Key Session Speakers
Andy Goodman
Author, Speaker and Consultant
Andy Goodman is a nationally recognized author, speaker and consultant in the field of public interest communications. Along with the book, Storytelling as Best Practice, he is author of Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes and Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. He also publishes a monthly journal, free-range thinking, to share best practices in the field. He has been invited to lecture at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton University, as well as at major foundation and nonprofit conferences.
In 2007, he was selected by Al Gore to train one thousand volunteers who are currently conducting presentations on global warming throughout the United States and around the world. In 2008 he co-founded The Goodman Center to "help do-gooders learn to do better." To learn more about his work, visit his consulting firm's website and The Goodman Center's website.
Michael Horn
Co-founder and Executive Director
Innosight Institute
Michael Horn is the co-founder and executive director of the education practice of Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to solve problems in the social sector.
In this capacity, Horn leads a team that educates policymakers and the public on how to encourage innovation in education based on its ongoing research, which explores how to transform America's education system from its current factory-based model into a student-centric one in which every student can realize his or her human potential. Horn has testified at many state legislative sessions and is a frequent keynote speaker at education conferences and planning sessions around the country.
In 2008, Horn co-authored the book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill) with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the father of disruptive innovation theory, and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the Citistates Group. BusinessWeek named the book one of the 10 Best Innovation & Design Books of 2008 and Newsweek named it as the 14th book on its list of "Fifty Books for Our Times." Horn has also written articles for numerous publications and outlets including Forbes, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, The Economist, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for American Progress, and Education Week.
Tech&Learning magazine named Horn to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education.
Horn holds an master's degree in business administration from the Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University.
In addition, he serves on a variety of boards, including as an executive editor of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research about education policy, and as a board member of Fidelis, a technology company that provides an end-to-end education solution for the military-to-civilian career transition. Horn is also an advisory board member for the Shared Learning Collaborative, a joint initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation, on the Education Innovation Advisory Board at Arizona State University, and on the advisory committee for The Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Guy Kawasaki
Co-founder
Alltop.com
Guy Kawasaki is the author of Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com, an online magazine rack of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He is a columnist for the Open Forum of American Express. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple.
Kawasaki's new book, What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us, was released earlier this year. A product-oriented book, What the Plus teaches you how to get the most value and joy from Google+. In addition, Kawasaki is the author of nine other books, including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way.
He has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's degree in business administration from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Salman Khan
Founder
Khan Academy
Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, 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 is also the author of The One World Schoolhouse, which explores the potential impact of the web as a teaching tool. It may be one of the most influential books about education in our time.
Khan's journey began when he 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 more than 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, more than 118 million lessons delivered, and more than 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.
Daphne Koller
Co-founder and Co-CEO, Coursera, and Rajeev Motwani Professor, School of Engineering
Stanford University
Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and the Oswald Villard University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Her main research interest is in developing and using machine learning and probabilistic methods to model and analyze complex domains.
She is the author of more than 180 refereed publications, which have appeared in venues that include Science, Cell, and Nature Genetics (her H-index is more than 80). She also has a long-standing interest in education. She founded the CURIS program, the Stanford Computer Science Department's undergraduate summer internship program, and the Biomedical Computation major at Stanford. She pioneered in her classroom many of the ideas that are key to Stanford's massive online education effort.
Koller was awarded the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1996, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2001the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004, the ACM/Infosys award in 2008, and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011. Her teaching was recognized via the Cox Medal for excellence in fostering undergraduate research at Stanford in 2003, and by being named a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Edward J. Ray
President, Oregon State University
Immediate Past Chair, NCAA Executive Committee
Edward J. Ray assumed the position of Oregon State University's President on July 31, 2003. Prior to coming to Oregon State, Ray was executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University (OSU).
Under his leadership, OSU has completed and updated a visionary campus-wide strategic plan that is serving as the framework for the university's development in profound and historic ways. Annual research awards and contracts have increased and totaled $261.7 million in fiscal year 2011.
President Ray partnered with the OSU Foundation to launch the university's first comprehensive fundraising campaign. The public phase launched in October 2007 with a goal of $625 million. By June 2012, the campaign total reached $827 million, including $139 million for scholarships and fellowships. Because of the campaign's tremendous momentum and success, it has been extended to 2014 with a goal of $1 billion.
