Chuck Philips is the CIO of Clovis School District, a 38,000 student district located near Fresno, California. Chuck is an internationally recognized pioneer in educational technology. He directed one of the earliest 1:1 parent-supported laptop programs in the U.S. During the past decade, the Clovis laptop program has has served more than 10,000 students/families and received state-wide recognition as a California Golden Bell winner from the California School Boards Association, national recognition through the ComputerWorld's Laureate Program and international recognition from the Bertlesmann Foundation.  Chuck has offered professional development to teachers and administrators at multiple districts for over 20 years. In addition to his tremendous work with classroom teachers, Chuck's thoughts an opinions have been sought by publishers and companies for years. He has served in consultative roles for companies such as Microsoft and IBM for the last 10 years and is one of the founding leaders of the Anytime, Anywhere Learning program.

Connie White has served as the Director of Technology and Media at Lakeview Academy in Gainesville, Georgia for the last 7 years and is the visionary of the academy's highly respected 1 to 1 program. A former high school Physics, Chemistry & Math teacher, Connie has specialized in start-up technology initiatives, project planning, laptop integration, staff development, and internet safety since 1995.  She has conducted over 160 workshops & seminars throughout the country in 18 different states as well as Puerto Rico and Bermuda. She is a frequent conference speaker and was selected as a semi-finalist for Technology & Learning's national "Leader of the Year" award for 2006.  She has also published numerous articles, lesson plans, integration guides and software training manuals.

Dar Bicha-Dale is the Laptop Coordinator for University Lake School. Dar is an expert in 1:1 program work flow logistics. He has consistently been recognized as one of the nation's highest performing IBM/Lenovo self-maintainers. This has led to increased revenue and decreased cost with the University Lake School laptop program. Dar, and University Lake School have been recognized by Compaq, IBM, Lenovo and CDWG for excellence with their own program as well as for their outreach to others.

Demetri is the Director of Technology at Battleground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee where he oversees their 1:1 tablet program. However, he is perhaps best known for his leadership with digital collaboration tools in the creation of the School Computing Wiki and the Independent School Educators Network Ning site. Demetri was tapped by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) to develop the Principles of Good Practice for Technology. He has a B.A. In Studio Art from Hamilton College, a B.S. In Elementary Education from Fitchburg State College, and a M.S. In Educational Technology from Johns Hopkins University where he also serves as a part-time instructor.

Diana Bourisaw, Ph.D. brings the experience of a top leader in challenging districts.  Dr. Bourisaw has served as teacher, principal, and superintendent in districts throughout the country including Sacramento, Des Moines and St. Louis. Additionally she has served as an elected school board member and was appointed by the governor as a member of the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education. Dr. Bourisaw is a published author and keynote speaker.  She works to recommend and implement key strategies for systemic change. Diana also teaches at several universities. Her work as a leader in roles supporting districts and states has equipped her with knowledge of how to achieve excellence and equity through systemic change in complex systems.

Elizabeth Helfant is the Upper School Coordinator of Instructional Technology at Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School (MICDS), a JK-12 school of 1250 students. After receiving a B.S. in Chemistry from Davidson College in North Carolina, Helfant started teaching. She has been a teacher for twenty years, nine of which has been spent as a faculty member at MICDS. Helfant played an integral role in planning and executing MICDS's 1:1 program. She is currently aiding in the deployment of tablets for grades 7, 9 and 10 for the 2008-09 school year. As a strong advocate for technology, Helfant frequently blogs and participates in conferences pertaining to digital learning. Helfant has done presentations at the International Conference on Education, Midwest Education Technology Conference and Lausanne's Laptop Institute and National Education Computing Conference. Helfant also serves on the DyKnow advisory board.

Emily Craft is the Director of Technology at Randolph School, an independent co-educational day school of 900 students in Huntsville, Alabama. Since 1998, she has worked with Randolph’s laptop initiative, first as the Staff Development Coordinator and currently as the Director of Technology. She supervises all aspects of technology at Randolph. She has been a presenter for conferences in the US and Canada on the topics of laptop programs, technology integration, and strategic planning. She co-authored “Connected Without Wires” for IBM at School. Emily holds a BA in English from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and an MLIS from the University of Alabama.

