Sir Ken Robinson, Internationally Acclaimed Expert on Creativity and Innovation & Author,
'Out of Our Minds and The Element' (via live satellite link)

Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world's leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.

He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, working with the ministers for training, education enterprise and culture. The resulting blueprint for change, Unlocking Creativity, was adopted by politicians of all parties and by business, education and cultural leaders across the Province. He was one of four international advisors to the Singapore Government for its strategy to become the creative hub of South East Asia.

For twelve years, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick in the UK and is now professor emeritus. He has received honorary degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling College of Arts and Design, the Open University and the Central School of Speech and Drama, Birmingham City University and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. He was been
honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, the LEGO Prize for international achievement in education and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, he was named as one of TIME/FORTUNE/CNN's 'Principal Voices'. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

His book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Penguin/Viking 2009) is a New York Times best seller and has been translated into twenty-one languages. His latest book is a 10th anniversary edition of his classic work on creativity and innovation, Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Capstone/Wiley). Sir Ken was born in Liverpool, UK, as one of seven children. He is married to Therese (Lady) Robinson. They have two children, James and Kate, and now live in Los Angeles, California.

Dan Pink, Author of Drive, A Whole New Mind, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko & Free Agent Nation; Leading thinker on motivation, innovation & leadership

Daniel H. Pink is the author of four provocative books about the changing world of work, including the long-running New York Times best seller, A Whole New Mind, and the #1 New York Times best seller, Drive. His books have been translated into 32 languages. His latest work, DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, uses 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation.

Pink shows that carrot and stick motivators have been oversold and that high performance depends much more on the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and the world. Drive is a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times best seller - as well as a national best seller in Japan and the United Kingdom.

In A WHOLE NEW MIND: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Pink charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and explains the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced, automated world. A WHOLE NEW MIND spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times main and extended best seller lists—and has been a Freshman Read selection at several U.S. colleges and universities. Oprah Winfrey also gave away 4,500 copies of the book to Stanford University's graduating class when she was Stanford's commencement speaker.

Pink's THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need is the first American business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. Illustrated by award-winning artist Rob Ten Pas, the book was one of the best-selling graphic novels of 2008 and the only graphic novel ever to become a BusinessWeek best seller.

His first book, FREE AGENT NATION: The Future of Working for Yourself, was a Washington Post best seller that Publishers Weekly says "has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations."

Pink's articles on business and technology have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Telegraph, Fast Company and Wired. He has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. He also advises both Fortune 100 companies and startups on recruiting, innovation and work practices.

Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy (khanacademy.org), a nonprofit with the mission of providing free, high-quality education to "anyone, anywhere" in the world. A former hedge fund analyst with degrees from MIT and Harvard, Khan was helping a young cousin with math in 2004, communicating by phone and using an interactive notepad. When others expressed interest, he began posting videos of his hand-scribbled tutorials on YouTube. Demand took off, and in 2009 he quit his day job.

The Khan Academy website now provides self-pacing software and unlimited access to over 3,000 instructional videos on its YouTube channel covering everything from basic arithmetic to college level science and economics. It's the most-used library of educational videos on the web, with 4.2 million unique students per month, over 118 million lessons delivered, and over 260 million exercises completed. A growing number of classrooms around the world are using Khan Academy to help build student mastery of topics and to free up class time for dynamic project based learning.

Bill Daniels was appointed Executive Director of the Independent Schools Council of Australia (ISCA) in 2001 after a career spanning 35 years spent in Federal Government.

During his time in the public sector, Bill spent many years working in the education portfolio where he was head of the Schools Division from 1994 to 1998 and the Student Assistance and Indigenous Programs Division from 1990 to 1994.

Bill also spent five years as the Chief of Staff for the Federal Minister for Education and the Minister for Resources and Energy during the Fraser administration.

Before heading into the private sector, Bill served for three years as Deputy Executive Director of the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service.

Since being at the helm of ISCA, Bill has been instrumental in ensuring that the independent school sector is being heard by those who influence education policy and shape the national education agenda.

ISCA is the peak national body representing the independent schools sector, concentrating on research and analysis as well as representation, advocacy and communication. Its eight Member State and Territory Associations of Independent Schools represent a growing sector with almost 15 percent of all school enrolments across Australia.

Ewan McIntosh is the founder of NoTosh Limited, an Edinburgh-based company with a global reputation for researching and delivering new learning opportunities for some of the world's top creative companies and school districts.

Ewan is also advisor on the digital agenda to the Vice President of the European Commission, Mrs Neelie Kroes, and sits on the ICT Excellence Expert Group advising the Cabinet Minister for Education in Scotland. McIntosh's company, NoTosh Limited, develops products and services with creative companies on the one hand, and then takes the processes, attitudes and research gained there to the world of education. The company works with hundreds of schools and districts, providing ideas, inspiration and research on how to better engage kids.

Ewan was a French and German High School teacher, before moving from the classroom into technology research and leadership as Scotland's first National Advisor on Learning and Technology Futures. He later helped set up one of the most ambitious investment funds from a public service broadcaster in the UK, the $100m 4iP Fund from Channel 4 Television.

As well as heading up NoTosh's work globally with creative corporations, Governments and school districts, Ewan is a "Digital Angel" advisor on the digital agenda to the Vice President of the European Commission, Mrs Neelie Kroes.

Ewan and his team are all about engaging people, whether they're voters, customers or kids in a classroom.

Stephen's "eyes on the horizon, feet on the ground" approach, coupled with a vast portfolio of effective large scale projects over three decades, have established him internationally as a widely and fondly recognized leader in the fields of learning, new media and technology.

Stephen has worked, and is working, with governments around the world, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, with schools and communities, with his PhD students and with many influential trusts and organizations.

Stephen's ICT career (he is credited with being the person who put the C into ICT), began with the UK government's Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) in the early 80s, after he had been teaching in secondary schools for some years - which he enjoyed enormously.

Stephen founded and ran Ultralab for almost a quarter of a century, building it into one of the most respected research centres in e-learning in the world - at one time Ultralab was the largest producer of educational CD-ROMs in Europe - before leaving it in 2004 to found his own global and flourishing policy and learning consultancy heppell.net which now has an enviable portfolio of international projects all round the world.

Complementing the work designing on-line communities, Stephen is at the heart of a global revolution in physical learning space design, with a string of major new building projects worldwide including a 0-21+ academy in the UK and a complete makeover of a national education system in the Caribbean. His research project in 2003 exploring for CABE and RIBA in the UK on the impact of new pedagogies on the design of learning spaces kickstarted a new rhetoric of school design in the UK and beyond. Stephen is designing, with his daughter Juliette, a signature suite of school furniture with Isis.
Stephen's work is worldwide; Stephen is retained by a number of organisations and governments to help with future policy and direction.

