Sponsors
HOST SPONSORS
American Public University offers over 75 respected and affordable online degree programs including business administration, security management, information technology, strategic leadership, and more. With affordable tuition, a course materials grant for eligible undergraduate students, monthly course starts, and no specific login times or days, we help you reach your professional goals on your terms. Learn why more than 70,000 students in the U.S. and 130 countries choose APU. Visit www.studyatAPU.com or call 1-877-777-9081 today.
Pearson has a vision of effective education: a virtuous circle of learning where powerful technologies enable teachers to assess students unobtrusively, diagnose their learning needs swiftly, prescribe personalized learning, and monitor student progress. This ongoing cycle of feedback to students, teachers, and parents begins by optimizing assessment data and putting it to work for continuous improvement in student progress and teaching effectiveness.
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uBoost provides educators with an automated solution to deliver relevant recognition for positive behaviors and incremental academic achievement. Partnering with publishers, school districts, online schools, tutoring companies and private education companies, uBoost designs customized programs that foster student motivation, improve classroom behavior, and encourage parent engagement.
uBoost understands that students are motivated by different forms of feedback. To encourage students to put forth their maximum effort, uBoost recognizes their achievements with performance-based badges, leaderboards, daily email alerts, experience points, and currency points redeemable for rewards clients select, including charitable giving opportunities, playtime on uBoost-exclusive games, and merchandise and gift cards.
LEAD INNOVATION INCUBATOR SPONSOR
Did you know hundreds of partners help Blackboard clients around the globe meet their unique needs? Blackboard Partnerships™ teams with content providers, media and technology companies, system integrators and more. Together, we help clients do more to engage and assess learners, increase safety and convenience, and take the education experience mobile.
INNOVATION INCUBATOR CO-SPONSORS
The BLEgroup is the leading group of education decision-makers who provide a flow of services to schools and the industry to develop, market, and implement edtech products for improve outcomes and management efficiency in schools. The BLEgroup works with large numbers of school systems and industry firms. BLEgroup has developed best practices in such areas as LMSs, Mobil devices, games, 1:1 computing, and data management. We are known for the panels we hold at TCEA and ISTE, where customers provide feedback to vendors on product quality, messaging, pricing, funding sources, and marketing.
GlobalScholar is comprised of the education solution offerings of Scantron, GlobalScholar and Spectrum K12. Solutions from GlobalScholar empower educators, parents and students throughout the entire learning lifecycle, helping schools achieve educational excellence. The brand’s offerings provide educators with data and insights needed to advance teacher effectiveness and student performance. GlobalScholar also supports parents and students directly with online services that include tutoring and homework help for students, as well as school matching services/online school finders to help parents find the right school for their child. The brand serves 80 of the largest 100 school districts in the United States, as well as 70 countries and 15 Ministries of Education throughout the world. It partners with some of the most progressive and innovative school systems in America, including recipients of funding from the Race to the Top initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Intel Corporation supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. Intel's mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the Internet economy. Intel is a trusted advisor and consultant to education in the technology field. Through our relationships with manufacturers and application service providers for both content and services, we are able to advise and help schools and districts move as far down the technology road as possible.
Texthelp Systems is the worldwide leader in providing literacy software solutions for individuals, K-12 schools, higher education, and publishers. The company develops innovative software to help all learners especially those struggling with literacy difficulties, learning disabilities such as dyslexia, mild visual impairments, or who are English is a second language. Our software products, Read&Write GOLD, Fluency Tutor, Lexiflow, and SpeechStream, improve users' reading, writing and research skills at school, in the workplace, and at home.
ONLINE CONFERENCE SPONSOR
Mediasite® by Sonic Foundry is the trusted market leader for lecture capture, enterprise webcasting and hybrid events. Our platform automates the recording, delivery and management of online video and rich media presentations. Look for us at SIIA as we webcast key sessions live.
