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8:00-9:00am

Opening and Greetings 
Bagels and Bandwidth Breakfast and Roundtable  

After a year of high-paced change, what digital innovations are emerging in 2013? What do they mean for education? What’s missing? Walt Mossberg, the influential  technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal kicks off a lively discussion of what is to be or not to be in 2013.

9:00-9:45am

HigherEdTECH Keynote

9:45-10:30 a.m.

Taking Education to the Cloud

As educational resources move to cloud-based technology, schools are evolving into aggregators of learning. Will this shift to school as a service empower students to customize their education on demand? What are its promises and potential pitfalls? Are there implications for higher education?

John Bailey, Senior Advisor, Whiteboard Advisors and Executive Director, Digital Learning Now!

Dwight Jones, Superintendent, Clark County School District
David Sanchez, Vice President, Product Development and Partnerships, 
Education Elements, Inc.
Curtis Sasaki, Senior Vice President, Media Solutions Center America, Samsung Electronics

10:30-11:15am

High Tech EDU

The digital revolution has invaded the classroom. From content to tools to services, technology is transforming teaching and learning for new generations of students. Preview demos of the latest High-Tech EDU innovations and find out what’s coming next.

Audrey Watters, Writer, Hack Education

Mohit Bhargava, President, LearningMate Solutions Ltd. 
Robbie Melton, Ph.D., Associate Vice Chancellor of TBR eMerging Technologies, Tennessee Board of Regents
Sean M. Corcorran, General Manager of Steelcase Education Solutions, Steelcase Inc. 
Scott Hasbrouck, CEO, Ginkgotree, Inc.

11:15am-12:15pm

Dewey To Digital: Expectations Vs. Experience

What’s the status of the “ever-arriving” digital revolution in textbooks? What keeps digital content and books from being transformative forces in education? Cost? Features? Functionality? Reluctant students or faculty? What will it take for digital content to achieve its great expectations?

Kenneth C. Green, Ph.D., Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project

Vineet Madan, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development,McGraw-Hill Education 
Cable Green, Director, Global Learning, of Creative Commons 
Joann M. Spyker, Vice President, Sales and Higher Education, Copia Interactive LLC 
Matt MacInnis, Founder and CEO, HRMP

12:15-1:15pm

Luncheon: Rewiring College to Career:

Doug Lederman, Editor and Co-founder, Inside Higher Ed

Peter Smith, Ed.D., Senior Vice President, Academic Strategies & Development, Kaplan Higher Education Group
Chip Paucek, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, 2U (formerly 2tor)

1:15-2:00pm

High Tech Backpack

What are students craving, parents buying and backpacks carrying? Peek inside our High-Tech Backpack for demos of the newest devices, mobile Apps and digital services making their way to campuses.

John Bailey, Senior Advisor, Whiteboard Advisors and Executive Director, Digital Learning Now!

Heather Hiles, Founder and CEO, Pathbrite 
Anne Dwayne, Chief Business Officer, Chegg

2:00-3:00pm

Making MOOCs Matter: Assessing, Certifying and Credentialing Learning

MOOC madness is here! Millions are enrolled in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other digital content delivery models. What does this phenomenon mean for students? What’s the value of courses without credit? Is it possible to certify learning on such a mass scale? Can technology do more than deliver content?

Doug Lederman, Editor and Co-founder, Inside Higher Ed

James Applegate, Ph.D., Vice President Program Development, Lumina Foundation
Andrew Ng, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Coursera Inc.
Candace Thille, Director, Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University
Susan E. Cates, Executive Director, MBA@UNC, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina 

3:00-4:00pm

The New Math:  Is Analytics Adding Up?

Is the promise of utilizing analytics to convert educational data into meaningful indicators of learning and performance finally coming true? Dive into case studies of new platforms, APIs and applications that enable personalized instruction and data-driven results. Find out what happens when analytics moves from the business world into education.

Seth Reynolds, Partner, Consulting, The Parthenon Group

Mark Sarver, Ph.D., CEO, eduKan
Jim Ambach, Senior Vice President, Product Management, CourseSmart LLC
Babur Habib, CTO and Co-Founder, Kno Inc.

4:00-5:00pm

Educating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University,

Candice Carpenter Olson, Co-CEO & Founder, The Fullbridge Program
Lawrence H. Summers, Ph.D, Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School