Program | New This Year | Steering Committee

The Program

Three session tracks will give you a choice of sessions so you can learn about what's most important to you and your business. Keynote speakers will frame the big picture of innovation and provide the details necessary to help your business grow.

Business & Finance sessions will examine the different approaches to innovation: acquisition, efficiency, maintenance, leadership, and valuation.

Sales & Marketing sessions will focus on trends that influence customer purchasing and your business, the effects of an election year on how and what you sell, and the impact of Web 2.0 on your company.

Technical & Development sessions will consider open content and technologies, digital classrooms, digital assets, and competing and cooperating in the digital world.

New This Year

Pre-conference Workshops will take place prior to the official opening of the Summit and will be an ideal forum for you to identify your business needs and apply actionable market intelligence. Please note that you need to indicate which workshop you plan to attend when you register.

Business Profiles will let attendees preview companies and technologies new to the education space. Presenting companies will be the Innovation Incubator participants and will introduce their company and product to conference attendees.

Innovation Incubator program will highlight some of our industry's newest companies and products. Based on the successful program at the Ed Tech Business Forum, this program will use the Innovation Incubator Showcase and Welcome Reception and the Business Profiles session to provide company overviews and more in depth insights into who they are and how they're innovative.

The Profiles in Innovation session will feature successful partnerships between Texas Instruments and SRI International and between Tom Snyder Productions and Vanderbilt University. These for-profit/non-profit partnerships have resulted in many successful innovations and this session will explore these two success stories.

The Funding in Innovation session will present a few of the education foundations who are funding various forms of innovation. You'll learn how and why they chose the particular innovations, their results, and how your company benefits.

The CODiE Finalists Showcase & Networking Reception will give attendees time to explore the products/services that have made it to the final round of the CODiE Awards. Many companies who will exhibit include:

• ANGEL Learning, Inc.
• Apangea Learning, Inc.
• Atomic Learning
• Desire2Learn
• eSpindle Learning
• Futurekids, Inc.
• Inspiration Software, Inc.
• LanSchool
• Learning.com
• Learning Enhancement/BrainWare Safari
• LearningExpress
• MIND Research Institute
• Oracle Education Foundation
• Pearson
• Positivo Informatica S/A
• Promethean
• Regent
• Ripple Effects, Inc.
• Scholastic
• Tegrity, Inc.
• Timecruiser Computing Corp.

About SIIA

The SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit conference is produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal global trade association for the software and digital content industries.

SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit represents a collaborative effort of executives from SIIA's Education Division member companies. Truly, no other organization is better situated to produce such a timely and informative conference.

SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit Steering Committee

We are grateful to the following SIIA member company executives for lending their thought-leadership, experience and time on the SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit conference agenda:

• Michael Bijaoui, Managing Director, MESA
• Karen Billings, VP Education Division, SIIA
• Sue Collins, Principal, CollinsConsults
• Christopher Curran, Managing Director, Berkery, Noyes Investment Bank
• Charlene Douglas, Higher Education Marketing Manager, Desire2Learn, Inc.
• Kenni Driver, CEO, Driver Public Relations
• Mark Hammer, Vice President of Marketing, CompassLearning
• Kathryn Hughes, Vice President of Marketing, Tegrity
• Eliot Levinson, CEO, BLEgroup
• Barry Lippman, President & CEO, LearningExpress, LLC
• Nancy Lockwood, Associate Publisher, Technology, National Geographic School Publishing
• Ralph Protsik, Principal, BSG Team Ventures
• John Richards, President, Consulting Services for Education
• Torrance W Robinson, Founder & President, eChalk Inc.
• Sean Ryan, Executive Vice President, Scantron
• Farimah Schuerman, Managing Partner, Academic Business Advisors, LLC
• Joyce Whitby, NYC Metro Director of Strategic Initiatives, Headsprout Early Reading
• Terri Zezula, Director, School Market Development, Scientific Learning