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2006 Conference Plenary SpeakersAllen Robert Adler 
At present, Mr. Adler is Vice President for Legal and Governmental Affairs in the Washington, D.C. office of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the national trade organization which represents our Nation's book and journal publishing industries, where he deals with intellectual property, freedom of speech, new technology, and other industry-related issues. From 1989 until joining AAP in 1996, Mr. Adler practiced law as a member of Cohn and Marks, the Washington, D.C. communications law firm. His practice focused primarily on government relations in areas of federal law, regulation and policy concerning information, telecommunications & technology (e.g., cable & broadcast television, telemarketing, electronic publishing, copyright, postsecondary education and career training programs, and First Amendment interests of the news media). Prior to joining Cohn and Marks, Mr. Adler served as Legislative Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union (1981-1989), where he presented testimony before various committees of Congress on a broad range of issues concerning the public's right to obtain and disseminate information. He also represented the ACLU concerning a variety of public policy matters relating to national security, privacy, and the due process rights of employees in the workplace. During his years as an ACLU attorney, Mr. Adler became well-known for his work involving the Freedom of Information Act; the Privacy Act; requirements for classification and safeguarding of National Security Information; the Federal Personnel Security Clearance Program; and polygraph and drug testing in the workplace. For over sixteen years, Mr. Adler was the editor of annual editions of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws, a popular attorney's handbook for which he received the Playboy Foundation's First Amendment Award for Book Publishing in 1991. Before representing the ACLU, Mr. Adler was a staff attorney with the Center for National Security Studies (1978-1981) and Staff Director for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (1977-1978). Mr. Adler holds a B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1974) and a Juris Doctor from the National Law Center of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. (1978). Mr. Adler has been a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy ("ACICIP") since his appointment to it in 1997. Gary H. Becker 
Gary Becker has been in the field of education since 1965, first as a social science teacher in Fayetteville, New York, then a building level audiovisual coordinator and Director of Educational Communications. Since moving to Florida, in 1981, Mr. Becker has been a Supervisor of Instructional Television, Supervisor of Instructional Computing, Director of Instructional Media & Technology, Supervisor of Instructional Applications and currently, Manager of Media Production (Media, ITV & Distance Learning), for the Seminole County Public Schools in Sanford, Florida. He holds three degrees from Syracuse University. Since 1975, as an avocation, he has been a national copyright law consultant and has published books and produced videotapes and DVD's that are in educational institutions in all fifty states. In his consultant role, he is a presenter, at state and national conferences. He also provides consulting services and inservice training for the public school, college, university and public library communities, in his spare time. Mr. Becker, with his wife Helene, reside in Heathrow, Florida, a northern suburb of Orlando. Herbert Berg, EdD 
Twice named as one of the Top 100 North American Executive Educators by Executive Educators Magazine, Dr. Herb Berg currently serves as superintendent for the Kershaw County School District in Camden, South Carolina, a school system of 10,000 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Dr. Berg was awarded the 2002 Alumni of the Year by the Graduate School of Education at Washington State University after receiving his doctorate there. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from Seattle Pacific University and a master of arts degree from Seattle University. He has served as state president for the Washington Association of School Administrators and president for the School Information and Research Service. In addition, Dr. Berg was a board member for both the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory and Washington State University Foundation and participated in the U.S. Department of State/Office of Overseas Schools' School-to-School Partnerships. Dr. Berg has served as a member of AASA's Leadership Advisory Committee. Gerald Crisci 
Mr. Gerald Crisci is the Director of Technology for the Scarsdale Public Schools in Scarsdale, NY where he helped to develop an innovative computer curriculum that has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, CBS radio's Charles Osgood program. In 2003, Scarsdale was awarded a "Technology Salute" by the National School Boards Association, one of three districts selected nationally. Mr. Crisci has served as a contributing editor at Electronic Learning magazine and a columnist for Kids and Computers magazine. His articles and software reviews have appeared in many books and publications, including Electronic Learning, Classroom Computer Learning, Multimedia Schools, Kids and Computers, Instructor, Technology Horizons in Education and Middle Years. Mr. Crisci has served as an adjunct professor at the St. Thomas Aquinas College and a technology instructor at several ASCD Summer Technology Academies. He has presented papers at many conferences, including the International Conference on Technology and Education at MIT, the NSBA T+L Conference and at several National Educational Computing Conferences. Mr. Crisci is also President of Chestnut Grove Studios, an educational technology consulting firm and software design studio. He has authored two commercial software packages - They Came to Ellis Island and The Multimedia Project Planning Kit. Mr. Crisci has a B.A. from Rutgers University, an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a C.A.S from Teachers College, Columbia University. C. Jackson Grayson, Jr., PhD 
