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2008 International Symposium SpeakersProfessor Stephen Heppell 
Stephen's founded Ultralab in the 1980s, moving there from the UK Government's groundbreaking Microelectronics Education Programme. "Ultralab is Europe's leading leading research institute pioneering leading edge applications in support of proven educational precepts." "one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world" Financial Times 2001 Stephen's research at Ultralab defined the incoming Blair government's ICT in learning strategy in 1997 and his learning technology work placed him in governments and board rooms around the world. Stephen left Ultralab to found his own flourishing policy and learning consultancy Heppell.net which is now at the heart of innovative learning policy and practice in a host of front running countries. Stephen's eclectic portfolio sees him currently engaged in building a host of radical 21st century schools, developing innovative new approaches to assessment and recognition, evolving new media and steering a number of TV channels, redefining corporate working environments and professional leadership (for example with the accountancy profession) and much more. As a university professor he retains chairs in New Media and also in New Learning Environments and has a remit for Horizon Scanning to guide UK Government policy. "the most influential academic of recent years in the field of technology and education" Department for Education and Skills (DfES), UK, 2006 With his chairmanship of LP+ Stephen is currently developing a Chinese language learning community for 20 million Chinese school students, in partnership with China's Sun New Media corporation. His advice and support is widely sought, by governments and blue chip board rooms alike. There is a waiting list. He sits on a prodigious number of committees, from the British Academy of Film and Theatre Art's Film Committee, to his chairmanship of the charity The Inclusion Trust whose team are engaged in transforming the lives of excluded school students, many on the margins of social inclusion. Stephen is a regular on TV, radio and printed media around the world. This polymathic life is connected by a passion for learning and an ambition for learners. Chuck House 
Chuck House is Executive Director for Media X at Stanford University, as well as Senior Research Scholar in the HSTAR (Human Science and Technology Advanced Research) Division. Instrumental in establishing the Center for Information Technologies and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he has long involvement in Information Systems and their impact on society. House is perhaps best known for work at Hewlett-Packard in defining and creating the logic analysis instrumentation field, which was inspired by earlier work in computer graphics displays. Most recently, House led the Virtual Collaboratory for Intel’s IT Innovation Research group. House has received the Electronics Award of Achievement, 1977; Computer Design Hall of Fame, 1984; IDSA Gold Medals for Software, 1989, ‘90; IEEE Fellow, ‘90; EE Times Historic Contributor Award, 1997; A Smithsonian/Computer Museum National “Wizard of Computing”. IEEE 3rd Millennium Achievement Award, 2000; Electronic Design Hall of Fame, 2002; and CNN #7 on their documentary Top 25 list for the past 25 years (handhelds). His proudest awards might be the HP-granted “Medal of Defiance (’82)”, and the “Chuck House Productivity Award (’90).” Greg Black, Chief Executive Officer, education.au limited James Bosco, EdD, Co-Chair, CoSN International Committee & Emeritus Professor, Western Michigan Univeristy Erin Brockette Reilly, Research Manager, Project New Media Literacies, MIT Comparative Media Studies & Co-Founder, Platform Shoes Forum William Gilcher, PhD, Co-Chair, CoSN International Committee & Director, Media Projects North America, Goethe Institute/German Cultural Center
Birgitte Holm Sorensen, PhD, Director, Research Programme on Media and ICT in a Learning Perspective, School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark Jim Klein, Director, Information Services and Technology, Saugus Union School District, CA
Timothy J. Magner, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education Alejandro Piscitelli, General Manager, Argentina Ministry of Education Urban Reininger, Technology Director, Ross Schools, New York Thiam Seng KOH, PhD, Director, Educational Technology, Ministry of Education, Singapore and Deputy Director, National Institute of Education, Singapore Michael Stevenson, Vice President, Global Education, Cisco Systems, Inc. Guus Wijngaards, PhD, Professor, Center for eLearning, INHOLLAND University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands Yong Zhao, PhD, University Distinguished Professor and Executive Director, Confucius Institute, College of Education, Michigan State University
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Lyndsay Grant, Learning Researcher, Futurelab, United Kingdom
Claudia L’Amoreaux, Community Development – Education, Linden Lab 
Office of Educational Technology is responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of the Department's educational technology policies. The Office's main goal is to maximize technology's contribution to improving education through developing national educational technology policy and implementing that policy department-wide, to support the goals of NCLB. Mr. Magner’s work experience includes serving as the Deputy Executive Director for the Council of Chief State School Officers, the Deputy Director for the Office of Educational Technology, the Executive Director K12 Education for the Microsoft Corporation and the Director of the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). He also served as the Director of Technology for the Framingham Public Schools in Framingham Massachusetts, and taught graduate courses in educational technology at Framingham State College and George Mason University. Mr. Magner began his career as a high school social studies and theater teacher at the middle and high school levels in the US and Europe. Mr. Magner received his bachelor of arts from the College of William & Mary and a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University.
taught for 11 years. Urban has an instatiable appetite for discovering new ways to integrate technology into all aspects of student learning. He takes a student-centered approach to the classroom teaching, encouraging students to learn how to think for themselves, and discover their own solutions, one of the most valuable skills in our ever changing technological world. Hefacilitates the integration of technology at the Ross Schools by through in house professional development programs and working with teachers in the classroom.Urban has also been working to share his ideas and insights of technology integration with other schools like Tensta Gymnasium in Stockholm, Sweden. Urban's goals are to change the way technology is approached and thought about in the classroom, and to empower students in their own learning processes. 
where he is responsible for directing the implementation of the 2nd Masterplan for ICT in education in Singapore schools. Concurrently, he is also the Deputy Director at the National Institute of Education, a university institute within the Nanyang Technological University, where his main responsibility is in overseeing institute-wide educational research agenda. He also directs the National Research Foundation's R&D programme on interactive and digital media in education. Prior to his current appointments, he was the Deputy Director at the Higher Education Division of the Ministry of Education. He was then involved in policy formulation for technical education, arts education and manpower planning for post secondary education, continuing education and training and medical education. He is currently a member of the National Internet and Media Advisory Committee and a Governing Board Member of SEAMEO Regional Open Learning Centre in Indonesia.
the INHOLLAND University: Teacher, Researcher, Journalist, Foreign Secretary teacher union, Secretary General European Association of Teachers (AEDE), Editor in Chief and Projects Manager of CONTEXT, EUN (European Schoolnet) Communication Manager and Deputy Director. Since 1973, he was active in many organizations. To mention a few: Member of the General Board and Chairman of the Working Party Management Training and Education of the European Movement, Member of Scientific Institute of the Dutch Christian Democratic Party, Member of Society of Dutch Literature, Member of Team Europe, National Chairman of the Dutch Herpetology Association “Lacerta”. He attained in May 1973 an MA in Dutch and in February 1986, an Arts PhD on European cultural and scientific history. Mr. Wijngaards has published several books and some 300 articles on educational, cultural, foreign political and literary subjects.