Jane Metcalf has been Director of Technology at St. Joseph’s Academy for the last four years. She has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in education as well as a second bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. She has extensive experience in corporate systems and operations management as well as experience in both K-12 and university education. She specializes in applying best business practices to schools to insure the availability of reliable, usable technology tools while bringing manageability to the technology infrastructure and redesigning acquisition practices to minimize cost. While at St. Joseph’s, a 1-to-1 laptop school for the last ten years, her technology department has received awards from both Cisco Systems and CoSN. In addition to her work at St. Joseph’s, she is an adjunct instructor for the Department of Education at Louisiana State University and provides consulting services to schools that are either expanding their technology programs or are experiencing reliability or manageability problems with their current technology offerings.

Jeff Ritter is the Director of Technology at St. John's School in Houston, TX. St. John's is a nationally acclaimed independent school with 1220 coed students in grades K-12.  Over the past 6 years, St. John's has gone from "Good to Great" in technology by focusing on technology integreation, the needs of the teacher and their classroom, cutting costs, and continuing to investigate new technologies and their place in the classroom.  The Integration Institute at St. John's is a pioneering endeavor to encourage teachers to use technology in their curriculum.  In addition to his outstanding leadership at St. John's, Jeff has served on the education advisory boards of IBM, WhippleHill and Promethean. Jeff also was a pioneering leader in wireless laptop programs, launching one of the first completely wireless 1:1 programs at Randolph School in Huntsville,  Alabama.  Jeff has spoken at many international, national, regional, and local conferences and works with schools on technology integration, setting up a laptop program, best technology practices, and using the web as your primary communications tool.

Jim Gerry is the Chief Information Officer at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA). Though Jim was responsible for the creation and implementation of their highly successful 1:1 tablet initiative, his true strengths are his strategic vision and keen eye for identifying the details to achieve overall programmatic success. As part of his work with IMSA, Jim 's expertise is frequently tapped by companies and government entities as a leader in the use of technology to create leaders for tomorrow.

John Case is the Technology Coordinator for Ohio Hi-Point Career Center in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Ohio Hi-Point serves 800+ students from 15 neighboring partner schools and focuses on preparing these students for the world of work or college. Case has managed the technology infrastructure since October 2000, and chairs Ohio Hi-Point's Technology Committee. The Technology Committee wrote the district Technology Plan focused around the 1 to 1 environment, and included individual technology plans for each of the district's 100+ staff members. He has written several articles for EdTech Magazine including a reference guide entitled "Anytime, Anywhere Computing Guide for K-12 Education." Case maintains the www.schooltechtools.com website which blogs about Case's experiences with 1 to 1 computing.

John Stiver recently retired as the Executive Director of Secondary Education for the Kershaw County School District in Camden, South Carolina.  John has thirty-seven years of public education experience in North and South Carolina as a teacher, middle and high school principal, and secondary director.  As a high school principal and district administrator, he is known for his knowledge and experience in curriculum, career education, and the use of technology.  John coordinated Kershaw County’s i-CAN one-to-one laptop project as well as organized and implemented the deployment of laptops to all students in grades 9-12.   He has presented at nationally recognized conferences about the integration of technology with instruction. An honest portrayal of the one-to-one laptop project is an integral portion of the presentations.

Justin Dover is a widely esteemed network administrator from Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. Here he manages the network infrastructure, servers, wireless and security with a team of engineers for the 800 users in his network. However, though his technical skills are solid and cutting edge, he is most highly revered for the ease with which he can identify and explain complex technical issues in clear and simple to understand terms. He has presented at many conferences, including the Laptop Institute and has written articles for EdTech Magazine. Prior to his stellar work at Harpeth Hall, Justin was an IT consultant working primarily with medical companies.

