Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, technology activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
Mehmet Muharremoğlu has been working 12 years in public secondary schools as an English teacher. In 2004, he started working as a master teacher for the Department of Strategy Development Planning and Coordination in the General Directorate of Educational Technologies for the Ministry of National Education. He is still carrying on his profession for the ministry, carrying out projects on integration of ICT in education.
Dr. Turan Şişman has been working as lecturer in Universities for many years. He is still carrying out part time courses at University. He started working as Head of the Department of ICT in the General Directorate of Educational Technologies for the Ministry of National Education in 2004. He is still carrying out his both academic and administrative professions.
Maria Stella Gelmini was born in 1973, she is a lawyer, with a specialisation in administrative law.
She integrated the Forza Italia party at its creation in 1994, has been elected in 1998 at the Municipality of Desenzano, and stayed in charge of the Presidency of the Municipal council until 2002.
In 2002 she became city council member to the Province of Brescia and, in 2004, city council member to Agriculture. She joined the Regional Council of the Lombardy in 2005 and was named as regional coordinator of Forza Italia in Lombardy.
In 2006, she was elected for the first time at the Chamber of Deputies, where she was member of the Commission of Justice. She has been re elected in 2008 to the Chamber of Deputies and was named Minister of the Instruction, the University and the Research in the Government of Silvio Berlusconi.
Kirsten Panton works as the Partners in Learning regional lead for Western Europe in Microsoft.
Before joining Microsoft in 2003 as the PiL manager in Denmark, Kirsten had spent 15 years working in the education sector. This includes 11 years at Niels Brock, the largest business college in Denmark in the roles of teacher, program manager and Head of Information. She also held the position of Head of Teacher Development, designing and implementing key pedagogical development for the 2,000 teachers at the college...
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With a background in UK Primary School teaching, Mark has been recognised with numerous ICT and teaching awards. His industry experience spans educational publishing and research and development roles for providers of online learning management systems. He is currently the Head of Education Product Strategy at Promethean.
Christian Lortz is Product Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at SMART Technologies. After four years as Marketing Manager for SMART in Germany, Lortz moved to Calgary, Canada. There he held a Product Manager role directly at the SMART headquarters in 2007 and 2008. Since early 2009, Christian Lortz is based in Germany again and spends his time in the EMEA region to keep a close relationship to local experts and customers. 
Rhyan Bloor is the Branch Manager of the Broadband and Digital Education Branch in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). The Branch is responsible for implementing the Australian Government’s Digital Education Revolution.
The DER represents a $2.2 billion Australian Government investment in ICT in schools over six years...
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Stephen Jury’s role as Promethean Vice Chairman – Education Strategy is to advise the board on strategic issues relating to education. For 7 years prior to September 2007 Stephen was Chief Executive at Promethean. Stephen is committed to progress in education and has served on a number of groups advising Government ministers and agencies. He has also served as a school and college governor. Earlier in his career, Stephen worked in manufacturing and in international trade in London and Miami. Stephen holds a 1st class honours degree from Manchester University and an Open University MBA.
His contributions include a number of inventions and first-time applications including the database publishing industry in India and Bangladesh. His work with multimedia and the ‘hole in the wall’ experiments with unsupervised learning by children are known all over the world.
His current interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organising systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness.
Ms Nafissatou Mbodj is the Executive Director of Schoolnet Africa, President of "Association Culturelle Sénégal USA" (ACSU) and National Coordinator of World links Sénégal since 2000.
Ms Mbodj has a bachelor and a Certificate of Mastery in English from the University of Dakar, Sénégal. She entered the computer field as an English teacher and were part of the pioneers who experimented the World Bank Project: World Links for Development in 1997, that used the computer as a tool to improve quality education and knowledge.
She trained teachers to the use of computer and were the pedagogical responsible for the Computer Lab. Ms Mbodj has also been Fulbright Teacher in St Louis, Missouri, and ICT World links instructor.
Ms Cosgrave leads the EU trade association representing the information technology, consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment sectors. Ms Cosgrave is an Irish national with a 25 year career in telecoms and finance.
Nancy focuses primarily on business development and strategic initiatives and is a frequent speaker on the topic of educational products and solutions for 21st century teaching and learning. SMART’s products are at the heart of almost one million interactive classrooms globally. Employing more than 1,300 people, SMART has offices in North America, Europe and Asia and assembly operations in each of the regions.
A specialist in education technology, Alexa is currently working as a development manager at European Schoolnet. She has consulted for UNESCO Bangkok Asia-Pacific Bureau for Education, UNESCO International Institute of Educational Planning and for the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. She has a Masters in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Solvay Business School, Brussels.