Alan November is an international leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. While Alan was a computer science teacher in Lexington, MA, he was probably the first teacher in the world to have a student project on line in 1984, a database for the handicapped. He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant and university lecturer. He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology.

Audiences enjoy Alan's humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America.

Alan was named one of the nation's fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Technology and Learning Magazine. In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse. In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden. His writing includes numerous articles and two best-selling books, Empowering Students with Technology and Web Literacy for Educators. Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.

Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world-class presenters and international participants. Visit http://novemberlearning.com/blc for more details.

Charles Jennings is one of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners in learning and development. An Australian by birth, over the past 40 years his work has taken him to all corners of the earth.

As director of the recently-formed 702010 FORUM which provides a focus for organisations throughout the world to collaborate and share practices on using the 70:20:10 framework, his participation in EduTECH2013 is very timely.

A former academic and business school professor, Charles’ career also includes roles as chief learning officer at Reuters and Thomson Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia information companies, and as director of the UK’s national centre for network-based learning.  He has led learning and performance improvement initiatives for multinational corporations, for the UK Government and for the European Commission for more than 30 years.

At EduTECH Charles will be sharing his experience of how the 70:20:10 model provides a framework to enable working adults to improve their performance at speed and in the context of their daily workflow. 

Over the past five years he has worked on 70:20:10 implementations with more than 100 organisations, helping them build robust strategies underpinned by the framework. The result had invariably been increased development and performance effectiveness and reduced waste. 

Charles has a passion for helping organisations improve performance and deliver value through innovative, and often disruptive, approaches to ‘working and learning smarter’ with a focus on performance.

Stephen Harris, Director & Founder, Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning & Principal, Northern Beaches Christian School

Stephen Harris has been in school-based education for 34 years, with teaching experience across almost every grade from Kindergarten to Year 12. His firm belief is that every student should love learning, and that it is the responsibility of schools to relentlessly seek to engage students in their learning. No child should be excluded.

Stephen commenced as Principal of Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS) in 1999. Under his leadership the school has quadrupled its size to become a thriving learning community of 1,200 students from Pre-School to Year 12, as well as having a further 300 online students enrolled in distance online learning courses through NBCS. In order to accelerate and capture the significant changes occurring within the school, Stephen founded the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning in 2005. His vision was to embed research and innovation into everyday school practice.
Stephen’s assertion is that schools must embrace a new paradigm and move away from what was once thought of as “school”. This new paradigm is one where learning is personalized and collaborative, technology is adaptive, spaces are radically different to the traditional mindset, and a community built on positive relationships is at the core. Teaching and learning culture must be informed by global trends towards change in routines, expectations, perceptions, technology and organization structures in the 21st century.

Stephen studied to be a secondary English teacher, trained in primary teaching method, and has completed a Master of Letters in Australian Literature. Stephen is currently a part time Ph.D. student at the University of Technology in Sydney. His topic focuses on creating a model for embedding pervasive innovation into the everyday life of a school.

Andrew Churches, Head of Faculty - Technology and the Arts, Kristin School (NZ) & Author, Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

I am a teacher, author, keynote and workshop presenter and ICT enthusiast. I believe that to prepare our students for the future, we must prepare them for change, teach them to think & question, to consider, adapt and modify, to sift and sort.

I am fortunate to teach at a school with a mobile computing program, that sees all students with personal mobile devices, whether they are laptops, ipads or  other suitable tools. This surely reflects the future our students and children are entering into with ubiquitous portable computing.

Outside of school, I am an outdoor instructor and an adventure enthusiast, when I can get a spare moment from my family.
In 2009 I was a finalist in the Microsoft Distinguished educators awards. In 2009, 2010 & 2011, I have been a member of the advisory board for the Australia and New Zealand Edition of the Horizon report and the only secondary or primary school teacher on the advisory board of 32 educational experts.

In 2012 I was named a Learning Commons Visionary for 2012 by the editors of Teacher Librarian: the Journal for School Library Professionals.

Lynne Symons, Principal, Mark Oliphant College

Lynne Symons was awarded the Inspirational Leader of the Year in the 2012 South Australian Public Schools Awards. She has been a principal for over twenty years.

As a passionate believer in seamless education she was delighted to be appointed the inaugural principal of Mark Oliphant College B-12(MOC). The school is South Australia’s first purpose built facility combining care, preschool, junior primary, primary and secondary education.

The college was envisaged, designed and built to deliver the highest possible outcomes in care and education for all of the children and young people in our school community, irrespective of their background. It opened in 2010 and moved to the new facilities in May 2011.

The school is divided into four sub-schools. The four sub-schools are the Early Years (Birth to Year 2), Primary Years (Years 3 to 6),Middle Years (Years 7 to 9) and Senior Years (Years 10, 11 and 12).

Key to the community aspirations were that students had access to ICT of the highest order. The architectural design of MOC was also based on the concept of new learning spaces with embedded use of ICT. To that end the school aimed for a 1:1 program R-12. This was achieved mid 2011.
Students and their families cannot believe their entitlement to be part of such leading edge work (including minstream involvement with Social Media) and the resulting motivation, engagement, creativity (producers not consumers) of all our children and young people are increasing at a rapid rate.

Chris Gauthier, Teacher &
DeforestACTION Educator, Cleveland District State High School

With a passion for technology and environmental education, Chris Gauthier is a Science teacher at Cleveland District State High School in Brisbane, Australia. He currently teaches grades 8-12 Science and Biology, where he investigates ways to connect his students in global collaborations, seeking ways of embedding technology to improve student outcomes and engagement. Based on this work, Chris was recognised for his contributions in developing pedagogy through the use of technology with a Queensland Smart Classrooms Award in 2011.  Chris became involved with DeforestACTION in 2011, and has been engaging his students since in collaborative learning and action related to deforestation and environmental sustainability using innovative online educational resources, social media and technology based tools.

Chris has shared this work most notably in 2012 where he and Dr Willie Smits lead the closing keynote address at the International Society for Technology in Education at the annual conference in San Diego.

Originally from Waterloo Canada, Chris completed his Honours Bachelor Degree in Science, majoring in Zoology, from Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario and his Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia.

Roger Pryor, School Education Director,
Department of Education and Communities NSW

Roger Pryor has been an educator in NSW since the late 70s, working predominantly in Primary settings and in Outdoor Education and Young Offender programs. Roger was Principal of five schools and was then selected to be one of the Principals working within the NSW School Leadership Development Unit. In 2002, Roger took over the role of Secretary and Website Manager for the NSW Primary Principals' Association and was elected President in 2004.

