’s Possible at Pitt
AI Tech Community
NVIDIA selected Pittsburgh as the location of its first AI Tech Community lab in the U.S. Created in partnership with CMU and with Governor Josh Shapiro’s support, Pitt’s lab will focus on AI and Intelligent Systems.
Strategic Alignment
- IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Champion the City and the Commonwealth
- Plan for Pitt Alignment: Be Welcoming and Engaged
AI Enablement Team
Pitt IT’s new AI Enablement team works with the University community to create opportunities to use AI to increase effectiveness, enhance efficiency, and reduce costs. They are currently exploring three primary areas:
- PittGPT: Private GPT tools to deliver secure and private generative AI solutions for campus
- Pitt AI Chat: AI chatbots that will be able to answer user questions and assist in finding information contained within University websites and knowledge bases
- Pitt AI Connect: A secure solution that allows the University IT community to use cloud-based, AI-centric APIs for software development at a reasonable cost
Strategic Alignment
- IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Revolutionize the Student Experience
- Plan for Pitt Alignment: Promote Accountability and Trust
Cloud Innovation Center, Powered by AWS
The University of Pittsburgh and AWS recently launched a new Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), an innovative partnership between the University and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Powered by AWS, our CIC is the first of its kind in the Eastern U.S. and only the third in the nation. Our transformative partnership with AWS combines Pitt’s leadership in the health sciences and athletics with AWS's powerful machine learning and AI services to enable student interns to solve real-world, data-focused challenges. Our CIC interns also benefit from AWS's world class training and resources.
Strategic Alignment
- IT 10-Year Horizon Alignment: Revolutionize the Student Experience
- Plan for Pitt Alignment: Cultivate Student Success
Learn what we plan to accomplish, how we plan to accomplish it, and who we are working with to do it.
Alignment with University Strategy
The Horizon is fully aligned with IT’s role in supporting the goals outlined in the University's Plan for Pitt, led by Chancellor Gabel. It also looks further into the future state of the University’s evolving digital needs.
Priorities
Some of the priorities we explore include creating personalized learning pathways through AI and analytics, improving broadband access and digital literacy, adopting transformative technologies to advance research, supporting workforce development, and positioning Pittsburgh as the epicenter for computationally enabled health sciences.
The IT 10-Year Horizon features three phases. It will last through spring 2025 and include all schools, centers, and campuses.
Phases
We expect this effort to last through spring 2025 and include administrators, faculty, students, staff, researchers, governance groups, community stakeholders, regional contacts, and vendor partners. It features three phases:
Phase 1: Discovery & Visioning
Phase 1 focused on gathering perspectives from a broad and diverse array of University stakeholders. We solicited feedback about opportunities, challenges, and barriers that the University faces as an institution and specifically related to the future of digital technology and how it can help advance the institution's goals. The data we collected informed the development of the high-level IT strategic pillars and goals.
Phase 2: Strategic Choice & Design
Phase 2 focused on refining the elements of the Horizon, taking into consideration reasonable expectations of resources to realistically achieve the strategic goals and initiatives. The conclusion of this phase was marked by the production of the Horizon.
Phase 3: Refine and Finalize (In Progress)
In Phase 3, we will focus on refining the draft Horizon into its final form by socializing it with the entire University community and collecting feedback.
Your input and insights are critical to the success of this effort.
We have socialized the Horizon with senior leadership and are now soliciting input from faculty, students, staff, researchers, governance groups, community stakeholders, regional contacts, and vendor partners.
We want to hear from you. Please take a moment to review the Horizon and share your thoughts with us.