Date: Nov 18th, 2015
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: The Cooper Union Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, NY NY
5:30pm: Reception and Press Event
6:30pm: Opening remarks from keynote speaker
Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (via Skype)
Peter Diamandis, President of the XPRIZE (via Skype)
Anthony Tassi, Executive Director, Literacy Partners Literacy Partners Adult Learners
7:15pm:
Stephanie Dua is Founder & CEO of Homer. The Homer Learn to Read Program is the fastest, most effective way to teach your child to read. Launched in August 2013, Learn with Homer has quickly become the #1 Learn to Read program for families all over the world and has been proven to boost reading scores by 74%. Stephanie previously served as the CEO of the Fund for Public Schools from 2006 through 2011 working with Joel Klein and Caroline Kennedy. Under Stephanie's leadership, the Fund secured over $165 million in private support for NYC's core education reforms.
Paul Gollash is the CEO of Voxy, a venture funded education technology company that he founded in 2010. Voxy's personal-ized English learning platform delivers unprecedented efficacy, and is changing how second languages are taught around the world. He has helped build a number of companies in his career, most recently as a venture investor for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. He has a BA from Dartmouth and an MBA with Honors from The University of Chicago (Booth).
For over 20 years, Jonathan Harber has been a pioneer in education technology. Mr. Harber serves as the Co-founder at EDge Edtech, LLC. As Chief Executive Officer of Harber Advisors, LLC, he advises private equity funds and large education companies on mergers and acquisitions. Until January 2014, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Pearson K12 Technology following its acquisition of Schoolnet. In this role, he was responsible for Pearson's K12 Technology business, managing a team of 1,000 employees. Mr. Harber was the Chief Executive Officer of Schoolnet, Inc, which he co-founded in 1998. Prior to launching Schoolnet, he was the co-founder of two other EdTech companies that were sold to public companies: Diva and NewKidCo.
Michael has developed, implemented, and studied technology and learning for more than 15 years. At the NYC Department of Educa-tion's Office of Postsecondary Readiness, he designed programs that promote student-centered, technology-driven teaching and learning, computer science education, and nonprofit and industry partnerships for schools. At the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), he led the development of web-based multimedia analysis tools. He has taught courses in psychology and research methods at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology. He received a B.A. from Harvard University.
Jake Schwartz is Co-Founder and CEO of Genera
