Sponsors
LEAD INNOVATION INCUBATOR SPONSOR
INNOVATION INCUBATOR CO-SPONSORS
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.
Also a Product Demonstration Exhibitor Co-Sponsor
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.
Also a Product Demonstration Exhibitor Co-Sponsor
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.
CODiE RECEPTION SPONSORS
ENA is the leading provider of managed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to school systems, libraries and governments. In 1996, ENA created one of the first statewide K-12 networks in the U.S. and has earned a reputation as experts in the design, deployment and management of data, voice and video solutions. Today, ENA manages multiple statewide and district-wide education and library networks, including 11 of the largest school systems in the country, successfully serving over 5,200 end sites, 555 school districts and 295 libraries, more than 2.5 million students, educators and administrators, and 3.6 million librarians and patrons. For more information, please visit www.ena.com
ERB (Educational Records Bureau) Assessment and learning solutions aligned to essential standards for member schools worldwide, Pre K - 12, through new advanced testing programs, quality supplemental learning tools, and consulting services.
GuideK12™ is an integrated, web-based Geovisual Analytic tool that helps school districts solve critical educational challenges by linking student data to household information for the purposes of analyzing boundary changes, mapping student performance, managing enrollment, tracking school choice, and optimizing resources. GuideK12™ excels at simplifying complex information and visually displaying the results with a few clicks. In a few clicks, an administrator can create multiple “what if” scenarios and see immediate results. Real-time data improves efficiency and accuracy of decisions, as well as increases transparency and communication with all constituents.
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.
TRACK SPONSORS
Forward Thinking EDU partners with the education industry to provide advisory services in marketing and product strategy and development. Our associates are proven professionals in the education industry with backgrounds in marketing and product management, marketing communications, public relations, business development, and sales. We help our partners build key business development relationships, provide short-term as well as long-term marketing strategy consulting, project-based collateral development, corporate branding, website creation, and social media support.
MMS Education helps organizations reach and engage teachers, administrators, and students in the PreK-20 markets. Education technology companies turn to us for our market expertise, proven experience and in-house capacity to help them drive online product utilization, and increase customer retention. We deliver customized, scalable programs, all staffed and managed in our offices in suburban Philadelphia, PA. MMS Education offers market research, marketing and communications, sales and support programs, customer engagement services, outreach programs, and information management services. Recent and current clients include Teaching Strategies, Inc., Pearson, Monarch Teaching Technologies, The Walt Disney Company, Verizon Foundation, and American Heart Association.
Pacific Metrics is a leading provider of assessment and technology in the K-12 arena, offering customized, online large-scale formative, interim and summative assessment platforms and next-generation content. We are specialists in web-based education technology, and the current provider of PARCC’s assessment system architecture and Smarter Balanced’s item bank and item authoring solution. In 2012 our automated scoring engine, CRASE®, was verified as one of the leading artificial intelligence essay scoring solutions.
University Business and District Administration are the most widely received and most regularly read publications for education leaders, providing cutting-edge coverage of technology, news, finance, policy, profiles and more to an exclusive audience across print, digital and in-person event platforms. Together, University Business and District Administration demonstrate Professional Media Group's commitment to education excellence, and the development of trusted relationships between education leaders and the solutions providers equipping the K-20 market.
LEAD FAREWELL HAPPY HOUR SPONSOR
Trinity Education Group is an education technology thought-leadership and strategy development company founded in 2007 by Hugh Norwood and Clyde Boyer.
HOSPITALITY SPONSORS
With the firm belief that curiosity, critical thinking and a foundation in math and science are necessary for future innovation, Intel leads education programs and technology access efforts that enable today’s youth to develop skills they need. For example, Intel hosts the K-12 Computing Blueprint at www.k12blueprint.com, an online resource with education technology planning tools.
PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION CO-SPONSORS
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.
Go Class/
LearningMate™ is an e-learning & educational technology solutions provider dedicated to creating engaging and instructionally sound learning experiences on a variety of platforms and devices.
Stop by our table in the Exhibit Hall to learn more about GoClass, our cloud-based teaching and learning platform. GoClass, winner of the 2012 IMS Platinum Innovation Award, empowers teachers to deliver engaging, interactive and measurable learning experiences by deploying lesson plans directly to student devices. In addition, GoClass equips teachers with tools and data to better connect with students and gain real-time feedback on individual progress and class comprehension. Learn more at www.goclass.com.
Learnetic is a world leading, eLearning developer for education. Its digital content, publishing tools and learning platforms are used in over 30 countries. Today, it focuses specifically on creating and deploying new generation mobile content, authoring tools and platforms for the growing base of mobile devices in schools and homes.
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.
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.
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP CO-SPONSORS
C. Blohm & Associates, Inc. (CB&A) is a public relations firm specializing in visibility campaigns for the education and special needs industries. Since 1991 we’ve helped companies build brand awareness, manage their corporate reputation, increase customer engagement and loyalty, and boost company growth. We design customized communications campaigns to fit each client’s specific needs through a comprehensive portfolio of services in the areas of public relations leadership, visibility solutions, and social media strategy.
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