Dr. C. Jackson Grayson, Jr. has a bachelor's degree from Tulane University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in business from Harvard Business School. His academic career has included professorships at Harvard, Stanford, Tulane and SMU and he has acted as dean of two business schools - Tulane University and SMU - where he became known for instituting innovations in business education. Dr. Grayson is a CPA and has been on the board of directors of a number of large corporations. Dr. Grayson's career, however, is not confined to business. He believes in variety, constant learning, experimentation and fun. His career has included being a newspaper reporter in New Orleans, a special agent of the FBI, a manager of a cotton farm in Louisiana, a member of an export-import firm and an owner of race horses. In November 2003, Dr. Grayson received a Distinguished Service Medal from the American Society for Quality for: ".sustained distinguished service to the quality profession through his contribution as the initiator of quality improvement programs at the national, state and local levels and his continuing challenge to take quality into every aspect of human life." Jim Hirsch 
Jim Hirsch is in his 31st year serving public education and promoting the use of educational technology. During that time he worked with thousands of teachers across the United States and Canada to integrate technology into daily classroom curriculum activities and hundreds of school districts on strategic technology planning and curriculum design. Mr. Hirsch is a Past-Chair of the Board for the Consortium for School Networking, a Washington, DC based advocacy group, and is a member of the editorial advisory boards for Scholastic Administr@tor and eSchool News. He has published more than 100 articles in a variety of professional journals and has authored three books on educational technology. Rich Kaestner 
Rich Kaestner, a K-12 TCO Consultant, is CoSN's Total Cost of Ownership Project Director. Rich was responsible for coordinating the development of the CoSN-Gartner K-12 TCO tool and provides support and training for this web-based tool. Rich is also focusing on CoSN ubiquitous student computing and Value of Investment initiatives. Prior to CoSN, Mr. Kaestner developed a strong technology background in sales, support and management for various vendors, most recently as a consultant with Gartner. Kosmo Kalliarekos 
Mr. Kalliarekos is a founding member and Senior Partner with The Parthenon Group, a strategic advisory boutique consisting of 150 members located in Boston, London and San Francisco. At Parthenon, Mr. Kalliarekos heads the firm's Education Industry Center of Excellence. For over 15 years, Mr. Kalliarekos has advised clients on issues related to operational excellence, strategy development and new venture creation. Parthenon's client relationships span several countries covering many industries, including consumer products, financial services, technology, publishing and educational institutions. His clients include a wide range of organizations from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and some of the world's largest foundations. Mr. Kalliarekos has been a featured speaker on issues relating to the education industry at several forums, including the Congressional Joint Committee on Education, The World Bank and the American Association of Publishers among others. Mr. Kalliarekos graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also received an M.B.A. with High Distinction, from Harvard Business School. Katie Lovett 
Ms. Lovett's responsibilities for enterprise wide information and communication technologies. Fulton County School System serves the area of Fulton County outside the city limits of Atlanta, Georgia; with approximately 10,000 full-time employees; and more than 80,000 students who attend 52 elementary schools, 18 middle schools, and 14 high schools. Ms. Lovett is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Consortium of School Networking (CoSN), Chief Technology Officers Council and has been instrumental in creating and leading the Metro-Atlanta Chief Information Officers Council. She has presented on numerous occasions including participation in the Capital Hill Briefing on Data Driven Decision-Making in Washington DC. Ms. Lovett has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Ohio State University, and Master of Science Degree in Education Administration from the University of Akron, Ohio. Bob Moore 
Mr. Bob Moore is the Executive Director of IT Services for Blue Valley USD 229 in Overland Park, Kansas. Following undergraduate work in international business and foreign languages he earned his M.S. in Management Information Systems from Auburn University. He has since enjoyed a career of more than 18 years in educational technology leadership, the past 11 in Blue Valley. Under his leadership in Blue Valley, a K-12 district of just 20,000 students, district patrons have approved nearly $80 million in technology bonds. The total invest in technology improvements will exceed $125 million in a 15 year period. In 2001, Blue Valley was host of a prestigious NSBA-ITTE Technology Site Visit. Mr. Moore has been an active leader both locally and nationally. He is a 2003 graduate of Leadership Overland Park, former member of the Kansas Technology Advisory Board and has served the Blue Valley Educational Foundation for the past five years as a grant and scholarship reviewer. Mr. Moore has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) for the past 5 years, including a two-year term as chairman. Other work with CoSN has included Board Treasurer, conference chair and liaison to the