Host Sponsor | Program Sponsor | Conference Track Sponsors | Networking Break Sponsor | Innovation Incubator Sponsors
Industry Partners | Sponsorship Packages
We are pleased to announce that our sponsorship package for the 5th annual Ed Tech Industry Summit has sold out. We appreciate the generosity and support of our 2008 sponsors.
Host Sponsor
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Pearson
Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services, helping people of all ages to learn at their own pace, in their own way. For students preK-12, Pearson provides effective and innovative curriculum products in all available media, educational assessment and measurement for students and teachers, student information systems, and teacher professional development and certification programs. Pearson's respected brands include Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, AGS, PowerSchool, SuccessMaker, TeacherVision and many others. The company's comprehensive offerings help inform targeted instruction and intervention so that success is within reach of every student. Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
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Program Sponsor
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BLE Group
Brennan Levinson Enterprise (BLE) is a Washington, DC-based educational technology firm founded in 1994, specializing in all facets of technology planning, training, and implementation in schools. With staff located throughout the US, BLE Group is dedicated to "making technology work in schools." BLE Group consultants are leading educators as well as experts in the strategies and practices of using technology to improve education.
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International Education Technology Associates, Inc.
IETA is a group of consultants and industry experts for using, exploring and developing technology in education, worldwide. It is comprised of former educators, manufacturer’s representatives, administrators, technical advisors and experts, from all levels of education and industry, from all over the world. Our associates operate completely independently, calling upon each other for expertise, advice and partnering, resulting in over 200 years of experience and practical management abilities. Our associates have expertise in education, technology administration, sales, marketing, strategy formation and implementation, systems design, technology transfer, market research, venture and grant funding, and hosting productive, results based high-level trade missions, both to and from the US.
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McGraw-Hill Higher Education
At McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions, everything we do is designed to empower educators to teach today's students to succeed tomorrow. Our carefully crafted learning solutions include some combination of content, technology and curriculum...might be yours, might be ours. We collaborate with you to deliver holistic students-centered experiences that result in learning in any environment -- traditional, online or hybrid.
Whether you are searching for customized textbooks and supplements, a new curriculum or online courses for an entire discipline or institution, McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions delivers learning transformations. We believe courses shouldn't be built around a table of contents but around what students need to know, and how they need it delivered.
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Conference Track Sponsors
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BUSINESS & FINANCE TRACK
BSG Team Ventures
BSG TeamVentures/Boston Search Group is a national leader in retained executive search within the education and eLearning domains. Since 1997 our principals have been engaged to fill more than 200 senior-management positions at the VP level and above, for a slate of clients that includes venture capitalists and private investors, their portfolio companies, and both public companies and not-for-profits with a strong commitment to entrepreneurship and technology. The BSG-Team Ventures partnership provides particular expertise to European and American companies as they expand abroad.
For a selected list of BSG Team Ventures searches in the education field, click on: Education Searches.
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TECHNICAL & DEVELOPMENT TRACK
Educational Systemics
Educational Systemics offers both breadth and depth of experience in education, technology, and business planning for the K12 market. Our team is dedicated to supporting those committed to ensuring children receive the education they need to realize their potential. We work closely with K12 businesses to conceptualize, design, develop, position, and identify opportunities for products that address the needs of the education community. New for 2008 is our Decision Support Systems Report and MatchMaker K12, a system that marries publishers’ content with management systems’ tools so educators can find instructional materials that address their students’ needs. For more information, please visit www.edusystemics.com
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SALES & MARKETING TRACK
Education Clip Library / ITN Source
Education Clip Library (ECL) is a unique library of educationally contextualized video clips for licensing by educational publishers. ECL offers access to thousands of 'right cleared' clips taken mainly from high-quality television news and feature programs, or specially-shot material. All subjects at the K-12 level are covered.
ECL is a partnership between ITN Source, one of the largest video content libraries in the world, and award-winning Espresso Education which adds an educational contextualization layer, honed by years of experience developing video-rich education services.
Whether it's modeling handwriting for very young children, or analyzing how famous authors create their books, or understanding the reasons behind a tsunami, or watching Dr Martin Luther King lead the march from Selma - the Education Clip Library has it all.
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Innovation Incubator Sponsors
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Academic Business Advisors, LLC
Academic Business Advisors, LLC (ABA) finds and grows companies that are going to transform and improve the education landscape. We will make our mark on education by being the catalyst for the growth, networking, and distribution of excellence.
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Flatworld/Education 2000
Flatworld Software, a division of Edu2000, is a leading consulting and outsourcing development services company with offices in Nevada, California, and China. Unlike other outsourcing software development firms, Flatworld specializes in the education market. Flatworld's founders bring 50 years of K-12 development experience to the market. Flatworld has expertise in math and science content development and alignment, assessment solution and item creation, and data management solutions development. Flatworld has extensive database, programming and graphics capabilities. Flatworld Software can help your company get upgrades and new products to market quicker, at high quality, with great savings. Flatworld Software is your scalable, reliable, and secure development partner.