Since 2006, Roger has been a School Education Director with the NSW Department of Education and communities, with direct responsibility for over 30 schools in the Newcastle area. In addition, he has a region wide responsibility across 300 schools for Leadership, Management and Professional Learning, as well as encouraging innovative practice in the effective integration of ICT. To support this work and provide an enabling environment for teachers and others, Roger began creating COWs – Collaborative Online Workspaces in 2007 and now manages a hosting space for dozens of Moodles and Wordpress blogs within the hccweb2.org webspace.

As a speaker, Roger has spoken extensively in NSW, at the national Computers in Education conference in Melbourne and as an invited keynote for the Computer Education Group of South Australia.  In 2010, Roger was recognised by the US based Capital Region Society for Technology Education as one of the original recipients of their global awards for Vision and Leadership.

In 2011, Roger was invited to present the opening keynote at the Colorado Technology in Education Conference and then presented a lecture at ISTE in Philadelphia.  In 2012, Roger will be returning to ISTE to present at the conference in San Diego.

Roger is currently the NSW President Elect for the Australian College of Educators and was recently awarded Fellowship of the College.

Along with educationally based interests, Roger spent a number of years working as a guitar vocalist and is currently a board member for Tantrum Theatre in Newcastle, board member of the Hunter Wetlands Centre, committee member and website manager for the Newcastle New Institute and founding member of the New Lunaticks; a group of social media advocates and connectors.

As an avid user of social media and an educator passionately committed to the concept of learning based on engagement, Roger is currently working with other educators to virally market 'Splendour in the Class:' a festival of great ideas in Newcastle at the end of July.

Scott Klososky, Technology Leader & Futurist

Scott Klososky, a former CEO of three successful startup companies, specializes in looking over the horizon with how technology is changing the world. Scott’s vision and ability to see trends in emerging technologies allow him to be a thought leader who applies his skills to help organizations thrive, leaders prosper, and entire industries move forward. His love of being a technology entrepreneur assures that he continually works in the trenches of building his own companies.

His unique perspectives on technology, business culture, and the future allows him to travel the globe as a speaker and consultant, working with senior executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to universities and nonprofits. Including: Cisco, Newell Rubbermaid, Lockheed Martin, Ebay, Volvo, The Hartford, Great Clips, Marriott, Sterling Commerce, AGCO Corporation and national associations such as:  International Franchise Association, Korean Ministry of Information, Mortgage Bankers Association, American Payroll Association, Association of Equipment Manufacturers.

Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator, speaker and consultant, is the Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium. Since 1982, Gary has helped learners of all ages on six continents embrace the power of computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression. He led professional development in the world's first laptop schools (1990), has designed online graduate school programs since the mid-90s, was a collaborator in the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group and a member of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Learning Team.

When Jean Piaget wanted to better understand how children learn mathematics, he hired Seymour Papert. When Dr. Papert wanted to create a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens, he hired Gary Stager. This work was the basis for Gary's doctoral dissertation and documented Papert's most-recent institutional research project.

Gary's recent work has included teaching and mentoring some of Australia's "most troubled" public schools, launching 1:1 computing in a Korean International School beginning in the first grade, media appearances in Peru and serving as a school S.T.E.M. Director. He was a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University and Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine. His advocacy on behalf of creativity, computing and children led to the creation of the Constructivist Consortium and the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute.

In 1999, Converge Magazine named Gary a "shaper of our future and inventor of our destiny." The National School Boards Association recognized Dr. Stager with the distinction of "20 Leaders to Watch" in 2007. The June 2010 issue of Tech & Learning Magazine named Gary Stager as "one of today's leaders who are changing the landscape of edtech through innovation and leadership." CUE presented Gary with its 2012 Technology in Learning Leadership Award. A popular speaker, Dr. Stager was a keynote speaker at the 2009 National Educational Computing Conference and at major conferences around the world. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne's Trinity College on several occasions.

Gary was the new media producer for The Brian Lynch/Eddie Palmieri Project - Simpatíco, 2007 Grammy Award Winner for Best Latin Jazz Album of the Year. Dr. Stager is also a contributor to The Huffington Post and a Senior S.T.E.M. and Education Consultant to leading school architecture firm, Fielding Nair International. Gary also works with teachers and students as S.T.E.M. Director at The Oaks School in Hollywood, California.

Craig Rispin is a Business Futurist and Innovation Expert his expertise is in emerging business, people and technology trends-and how companies can profit from them.

Craig has over 20 years experience working where the future has been created—with some of the most innovative companies in the world in the IT, consumer electronics, internet and broadcasting industries.

He is an award-winning speaker and has addressed audiences from 15 to 3,000 on 5 continents and has consulted with CEOs of leading companies worldwide.

Some of his clients include: BHP Billiton, Canon, Colonial First State, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, Mallesons, NRMA, Sportscraft, Symantec, Toyota, the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and countless professional industry associations.

Craig is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), which is conferred by the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers. Currently there are fewer than 600 CSPs worldwide and Craig is the only "Business Futurist & Innovation Expert" with this designation.

Now a keynote speaker and innovation consultant, Craig shows his clients how to

Know First, Be First and Profit First.

Michael Eggenhuizen, Director ICT,
The King's School Parramatta & Tudor House School Moss Vale

Michael Eggenhuizen is Director ICT at The King's School Parramatta NSW (2005-present) and Tudor House School Moss Vale NSW (2008-present). A mathematics and science teacher with 34 years experience in schools, Michael began teaching HSC Computing Studies in the late 1980's and moved to full time ICT Management in 2000.

Michael has held ICT Management roles at Christian Brothers' High School Lewisham NSW (1995-1999) and the Australian International School Singapore (2000-2004). Michael has presented at a number of leadership events including: AISNSW ICT Managers'; AISNSW Business Managers'; NSW Bursars' Association; IPSHA Teacher Librarians'; Headmasters' Conference of NSW; and ACCE Conference.

Professor Barry McGaw AO, PhD, Chair, Australian Curriculum,
Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

Professor Barry McGaw is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne and also Chair of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.

Prior to returning to Australia at the end of 2005, Professor McGaw was Director for Education at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He had earlier been Executive Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

Professor McGaw is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Psychological Society, the Australian College of Educators and the International Academy of Education. He is currently President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and has previously been President of the Australian Association for Research in Education, the Australian Psychological Society, the Australian College of Educators and the International Association for Educational Assessment.

Professor McGaw received an Australian Centenary Medal in 2001 and was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2004.

