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.
Trustee and Founder, The Saylor Foundation
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 -­ 5:15PM
The Future of the College Degree: Pathways to Matriculation
Moderator: Paul Fain, Senior Reporter, Inside HigherEd
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 Education and Ivy Bridge
College
Rob Curtin, Chief Applications Officer, Microsoft
Dean Florez, Chief Executive Officer, 20 Million Minds Foundation
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, Co-­Founder, 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: “Transforming LMS data into Information: The X-­ray
Approach”
Dr. Aleksander (Sasha) Dietrichson, Principal Researcher, X-­Ray
Research SRL
Content: “The Next Generation MOOC”
Paul Schiff Berman, Esq., Vice Provost for Online Education and
Academic Innovation, George Washington University
Funding/Investment: “Opportunities to Invest in EdTech”
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
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
3:30PM
Closing Remarks
Note: Workshop titles are subject to change.