Featured Speakers:

Barbara R. Snyder, who began her academic career in higher education in the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was elected president of Case Western Reserve in December 2006 and began her tenure as the first woman to hold the office on July 1, 2007.

Kenneth C. Green is the founding director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American colleges and universities.
Green is the author/co-author or editor of a dozen books and published research reports and more than three dozen articles that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications.
An invited speaker at some two dozen academic conferences and professional meetings each year, Green is also the co-executive producer and on-air host of the award-winning Ready2Net programs, a series of satellite broadcasts and Webcasts, sponsored by the California State University-Monterey Bay and focused on the challenges and opportunities that information technology presents to American higher education.
In October 2002, Green received the first EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. The award cites his work in creating The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his "prominence in the arena of national and international technology agendas, and the linking of higher education to those agendas."
In addition to his current work with The Campus Computing Project, Green often serves as a consultant on campus planning, policy, and technology issues.
A graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, Green completed his master's degree at the Ohio State University and earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Doug McDavid is an Executive Consultant with IBM's Global Business Services and Almaden Research Lab.  He specializes in bridging the gap between business people and technologists, and is exploring methods of rehearsing services techniques in 3D virtual environments.  He does business modeling and requirements definition for clients in insurance, utilities, telecommunications, manufacturing, travel, aerospace, defense, and education.  He has 6 patents, and publications in IBM Systems Journal, the Handbook of Object Technology and others.  He is a member of the prestigious IBM Academy of Technology, and serves on the Board of Directors of the New Media Consortium.

Susan E. Metros is Associate Vice Provost for Technology Enhanced Learning and Deputy Chief Information Officer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her professorship is with the USC Roski School of Art. Prior to this appointment, she held the positions of Interim CIO, Deputy CIO and Executive Director for eLearning, and Professor of Design Technology at The Ohio State University. At USC she leads the academic community in integrating new and emerging educational technologies into teaching, learning, research, and outreach. In her role as educator and designer, she teaches courses on new literacies and has served as principal designer on several international award winning multimedia and Web-based projects. She also is active on numerous international and national boards, committees and task forces including the New Media Consortium (NMC) Board of Directors and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Advisory Board of which she chairs. She has published and presented widely on innovative leadership, knowledge management, visual and digital literacy, and the role of technology in transforming education to be engaging, interactive, and learner-centered.

Breakout Speakers: 

David Aiken received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and his MBA from Pepperdine University.  Dave is manager of the Consulting Solutions team in Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group (including WebEx).  Dave has over 25 years experience in Collaborative Consulting in the areas of electronics, system, and software design, working in the US and several Asian countries.  In additional to enabling Cisco customers’ eLearning programs, Dave has been an online instructor in Business Management at  the University of Phoenix for over 5 years, and is pursuing his PhD at Walden University in Applied Management, with specific research in global collaboration strategies.

Mark Ansboury, Vice President and CTO of One Community, is a veteran telecommunication professional with years of community development, information technology and telecommunications leadership experience in the private and public sectors.  He currently serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer for OneCommunity, where he manages the technical, operational and business development of OneCommunity's ultra broadband community network.  In addition, he serves as chief operations officer for the Northeast Ohio Regional Health Information Organization (NEO RHIO) and OneCommunity HealthNet Partnership, where he is responsible for coordination of the Federal Communications Commission pilot project. 
Most recently, Mark served as vice president of managed services and chief technology officer for Telsource Managed Network Services of Fairfield, New Jersey.  He was executive vice president of engineering, chief technology officer and director of ClearData Communications where he was responsible for the national deployment of an IP/ATM/WDN network.  Prior to that, Mark was president and founder of NGT Partners, LLC a technology and financial consulting firm and Information Technology Partners (ITECH Partners), responsible for the development of wireless and national IP/ATM, and wireless strategies for AT&T, Intermedia Communications, Bell South and Optus Communications and network deployment and management for OPTUS Communications/Advanced Radio Telecom, and Winstar.
In addition, Mark served as director for telecommunications at the State of Texas Department of Information Resources where he was responsible for the Texas Statewide IP and Telemedicine network. He also served as co-chair on the state's Telemedicine Strategic Plan and led the development of the State of Texas Telecommunications Plan.  During this period Mark also served as a legislative consultant on the Texas Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996.
Mark holds a master's degree in systems management from the University of Southern California and received his bachelor's degree from Hawaii Pacific College.  He served nine years in the U.S. Navy and earned an IEE Certification in Communications.  Additionally, Mark is certified as a Security CISSP and Disaster Recovery Planner.
Active in the workforce development and nonprofit community, Mark supports a number of community collaborations. He is a team leader for Aligning Forces for Quality in Health Care, serves as an adviser for the Ohio Health Information Partnership and the Health Policy Institute of Ohio for the HISPC Grant, and is a trustee for the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival. 