Martin Levins, Director of IT, Armidale School

Currently employed at The Armidale School as Director of Information Technology and Coordinator of Technological and Applied Studies, Martin’s experience goes beyond the classroom to include consultancy in office technologies, publishing, advertising and journalism. His education experience runs the full gamut from primary to tertiary and includes significant involvement in the identification of education and training needs, and the development, promotion and delivery of education and training courses.

An Education Columnist for Australian Macworld and regular presenter at domestic and international conferences, Martin has a wealth of experience in opportunities analysis and assessment, and the ability to bring good ideas to fruition.

His particular interest is the enhancement in learning that can happen with appropriate infusion of Information Communications Technologies. As such he is a keen student of technology, educational philosophies and change management.

Jeff Davis, Principal, Varsity College

Jeff’s career in the education sector started at Lyndale Secondary College, a school with over 1000 students located in North Dandenong, Victoria.  Remaining in Victoria, Jeff’s next role was Operations Manager at Rowville Secondary College, a multi campus college with approximately 1750 students enrolled.  The focus at Rowville was to provide ‘opportunities for all’ hence the College provided a combination of educational streams with a range of outcomes from vocational to tertiary. 

Jeff moved to Langwarrin Secondary College (later called Elisabeth Murdoch College) in 2001, a co-educational school in the Frankston Region which catered mainly for students from a lower socio-economic background, where he assumed the role of Assistant Principal until 2003, when he was promoted to Principal.  While here, Jeff was co-writer and member of the accreditation committee for the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL).  Recognising the void of an appropriate course for students not aiming at tertiary placements, VCAL has become the choice for nearly 30% of students studying year 11 & 12 in Victoria.  During this period Jeff was involved in several major projects for the school and associated community including construction of 3 court basketball stadium, multi-court tennis centre and a 450 seat performing arts centre.  In 2007 Jeff moved to the Gold Coast to take up his current role as Executive Principal at Varsity College.

Varsity College is now the largest school in Queensland with over 3000 students.  Student performance in all year levels is of a very high standard and has continued to improve in the last few years.  The introduction of the 1:1 laptop program in 2010 now has been expanded so that more than 1500 students have their own personal computer device.  The College was invited to join the Microsoft Partners in Learning program and currently holds the position of World Mentor School.  With three significant building projects being completed in the last 18 months, the College has seen a radical change in education provision with the development of a strong ICT pedagogy across the entire school.  Staff from Varsity College regularly are invited to be guest speakers around Queensland and beyond as the lessons learnt from this radical transformation have been documented to assist other schools in moving on a similar journey.  

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science, Graduate Diploma in Educational Administration and a Master of Educational Leadership.

Dr Margaret Lloyd, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology & President, Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education (QSITE)

Dr Margaret Lloyd is an Associate Professor in the School of Maths, Science and Technology Education, QUT, with a specialisation in ICT education with specific responsibility for secondary computing curriculum studies. She has taken a leading role in ICT curriculum design and has co-authored an ICT textbook for junior secondary students. Margaret is currently the President of QSITE (Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education) and is on the national board of the Australian Council for Computers in Education. Her work has been acknowledged in a number of ways, including: a National Teaching Fellowship conferred in 2012; a national university teaching excellence award in 2009, and a state award as Outstanding Leader in ICT in 2007.
Other responsibilities include

• Co-editor, Journal of Learning Design www.jld.qut.edu.au
• Director of Oz-teachers, the group which oversees the Oz-TeacherNet
• Project Leader, National Support Network for the national Teaching Teachers to the Future Project.
• Past prior State Review Panel Chair for Information Processing and Technology (IPT)
• Member of the Queensland Studies Authority’s P-12 Technologies Committee
• Chair, sub-committee, QSA’s Information and Communication Technology Education (ICTE) syllabus
• Leader, Advocacy Committee, Queensland Society for Information Technology in Education (QSITE)
• Principal Investigator, Technology education in North Norway (funded by the Norwegian Research Council)

Details of Margaret Lloyd's research can be found at www.eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Lloyd,_Margaret

Clayton Carnes, Principal, Hermit Park School

Clayton is currently Principal of Hermit Park Primary School and is focused on utilizing ICT as a way to rein-vent learning within school communities and districts. His goal is to assist Schools, Districts and Education Departments to develop learning programs that encourage children to be digital and sustainable learners in a 21st century world.

He is active in state and national leadership in ICT, chairing both the 1 to 1 Queensland Group and the ICT Queensland Chair for State Principals Association.

Clayton currently is a member of the Microsoft Partners in Learning World Board and is currently involved in mentoring 5 schools through the Partners in Learning Innovative Schools Program.

Neil McDonald, Executive Principal, Brisbane School of Distance Education

Neil McDonald is the Principal of The Brisbane School of Distance Education (BSDE) in Queensland, Australia. 

Neil has been Principal at BSDE for over two and a half years. He plays a key leadership role in Regional and State committees as Chair of the Aspirational Leaders Program and as a Member of the Regional Maximising Student Performance Team. Neil is heavily involved in change management and ICT in Learning Professional Development for teachers across Brisbane. He also leads and manages the On-Line Course Development Unit for Queensland Distance Education Schools and for use in all Queensland schools.

BSDE is located in Brisbane and services over 3000 students around Queensland and overseas. ‘Providing quality education for anyone, anywhere, anytime’ is the driving vision of the school. It was initially designed to provide education to the remote families of Queensland. It is now leading the innovative delivery of world class curriculum to a diverse range of students around the world through the use of global technologies.

BSDE is now recognised for its outstanding Senior School academic achievement. 

Danielle Carter, Education Officer Learning and Teaching Technologies,
Brisbane Catholic Education Office

For the past 4 years Danielle has been Education Officer Learning and Teaching Technologies for Brisbane Catholic Education. Her main focus is to work with principals and teachers as they plan, engage and support innovative learning and teaching within their schools.

In 2009 she was awarded QSITE Merging Leader. Presented at numerous educational conferences- MYSA, QSITE, IWB Net, Catholic and Lutheran Education Conferences. Danielle has been involved in many projects- Models of Contemporary Learning, Games in ICLT, Evolving Pedagogies with ICLT, Design Thinking, Leap 21 to enhance learning, Mobile technologies.

Lachlan Hull, ICLT Coordinator, Brisbane Catholic Education Office

Primary School Educator and eLearning leader at St Joseph’s Primary School, Kangaroo Point. Presented at BCE eLearning conferences and November Learning's Building Learning Communities 2012 Conference. 

Passion for facilitating students own their learning with the assistance of context appropriate technology. Currently investigating effective ways to embed Games and concepts of gamification into Educational contexts as part of anAGQTP Grant.