Khalid Mustafa was born in Makassar, Indonesia, in 1977. He joined SEAMOLEC in 2008 as IT Network Manager. Before joining SEAMOLEC, he has been teaching for 3 years in a high school. He also worked at the International Cooperation department of the Ministry of National Education of Indonesia. He part of the SEAMOLEC developer team for SEA EduNet (Southeast Asian Education Network) on networking system. He has a Bachelor Degree in Technique of Electro from ITS Surabaya, Indonesia.
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Timbul Pardede was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, in 1968. He joined SEAMOLEC in 1997 as an IT officer when it was established. Following this, he acted as Assistant Manager for IT, Training Manager and is now PR/Marketing Manager for SEAMOLEC. He has a Bachelor degree in Economics and a Master Degree in Instructional Design and Technology from the Open University of Malaysia. He is married and has one son.
David Puttnam spent thirty years as an independent film producer. His many award winning films include The Mission, the Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and the Memphis Belle.
He retired from film production in 1998 and now focuses on his work in education and the environment. He is Chancellor of the Open University. In 1998 he founded that National Teaching Awards which he Chaired until October 2008...
Jim Ayre has been a Senior Adviser to European Schoolnet since 1997. He has worked closely with EUN staff on the development and management of a number of large-scale content-related projects (CELEBRATE, CALIBRATE, MELT, ASPECT) that have contributed to the launch in December 2008 of EUN's Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) service for schools. He is also currently providing support to EUN working groups on the LRE and Interactive Whiteboards.
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Principal Researcher in primary & secondary education information center of KERIS, Dr Jeong-Hee Seo has worked for KERIS since 1999, and has conducted many projects on ICT integration into K-12 education in Korea such as research on teacher training program , teaching and learning models for ICT use in education, and the impact of ICT in primary and secondary schools, etc. She has conducted joint researches with Stanford SCIL and CERI of OECD. Her working fields are Teaching and Learning Method, Future education, and Adapt new technology into Education and Its impact. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Science Education.
Laurent Odic started teaching at the primary school level in 1992 and then moved on to become a teacher trainer, specialized in ICT. He trained teachers to use new technologies from 1999 to 2001, when he decided to join the French Ministry of Education as a National Project Manager in charge of the uses of ICT for primary schools and Interactive whiteboards. Since September 2007, Laurent Odic has joined eInstruction and is in charge of developing relationships within European educational community.
Greg Black has been a chief executive in large government agencies in Australia for over 20 years. His assignments have covered education, training, employment, science, technology, housing and land development. Greg has led a number of government reviews and enquires and has been responsible for multi-billion dollar budgets and major organizational change.Greg has also worked as an advisor on education and training to governments in the UK, Malaysia and the UAE.
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Liz has been at the helm of the DCSF Global Gateway for nearly four years; it now has more than 25,000 schools on its database and works with other networks such as eTwinning and ePals, adding up to more than 350,000 schools in total across the world. The Gateway offers a school partner-finding service plus project recommendations, ICT advice, and its own simple teacher-managed project spaces on the DCSF eLanguages platform. UK schools are tracked and monitored through the framework of the DCSF International School Award, with an externally assessed final year that requires curriculum embedding and purposeful learning based around school linking. Over 2000 schools in the UK have completed the full award.
Professor Cher Ping LIM is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Excellence for Teacher Education and Innovations and Director of International Partnerships at the School of Education in Edith Cowan University, Australia. He has been the chief investigator of several major research projects that include...
Gavin Dykes is widely experienced in technology and learning, from classroom practice to developing and implementing national e-learning and technology policy. He has over 20 years experience of working with schools, colleges and universities, in government and with industry. His current roles include International Strategy Consultant at Becta and Associate Director of Consulting at Futurelab...
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Lynne Gill is the Programme Manager for the Oracle Education Foundation in Europe, Middle East and Africa. She manages the implementation of Thinkquest; a free online learning platform for students to develop critical skills needed for life and work in the 21st century.
Mary Hooker is an education specialist with over 30 years experience working in the public education sector, 15 years in Ireland and 17 years in Africa. Ms Hooker has taught in all curricular areas of primary education, in TEFL at secondary and tertiary levels, and in Mathematics Pedagogy at tertiary level...
Patricia Wastiau is Special Adviser for Studies and Development at European Schoolnet. She specialises in public policy analysis in education and knowledge-based policy-making. Previously, she was for ten years Director of Eurydice, the information network on education in Europe. She started her career as a researcher in social sciences. Since then she has developed extensive experience in European and international research projects and programmes in education and local development (Erasmus and Socrates programmes, OECD Local Employment Initiative). In recent years, she has been part of several expert groups and committees set up by the European
Commission or the OECD.