Heather Boyles is a Director in the Member and Partner Relations department of Internet2. She has senior management responsibilities for Internet2's relationships with infrastructure-related constituencies, including non-US networking initiatives, US federal research networks and US-based advanced regional networks. As part of these responsibilities, Heather serves as Director, International Relations, overseeing the building of the Internet2 International Relations program from its first partnership in 1997 with Canada's CANARIE organization to over 45 partnerships today with high-performance research and education networking organizations from around the world. She has been involved with numerous global networking initiatives and organizations, including the Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking (CCIRN), the Internet Society (ISOC), the G7 Global Interoperability of Broadband Networks (GIBN) initiative and others. See Heather's full bio.

Christopher Bunk received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduation and several years as an entrepreneur, Mr. Bunk decided to embark on a new mission by joining the team at ARES Corporation as a Systems Engineer with a focus on database driven web application development. He has applied his core software engineering skills to the technologies of the Semantic Web, knowledge management, collaboration, data mining, and systems engineering.  He compliments these technical abilities with his experience in project management, process engineering, business strategy and business development.

Mr. Bunk is currently Manager for IT and Knowledge Management for the ARES Southern California office. Some of the projects Mr. Bunk has worked on include:  Integrated Bio-Surveillance System (IBS) that mines and analyzes disparate data sources to detect medical epidemics and Bio-Terrorism attacks. Semantic Search Portal used by contractors involved with the Crew Exploration Vehicle (Orion) team and CMS and collaborative tools for the award winning PBMA and ATC contracts at NASA.

Cleveland native Heidi Cool is Senior Web designer/Webmaster in the Office of Marketing and Communications for Case Western Reserve University. In this role she builds, develops and maintains sites for the university, and provides guidance and support to campus Web maintainers. As author of the Web Development Blog, http://blog.case.edu/webdev/, she has been offering Web development advice on content development, marketing, coding and related topics since February 2005.
Before coming to Case in 1999, Heidi was a product marketer for West Group, a leading provider of legal information resources. Her role at West included graphic design, copywriting, Web development, and the planning of marketing campaigns that included telemarketing, direct mail, print advertising, catalog creation (print, CD-ROM and Web) and trade show promotions. 
Heidi has a B.A. in philosophy from Colby College.

Dr. Stanton Cort was the founding director of both Weatherhead’s Executive MBA Program and its Corporate University. He is a frequent speaker to US and foreign business groups and trade associations. He has lectured on marketing and distribution in Venezuela, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Saudi Arabia, India and Singapore.
Dr. Cort’s current research focuses management of multi-organizational business systems. The current context is the competitive structure and dynamics of supply chains. He also studies US and multinational market opportunities aDnd market entry programs for industrial and consumer products and services. He teaches entrepreneurial marketing, marketing through the supply chain and new product and process design and development.
Dr. Cort earned both his masters and doctorate in business at the Harvard Business School. His undergraduate degree in history is from Harvard College. Before joining the Weatherhead School of Management faculty in 1978, he was a member of the faculty of the School of Business at Indiana University for seven years. Dr. Cort has been head of the Marketing Division at the Weatherhead School from 1983 to 2001 and 2006 to date.

