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Kimbery A. Smith |
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Ben Wallerstein |
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Jenna Schuette Talbot |
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Inside Higher Ed |
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Doug Lederman |
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Living in Digital Times produces conferences and exhibits throughout the year that bring together the most knowledgeable leaders and the latest innovations that intersect technology and lifestyle. Among their many goals is to help companies understand what it means to be a consumer in today’s digital world and stay a step ahead in identifying key trends in their given marketplace. Living in Digital Times produces the following summits and exhibitions at 2013 CES: CloudBase3, Digital Health Summit, Silvers Summit, Fitness Tech Summit, HigherEd Tech Summit, Kids@Play Summit, MommyTech Summit, Mobile Apps Showdown, Last Gadget Standing, Mommy Tech FashionWare Show and KAPi Awards. |
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Recognized as an e-learning pioneer, Jinny Goldstein is President of the Goldstein Education Group, which provides strategic planning and implementation guidance at the intersection of technology and K20 education. She conceived of and launched HigherEdTECH in 2010 as a unique gathering of visionaries and leaders in education and technology. Jinny previously served as PBS Senior Vice President for Education, where she was responsible for the launching of such cutting-edge, technology-based services as TeacherLine, LiteracyLink and the Adult Learning Service; she was the founding President/CEO of PBS The Business Channel, a joint-venture of PBS and The Williams Company; and was Vice President for Education and Strategy of Smarterville, LLC, a division of Educate, Inc. She serves on the President’s Advisory Council of Teachers College, Columbia University, the Steering Committee of NYU-DC, the Advisory Board of The Léman Manhattan Preparatory School and the Board of Learn/Lead.
Kimberly A. Smith is President of K12 digimedia, a digital education strategy company. She was Vice President of Education at PBS where she directed the strategy of web-based initiatives, including a national public broadcasting PreK-12 digital service delivered by local public television stations. Prior to PBS, Kim was Vice-President of Product Development for Discovery Education where she led the creation of a portfolio of broadband, services for K-12 schools, including Discovery Streaming. Prior to Discovery, She worked at the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Project where she launched the online distribution channel, Learner Online. Kim is Board Chair of the Arts and Technology Academy Public Charter School and Board Secretary for the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO). She received her M.B.A from Johns Hopkins University and her Bachelors of Science in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 
Over the last decade, Ben Wallerstein has worked with the leadership of nearly every major K-12 education business and advised in conjunction with dozens of pre-K-12 and postsecondary transactions. Ben currently advises investors and consults with a wide range of companies in structuring unique business-to-business relationships, understanding the regulatory environment, and implementing innovative state and federal advocacy and marketing strategies. A former aide to retired Xerox Chairman David Kearns, Ben has worked extensively with senior leadership of large for and not-for-profit organizations, and possesses an in depth understanding of the political and policy making process. Ben launched DutkoGrayling’s education practice in 2000 and became the youngest managing director in the firm’s thirty-year history. He co-founded Whiteboard Advisors, with former White House advisor John Bailey in 2009. He serves on the Board of the American Institute for Foreign Study Foundation, as a Judge for the Milken PENN Education Business Plan Competition, and on the Innovation Advisory Board to the President of Arizona State University.
Jenna Schuette Talbot serves as Senior Associate at Whiteboard Advisors, where she provides strategic and tactical advice to position clients as thought leaders in education policy. Prior to joining Whiteboard Advisors, she directed public affairs for the education policy program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In that role, she oversaw the program’s external affairs, connected entrepreneurs with education researchers and policymakers, and educated Capitol Hill staffers on key policy issues. In addition, she developed marketing and communications strategies and pioneered the department’s media relations and social media outreach. Jenna started her career in education as a researcher with AEI education policy director Frederick M. Hess. She has also taught elementary health education in Cape Town, South Africa. Dutko
With Scott Jaschik, Doug Lederman leads the site’s editorial operations, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Doug speaks widely about higher education, including on C-Span and National Public Radio and at meetings around the country, and his work has appeared in The New York Times and USA Today. Doug was managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1999 to 2003. Before that, Doug had worked at The Chronicle since 1986 in a variety of roles. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times. He grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated in 1984 from Princeton University. 
Robin Raskin has spent the past 30 years exploring what it means to be living in digital times. An author, editor, magazine publisher, blogger, TV and radio personality, and consultant, Raskin says she’s never met a media she doesn’t like and is happiest when she’s promoting how kids, seniors and women interact with technology. In 2007, Raskin became the co-founder of The Sandbox Summit : A Playdate with Technology, an event created in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association (CES). That show has grown to encompass six different technology conferences and showcases (and two awards shows) (http://livingindigtaltimes.com), that all take place at the January CES in Las Vegas.
Linda Nessim-Rubin is the Founder of Design Concept, a production company hosting corporate events, tradeshows and summits; and is partner in Living in Digital Times, which focuses on technology that’s relevant to particular lifestyles. She is Co-founder of HigherEdTECH. Before starting Design Concepts Linda completed an 18-year stint as Executive Vice President of Communications and Branding for The Princeton Review, a leading provider of education services and products, with more than 200 publications and 150,000 students worldwide. In her role, Linda was responsible for overseeing all public relations, market research, marketing communication efforts and Human Resources for the company. With over 20 years of professional experience in the marketing of cutting-edge educational products, Linda has been quoted in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week.