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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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

EduTone Corporation provides sustainable technology schools need in order to deliver the 21st century teaching and learning environments their stakeholders require. EduTone’s innovative, easy to use, and low cost EduTone Xchange (ETX) platform along with its pre-integrated catalog of Education-specific Applications, enable on-demand, one-to-one services delivery to the Education Enterprise while reducing IT complexity and bridging technology and business processes gaps. EduTone utilizes a "freemium white label" business model allowing partners to OEM and brand its ETX platform as well as use free versions of the platform. Edutone is a privately held corporation headquartered in Alameda, California. Please visit www.edutone.com.

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.

Track Sponsors

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 104,000 employees as of December 31, 2010, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Visit us online at www.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant.

ENA is the nation’s leading provider of managed data, voice and video solutions to school systems, libraries and governments. The converged networks that we design, deploy and manage, as well as the digital classroom resources we offer, improve instructional capabilities and operational efficiencies. ENA currently operates in eight states, including: Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Vermont. We connect over 5,345 end sites including 560 school districts and 253 libraries that serve over 3.1 million students, teachers and administrators, as well as more than 6.2 million library patrons. Visit us at www.ena.com.

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 systemsSpeed Networking Sponsor

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.

CODiE Reception & Dinner Sponsors

MMS Education provides innovative solutions for organizations that want to reach, engage, and measure impact in the education market. Clients turn to us to develop and implement their strategic plans, market research, marketing and sales initiatives or special projects and events. Clients include companies, foundations, associations and government organizations. Some of our recent clients include Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The Walt Disney Company, Time Inc., the Verizon Foundation, California School Boards Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Spectrum K12 is a leading provider of Response to Intervention (RTI), Student Achievement Management and Special Education (IEP) software solutions. It serves 11 percent of the U.S. K12 student population, including 20 of the top 100 school districts in the United States. Its award-winning software is driving personalized learning to more than five million students in 29 states. In July 2010, Spectrum K12 School Solutions was acquired by Scantron, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Harland Clarke Holdings Corp., and a global leader in providing educators with assessment and survey tools for nearly four decades. The collective web-based solutions manage the entire cycle of learning for K12 students, teachers, parents, and education administrators; diagnosing, prescribing, administering, and tracking personalized learning plans for all students to drive student achievement and Move Every Child Forward®.

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.

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.

Hospitality Sponsor

RedRock Reports focuses on meeting the strategic needs of the education publishing, technology and services community through consulting, advisory, and research services. RedRock also delivers a total funding intelligence solution to help companies and organizations achieve critical sales and marketing objectives. Our services include:

Funding information and alignment services
Policy, budget and State-of-the-State reports
Sales and marketing consulting and training

Newspaper 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