Jerry D'Antonio is the Director of Systems Integration and Web Technology at WVIZ/PBS & 90.3 WCPN ideastream where his work focuses on bridging the gap between traditional broadcasting and new media. Jerry designed and implemented ideastream's digital streaming systems and workflow, managed the transition of ideastream's core Web sites into content management, built ideastream's iTunes U and Discovery OnePlace sites, was a primary participant in the redesign of the wcpn.org and wviz.org Web sites, and is participating in the transition of ideastream's broadcast systems from analog to digital. Jerry hold a B.S. in Computer Networking from Regis University, an M.S. in Computer Information Systems from University of Denver, and an M.B.A. from University of Phoenix. Prior to working at ideastream Jerry was the senior software engineer for a company developing specialized banking software and was the software development manager for an online learning organization. Jerry also holds adjunct faculty positions at Regis University and University of Phoenix where he occasionally teaches software engineering courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Peter Friedman is going to be a visiting professor for the next academic year at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and annually teaches 2 weeks a year as a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam Law School.  He is an associate professor of Legal Analysis & Writing at the Case Western Reserve University.  Peter has blogged regularly since 2003 (http://law.case.edu/faculty/friedman/raw/).  The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported on its Wired Campus Blog(http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/) on Peter's use of a class-authored blog in connection with his students' last brief writing assignment this year. 

Laird Garner has more than 17 years of experience designing, developing, and launching new products in multiple industries. In his recent role at Sprint, he evaluated dozens of mobile marketing technologies, developed business models, and helped set the roadmap for their implementation within the Sprint Mobile Media Network. While leading one of the initiatives to develop a mobile coupon solution, Laird also became involved with the Association of Coupon Professionals, becoming a co-chair of its Digital Coupon Task Force. Participating with the Innovation Lab at Sprint, he helped to develop Sprint’s understanding of the potential for code scanning, eventually assisting other companies in understanding how they might participate in this new ecosystem as well. Mr. Garner continues to conduct educational and strategy development workshops on emerging mobile technologies and is involved in several new product development initiatives.

Lev Gonick has been teaching, working, and living on the Net since 1987. Lev Gonick is vice president for information technology services and chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is co-chair of the CIO Executive Council's higher education committee. He is also the founder of OneCleveland now known as OneCommunity, the award winning project to create a connected community throughout Northeast Ohio through high speed wired and wireless network connectivity.  He is the Chairperson of the New Media Consortium’s New Horizon Project providing an annual environmental scan of new technologies and their potential impact on the academy. Additionally, Dr. Gonick previously served as president of the board of the New Media Consortium. In 2007, he and Case Western Reserve University were recognized with a ComputerWorld Laureate for launching the Cleveland 2.0 project to leverage technology to address community priorities. This included the much referenced launch of Cleveland+ in SecondLife. In 2006, he was recognized by ComputerWorld as a Premier 100 IT leader and honored in the same year by CIO magazine with a CIO 100 Award. He also serves on the board of the National LambdaRail (NLR), the nation's next generation advanced networking research effort. Finally, he serves on numerous community Boards including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and the Bellefaire JCB for Children, and Lawrence School for Dyslexic and other differently-abled learners.

John J. Grabowski, Ph.D. is the Kreiger-Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History in the Department of History at CWRU and the Krieger-Mueller Historian at the Western Reserve Historical Society.   He also serves as the editor of the on-line edition of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History/Dictionary of Cleveland Biography.
His fields of expertise are in the areas of immigration and migration, and public history.  He is currently conducting research in early (pre-1924) Turkish and Ottoman immigration to the United States and is preparing institutional histories for the Western Reserve Historical Society and Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.   He has recently completed an overview of the history of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland which will be published in conjunction with the exhibit, Vatican Splendors, to be hosted by the Western Reserve Historical Society during the summer of 2008. 
During the spring semester of 2007, Dr. Grabowski offered a shared distance-learning course on comparative (Turkey and the US) museum history to students at CWRU and Bilkent University.  Underwritten by grants from the McGregor Foundation administered through the Worldwide Learning Environment at CWRU, the course provided an important test of distance learning technologies and dual-classroom pedagogy.    He is currently working on programs to involve the Western Reserve Historical Society with the Second-Life project at CWRU.

Jennifer Graham is a successful sales-focused marketing professional with exceptional technical credentials and applied experience.  Her experience is focused in telecom, information technology, web, and business management.
Jennifer currently works for Mobile Discovery, a mobile marketing solutions company.  She is responsible for working with both technical and sales professionals to establish roadmap, definition, specifications, positioning, product launch strategy & communication, pricing strategies and market share goals. She develops business plans and works in concert with technical staff to develop product lifecycles and product positioning in the market place. Additionally Jennifer seeks opportunities to speak at conferences and seminars to promote Mobile Discovery products.
Jennifer Graham received her Bachelor of Science in Management from Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech) in just 2 years; graduating in 2000 as Valedictorian of the Pamplin School of Business.  While working full time at Spirent, she received a Master of Science in Telecommunications and Business Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University.  Jennifer is a member of a number of organizations and forums including Women in Technology.