Natalie Goldman is the National Learning and Development Manager at Peoplebank. Peoplebank is the largest IT Recruiter In Australia and now has offices in HK and Singapore and is a AON Hewitt Employer of Choice for 2012 as well as being awarded the EOWA Employer of Choice for Women. Recently, Natalie was awarded Best Learning Manager, from the LEARNX Learning and Technology Impact Awards 2012.

Natalie has been working in the L&D/ OD field for over 17 years.  With experience across many industries including Retail, Hospitality, Professional Services, Health, Government as well as Telecommunications.  Her most recent role prior to Peoplebank was heading up the learning function at AAPT.

An avid supporter of new technology, Natalie strongly believes in individual led learning, where she is the tour guide to the employees. Maintaining a flexible and open approach to learning strategy and development means that not only is she developing others but herself too, on a daily basis!  An official lifelong learner.

Peter is a corporate educator and performance consultant focusing on leadership development, strategy development, and team performance. He is a powerful guide in exploring effective leadership practices and a catalyst in illuminating and supporting new possibilities for participants of his programs. His engaging program design and facilitation is masterful and he has been contracted nationally and internationally since 2000. His has worked with; Coca Cola Amatil, Toll Holdings, Ergon Energy, Sodexo, WSP Group, Laing O’Rourke, Master Builders Association, Worley Parsons; Sydney Water, Gold Coast City Council, Xstrata Coal, OLAM, Virgin Australia, Virgin Mobile, Boeing Australia, KPMG, Bentleys, Hanson, NZ Refinery Company, to name a few.

Passionate about business improvement and leadership development, Peter has been on a quest for over 25 years to understand how to bring out the very best in people. He is the co-author of a premium leadership development program in the construction industry, Building Leaders in Construction, and has also pioneered programs in team performance, relationship management, and behavioural styles.

A highly energetic and engaging speaker, Peter brings stories from his extensive adventures around the world and the corporate sector. He works with leadership groups in developing shared vision, personal responsibility, goal orientation, and developing cultures of openness and trust.

Helen Blunden is currently working as an Instructional Designer on contract for the National Australia Bank Mortgage Transformation Program.

She has worked in learning and development for over 23 years across public and private sectors in Australia.  With experience in the military, financial services, telecommunications and professional services, Helen has seen the evolution of corporate learning and development through various roles.

From facilitator, instructional designer, LMS administrator, LMS manager, L&D manager, eLearning project manager and learning and development consultant, Helen believes that Learning and Development has a critical role to play in the new connected workplace but we need to reflect on how relevant our practices are today for tomorrow.

She believes it is time for Learning and Development to be bold and embrace the change we see in our workplaces today.  To not fear new technologies or adhere to instructional models that may have served as a barrier to connecting with our business stakeholders.  Our value comes from providing open, innovative and creative performance solutions that not only meet our business needs but inspire our corporate learners.  But in order to do so, we have to take charge of our own learning and be open to new possibilities.

Libby joined SKM in 2005 as Group Manager Talent and Learning, based in SKM’s Sydney office. She has a BA Dip ED from Macquarie University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business from Curtin University of Technology.
Since joining SKM Libby has launched and managed a broad program of Learning and Development initiatives.
These include:

• Establishing a global team of L & D professionals equipped to meet the requirements of a dynamic business environment
• Building the SKM Leadership Development Framework spanning graduates through to executive leadership
• Designing and implementing a SKM Talent Management Framework

Prior to joining SKM, Libby worked with Ernst & Young as its Senior Manager charged with Organisation Development. For more than a decade, as the principal in Libby Bell & Associates, Libby designed and provided Learning and Development programs and Project Management services to many leading businesses.

Libby’s vision is to provide leadership around the Learning and Development requirements for SKM as a growing, agile, global business. She believes talent management and leadership will be key to maximising the full potential of all our people.

Jenny Self is the Business Manager at The Hutchins School, a Foundation to Year 12 independent day and boarding school for boys located in Hobart, Tasmania.

Jenny has been in this role for nearly 8 years and previously worked in executive finance and administration roles at Tasmania’s largest shipbuilder, Incat, for a period of 16 years. Jenny has always been involved in financial roles and has a wealth of experience across many fields.

Jenny is the current President of the Association of School Business Administrators (ASBA) Tas and sits on the national board of ASBA. She has previously held roles of Vice President and PD Co-Ordinator of ASBA Tas.

Like many schools, Jenny’s school has faced the challenge of rapidly changing technology versus budget and infrastructure limitations. She has successfully implemented long term financial plans, linked to business continuity and disaster recovery plans, to better enable financial forecasting.

Jenny holds an MBA from UTAS, is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (FAIM), a Justice of the Peace (JP) and was a finalist in 2012 Telstra Tasmanian Business Woman’s Awards.

Lisa’s career with the Education Queensland started in administration at Robina State School on the Gold Coast. Lisa was promoted to various Registrar positions over the next 6 years at both Robina State School and Miami High School before being seconded to a Project Managers position within the Department of Public Works. In mid-2007, Lisa was successful in securing the position of Business Manager at Varsity College, Queensland’s largest State School, and has since worked there under the leadership of Executive Principal Jeff Davis.

With the introduction and success of the world acclaimed 1:1 laptop program, the College’s partnerships with numerous organisations both locally and abroad, as well as major facilities developments, Varsity has undergone significant changes the areas of education delivery and support.  Over the past 4 years Lisa’s role has evolved primarily as providing leadership during the planning and implementation of these projects through organisational development, quality management of Human Resources, Facilities, Assets and Finance to ensure the College succeeds in providing the best opportunities for students and support for teachers that are manageable and sustainable, while still meeting the commitments of ongoing programs.

I have 26 years experience in chartered accounting, with the past 19 years
focused on financial governance of schools, TAFE, Private Education and
Training institutions.

My goal and passion is to strengthen financial viability, prevent financial
distress, and help schools govern with confidence and ease.

Experience includes board governance in particular financial viability, strategic
planning, managing using key performance indicators (KPI's), board reporting,
corporate finance and risk management.

For 19 years, I have operated a financial benchmarking survey for
independent schools in Australia and New Zealand. This survey now
represents 68% of the market (based on student enrolments). 99% of
participants rank the survey as good to excellent and recommend it to others.

My clients include a broad range of over 500 non-government schools,
associations and school system offices.

Directorships include not-for-profit school boards and key industry association.

Career highlights include serving as an industry expert in the financial
governance of schools - helping to establish a financial viability framework for
the industry. Other highlights include advisor to the Victorian Government to
develop a balanced scorecard reporting system for TAFE Institutions, and
developing the first financial benchmarking survey for the private education
and training sector in Australia.

