Thought Leadership Q & A @ VITTA Conference 2009
November 25, 2009Thought Leadership Q & A Forum
Wednesday 25 November 2009
The Grandstand, Flemington Racecourse
9am -10.30am FORUM
COST $125*
*Register here for the Thought Leadership Q & A if you do not wish to attend the full day of the VITTA conference on Wednesday 25 November. If you do wish to register for the full day of the conference, including the Thought Leadership Q & A, register at www.vitta.org.au/2009conference and select the Thought Leadership Q & A when making your workshop selections for the day.
This forum will be led by an panel of leading thinkers and educators.
* The Thought Leadership Forum may be selected with no extra charge as part of the Wednesday conference program if you have registered for Wednesday's general program (to register for VITTA annual conference go to www.vitta.org.au/conference2009). Only select the Thought Leadership Forum below if you have not registered for the VITTA Annual Conference on Wednesday 25 November and only wish to attend Thought Leadership as a special event on this day.
Thought Leadership Q & A Forum
Steve Hargadon
California Social Learning Consultant at Elluminate, Director K12 Open Technologies Initiative at Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network
(www.classroom20.com)
11am-1pm SKYLINE
New technologies are delivering rapidly changing solutions for education, business, industry, politics and government. Where are we headed in the 21st century? How will emerging technologies affect our society? What will they offer education and business? This is the only event where the ICT industry and educators have the opportunity to explore new opportunities and challenge perceived wisdom about the future of our society.
Panel Members:
- Susi Steigler-Peters – National General Manager, Education, Industry Development, Telstra Enterprise and Development
- Ken Gooding –Senior eLearning Consultant, eWorks
- Jenny Buckland – CEO, Australian Children’s Television Foundation
- Dr Shanton Chang – Information Systems, University of Melbourne
- Ian Dennis – Chairman, Whitehorse Strategic Group and Australian Computer Society
- Geoff Elwood –CEO, Etech Group
- Katrina Reynen – Innovation Next Practice, Department of Education & Early Childhood
- Professor Margaret Robertson – Education and Research, Latrobe University
- Professor Ron Webber – Information Technology, Monash University
- Derek Wenmoth – Director eLearning, CORE Education, New Zealand
- Graham Whelan – CEO, Online Learning International and eLearning Industry Association of Victoria
- Brenda Frisk – Business Development and Education Strategies Director, Nextspace, Auckland New Zealand