Anne Helmreich is Director of the Baker-Nord Center of the Humanities and Associate Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University. She is a specialist in Victorian art and has published on various aspects of garden design and landscape painting as well as issues relating to women artists and representations of women. She is currently engaged in two major research projects: one examining the relationship between art and science in nineteenth-century British painting and photography and the other investigating the rise of the speculative, international art market in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century London.  

Don Hunt is Deputy Registrar in the University Registrar’s Office at Case Western Reserve University.  He received his B. S. in Business Management and a M. S. in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College.  He has worked in or with higher education institutions for over 13 years helping define how to best use Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to maximize their investment and to begin using software to make data driven decisions.  While working at Datatel Inc., a ERP software company, he was instrumental as a consultant, business advisor and custom software development manger by helping higher educational institutions not only implement the software, but use the software to reach institutional strategic goals and objectives.

Hope L. Johnson is a technical trainer and project manager for Academic Computing in the Office of Information Technology at the University of Minnesota. She teaches both face-to-face and online training for faculty, staff, and students interested in learning about podcasting, web conferencing, and other media technologies.  As project manager, she coordinates development and support for the University's implementation of Adobe Connect and for iTunes U, which launches university-wide in Fall 2008.

Susan Jones leads the Business Development and Marketing organization at CMS and Carolina Services. The Business Development organization actively pursues the development and delivery of new products, services, and marketing relationships/partnerships to broaden CMS's offering portfolio to our clients and new markets. The Marketing team plays a key role in delivering internal and external strategies for brand messaging, general education and communications. The product management team is instrumental in managing and developing the CMS and Carolina Services core products and services such as Alinea, iDeal, Carolina Online, Forecasting, ViviCodes and ProFiles®. Most recently, Susan has led the development efforts of Conexions - a flexible, digital promotions settlement platform to enable the next generation of electronic promotion and marketing delivery tactics
In her thirteen years with Inmar, Susan has held various positions within the Client Operations, Client Services, and Product Management teams.
In 2005, Susan led the integration effort after the acquisition of VSI Targeting and now maintains leadership responsibilities for the consulting group, serving as General Manager.
Susan holds a B.A. from Lenoir-Rhyne College in Business Administration and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management.

Michael J. Kenney, Ph.D. – Mike has taught for over ten years at both the high school and college level. He has taught classes as small as 3 students and as large as 435 students. He specializes in teaching Introductory Chemistry but has also taught courses in HS Physics, Physical Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Computer Networking and Information Systems. He spent ten years doing business development for science organizations and founded his own company to meet the needs of his various clients. He considers himself to be adept with technology but is by no stretch of the imagination, an expert. In fact, he knows just enough to be a danger to most system administrators. In his spare time he likes to golf (poorly), play Spyro and chauffeur his daughters to and from their many activities.
He was recognized as Teacher of the Year by the graduating chemistry students at Marquette University. In 2007 and 2008 he was nominated for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University. He has been a faculty member at Case since the spring term of 2006 though this is his first year teaching full-time at Case. He is currently the Teagle Professorial Fellow and a Senior Instructor.

Michael Kubit is the Director of MediaVision at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Mike oversees the technical architecture, development, integration, and operations of advanced media technologies and learning environments including technology enhanced classrooms, enterprise videoconferencing and webconferencing, rich-media streaming, as well as a full suite of video production services. Mike has lead in the design and development of MediaVision Courseware, a course management and delivery solution that features searchable streaming video. Mike is a member of Infocomm, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and holds a MBA from The Weatherhead School of Management.