Rob started his teaching career as an outdoor educator before moving to Trinity Grammar School, Kew in Melbourne and taking up a full-time software development role creating rich web applications to augment the school’s mature 1:1 computer program. In 2007 Rob became Director of ICT at Trinity. Rob teaches Robotics to year 9 and 10 kids, blogs a bit at learnyougood.com, enjoys the musical stylings Tom Waits and amuses himself brewing beer at home.

Michelle was elected Chair of ASBA Ltd in April 2012, following a period as Deputy Chair and Director, and is the Immediate Past President for ASBA (WA).  Michelle has been with St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in the role of Business Manager since 2004, after a period as St Marys’ Anglican Girls School, and currently has the role of Treasurer for the Council of Peter Moyes Anglican Community School

Previous roles include Project Accountant in the Engineering / Mining Industry and Management Accountant with the Banking Industry.”

As Chief Economist of BT Financial Group, Dr Chris Caton advises clients on the financial implications of economic trends, policy pronouncements and major political developments. A former head of the Economic Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Chris is a leading analyst of the current and future state of both the Australian and international economies, and their potential impact on individual industries.

Drawing on his international experience and with an impressive breadth of knowledge, Chris provides succinct and tailored advice to his clients in a wide range of industries, including many that are dominated by small businesses. A brilliant communicator, Chris has a rare ability to make economics come alive for his audience and has received innumerable accolades for his highly accessible, meaningful, and entertaining presentations

John started teaching himself the Basic computer programming language on his Texas Instruments TI99/4A as a teenager in the mid 80’s, and after a brief career in 5 star hotels and resorts, he became involved with the IT Learning and Training Industry in 1996 when he started teaching Microsoft Office within a corporate training environment.

At the same time the web was evolving and John started developing websites, programming in HTML and using high-end multimedia tools, like Macromedia Director and Flash. He subsequently completed a 2 year Multimedia Advanced Certificate which focused on high end multimedia development and Adobe Photoshop and film editing.

In 2003, John was employed by HSBC Bank Australia as their eLearning and Development Consultant. He was able to combine his learning and training skills with his web development and multimedia skills. He evolved the eLearning space at HSBC from an Authorware developed, Icon driven “*.exe” file on everyone’s desktop, to a web and flash based environment.

From 2007 until 2012, John consulted to a number of training companies providing class room training and on the job consulting for a range of software products including Adobe Captivate. He is an official Adobe Credited Instructor in Adobe Captivate.

John is currently with Fuji Xerox Australia assisting in breaking down their eLearning barriers from an outsourcing environment to an internally owned and loved function of the business.

He looks forward to sharing his experiences at EduTech 2013.

Marc Niemes has founded and commercialised a myriad of organisations in the internet space over the last 15 years. Many are now part of larger organisations including Philips electronics, GlobeConnect Telecom and Telstra. Marc Niemes is the founding director of PulseLearning Australasia, founding president of eLearning Industry Association of Victoria (elearning.org.au) and global elearning research organisation ThinQdigital.org.

There are three passions that drive him; People, Learning, and Technology. To date solutions provided have logged over 5.2 million online course completions across education providers, health, leading corporations, and their associations. From commercialising Australia’s world memory champion Tansel Ali (famous for memorising the yellow page) to work with AusPost, Woolworths, Civil Aviation and Safety Authority, Virgin, Newcrest, Boral, Epworth Healthcare and Western Health to name a few.

Marc has a keen interest in seeing Australian companies compete and win on an international stage in digital services, mobile and health learning technologies. He chairs special Victorian interest groups in export, gaming, mobile learning and healthcare markets. He has a reputation for market focused advice that leads to triple digit growth or incredible ROI and utilisation based on “human change management factors”. It is all about people being supported by knowledge, being delivered more efficiently through technology.

Marc is widely regarded in the learning and technology industry having been published in Cebit, BRW, Fin Review, The Australian and dozens of industry mags. He has hosted and prompted debates most recently  at events such as Shanghai World Expo, Online Educa Berlin, Broadband Summit, Korean elearning Industry Association, Networld+Interop, LearnX, HR Summits, AHRI and Blended Learning Conferences..

Marc has lived and worked in the US, Europe, Taiwan and Australia, and currently resides with his wife and three children within the eco house realgreenhome.com in Melbourne Australia.

Sean has over 12 years’ experience working with schools to lead and drive change management, and leverage the potential of technology to improve student learning. He began his career in South Australia where he worked as a primary and secondary school teacher, Head of Department and Deputy-Principal.

Leaving South Australia, Sean worked in the senior leadership team of the Queensland Department of Education eLearning Branch, where he managed transformational learning initiatives. While with the department, he co-authored The 21 Steps to 1-to-1 Success with Bruce Dixon (AALF) and developed two programs: Technology, Furniture and Architecture, and Transformational Learning.

Sean is now responsible for a number of Microsoft’s professional development programs in Australian schools. He also manages the Australian Innovative Schools program.

Rolfe Kolbe, ICT Facilitator, Newington College Rolfe is a Mathematics teacher and "ICT Facilitator" at Newington College in Sydney. He enjoys exploring innovative learning practices and loves learning and sharing. He gets particularly excited that using technology in Learning and Teaching is becoming so accessible and a genuine conduit for innovation and engagement. Rolfe works across all academic, pastoral and cocurricular areas as well as enjoying coaching rugby.

Rolfe is active in professional learning as a participant and presenter including at conferences, TeachMeets in Sydney (and online) and PLANE. He is active on Twitter as @rolfek where he learns more than anywhere else and where he tries to share as much as he can. Rolfe enjoys training students and teachers and mentoring others to do like wise.  One of his strong focusses is learning through content creation where learners investigate and work towards a genuine understanding of content. Moving students from doing things for the sake of doing them towards a desire to do them better.

Simon Crook is eLearning Adviser to 17 secondary schools within the Catholic Education Office Sydney Southern Region. He works with teachers, Principals and consultants on how best to integrate technology in the classroom and leverage technology to facilitate better teacher collaboration. Recently Simon co-organised the world’s largest ever TeachMeet.

Previously Simon taught Physics for 15 years in 5 schools in the UK and Australia holding various leadership positions. He is currently undertaking postgraduate research into the impact of 1-to-1 laptops on student performance with the University of Sydney. Simon has published a research paper for CEO Sydney on 21st Century Science Centres for the Building an Education Revolution plus multimedia resources for HSC Physics with the University of Sydney. Previous presentations of his include ‘The Power of a Personal Learning Network’ at the Networked Social Learner Conference, Sydney, 2011; ‘The Role of Interactive Whiteboards in a 1-to-1 Environment’ at ISTE, Denver USA, 2010; and ‘Twitter in Education’ and ‘Winning the Digital Education Revolution’ at the Leading a Digital School Conference, Melbourne, 2010.