He has directed for several years the ANSAS (National Agency for the Development of School Autonomy), the former INDIRE (National Institute for the Development of Innovation and Research in Education) until recent time. He has also planned and developed the first databases of the Italian school system. He is the Chair of European Schoolnet
Appointed as a professor in several Italian universities, Mr Biondi has also taught abroad in foreign universities. He has collaborated with numerous research institutes worldwide, such as ETS (USA) and UNESCO, and since 1985 he has also been involved in several international collaborative projects. He has developed as well experimental programmes such as those in automation, based on cd/isis software (UNESCO), while carrying out educational activities for international organizations (FAO)
Govanni Biondi has also an extensive experience in the management of European programmes and projects. In 1985 he became head of the Italian Eurydice Unit; in 1995 he was appointed as director of the Italian Socrates Agency and in 1996 he was among the founders of European Schoolnet...
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He is responsible for the overall strategy, operation and development of all activities of the EUN Office. Marc is a civil servant from the French Ministry of Education (at the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine), he previously served as Director of two European Commission’s Technical Assistance Offices: COMETT and SOCRATES & YOUTH for DG EAC.
Before joining European Schoolnet he was working in the Pôle Universitaire Européen de Lorraine as Director of development. He developed European projects in the field of education and training and provided consultancy services in the area of European cooperation in education and training.
Roger joined the EUN in 2000 and is part of the management team, responsible in particular for planning and reporting, Insight and the co-ordination of projects related to innovation, validation, ICT policy and pedagogy.
Prior to joining the EUN, he worked in the UK for Becta (setting up one of the UK's first educational websites in 1995) and taught languages in the midlands.
Married with two children and living near Birmingham UK, he works from home, commuting to Brussels for one or two days most weeks.
Professor Alessandro Efrem Colombi is pedagogist and a technology enthusiast, associated professor of didactics at Free University of Bolzano, educational consultant for Intel Corporation and responsible of several research projects and educational experimentations at different school levels. Latest activities refer to one-to-one computing model, disabilities and early language teaching through technologies and more in general to latest declinations of e-learning and digital fluency approaches.
Keith R. Krueger is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a U.S. nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district CTO’s, who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning.
He serves on the Advisory Boards for eSchool News, Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine, the Friday Institute at NC State University, GetNetWise and Generation Y. He is a past Board Member for the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) and served for many years as Board Member and Treasurer of the National Committee on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET). In 2008 he was selected by eSchool News as one of ten people who have had a profound impact on educational technology in the last decade...
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Reem Bsaiso is considered one of the most successful women in Jordan, occupy¬ing a leading role on a Regional level and is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for World Links Arab Region. She served as the initiator of the National ICT Training Strategy for Jordan in 2003, under an MoP - UNDP / UNESCO-Cairo Contract. This included the launch of many ICT and e-learning programmes, such as World Links, Intel-Teach-to-the-Future, ICDL and other technical support pro¬grammes. Reem also contributed to many national initiatives and was part of the Jordanian National Agenda Team, of Employment, Vocational Training and Labour. In addition to that, she has many interests in different arenas and hobbies that she still manages to find time for. She focus¬es in prioritizing her roles, and has excelled in coordinating between her role as a wife, mother and CEO of one of the leading firms in the region.
“An Economist, after a degree in Economics from the University of Turin and a specialization in Economics at the London School of Economics, Andrea Gavosto worked for the Research Centres of Banca d’Italia, Fiat and Confindustria, and has been Chief Economist of Telecom Italia from 2002 to 2007. He carried out several researches on macroeconomics and business economics together with some major Universities and Research Institutions, both in Europe and the US.
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Dr. Fengchun MIAO is the UNESCO Bangkok’s ICT and Education Programme Specialist, serving as the Chief of ICT in Education Unit of UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education. He brings experiences gained from working in a variety of capacities and for decades of countries ranging from diagnostic study and strategic advice, policy making and standard development, teacher trainings on ICT-pedagogy integration and online facilitation for professional development, especially related to uses of ICTs in teaching...
Professor Guilherme Ary Plonski leads the Center for Technology Policy and Management (PGT) at University of São Paulo (USP), and is a faculty of both the Engineering School (Poli) and the Business School (FEA). He is the Director of the Technology Management Applied to Education Area at Fundação Carlos Alberto Vanzolini.
Prof. Plonski was the CEO of the State of São Paulo Technological Research Institute (IPT) from 2001-2006, and also one of the founders and former member of the board of the Latin America and Europe Continuing Education Network (Recla). He has published extensively on different aspects of the innovation environment and processes, such as university-industry cooperation.