Kyle Marvin is an ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) Analyst for the Data Warehouse Group of Information Technology Services at Case Western Reserve University.Kyle joined Case in May of 2007 after graduating from Miami University with a degree in Systems Analysis

Mehran Mehregany received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri in 1984, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1990, respectively. From 1986 to 1990, he was a consultant to the Robotic Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was a key contributor to ground-breaking research in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). In 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor. He was awarded the Nord Assistant Professorship in 1991, was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in July 1994 and was promoted to Full Professor in July 1997. He held the George S. Dively Professor of Engineering endowed chair from January 1998 until July 2000, when he was appointed to the Goodrich Professor of Engineering Innovation endowed chair. He served as the Director of the MEMS Research Center at Case from July 1995 until December 2002. From January 2003 through December 2005, he was Chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Case. Professor Mehregany is well known for his research in the area of MEMS; he has ~300 publications describing his work, holds 16 U.S. patents and is the recipient of a number of awards/honors. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering from (January 1996 to December 1997), Assistant-to-the-President of the Transducers Research Foundation (1994 to 2004) and is currently a Trustee of the Transducers Research Foundation and an Editor for the Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems.

David Miller is an accomplished mobile veteran who understands the carrier mindset, ecosystem, market trends and opportunities. David's work experience in mobile includes a start up and a major wireless carrier. His experiences working with Nextel and Sprint have provided him with a clear understanding of where mobile innovation is headed.
Most recently, David’s experiences in Sprint’s New Business Development and Innovation group provided him the opportunity to survey and analyze the emerging mobile landscape.  In this capacity, his role was to identify, assess and recommend innovative and disruptive technologies, applications and business models for Sprint trial, adoption and potential implementation.As new business development proposals flowed into Sprint, David was responsible for their evaluation, ultimately deciding whether or not Sprint would entertain the concept. David reviewed hundreds of proposals and interviewed many executives in the process of evaluating technologies, business models and partnership opportunities. In this role he gained first-hand knowledge as to the state of the market in mobile innovation. He personally co-led Sprint’s research and development effort in the 2D code space and was heavily involved in mobile financial services.Prior to Sprint, David worked at Eizel Technologies as the lead for business development where he conceived and implemented strategic partnerships and oversaw technology trials.  Eizel was a Carnegie Mellon University start up, which was ultimately sold to Nokia.  Earlier in his career, David worked in Price Waterhouse’s New York City office, where he worked in the financial services management consulting practice. 
David started his career in Arthur Andersen's Philadelphia office, where he worked in the commercial audit group and then the healthcare consulting practice.  David holds a B.S. in Accounting from Syracuse University, a M.S. in Technology Management from Carnegie Mellon University and has been awarded a CPA license.

Nsi Obotetukudo is a 2008 graduate candidate of the Masters of Engineering and Management program at Case Western Reserve University. He also has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in electrical engineering from the Case School of Engineering. In addition to time spent with General Electric in Louisville, Kentucky Nsi has been an active contributor to various projects and groups in and around the Case Western community.

Ben Rose is a student in the Master of Engineering Management program at Case Western Reserve University.  He was a member of the Sales team for the case2Dcode beta test, with his responsibilities including working with student groups such as the University Program Board, Undergraduate Student Government, and The Observer.  He also created a set of video tutorials for using the Mobile Discovery website portal.  Prior to starting the MEM degree, Ben received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 2007, also from Case.  His work experience includes internships with Lubrizol and United States Steel, and he will be starting a full-time position in June with L’Oreal.  In addition, Ben is an active musician on campus and in the Cleveland area, playing drums and percussion in various university and independent ensembles.

Dr. Benjamin Schechter practiced general dentistry for 27 years and is a nationally recognized expert on dental benefit plans.  Dr. Schechter is also a voting member of the American Dental Association Code Revision Committee.  This group is responsible for updating the dental coding and verbiage required under HIPAA for all electronic transactions involving dental services.  He is the Director of Patient Services at Case School of Dental Medicine where he is in charge of quality assurance, patient relations, and HIPAA compliance.  Dr. Schechter is particularly interested in prevention of dental disease, and smoking cessation.  He received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Bowling Green University and a DDS degree from Case. 

