Day 1 -­ Thursday, April 11
11AM -­ Noon
Registration at Microstrategy, Inc.
Noon -­ 1:00PM
Networking Lunch
At AMC Theater (walking distance from Microstrategy, Inc.)
1:15PM -­ 1:45PM
Welcome Keynote and Introduction
Michael J. Saylor, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Microstrategy, Inc.
1:45PM -­ 2:45 PM
Keynote Presentations
Keynote 1 -­ Abe Murray, Senior Product Manager, Google, Inc.
Keynote 2 -­ TBA
Return to Microstrategy, Inc.
3:15PM -­ 4:00PM
Session 1
Technology: Title TBA
Karen Parker, Education Program Manager, Google
Kathleen Schwille, Vice President, Educational Design and Development,
National Geographic
Content:
“Stranger in a Strange Land: OER and Online in K12 Education”
DeLaina Tonks, Executive Director, Mountain Heights Academy
Sarah Weston, Technology and Curriculum Director, Mountain Heights
Academy
Funding/Investment:
“The Gap in Education No One is Talking About”
Fahad Hassan, CEO, Always Prepped
Implementation: Speaker/Title TBA
4:15PM -­ 5:00PM
The Future of the College Degree: Pathways to Matriculation
Moderator: TBA
Panelists:
Devon Ritter, Special Projects, The Saylor Foundation
Marc Singer, Vice Provost, Thomas Edison State College
Mark Michalisin, Executive Director of Business Development, Excelsior
College
Chari Leader-­Kelley, Vice President, Council for Adult & Experiential
Learning (CAEL)
Joseph Thibault, Course Director, StraighterLine
5:15PM -­ 6:00PM
6:00PM -­ 8:00PM
Cocktail Reception
Party and Dinner
Day 2 -­ Friday, April 12
At AMC Theater Tyson’s Corner
8:00AM -­ 8:45AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast at AMC Theater
8:45AM -­ 9:15AM
Opening Keynote:
Kenneth Green, Founding Director, Campus Computing Project
9:15AM-­10:15AM
Keynote Panel:
BYOIdea: Sustaining the Next Wave of Digital Education
Moderator: TBA
Panelists:
Judith Murray, Campus Executive Officer, Altus and Ivy Bridge College
Rob Curtin, Chief Applications Officer, Microsoft
Additional Panelists TBA
At Microstrategy, Inc, HQ
10:45AM -­ 11:30AM
Session 2
Technology:
“Create, Remix, Adapt, Assess and Accredit: New Models in the Age
of OER ”
Kathi Fletcher, Shuttleworth Fellow, OERPUB
Content:
“Talent Acquisition: How Do You Make Open Lucrative?”
Mike Carroll, Creative Commons
Funding/Investment:
“Impact Investing: How to Maximize Economic and Social Return”
Doug Mellinger, Managing Director, Clarion Capital
Implementation:
“Shifting Models: Accelerated and Competency Based Learning”
Tom Caswell, Director of Curriculum, Western Governors University
11:30AM -­ 12:30PM
Networking Session
12:30PM -­ 1:30PM
Lunch
1:30PM -­ 2:15PM
Session 3
Technology: Title TBA
Sasha Dietrichson, Researcher
Content:
“The Next Generation MOOC”
Paul Schiff Berman, Esq., Vice Provost for Online Education and
Academic Innovation, George Washington University
Funding/Investment:
“"The Credentialing Stack and the Future of Life-­Long Learning”
Matt Greenfield, Principal, Rethink Education
Implementation:
“Expanding Open Education Overseas”
Paul Kruchoski, Special Assistant for Policy, U.S. Department of State
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Additional Presenters TBA
2:30PM -­ 3:15PM
3:30PM
Session 4
Technology:
Speaker/Title TBA
Content:
“The Content Problem is Not Solved”
Daniel Williamson, Product Manager, OpenStaxx
Funding/Investment:
Speaker/Title TBA
Implementation:
“Open Resources in Practice;; Present and Future”
Ted Coe, Chair of Mathematics, Scottsdale Community College
Closing Remarks
Note: Workshop titles are subject to change.