Simon is married with two young sons. He holds a 2nd Dan black belt in Jiu Jitsu and is a lifelong Everton fan.

Twitter: @simoncrook
Blog: http://evertonpom.blogspot.com/

Liz Mead has been a Principal for some 12 years and is currently the Principal of Aberfoyle Park High School, one of South Australia’s largest high schools. She has a long history in education and leadership and is known for her innovative approaches to engaging young people in their education through the use of technology and authentic learning opportunities. Prior to her latest appointment she was the Principal at Valley View Secondary School for 8 years. Other roles have included Principal at Windsor Gardens Vocational College and Centre for Hearing Impaired, the High Performing Enterprise Community Project Officer for the North East & Tea Tree Gully Districts, Principal, TAFE Lecturer and Special Education teacher.

She currently chairs a range of committees in the Southern Region: Leaders for Learning, Advanced Technology Industry Pathways Project and Lead Principal for the Science Maths Academy at Flinders University. Liz is also the chair of Secondary School Sport SA. Previously while working in Northern Adelaide Liz was also the Chairperson of NAMIEC (Northern Advanced Industry Education Committee) and the educational Board Member of NAMIG (Northern Advanced Manufacturing Industry Group).

Greg Miller is a visionary educational leader with a strong desire to transform learning. By engaging with leaders, teachers and students, he has established a vibrant learning culture that sets high expectations and now offers creative possibilities where students and staff flourish. In his current appointment as Principal, Greg has stridently advanced the quality of learning and leadership at Mater Dei Catholic College, Wagga Wagga.

Greg epitomises life-long learning. Within the last 10 years he has acquired a Masters in Educational Leadership and a Graduate Certificate in Boys’ Education. Greg is currently engaged in Doctoral Research investigating the role of the principal in school transformation through the use of digital technologies. His current studies support his aim to provide a contemporary learning environment for students which is relevant to their everyday lives. 

With an ability to ‘get people on board’, Greg’s passion for learning wins commitment from staff, students and the wider community. The constant search for best practice learning has enabled Mater Dei Catholic College to be seen as a leader in rural and regional education. As a strategic, creative and analytical thinker, and with the invaluable support of an excellent group of committed leaders and teachers, Greg’s leadership has facilitated learning initiatives which are blended and connected. These initiatives look to re-design learning, and learning spaces, to ensure learning to be student-centred and collaborative.

Derek Bartels has held positions of Teacher, ICT Leader, Consultant and Education Officer within Education Qld, Bundaberg TAFE, Lutheran Education Qld, Lutheran Education Australia and Catholic Education over the last 27 years. He is currently the ICT Executive Officer for Lutheran Education Qld. His ICT Leadership across many sectors has provided him with much insight and he is still passionate about making ICT an integral part of aspects of the total educational community through collaboration, leadership and innovation. He has sat on numerous educational ICT committees around the country including The Learning Federation Colloquium, Independent  Schools of Qld ICT Committee, National Lutheran Education ICT Leadership Committee and others . His escapes includes cooking and the occasional rock gig viewer/performance!

Daniel grew up in a family where education was the central theme with his grandparents, parents and extended family working as either teachers, School Principals or in Tertiary Education Departments. Daniel started working in IT and education in 1987 and built the first Education Internet Service Provider in Australia in 1993. He designed and built the first school specific Internet gateway in 1995, and in 1998 the first Internet portal to link logins with Internet based learning activities in a centralised infrastructure. This development changed the way Internet was managed in Australia. Daniel’s software was used by over 50% of Australian students and was built on Open Source - before it was fashionable.

In 2000, Daniel went on to conceive, design, and develop an e-learning platform that included a Personal Portal, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Learning Content Management System, Federated search, and an e-portfolio for students with WYSIWYG publishing. This software, called myclasses, won the National Australian Internet Association Innovation award, a major software award. Myclasses was arguably one of the top k-12 e-learning platforms in the world, with over a million users in five countries, including the UK where it is part of the BECTA Learning Platform. 

Daniel is currently Program Lead, Projects and Architecture for the National Schools Interoperability Program (NSIP). NSIP is an initiative of the State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Education that commenced in July 2010, incorporating the “Towards SIF AU Program,” to provide leadership and support in the delivery of e-learning projects and manage the Systems Interoperability Framework (SIF) specification in Australia.  Under Daniel’s leadership, NSIP has completed 12 pilot projects across Australia, demonstrating the value of SIF to solve interoperability issues in the Australian education sector. 

In the early 1980s, as a primary school teacher, David introduced the first computers into the classrooms of a small rural state school. In many ways his professional life has paralleled the Department’s journey with ICTs. Through a period of discovery and early adoption in the 1980s and 90s, he worked in a variety of teaching and consulting roles working in schools to assist teachers integrate computers into the curriculum while studying and lecturing part-time on educational computing at Griffith University.

His professional journey in various technical, consultancy and management roles has allowed him to blend a broad range of ICT knowledge and skills with a deep understanding and abiding passion for the core business of schools – teaching and learning. In his previous role as the Director, Enterprise Platform, he had responsibility for leading and directing the coordinated delivery of key technology initiatives underpinning the Department’s ‘Smart Classrooms’ agenda. This program of work was designed to provide enhanced ICT support services across all 1235 Queensland state schools, in order to develop a sustainable, robust, enterprise-wide ICT platform.

In January 2010, David was appointed as the Assistant Director-General, Information &Technologies and Chief Information Officer (CIO). During this period the Information &Technologies Branch has amalgamated the strategy, policy, projects, operations and service delivery units for technology across the Department into a single branch as part of the new Corporate Services Division.

As the CIO, David  led the rollout of the National Secondary School Computer Fund which delivered over 100,000 computers to secondary students including an Australian first rollout in partnership with Telstra and ACER, 60,000 NextG enabled, high end notebooks providing 24 x 7 connectivity to the Department’s core learning platform and content filtered internet. During this period he was also responsible for the final phase of OneSchool, a major transformational school and student administration program delivered to support 70,000 staff and 490,000 students through an enterprise hosted suite of web based modules covering student information, curriculum, assessment, reporting, finance and facilities.

Parrallel to his civilian career, David completed 35 years in the Australian Army Reserve as rising to the rank of Colonel in 2009. During his military career, he served in range of regimental, training and personnel roles including commanding the 9th Battalion the Royal Queensland Regiment in 1999. In his final posting as the Director, Army Personnel Agency, he was responsible for HR and career management of all Army Reservists in South Queensland.
David is a dual graduate of Griffith University (education and computing), University of Canberra (defence studies) and the Australian Command and Staff College – Canberra. In 2004, he was awarded the Reserve Forces Decoration (RFD) for meritorious service as an officer in the Australian Army Reserve.