Karen Montgomery is a dynamic, creative educator with a broad knowledge of the potential and actual uses of education technology. Her background includes professional experience as a middle school science and math teacher, program coordinator for the Adventures In Medicine & Science (AIMS) program at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and as an education advocate for AT&T. Throughout her career, Karen has assisted many educators with understanding the issues and trends in education by way of conference presentations, quality community outreach programs, content-based staff instruction, customized professional development workshops and H.323 videoconferencing projects. She possesses a strong understanding of social media and Web 2.0 applications such as blogging, wikis, podcasting, mobile learning, photo sharing, social networking and RSS as it relates to education in today’s classrooms and the Net generation.

Keith Gillette is President Elect of the Illinois Chief Technology Officers and directs the Information Technology program at Lake Forest Country Day School. Keith has more than 15 years of experience delivering information technology solutions in K-20 educational contexts. In addition to a breadth of multi-platform network and systems administration knowledge, Keith has experience launching and administering 1:1 student notebook computer programs and expertise in IT infrastructure design and construction management associated with new building and facilities remodeling. Keith holds a Masters in Information & Telecommunications Systems Management as well as numerous IT industry certifications, and is pursuing an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Keith is a senior member of the American Society for Quality and brings Six Sigma certification and a quality systems/process management orientation to work in IT strategic planning, project management, and operational design.

Lee is the Director of Technology at Chaminade College Preparatory School, an all male Catholic school in St. Louis, Missouri. Lee developed the 1:1 laptop program which started at Chaminade in 1999. Lee is know by colleagues in the field as a technical leader, constantly seeking ways to make technology work harder to improve performance and reliability for his students and faculty. He has become a self-made expert in on-line testing and is deeply experienced at making Active Directory policies that reflect and give meaning to the paper policies of the school.

Lorrie Jackson serves as the Coordinator of Instructional Technology at Lausanne Collegiate School, a pre-K-12th grade independent school in Memphis, Tennessee (USA).  Here she assists teachers as they integrate technology, especially in Lausanne's nationally recognized laptop programs (grades 7-12).  She also coordinates the Laptop Institute, an annual conference for one-to-one educators from K-12 schools across the world.  Lorrie recently served on a National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) task force that created Principles for Good Practice in Technology for member schools and is also co-author of a chapter in Looking Ahead: Independent School Issues and Answers.  Lorrie is a prolific edtech writer and a frequent presenter at regional and national conferences.  She received an M.A.T. in Secondary Education (English/History 7-12) from the University of Memphis, and has experience teaching students from prekindergarten to 12th grade.

Mary Lynn has been the Technology Coordinator at John F Kennedy Catholic High school in Manchester, MO since the fall of 2002. She has fifteen years of experience working with technology in an academic setting. Prior to working with educational institutions, she worked as a programmer with a strong background in assisting end users with the integration of technology. In 2003, Kennedy was selected to pilot a laptop program for the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. Her primary focus at Kennedy is to assist teachers with the integration of technology in the classrooms. Over the last six years, she has developed a multi-tiered approach to professional development at Kennedy that includes traditional instruction, interactive instruction that focus on school initiatives, portfolios and professional learning teams. This has led to classroom integration of Web 2.0 applications.

Before launching into consulting and coaching in January 2007, Melissa directed The University of Texas at Austin's Laptop Initiative for Future Educators (LIFE). Under her leadership, the LIFE program evolved to support the 2,000+ students across the University's campus who are pursuing careers in teaching. She evangelized her proven model for 1-to-1 learning at numerous national and international conferences, and has hosted visiting universities from around the world for site visits at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition, Melissa successfully managed and coordinated the United States Department of Education's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology implementation grant, Project INSITE (Inventing New Strategies for Integrating Technology into Education)—A program that proved to be instrumental in bringing the International Society for Technology in Education 2002 NETS*T Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Technology Integration to the University's acclaimed UTeach program in 2002.