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Intel
Intel Corporation supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers and networking and communications products. Intel’s mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy. Intel is a trusted advisor and consultant to education in the technology field. Through our relationships with manufacturers and application service providers for both content and services, we are able to advise and help schools and districts move as far down the technology road as possible. For more information about one-to-one computing in your school system, visit www.k12blueprint.com
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Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc.
Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc. helps school districts more effectively manage the individualized learning process for all students receiving special services or interventions. Spectrum K12 works collaboratively with districts of all sizes to deliver scalable, easy-to-use software solutions that lift the burden of paperwork from education professionals so they can focus on the most important part of their work: educating children and improving student achievement. For more information, visit www.spectrumK12.com or call 1-800-490-8445.
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VIP Tone
VIP Tone, Inc. provides a unique data integration and knowledge management platform for the global education market that is a key enabler in addressing the market's two highest priorities: measuring and benchmarking of student achievement and improving school accountability. VIP Tone's School MATRIX Platform is an end-to-end web-based education enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that delivers a Student Information System, Instructional Management System, Assessment System, Content Delivery System, and a compete Financial Management System. The VIP Tone Enterprise Portal delivers K-20 specific services, content and applications including new VoIP Telephony Infrastructures and services.
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Networking Break Sponsor
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TutorVista.com
TutorVista.com is the world's leading online tutoring company with over 100,000 registered users. We want to establish lucrative partnerships with education industry leaders in publishing, software, hardware, products, and services. We can offer free and up-sell world-class tutoring and “live help” to supplement and differentiate your offerings. We tutor K-12 and college students in over 30 subjects, 24x7. Students can get an unlimited tutoring subscription for just $99.99 per month or low-cost by-the-minute packages. Students schedule sessions with their preferred tutors and get instant, on-demand tutoring too. Tutor and student talk to each other naturally using voice (VoIP) and share an interactive whiteboard to work problems, simulations, assessments and other tasks.
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Industry Partners
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Campus Technology
Campus Technology is the only monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across higher education. Campus Technology provides in-depth coverage of specific technologies and their implementations, including wireless networks and mobile devices; enterprise resource planning; e-learning and course management systems; ‘smart classroom’ technologies; telecom, Web, and security solutions--all the important issues for campus IT decision makers.
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District Administration
Published monthly, District Administration magazine reaches the senior leadership in every school district in the US. The editorial mission of District Administration is to provide these education leaders with the resources they need to make the best purchasing and management decisions possible on behalf of the students, teachers and communities they serve.
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Focus Marketing
For more than a decade, Focus Marketing, Inc., sponsor of SellingToSchools.com, has helped companies promote and sell their technology products -- software, computer hardware, and web-delivered content -- using proven techniques and innovative programs that develop business opportunities with faculty, administrators, and students in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities. SellingToSchools.com (STS) is an award-winning professional learning community sponsored by Focus Marketing, Inc. STS is the place where sales and marketing professionals share tips, advice, and resources that offer continuous improvement for selling to schools. |
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Marketing Projects, Inc./The Big Deal Book
The Big Deal Books, published by Marketing Projects, Inc., are content-rich resources for K-12 educators targeted to specific audiences. These groups include technology specialists, educators of struggling students (middle school/high school) and educators of English language learners. Each publication provides timesaving, resource-building information focusing on grant opportunities, free and inexpensive materials and equipment, interactive Web sites and resources for 21st century teaching and learning. Under the Big Deal umbrella, Marketing Projects, Inc. also publishes a free biweekly technology e-newsletter and a free e-newsletter for educators of English language learners called hELLo! www.bigdealbook.com |
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Quality Education Data
QED is a marketing services firm focused solely on the education market. QED's 360 degree Education Marketing Solution provides a one-stop -shop for businesses looking to more effectively and efficiently target schools. Turn to QED for comprehensive mailing and e-mail lists for pre K to higher ed as well as Market Research, Database Analysis, Advertising, and Creative Services.
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Quality Education Data
QED is a marketing services firm focused solely on the education market. QED's 360 degree Education Marketing Solution provides a one-stop -shop for businesses looking to more effectively and efficiently target schools. Turn to QED for comprehensive mailing and e-mail lists for pre K to higher ed as well as Market Research, Database Analysis, Advertising, and Creative Services.
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T.H.E Journal
T.H.E. Journal informs and educates K-12 administrators, technologists, and educators to improve and advance teaching and administration through the use of technology. Each issue contains news, trends, and features covering networking, security, policy and advocacy, telecom, hardware/software, the smart classroom, mobile computing and wireless, technology funding, professional development, and more. In addition, T.H.E. Journal includes product reviews and best practices each month.
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