Caroline is a research fellow in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at The University of Queensland. She is also President of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) – seewww.ascilite.org which has an annual conference and publishes the high calibre journal AJET (Australasian Journal of Educational Technology) - impact factor of 1.278 in the ISI Journal Citation Reports for 2009. Her current research focus is on the use of technologies in language learning and teaching (both university and school sectors).

She teaches a Masters of Educational Studies course 'Creating classrooms of the future with educational technology' for school teachers and 'Introduction to Languages and Technologies' an undergraduate course for language students in the School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies.

Caroline's research has been focused on the integration of current and emerging learning technologies into university education. She is particularly interested in the role of teacher and learner beliefs, affordance theories and learning design in relation to university learning and teaching in virtual (LMS, Virtual worlds, 3D, Web 2.0 and beyond) and physical learning spaces and through mobile technologies and personalised learning environments.

Caroline has worked in education-related fields for the past 17 years as a language teacher (Japanese and TESOL), curriculum designer, university teacher educator and scholar. Her PhD topic was the interrelationship between university teacher's pedagogical beliefs, beliefs about web technologies and web practices.

Andrew Ng is a Co-founder of Coursera, and a Computer Science faculty member at Stanford.  He is also the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, the main AI research organization at Stanford.  In 2011, he led the development of Stanford University's main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform, and also taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera.  Today, Coursera partners with top universities such as Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, and others, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.  Ng's goal is to give everyone in the world access to a high quality education, for free.  With 33 university partners, over 200 courses, and more than 2 million students, Coursera is currently the largest MOOC (Massively Open Online Courses) platform in the world.

Paul has 15 years of experience in ICT Management and Project Management with commercial and public sector organisations in Australia.
A specialist in developing strategy to drive the effective use of technology to benefit the organisation, Paul has a record in successfully building motivated teams and driving collaborative intitiatives in the education sector.

• Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia
• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Immediate Past Chair of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)

Responsible for Infosys company strategy and leadership across Australasia, Jackie Korhonen brings over 25 years of experience in leadership positions in the technology and business consulting sector.

Jackie graduated from the University of Sydney with dual degrees in Science and Chemical Engineering.  She began her technology career as an engineer, working her way up from a technical customer service position to executive roles in some of the IT industry’s largest companies. From 1985 to 2008, she lived and worked in Australia, Singapore and China, developing customer partnerships across Asia Pacific.

After joining as CEO of Infosys Australia & New Zealand in November 2008, Jackie focused on aligning the Australia and New Zealand business to partner with clients in large transformation opportunities, helping to double the business.  In 2011, Jackie assumed the additional role of heading Infosys financial services business in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. 

Jackie is recognised for her thought leadership and is a frequent keynote speaker at local and global conferences., Passionate about increasing the number of Australians who enter the technology profession, Jackie is a national director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), the country’s peak body for the ICT industry.  She also serves as a director for Australian-based sourcing and supply chain consultancy, The Portland Group.

Chris is the Director of Information Technology Services for Queensland University of Technology and Chair of the Queensland Branch Executive Committee for the Australian Computer Society (2013).

He has over 20 Years ICT industry experience across a broad range of industry sectors and technology environments. Much of Chris’ experience has been gained in professional services and consulting roles, responsible for systems integration, software development, outsourcing and project management services.

Prior to joining QUT, Chris was the Director for ICT Shared Services at Monash University, and Country Manager for Technical Services in Hewlett-Packard, responsible for driving business strategy and plans, delivery of IT solutions and professional services, as well as supporting new business growth.

Peter Clifton, Principal, South Yarra Primary School

Peter Clifton is the Principal of South Yarra Primary School in inner city Melbourne, a State Government school of 270 students with a diverse student background that enjoys strong community support through involvement. His passion for learning and student achievement was the driver for the recent $2 million innovative building project that linked the 159 year old existing classrooms to the new flexible design spaces via the use of new technologies.

South Yarra Primary School consistently celebrates excellent academic results both at State and National level.

A member of the Victorian Principal’s Association for 20 years and in his current position for eight years, Peter has wide experience both at a local, State level and internationally as a Victorian Government International Teaching Fellow to Texas USA.
Community, family and opportunity are highly important to Peter and his role as a Board member of State School’s Relief for the last three years demonstrates commitment to those students in Victorian schools who are disadvantaged or suffer as a result of natural disaster by providing uniforms and shoes so that attendance and learning is not hindered.  (http://www.ssr.net.au/ )

South Yarra Primary School is the first DELL National Vision School in Australia and trials many new technologies to advance student learning.
Peter was a keynote speaker at eduTech2012 sharing practical ideas and thoughts on connectivity and “over the rainbow technologies” .
Email south.yarra.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Paul Wappett, CEO, Open Universities Australia

Beverley Oliver is ALTC National Teaching Fellow 2011 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at Deakin University, Australia. Through her National Teaching Fellowship (Assuring Graduate Capabilities), she is engaging curriculum leaders of undergraduate courses from any discipline to work with their colleagues, industry partners, students and graduates to: define course-wide levels of achievement in key capabilities, articulated through standards rubrics; embed the rubrics into student portfolios and course review portfolios and share the challenges and opportunities of such approaches through scholarly publications.

Previous nationally-funded projects include: the ALTC Good Practice Guide: Assuring Graduate Outcomes, the ALTC Teaching Fellowship Benchmarking partnerships for graduate employability and an ALTC Competitive Grant Building Course Team Capacity for Graduate Employability. Beverley's leadership of other projects include: Curtin University's Curriculum 2010 project (curriculum reform focused on graduate employability, curriculum mapping, ePortfolios and evaluation of curriculum effectiveness) and eVALUate (Curtin University's online student feedback system).
Beverley's leadership has been recognised with two ALTC Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (2008 and 2010). She publishes in a range of teaching and learning areas, including assuring graduate attributes and capabilities, employability; student, graduate and employer evaluation; curriculum renewal, mapping and analytics; ePortfolios and student ownership and use of emerging devices and Web 2.0 applications. Beverley is the Editor of the Journal of Learning and Teaching for Graduate Employability.

Sue is principal of Broulee Public a NSW state school that has sought to work collaboratively with its homes and local community in providing a holistic education for a digital and networked world.

To that end Broulee has normalised the use of the digital throughout the school and its community, and has evolved to the stage where it has virtually normalised the 100% of BYOT

Sue is currently part of the Department’s state working party looking at the implementation of the BYOD policy and it’s impact on schools.