Pamela Livingston has spent the past seventeen years supporting technology in schools. The author of "1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work", Pamela wrote the book by spending over a year interviewing laptop leaders around the U.S., synthesizing research and studies on 1-to-1, and documenting her experience running The Peck School's laptop program. Previously, Pamela managed large scale computer network projects at corporations and law firms, and was a project leader and editor for two Ziff Davis computer magazines. She holds a B.S. in computer systems and an M.S. in education technology. A frequent presenter and keynote at national conferences such as NECC, Lausanne's Laptop Institute, and South Dakota's Laptop Conference, she also develops workshops, and provides advice for U.S. and international schools and districts. Pamela works at the headquarters of a learning management company in New York and is also an adjunct professor teaching distance learning courses she designed at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Robin Peralta is the Laptop Program Director for Episcopal High School, a 9-12 grade boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia.  Robin is in her 16th year at EHS, where she has managed their 1:1 laptop program since April 1998.  She's seen many changes in the program over the years.  In addition to managing the laptop program, Robin teaches an intensive 5-week new student orientation laptop training class at the beginning of each school year, with an emphasis on Internet safety and protocol, laptop security/care and feeding, and MS Suite applications.  She works very closely with her L.A.T.E.R. (Laptop and Technology Emergency Repair) students, and has just put the finishing touches on a training video she and her students wrote, produced and directed.  Robin is also a frequent presenter at both Lenovo's ThinkTank and Lausanne's Laptop Institute.

Sam is the Middle School Head at Cape Cod Academy. In addition to his duties as Middle School Head he teaches Algebra 1 Honors class and Java programming. He also supervises the Technology Staff and chairs the Technology Advisory Committee. Before coming to Cape Cod Academy Sam was the Director of Technology at Lake Forest Country Day School. Sam worked at LFCDS for a total of eighteen years, and in addition to being Director of Technology, he spent time as the Head of the Upper School and as a math teacher, coach, adviser and fifth grade homeroom teacher. Sam also spent time at the Hotchkiss School, Moses Brown School and the Rectory School. He brings a broad range of experience from his twenty-nine year career as an educator.

Sarah Hanawald is in her 14th year at Greensboro Day School, a nationally known TK-12 school in Greensboro, NC . Sarah is currently a Learning and Technology Specialist; her previous roles at Greensboro Day include Laptop Program Director, Technology Coordinator and Learning Resource Teacher. In 2000, as Laptop Program Director, Sarah led Greensboro Day School's launch of a 1:1 initiative in grades 6-12 that has matured into an academic culture that encourages the thoughtful use of technology throughout the curriculum. As Laptop Program Director, Sarah oversaw all aspects of the program including model selection, vendor negotiations, Help Desk operations, classroom use of laptops, and school-wide technology policies. Sarah's
current specialties are helping technology integrationists develop plans for working with faculty at varying levels of technology use, assisting teachers in developing a team approach to teaching with technology, using technology to support differentiated instruction, and working with the school technology and media team to maintain and develop Greensboro Day's technology resources.

Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration Program at Iowa State University. He also is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org.

In his fourteenth year at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee, Stewart Crais serves as the school's director of technology and media services, handling purchasing, software licensing, network administration, and overall technology planning. A graduate of Rhodes College and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Crais also is director of the Laptop Institute at Lausanne, an international conference for K-12 schools using or considering using laptops. In addition to online publication contributions and articles in print media, Crais is the coauthor of "Technology Usage and Administration at the Independent School: Balancing Control and Autonomy" in Looking Ahead: Independent School Issues and Answers published by the National Association of Independent Schools.

Toby McQuerrey is the Social Studies Department Chair at Jennings High School, located in metropolitan St. Louis, MO. Toby's skills at developing inquiry based curricula and appropriate integration of technological tools into education have been tapped by many schools as well as IBM Global Services. Toby has a M.A. in Education specializing in Information Science and Learning Technology from the University of Missouri. He has spoken at many conferences and has served as a key consultant in a group hired to start a new cutting-edge high school currently being built.

Vern Ceder is the Director of Technology and Chair of the Computer Department at Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Vern is best known for his books and articles written about teaching Python programming and use of Open Source software in the classroom. He has spoken at several regional, national and International conferences explaining and advocating the power open source and programming can bring to schools. Vern earned his B.A at the University of Nebraska and his M.A. And Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.