Dr. Michael Schoop was appointed President of the Metropolitan Campus of Cuyahoga Community College on May 1, 2006. Prior to coming to Tri-C, Dr. Schoop spent eight years at the City Colleges of Chicago, where he served as Dean of Instruction at Harry S Truman College, and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at both Truman and Olive-Harvey College. Dr. Schoop’s current interest is in the economic and technological forces reshaping the landscape of higher education and how the emerging model of teaching and learning can best serve students, staff, faculty, and members of the larger community.
Michael Schoop received a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, where he taught freshmen composition, professional writing, prose style, and the history of rhetorical theory. He has conducted research on death penalty cases, rhetorical ethics, and cognitive science. In his most recent graduate courses on community college history and leadership, Dr. Schoop and his students have focused on the intersection between finance, organizational development, and learning innovation.
Prior to working higher education, Dr. Schoop taught English conversation classes in Japan, conducted due diligence work for an international real estate company, and managed operations for a custom florist.

Penny Shelby recently joined the Case community as Director of Enterprise Application Services in ITS.  Her background includes work at University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Cuyahoga Community College in IT administration and health care administration.

Mano Singham is currently Director of Case’s University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics.
He obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. 
In 2001 he won Case Western Reserve University’s Carl F. Wittke award for distinguished undergraduate teaching, and has received numerous other awards for teaching and service to education
His recent research interests are in the fields of education, theories of knowledge, and physics and philosophy. His first book, THE QUEST FOR TRUTH: Scientific Progress and Religious Beliefs, was published by Phi Delta Kappan Educational Foundation, in November 2000. His second book The Achievement Gap in U. S. Education: Canaries in the Mine, deals with the educational achievement gap between white and black students and was published in May 2005 by Rowman and Littlefield Education Press.
He is currently working on a new book that deals with how challenges to the teaching of evolution in schools have themselves evolved as a result of repeated setbacks in the courts.

Jeremy Smith is a Middleware Engineer at Case Western Reserve University.  His focus is on parlaying technologies from the web for use in the Enterprise.  An admitted supporter of open source and open standards, his most recent work was integrating OpenID and SAML support with the open source CAS software, Case's Single Sign On System.  The latter of which was done to provide cross-domain authentication between Case network credentials and Google to support their hosted apps solutions.  He is responsible for Case's blogging and wiki systems as well as the Identity Management System.

Mark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. His most recent book publication is an edited volume, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity, from Oxford University Press. His other books and articles include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics, Economics, Law, and Society (Oxford), The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language (Oxford), Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science (Princeton), and Death is the Mother of Beauty (Chicago). He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience and distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology. In 1996, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises.

Philippe Winthrop has spent his entire career researching emerging technologies and their impact on the corporate value chain. Philippe started his career at GeoPartners research, a boutique strategy consultancy, where he worked on projects including AT&T Wireless’ adoption and migration path to GSM from TDMA.
After GeoPartners, Philippe joined IDC's European IT Services Research group where he spearheaded a wide variety of research and consulting projects for the Top 50 IT Services companies in Western Europe.
After IDC, Philippe created Axle Ventures, a boutique business planning consultancy focused on SMEs. There, Philippe worked with a wide variety of organizations in eCommerce, Healthcare and IT to help them develop winning go to market strategies.
Philippe most recently was the Research Director for Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, a fact-based research firm based out of Boston. Not only did Philippe launch the Wireless and Mobility practice at Aberdeen, he also conducted ground-breaking research to quantify the tangible value of key mobile and wireless technologies, including enterprise mobility strategy adoption, Fixed Mobile Convergence, enterprise WiFi adoption, application deployment on WLANs and more.
Philippe is a frequent speaker and presenter and currently sits on the advisory boards of Mobile Enterprise Magazine and Celio Corporation, the maker of the REDFLY mobile companion.

Jill Miller Zimon is an award-winning freelance writer, blogger and political commentator. She has appeared as a regional roundtable panelist for Cleveland public radio and television as well as on CNN, BBC and other broadcast outlets.
Jill was one of four Ohio bloggers who participated in the Plain Dealer/cleveland.com blog experiment, Wide Open (blog.cleveland.com/wideopen). She has authored Writes Like She Talks (www.writeslikeshetalks.com) since 2005.
For eight years prior to starting her journalism career, Jill used her joint degree in law and social work (Case Western Reserve University) at a large children and family mental health agency. She is a New England native and has a joint bachelors degree in government and sociology from Georgetown University.  She has lived in Northern Ohio for nearly 20 years.