SPEED NETWORKING SPONSOR
Academic Business Advisors, LLC (ABA) finds and grows companies that are going to transform and improve the education landscape. We will make our mark on education by being the catalyst for the growth, networking, and distribution of excellence.
HOSPITALITY SPONSOR
Bert Davis Executive Search, an executive search firm servicing the publishing, information, and new media industries, has been a leader in executive placement for almost 35 years. Founded in 1977, we pride ourselves on developing and maintaining valuable and long-standing relationships with the leaders in the industry, and providing our clients with the most thorough, comprehensive services in the marketplace. In a period of rapid change and industry transformation, we handle the biggest risk in managing change: finding the right talent at the right time.
We specialize in placing C-level executives and divisional leaders in a wide range of publishing and information markets, including technology, educational, medical, business-to-business, not-for-profit, and consumer. We serve clients ranging from large international corporations to specialized and high-growth organizations looking for the next level of development.
KEYNOTE/FEATURED PANEL SPONSOR
eGenio advances the ideal of the 21st century classroom from concept to a reality with game changing tools, capabilities and services. eGenio helps schools create an engaging, motivating learning environment with improved outcomes for every student.
eGenio’s delivers real innovation to K-12 classrooms: a comprehensive solution that easily combines administration tools, lesson planning tools, collaboration tools, with a content resource and management center, all in one integrated platform. Utilize our platform with eGenio designed applications including, assessment, lesson building and learning activity applications; or unleash the power of eGenio’s framework / application design with our open API. Create and personalized applications to meet your specific challenges, individual needs and dreams. To learn more contact: info@egenio.com
For more than 30 years, MMS Education has been helping for-profit and not-for-profit organizations make a positive impact in the education market. We know how to help you attract and engage your audience, help them understand and use your program or service, and help you build and retain relationships with the education stakeholders who matter most to your organization. You can rely on our insider’s understanding of the market and our extensive implementation experience to provide the resources you need for market research, marketing and communications, inside sales and sales support programs, outreach programs, and information management. Some of our recent clients include Pearson Education, The Walt Disney Company, Time Inc., Verizon Foundation, California School Boards Foundation, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
BADGE SPONSOR
Follett Software Company is the integrated educational technology solution provider that more than half of America’s school districts trust to support staff and engage students in today’s digitally rich learning environment. Follett’s digitally powered technologies include innovative resources for management of educational content and library materials, textbooks, assets, data and other resources critical for achievement; dynamic student information systems; and web-based learning management systems.
ONE-TO-ONE BUSINESS CONNECTIONS SPONSOR
Educational Systemics is a service organization offering both breadth and depth of experience in education, technology, and business planning for the K-12 market. Educational Systemics’ mission is to improve teaching and learning in schools by working closely with K-12 businesses to conceptualize, design, develop, position, and identify sales opportunities for products that address the education community.
WIRELESS INTERNET CO-SPONSORS
C. Blohm & Associates, Inc. (CB&A), is a public relations firm specializing in the education industry. Through savvy media relations and social media strategies, CB&A connects members of our client family with the people who directly influence the audiences they need to reach – educators, administrators, parents, and potential investors. From sophisticated launches of ed tech products to traditional promotions, we offer a complete portfolio of communication services. CB&A partners with a diverse group of clients who create products for the preschool, K-12, homeschool, and higher education markets.
Winter Group is a Denver-based marketing communications, design and research firm focused on the K-12, higher education, library and related markets. Working with a full-time staff of 14 writers, designers, planners, account managers, researchers and support staff, Winter Group’s work is known both for its ability to drive response and its education market-focused messaging. Established in 1978, the firm’s services include qualitative and quantitative market research and a broad integrated marketing communications portfolio, including planning, identity/branding, advertising, direct marketing , catalog design, collateral materials/sales support, special events, exhibit design, web site design & content development, video and multimedia production. Additional information: www.wintergroup.net or by contacting Linda Winter at 303.778.0866, ext. 12, or Linda@wintergroup.net