Safeguarding the Wired Schoolhouse initiative and Emerging Technologies Committee. In 2003, Mr. Moore represented CoSN as a keynote speaker at the APEC Education Conference in Taiwan and in 2004 he participated in a delegation of U.S. educators visiting Australia. His most recent efforts with CoSN are concentrated in the area of one-to-one, or ubiquitous, technology environments in schools, serving as a CoSN advisor to Project Inkwell and as the Board liaison for CoSN's one-to-one work. He is also the CoSN Board liaison for the Accessible Technologies for All initiative. In addition to many other education leadership activities, Mr. Moore serves on the National Education Advisory Board for Cable in the Classroom, the editorial advisory boards of eSchool News and Scholastic Administr@tor publications and the education advisory board of IntelliTools, Inc. He is frequently invited to speak at education conferences and has authored several articles on technology use in schools. David Pearce Snyder 
David Pearce Snyder, Contributing Editor of The Futurist magazine, is a data-based forecaster whose thousands of seminars and workshops on strategic thinking have been attended by representatives from most of the Fortune 500 companies, local and federal government agencies, educational institutions and trade associations. Before entering private practice as a consulting futurist in 1981, Mr. Snyder was Chief of Information Systems, and later, Senior Planning Officer for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, where he designed and managed the IRS Strategic Planning System. He was also a consultant to the RAND Corporation, and served as an instructor for the Federal Executive Institute, and for Congressional and White House staff development programs. Mr. Snyder has published hundreds of studies, articles and reports on the specific future of a wide range of U.S. institutions, industries and professions, and on the socio-economic impacts of new technologies. He is the editor/co-author of five books, including Future Forces and a sequel, America in the 1990s, both published by the American Society of Association Executives. He has appeared on Nightline, the Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the BBC World Service. Saul Rockman 
Mr. Saul Rockman is president of Rockman et al, an independent evaluation, research and consulting firm that focuses on the impact of education, technology and media. Rockman works with preschool, K-12, postsecondary and adult educational institutions undertaking formal education, as well as with broadly educational projects having a wide community or consumer audience. In addition to core education initiatives, such as research on school reform and teacher professional development, the company conducts research on public television and radio series, children's television programs and websites and edutainment products. The group's interests include school improvement programs, English language learners, education and technology policy, after school programs, audience and consumer impact and the effects of telecommunications and media. Mr. Rockman established Rockman et al in 1990 after leaving the education marketing group of Apple Computer where he was manager of education research. Prior to joining Apple, Mr. Rockman was director of technology programs at WestEd in San Francisco, California. Before moving to San Francisco, Mr. Rockman was director of research at the Agency for Instructional Technology in Bloomington, Indiana. Gigi B. Sohn 
Gigi B. Sohn is President and Co-Founder of Public Knowledge (PK), a nonprofit organization that addresses the public's stake in the convergence of communications policy and intellectual property law. Ms. Sohn serves as PK's chief strategist, fundraiser and public face. She is frequently quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, as well as in trade and local press. Ms. Sohn has been published in the Washington Post, Variety, CNET and Legal Times. In addition, she has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including the Today Show, The McNeil-Lehrer Report, C-SPAN's Washington Journal and National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Ms. Sohn is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law, Graduate Studies Program in Australia. She has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Ms. Sohn served as a Project Specialist in the Ford Foundation's Media, Arts and Culture unit and as Executive Director of the Media Access Project, a public interest law firm that represents citizens' rights before the FCC and the courts. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Ms. Sohn to serve as a member of his Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. Ms. Sohn holds a B.S. in Broadcasting and Film, Summa Cum Laude, from the Boston University College of Communication and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Pre-Conference AYP Workshop Keynote SpeakersJohn Bailey 
John Bailey currently serves as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary of Commerce on issues related to immigration, innovation, economic competitiveness and health care. In this position, he formulates and recommends policy positions and initiatives for the Department. In addition, he represents the Secretary on the U.S. Department of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
Michelle Klink, PhD Dr. Michelle Klink, Senior Policy Associate, joined the Alliance in May 2005. She brings with her a background in policy, research and teaching. Dr. Klink came to the Alliance from Capitol Hill where she served as a Legislative Aide for Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME). There, she was the senator's lead policy advisor on matters relating to welfare reform, education, child welfare and other domestic social policy. Prior to working on Capitol Hill, Dr. Klink served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy.
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