Sponsors
We are grateful for the generous support of our 2012 Ed Tech Business Forum sponsors listed below. To learn how you can benefit from sponsoring a future SIIA Ed Tech conference, please contact Brian Rosenberg, SVP Sales & Marketing, +1.647.348.2790
HOST SPONSOR
American Public University System, winner of the Sloan Consortium's 2009 Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education and a recipient of Sloan's Effective Practice Award in 2009 and 2010, offers 79 online degree programs through its American Public University and American Military University institutions. APUS's relevant curriculum, affordability and flexibility help more than 75,000 working adults worldwide pursue degrees in subjects ranging from intellectual technology to management and business to ensure APU students can take control over their careers. A university book grant supplies textbooks at no cost for eligible undergraduate students. For more information, visit http://www.apus.edu.
INNOVATION INCUBATOR 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.
Texthelp Inc. 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.
The TVTextbook is the only solution in the marketplace that lets you bring learning into the home via a device that is already a staple in every household: the television. TVTextbook turns any television into a computer-like, interactive learning device. From school to home through the TV . . . no computer needed!
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.
KEYNOTE/PANEL SPONSORS
eGenio is an innovative and unique platform that allows teachers and students to incorporate technology into their daily learning. The platform seamlessly integrates with your district’s current tools, resources and curriculum. Easy to learn and easy to use, with eGenio you can streamline instructional management and deliver digital content effortlessly.
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.
BADGE SPONSOR
MMS Education attracts and engages your audience, helps them utilize your products or service, and builds and retains relationships with stakeholders who matter most to your organization. From inside sales and sales support, customer and technical support programs, to market research and marketing – for short-term projects or long-term solutions, MMS provides the attention to detail and outcomes you’d expect from an inside team. Let us help you start new projects quickly and scale up to pursue opportunities. Our programs are tailored to your needs and are staffed and managed in our suburban Philadelphia, PA, offices. Some of our recent clients include Capstone Digital, Macmillan New Ventures, Teaching Strategies, LLC, Verizon Foundation, American Heart Association, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
LUNCH SPONSOR
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.
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
A PRIVATE EQUITY AND ADVISORY FIRM OFFERING EXPERTISE TO INNOVATIVE AND RAPIDLY GROWING BUSINESSES. Arc Capital is a private equity and advisory firm that invests in and operates companies in the preK through post-secondary education marketplace. Our clients and investments include companies in their early stages up to those that have cleared the $10 to $15 million revenue mark.
Arc understands what companies need to do to break through to the next level of organizational growth – and Arc has the operational expertise to prepare and execute these growth strategies. In short, we give our family of clients the rocket fuel of resources, knowledge and people a company needs to capitalize and expand on its established success.
Cherry Tree & Associates, LLC is a private investment banking firm headquartered in Minneapolis, specializing in serving entrepreneurially-managed companies. Founded in 1980, the firm provides seasoned advice to leaders of special skill and character in order to help them pursue innovative business strategies; and to connect those leaders with investors and corporations with patient capital, shared goals, and enthusiasm for The Entrepreneurial Economy.
edWeb.net is a professional social networking website that makes is easy for anyone in the education community to connect with peers, share information and best practices, spread innovative ideas, and provide professional development. edWeb.net welcomes all professionals in education and creates a new communication channel for educators, associations, legislators, community leaders, and companies to break down traditional barriers to communication and promote broader collaboration.
MCH is America's leading compiler of business-to-institution (B2i) databases and mailing lists. The largest institutional markets include schools, school districts, local governments, hospitals, medical practices, and churches. The MCH database features information on 1.1 million institutions, 8 million decision makers, including telephone numbers, and postal, physical, and email addresses for key decision makers. MCH's large, on-site research staff continuously updates data, primarily through telephone surveys. MCH also provides data processing services including merge/purge, file cleaning, and postal presort. MCH has offices in Sweet Springs and Kansas City, MO.
Now approaching its 20th anniversary, Whitestone Communications, Inc., is a highly regarded provider of mergers and acquisitions services to the education industry as well as other information markets. Whitestone has completed transactions with major corporations such as McGraw-Hill, Reed Elseiver, Dun & Bradstreet and Thomson Reuters as well as notable private equity funds such as Chicago Growth Partners and Great Hill Partners. In a recent sample transaction, Whitestone represented Teaching Strategies, Inc., the industry leader for early childhood educational resources including curriculum and web-based assessment products, in a major recapitulation with Chicago Growth Partners. Whitestone also publishes Who’s Buying Whom, the most comprehensive report on acquisitions and investments in the fields it serves. (Complimentary copies are available by emailing brosen@whitestonecommunications.com.)
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.