Ray was a member of the economics faculty at Ohio State from 1970-2003, serving as economics department chair from 1976 to 1992. He served as an associate provost from May 1992 until May 1993, senior vice provost and chief information officer from 1993-1998, and executive vice president and provost from 1998-2003.
He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Queens College (CUNY) and earned his master's and doctorate in economics from Stanford University.
Donald Remy
Executive Vice President of Law, Policy, and Governance and Chief Legal Officer
National Collegiate Athletic Association
As executive vice president of law, policy and governance and chief legal officer at the NCAA, Donald Remy is one of only two direct reports to the president of the NCAA, Mark Emmert. In that capacity, he serves as a key strategic advisor to the president and a member of the Senior Management Group. Remy oversees all aspects of the NCAA's legal, government relations and governance programs. Further, Remy oversees the support of the Committee on Infractions, which processes NCAA enforcement actions and by-law violations.
The NCAA, which comprises 1,250 member institutions, conferences and organizations, is responsible for governing and protecting the integrity of intercollegiate athletics.
Remy's tasks include providing policy and strategic advice to the NCAA leadership, guiding an efficient governing structure for Divisions I, II and III, assuring appropriate adjudication of infractions, assessing the NCAA's immediate and long-term legal needs and making sure his reporting departments are fully servicing and supporting student-athletes, the NCAA, and member institutions.
In his previous positions, Remy represented both individuals and corporate clients in sophisticated investigations and proceedings involving compliance with international business statues, worked on complex civil litigation, and assisted companies in disputes involving contracts with the federal government. He served as Latham & Watkins' chair of the Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services Industry Group and was a member of the White Collar Practice Group and Global Recruiting Committee.
Remy also held high-level positions in the government and corporate environment, including deputy assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice; assistant to the General Counsel of the Army; law clerk to the 6th Circuit United States Court of Appeals; and senior vice president, deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer at Fannie Mae.
He served on the presidential transition team to the Defense and Justice Department and was nominated by the President to service as the General Counsel of the Army.
Remy has a bachelor's degree in political science from Louisiana State University and a juris doctorate from the Howard University School of Law.
Jeffrey Selingo
Editor at Large
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jeffrey Selingo is a leading authority on higher education worldwide, offering insights on the college of future—how families will pay, what campuses will look like, and how students will learn and prove their value in the job market.
Selingo is editor at large of The Chronicle of Higher Education. He writes a regular blog and column for The Chronicle and The Huffington Post called "Next" where he explores innovation in higher education.
From 2007 until 2011, he was editor of The Chronicle, where he had worked for 14 years in a variety of reporting and editing roles. His work has been honored with awards from the Education Writers Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press, and he was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
Selingo is a senior fellow at Education Sector, an independent education think tank in Washington, D.C.
He has been a featured speaker before dozens of national higher-education groups and appears regularly on regional and national radio and television programs, including NPR, ABC and CBS. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Selingo is currently working on his first book, College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students, which will be published by Amazon and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the spring of 2013.
He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ithaca College and a master's degree in government from the Johns Hopkins University.
Timothy White
Chancellor
The California State University
Timothy White, the seventh chancellor of the California State University system, formerly served as the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and saw the campus grow to more than 21,000 students for the first time in its history. He was also professor of biology and of biomedical sciences. Soon after his appointment at UCR, he formed a committee of several hundred faculty, staff and community members to forge an innovative strategic plan, UCR 2020. This plan guided UCR's next stage of development as a major player among first-rate research institutions. He also implemented the foundation of a UCR School of Medicine by hiring the school's first dean and obtaining start-up resources.
White came to UC Riverside in 2008 after serving as the University of Idaho's president from 2004-2008. Through his leadership, the University of Idaho established a vision and strategic direction to further the university's role as the state's land-grant and flagship research university.
White served Oregon State University from 1996-2004 as a dean, the provost and executive vice president, and with an interim appointment as president. He previously held positions as professor and chair of the Department of Human Biodynamics at the University of California, Berkeley (1991-96), and as professor and chair of the Department of Movement Science and research scientist in the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan.
White is a product of California's Master Plan, having pursued his higher education from Diablo Valley Community College, Fresno State, California State University East Bay (nee Hayward), and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He spent two years as a post-doctoral scholar in physiology at the University of Michigan before starting his academic career at Ann Arbor in 1978. He is internationally recognized for his research in muscle plasticity, injury and aging.
